[Tim]

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

I've been thinking about the Unboxing Convention. if he doesn't get shown I might have to move Sunspot up my wishlist a bit. he's "merely" in my top 30, but with all the other original New Mutants being released in some costume or other, even if not NM costume, his absence will be felt even more.

Granted Unboxing is in Mexico and he's Brazilian, but would anyone be offended if I said maybe they'll show him this weekend, since there's a Latin or Hispanic connection there? No offense intended, I promise and I don't mean to start any diatribes.

Also, given he's not from X-Force #1 but shows up shortly thereafter, and is a core member for a large part of the series, he's definitely someone I'd want in my X-Force lineup, especially over Feral or Rictor. Who interestingly enough are also Latin or Hispanic, maybe they'll get shown!

Well you did it I am officially offended my friend I don’t know how I’ll recover haha(I am 100% joking if that’s not clear enough) but maybe they’ll show off Firestar because her power involves heat and it’s hot in Mexico more times then not. So there’s an connection there. I’ll legitimately take any excuse to get her.

[Bo Ttef]

With all the X-Force chatter I sure don't hear much about wee lass Siryn! She was part of the team from issue #3 forward- I think we need to see her and Black Tom in a 3pk with Banshee...
Siryn by lowanbing, on Flickr

[Bo Ttef]

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Originally Posted by Nutimus Prime

So how much is everyone paying for the SDCC Hulk? Just grabbing them from from amazon or eBay? I want to try to get it on Hasbro Pulse but it may sell out. I'm debating just buying it so I don't miss out.

I wouldn't pay much over retail for him ($38?) But it's tough- if you really want him and miss him on Pulse when they go up the price is probably going to climb even high than it is right now...

[Nutimus Prime]

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Originally Posted by Bo Ttef

I wouldn't pay much over retail for him ($38?) But it's tough- if you really want him and miss him on Pulse when they go up the price is probably going to climb even high than it is right now...

Yup, missing him on Pulse is what I'm worried about.

What all did you do to make that Siryn? Rogue and May Jane head right?

[Archangel]

Scored Thor and the Iron Team 2-pack from Target just now. Usually I never find anything there, but I was asking the wrong guy all along. Turns out the guy I spoke to was a collector, and knew everything they had in-stock in the back. No Storm though, but I did turn my back on a Nightcrawler...still waiting to see how he compares to the ToyBiz version. Glad I finally found someone at Target who could speak the lingo!

[hasbroherofan]

We should be getting a few reveals this weekend from the Toy Unboxing con in Mexico.

[kenm2474]

[StuartGreen2019]

I still can't believe they messed up putting on Vulture's wings for the Unboxing Toy Convention. I wonder if they'll do a Hasbro Q&A over there. If we don't see them for sure on display at the con, since they only had three new figures revealed at their con last year, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Hasbro will give us new figures for several in-demand characters that need new figures A.S.A.P., like first appearance Storm, Firestar, classic Electro, classic Shocker, the Leader, green-and-yellow suit Banshee, Avalanche, Pyro, classic Falcon, classic Captain Marvel II, Silver Centurion Iron Man, classic U.S. Agent, Mr. Hyde and Constrictor. If they just show us classic Electro and/or "Amazing Friends" Firestar, that'd be enough for me.

[Marine73]

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Originally Posted by Bo Ttef

With all the X-Force chatter I sure don't hear much about wee lass Siryn! She was part of the team from issue #3 forward- I think we need to see her and Black Tom in a 3pk with Banshee...
Siryn by lowanbing, on Flickr

Dam!!! Recipe for that Siryn please!!!

[StuartGreen2019]

I could be wrong, but I think that Siryn is a retro Black Widow head on a Jim Lee Rogue body with the jacket removed. Ironically, I have a Mint In Box Rogue with the jacket missing from the body due to a factory error.

[Bo Ttef]

Surin i made a while ago- she's just a Rogue (when they were peg warming) with a MJ head and a little bit of sculpt for thr collar. Paint was pretty easy, just found a matching green and extended the leg color a bit.

[kylactus]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

kylactus

I might disagree with the things you believe, but I still respect you as a man and human being. I felt the need to express this because I'm trying to be better than I have been in the past. These are highly charged and polarized times and people's passions and beliefs are making us forget that we share a planet with one another.

