[Falconhood]

Transformers Combiner Wars Bombshell
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7 of the SHFiguarts Power Rangers figures from MMPR
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Hotwheels Lamborghini
Star Wars Titanium Sith Starship
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[TimothyR]

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Originally Posted by Falconhood

Transformers Combiner Wars Bombshell
#transformers by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
7 of the SHFiguarts Power Rangers figures from MMPR
White
#powerrangers #bandai #shfiguarts #sentai #supersentai #mmpr by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Black
#powerrangers #bandai #shfiguarts #sentai #supersentai #mmpr by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Blue
#powerrangers #bandai #shfiguarts #sentai #supersentai #mmpr by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
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#powerrangers #bandai #shfiguarts #sentai #supersentai by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
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#powerrangers #bandai #shfiguarts by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Pink
#powerrangers #bandai #shfiguarts by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Red
#powerrangers by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Hotwheels Lamborghini
Star Wars Titanium Sith Starship
#starwars by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr

those rangers are a ridiculous amount of fun to pose. great haul.

[Panthro1978]

I'm not entirely sold on those Combiner Wars figures...

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Panthro1978

I'm not entirely sold on those Combiner Wars figures...

I said over in the "passed up" thread that I don't care for them. The deluxe figures look cheap as individual toys, most likely due to accommodating their combining gimmick. The final combinations could even be cool, but the individuals appear to suffer for it.

[Il Cattivo]

[redx24]

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Originally Posted by Il Cattivo

Whered u find that goblin??

[Il Cattivo]

^^ disney store. I was very surprised when I saw him as I had no idea he existed.

[Panthro1978]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I said over in the "passed up" thread that I don't care for them. The deluxe figures look cheap as individual toys, most likely due to accommodating their combining gimmick. The final combinations could even be cool, but the individuals appear to suffer for it.

I'm not convinced by the RID line either... I had Grimlock in my hand, saw the price and didn't think I was getting much for my money. I plumped for MP Sunstorm instead.

[jmurray90720]

[TomsToyChest]

Finally got a spare moment to share with everyone what I got for Christmas:

Guardians Of The Galaxy steelbook



Isle Of Man TT 2013 Review Blu Ray



NECA Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Caesar



Predator Original Comic Series, 1st print



Predator Cold War Comic Series, 1st print



Hope everyone's new year gets off to a good start.

[TomsToyChest]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I definitely get why you distrust NECA on account of how often they've failed you, though I guess it does still strike me as strange that it was the Predator line that you experienced most trouble with. I always look those over if I find any in stores and they always looked more consistently acceptable to me, good enough paint and I don't usually see anything like my Hive Wars' arm. Combining that with the good quality of 6 out of 7 Predators I had it looks like the line is generally good, key word being looks. I absolutely see why their Jaeger line has so many bumps since these robots can have some very strange designs like Tacit Ronin that almost any company would have a hard time making it look good and have any pose at all, though their Kaiju line is much more solid on all fronts.

6 out of 7 for you? Just curious, are you new to the line? I've been collecting Predator since series 4 and that would make it 0 out of 15 Predators in my case that I've opened if I'm doing my math correctly. All of them have had issues, the biggest of them being crap joints. I'm constantly having to re-balance the Predators I have on display because they all look like they're about to fall off my shelf.

I fail to see why you find what I've said about the Predator line so strange. Have you read about the problems of series 1-3 of Predator? After seeing all of that I'm glad I missed out on them.

Of the Predators that I have yet to open, I think I'm most concerned with Bad Blood. If the formula holds true with the crappy NECA joints then I'm going to be really angry if that figure falls off my shelf since he has so many adornments and optional decorations on him.

Regarding figures like Tacit Ronin, that's stuff from another line I don't collect. I've seen them in stores once or twice but never gave them a look. Considering Trivial's experience with them I think I'll leave them on the pegs if I see them for sale again.

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Do you actually consider NECA lines overpriced? I always thought they were actually pretty well priced when you consider the 6" toy from Hasbro is $20. Some NECA stuff goes for less than twenty and is still bigger and better looking, but then with less durability and/or pose. It is worth mentioning, since I haven't before, that since I grew up having the McFarlane Spawn stuff (which was all looks and no usable pose) I don't really care if NECA stuff has too much pose. I'm really glad they give us the pose they do, but I wind up only focusing on moving heads and arms for most of the stuff I get from them. This could be another reason I don't discover the QC issues you do, I don't really dig deep enough to find them.

