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  1. I didn't see a topic started on it here, so forgive me if it has been mentioned. http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=23&itemid=14715 This is more what I want to see from Marvel select. I have been passing up most of their toys because of the lack of villians and truely unique characters deserving a more complex sculpt or design. While I am aware of the popularity of the main characters, how many different versions of Wolvie, Spidy, and Hulky are we really going to need? We did get one fairly good Abomination figure from ToyBiz, which was really lacking in a lot of ways because it was only a $10.00 item after all, but it is also obveous we are not getting much in the way of ML sized items from Hasbro any more, even granted a few 2 packs, the figures will not be big, hulky characters, and less than average detailing in sculpt or paint. Anything like Ulik the Troll, an in scale Bi-Beast, Or an obscure character like Watcher from Hasbro? No. Those are the things I want to see as large, detailed toys, not G.I.Joe/StarWars formatted slot fitters. This new Abomination shows what we could be getting if MS would spend a little more time on obscure, unusual looking Marvel characters that we will no longer get from Hasbro or ToyBiz. I want to see a new Man Thing in MS, or Sauron, or any number of weird looking marvel characters Marvel is famous for. In the mean time I gotta wait for another wave of Wolverines and Spiderman figures to spend time warming the pegs before I can even get this awesome Abomination figure. Which, might prevent a lot of vendors from ordering it if there is no new shelf space. If MS wants to move their products, they might try making something new and fresh like that more often.
  2. I have bought 1 Lobo, 1 Starfire/Adam Strange 2 pack, 1 King Greyskull, 3 Beast-Man, 2 Skeletor, 2 Stratos, 3 Mer-Man. I live in the USA C is my grade for MC because while my products are great, it is excessivly difficult to order them with the way they now put the products up durring my work hours with no options for pre-orders or reserves. I did subscribe to the subscription service, but that did not help when I missed Mer-Man on the first release day and barely managed to get him the second time. I completely missed Hordak because I was not able to be home for the mere hour or less time it takes them to sell out. The limited time frame and disfunctional web site durring the release time for the MotUC is like a rat race only for those priveledged enough to not have a life or other obligations durring the middle of a day in the middle of a month. Online ordering of products is supposed to be simpler and easier than going to a store, not more difficult and complicated. It is supposed to be a luxury, not a challenge. The shipping time on my products has varied from a single day to over 3 weeks, but customer service was polite and helpful. The Blister cards and packaged have always had some minor damage from the shipping, so good thing I am not a MOC or MIP collector. Thank you.
  3. The actual He-Man figure poses a paradox for me, because while I love Masters of the Universe and 98% of the characters in it, He-Man is actually my least favorite character from the line, so I'm on the fence as to wether to buy him or not. @hmmm@ I'm much more excited about all the other characters! It wouldn't seem right to get all of them and not him, but it looks like he's got a better chance than the others, so I might actually pass on him. Better someone who does want him get him, than me just for the sake of completion.
  4. Well at that time, 1981, he wasn't available yet. That was before they even had "all" the figures out on the pegs. It really should have said something more like "Coming Soon!!!", but they weren't that sophisticated yet. @loll@
  5. I guess you could say the "B list" characters were my "A list". I never liked or identified with He-Man specificly, but the other odd characters were what got me hooked on the line. Actually, Beast-Man was kinda the first B list character, because was not the main good or bad guy. I got the first He-Man because I was looking for some good competition for my Hoth Wampa to smack the tar out of, and he cost less than the average G.I.Joe item at the time. While He-Man didn't have that kinda articulation, the sculpting detail of the figure did impress me quite a bit, so I decided I needed to get the orange guy with the whip, because he looksed more geared for fighting Wampas! By then, while I was dissapointed Beast-Man didn't look as cool as he did on the back of the card, I was really starting to explore the fantasy element that the characters fit into, and it took off from there. Whiplash became my second favorite figure despite the fact his tail was designed more like a cape, because he was so reptilian! He was like the first real lizard figure! I had him crawling around on walls like Spiderman! I loved Moss-Man because he was like the return of my favorite figure in my favorite color with a pine fresh scent! I loved Stinkor too, but mom made me keep him out in the shed most of the time. Spikor was my ultimate sparring bad guy, I spent hours poping out his weird arm trident weapon. When Grizzlor came out, he pretty much replaced Beast-Man as my main character, and Modulok was the ultimate bad guy! I spent months putting him together and tearing him apart! Frankly, I loved the B list characters, because they were the heart and soul of the line for me!
  6. Well I've already posted my arguments why I like them along with pics of the 8-back card art on another thread, and I don't want to do so here again and get accused of spamming, so if you want to see them, go to the botom of this thread page; http://forums.toynewsi.com/index.php?showt...50&start=50 I think the unique way these are being created will only last as long as the unique designe art they have to work with, because at some point the art pics were replaced by product pics that actually looked like the figures. This whole first set is like filling in a void that a lot of kids had when they first came out. I remember being very disapointed with the first Beast-Man figure, (even though he still became my favorite,) because he didn't look like I was expecting him to look, thanks to that misleading art. In a way, this set is like MATTEL made a corrected version, 20 years later. I'm happy now!
