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I'm pretty sure I'm the only one here who still gives a poo poo about JLU, but Mattel's rep ToyGuru, aka Scott Neitlich, admitted on the Mattycollector forums that the last wave of unreleased 3-packs will NOT be coming out, even at the proposed price of $50 per 3-pack. I am terribly disappointed, because I would have coughed up $50 for a JLU Blue Beetle and most likely for Guy Gardner as well. But apparently they won't be seeing the light of day (aside from the rare and expensive leaked factory prototypes that occasionally show up on eBay), and neither will Mongul, Toyman, Vandal Savage, or Static.
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Joining in the crowd of people who hate Mattel, I couldn't believe how scarce the bases are for the DCUC figures. And then I realized I have rubber for molding and plastic for casting. http://i.imgur.com/DYAD6.jpg Suck on THAT, Mattel! 
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VitaminZinc posted:Joining in the crowd of people who hate Mattel, I couldn't believe how scarce the bases are for the DCUC figures. And then I realized I have rubber for molding and plastic for casting. So, um, you can't sell them of course because trademark blah blah blah, but, I want some of those please.
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Bushifox posted:So, um, you can't sell them of course because trademark blah blah blah, but, I want some of those please. Hm, true. But uh, I can sand off "DC Universe" and sell them? Maybe? No? Hmm...
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Jan 24, 2012 03:06
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I don't think they really give a poo poo unless you're selling hundreds of them in some flagrant, public way. People sell resin casts of action figure parts on the internet all the time. I don't think you risk much if you hook a few goons up.
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Jan 24, 2012 06:54
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Oh hey, look who finally arrived! 
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So The Star Sisters are all incredibly strange. Mattel used clear plastic for one of them only to paint it over this ugly pink color. The anatomy for the chest also looks strange because it just looks like a detailess polygon instead of an actual human torso, allthough I think it's the default female chest just without any clothes on. The pink one has this crystal themed motif they attempted to pull off but she really just looks like she's a grandma who wears long underware and has ugly crystal bangs that look strange because they're upturned. The other one is Tallstar who's gimmick is that she's supposed to extend. The extentions however don't even make her any bigger than a normal figure. She's maybe a half head taller when fully extended. However she looks the best of the bunch. She has some late 80's early 90's pop star outfit with parachute sleeves and suspenders. Her hair is this bright bright pink which really doesn't look all that terrible with her silve rand blue uniform. The last one is the one who wears some yellow and orange carny outfit. It's not so bad, but she looks like she's a man in a dress. The face is really what does it, she has these massive cheekbones and a jay leno style chin. To top it all off her animal side kick is a bright pink eagle who wears a mohawk on a gold collar with a star on said mohawk. Mind you the Star Sisters where axed from the Original Princess of Power Toyline, I don't think they even appeared in the show. But Gygor and The Giants were a similar situation and they came out awesome.
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Jan 27, 2012 11:20
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Is that the Milk War Machine?
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Jan 27, 2012 16:29
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Vintersorg posted:Is that the Milk War Machine? Yep!
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All you guys who were clamoring for a 12-inch Ron Paul action figure where he's dressed in a knockoff Superman costume have finally been heard.
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Jan 31, 2012 03:14
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Found some weird things for cheap if anyone is interested. There's a Star Wars Hostage Crisis pack and the Captain America two packs (Crossbones or Bucky). Hit me if you're interested. They'd be loose; the packages are damaged.
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Snacksmaniac posted:Found some weird things for cheap if anyone is interested. There's a Star Wars Hostage Crisis pack and the Captain America two packs (Crossbones or Bucky). Hit me if you're interested. They'd be loose; the packages are damaged.
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Jan 31, 2012 05:43
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 I'll weigh em and get you a picture tonight.
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Did anyone catch the Toy Hunters pilot on the Travel Channel? Following the American Pickers model, Jordan Hembrough from toy selling company Hollywood Heroes goes around the US to find old toys to sell on. He buys two prototypes (rocket-firing Boba Fett and the Mad Bubbler from Thundercats which wasn't produced) along with a bunch of other figures, to try and break some arbitrary $20,000 sales barrier at NYCC. It was pretty crappy to be honest. Jordan isn't very charismatic in the way the Pickers guys are. For a 45 minute show, over half of that seemed to be him talking directly to camera, talking head style. His voice is particularly grating after that long too, as well as his attitude being particularly immature and whiny on a couple of occasions ("you can't do cheaper? Aww come oooonnnn."). One thing that irked me was that he didn't seem particularly knowledgable about his apparent specialist subject. He looked at some MASK toys and proclaimed them "the precursors to Transformers". Uh, no. You might want to check the dates on that. It was a pilot, so if it does go to series, hopefully they'll change it up a bit. He definitely needs a partner or someone to talk to, though. Long stretches of just him talking aren't doing him or the show's future any favours.
