[Starlord67]

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Originally Posted by Ultra Seven

Ooh, do I spy Phantom Rider? It’s a pipe-dream, but I’d love an ML horse in order to get him done proper, as well as Brightwind and Aragorn

YES you do spy Phantom Rider...I have a Lord of the Rings horse for him. I also hope they do horses in the future.

[Archangel]

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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Geez no time to breathe between waves

Popfinder shows a Target Street date of Nov 1st. Nothing around me for 75 miles.

[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by sh002

The Joe Fixit wave is already being found at Target.

The Hellfire Club Guard is already sold out at Hasbro Pulse.

Are we sure it's not just Iron Man and Captain America from wave 1?

[hasbroherofan]

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Originally Posted by Nimrod

Sorry, not that version

If we get a new Moonstone anytime soon it'll probably be that version since with Songbird, Citizen V and now Mach-I, Hasbro is slowly but surely filling out the original Thunderbolts.

My preferred look is Dark Ms. Marvel.

[Nimrod]

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Originally Posted by Starlord67

Looky who Im working on!

That's an outstanding classic Moonstone custom & just goes to prove how visually cool a figure of her in this costume would look in ML form.

[Veronica Mars]

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Originally Posted by Archangel

Popfinder shows a Target Street date of Nov 1st. Nothing around me for 75 miles.

I haven't checked, I pre-ordered on Amazon and they have a Nov 1st shipping date

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Geez no time to breathe between waves

Thank the gods I have no waves anymore.

The only figures left for me to buy this year are Morbius, Pyro/Rogue, the Nimrod 3 pack, and maybe Falcon. I gave up on waiting for Pulse and ordered Kingpin from Amazon this morning.

The Nimrod 3 pack I'm holding off for it to go on sale since I really only want Nimrod. Not that I really even have a place to put Nimrod right now anyway unless I take Onslaught out of the battle shelf and put Nimrod in his place, which is tempting since I know nothing about Onslaught other than he was created by both Magneto and Charles. His story arc came well after I stopped reading X-Men and I have yet to felt the desire to read it.

[MeLikeJinx]

I hope someone on youtube or whatever does the Jacosta Lilandra headswap... if it looks good then maybe my Silver Sable can go back to being Silver Sable... although the PS4 Spidey game made me not like Silver Sable.

They also need to hurry up and announce Excalibur Shadowcat... which is why I assume they made Firestar have the collar... so they can just reuse her for Shadowcat. I want to give my Kitty Pryde torso to Dani Moonstar.

[Starlord67]

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Originally Posted by Nimrod

That's an outstanding classic Moonstone custom & just goes to prove how visually cool a figure of her in this costume would look in ML form.

Wow @Nimrod thank you. I appreciate it. I hope Hasbro puts one in the Bring on the Bad Guys wave!

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

which is why I assume they made Firestar have the collar...

You do know that Firestar body was Black Widow's first, right?

[Veronica Mars]

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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

I hope someone on youtube or whatever does the Jacosta Lilandra headswap... if it looks good then maybe my Silver Sable can go back to being Silver Sable... although the PS4 Spidey game made me not like Silver Sable.

They also need to hurry up and announce Excalibur Shadowcat... which is why I assume they made Firestar have the collar... so they can just reuse her for Shadowcat. I want to give my Kitty Pryde torso to Dani Moonstar.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

You do know that Firestar body was Black Widow's first, right?

I was going to say the upper torso looks like riders widow/grinning Black Cat, the collar piece is swappable. I'm considering swapping that upper torso with Hellcat, provided the yellows match

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The Nimrod 3 pack I'm holding off for it to go on sale since I really only want Nimrod. Not that I really even have a place to put Nimrod right now anyway unless I take Onslaught out of the battle shelf and put Nimrod in his place, which is tempting since I know nothing about Onslaught other than he was created by both Magneto and Charles. His story arc came well after I stopped reading X-Men and I have yet to felt the desire to read it.

