[usagent27]

Thanks!

[synapse17]

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Originally Posted by Nexodusrex

there is one toy I would scalp.
Skylanders

Because I fucking hate Skylanders and would capitalize on kids wanting it. It propogates whats wrong with the toy industry right now. Kids want videogame interaction with their toys and hate using their imagination with things like Marvel Universe, or GIJoe so companies have to cater to kids with gameplay stuff like its magic the gathering.

Example, the Spiderman line(Before Amazing) had those inferred card games thing, Super Hero Showdown had those rocketlauncher and game stands, Star Wars none Vintage stuff has those dice and such.

Kids need to use their fucking Imagination and turn off the Xbox for a while. When I was a kid, I had Super Nintendo, and that did not stop me from turning my GIJoes into Megaman characters and playing with them outside in my Treefort with my Best Friend from around the Block!

thats my rant and I'm sticking to it

True that! When I was a kid my cousins and I played the shit out of some video games and still collected and played with several action figure lines.

I liked the idea of the Fury Files but it never really went anywhere. And obviously like most things in the MU line it was dropped.

I think when you take the focus off of the action figures and try and use some gimmick like the crap you mentioned , it cheapens the experience. Kids loose interest and make associations with other card or video games that are much better. Leaving a stale taste. Plus usually these lame additions come at a price to the quality of the figures. Just make a cool line and stop with the gimmicks.

[gunzilla]

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Originally Posted by KingLouie731

Scale discrepencies ie they are not quite the appropriate scale to truly fit in with MU. example superman is smaller than spiderman and that should never be

Gotcha

[Iceman]

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Originally Posted by synapse17

I liked the idea of the Fury Files but it never really went anywhere. And obviously like most things in the MU line it was dropped.

I think someone realized that if kids (or anyone) wanted to know more about character they could just use google/wikipedia. The Iron Man 2 armor cards were a real waste of money for them. Served no purpose in the end.

[FancyPants]

Those are garbage. I also enjoy the ML papers. I forget if wave 1 had them, but wave two had papers for each figure explaining stuff.

[kamendreda]

Finished up Forge!






Strange that I didn't notice how wonky his x symbol is on his belt til after looking at the pics. I'll have to tough that up later.

And of course an updated 90's X-men team pic.

[Colder Soldier]

I liked the IM2 armor cards more than anything. It was a cool little artsy display thing that connected to a nameless (universal) base.

Think if they were to use the same concept with MU. But instead of the computer schematics being on the cards there were the 1st appearance comic cover of whatever character it came with. Or some other type of key issue. That would be awesome IMO.

[Starscream99]

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Originally Posted by kamendreda

Finished up Forge!






Strange that I didn't notice how wonky his x symbol is on his belt til after looking at the pics. I'll have to tough that up later.

And of course an updated 90's X-men team pic.

Very nice!!!

[BAD MOON]

yoo-hoo just shipped the beta ray bill wave from bbts!! can't wait to get my hands on new figs!!

[SquirtleSquad7]

That 90's X-Men display collection.. I'm so jealous. .___.

[Scythe]

OMFG, what a craptastic day I had today thanks to toys. You guys know how people always return figures back to stores with a similar and somtimes flat out Happy Meal toy back to a store after keeping the original? Remember how we always b*tch and moan about employees not voicing opinions cuz the customer's always right or they just flat out don't care? Well, that kinda happened to me today.

So, I was just sittin' there at lil Primo's house waiting for his birthday to party to begin, just counting the minutes until I could just fart my way into the kitchen and grab a slice of Iron Man cake, when suddenly, he starts opening presents before cake cuz apparenty that's how we roll these days. I don't know, I just work here.

So, he starts opening stuff, and I'm eager to see what he got, he's eight, I act like I'm five, we get along very well. So, after like a few video games, and some clothes (yay....) he opens up a gift my Aunt got him. It was a movie masters TDKR Batman figure, or at least it was supposed to be. He thought it was weird that these are supposed to be pretty decent quality action figures, instead what he got was a repackaged KO swapmeet/flea market quality Batman figure with molded in-place legs and no arm articulation. It was basically a plastic turd with a cloth cape with a somewhat Batman reference.

So, we reared (it is reared, not raised, raised applies to animal, look it up) our lil primo with manners, he was greatful he recieved something he really likes from my Aunt, he gave her a hug and went on to play with it. As much as you can play with when you have a bad ass Batmobile and a dog toy...

