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Travis343 posted:e: and if anybody but me still buys JLU, we're getting 2 kick rear end 6 packs, a 'good guy' and a 'bad guy' one. Good guy pack has a Mr. Terrific, Elongated Man, Obsidian, Hourman and a non-horrible Supergirl as well as (of course) Superman. Bad guy is all new characters except for Lex Luthor, with Tala, Psycho Pirate, Devil Ray, Dr. Polaris, and Gentleman Ghost, who is no longer holding up playing cards for no reason. Looks great, I just hope some of them actually show up near me. My neighbor three houses down, a fellow collector, just said he picked these up for me. I still collect JLU, but I'm not a completist so I will probably end up trying to sell Tala, Lex, and Devil Ray once I pay him back for all of them. I no longer have my JLU figures on display, as I'm trying to figure out a new, safe method of displaying them without having them constantly falling over. What do you do with yours?
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:My neighbor three houses down, a fellow collector, just said he picked these up for me. I still collect JLU, but I'm not a completist so I will probably end up trying to sell Tala, Lex, and Devil Ray once I pay him back for all of them. I no longer have my JLU figures on display, as I'm trying to figure out a new, safe method of displaying them without having them constantly falling over. What do you do with yours? Horde the little plastic stands, mostly. I've also made a few custom stands just out of sculpey, pressing the figure down on it then baking it. This doesn't work terribly well most of the time. Or you can buy JLU figure stands off of Mattycollector. Of course not every figure has a hole in the foot for the stands...
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Travis343 posted:Horde the little plastic stands, mostly. I've also made a few custom stands just out of sculpey, pressing the figure down on it then baking it. This doesn't work terribly well most of the time. I've heard the Mattycollector stands were a horrible ripoff -- overpriced, and they hardly worked at all. They also seem so big and bulky, like they'd take up far too much shelf space. At this point, I'm close to drilling tiny holes in their feet and using plain black "Smalljoes.com" stands meant for G.I. Joe figures.
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Why don't you try my tried and true technique of putting some sticky tack on the bottom of a figure's feet? I do it on any figure that has a issue with standing and it works 98% of the time. It is cheap and won't harm the figures.
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Djarum posted:Why don't you try my tried and true technique of putting some sticky tack on the bottom of a figure's feet? I do it on any figure that has a issue with standing and it works 98% of the time. It is cheap and won't harm the figures. Ha, I thought I was the only one who did that. Always worked great for me and looks natural if you use the right amount.
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Donde Esta posted:Ha, I thought I was the only one who did that. Always worked great for me and looks natural if you use the right amount. Hmm.. tack.. I would have never thought it would hold the figures well. I actually used HOT GLUE on my figures.. if you allow the hot glue to dry when you impact the foot on the stand.. it actually peels off quite easily in my experience. I'll be honest though, I've only done it with a few figures and although the paint has never come off (even in reapplication of the hot glue) I guess I wouldn't wanna chance it if your figures foot is heavily painted and not just molded in colors. 
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Before I had a nice spot for my figures where they could lean against a whale inconspicuously I would hot glue their feet. Some kind of do better than others, and DC Direct things tend to have week ankles, so you have to take care when pulling the glue off, but it worked ok.
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Grem posted:Before I had a nice spot for my figures where they could lean against a whale inconspicuously I would hot glue their feet. Some kind of do better than others, and DC Direct things tend to have week ankles, so you have to take care when pulling the glue off, but it worked ok. Say what?
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mods rename me posted:Say what? week ankles, get your poo poo together.
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I just want to know what a large sea mammal has to do with anything!
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mods rename me posted:I just want to know what a large sea mammal has to do with anything! He leans his toys against the whale. What else do you want? They have 7 Day Ankles.
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For some reason the above made me laugh way more than it should have.
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All the Comic-Con Mattel poo poo goes on sale tomorrow morning (Aug 3rd) at 9am PST, just to forewarn anyone who wants something.
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The Rage posted:All the Comic-Con Mattel poo poo goes on sale tomorrow morning (Aug 3rd) at 9am PST, just to forewarn anyone who wants something. Egon figure here I come! 
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Aug 3, 2009 13:28
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Looks like DCUC Wave 8 (Giganta wave) finally hit the states. I spotted Mr. Terrific/Commander Steel/Vigilante at a TRU here in north Jersey yesterday.
