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  1. "lol you sure about that?" Yes. I am. Why would I question a Jazwares representative when a website that has nothing to do with the production of these figures made a mistake labeling their pictures? But as I said, feel free to continue to disagree. It still doesn't change anything.
  2. The ninja is Smoke, and the unpainted prototype next to Cage is Kano. RHunter, Jazwares representative, has said repeatedly on other forums that wave three, if they get the chance to release it, will be Cage, Kano, Reptile and Smoke. Feel free to argue or disagree. It doesn't change the fact that you will be wrong.
  3. On top of Castle Greyskull, leaning against the rampart.
  4. I believe I speak for the rest of the world when I tell the Homophobic He-Fans of this forum to get a freakin' sense of humor. And while you're in the market, look into acquiring a life, too. Thank you.
  5. prozac- I just stopped by there and they had one Morgul Lord, one Merry, and ten million King Aragorns. The two former are now in my collection, and the Aragorns are still there.
  6. "Return of Supmerman Series 2," huh? Oh, man... Too funny.
  7. A couple of politely worded rebutals to your points. 1) He-Man is most certainly NOT a cornerstone of the market by any stretch of the imagination. Half the stores in North America ceased to carry it, and the other half has nothing but He-Variants pegwarming for 6-12 months at a time, completely ignored by everyone. 2) Now, maybe your location is different, but here, where I spent the summer watching four different stores seven days a week, the Ninja Turtles were selling very well consistently throughout both the new episodes and the repeats. Kids were constantly begging their parents for them, and, again, ignoring He-Man. 3) .....again? Mattel made... what, one commercial? And how many times did it air? I seriously doubt that Mattel is about to start pushing their property suddenly. They've shown no interest in doing so thus far, and I really doubt they will start now that they're convinced its almost dead. Kids weren't eatting it up when the He-Man cartoon was on in the afternoon, and they probably won't start now. At least, that's the way things are based on my observations.
  8. "If a line doesnt sell well it would most likely be canceled. So saying if such and such doesnt sell it will be canled isnt breaking news." Exactly, yo. No one should be taking this as "news"... we've been hearing the same since before SDCC, when we were told by Jeremy Padawer that "The Snake Men may save Eternia."
  9. *idly wonders what this has to do with He-Man* Click here.
  10. I'd prefer to see a wave of Quarry, Stonebiter and.... uh... the other guy.... plus the Necromancer villain from the Notes From the Underground miniseries before we see this chick and the "Green Man." The two characters from today's episode just didn't have the same cool factor that the others did... though I certainly wouldn't mind figures of them eventually. Actually, now that I think about it, they should probably make an Oraku Saki and a scientist Baxter Stockman before these two... In my mind, anyway.
  11. "Screw you & HA HA I got a great deal and it was worth the post!" I spent five bucks on Mossman, and ten, I believe, to have someone custom make a Faker for me who looks just as good as Mattel's. That's fifteen. I think I may have gotten the better deal, but my math isn't so good, so I could be wrong.
  12. Yeah, but when? Or do we only know something like "Fall 2003"?
  13. *snort* I did for a while, around the time that Deadly Alliance came out. Mortal Kombat fanboys are among the most immature, pathetic and childish I've ever had the displeasure of having to interact with. Say anything that doesn't correspond with the popular point of view there, and you'll receive a plethora of death threats within seconds.
  14. We got the new Turtles villains in at work today. I now have the Nanotech Monster, two Tech Ninjas and I picked up my third regular Foot Ninja. Ha! That's better than you! MUWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Oh, wait, you mean I'm supposed to use that PMing feature? But then how can I brag publicly? Hehe. Oh, fine, fine, I'll get relatively on topic... What's next in line for release after these two? Just the sewer armor Turtles? Are any of the other secondaries coming out soon, like the wave of videogame villains? Do we know dates for them yet? Somebody throw me a bone, heh. ....and I'm still cooler than you, Mandalorian, hehe
  15. [mindless fanboy] How DARE they!!!!?!?!?!11?!!?//?1!? MATTLE R KILEING TEH LIIN!!!!!1111!1!! [/mindless fanboy] Seriously, people. Wake up. Mattel stopped producing He-Man action figures for two decades. They lost the copyrights to many names. Why would they keep the copyrights to characters they never thought they'd use again? Hasbro/Lucas has a figure named Kit Fisto. They picked up the name while Mattel didn't have it. How was Mattel supposed to know that that would happen? If anything, you should be mad at Hasbro for not allowing Mattel to use the name... legally, Mattel's hands are tied. What would you prefer? Mattel doing the best they can (i.e., renaming the figure as closely to the original as possible without being completely crazy), or just scratching the character completely because they don't have the rights to the original name anymore? I'm as upset with Mattel these days as anybody else, they're obviously making a lot of mistakes. And sure, maybe they should have kept up the copyrights to their character's names, just in case they decided to use them again. But mindlessly blaming them for something that isn't their fault? Good God, you're just screaming fanboy. Thanks for making the rest of us toy collectors all look bad, people. We all appreciate it.