At the end of the day, beyond what we've all been conditioned to believe about what's right/wrong, I think there are more ties that bind us than constructs that separate. Hence our being on this site gabbing about toys...

Oh absolutely man, people spend too much time harping on the bullshit. I saw a sign once at a protest that read, “ hang all the intolerant people” it made me chuckle, but your cool man. Yeah if I’m dissed, I’ll throw it back, but it’s not personal. I love everyone on here, and I agree with you on 99.9 percent of stuff, (even the heady discussions that pop up time to time). I guarantee if we ever meet in the real world we’d hit it off. Even if our views on shit that we honestly have no power over one way or the other don’t line up exactly, I can tell your a good person.

In other news, I finally found the wolverine / hulk pack, and honestly that hulk may be the greatest figure ever made. I have been playing with it for an hour and I can’t find a flaw. It’s size, and weight are spot on, he head and hair are just freakin perfect, he has open hands! And butterfly joints! He’s like a high end import, plus he comes with a cool first appearance Wolverine for an accessory! If I could come up with one thing to complain about, and I’m stretching here, I wish he had clap hands. I’m not sure if any hulk has, but I think he’d pull off a great thunder clap pose.

[Bo Ttef]

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Originally Posted by StuartGreen2019

I could be wrong, but I think that Siryn is a retro Black Widow head on a Jim Lee Rogue body with the jacket removed. Ironically, I have a Mint In Box Rogue with the jacket missing from the body due to a factory error.

Head could easily be BW too... i can't tell the difference with all the times it's popped up. Lol

[usernamedustin]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

I’m wrong because you say so? And there’s only one reality, but you strike me as the SJW type that has to put two cents in When no change was requested. But what a master of knowledge you must be to infer attitude from text. I defer to your genius oh enlightened sir.....
Please quit waiting your time her, the world needs your fixing, GO NOW HURRY! People have to know YOU have all the answers!

Ok. This just makes me more confident in my first post's assumptions. We all see reality subjectively based on our personal experiences. I just wanted you to know that things that are true for you, based on your experience, may be different for others. The good news is that we can all enjoy the fantasy escape of action figures. Now I will "quit waiting [my] time her"(?), and get back to waiting for my figures to arrive from HasbroPulse. My next post will be about those figures. I hope your next post will be about action figures too.

Speaking of the figures I am waiting on, what is the general consensus on Juggernaut? BaF or 80th? Keeping one or both?

[Bo Ttef]

BAF Juggernaut for me. While i love the damaged helmet, i like the colors on the BAF better. I'll keep the 2pk around for pics- but the BAF got the shelf space

[En Sabah Nerd]

My Ghost and Luis set arrived today from Target. Luis wasn't a character I ever necessarily expected to get a figure but I'm glad he has so Scott can have his buddy on the shelf. Like Klaue, I don't have any standing issue with his suit piece in hand but I definitely see why others may. A character specific accessory might have been nice to give him some extra "umph" but it's not like Hasbro can materialize him a long anecdote bogged with unnecessary tangent details. Having Luis gives me hope that one day we might get a figure of Happy, which would be nice.
Ghost was always the main draw of this set, being a figure high on my want list since the movie came out, and I'm very impressed with the final result. The sculpting on her suit is on par with figures like Ebony Maw or Corvus Glaive, which is to say it's great all the way down to the small patterns and textures. Her paint is pretty minimal on the suit given it's mostly just grey and then slightly darker or lighter grey. The blue disks are fine but as expected not every one is 100% in place and then the red on her mask is also all in place. Her articulation is the standard showing of an MCU figure at this point but I do feel like her elbows get more range on them than some other figures that also only use the single hinge. The alternate head came out fantastic and they even did the hair color right compared to the official images shown, I also think the way they sculpted how it fits into the pulled down hood came out very well. The heads swap easily enough but I will note that the hood on her masked head does seem to be attached to the head itself so it all just pops off as one piece.
The shrunken lab building/luggage accessory is a fun inclusion and the handle does slide in and out but obviously they didn't actually fit it with little wheels. For whatever reason though it was held in the packaging bubble really tightly, like too tightly. The large ant is easily the weakest part of the set, it's not objectively terrible but its soft sculpt and minimal yet sloppy paint apps don't help it out much.
Overall I'm calling this set a winner for giving me the Ghost I've been waiting for and the Luis I didn't think I needed until I had it.

