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It's the age old debate. I think the thermal det thing goes back to sometime in the 90's when the Star Wars Visual Dictionary came out and the o2 tank was labeled as a thermal det. I want to say there was another book from the late 80's that also listed it as a thermal det, but it's been too long and I just don't remember. I think in a way the new ep 7 Stormtrooper armor supports the o2 tank theory, since it looks like it wraps around the tank and wouldn't be easy to remove if it was ment to be a thermal det. Anyways it is just one of those things that flipflops every few years. It'll get mentioned in one book as a thermal det, another as an o2 tank. I use think it was a thermal det for years until some of my buddies that are 501st members educated me about it. Until Lucasflim/Disney makes an offical statement about it just call it which ever you prefer. Because there are offical sources that support both options.

I broke down and got a set too. 350 bucks is just too good a deal to pass up. I've put off getting TK armor for years now, mostly because I'm too fat to wear it. If this armor does nothing else, atleast it's finally motivating me to get off my lazy rear and lose some weight.

While it doesn't help much with figureing out what "TK" means, I was talking about this with a friend of mine across the pond in England. He told me about how the British Army in the past when doing roll call (this being during the 1700s and 1800s) would refer to someone by thier number if there was more than one person with the same last name. They would at times use the first initials of thier first and last names before saying the number. This went out of use sometime around World War One he told me.

I'd have to dig it out but I'm pretty sure that in the novel for A New Hope it calls TK-421 as THX-1138. I've always wondered if it was like that in the early drafts or something and then changed it later.

Those are some truely awsome and amazing pictures! But the very first one has me baffled. Completely and totally baffled. What is that black helmet that is between the old Don Post stormie helmet and the Death Star Gunner helmet ?

You guys see the new Hero helmet that eFx showed off at comic con ? http://starwars.com/vault/collecting/comic_con_2011_collectibles_panel/index.html Click on the eFx slideshow to see it. I'll wanna hear your guys take on it.

hmm could it be Sixtus Quin from Battleground Tatooine ?

Thank you very much guys I appreciate it. I'll stay well clear of that guy.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Star-Wars-Stormtrooper-Armor-Costume-Kit-ANH-/320636911790?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aa77300ae Hi there FISD, I saw this listing today. I've tried searching for the seller's name but didn't find anything. Any one familiar with this guy and his armor ?