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Joe Fisto posted:Duke #3 is good. This Energon Universe is off to a good start. It's very good. It's almost crazy in fact how good this is going. I mean, Duke? The boy scout? The guy people found so dull as dishwater they made him into a cobra double agent in a DDP Joe series a decade back? They need to make a Classified version of his look here, the scruffy non clean cut version. People would like that. Hell I would. Void Rivals Transformers Cobra Commander Duke Each has been shockingly good so far without a single stinker between them. My expectations were kind of middle of the road for this whole thing, so far it's proven so far above expectations it can be hard to process happening. The Last Call fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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The Last Call posted:Looks like he jacked someone elses body and stuck his head onto it. How soon we forget Briefly Jacked Wayne Knight. 
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Feb 28, 2024 21:00
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funtax posted:How soon we forget Briefly Jacked Wayne Knight. I always love seeing when folks get in shape like this. You can tell the look on their face is so genuine and heart felt.
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Feb 28, 2024 21:39
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The Last Call posted:They'd need a complete different character for that feature. The original Nedry figure had that feature. 
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Feb 28, 2024 22:37
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Talk that poo poo now, Seinfeld
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Feb 28, 2024 23:18
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Shiftypenguin posted:The original Nedry figure had that feature. What?! But it's the wrong character! He should have had gunk in his eyes. Dinosaur gunk! Spat right at him.
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Feb 29, 2024 00:14
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The Last Call posted:What?! The toys took a LOT of liberties with the source material... They were awesome. 
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Feb 29, 2024 02:10
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Shiftypenguin posted:The toys took a LOT of liberties with the source material... To this day, if I ever decided to get a tattoo it would be of the classic combined JP toy emblem.
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Feb 29, 2024 02:31
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Whenever I have to initial something at work I merge the letters like the JP toy logo.
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Feb 29, 2024 02:57
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Open Marriage Night posted:Whenever I have to initial something at work I merge the letters like the JP toy logo. My work’s logo is 2 letters merged and they recently rebranded into a new font and it absolutely is the JP font and I’m convinced that the advertising/marketing agency that designed the logo did it on purpose.
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The_Doctor posted:Got a link? Your favorite retailer for third party knockoffs should have em. Tnsfigures is my go to.
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Feb 29, 2024 03:30
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Tomorrow more GI Classified figures go on pre order:    Did someone say new packaging?  A reminder she is not only a Arashikage ninja, a covert spy but she also defeated Ryu and Bison in a street fighting competition making her a world champion! She can even utilize the famed Raging Demon aka Shun Goku Satsu, or stright up translated as Instant Prison Murder. No I will not stop mentioning this, fight me! And one more of Doc because he's so god drat cool:  PS: Skybound(the imprint making the current Joe and Transformers comics) will be reprinting the complete Marvel GI Joe in Omnibus formats, the first shall contain issues 1 - 50 Strongly rumored to being revealed or named include Drednoks Road Pig and Heartwrencher. She was a character from the DDP GI Joe era. Also expect the Cobra Ferret(ATV and driver) or the Tiger Force version of it. Three months later the other should pop up as going on pre order ala Trouble Bubble.
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Oh neat, Amazon Oz already has them up, and the whole wave this time too. No inexplicably missing character this time around. The recently-ish left and replaced brand manager at Hasbro Aus who was doing the same poo poo with Transformers, must have also been the one handling GI Joe as well
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Feb 29, 2024 07:58
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Finally! https://twitter.com/preterniadotcom/status/1763147136651465153
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Feb 29, 2024 11:27
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Jinx defeating Ryu and Akuma, and mastering the Shun Goku Satsu, is up there with The Doctor dumping Death's Head on the Baxter Building roof, and Stormwatch all getting merked by Aliens as my favourite bit of weird crossover shenanigans. That Spider-Punk looks wonderful but I'm probably gonna hold out for the Sentinel. Likewise the Mafex Ahsoka over the Bandai one. Glad to see Ben Reilly is getting a reissue, I regret passing on him originally as every review I saw after made him look wonderful.
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Sentinel Red posted:That Spider-Punk looks wonderful but I'm probably gonna hold out for the Sentinel. Have Sentinel said anything about having the ATSV licence?
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Feb 29, 2024 12:36
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They're only just finishing up the first film now (am literally about to pop to the postie to pick up Noir!), so I'm hopeful they're going to move on to the next one anon.
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Figuarts’ Ahsoka looks way better than the Mafex. It helps that Figuarts’ is based on her show appearance rather than the Mandalorian appearance. The colors and articulation cuts look much better too. The Mafex’s articulation cuts look way too prominent. It’s good that both companies are making figures to push each other to do better. Mafex’s Mando is much better than the Figuarts, but Figuarts’ Vader and Luke are much better than Mafex.
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Feb 29, 2024 13:57
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Even more Sons of Horus coming 
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Feb 29, 2024 14:34
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They're getting increasingly closer to the Night Lords and that's concerning my wallet.