Considering the overall crappy build quality of the Predator figures, yes, they are overpriced. If they were being sold for $10 I'd still think they were overpriced.

Now that I think about it, how about the upcoming Blade Fighter vehicle going for around $100? That's even more absurd and makes that vehicle a really easy pass for me.

If you're not discovering the QC issues then you're either allowing your personal bias to cloud your judgement or as you said, you aren't digging deep enough to find them. I expect a quality product and that's not happening. 1 or 2 series with some hiccups is one thing, but allowing 10 series of figures to go on is just ridiculous.

So you grew up with McFarlane... funny you mentioned that, I dug up some old figures from Sleepy Hollow and Movie Maniacs that I had in storage the other day. The Jason Voorhees figure looks better than the newer NECA Jason figures that I've seen in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Finally, it feels like you put a curse on TimothyR. Just the way you worded it had this kind of foreboding thing going on. I know you wished me luck in avoiding NECA's QC landmine field and then I wished you luck in your toy pursuits, so I don't know it just kind of gave me a chuckle how you said that bit.

A curse? Hardly. It's inevitable that it will happen.

[TomsToyChest]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

I took Tacit back to TRU today, and thankfully they were able to accept the return, being that the figure was damaged in a manner that one is not able to spot from simply looking at the packaging. It also helped that I returned all of the original packaging, which I'm helps TRU in the write off process so they get their money back from the vendor. Of course though, there were no Tacit's available to even exchange as NECA's distribution is nearly as pathetic as their customer service, at least in my town.

Sorry you were unable to find another Tacit to do an even exchange. I assume you did get your money back since there wasn't another one available in the store?

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

It's a damn shame, because I'm somewhat of a completionist when it comes to collecting certain lines, and Tacit was a figure that I was eagerly looking forward to. I've seen places online where I can pick him up for fairly cheap, but I wonder if it's even worth the trouble at this point. I may still pick him up, because I really wanted that figure, but sure enough, going forward, I'm done with the line.

I'd have to say it's not worth the hassle. Once bitten, twice shy.

[redx24]

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Originally Posted by TimothyR

those rangers are a ridiculous amount of fun to pose. great haul.

Why does some of the rangers have weapons of other rangers??

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by TomsToyChest

6 out of 7 for you? Just curious, are you new to the line? I've been collecting Predator since series 4 and that would make it 0 out of 15 Predators in my case that I've opened if I'm doing my math correctly. All of them have had issues, the biggest of them being crap joints. I'm constantly having to re-balance the Predators I have on display because they all look like they're about to fall off my shelf.

I fail to see why you find what I've said about the Predator line so strange. Have you read about the problems of series 1-3 of Predator? After seeing all of that I'm glad I missed out on them.

Of the Predators that I have yet to open, I think I'm most concerned with Bad Blood. If the formula holds true with the crappy NECA joints then I'm going to be really angry if that figure falls off my shelf since he has so many adornments and optional decorations on him.

Regarding figures like Tacit Ronin, that's stuff from another line I don't collect. I've seen them in stores once or twice but never gave them a look. Considering Trivial's experience with them I think I'll leave them on the pegs if I see them for sale again.



Considering the overall crappy build quality of the Predator figures, yes, they are overpriced. If they were being sold for $10 I'd still think they were overpriced.

Now that I think about it, how about the upcoming Blade Fighter vehicle going for around $100? That's even more absurd and makes that vehicle a really easy pass for me.

If you're not discovering the QC issues then you're either allowing your personal bias to cloud your judgement or as you said, you aren't digging deep enough to find them. I expect a quality product and that's not happening. 1 or 2 series with some hiccups is one thing, but allowing 10 series of figures to go on is just ridiculous.

So you grew up with McFarlane... funny you mentioned that, I dug up some old figures from Sleepy Hollow and Movie Maniacs that I had in storage the other day. The Jason Voorhees figure looks better than the newer NECA Jason figures that I've seen in my opinion.