Just a quick rundown on Onslaught. Shortly after the AoA event resolved and all returned to normal Magneto ripped the adamantium out of Wolverine's body which nearly killed him so in heated retaliation Charles lashed out and wiped Magneto's mind. This triggered the creation of a psychic entity born of Charles' darkest thoughts and impulses which additionally has Magneto's powers since his mind was the one used to "feed" the birth. The entity called itself Onslaught and in its infancy was just evil Charles but quickly grew independent with intentions to wipe out humanity on behalf of mutantkind. Naturally the X-men oppose this so Onslaught (after power boosting by absorbing Franklin Richards and X-Man) decides to kill every one. At the end of the day it takes the combined sacrifice of the Avengers and Fantastic Four to stop Onslaught, leaving a world where the X-Men and Spider-Man are the most notable heroes standing. Of course the "dead" heroes would return in short order because Marvel wasn't really going to kill half of their popular roster.

It's not really a recommended reading but I do still like Onslaught as an example of a big, ludicrously overpowered villain who's underwritten as hell. He got to be the big boss of the first Marvel vs Capcom game though so that's pretty cool.

[webz]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The Nimrod 3 pack I'm holding off for it to go on sale since I really only want Nimrod. Not that I really even have a place to put Nimrod right now anyway unless I take Onslaught out of the battle shelf and put Nimrod in his place, which is tempting since I know nothing about Onslaught other than he was created by both Magneto and Charles. His story arc came well after I stopped reading X-Men and I have yet to felt the desire to read it.

Not missing a thing. The Onslaught storyline, Spider Clone Saga and “Venom eats chocolate to avoid eating brains” were three of the catalysts that weened me from comics after being a hardcore reader from the 80’s thru the 90’s, and much of the back catalog too. The X-Men were already more Dark Shadows camp soap opera than they were in the earlier days, but Onslaught right after AOA just was too much cheese for me. Around the same time was the Peter Parker’s parents/clone saga and its many retcons and so many other ridiculous tabloid-like storylines.

I haven’t touched a comicbook since. Wasn’t until the movies I started paying attention to super heroes again. I know people love hating the movie adaptations of storylines, but so far I’ve enjoyed the movies over the books in every instance, with the sole exception being Doctor Doom’s portrayal in the movies.

[Veronica Mars]

Maybe they'll do a Banshee and Siryn 2 pack

[omega145]

Kudos to Hasbro for putting out a great selection of figures. A lot to read through after not logging in since the event. I started writing up a personal recap on every single Marvel announcement and then realized how long the list was getting so I narrowed it down a bit.

Impressed by:
Kang - definite buy, close to perfect
Thunderstrike - great face sculpt and figure, probably not a buy since I don't care for character. Maybe on the secondary market below retail.
Thanos - about as perfect as you can get - I just bought the Marvel Select version so not sure if i'll spring $30 for it.
Flight Stands - $15 isn't bad at all for 3 flight stands
Spider Gwen/Miles - definite buys, love the comic accurate head sculpts
Arcade - a figure I normally wouldn't care about but looks like its about as close to perfect as they could've made it

Let down by:
Joe Fixit BAF - reminds me of the villain from The Mask and would've liked to have seen a more grey skin version
Falcon - boring costume design and face sculpt
Rogue - that face is way too wide, reminds me of Geena Davis after her facelift
Firestar - another figure that people have been clamoring for like Falcon that is a bit underwhelming for me. Reminds me of a rather boring female sculpt from the 1/18 Marvel Universe line. Another figure i'll wait for a sale or hope to pick up loose for under $20.

All in all, some great figure announcements that made lots of people happy and disappointed but you can never satisfy everyone.

[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Maybe they'll do a Banshee and Siryn 2 pack

I'd love that, one desperately needed redo and one much wanted new character.