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Oh, I'm having second thoughts about the Egon figure now. It's the SDCC slimed version, and a clean version of Egon is coming later in the year and I might just wait for that. 
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The_Doctor posted:Oh, I'm having second thoughts about the Egon figure now. It's the SDCC slimed version, and a clean version of Egon is coming later in the year and I might just wait for that. Both! Remember, the next time Egon will roll out won't be till like Aug next year, considering they have the time set for all the other figures. 12" Ray in Sept, I think its 6" Winston in Oct and so on. Peter doesn't come out till like July. edti: Oh great, there goes MattyCollector, its already giving me the "too many people" page and its not even 9 am yet. edit 2: Whew, got my Egon ordered and now I can't even refresh the Ghostbusters line page, good luck to anyone else whos getting something. Corn Glizzy fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Aug 3, 2009 |
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Yeah, the only SDCC exclusive I didn't get that I wanted was the Wonder Twins but looks like it's impossible to get into the mattycollector site so no Wonder Twins for me. Too bad I have a job or I might be able to watch this until I get in. Edit: Well, lucky me. Looks like i got in and got my Wonder Twins. I'll be damned. RevKrule fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Aug 3, 2009 |
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RevKrule posted:Yeah, the only SDCC exclusive I didn't get that I wanted was the Wonder Twins but looks like it's impossible to get into the mattycollector site so no Wonder Twins for me. This post pretty much sums up how the Mattel booth was run at SDCC.
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Fish Of Doom posted:This post pretty much sums up how the Mattel booth was run at SDCC. Didnt they sell a big case to someone of He-Ro's or something and the guy said "these will be at my booth for twice the price."
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mods rename me posted:Didnt they sell a big case to someone of He-Ro's or something and the guy said "these will be at my booth for twice the price." That's usually the way it goes. I'm really questioning how much work I put into getting those god drat Hal Jordans. Yeah, the rings are great, but jesus gently caress did that eat up most of my mornings trying to get the raffle tickets in order to buy one. They ended up being about two different head variations and nothing more than a paint job.
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Jack Skeleton posted:That's usually the way it goes. I'm really questioning how much work I put into getting those god drat Hal Jordans. Yeah, the rings are great, but jesus gently caress did that eat up most of my mornings trying to get the raffle tickets in order to buy one. This is the end conclusion I came to on the Hal Jordans. They were high on my list and then I heard it wasn't first come first served at which point I said gently caress it. I kinda wanted the Green Jordan but other than that, it would have been better if they had different corp members instead of just palette swapped Jordans.
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There's like 4 or 5 waves of Blackest Night figures coming from the various Corps, at least.
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mods rename me posted:Didnt they sell a big case to someone of He-Ro's or something and the guy said "these will be at my booth for twice the price." Someone on the MOTU boards posted a picture of some guy who had 3 cases of He-ro's and like 20 of the books, whom was refered to as Scalp-or for the remainder of the convention. The whole Scalp-or story is summed up here http://www.poeghostal.com/2009/07/attack-of-scalp-or-at-sdcc.html I gave a friend of mine money to get me a wonder twins. Her report was that it was that the Mattel booth was unorganized chaos. Preview night, there was a line around the floor that didn't move for 4 hours until the convention center closed, some people got "fastpass" tickets to come back the next day some didn't. Apparently the next day, some people running the booth didn't even know what the "fastpass" thing was, whereas some people were turned away for not having a fast pass. Some people waited in line for 30 minutes, some for 5 hours. By the end of the day on Thursday, Mattel had completely sold out of Gleeks and closed down their booth for the entirety of friday. They opened back up on Saturday and were sold out of almost all of the exclusives. They had plenty of blender-arm cyborgs though. It was apparently complete chaos and she only happened to get me a wonder twins set because she found some guy who had 2 during a panel and flirted with him to buy it from him. Most of the people on other boards said that if they got what they wanted it was by complete happenstance. Fish Of Doom fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Aug 3, 2009 |
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Fish Of Doom posted:Someone on the MOTU boards posted a picture of some guy who had 3 cases of He-ro's and like 20 of the books, whom was refered to as Scalp-or for the remainder of the convention. The whole Scalp-or story is summed up here I did visit the Mattel booth on Sunday and was able to at least get a Buzz Lightyear without any hassle but by the sounds of it, the whole thing was a massive trainwreck.