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The only Warhammer I know is Celestine because she's a good MTG card. And also I assume it's not based on the Catholic saint, but St. Katherine is just funny because her shrine is a few minutes away from me.
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https://twitter.com/preterniadotcom/status/1762933320600416678 I'm glad Duke can come out of his coma now.
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Dawgstar posted:They're getting increasingly closer to the Night Lords and that's concerning my wallet. Are you hoping for Heresy-era Night Lords or 40k Night Lords?
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Gripweed posted:Are you hoping for Heresy-era Night Lords or 40k Night Lords? The 40K ones have all the cool bat stuff but I would not be immune to the 30K Terror Squad.
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Nanigans posted:Figuarts’ Ahsoka looks way better than the Mafex. It helps that Figuarts’ is based on her show appearance rather than the Mandalorian appearance. The colors and articulation cuts look much better too. The Mafex’s articulation cuts look way too prominent. I generally prefer the SHF SW stuff but hard disagree on Ahsoka, the faces look a lot worse and I don't like how they've done the knees at all.
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Wow. I feel the exact opposite. I think the Mafex faces look so soft and almost pastel, and they’re stuck using the shorter lekku. And the articulation cuts on Mafex look awful. Figuarts opted for something a bit more like the Black Series’ knees that look especially good in a standing pose, while Mafex has these giant balls where her kneecaps go. Ah, well. Diff’rent strokes. Mafex:  Figuarts: 
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Nah, I don't dig that kind of approach to baggy pants knees (see also Medicom's new Boba), just looks goofy to me. And I prefer the more neutral expression on the Medicom one, the Bandai one looks like her cat just pissed on her chips and there's a bit of a fivehead going on. It's fine, we're fated to not see eye-to-eye on some of these, like that hideous corpse face Luke you dig. Just uh-uh, no way man, I'll take a softer likeness over that abomination any day. The skin tone, those dead eyes!* Total "wise fwom your gwave" poo poo, Yoda must have had that dude chilling in the swamp too long or something. Genuinely don't get how anyone finds that goon acceptable but we've all got options so yay. I might still suck it up and go with Bandai anyway just for scale purposes, need to see how tall the other Ahsoka turns out as they often skew bigger. * To be fair, I suppose it is based on the CGI Luke so it's kinda accurate in that regard.
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Nah, I think this is the first time any of the Japanese firms are doing her/any of the Clone Wars bods. I’d love it if either of them would do young Ahsoka, Rex, Ventress, dual wielding murder bastard Sheev, etc. Guess there’s chance for CW Anakin given his recent live action appearance.
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SHF Luke looks great and I think most people agree. The skin tone is pale but my man lives in space. A figure so nice I bought it twice. I’m still getting the
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Luke's from a planet with 2 suns.
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That he hated and avoided ever going back to after saving Han lol
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It would be a trip to see the Street Fighter GI Joe line done in the style of the new GI Joe figs.
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There was that TMNT vs Street Fighter line recently, so I don't think the rights to SF would be too hard for Hasbro to get for theose figures.
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I can see it happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j45Kh3UoCcc GI Joe stream. Started half an hour ago. https://twitter.com/JediJaybird/status/1763090970776596732     Name-only reveals: - SAW Viper (Goes great with Doc) - Dial-tone Digital renders: - Retro Beachhead - Retro Cobra EEL - Retro Snow Serpent - Cobra Ferret and Cobra Ferret Scout Shiftypenguin posted:There was that TMNT vs Street Fighter line recently, so I don't think the rights to SF would be too hard for Hasbro to get for theose figures. That and there were literally was a decent Street Fighter line made reusing GI Joe figures, sets and vehicles in ye ol past.
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Jinx's polearm being slightly bent in the promo packaging is just  It's also the first time in a bit where I'm very tempted by a whole wave. I wish Doc had a more detailed medkit even if none of them were removable parts. poo poo, I'm gonna need a couple of those retro Snow Serpents too. They were one of my absolute favorites from the 25th anniversary line.
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Emily gave us a extra name drop, Frag Vipers!
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Aw yeah, *that's* my boy Beach Head. Probably pick up the Snow Serpent too. Loving the Ferret, and looking forward to Dial-Tone, he (or she if they wanna shake it up a bit and go with the modern movie version) was always my fav radio jockey.
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Shiftypenguin posted:There was that TMNT vs Street Fighter line recently, so I don't think the rights to SF would be too hard for Hasbro to get for theose figures. It’d be pretty rad if Hasbro released a Marvel vs. Capcom Legends line
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Sentinel Red posted:Aw yeah, *that's* my boy Beach Head. Probably pick up the Snow Serpent too. Loving the Ferret, and looking forward to Dial-Tone, he (or she if they wanna shake it up a bit and go with the modern movie version) was always my fav radio jockey. Guessing the original. Can always do the second later on. As long as people keep buying they'll get to it. https://hasbropulse.com/products/g-i-joe-classified-series-126-tiger-force-roadblock-trip-wire-m-a-c-l-e-o-d?variant=40803949871206 For those who want the Tiger Force Roadblock and Trip Wire. The Last Call fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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