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It was okay, I suppose. The Thundercats section was pretty cool.quote:One thing that irked me was that he didn't seem particularly knowledgable about his apparent specialist subject. Totally agreed. It was a little weird to see him going ga-ga over Corgi Batmobiles that were still on shelves in my local TRU last summer. Anywho, I can't imagine it sustaining as a proper series without it being a complete fabrication (which wouldn't be terribly unusual for that type of "OMG! Rare crap!" reality show).
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funtax posted:Totally agreed. It was a little weird to see him going ga-ga over Corgi Batmobiles that were still on shelves in my local TRU last summer. Oh yeah, that was weird for me too. He was really crazy for those and they were everywhere and not in any way rare. Also, his mispronunciation of Corgi bothered me. Corgi, like the dog, idiot.
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Dear Hasbro...my money, take it. http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2012-02-01/GI-Joe-Retaliation-movie-toys/52918456/1
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Hell yeah, new Ninja Turtle figures!  http://www.geekologie.com/2012/02/will-be-collecting-new-ninja-turtle-acti.php#more   
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Vintersorg posted:Hell yeah, new Ninja Turtle figures! Just came here to post this. Any word on a release date for these? They're loving awesome.
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That playset is loving awesome. I would have flipped my wig if I had one of those for my turtles as a kid.
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New Ninja Turtles you say?! http://geek-news.mtv.com/2012/02/01/mtv-geek-exclusive-playmates-tmnt-classic-collection-action-figures/    
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Oh, my God, those classic turtles are loving AMAAZZZZIINNNGGG. Those are so sold. I hope they release the Shredder, Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady, too. And Baxter Stockman. And Metalhead. And Slash. I WANT THEM ALL. I know all the new cartoons want to be true to the mirage comics, but drat it, we all grew up with the original cartoon and man, they really, really oughta put Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang and the technodrome into a new show. Dimension X gets no love. The playset is also enormous and nuts. As a kid I would have flipped out over something like that. That's like something out of the 80's. They don't make playsets like that anymore. Hell, they practically don't even make playsets at all anymore.
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Sorry but... HOLY loving poo poo!!!!!! Those are like, true to the cartoon figures... Must have em! Aaaah!!
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My wife is going to kill me. Luckily, that playset is large enough that I can live in it when she kicks me out of the house.
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Beanpants posted:That playset is loving awesome. I would have flipped my wig if I had one of those for my turtles as a kid. That was exactly the reaction I had. I used to build elaborate sewer playsets out of cardboard boxes when I was a kid - I always was into custom-building stuff - but I still woulda flipped out for something that fancy. I don't see adult me owning the playset at any point, just too drat big, but I might throw down for some of the new turtles. I really like the design of the non-cartoony ones, personally. I guess they're all cartoony but you know what I mean. This is unrelated to anything, but i finally sprang for that MOTUC Battle Cat. I got a good deal on Amazon, so I didn't have to debase myself by giving mattycollector my credit card info. In other totally unrelated news, I decided to make my own Superman action figure. I don't have the kind of cash to buy the Hot Toys movie one any time soon, and I keep being disappointed in off-the-shelf Superman figures. They all seem to have really weird faces, kinda badly-placed articulation and those rubber capes that look stupid unless you pose them just so. Nothing quite lives up to the memory of the Super Powers figure that I played with until the paint was mostly gone and the arms fell off. I am fond of the DC Direct 13" figure, but there's a certain fun factor that little pocket-sized toys have that big fancy display pieces don't. I'm making it out of one of the dozen or so super-articulated wrestler figures I bought dirt cheap a couple years ago. The work is going very quickly, at least by my standards, so I'm sure I'll be able to show it off soon. Quick work-in-progress pic:  The wrestler figure was a good base, easy to work with, but I started by bulking out his shoulders a little, covering the holes where some of the joints are, plus filling in some of the space between the muscles so he'll look a little more like he is wearing clothes. I'm not really going for a pure movie look... but closer to that than most comic-styled figures. If this turns out really well I'll probably try making another wrestler into an Animated Series style Batman.