A curse? Hardly. It's inevitable that it will happen.

I've only started getting NECA Predators from series 9, I remember reading about them doing predator toys way back in 2010 when they started them for the third movie but I never got serious about it. Last August I finally discovered BBTS and when I was browsing all the stuff they had I stumbled across these cool looking predator toys from NECA. Water Emergence Predator was my first, since anything from series 8 was sold out, and it was great. Then I got all of series 10 with only Hive Wars having issues, skipped all of 11, got the NES Predator (his hip joints aren't as tight as the others but he holds his poses very well), and now from 12 I got Elder v2 and Viper with Elder having that little spot of paint under his eye. I've heard the first waves of predators weren't great, but that's going back to 2010 when they started the line. I've got 38 NECA toys right now and the only ones that have QC issues are Hive Wars Predator with his arm, Coyote Tango's right cannon can be plugged on or off due to lack of glue, and Tacit Ronin's upper knee joint are loose. I will say that for the majority of my collection I don't handle these toys like they're sacred artifacts. I mess with them, make sure the pose isn't stuck, and hell I've even (accidentally) dropped a few from about 4' and they're alright. There's a sense of caution, like if something's stuck leave it alone and come back later, but they are certainly tested.

McFarlane's toys that had any usable pose were complete crap in the durability category, every single Predator or Alien I bought from them had something break. Most often it was wrist blades, mandibles, tails, and hands or feet. Some McFarlane stuff does hold up pretty well, but only if it has little or no pose or if it was going back to their actual action figures from Spawn.

In any situation those who have been wronged are always going to be more vocal than those who are pleased with the results, even when those wronged are the minority. Every company has QC issues, I can't think of a single toy manufacturer that hasn't had at least one problem even if it's not recurring.

Finally, yes the Blade Fighter vehicle's price is stupid. I have no clue how that thing is the same price as the Alien Queen and their 1/4 scale figures.

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by TomsToyChest

I've been collecting Predator since series 4 and that would make it 0 out of 15 Predators in my case that I've opened if I'm doing my math correctly. All of them have had issues, the biggest of them being crap joints. I'm constantly having to re-balance the Predators I have on display because they all look like they're about to fall off my shelf.

I fail to see why you find what I've said about the Predator line so strange. Have you read about the problems of series 1-3 of Predator? After seeing all of that I'm glad I missed out on them.

Of the Predators that I have yet to open, I think I'm most concerned with Bad Blood. If the formula holds true with the crappy NECA joints then I'm going to be really angry if that figure falls off my shelf since he has so many adornments and optional decorations on him.

I've been collecting NECA's Predators since the AVP:R line came out when the movie was still in theaters, and while I haven't run into nearly as many problems as you, I have had my fair share. Most of it was stuff that I was able to catch on the store shelves thankfully before I purchased them (broken or warped wrist blades, missing accessories, broken shoulder cannons, broken trophy necklaces, the broken tusks on the Tracker Predator, and a few with two left hands...) Most of my Predator figures are still on card, so I don't know the joys that await should I decide to crack them open. Hopefully if I should, the problems won't be as bad as they were with my McFarlane ones, the AVP ones especially were pretty horrendous.

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Originally Posted by TomsToyChest

So you grew up with McFarlane... funny you mentioned that, I dug up some old figures from Sleepy Hollow and Movie Maniacs that I had in storage the other day. The Jason Voorhees figure looks better than the newer NECA Jason figures that I've seen in my opinion.

As something of a Jason collector, I have to disagree with you on this one. While I dug the Jason X one (even though it's one of the only ones I don't have,) the series 1 Movie Maniacs version of Jason is probably my least favorite of the bunch, with the Final Chapter Jason from NECA being my favorite, hands down.


At least the height is right, since Hodder was the shortest guy to play Jason. IMHO though, even the NECA FvsJ Jason is better looking than the McFarlane, even though the big bastard has a QC issue of his own and cannot stand without support (note the stand on his leg to keep him upright.)


While this one has the face that only a mother could love. Hands down my favorite! =)

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Originally Posted by TomsToyChest

Sorry you were unable to find another Tacit to do an even exchange. I assume you did get your money back since there wasn't another one available in the store?