Here I've tried my hand at recreating Ghost's phasing by overlaying 2 pictures as one, I think it came out alright. Then of course I had to get a sort-of family photo with Ant-Man and Wasp.

[redfox]

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Originally Posted by hasbroherofan

We should be getting a few reveals this weekend from the Toy Unboxing con in Mexico.

Hope so. Looking back to last year's convention, we got 3 reveals:

Kree Sentry BAF (Wave: Captain Marvel)
Nighthawk (Wave: Avengers)
Living Laser (Wave: Avengers)

[Vamp]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

My Ghost and Luis set arrived today from Target. Luis wasn't a character I ever necessarily expected to get a figure but I'm glad he has so Scott can have his buddy on the shelf

wanna get that luis figure

[MeLikeJinx]

Ghost looks cool... like a character from Ghost in the Shell or something... the masked version anyway.

[SymbiSpidey]

I just got the Luis and Ghost set and yeah it's awesome. But now we need to build the team. Where's T.I. and the guy from The Dark Knight?

[kylactus]

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Originally Posted by usernamedustin

Ok. This just makes me more confident in my first post's assumptions. We all see reality subjectively based on our personal experiences. I just wanted you to know that things that are true for you, based on your experience, may be different for others. The good news is that we can all enjoy the fantasy escape of action figures. Now I will "quit waiting [my] time her"(?), and get back to waiting for my figures to arrive from HasbroPulse. My next post will be about those figures. I hope your next post will be about action figures too.

Speaking of the figures I am waiting on, what is the general consensus on Juggernaut? BaF or 80th? Keeping one or both?

So how am I wrong? By your own standard of reality being totally subjective no one can be wrong.... unless they disagree with YOU I guess. But thanks again for educating us poor simpletons oh wise one. And yeah I’m no typist, but that’s mostly because I don’t live behind a keyboard.

As far as figures go... 80’th on the juggernaut all the way. When they first revealed him I felt a bit jaded, ( it sucks when a BAF gets a better single release later) but looking at him, I like the more vibrant and comic accurate paint, and the no helmet head looks great. The BAF is awesome too though, I’d say keep both. One can never have enough juggernauts, or is it juggerni? I don’t know, I’m sure you’ll tell me though.

[Veronica Mars]

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

I've been thinking about the Unboxing Convention. if he doesn't get shown I might have to move Sunspot up my wishlist a bit. he's "merely" in my top 30, but with all the other original New Mutants being released in some costume or other, even if not NM costume, his absence will be felt even more.

Granted Unboxing is in Mexico and he's Brazilian, but would anyone be offended if I said maybe they'll show him this weekend, since there's a Latin or Hispanic connection there? No offense intended, I promise and I don't mean to start any diatribes.

Also, given he's not from X-Force #1 but shows up shortly thereafter, and is a core member for a large part of the series, he's definitely someone I'd want in my X-Force lineup, especially over Feral or Rictor. Who interestingly enough are also Latin or Hispanic, maybe they'll get shown!

I'm hoping for Feral so I can use parts of her to kitbash a proper Wolfsbane. America Chavez is also a strong possibility to be revealed

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Vamp

wanna get that luis figure

If you aren't willing to pay for the full set I imagine there will be plenty of people who just get the set for Ghost so they'll offer Luis on his own. I'm also pretty sure the price will eventually drop, last winter all three of the First Ten Years two packs were on sale.

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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

Ghost looks cool... like a character from Ghost in the Shell or something... the masked version anyway.

Obviously her outfit is based on the character from the comics, his modern costume in particular, BUT I also feel like the mask has some GitS vibes. It's entirely possible that it's a deliberate homage but at the same time it could be total coincidence and both are sourcing from real stealth spec-ops motifs. I also get a pretty strong MGS vibe from Ghost in the comics.

[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by usernamedustin

Speaking of the figures I am waiting on, what is the general consensus on Juggernaut? BaF or 80th? Keeping one or both?

Keeping both...as I usually do in these sorts of scenarios...

[Archangel]

I’ve got 2 and one headless body from back when all those figs were cheap as hell. I’m going to test the heads and see what looks best, then let one go.