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Anyone collect weta's mini epics? I'm absolutely loving the look of their lotr mini epics, just curious if they're decent enough in hand.
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Wishing Mondo would just reveal the animated 1/6 Joker they teased like four times
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Jul 24, 2021 01:29
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Sentinel Red posted:You mean the guy on the magic planet who looks like a super buff Prince Adam and rides around on an armoured green tiger that looks like a super buff Cringer were actually Prince Adam and Cringer??? Inconceivable. To be slightly fair, this is the one show in the loving universe that actually has a difference between how Prince Adam looks and He-Man. He doesn't just get naked and tan.
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Jul 24, 2021 02:40
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Burkion posted:To be slightly fair, this is the one show in the loving universe that actually has a difference between how Prince Adam looks and He-Man. He doesn't just get naked and tan. oh poo poo I think this is what that guy meant when he said "dismantle our imagination"
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Jul 24, 2021 02:43
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Splint Chesthair posted:May not be the case with this particular figure, because it's a reissue, but scalpers today snatch up pre-orders and immediately sell the items they don't have yet on eBay. It's why you'll see a bunch of listings for certain items being touted as "IN HAND," because they want you to know that they can ship immediately, not whenever the items arrive on their end. If you see a listing for a new toy that uses a promo shot as the photo, chances are it's one of those. At least in my experience. Yeah I know about that dumb bullshit. The sellers I was seeing it from mostly were using their own photos. I didn't even realize it was a reissue is the thing. I ended up ordering the Amazon exclusive Deadpool figure from an ebay seller instead.
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Jul 24, 2021 04:12
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I watched the first ep of the new MotU show, and the only complaint I have is the casting of Sarah Michelle Gellar as Teela. Her voice, to me, is just too soft and light for the character. (I did have to laugh, when watching the show, I was thinking "You know who'd be a better voice for Teela? Lena Headey." Then I saw in the credits she's voicing Evil-Lyn.) Davros1 fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Jul 24, 2021 |
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Jul 24, 2021 05:11
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I love SMG and will fight you to death over this. But yeah, she could've used a bit more fierceness in her voice. But I still loved her performance overall. What's the best place to see all the SDCC reveals? I just caught the new Mondo 1/6 MOTU reveal in a FB group and they look excellent, might have to rebudget for some those.
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Jul 24, 2021 09:45
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Djarum posted:They have been getting reprints of older stuff for awhile. They did one for the Caliban wave Gambit recently for example. Them and Entertainment Earth I think pay for reprints of certain things. I am kind of surprised neither has done the Jim Lee Cyclops or Beast again yet. That's good to know, thanks. I saw they had preorders for the Love Triangle box a few months ago but didn't have the money then. I'll have to keep am eye out for a reissue.
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Jul 24, 2021 11:27
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Rhyno posted:I love SMG and will fight you to death over this. But yeah, she could've used a bit more fierceness in her voice. But I still loved her performance overall. Toyark usually has big galleries of everything.
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Jul 24, 2021 13:56
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Loved the new MOTU show. I agree that SMG could have used a bit more fierceness in her voice acting, but overall everyone was spot on. Also, that new Mondo Scare Glow is gonna kill my wallet, but it will be mine. I passed on their first version and regret it to this day.
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Jul 24, 2021 16:44
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Aphrodite posted:What's different about this version that has them all mad? There are non-white people in it.
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Jul 24, 2021 17:51
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I ordered a figurarts Super Sailor Mercury off ebay that arrived today. I love it.
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Jul 24, 2021 21:21
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Spent about 2 hours listing stuff on Mercari last night. 22 listings created, 3 sales already. I really like this platform and I'm up about $2000 since I started. So I pulled out 4 bins and have about 40 lots to photograph and prep for tonight when I get up. I highly recommend this app.
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Jul 24, 2021 22:20
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Rhyno posted:Spent about 2 hours listing stuff on Mercari last night. 22 listings created, 3 sales already. I really like this platform and I'm up about $2000 since I started. So I pulled out 4 bins and have about 40 lots to photograph and prep for tonight when I get up. I highly recommend this app. What’s Mercari’s cut of each sale?
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Jul 24, 2021 22:21
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Edit: correction. 10% selling fee, 4% processing fee.
