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Captain Morose posted:Yeah, I think it's mostly generational. Whatever you got for christmas when you were like six years old. Absolutely my favorite cartoon & toys were Mighty Max, tho. Kind of surprised there's never been an attempt at a revival.
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Captain Morose posted:Yeah, I think it's mostly generational. Whatever you got for christmas when you were like six years old. I'm an 85 kid as well, but I wanted to add my experience. My dad got me super into Thundercats from my first memories, then kept on promising me for my 4th birthday, I would finally be old enough to get Thundercats figures. I built this up for what felt like ages. My 4th birthday arrives and I open my presents to find the first wave of TMNT with the blimp (which I had no idea what they were). I was later told that when they went to the toystore, the Thundercats toys weren't in stock anymore so they decided to go with that. While I grew to love TMNT, I always wanted those Thundercat toys. Then, finally, Mattel announces the Thundercats Classics line. My older brother was a huge MOTU fan, so I saw him amass all the Classics and it was finally my time. Mattel quickly announces a few months later that they aren't carrying the Classics anymore. I have the first wave of Thundercats and it felt like such a drat tease. Finally, Super7 gets the license. This was a very long round-about to say I have been waiting 30 years for this line. Hopefully they reveal the 4th wave in the next week or two.
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Louisgod posted:It's funny how certain kids got into specific shows/toys while others didn't, but I was born in '84 so maybe it's a generational thing. I never liked GI Joes, MOTU, Voltron, but loved X-Men, TMNT and Ghostbusters, so I'm thankful when I see the MOTU and GI Joe stuff it does nothing for me. Same. Born in 84 and loved X-Men, transformers and TMNT, but wasn't into He-man and GI Joe. BUT, I've gained appreciation for those lines. Not like an all-in love them now kind of thing, but I do plan on getting one or two of the characters (Scare Glow).
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Aug 10, 2020 15:08
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Man I am still pissed off about owning Ram Man. I got him for a birthday present, and like... holy poo poo the only thing with less articulation would have been maybe a rock. I still have my Ram Man in a container of stuff that didn't sell at our last yard sale in 1989 along with some Visionaries and the M.A.S.K. toll booth. Kids love toll booths!
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Aug 10, 2020 15:25
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Shiftypenguin posted:Same. Born in 84 and loved X-Men, transformers and TMNT, but wasn't into He-man and GI Joe. BUT, I've gained appreciation for those lines. Not like an all-in love them now kind of thing, but I do plan on getting one or two of the characters (Scare Glow). Think I'm an oddity as I never got into Transformers either. Probably for the best considering all the money I've saved. edit: also general reminder that the NECA Super Shredder goes up for pre-order on thenecastore.com at 10 am pacific today. Brickseek link should show inventory once it's in stores too: https://brickseek.com/walmart-inventory-checker/?sku=269034699 Louisgod fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Aug 10, 2020 |
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Aug 10, 2020 15:26
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Louisgod posted:Think I'm an oddity as I never got into Transformers either. Probably for the best considering all the money I've saved. Did you see the link to the figure stands? https://www.canofbeams.com
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Man I am still pissed off about owning Ram Man. I got him for a birthday present, and like... holy poo poo the only thing with less articulation would have been maybe a rock. Ram Man was my mom's favorite of my toys. She really got a kick out of a short fat guy that rammed stuff with his head. Star Guarded posted:Absolutely my favorite cartoon & toys were Mighty Max, tho. Kind of surprised there's never been an attempt at a revival. Mighty Max was a very underrated cartoon. I would watch that in the mornings with my little brother while we waited to go to school. It's not on streaming anywhere, and it was never released on DVD. I recently found this YouTube channel where a guy is working on restoring the old episodes from home VHS copies and UK VHS commercial releases. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated in a year, so I hope he hasn't abandoned the project. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeLNxwZwAlMslfAuZR96aZg/videos
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Grant DaNasty posted:Mighty Max was a very underrated cartoon. I would watch that in the mornings with my little brother while we waited to go to school. It's not on streaming anywhere, and it was never released on DVD. I recently found this YouTube channel where a guy is working on restoring the old episodes from home VHS copies and UK VHS commercial releases. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated in a year, so I hope he hasn't abandoned the project.  I'm not even sure what company could pull off the "playset with miniatures" thing now. I guess Super7. Given how tiny most of the playets were, they were very detailed and imaginative. My sister had a few Polly Pockets but didn't like them, so I'd play with those, too, and do crossovers all the time. Obviously the downside to the series was that I lost the miniatures all the time. I remember my mom forbade me from carrying them with me to the grocery store because I'd always drop them and they'd be impossible to find. Imagine just trying to buy groceries and your kid is upset because they lost something the size of a nickel somewhere in the store. Star Guarded fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Aug 10, 2020 |
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Aug 10, 2020 16:28
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Nanigans posted:Did you see the link to the figure stands? Oh drat I didn't, thank you! Absolutely going to pre-order those when they're up.