  16. If everybody voted for all of them, wouldn't that kind of result in Rhino not learning anything?
  17. "I would rather have another turtle repaint" *scratches head* Isn't that what this is? They're giving us Dr. Malignus and Silver Sentry, it only makes sense to finish the episode and make a Turtle Titan as well. I'm willing to bet that plenty of people are going to be excited to get this figure.
  18. "Maybe then you can disagree with out being a total D*CK HEAD!" Is there anywhere I can lodge a formal complaint against this guy? I may be a little less than a saint in replying to people, but at no time to I devolve into base name calling, which is something completely uncalled for. And this is the second time today I've come across direct insults from this individual, not counting my PM box. Back on topic with a bit of a rant... I used to like this figure. So Mattel wanted to change He-Man's look for a season... I could live with that. And when I found out there would be a number of other heroes in "Snake Armor," I almost tricked myself into agreeing to pick them up, to have a second display of Snake Armor heroes and Snake Men villains, reflecting and complementing my collection of main heroes and villains. ...then the pictures from Toy Fair showed up. Oy. Such ugly, horrible figures. The cheapest thing Mattel could have done, and they did it. Slight repaints with gaudy, ugly accessories attached to the figures. Didn't they say that secondary characters don't sell? So what makes them think dressing them up like the Samurai figures will make kids salivate over them? Needless to say, I don't have any desire to pick up this figure anymore.
  19. I don't know what it is like where you live, but whenever I walk into a Toys R Us, the majority of the people working there are either middle aged women who are probably only there because they lack the education to get a better paying job and are only interested in pulling a paycheck to support themselves and/or their families, and teenage girls working the cash registers who are there because mommy and daddy insist they get a job. I never see these dirty toy scalpers... kind of like how I never see Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. Makes ya think...
  20. "i think the snake armor looks stupid, he looks like a cyborg." Um... wouldn't he have to have cybernetic components to be a cyborg? I look at that figure, and all I (or anyone else, for that matter) see is metal armor. Trap Jaw is a cyborg. Snake Armor He-Man most certainly is not. If you feel the need to mindlessly hate change, at least make sense when you pull excuses for your fear of something different out of no where.
  21. Front page, yo. JayC posted hi-resolution images of the next heroes and villains waves, like, yesterday. And the first images of the 6-inch figure appeared in Toy Fare a couple of months ago, so it isn't like they're hiding it from us.
  22. "Now you tell me if I am going each and every day to this store, then where the hell did she go?" Now I'm going to go out on a limb and guess..... maybe somebody bought her? "Your twisting things into your own perspective." *rereads your first post* And you aren't, Mr. "Everybody-is-a-scalper"?
  23. For more information, click here!!!!!! *rolls eyes* Yes, those "hidden shelves" are where some merchandise is placed... but overstock, not all the rare and hard to find figures. Not only is it ridiculous to imply that all people who stock at Toys R Us are rare toy hoarding scalpers, but the majority of collectors know about this shelf. It would be pointless to "hide" figures up there, as just about everyone checks it anyway.
  24. synch, here in the States, at least, Target has the Ninja Turtles for under $6, so buying a couple of Foot Ninja isn't too terribly expensive. I right now only have two of them, but I plan on getting four more, plus two of the Tech Ninja to display as group leaders of some sort.
  25. "If there is enough demand, ToyBiz would be very stupid not to act and meet it." *repeats self again* DarthMaulSithLord, you are, like everyone else, ignoring the fact that retailers wouldn't buy it. Toy Biz made the figure. They showed it at SDCC a few years back. Retailers didn't bite. They made it a rotocast, significantly dropping the price point. They showed it at Toy Fair. Retailers, again, didn't bite. They've tried. Why do you keep ignoring that? As for an exclusive, they could not sell it as a store exclusive because, repeated once again, retailers simply do not want it. Feel free to place blame on retailers all you want, as it is completely in their hands. As for, say, an internet exclusive, or a mail-away, that wouldn't be cost-efficient for Toy Biz. It is easy to sign a meaningless petition on the internet. It is just as easy to claim on a message board that you'd buy it. But due to the fact that this figure is now both a) an exclusive, and large, the price would go up. Suddenly all of the people claiming to be willing to spend $45-50 on this figure are going to have to spend upwards of $70-80, plus shipping, just so that Toy Biz can break even on this exclusive figure. But, obviously, with the price going up, the number of people buying are naturally going to go down. Do you (finally) see Toy Biz's problems yet? On the topic of the possibility of a smaller scale, regular price release, like the new Treebeard, I recall hearing Adrian from action-figures.com stating on his boards that Toy Biz actually has (or at least had) that on the drawing board. And, once again, it is up to the retailers whether or not it will ever see the light of day.
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