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The console is from the Hasbro Superman, but the one he is holding is a custom made little one. He had a few made a few years ago, but never had a way to display em till now. I think he's working on a little green crystal from the first movie to display as well. Hopefully he will get em done before I get my Superman in, so I can just swing over and get one to make the display more awesome than it will be!
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More Hot Toys: Apparently they've got a Loki in the works too, and there's rumors of an '89 Batwing. Meanwhile, I'm giving serious consideration to that Samurai Predator. Apparently one of the designers also did the awesome looking Ancient Predator on Horse statue. I like this guy's style. Mr Wind Up Bird posted:15 dollars to ship an action figure? Do they come wrapped in silk, inside a solid gold box? I think that was for 3 figures, shipping for one was $8 (I've been eyeing Optikk for a while, only MOTUC I've had any interest in) which with the $2 off totaled slightly less than cheapest sealed one on ebay.
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Apparently Hot Toys is going to be producing merchandise from the upcoming Ridley Scott film "Prometheus". http://www.avpspectrum.com/2011/11/prometheus-toys-in-production/ I can't wait to see 'em! Depending on what is in the film, we may get some pretty cool non-human characters.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:15 dollars to ship an action figure? Do they come wrapped in silk, inside a solid gold box? They come in a small white box that is within a larger box. And a little piece of tracing paper inside the smaller box. Sometimes those smaller boxes have the character's name on them. Those boxes are valuable and can be sold for on the market to recoup any shipping costs or so says Matty.
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Nov 26, 2011 03:03
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Matty makes money on the shipping, because they don't make enough charging $20 for figures that would sell for $10 at a profit.
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Nov 26, 2011 03:04
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therealjon_ posted:Matty makes money on the shipping, because they don't make enough charging $20 for figures that would sell for $10 at a profit. They're also pulling product for their black friday sale now. People found out the true quanities they had in stock by exploiting the counter and found out that most figures were in the thousands. Many of the figures only sold a few dozen and once people had the numbers everything was reduced to 99 available then 50 then zero within minutes. They're intentionaly manipulating the rarity by insane degrees.
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Nov 26, 2011 03:23
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Nov 26, 2011 04:00
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Xenomrph posted:Mattel is literally the cartoon supervillain of toy collecting. It just honestly doesn't make any sense. They had the SDCC Exclusives for sale from the previous two years and the one from this year that had around 1,000-2,000 for each figure. So whatever backstock they have, they have alot of it since the SDCC figrues were produced at a much lower quanitity than everything else. However the quantity they were produced at were still pretty high, so much so they could easily fill the gaps in alot of people's collections. But the only thing I could think of is that they want to keep the line collector only. And they fear that if collector's knew how much stock they had they're not going to want to buy it because if it's not rare than anyone can buy it and hence they don't want it. Which is really stupid to base things on. However the thing I remember is what they said about not wanting re-issues of newer figures so members could sell off their excess figures at profit. So in essence they can't flood the market because thats how they think they'll keep their subscribers. It reeks of terrible business practices. The only established system that's widespread that I can think of is how some marketing practices work over in Japan, Matty's system mirrors it for the majority. It never really does well compared to the US counterparts of the same product who make it readily available. They're honestly shooting themselves in the foot in alot of cases. I'm curious to who's actually calling the shots for everything. Vaerai Archon fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Nov 26, 2011 |
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Nov 26, 2011 07:26
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Just a heads up for anyone that likes the DC Universe line, they are on sale for the next week at Target for $7.99! I picked up OMAC and Sandman, might go back when I get paid later this week and pick up some people I have been holding off on.
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 I've got stuff for sale - Toys R Us exclusive AvP 2-pack (sans skulls, otherwise mint). I'll sell them individually or as the pair, I don't care.  - Indiana Jones in German Disguise, mint (from SDCC exclusive 6-pack)  - Stealth Iron Man, mint (from TRU 2-pack)  - German Mechanic, mint (from SDCC exclusive 6-pack)  - The Walking Dead comic series Rick Grimes, mint  - Satipo, mint (from SDCC exclusive 6-pack)  - DCUC Mr Terrific (sans BAF piece, otherwise mint)  - TRU exclusive 2-pack Winter Soldier, mint  Make me some offers or something!  I'll be making a thread in SAMart too with some other stuff (a broken ipod touch, 2 broken xbox360s)Figured I'd give you guys first dibs before I took it all to eBay.