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Jul 24, 2021 22:35
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Rhyno posted:Spent about 2 hours listing stuff on Mercari last night. 22 listings created, 3 sales already. I really like this platform and I'm up about $2000 since I started. So I pulled out 4 bins and have about 40 lots to photograph and prep for tonight when I get up. I highly recommend this app. Doubling recommend for Mercari. My wife has been listing a bunch of her old clothes and my toys on there and it's like every day there's at least one sale. poo poo that languished on ebay for months is just moving on Mercari. In other news Tamashii has a pop up near me that has a bunch of their stuff but I was disappointed they only had sailor Uranus (I have the original release and I don't want to double dip) but I got a Loki, Samurai Kylo Ren and Birds of Prey Harley.
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Jul 24, 2021 22:42
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Rhyno posted:Edit: correction. That’s not too bad, it’s about the same as eBay.
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Jul 24, 2021 22:47
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Does Mercari use Paypal, or do they demand your bank account info like eBay does now for sellers? I really don't feel great about sharing that with eBay.
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Jul 24, 2021 23:07
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drat I guess I’m spoiled by direct sales. 14% sounds insane to me
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Jul 24, 2021 23:09
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:drat I guess I’m spoiled by direct sales. 14% sounds insane to me Most of them just sell things for like 10-15% more than what they actually want. That's why it's often useful to track down whether an ebay or Amazon seller has their own store too.
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Jul 24, 2021 23:34
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:drat I guess I’m spoiled by direct sales. 14% sounds insane to me It is, but when money’s a little tight and you want to clear out a collection it’s an acceptable compromise. Especially since the only local alternative for most folks is selling to an LCS for less than half what each item is worth.
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Jul 24, 2021 23:53
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Finished watching Revelation. I'm gonna end up buying so many dang he-mans if they release roboto, trap-jaw, stinkor, tri-clops, grayskull... straight back to 80s nostalgia on this one. I didn't have any expectations on the story and honestly, I thought it was pretty well done, despite it seemingly being written to sell me, an adult, plastic toys.
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Jul 24, 2021 23:56
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So I did some upgrading on my cases over the weekend. Got another detolf, and also got some Bestas to use as risers for the cases. The risers make a BIG difference, something about the cases being off the ground a bit really helps with the presentation. Also decided to try the Dioder lights in the new case, I like them! There photos really don't do it justice, but:    
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Jul 25, 2021 00:02
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The Four Horsemen have announced their Mythic Legions: evergreen legion builders. The plan is for these to always be in stock at their Store Horsemen site.quote:MYTHIC LEGIONS: LEGION BUILDER REINFORCEMENTS!!  This is a great line up for newcomers.
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Jul 25, 2021 01:13
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:So I did some upgrading on my cases over the weekend. Got another detolf, and also got some Bestas to use as risers for the cases. The risers make a BIG difference, something about the cases being off the ground a bit really helps with the presentation. Also decided to try the Dioder lights in the new case, I like them! There photos really don't do it justice, but: Came out really sick! I just organized all my figs too and grabbed another detolf. Love your setup. I have all the NECA TMNT....and I mean all of them. It's a problem.
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Jul 25, 2021 01:25
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:So I did some upgrading on my cases over the weekend. Got another detolf, and also got some Bestas to use as risers for the cases. The risers make a BIG difference, something about the cases being off the ground a bit really helps with the presentation. Also decided to try the Dioder lights in the new case, I like them! There photos really don't do it justice, but: The NECA Turtles should have come with alternate heads so you can recreate that horrible scene where you can see the actor's real mouth inside the costume's mouth. Are those light strips you can just buy or did they come with the display case? I want to do a little shelf in my room and have lights like that on it.
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Jul 25, 2021 01:43
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Thanks! Those are IKEA Dioder lights, they come separate: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/dioder-led-4-piece-light-strip-set-white-20119418/ I'm nearly certain you can find cheaper light strips at a Home Depot or something.
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Jul 25, 2021 02:28
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Grant DaNasty posted:The Four Horsemen have announced their Mythic Legions: evergreen legion builders. The plan is for these to always be in stock at their Store Horsemen site. That is awesome, and means I can drop a bunch of skeletons and goblins from BBTS to save my wallet some pain.
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Jul 25, 2021 03:05
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I bought 2 more Tengu Warriors today. I've never army built a figure before. This toy is fantastic.
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Jul 25, 2021 03:17
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:So I did some upgrading on my cases over the weekend. Got another detolf, and also got some Bestas to use as risers for the cases. The risers make a BIG difference, something about the cases being off the ground a bit really helps with the presentation. Also decided to try the Dioder lights in the new case, I like them! There photos really don't do it justice, but: I need to go to bed; I took too long trying to figure out what the gold praying guy was from before I finally realized it was the Infinity Gauntlet.