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So if anyone wants to grab one of the new Marvel Legends Hope Summers figures for me and sell it to me at cost + shipping I'd love you forever because I'm not at all confident that I'll see one in any of my local stores.  I did scoop up most of the second wave of Real Steel 4" movie robots, I've been getting a big kick out of that line (and it helps that the movie was awesome). They even did a running change on Atom so he lights up the correct color which is pretty neat.
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Traveling back in time a bit...Gammatron 64 posted:The AT-AT and Snowspeeder look cool, but they're a little pricey. And they take up space. And if I pick up the new AT-AT, I'm probably going to want the huge revamped Millennium Falcon, too. And I doubt I could pick those up for cheap. So I managed to get my hands on the aforementioned Millennium Falcon for under $100. It arrived a few hours ago and it's a thing of beauty, but holy gently caress is it huge. Like... impossible-to-display huge. Your "takes up space" comment is extremely apt. It's gorgeous and amazingly well-made, but I'm sadly going to have to keep the drat thing in my garage.
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Xenomrph posted:So if anyone wants to grab one of the new Marvel Legends Hope Summers figures for me and sell it to me at cost + shipping I'd love you forever because I'm not at all confident that I'll see one in any of my local stores. She's the only one I want too but keep in mind these are eventually hitting Target and Walmart too. Supposedly will show up at Target in the next couple weeks.
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Spotted the new marvel legends at tru. Didn't buy any, the ones I want were gone (Thor and cap)
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I love that giant playsets are coming back. Did anyone else see that they are putting out a three foot long SHIELD helicarrier from the new Avengers movie? http://i.marvelousnews.com/g/generated/Finds/Hellicarrier_2/hasbro-20120131002808922__scaled_800.jpg Also, does anyone know the date that Metron (with chair) will go up on Matty Collector?
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Havoc904 posted:Also, does anyone know the date that Metron (with chair) will go up on Matty Collector? I got an email a few weeks ago saying the initial figure for the sub would be available April 13; it doesn't explicitly say who it's for, but I'm assuming it's Metron. Although, unless you bought a sub last year, I don't think he's going to be available outside of the secondary market since he's the club figure. That's actually a valid question for people here who've bought subs for the other lines: do they ever release the club figure online for mass release at a later date?
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Sanschel posted:I got an email a few weeks ago saying the initial figure for the sub would be available April 13; it doesn't explicitly say who it's for, but I'm assuming it's Metron. drat, so I can't get a sub anymore and it looks like it will be available only to subscription members? If that is the case, I will gladly pay someone here if anyone is open. Plus whatever they want to charge on top of the regular fees. I would rather pay someone here then get gouged on ebay.
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Those Classic Turtles are badass, hopefully we get all four of them in the first wave so when it inevitably gets canceled early we aren't left with incomplete sets.
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I just wanted to pop in and say I'm selling my gigantic selection of Minimates on ebay right now: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Huge-Lot-168-Mini-Mates-MARVEL-LOTR-DC-Assorted-LQQK-/290664811309?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43acf90b2d and that my nearly complete set of Marvel Legends is going up this weekend. I doubt anyone here is looking to start a collection from scratch for the sort of money I want for it, but I wanted to let you guys know. Thanks a lot to snacksmaniac for offering some advice on that sale. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320842869282 Woffle fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Feb 4, 2012 |
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Anyone know what this figure I saw online is? It's a McFarlane figure apparently, from 2003, but it looks weirdly space mariney. 
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I think that's Manga Spawn or Cyber Manga Spawn or something like that. They got all obsessed with anime for a while and made giant robot versions of a lot of Spawn characters. Some of them were kinda neat, though. I think I have that guy in a box somewhere. Edit: No, I was wrong, I have this guy. Nerd Of Prey fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Feb 5, 2012 |
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Darth Ronson posted:Anyone know what this figure I saw online is? It's a McFarlane figure apparently, from 2003, but it looks weirdly space mariney. That's Manga Spawn. It had a more robotic head that was like a cross between a Gundam-type mech and an insect, which popped off, revealing Spawn's hamburger-looking head underneath (as in that photo). It also had dragonfly-like wings that folded out of its back. I was never into Spawn figures, but I had that back in the day because I liked its design -- both the rust-red version in your photo and a nice gunmetal gray repaint.
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 They finally seem to be clearancing those Green Lantern figures with the transforming constructs (they appeared in the clearance section of the local Wal-Mart and started appearing in a Five Below). They're probably worth the $5, the constructs are... pretty cool, actually.
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It's the leadup to Toy Fair, and there's a new Batman movie this year. That means more ridiculous tie-in toys! "What the gently caress have you done to me, Lucius  "
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