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Nov 27, 2011 21:00
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Vaerai Archon posted:Matty are idiots Yeah, they are loving stupid. We don't buy toys as investments (the more sane amoung us, anyway) we buy them cause we like owning little plastic mans that look cool  I'm trying to think of even one thing Matty's business ideas haven't hosed up, but I'm struggling
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I dug out all my Street Fighter dudes as part of my slow liquidation and I'm reminded of what a mess that line was. Great scuplts, great accessories ruined by no good distribution and action figure as fragile as glass. I tried to change the hand on my extra Ibuku and it broke :/
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Nov 27, 2011 23:59
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If you havn't gotten Swiftwind yet from MOTUC you definetly should get him. He is the best beast toy they've done for the line sofar. He may not be as bulky as the cats but he's larger and taller than them. He's got quite a few points of articulation so you can pretty much pose him in any horse pose you want. His wings can rotate 360 degress and are able to pivot up and down, each wing is a single solid piece however. Other than the connecting joint any sort of mid wing articulation is absent but what's there is decent enough. You can take off the wings entirely but then there are empty gaps on the shoulders. I prefer to leave the wings on simply because the wingspan for the figure is huge. The sculpt itself is great, the base horse model is very life-like. The armor is all entirely removable much like all the other beasts, but it's the TV show colors and not the original toy colors(some may take issue with that). Swiftwind fully armored looks like a Luchador Pegasus. The mask is a bright pink on a blue base outline with a thunderbolt esque design going down the center and capped off with a gold horn. The armor macthes the deco all around, and the rainbow wings are flamboyant as hell. So yes you should buy the Luchador Pegasus, you should buy him now.
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Swiftwind is great and so is Bubble Power She-Ra if you put the red cape and Filmation head from the first release on her.
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These would've been rad as hell when I was 9: They fit in with the 6" line.
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Found this cleaning too.
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Not to cockblock anybody interested in Samus, but you can easily flip that figure for $100 on eBay.
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Welp I was just about to ask how much he wanted for it in the hopes he hadn't already checked eBay to see how much it was worth.  Also Louisgod, where did you see that Mortal Kombat multipack?
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Xenomrph posted:Welp I was just about to ask how much he wanted for it in the hopes he hadn't already checked eBay to see how much it was worth. Haha whoops sorry. Toys R Us has the MK 4-pack. I stopped there on my way to work and they had like.. 9 of them. Be warned: It's $50 and the faces look aaaawwwfuuullll. I'll go in halvsies with somebody if they want Sub-Zero and Scorpion.
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Thanks Loops. I knew it was worth a bunch I was just excited to find it. And I'm glad to see despite the numerous figures I've went out of my way to find and sell at cost (or lower) there are people ready to lowball me to death. 
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Man, I hope that MK pack is up here in Canada, those are as good as it gets for now (until Hot Toys magically does something but that will never happen).
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Vaerai Archon posted:If you havn't gotten Swiftwind yet from MOTUC you definetly should get him. He is the best beast toy they've done for the line sofar. He may not be as bulky as the cats but he's larger and taller than them. He's got quite a few points of articulation so you can pretty much pose him in any horse pose you want. His wings can rotate 360 degress and are able to pivot up and down, each wing is a single solid piece however. Other than the connecting joint any sort of mid wing articulation is absent but what's there is decent enough. You can take off the wings entirely but then there are empty gaps on the shoulders. I prefer to leave the wings on simply because the wingspan for the figure is huge. Mattytoy's shill found.
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Found series 4 of NECA's "Predator 2" figures at TRU today. They all came out really nice.
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Bushifox posted:Mattytoy's shill found. That's the problem, most the MOTUC stuff they put out is so good ... we are willing to eat poo poo to obtain them.
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Jace Madan posted:Found series 4 of NECA's "Predator 2" figures at TRU today. They all came out really nice. Also, saw that MK classic ninja 4-pack, and holy poo poo Louisgod you weren't kidding that the faces are bad. Like, they're aggressively terrible. I've got the "modern" Scorpion and Sub Zero in the 6" scale and I like them quite a bit, and I grabbed the "klassic" cyber-ninja 3-pack which is pretty great too, but I'm definitely not picking up the 4-pack after seeing it in person. Looking forward to seeing more "modern" MK9 figures though.
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Bushifox posted:Mattytoy's shill found. Their service and practices are poo poo but the action figures are good. 
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Vaerai Archon posted:Their service and practices are poo poo but the action figures are good. admittedly I do want a swiftwind.
