[jwyss234]

I'll wait until after the new year to get the Defenders set. I'm not crazy about all of the figures in the set so I'd rather get it cheaper. The AOU 4 pack got down as low as $37 but usually hovers around $50 so patience is key.

For anyone interested in the Back in Black Deadpool, the Gamestop listing has been changed so that you can check for store availability.

[jwyss234]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I don't see how this requires them to be killed off though. They could just as easily retire from the super hero business.

They're prime candidates for getting whacked because Marvel promised that not all of the heroes would make it out alive. Thanos has some killin' to do. And it isn't good business for the MCU to kill off the characters with sequels. Maybe I was a bit too overzealous to throw Thor in there but I still think IM and Hawkeye won't make it.

Also, Kevin Feige has already said that Spiderman will be getting another mentor in the second film. It's just not Iron Man.

[lordbest]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I'm super-excited for TLJ but I have to admit that some things from the trailers are very ESB, at least visually. Most obviously is the First Order walkers just being bigger AT-ATs. As for story beats we'll have to wait and see, naturally I hope it's something new and original.

I don't see it myself. The whole bigger walker thing = ESB remake thing I mean. It's a bit like saying Fast and Furious is a remake of Mad Max because they both have cars in.
Though TFA is only a remake of ANH if you ignore the vast majority of the film which is different so obviously people are judging these things by a different standard than I am.

[GizmoTron]

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Originally Posted by Jerseysteel

So my Marvel vs Capcom WIP. Yes I know ironman is missing his mask, didn't feel like digging it out of the accessories drawer.

Pretty cool. You'll need to find a classic Mega Man to use instead of X, though.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I'm super-excited for TLJ but I have to admit that some things from the trailers are very ESB, at least visually. Most obviously is the First Order walkers just being bigger AT-ATs.

I've only seen the trailer that was released back in like April or May.

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Though TFA is only a remake of ANH if you ignore the vast majority of the film which is different so obviously people are judging these things by a different standard than I am.

Totally agree. TFA is only like ANH in the aspects that it goes through familar territory in locations. Other than that, it is an entirely different movie.

[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by GizmoTron

Pretty cool. You'll need to find a classic Mega Man to use instead of X, though.

Oh thank god someone else noticed. I see people do that so often and it makes me crazy

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Totally agree. TFA is only like ANH in the aspects that it goes through familar territory in locations. Other than that, it is an entirely different movie.

Okay. So TFA isn't the story of a plucky teenager with a quirky droid with an attitude carrying a secret message that holds the fate of the galaxy in its memory banks. They meet on a desert planet, where she later meets up with a scoundrel on the run with a heart of gold. They leave the desert planet in the Millennium Falcon of all things, and later meets a legendary war hero from the past thought long gone, who decides to help the plucky teenager and even takes her in as her mentor. She later watches this mentor die as he is killed during a rescue attempt on a death star, or in this case a star killer, by a shadowy, imposing figure in a black mask and a red laser sword...

There's more to it than that, including space princesses being tortured by shadowy masked guy, planets being blown up as "demonstrations", a race against the clock for the rebel army to save themselves, the giant death planet being extinguished by a spot internally only a small flying craft can get to, a mission to knock out shields inside the death planet where the mentor is killed, and so on and so on...

There is even a scene where a stormtrooper is thrown into a trash compactor.

Nope. I haven't seen this movie before.

While the order of some of the events are slightly different, you are kidding yourself if you think TFA is only similar to ANH in locations. There is a reason that JJ Abrams has often been reffered to as the biggest plagiarist in Hollywood.

[Boy Blunder]

Yeah, but as the video "Star Wars Minus Star Wars" proves, ANH was itself made of nothing but homages and copies of the stories that came before. So for TFA to be a wholesale homage to the original almost fits with the theme of the film itself, if not the very tentpoles that helped give the franchise its footing.

But hey, homage or copy, it was a damn entertaining film and a good return to theaters for Star Wars. Imagine if the first new film outing had been Rogue One? Blech.

[Trivial Psychic]

Ehh...it is what it is. They needed something that captured the feel of the original movies after Lucas bogged them down with politics and CGI so it's understandable.

Back to Legends, I managed to pick up the SDCC Raft Spidey for 12 bucks at my local comic con this past weekend. Glad I didn't bite on it on eBay, as mine had those loose butterfly joints that people were complaining about. To anyone wondering, the hands on the recent MJ Spidey work on it, as they match the plastic nearly perfect.

[GizmoTron]

Stopped in at another 5 Below store, found more Red Guardians, but they also had 1 each of Copperhead, Sharon Carter, and Mockingbird from the Red Skull Onslaught wave. So far it's really YMMV with what they get in.

[Jerseysteel]

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Originally Posted by GizmoTron

Pretty cool. You'll need to find a classic Mega Man to use instead of X, though.

