Zerzar999
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This is actually a nice looking Flash figure. Nice to finally see a McFarlane figure without those skinny chicken legs.
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Hasbro's G.I. Joe 40th Anniversary Live-Stream Coverage
Zerzar999 replied to JayC's topic in Action Figure News
Lucky me then. I picked 4 sets up during deal days for $47 each. -
SDCC 2023 Panel: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Zerzar999 replied to Outsiders's topic in Entertainment News
Ughhhh, best way to kill a project before it even gets off ground is to involve Seth Rogan. Still, I'm a huge fan of the Turtles and pretty much everyone else involved with this thing so I'll get the perspective of some real fans (not the bought and paid for "critics") before I give it a shot. -
Though this line is pretty hit and miss there are a precious few I did have to pre-order, such as Webstor, Clawful and Ram Man cuz I just don't want to miss out on them, but I'll sit out on Mer-Man, Grizzlor and Faker and see if they come down in price like the first few waves, though I seriously doubt it. The first few waves were made mostly made from he controversial Revelations series which just didn't hit right with the older fans, but these New Eternia designs seem to be just what we were waiting for.
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Mattel announces MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE TUESDAYS!
Zerzar999 replied to toynewman's topic in Action Figure News
These pics of Two Bad really don't do it justice. I got it and it really looks amazing in hand. Something about the photography takes away it's presence. What really surprises me about this figure, and I saw it immediately in the box, is how large it is. It does tower over all the other Masterverse figures. I wonder if that was intentional and the modern version of Two Bad is supposed to be bigger (actually much bigger) than the rest of the characters or if it's a mistake. Materverse has had some pretty bad scale issues overall, but if it's a mistake it's a really large mistake, because the size difference is substantial and severe. -
Agree, like the movie figures, this just isn't what the D&D crowd is about. The draw is creating your own character and character traits. Do the old style pre-cartoon Barbarian, Ranger, Wizard, Etc. figures in male and female, throw in some head or cape swaps, maybe do them in a few different color palettes and skin and hair colors, include different weapons or accessories with each that can be mixed and matched and let the D&D fans do their thing and go crazy. Seriously, Hasbro you could make about 12 different waves simply by making small aesthetic changes to the same molds and some new head sculpts to make tons of different figures. It's almost too easy.
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Valaverse - Acton Force: Desert Troopers and Gear Packs
Zerzar999 replied to toynewman's topic in Action Figure News
Personally, I've heard nothing but good from Valaverse fans. I own a few and have ordered the new females wave and anticipate great things. I have had a few figures arrive damaged, but that was from the vendor and it was a simple as taking pictures of the figures before I took them off the card and the vendor honored the return. -
Super7 Teases Glow-In-The-Dark TMNT Ultimates Slash Figure
Zerzar999 replied to JayC's topic in Action Figure News
There's just something continuously frustrating (and shady) about the constant and consistent stream of teases and announcements from Super7, all the while struggling to get out the next wave of figures we paid for 2, sometimes 3 years ago. Not to be accusatory, but this stinks of another one of those cases where the company is just constantly posting pre-orders for future projects just to finish projects that should have already finished by now. Of course, I work in an industry where I've seen several companies crash and burn (literally) by operating under this type of system. The further you push it out the less likely you'll ever catch up. While I love their figures and I appreciate what they're trying to do I've cancelled all my Super7 orders after waiting over 2 years for them to fulfill just one of my Thundercats orders. As a (hopefully) unintentional circumstance it's starting to seem that companies like Super7 are contributing to the rise in prices of products from some of the bigger manufacturers like Mattel and Hasbro. When they see people being charged and paying upwards of $50 per figure, many times of characters from their IP's, for work that is maybe just a little better, sometimes less, than what they produce and charge half the price for, and then have to wait years to receive them, why wouldn't they test the waters to see how much they can actually get from the consumers before they revolt? -
Hasbro G.I. Joe Classified Snow Job First Look
Zerzar999 replied to JayC's topic in Action Figure News
Snow Job and Scrap Iron are two of my all time faves. Can't wait for these guys. As far as the others I'll keep them on the wait 'n' see status. -
That's the general feeling I'm getting from my D&D friends. Give them any D&D figures not based on a particular actors likeness or drab movie design and they're all in, but this is just blaaaaah.......