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Aug 10, 2020 17:09
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I loved "small" toys when I was a kid, because it was easier to play with them around the house and use furniture as huge set pieces. All of that is to say I was very into Mighty Max. I loved the sets, and the Christmas where I got Skull Mountain was a game changer for my miniature adventures. One of the sets had Norman painted with golden pauldrons instead of the normal silver, which I would use as an "upgraded" version of his armor. I wish the cartoon had been properly archived somewhere, because like others are saying it was fantastic and really uniquely dark for the time.
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Aug 10, 2020 17:41
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Mattel is killing it with the MOTU Origins line. I'm happy the Walmart exclusivity period ends at the new year. That Landshark is a must own.
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Aug 10, 2020 18:32
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I was never really into anything as a kid besides gi Joe, and even then it was more of a "had to be cool be looking" role. I'm glad I missed on the Sideshow joes cause holy gently caress that would have meant bankruptcy. Still pissed I missed out on cobra commander with the faceplate, but I'll live. Loved that squished earth hand he came with though. I think I'm safe unless they reissue C.O.P.S. or Bravestarr. Massive articulation or glowing rocks/western theme and I'm hosed.
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Aug 10, 2020 18:39
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Super Shredder went up on NECA's online store. I can't believe I just gave them $23 in shipping for a $30 figure, but here we are. If I can just find a movie Casey, I can never think about NECA again.
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Aug 10, 2020 18:45
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They don’t do this stuff for us Alien/Predator/Horror collectors like
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Tesh posted:Mattel is killing it with the MOTU Origins line. I'm happy the Walmart exclusivity period ends at the new year. That Landshark is a must own. Lotta chatter that we'll see Greyskull at NYTF and I am hype. I just need them to remake the entire vintage line and as many vehicles as possible. I bought a lot of broken Eternia monorail tracks earlier, I'm gonna start picking up busted parts and frankenstein it together.
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Aug 10, 2020 18:47
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Agrias120 posted:Super Shredder went up on NECA's online store. I can't believe I just gave them $23 in shipping for a $30 figure, but here we are. If I can just find a movie Casey, I can never think about NECA again. I've been checking the Wal-Mart near me that I know carries when when they're in stock and nothing yet. I managed to also get a Shredder but had to flip over to my iPad as I and many others couldn't get the checkout button to work through Chrome on PCs. I also like and appreciate NECA is texting people a code you need to type to complete checkout.. it's a great way to weed out bots. Also looks like NECA's putting Shredder back up in waves, likely to throw off scalpers. Supposedly he's supposed to show in stores either this or next week, so check the inventory tracker to avoid paying NECA's shipping costs: https://brickseek.com/walmart-inventory-checker/?sku=269034699
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I was never really into anything as a kid besides gi Joe, and even then it was more of a "had to be cool be looking" role. I'm glad I missed on the Sideshow joes cause holy gently caress that would have meant bankruptcy. Still pissed I missed out on cobra commander with the faceplate, but I'll live. Loved that squished earth hand he came with though. Don't forget Cowboys of Moo Mesa!
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Star Guarded posted:Yup. Late 80s, so I caught TMNT, X-Men, Batman TAS, and Power Rangers. Technically I was a little late for TMNT, but the Playmates figures were a staple of yard sales and the movies stretched things out. In the late nineties, Pokemon and wrestling replaced pretty much all of my other interests. ‘82 here so  definitely BTAS, TMNT, and X-Men, but collecting wise it’s been all over the map. Getting TMNT and Gi Joe’s of late since as a kid my parents thought they were “too violent.” Annoyed I missed out on that Super-Shredder.On a positive note related to icons of the 1980’s, this arrived today:   
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I could never get into Gi Joe as a kid. The figures were just so small compared to everything else. I remember being so disappointed when they came out with Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter figures and they we just Joe figures.
