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Reminds me of the 25th DVD Battle Pack - Best of the 80's Screaming Duke A.K.A. "O-face Duke". If they sold the head separately I would probably get one. I would also love a Mezco Roadblock helmet since it's a dead ringer for the generic joe trooper helmet.

I just want to echo the great desire for Skeletors Troopers from the movie. Also, as always the art is incredible.

Neither am I but they are designed to appeal to completionists and those who are lured by "exclusivity" for its own sake and people who just like the new colors or feature/gimmick (GITD, inverse, signed etc). I'm guessing the sell well and easy reuse of parts to save money so it doesn't bother me I just skip them. Now if they didn't sell well but he kept pumping them out that would suck because that is part of what killed the comics market was when every single issue was "exclusive" #1, "rare" variant, sigend, foil, most Xtreme ever.

A lot of their stuff is heavily inspired by already existing IP. I reserve judgment until some have actually been fully released and reviewed but I don't enjoy seeing more reveals before anything (as far as I know) has been released. I know they did some other figures that ranged from ok to good but I don't think any of the "Monster Force" have been released yet and I don't like seeing more and more offerings when no one has anything in hand to know if it's worth getting more. But like I said, I am interested, just waiting to see how they turn out because while the renders look good I have seen good renders turn into meh figures plenty of times.

I googled it to see what this is based on and apparently "Dinosaurs Attack! was a trading card series by Topps released in 1988." Very cool set of cards, I love the gruesome art.

I was so excited for this but yeah, I understand it's limited and whatever else but I didn't think it would be almost 3 times more than the street scene dio. I love that street scene dio and I would've loved to have this under it but like you said $300 is a real stretch.

Am I crazy, or do these look even better than the shots from back when they were first announced? I'm excited for that genie.

Blind Box is anti-consumer. It's gambling. It's design is to coerce those with compulsive tendencies into buying multiples and ending up with things they don't want for a chance to get something they may or may not have wanted in the first place depending on how strong their proclivity to gacha/gambling/blind-box tactics is. McFarlane has done so much good for fans and kept prices reasonable and made amazing things, but he's also always been heavy on the "collectors edition/limited/chase" schtick... but blind boxes is too far. In my opinion, A buyer should have a right to see what they are buying.

I was just coming to comment how much I love this design! I think it fits right in to the Masters of the Universe and will make a great addition to the Snake Men. I plan to get at least two and display them with and without fangs as a "troop builder" instead of using it as an individual character. I also have gone in for almost every Creations figure and this and the Frog Monger are personal favorites. Edit: I will say, regarding the fangs I don't think it's any more goofy than any other MOTU character and I like this guy better than Tuskador who had an even more pronounced dental feature

That packaging with the "rock" insert holding the Doozer is seriously some loving attention to detail and great design.

All 3 look great to me at first glance, and fairly unexpectedly adventurous and fun. The Walmart exclusive Joes started off slow but are now all getting better and better one after the other. Mole Rat is the first time I've wanted for a "file card" or just a couple of sentences from the designers in regard to what is going on. I'm interpreting it as something like a Toxo-Viper with an optional "Toxo-Zombie" head.

It's back, keep checking! I managed to snag one.

Looks great, only thing that I could imagine making it better would be a chrome faceplate but I think/hope they will do that for the inevitable regular-symbol release.

He was incredible in Rome.

I'm on the same wavelength as Lord_Scareglow - I immediately thought of how much I'd like to see more McFarlane figures from this.

I don't do straight re-paints but there is enough that is new in that B.A.T. to make it worth it, I think.

I have to say this is the best action figure I have ever owned. It just screams quality. The only other figure I've ever felt that about was the Kaustic Plastik 12" Roman Centurian which I regret ever selling off. This has that same feeling of almost bespoke craftsmanship and loving detail.

I didn't know about those other releases but I was just thinking specifically of the "Hammond Collection" which is what got me interested with the better paint apps. I googled the other release of Nedry from the legacy collection and he looks worse, not that this one is perfect but the paint should be better and BBTS images show him with an alt head and the Barbasol can. Upon searching a bit more I've discovered there was a lot more than I knew released I just wasn't interested until I saw one of the Hammond Collection dinos in a Target store and the articulation and paint drew me in then I ended up buying several more online so I guess I am unfamiliar with the other offerings as it seems there are several different concurrent lines.

And he comes with a tiny Barbasol canister with a working false bottom!

That's true about POTF2 (Power of the Force) action figures, for me at least. At the time it was all we had so most kids had some, but I didn't like them. I do remember speculators hoarding them and they were at every flea market for 5x retail even though they were never hard to find. Now that I think about it, the same thing around the same time happened with Beanie Babies. And also that period in comic books saw a great shift towards gimmicks designed to draw in speculators. I guess in part all of that was because of the economy booming people had money to blow and so they cranked out crap and gimmicks. Right now the economy is not so hot but IMO it's a second golden age for genuinely good creative toys. So maybe there's an inverse relationship there. This thread on Rebelscum has a cool timeline about POTF2 https://forum.rebelscum.com/threads/important-dates-of-potf2.1026503/

Their first Indy line was the first time I had seen such a blowout clearance of figures, I still have a huge bag of figures I got for just over $1 each. Now they are 6" but it still looks like "Regular adults in dress clothes the action figure line!". And I say that as someone who loves action figures and Indy but maybe this property isn't the perfect fit for traditional action figures, but I don't know what would work better. I do know that bad guys are more fun as far as action figures go so enemy soldiers, thugs and criminals I think would be more interesting than old Indy, shirtless Indy, half shirt Indy, and my favorite even older Indy in even more formal attire.

I wasn't interested in a lot of their old stuff but they've recently made serious upgrades to the quality of their sculpting & paint (and articulation but I care a little less about that). These and the most recent marvel selects are just about on par with NECA and are a good value too, making me consider figures from lines I wasn't interested in before just because they look so good and are fairly priced. I almost think they should go back and do all the LOTR stuff again if it's going to look this nice. I'd also love to see some more generic figures like orc, elf, human fighter etc. to go with my NECA D&D figures since Hasbro has gone more toon style it would be cool to get LOTR fantasy figures to fill the void.

Even with extra accessories it was a bad move to charge more for a 3-pack than 3 individual figures, that just flies in the face of everything the general consumer market has become accustomed to. I can ALMOST understand not giving a good discount but charging more was and is terrible. I've been working in business relating to consumer sales at a level where I can set prices for years and I would never sell a 3-pack of something for the same price or more than a single, even if it came with extras - the whole point is to get the consumer excited so they buy MORE at once which is better in every way it makes more money up front and saves you on shipping costs too which is huge in a market where many orders are just 1 item at a time (I sell thousands of items every month and you may or may not be shocked to know that 90% of them are 1 single item and sometimes they even choose to pay $9 priority shipping for a $5 item). Also the paint jobs on the 3-pack Vipers is more muted than the 1-pack release, the red doesn't pop as much.

I honestly don't care one way or another on this issue. I order almost everything online so I can't inspect anything first anyway.

Have either of the other 2 GI Joe figures they were making been released yet? I really want that Roadblock.