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Massive Cudlitz fan, but........HUUUUGH?! I guess in recent times Lex has been portrayed as a more "manly" guy, but It's just so far from the the Ayass Kicker MC is mostly portrayed as. Whatever, I'm glad to see him get a new gig, and maybe this means they'll finally do him in some kickass armor getup that actually looks cool.
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While I can feel a bit of appeal for the cartoon classics figures, I just don't see it for these movie figs. They are just plain looking, flat out. But I've been wrong before, actually plenty, but with things like this my gut is usually pretty spot on. I do have high hopes for the movie still. Big Chris Pine fan.
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McFarlane Toys - DC Multiverse Page Punchers Aquaman Wave
Zerzar999 replied to toynewman's topic in Action Figure News
Yes, Page Punchers are by far, the best thing McFarlane is doing right now. Not only do they (finally) showcase the other non-Batman DC heroes and their villains, but they're also done in amore modern styling that does a (slightly) better job or disguising the trademark diapers. I almost bit with the Flash wave, I really did, but I'd been bitten by far too many of McFarlane's products and swore them off late last year. I'm fighting the desire to pre-order these now. They look good. They look real good, but I gotta resist. Maybe I'll just wait and see how they turn out and pick up the winners, I dunno. McFarlane has got me twisted. Now, if they were to carry over the Collect-To-Build process into these Page Punchers and we got to build another character, and not necessarily a larger character, but maybe one of the more obscure ones, I might be forced to submit. Till then, I'll be a little bit more cautious. -
Nice Pamper, Kyle. Whelp, it is what it is, McFarlane once again opens the repaint floodgate. Nothing new, no surprise. I was done with McFarlane a month ago. I was also in the same mind set as @glhshelbyfor a minute. Mac had me under the spell with the prices and some well done figures and when he started doing "other" characters, but after a couple of really bad figures I have no faith on the consistency of the line other than in it's Batman related figures.
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Yeah....no. These are a bad idea. Aside from Indie these things are flat out boring. Between these things and those godawful Dungeons & Dragons figures, Hasbro is in for a rough year. Another year to be carried by Marvel Legends, G.I. Joe and Transformers. I suppose Power Rangers are no slouch, either. As far as face sculpts these are 1000x better than the D&D figs.
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Mattel announces MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE TUESDAYS!
Zerzar999 replied to toynewman's topic in Action Figure News
Two Bad is one of the last Masters that I bought as a kid with my own money. He was in either the last series or 2nd to the last series when the toy line started it's decline. It was awesome and it was colorful and it was flat out cool. This does the same thing with modern toy technology. This is a must have for me. -
Yep, I believe they were carried by Walmart up until recently. Now they carry a similar property, maybe in house designed. Whatever the case, this seems like a risky one to me. I mean how much articulation can you put into these things and still have them look like the source material? Just wierd.
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Production requirement and minimums? From a place who probably puts out 10 solicitations for every one line they actually produce? Since when has that been a concern for them? I'm betting it has a lot more to do with the mighty WWE and Mattel than any of the identified factors. Sad thing is Mattel will get these things designed and put out before Super7 gets out their next set of Ultimates Anything into production.
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Generally I like Gunn, but more and more he's got me thinking he's outta his damn mind. He wants to create an MCU like success, but MCU didn't start doing TV shows until after they made all their money with movies, establishing timelines, characters and cannon, and then they had the capital to take a gamble on those shows. Television is only gonna pollute the pond before it even starts to produce. Bad idea and bad move. The more and more Gunn keeps blabbing on Twitter, the less and less faith I have in his plan.
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Yikes! Just another case of McFarlane proving the only thing they're good at is Batman. I take back all my questioning and gripes about his character selection, or more so, the lack thereof. Turns out Mac just understands his limitations and is staying in his lane. I suppose better figures like Lobo and Shazam are just happy little mistakes. What's this guy supposed to be doing anyway? Is he doing his best Lamprey impression, cuz he nailed it. Rubbish like this only enforces that I made the right decision to abandon this latest iteration of the DCM line.