Reckon Snake will be able to sneak into the shadows and come out on the other side of the screen? im honestly intrigued but nervous also as to how Snake will work.

The Meta Knight or Sonic.

Sonic, meta knight, snake, pitt, or samus. That is of course if sheik doesn't make it in.

i'm guessing my top 5 will be in this order

Link
Ike/Pit (whoever is better gets #2, the other goes)
Kirby
Meta Knight
Pikachu

Link, Zelda, Meta Knight and Ganondorf if and when he makes it to SSBB.

Fox, Link, Luigi, Pit, Gannondorf. i see no reason for Luigi to come back and maybe Waluigi jumping into the fray. I really wanna see Dr. Mario come back because I liked playing him more than Mario in Melee.

yea i know im keeping it old school but until i play with the new guys I can't make a determination on them except for Pit. 

Fox. While everyone is testing out new characters, I'll stomp them with one I'm already good at, heh.

Hehe, Fox was a pretty good character last time round, his shielding techniques and flaming surge through the air was fun! Heck im going to have to get Melee out again, im too excited now!
Another of my favourites last time was Mewtwo for the sole reason that picking up and throwing someone was sooo much fun to do, plus his shadow ball attack could be lethal. Dont even get me started on flipping someone over, that just infuriated my mates and i found it hilarious.
I might stage a protest for an original Falco character! Anyone else think that there may be a secret character that they dont reveal in all the updates?

Sonic or Pitt maybe. But won't know how the characters will play until we get our hands on them.

It's a bit early to decide wich character I will play the most, the character list is far from complete and we don't know all the movesets from the announced characters yet. I remember I played with the unlockable characters just as much as the selectable characters. If Luigi and Ganondorph make a comeback, I'll be happy to play with them again. And when I played with Mario I played him with Wario colors. Ever since I dreamed of Wario to be a character.

1 Ganondorf
2 Wario
3 Snake
4 Luigi
5 Sonic