[Sataninjaku]

My favorite part of the packaging is getting the figure out and disposing of it. I genuinely don't really even check it out, now that "also available/coming soon" and file cards have gone the way of the dinosaur. Well, except the Snake Supreme box, I couldn't bring myself to pitch that one... yet.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by firmpulse

You were stating your opinion as incontrovertible fact. Which it is not.

No, I wasn't. I only post for myself, not for others.

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And I'm sure you can find a LCS that will do just that. Nowadays I dislike cardbacks that have to be ripped apart. I would much rather have a collector friendly box.

lol Nope. In fact, local comic shops tend to up the price on figures by $10-30 depending on the character.

I toss the boxes out, so it really doesn't matter, but I'd at least like to feel like I'm getting my money's worth with the packaging. After all, if yoy're going to rape me, at least make it pleasurable.

[MeLikeJinx]

Normally I don't care about packaging since I open everything, but I am gonna try my very best to keep all my Classified Joes MIB. I also tried to do that with MU when I first started and lasted pretty long too, but then they started doing box sets and comic packs and I only really like keeping things MIB if all the packaging looks the same. In that way I envy Funko Pop collectors since the packaging hasn't changed since the very beginning.

[firmpulse]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

In fact, local comic shops tend to up the price on figures by $10-30 depending on the character.

Your LCS' must SUCK. That's crazy. Loose figures in my area always sell for cheaper than packaged ones.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

if yoy're going to rape me, at least make it pleasurable.

I'd hardly charcterize paying $25 for an action figure "rape". That's just idiotically hyperbolic.

[Kirathis]

Beach Head, Baroness, Trooper and Breaker are back up on Pulse. They are enforcing limits based on prior purchases however. No extra Trooper for me.

[tierneygreen]

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Originally Posted by Kirathis

Beach Head, Baroness, Trooper and Breaker are back up on Pulse. They are enforcing limits based on prior purchases however. No extra Trooper for me.

Yup! Grabbed me a Baroness & Breaker. Funny thing is, I was thiiiis close to pulling the trigger on some eBay listings. So glad I held out.

[Kirathis]

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Originally Posted by tierneygreen

Yup! Grabbed me a Baroness & Breaker. Funny thing is, I was thiiiis close to pulling the trigger on some eBay listings. So glad I held out.

Nice! I would love if they would put up Regal CC again. The only ones I am missing from either in hand or on order are Regal CC and the original Snake Eyes. I would love to have both but I feel like, of the two, the Regal CC is more likely to show up again.

[GizmoTron]

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Originally Posted by firmpulse

I do not think Classified packaging is boring at all. I really like Classified packaging. Especially the wraparound artwork. If you have two of a figure you can display the front of the box butted up to the spine of the second box and see the whole piece. I appreciate that the boxes are compact, collector friendly and display the figures prominently. Power Rangers Lightning collection uses the same scheme.

The art work is nice, but the style and presentation of the boxes are in fact boring. They just don't stand out and I don't think they really display well at all.

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Star Wars Black Series features fantastic artwork on their wedge shaped spines that, if you have all the figures in a wave, you can create one continuous piece of artwork. However the full art cannot be displayed effectively because of the previously stated wedge shaped spine. If the spines are aligned the boxes take up double the space they should. While the box shapes are more interesting they are also more difficult to display.

They feature that now, the original Black Series boxes were black rather plain boxes that upgraded into black and red plain boxes. But I think the new boxes are a huge improvement with the character artwork and how sometimes the entire wave makes a piece of artwork.

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Originally Posted by firmpulse

Your LCS' must SUCK. That's crazy. Loose figures in my area always sell for cheaper than packaged ones.

Usually the case, but there are cases where loose figures are still selling way above retail in most areas. Although in those cases the packaged one probably isn't available at retail anymore, either.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by firmpulse

Your LCS' must SUCK. That's crazy. Loose figures in my area always sell for cheaper than packaged ones.

That's because most of them are no longer comic shops but game shops that sell comic books. Therefore, they now categorize themselves as specialty retailers and don't have to adhere to normal pricing. For example, back when the original Arkham Asylum DC Direct line came out, one store, called Hero Headquarters, immediately priced Harley at $90 as soon as they pulled the figure out of the case. Batman stayed at the actual DCD price, but the others were upped to $50.