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Jul 25, 2021 08:08
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I love the often detolf look, so nice!
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Jul 25, 2021 08:15
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Not that I was looking to start collection another line of anything, but I grabbed the Gandalf mini epic and my wallet weeps because so many others look great.
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Jul 25, 2021 08:38
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I finally watched MOTU Revelation and I liked it OK... but, in a twist a lot of people here could probably have seen coming, I didn't like it as much as 200x MOTU or the She-Ra reboot. Just to be an art critic for a minute here: The weird costume redesigns arguably made sense for the story, but were disappointingly generic. In trying to make their clothes "practical" they wrecked the overall clarity of design that defines MOTU characters. This is a setting where form should not follow function, function should be an afterthought at best and form should follow coolness. Like Teela didn't need a bunch of fuckin' brown leather padding. Most of the bad guys just had this lazy "let's give them a bunch of scars to indicate that some poo poo happened" thing. Kudos for Tri-Klops's pope hat though. By comparison, the 200x designs completely nailed it, they took cool designs and made them even cooler, and really successfully modernized the aesthetic. Netflix She-Ra went another direction with a really minimal art style, but the designs were still fun, with clean lines and bright colors and a real sense of individuality for each character. Potentially spoilery Revelation story critique: It wasn't bad but did feel a little fan-fictiony to me. The only thing that actually pissed me off as a MOTU fan was [ACTUAL SPOILER ALERT] Castle Grayskull being an illusion and not really a creepy old skull-faced castle... like way to take all the fun out of it, guys. Teela's tacked-on best friend felt extremely tacked-on, I'm all for being woke and inclusive and whatever, but she didn't serve much of a purpose in the story so it rang really hollow. She didn't even feel like a MOTU character, she didn't have an interesting power or gimmick or cool weapon, and just dressed in bland earth tones. She was introduced as a "tech expert" but then Roboto joined the party and instantly made that totally irrelevant. All the plot twists and character drama happened between other people, and she was just sort of in the background like "and then I say something!" Anyway I'm not very interested in toys based on this particular show... What else you got, Mattel?
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Jul 25, 2021 12:23
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I'm hoping they show us a couple dozen more Origins figures at Power Con, bunch of vehicles and Snake Mountain. People in the FB groups and forums just refuse to let go of Classics so i'll say i agree and re-releasing some of those would be awesome.
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Jul 25, 2021 12:40
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Small correction: MOTU has never been cool. The Toys Wonderland drama has been slowly unfolding on YouTube and the CF (formerly SSF) forums and it seems like Sideshow struck them for using their product photos, not for reselling. Toys Buying Agent uses a variety of things (actual box photos, art, movie posters etc) but never the official Sideshow/Hot Toys promo photos so they should be just fine. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Jul 25, 2021 |
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Jul 25, 2021 14:48
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Aphrodite posted:Small correction: MOTU has never been cool. Neither have you but here you are.
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Jul 25, 2021 14:53
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It is, but when money’s a little tight and you want to clear out a collection it’s an acceptable compromise. Especially since the only local alternative for most folks is selling to an LCS for less than half what each item is worth. Oh I totally can understand; I hope I wasn’t coming off as “Hmph! These plebes sell like fools!” 9r anything. I have never used EBay or anything to sell so I’m genuinely surprised at that rate.
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Jul 25, 2021 16:07
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I feel the rates are typical of any selling platform but the ease of use won me over from ebay.
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Jul 25, 2021 16:14
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I have a lot of Kenner's PoTF line in the form of loose figures, carded figures, and vehicles like an x-wing, tie fighter, slave 1 etc. None of this is bringing me any enjoyment and occupies storage space I could devote to more bots/joes/hemans etc. I realize little of it probably commands any value at all, but hypothetically, how would it be best to sell it in case I could make some cash off of some/most/all of it? Ebay, as a lot? I'm out of my depth on this one lol. I don't have much hope that I would, given how SW toys have evolved over the last several decades, but still, I ask.
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Jul 25, 2021 16:20
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For a big lot like that I’d suggest either taking it to an LCS (although they’d absolutely lowball and give you pennies) or sell it as a lot on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace. I’ve had decent luck with the latter. Piecing it out probably isn’t going to be worth your time or the headache.
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