I know, those Capcom characters are a pain. There was a MegaMan that was part of a marvel vs Capcom 2 pack, but I'm not sure how articulated it is or how well it'll scale.

[Jerseysteel]

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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

Oh thank god someone else noticed. I see people do that so often and it makes me crazy

I know it's X and I know it's different than MegaMan, but it makes a good fill in character till I find something better

[Dr Kain]

Anyone know if the Hulkbuster is worth any money? My g/f just got laid off from her job, so there goes all of our holiday plans.

[GizmoTron]

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Originally Posted by Jerseysteel

I know, those Capcom characters are a pain. There was a MegaMan that was part of a marvel vs Capcom 2 pack, but I'm not sure how articulated it is or how well it'll scale.

I feel the pain, I've wanted a MvsC set up for a long time, but there's just some characters from Capcom that have never been made as figures even in Japan.

If you're talking about the Mega Man that came from the 2-pack with War Machine, he's ok for the scale against 6" Legends but the articulation is very poor and his gimmick makes the figure very very loose. I did use him for my display years ago, but at the time I was trying to go ToyBiz only and I also didn't care for the Bandai model kit version.

The best Mega Man for your buck now is probably the 4" one made by Sentinel, it's expensive $40-$50 but it's built extremely well (puts Hasbro's recent effort with X to shame) and is not far off from a correctly scaled Mega Man. Other than that there's the Kotobukiya model kit Mega Man, he's a bit big but otherwise it's also a decent Mega Man (Plus Kotobukiya also made Roll who you'll need someday, too, complete with the Mega Man 8/MvsC outfit).

[Harbinger]

I really wish we could get a strider fig with both the masked and an unmasked head.

[GizmoTron]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Anyone know if the Hulkbuster is worth any money? My g/f just got laid off from her job, so there goes all of our holiday plans.

Sorry to hear that.

I'm sure the Hulkbuster is worth some good money, not sure how much though, my guess would be $80 at least given that wave is a few years old now and the number of BAF pieces it takes to build it.

[MeLikeJinx]

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Originally Posted by jwyss234

For anyone interested in the Back in Black Deadpool, the Gamestop listing has been changed so that you can check for store availability.

Pretty much every time I used their store inventory checker thing it has always been super accurate (unlike other stores *cough* Walgreens *cough*)... so this should come in handy for sure. No gamestops near me have it yet though... sux.

[jwyss234]

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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

Pretty much every time I used their store inventory checker thing it has always been super accurate (unlike other stores *cough* Walgreens *cough*)... so this should come in handy for sure. No gamestops near me have it yet though... sux.

Nothing near me either. I called a couple of them today and they weren't sure when or if they would get it. I'd like to get this version of DP but it's not the end of the world if I don't.

A Walgreens employee once told me that all Marvel Legends figures are grouped under one item number so their inventory checker will be wrong 99% of the time unless the figure has been out a while.

[Tomax]

i can honestly say now that my local walmrt finally has a good amount of legends in stock. i joined here in march and really collecting and there was nothing at my local walmrt till today. they had alot of movie thor stuff and even had 2 ex-nihlo's. but im not interested in those figs. hopefully moving foward its gonna be nice and full of figures from now on...by the way, walmart has some better clothes now too lol

[jwyss234]

The other day I posted here about my Vintage Wave Punisher not having any trigger fingers. Since I was planning on picking up another Punisher if I ever found one in the wild (assuming the new one had trigger fingers), I figured I had nothing to lose by trying to separate the trigger fingers on my current VW Punisher with an exacto knife. The results aren't too bad. Because the trigger fingers don't stick out from the hand like they do on Bucky Cap or Black Series figures, it's not a smooth process to stick a gun in his hand with the index finger on the trigger. But it seems to be improving as the finger stretches out from its previous position after holding a gun for a little while. I tried this with my Walgreens Punisher, which wasn't supposed to have any trigger fingers, and it has been a pain to get him to hold a gun properly. This is definitely better and I don't see myself buying an extra Punisher now.

[Spyne98]

My friend found my a Vintage Black Widow, then I remembered the one with the bike is coming out. I guess I'll have 2!
It seems 2017 is winding down for legends. It's been a great year for them!

[Archangel]

Target has the Ego pack for $23, but I still can’t convince myself it’s worth buying.

[shortysben]

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Originally Posted by Archangel

Target has the Ego pack for $23, but I still can’t convince myself it’s worth buying.

Same boat here, you can price match websites, and Amazon has it for $16.50 - still not pulling the trigger.

[Bo Ttef]

For $16 I may pick up another just to keep around my Old Man Adventure Luke Skywalker figure I made. The Ego body makes a great alternative Luke that is more "Further Adventures of Luke Skywalker" than his Jedi robes...

[Archangel]

I just picked up two Hydra packs and an impact effect from TRU.