[sh002]

4 Storm and Thunderbird sets, 4 Deadpool and NTW sets, 4 Magneto and Professor X sets, and 6 Mystiques at the Target close to me. Let’s see what happens this morning when it opens.

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by sh002

4 Storm and Thunderbird sets, 4 Deadpool and NTW sets, 4 Magneto and Professor X sets, and 6 Mystiques at the Target close to me. Let’s see what happens this morning when it opens.

Good luck on the hunt. I'll gladly take a Storm/TBird set off of you if you can find an extra!

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

I was going to say the upper torso looks like riders widow

Nope. It's the Walmart Black WIdow torso.

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Originally Posted by webz

Not missing a thing. The Onslaught storyline, Spider Clone Saga and “Venom eats chocolate to avoid eating brains” were three of the catalysts that weened me from comics after being a hardcore reader from the 80’s thru the 90’s, and much of the back catalog too. The X-Men were already more Dark Shadows camp soap opera than they were in the earlier days, but Onslaught right after AOA just was too much cheese for me. Around the same time was the Peter Parker’s parents/clone saga and its many retcons and so many other ridiculous tabloid-like storylines.

I haven’t touched a comicbook since. Wasn’t until the movies I started paying attention to super heroes again. I know people love hating the movie adaptations of storylines, but so far I’ve enjoyed the movies over the books in every instance, with the sole exception being Doctor Doom’s portrayal in the movies.

I read the Clone Saga last year for Spider-Man, but it took me forever to get through due to how bad it was. Now I need to pick up both Ben Reily omnibuses so I can complete the damn thing because I've read it this far, I want to see how the thing ends. I also want to know how Aunt May came back from the dead and what happened to Peter and MJ's child given that one is back in the JMS run and the other is not even mentioned.

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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Maybe they'll do a Banshee and Siryn 2 pack

That would be amazing. Knock them both out a the same time.

I hope they don't use some cheap cloth for their cape like they did with the 90s Storm figure though. I'd rather they did what they did with the new Storm.

[Veronica Mars]

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

I'd love that, one desperately needed redo and one much wanted new character.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

That would be amazing. Knock them both out a the same time.

I hope they don't use some cheap cloth for their cape like they did with the 90s Storm figure though. I'd rather they did what they did with the new Storm.

They could be the Marvel Monday reveal for March

[tierneygreen]

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Originally Posted by sh002

The Hellfire Club Guard is already sold out at Hasbro Pulse.

I find this a little surprising, given how long it took the Inner Circle to sell through. I guess more folks are genuinely "army" building than I would've thought. I wonder if they'll restock. I snagged 4 on Friday, but was debating at least another 2.

No Storm/T-Bird yet in Middle TN, according to PopFindr, although they've starting trickling in at either end of the state (Memphis, Knoxville). Initial distribution looks to be 4 units per store. Again, if PopFindr is to be believed.

[Veronica Mars]

Do you guys think it's too soon for the Nimrod pack to go on sale? I got an email about Prime day on the 13th

[Dr Kain]

So I just got an email from Hasbro saying I've earned 70,000 Marvel Insider points. What the heck is Marvel Insider?

EDIT: Okay, so I created an account, redeemed my points, now what? I've got like 150,100 points and I have no idea what they do.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Do you guys think it's too soon for the Nimrod pack to go on sale? I got an email about Prime day on the 13th

Considering the Alpha Flight set released in November and was on sale for Black Friday, no. I'm actually hoping the Nimrod set does go on sale, I can't imagine them dropping off any more than 20% but even 10% off would be enough for me to grab it.

[Archangel]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

So I just got an email from Hasbro saying I've earned 70,000 Marvel Insider points. What the heck is Marvel Insider?

EDIT: Okay, so I created an account, redeemed my points, now what? I've got like 150,100 points and I have no idea what they do.

Do you play Contest of Champions and collect digital comics? That’s about the only use I see for them, that means I’ll have 140,000 points forever.