[MeLikeJinx]

Just heard about this...

Like damn... I never even saw Beach once anywhere and only ever saw Firefly one time being scalped for 50. Now they show up at Bargain Hunt for 14 bucks? I never even heard of that store.

[Dr Kain]

Bargain stores like Ross?

[GizmoTron]

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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

Just heard about this...

Like damn... I never even saw Beach once anywhere and only ever saw Firefly one time being scalped for 50. Now they show up at Bargain Hunt for 14 bucks? I never even heard of that store.

Probably from the unsold 2nd production run, they may have dumped off some excess as both of those guys were still on Target.com last I looked.

[Robb]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Bargain stores like Ross?

From what I understand it is at a store called Bargin Hunt, which I do not have one any where near me. But I would not doubt if they show up at Ross and other discount stores.

[jwyss234]

Dorksidetoys has Beachhead and Firefly in stock.

[Sataninjaku]

Just gonna leave these here for the few Joe bros on the 'ark:
https://www.entertainmentearth.com/p...figure/hsf2231
https://www.entertainmentearth.com/p...figure/hsf2719

God damn do those look good!

[MeLikeJinx]

Wait... July? I thought the rumor was for December 1st.

[Kirathis]

EE coupon code for $15 off of $100.

2103212

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Kirathis

EE coupon code for $15 off of $100.

2103212

Wait, so you can either get free shipping OR use the coupon code? It doesn't let me get both.

[Kirathis]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Wait, so you can either get free shipping OR use the coupon code? It doesn't let me get both.

Weird. I got both but I did not have a shipping code. It just gave it to me. Granted, I ordered 10 total figures.

[Sataninjaku]

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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

Wait... July? I thought the rumor was for December 1st.

There's been a ton of speculation that this wave may have been intended earlier, but got screwed up somehow. I'd imagine that the estimate is likely further out to play it safe, and could potentially move up- after all, Storm Shadow and Spirit initially also had a July estDD, and are now due in February. What I'm wondering is when we'll have estimates for the last round of CI stuff from Target.

These are also now up on Dorkside.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Kirathis

Weird. I got both but I did not have a shipping code. It just gave it to me. Granted, I ordered 10 total figures.

I had 2 BATS and 3 AVs in my cart and it would not give me the free shipping despite having over $100 in m cart. In fact, it wanted to charge me $18 for shipping, which defied the whole point of using the coupon.

As such, I preordered them at BBTS.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Sataninjaku

There's been a ton of speculation that this wave may have been intended earlier, but got screwed up somehow. I'd imagine that the estimate is likely further out to play it safe, and could potentially move up- after all, Storm Shadow and Spirit initially also had a July estDD, and are now due in February. What I'm wondering is when we'll have estimates for the last round of CI stuff from Target.

These are also now up on Dorkside.

The annoying thing about that is my budget. Like I have budgetted for any figures that say they will ship in April to have the money ready by Mid-Feb. Now I'm hearing stuff that says it will ship in April is starting to come in now. I don't have the money for those at the moment as it told me April.

[Sataninjaku]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The annoying thing about that is my budget. Like I have budgetted for any figures that say they will ship in April to have the money ready by Mid-Feb. Now I'm hearing stuff that says it will ship in April is starting to come in now. I don't have the money for those at the moment as it told me April.

I agree, which is kind of ironic, because when I place the orders, there's definitely that "can't wait!" feeling.

Moving from July to February isn't so bad, because it still allows for some flexibility, but I was a little bit pissed off about the Amazon Wolvie set- "December..... no wait, November..... I mean Tomorrow! That'll be $120, please!". It's a good thing I'd had a slow month with my normal aftermarket pick-ups, or I'd have been in a bit of trouble.

[Sataninjaku]

For those who don't like waiting, BAT and Alley Viper up at GS:
https://click.linksynergy.com/deepli...%2F248689.html
https://click.linksynergy.com/deepli...%2F248691.html

[MeLikeJinx]

Damn... people over at Hisstank are finding BATs and AVs on the peg at Target. I guess this is the initial batch and the rest will arrive over the summer. I hope it is like the Flint and Lady Jaye wave... kinda hard to find at first but then gets flooded everywhere a few months later.