I sometimes forget my manners, so I was all like: "Awww, hail nawwww...." So I explain to my Aunt, these aren't Movie Masters, they're Movie.... Umm.... Disasters, you try coming up with something on the spot, it's hard. She tells me it was the only one they had and she remembered a talk her and I had about Variants. How they sometimes look nothing like what's described on the package. She was under the impression that it was an old 70's nod in a new age packaging. I gotta hand it to the repackager though, if there was an olympic event for repackaging toys, that guy would've won the gold, silver and bronze. It was very well repackaged, I mean like, wow, you went through so much trouble for that?! Godayum.

So, I tell her I'll make it right, I'll head up to TRU and exchange it for the real deal. I took the receipt to the front desk at a random ass TRU I spotted. The manager was actually ringing up people, so that's probably why I got hassled. When it came time for me to tell her what's up, I explained how it was a repackaged toy. That manager chick was like in Amazonian mode or something, because she sat there and lectured me about how she's tired of people doing that at this particular store. I'm just like, yeah, me too. Except the 'this' store part, I've never been there. She asked me if it was right to do this, I asked her if they had the FF Spidey/Doom CP. She replied with a 'What?' So did I. Eventually, she called like five other dudes to come out there and look at a toy. These guys looked like that was the job title they signed up for, action figure inspection. After the autopsy, they mentioned it was against the rules to return different items for my money back. I said, my bad, even though it was purchased like that to begin with, can I have a gift card? They basically said I'm all out of luck and I slowly had to back up out of the store. Except in the parking lot, I'm not gonna get run over cuz I'm not watching where I'm going, can you imagine? Teehee.

Now we're stuck with the Baturd, I made things right by buying the lil one an actual Batman figure, but yeah, kinda pisses me off that so many have gotten with with returning shitacular happy meal toys for rather expensive figures and never raise an eyebrow. Yet here I come, and OMGWTFBBQ.

/poker faced rant.

[SquirtleSquad7]

Wow, that sucks so bad. I wish stores would understand more. Try e-mailing a TRU customer service about it or something? Explain it just like that! They might be sympathetic. Say the child was really upset, lol

[gunzilla]

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Originally Posted by kamendreda

Finished up Forge!

Strange that I didn't notice how wonky his x symbol is on his belt til after looking at the pics. I'll have to tough that up later.

And of course an updated 90's X-men team pic.

Nice work can u post a close up of banshee he looks awesome

[Scythe]

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Originally Posted by SquirtleSquad7

Wow, that sucks so bad. I wish stores would understand more. Try e-mailing a TRU customer service about it or something? Explain it just like that! They might be sympathetic. Say the child was really upset, lol

My past adventures in e-mailing TRU customer service have all turned out into a Kung Fu movie without subtitles. We don't know what we're saying, but it's fun to watch.

[SquirtleSquad7]

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Originally Posted by Scythe

My past adventures in e-mailing TRU customer service have all turned out into a Kung Fu movie without subtitles. We don't know what we're saying, but it's fun to watch.

lmao, that's a good analogy. I hope he gets a replacement though, or at least finds a use for the brick figure. :]

[Starscream99]

@Scythe..... That sucks man. I can only imagine how many birthday and Christmas presents repackers have fucked up. Sorry to hear that.

[mikefavata]

[Starscream99]

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Originally Posted by mikefavata

I'm jealous lol

[2GOLD]

Are Doom and Spidey having a dance party?
"YAY MAN! We finally got released!"

[gunzilla]

In future foundation is doom a good guy now?

[SquirtleSquad7]

The more I see that spiderman mold in your pictures, the more I love it. I want one in the red and blue out of that mold. *Hides in corner to avoid thrown objects for wanting more spidermen*

[fallen69lee04]

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Originally Posted by BAD MOON

yoo-hoo just shipped the beta ray bill wave from bbts!! can't wait to get my hands on new figs!!

hell!! Yeah!!! Me to bro! Only good thing for me today. Didn't find nothing new on my toy hunt today. And it's payday for me lol

[mikefavata]

The new Spider-Man is fantastic but a little big, I still want the white costume from Wave 19.

[FancyPants]

Scythe: sorry to hear about that. I'd be beyond pissed. Also, I snickered at the notion of somebody "farting" their way into a kitchen.

kamendreda: amazing forge.

[kamendreda]

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Originally Posted by gunzilla

Nice work can u post a close up of banshee he looks awesome

Here's my thread in the customs forum. I have some pics of him there. :-)

And thanks everyone!!

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