www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp

 Interesting, I guess. there are the Range rulers people want, but not available for sale.

What are the oversized pilot cards good for? i guess like posters to display?

 Pretty naff really :/  A couple of custom paint ships would have been better rather than a plastic stick and an enlarged ship card.

Yeah,
The big cards are prizes I think. for the store to hand out to the winners of the game.

I kinda want all that stuff…

Panic…

They need to make plastic components available for sale to the general public.

Over-sized cards suck. They should have at least been alternate artwork and/or foil while being the normal size.

Everything else in the kit sucks too.

Suck Suck Suck

I see the point of plastic rulers (card stock won't last for ever), and though I don't see the need for over sized cards, I still think they are cool.  However I don't think they should be the prizes that is lame.

PS Is it possible to get this if you are not a store.

yeah,
eBay later like most store only stuff.
MTG and Munchkin and their ilk have loads of store only cards you can find on eBay.

Sometimes you can buy the items that people have won.
Sometimes store sell their spare packs.

Panic…

This doesn't appear to be a top effort.  Alternate art is the least that could have been done. Looks like the range rulers got more clumsy.
I'm glad I'm in it for the game and not for the prizes.

 What about the "legue rules" I would be interested in what that is. is that pub knowledge yet?

Warchitect said:

It looks like the winning faction for each week will be kept track of on the poster or something. It seems not well thought out.

 Im more towards getting the acrylic range rulers, then anything else, but if i had to choose, ill take all of them 

The first disappointment I've had with this game?  Yes.  I do believe this is just a bit of a 'holdover', though.  The Holidays are coming and Leagues are nigh impossible to keep aloft during late November and December. 

This is Star Wars, a premiere license, and Dust and Warhammer Invasion get better rewards than this.(Yes, I know Warhammer is a big license, but GW won't even support it's own tournaments any more.) 

Oversized cards?  So now I'll have a duplicate card that won't even fit into my organized collection?

Acrylic range rulers? Okay, that's great, so why aren't they in the Fantasy Flight Supply inventory instead?  

I hate to whine, but this is below the expectations of anyone who has played in any FFG Organized Events and even the new fans who have just begun with X-Wing.  So as to not be a total Negative Nancy, I'll stick to my guns that the good kit will hit the Organized Event scene alongside Wave 2, and that this is just an appetizer to keep us occupied in the meantime.   

 Yeah, I just don't get the over-sized ship cards. Doesn't make any sense to me.

I was generally excited about this announcement because my LGS said they haven't put their store copy away since they opened it because there is always somebody playing it, but every time I've gone in there it has been lying dormant on the corner table. Apparently lots of people love to play it (when I'm not around), but nobody wants to buy it, so there is little hope of seeing organized play in this store (though I could try the store that's 3 times as far from my abode…) Looks like Vassal may be my best hope for competitive play.

Highly disappointed, anyone else?

Harleequin said:

Over here!  O-O

I am sure there will be more to follow with later Game Night packs - as already mentioned, this is likely just what they tossed together on short notice, trying to get something out there before the holidays hit.

To be honest - it isn't all that bad.

The over sized cards aren't overly useful, though I think I would be fun to toss down the 'big Vader' card at the start of a tournament.

Acrylic range rulers are a great idea, and I do hope they eventually make their way into the official accessories offered by FFG.

Would love to see what the League Rules actually entail.  Might be more to it than just marking off check boxes.  Can hope that this gets posted as a PDF as well.

I imagine that in the future we will start to see faction patches, alternate art cards, achievement books and maybe some mission books.

At least it didn't come with Mouse ears ;)