  7. Just to throw another monkey wrench in the conversation of old vs. new, I would just like to mention again that these new figures are not exactly based on the first actual figures, but on the original art off the backs of the first figure cards. The first figures were awesome for their time, but they were obveouslly lacking something from the pics shown on the back of the cards, so while Beast-Man was my favorite figure from the line back in the day, I was always wishing he looked more like the pic on the back, and now he does!!! Plus he has DCUC level articulation to boot! I don't know why some people are so upset, because they can only go about as far as the first 8 figures doing this, due to the fact that's all the unique art they have to work with, so after that they will probably start doing items more in favor with modern era fans. You guys should be hoping these sell well, because it's just a testing ground at this point. If you really want updated figures, don't fail this test.
  8. You know, as I look at some of these posts, I can't help but recall all the people, like my self, who detested the relaunch line back in 2002. It took He-Man, (my least favorite MotU character,) and actually made me like him even less by turning him into a dorky looking peusedo, (what passes for anime in USA,) stylized hunk of junk. But it didn't stop there, because it was swamped the line with kidified marketing and "action features" gadgets that even ruined the basic articulation on characters like Stratos. It has been said a book could be writen about how and why the 2002 line failed, and I wrote that book! @firedevil@ This line is for people like me, old enough to remember what was actually cool about the old line, and designed to fill in all those things we wished we had from those item at the time, but were only shown on the 8-back card art! Beastman actually looks like the art that I always wanted him to look like! I'm sure they will do other versions of these characters, but for now you all can suffer what I, and others like me, suffered when they did the relaunch desaster. @smilepunch@ @loll@ Justice is served. #US1#
  9. Or maybe even more notably the extra $4.00 - $5.00 per item. People aren't exactly making more money these days on the average, and paying even more for an action figure is not on most parents priorities.
  10. Yeah, that was my whole point about ordering online, most of the online stores don't even recognize that the assortment has been changed yet. It was originally said to be 2 - 4 figure waves or sets, but that's obveously not the "case". (pun intended.) @loll@ BBTS put up the other case of 3 figure to match the first case of 5. So now the case assortments are 1st case: 2x Wendigo 2x Skaar, Son of HULK 2x End HULK 1x King HULK 1x She HULK 2nd case assortment is: 2x Absorbing Man 2x Doc Samson 2x Grey HULK, "also known as Dale Keown HULK" 1x King HULK 1x Wendigo This boils down to She-HULK being short packed and 1 extra Wendigo figure, so if I were to buy both cases, it would give me nearly 2 complete Fing Fang Foom sets, minus the She-HULK & parts. Price wise, it makes them about $15.00 a piece by the case, but if I were to only order them by the sets, it would cost $20.00 a pop. That means if I were to only get single figures of them online, it would cost me $160.00 + for just 1 FFF set! I have 0 chance of finding the whole set at mass market retail, so this is nearly my only option. @hmmm@
  11. After seeing the improoved prototypes and accessories like the Isz set, I decided to order their whole set with Mr. Gone, which I wouldn't have done based on the first prototypes shown at the Toy Fair. I think a lot of people need to drop the Shocker hate thing and move on.
  12. I don't know about the 3.75" line or TOYS 'R' US, but I got my Wink figure at Hot Topic about a week ago. Wink is an awesome item, one of the best values for this year! At 9 1/2" he was really crammed in the clam-shell, couldn't even pack him with his head up! Although I still like Sammael better, Wink has some great features, especially the ball & Chain fist weapon, which can be interchanged with the open hand. He's also solid plastic, not rotocast like some of Mezco's bigger items, so he's really heavy! Since the head design isn't accurate to the way he looks in the movie, Mezco gave us the option of getting the right head with a mail in form and the UPC bar code!
  13. This whole release has been weird, because I've been having a heck of a time trying to find a good place to pre-order these online, and most online retailers haven't been able to offer any solid listings. ToyRocket has had them up as "Back order" for an age, and some of the other out fits offer a kinda "We don't know what we're getting for sure or when we're getting them, but you can place an order anyway." tactic. The BigBadToyStore just listed a case of 8 up for pre-order at $119.99, and the case only has 2x Wendego, 2x End HULK, 2x Scarr, 1x She HULK, 1x King HULK. So they still don't even have the other figures to offer while the whole set seems to be popping up at retail. @grumpy@
  14. They look pretty good to me! I want this line more than any other out this year! Glad to see Hasbro is finally getting better sculpts on their Marvel Legends, even if they still have problems with the paint apps.
  15. I know there isn't a lot of fans of Attack of the Living Dead figures, but this is a heads up for any that might be here. The GLOW-IN-THE-DARK versions have finally arrived, and they are limited to only 100 sets! hey are also available to the genral public, so you don't have to join the club or be a member to get them, but the price is not for the meek or faint of heart, $60.00 + S/H. Here's some links to the best pics I could find, because I can't take that good a pics of things like this. http://board.mezco.net/showthread.php?t=13130 http://board.spawn.com/forums/showthread.p...ght=Radioactive
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