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Havoc904 posted:Just a heads up for anyone that likes the DC Universe line, they are on sale for the next week at Target for $7.99! I picked up OMAC and Sandman, might go back when I get paid later this week and pick up some people I have been holding off on. As a heads up, it's actually 50% off of ALL Mattel stuff at Target. I nabbed a bunch of Young Justice figures for $4.99.
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Kind of wasn't expecting this but... Hot Toys Classic Predator shipping Dec 17th. I thought it was going to be in January? Ugh.  Excited but I'll be getting that package right after xmas.
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Vintersorg posted:Kind of wasn't expecting this but... Hot Toys Classic Predator shipping Dec 17th. I thought it was going to be in January? Ugh. Just saw the ad, does anyone know if Walmart price matches 50% off deals? Last time I was there they had row upon row of DCUC stuff.
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Alright, I got the Figma Robocop that I ordered, and took a few pics of him: http://imgur.com/a/jJ985#3 I can't figure out how to rotate a few of those on imgur, but you'll get the general idea. I really like the figure. It doesn't use standardized joints like a Revoltech, but the positive to this is that it's a lot sturdier to stand and pose. I was a bit worried that it would require a stand to stand up, as all of the pictures on the net show it connected to a stand, but the stand is completely unnecessary. It's a well balanced figure with enough foot articulation to balance in many ways. There's lots of detail all over. Comes with a collection of hands including open, pointing, pistol clutching, fists, and a spike. The gun is nice, though the muzzle flash accessory is kind of dumb. There's extra parts to convert the right leg into an opened pistol holster too, which the pistol fits in very nicely. The last accessory bit is a damaged helmet. One little detail I really like is the moving ball-jointed pistons in the ankles. The only real cons to the figure are a badly placed seam on the side of the head (though it really doesn't show up to the eye as badly as to the camera), and (this is going to sound weird) the lack of attention to Robocop's lips, which are really his only visible humanizing feature. It would have also been nice to have a swappable unhelmeted head.
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Bushifox posted:Just saw the ad, does anyone know if Walmart price matches 50% off deals? Last time I was there they had row upon row of DCUC stuff.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:Walmart doesn't match percentages off unless there's a "was 19.96 is now 11.00" or whatever and they won't match online ads. I got Walmart to match a price using google shopper on my phone.
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Prophet of Nixon posted:Alright, I got the Figma Robocop that I ordered, and took a few pics of him: Thanks for posting these. I think your right about the lips, it makes a difference. Also, is it just me, or is that blue ring around his helmet...not supposed to be there?
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The blue ring is definitely on Robocop, although I don't think it's supposed to be quite that blue or stand out quite that much from the rest of the steel. It's kind of exaggerated by the close camera flash though.
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Rhyno posted:I got Walmart to match a price using google shopper on my phone.
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So apparently durring the last few hours of the Matty Cyber Monday sale they put up Webstor, Man-At-Arms,Tri-Clops, Faker, and apparently the first SDCC version of King Grayskull. All for 10 dollars and did not even have the figures linked to their Cyber Monday page. MAA, and Triclops havn't even gotten a re-issue yet, ever. And the first version of King Grayskull is hard to just even find(let alone find it that cheap). I'm hoping that the earlier figures get some form of re-issue next month because they were still available as the sale ended. It's just that 95% of the people didn't know they were on sale unless you checked He-man.org and read the posts that some unlisted things went on sale.
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The best part was Matty posting on Facebook stating "all items ordered at the same time will ship together." Which is always the case so there was really no reason to post it. But everyone confused it as them meaning to say all orders that day will combine shipping. They let that wording sit out there for a couple hours and put out a few more figures before expanding on it. It was pretty obvious the intent was to confuse people so they would make multiple orders. Get more shipping cuts Matty!
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I'm like 7-8 figures away from catching up on the MOTUC line. The only figures I am missing are 2nd Edition King Greyskull(allthough not sure how different he is from the 1st edition), Battle Armor He-man, Man-At-Arms, Tri-Clops,Keldor, Randor, Roboto, and Webstor. And when 4 of those figures went on sale(allthough second edition grayskull may not have actually been available from the start) and then pulled it really sucks. I would have bought one of each too, I mean yeah the sale ended but they could have left them up at full price. Allthough I still need 3 of the TRU vs packs, the He-Man vs Superman, She-Ra vs Supergirl, and Zodac vs Green Lantern but all I see is Skeletor and Wave 2 everywhere. But Matty doesn't even sell those, I was fortunate enough to find a Faker vs Bizarro pack for the original cost. Vaerai Archon fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Nov 29, 2011 |
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