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I deliberately avoided getting into this in my last complaining-about-toy-companies post because it's such a dumb nerd rage thing, but I have been pissed at Mattel for a long time over their handling of my favorite toy line ever, the Masters of the Universe relaunch in 2002... the line was flying off the shelves until they decided to churn out case after case of idiotic candy-colored rehashes instead of new characters, at which point it just immediately died. Big surprise. They treated collectors like poo poo then, trying to cater to some imaginary other market, and now that they realized their mistake they're just treating us like poo poo again with this blatantly overpriced "matty collector" bullshit... and I'm miffed that it's these assholes, of all people, that are finally making the Ghostbusters figures I've wanted since I was 7, and I just don't even want to give them the satisfaction of buying any. Matty collector can go to hell. Blah blah nerd rage. My Joker custom job is coming along nicely, though...
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Nerd Of Prey posted:I deliberately avoided getting into this in my last complaining-about-toy-companies post because it's such a dumb nerd rage thing, but I have been pissed at Mattel for a long time over their handling of my favorite toy line ever, the Masters of the Universe relaunch in 2002... the line was flying off the shelves until they decided to churn out case after case of idiotic candy-colored rehashes instead of new characters, at which point it just immediately died. Big surprise. I feel this way about Hasbro. I'm gotten very tired of the poor QC and "how many times can we repaint Bumblebee or G1 Prime" its loving pathetic. I know the molds are expensive, I know they have ot make the money back but gently caress all if I'm tired of the poo poo clogging the shelves. The Ghostbusters line I have to have though, I don't care if Mattel takes the money I spend on it and burns it to light their hundreds to light their cigars, its a line I've always wanted.
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That's some fine nerd rage but I agree. I was gonna get into the new stuff but I missed Greyskull. Now it's just too much for me right now, so I'm dumping my old stuff even.
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 Click here for the full 472x709 image. (from toyhaven) holy carp I thought this Ma.K masterpiece edition was really cool until I hit the price... $1050. Of course then I read that it's limited to 600 pieces and the both the bot and the girl come with a bunch of accessories, which makes a little more sense. I guess I'm not cut out for the big leagues if something like this still surprises me.
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Vaporware posted:
Don't worry, that's ludicrous for a 12" figure, a mediocre one at that. Unless it was limited to like 50.
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mods rename me posted:That's some fine nerd rage but I agree. I was gonna get into the new stuff but I missed Greyskull. Now it's just too much for me right now, so I'm dumping my old stuff even. I haven't touched that new MotU stuff at all. The 2002 line was so beautifully sculpted, every figure was like a little work of art... and to me the new figures are just plain ugly, so they only add insult to injury. I'll probably end up buying the Ghostbusters figures, but I'm not gonna go fighting tooth and nail for the exclusive versions, that's for sure. I still have all the awesome monsters that NECA made a few years ago, so all I need are the 4 basic busters and I'm golden.
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I've liked the new figures so far but I really liked the 2002 ones. But I'm about to sell my collection of em for a SECOND time.
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Entertainment Earth's having their summer sale They have a bunch of the DC Universe figures on sale. Some Marvel too, but not as much. Not too many statues this time around, unfortunately.
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Vaporware posted:I thought this Ma.K masterpiece edition was really cool until I hit the price... $1050. Seriously their are DC Universe figures better than that one.
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Nerd Of Prey posted:My Joker custom job is coming along nicely, though... I'm curious to see your's. I worked on mine a little more this weekend. I think this is about as good as I can get it.  Also did a Two-Face custom, cause I'm not paying $29 for one through Matty. Still need to clean up the necktie a bit.   Edit: Daredevil, too. This is a really good figure that hasbro just didn't give enough of a sit to give it a decent paintjob. I did the makeup technique on his face, and it looks awesome. 
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Aug 5, 2009 02:39
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If anyone needs a DCUC Giganta head and lower torso, PM me.
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Heads up, BSG Collectors: That Entertainment Earth sale includes the Apollo/Duala 2-pack for $13.
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