I was able to get my money back at TRU, as I returned the figure with all of the packaging, still un-removed from the inner plastic bedding, and was able to point out the flaw. I picked up an extra G.I.Joe Baroness/Lady Jaye set, as the one I got from BBTS had really awful paint apps, to swap out. They didn't give me a full refund on the Baroness/Lady Jaye though since I had done a return the day before, but they did manage to give me my money back in the form of a gift card, which I really didn't mind because the money is going to be spent again there anyways at some point. =P

On a final note, I could not help myself and was able to find another Tacit Ronin on Ebay at a price less than TRU retail (as the figure was sold loose, but in the inner clamshell.) I was able to have it inspected by the seller before he sold it to me, and it arrived in perfect condition. I had to spend a half an hour or so with the hair dryer on it, but at least I finally have him. Going forward though, I'm pretty much done with this line, unless they end up making a Striker that's a more durable improvement on the crappy one that we got. It's just not worth the trouble, nor the heartache.

[Goldengreg]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

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Originally Posted by Falconhood

Transformers Combiner Wars Bombshell
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I'm not very aware of Transformers modern linesand their names, but as a G1 lover I'm always interested in getting some G1-lookalike modern toys, so I was wondering if this new "combiners"(?) line blends well with THESE ONES.
I have a few of them, and love their design... but many of them got pricey over time...

[Snowflakian]

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Originally Posted by Goldengreg

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!




I'm not very aware of Transformers modern linesand their names, but as a G1 lover I'm always interested in getting some G1-lookalike modern toys, so I was wondering if this new "combiners"(?) line blends well with THESE ONES.
I have a few of them, and love their design... but many of them got pricey over time...

They do.
And some even update to better. Like the Leader jetfire out now scales better to the classics/generations than the classics jetfire does.

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Goldengreg

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!




I'm not very aware of Transformers modern linesand their names, but as a G1 lover I'm always interested in getting some G1-lookalike modern toys, so I was wondering if this new "combiners"(?) line blends well with THESE ONES.
I have a few of them, and love their design... but many of them got pricey over time...

Yes and no. Transformers toys have gradually gotten smaller and smaller as the time has passed...especially in the deluxe class figure department. Some of the Generations line scales nicely (Grimlock, Blitzwing, Sideswipe, and Waspinator come to mind) but others are tiny in comparison to that particular wave we're mentioning (such as Armada Starscream, Orion Pax, Megatron and most of the Combaticons that formed Bruticus.)

[Falconhood]

Star Wars Hot Wheels cars...all 8 of them with GREAT Artwork on the card!
Star Wars Hot Wheels Cars-All 8 of them by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Star Wars Hot Wheels (4) by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Star Wars Hot Wheels (5) by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Star Wars Hot Wheels (6) by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Star Wars Hot Wheels (8) by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Red Skull in a cool black trench coat
Captain America The Winter Soldier Air Raid Red Skull (2) by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
New Imaginext figures:
Imaginext (3) by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Imaginext (7) by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Imaginext (5) by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr
Imaginext (1) by SacredKnightOfTomorrow, on Flickr

[tgbobafett]

got this from Amazon the other day

[jwyss234]

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Originally Posted by redx24

Why does some of the rangers have weapons of other rangers??

The extra weapons that belong to the other rangers are to build the power blaster.

[Dr Kain]

[redx24]

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Originally Posted by jwyss234

The extra weapons that belong to the other rangers are to build the power blaster.

That's just silly. Just saying

[redx24]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

That batman is gonna look hot with the flame effects

[TimothyR]

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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

They do.
And some even update to better. Like the Leader jetfire out now scales better to the classics/generations than the classics jetfire does.

yeah.. but only get jetfire if you enjoy being ripped off.

i mean.. all of his extremities are completely hollow.. even the out side part of his forearms.. it's pathetic.. and for $45.. a leader figure with no electronics.. it's a ripoff especially when compared to leaders we got a couple years ago. who were solid, not as simplistic, came with electronics and were a bit larger.

trust me.. i'm not a fan of electronic lights and sounds in these figures.. but if i'm going to pay the price for them, i might as well get them.. but here, you're paying the price but getting nothing in return.