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GI Joe was all about the vehicles. Also the ability to have large armies of figures. It is a concept that has mostly been lost now since even small figures are expensive so it is hard to have a large collection of figures.
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Aug 10, 2020 22:11
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JT Smiley posted:I could never get into Gi Joe as a kid. The figures were just so small compared to everything else. I remember being so disappointed when they came out with Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter figures and they we just Joe figures. My brothers and I bought those MK and SF figures and subsequently blew them up with M80s and turned then colors with smoke bombs. Those figures were such disappointments.
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Aug 10, 2020 22:14
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I'm having a hard time liking the MOTU origins stuff. I felt like classics knocked it out of the park, and these just seem like a regression to me.
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Djarum posted:GI Joe was all about the vehicles. Also the ability to have large armies of figures. And there was something cool about how the figures were so.. over-equipped, I guess. He-Man had a sword. Roadblock had a Ma-Deuce heavy machine gun with tripod, ammo belt and backpack.
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Aug 10, 2020 23:56
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All the new MOTU stuff is great.....apart from that godawful head sculpt for He-Man. No idea why they couldn't just use the O.G version.
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Dawgstar posted:And there was something cool about how the figures were so.. over-equipped, I guess. He-Man had a sword. Roadblock had a Ma-Deuce heavy machine gun with tripod, ammo belt and backpack. Well you could swap guns and whatnot from figure to figure too. It was a great line, with figures being $2.99 for most of it's peak it was incredibly affordable for parents to pick one or two up for a kid. Much like the TMNT line a few years later, which was $3.99 for much of it's run. There really is nothing like any of those vintage lines anymore. You have the collector focused lines which are $20+ a pop which for most parents is far too high. The 2012 TMNT series is probably as close as we have had in a long time as they were under  and sold incredibly well to both the collectors and kids for that reason. I think there is a place for higher end stuff for collectors at a higher price point but I feel a big reason why kids have zero interest in toys now a days is that they are too expensive and not interesting to them. You get sub lines with interesting play features, not like action features but the weapons and accessories for GI Joe for example, and vehicles/playsets and they would be a hit. Hell I am amazed they didn't go that route with the Fortnite figures for example.
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CaptainN posted:All the new MOTU stuff is great.....apart from that godawful head sculpt for He-Man. Looks like the Battle Armor He-Man is coming with an alternate OG He-Man head. 
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Fuzz posted:Anyone have any luck with the Target GI Joes? Which ones? Been checking the Baroness brickseek links for folks and it still shows not in stock.
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Djarum posted:You get sub The 3.75" Jazwares Fortnite figures are exactly this. Joe style figures with vehicles, loot crates with weapons and backpacks that are all interchangeable. It's a really great line actually, and retail is only like $10 per figure. I started collecting them when my gf and I got back into fortnite during the pandemic. They're super cool.
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Captain Morose posted:The 3.75" Jazwares Fortnite figures are exactly this. Joe style figures with vehicles, loot crates with weapons and backpacks that are all interchangeable. It's a really great line actually, and retail is only like $10 per figure. I started collecting them when my gf and I got back into fortnite during the pandemic. They're super cool. I did not know! Only Fortnite stuff I have seen has been the larger, more expensive ones from Jazwares and Todd. That sounds exactly like what I would have expected though.
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That's why I'm waffling on buying the new 12" Superman figure. On one hand, gently caress it's kinda expensive but comes with a starro and a city of kandor, on the other hand... I dunno if any more are coming out ever.
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I hope the drat art deco Batman I preordered from BBTS is still coming out this month. But yeah, obviously all of the poor people laid off is more important than my toy. :-/
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Davros1 posted:Yeah, DC Direct is gone I don't meant this facetiously, but what was DC Direct responsible for putting out?
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S.W.O.R.D. Agent posted:I don't meant this facetiously, but what was DC Direct responsible for putting out? https://www.dccomics.com/collectibles?all=1#browse Figures and 1/6 scale statues. They do stuff for current-ish storylines, while the mass market lines tend to focus on 4 Batman figures and a Superman. All the DC statues you see at a comic book store or Gamestop or something are them too.
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Louisgod posted:Which ones? Been checking the Baroness brickseek links for folks and it still shows not in stock. All of them. Beachhead, Trooper, Roadblock, and Baroness.
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Aphrodite posted:https://www.dccomics.com/collectibles?all=1#browse Not ALL DC statues are from DC Collectibles. They license out to a lot of other companies.
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