New McFarlane lineups

In case you forgot, you might want to start looking for McFarlane's SportsPicks NHL Legends Series 5 hitting retail shelves.

With a scheduled release date sometime this month (we all know what that means), we could soon have our choice of these original and repainted figures:

~ Wayne Gretzky 5, as a member of the St. Louis Blues;
~ Bobby Orr 3 (above), wearing a Chicago Blackhawks uniform;
~ Bobby Hull 2, from his days with the Winnipeg Jets; and
~ Montreal's Guy Lafleur.

Patience, too, will be rewarded in future releases. Check out these lineups and upcoming release dates, found at spawn.com, for McFarlane's SportsPicks Hockey sets. Sorry, but no pictures are available.

Series 16 (arriving November 2007): Montreal's Cristobal Huet, New York's Jaromir Jagr 3, Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby 2 and Philadelphia's Simon Gagne. An update says that these figures will show the players in their new RBK Edge uniforms.

Legends Series 6 (arriving December 2007): New York's Wayne Gretzky, Toronto's Johnny Bower, Detroit's Gordie Howe and Boston's Cam Neely.

Series 17 (arriving January 2008): Washington's Alexander Ovechkin 2, Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin, Toronto's Jason Blake (why, I ask?), Buffalo's Ryan Miller, Vancouver's Trevor Linden, wearing the team's retro winged-skate logo, and Colorado's Joe Sakic, shown in a Quebec Nordiques uniform.

Series 18 (arriving May 2008 in Canada and specialty stores): Ottawa's Ray Emery, Pittsburgh's Jordan Staal, Edmonton's Sheldon Souray and Colorado's Joe Sakic 3.