[Tim]

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Originally Posted by ariellagunas

I love The first issues of The Defenders, and Nighthawk, as Gargoyle, Red Guardian Tanya, Son Of Satan and Devil -Slayer are my most wants. Oh and Clea of course. But unless Marvel brings those characters to the forefront, I doubt I'll see them. nNighthawk is the only one I feel will get done eventually.

Me too those were great issues son of satan would be great. They might get to nighthawk since they already made a 3.75 figure of him a couple years ago.

[Tim]

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Originally Posted by UpDog

Okay, spent some time with the x-men wave and here are some initial thoughts:

I know it's being said a ton to the point where I was even starting to roll my eyes but this really is the best wave Hasbro has ever done, and may even be the best marvel legend wave (up against TB wave 6). All of these figures would likely be the best of their respective waves if released outside this wave. Even the characters who aren't necessarily "show stealers" feel like a tremendous amount of care was given to them. Nobody feels tacked on, or corners cut. It doesn't feel like a cash in or afterthought either like the TRU wave did. The lineup to the execution feel very lovingly done.

Kitty Pryde-Perfect example of my "tremendous amount of care" point. Very ho-hum costume, but so well executed it never feels like it. Lockheed does take a little bit of maneuvering to get right on her.

Phoenix-Another very basic figure, but never feels short changed. Fantastic sculpt. Snuck her into my cosmic display instead of x-men cause I already have a Jean and will take whatever excuse I can to add to my cosmic display.

Havok-Makes the bucky mold pop even after it's umpteenth use. Also thrown into my cosmic display because war of kings and aforementioned any excuse.

Iceman-Had very little interest in this figure when it was announced but I'm really impressed with it, maybe the Dark Horse of the wave for me. Looks great however it is posed.

Rogue-Fantastic. For me this is what I see as rogue when I close my eyes. As far as this version of rogue is concerned, we'll likely never need another one.

I've kept wolvie, deadpool and cable on ice right now, because I'm still happy with the toybiz ones and haven't decided if I'll keep em or trade em or sell em. But even in packaging, they are impressive.

Also, though not assembled, the Juggernaut BAF pieces are BIG.

That's great hearing that Rogue is excellent and Havok is Pretty good because those were my biggest wants from this wave also wanted Ice man. Now I'm going to have to get the whole wave to complete Juggernaut. I guarantee that Deadpool is going to be so hard to find even more than Black Panther.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Flash Thompson/Agent Venom, after some time with the Guardians of the Galaxy, ended up going through a storyarc where the symbiote was 'cleansed' of the 'evil' that had tainted it since it first came onto the scene in the comics. So now Venom is (arguably) more powerful in some ways, and Thompson has gone full hero route as a Spaceknight (a la Rom). Hence, Spaceknight Venom with the GotG sigil on his shoulder.

I was still typing my post out when this got posted but yeah you're right.

Speaking of the GotG symbol, I don't like that it was never openly explained. The emblem is Star-Lord's fire brand (identical to what the movie used as the Ravager symbol) with the Nova star stacked on top of it. In the comics this design first appeared at the end of the Thanos Imperative as part of the shared memorial the united space people created to honor Nova and Star-Lord's sacrifice to save the universe. I guess the reader can infer that Star-Lord made it the team symbol when he returned from the cancerverse to honor the memory of his friend but since this is never openly stated it is technically left unanswered.

[Tim]

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So after the Venom symbiote left MacGargan for Flash Thompson and they became Agent Venom the Guardians of the Galaxy got a movie. Following the movie's highly successful release a bunch of fans who'd never heard of the team before wanted to read GotG comics so Marvel shook the team up and threw in central characters like Iron Man and Captain Marvel as like guest members of the team to attract more readers, eventually Agent Venom became a sorta-permanent member. The symbiote started freaking out after being in space for awhile and led the team to the "symbiote home world" where it was revealed that all symbiotes were actually intended to be peace keepers and agents of good. The "true symbiotes" restored/neutered Venom and so he became space knight Venom (ROM!). It kinda goes without saying that every longtime Venom fan was pretty pissed with this whole deal since it turned our gnarly toothed monster into something like modern DC's Blue Beetle. No surprise this entire mess was written by Bendis.

Thanks for response. Yeah that's kinda a kick to the nads to Venom and his fans. The figure doesn't look bad though. But I'm probably gonna pass on him and only pick up Electro and Hobgoblin.

[Spyne98]

I saw a few pages ago that there's a rumor that big bad is canceling pre-orders on the X-Men wave. They shipped mine so I have to say that the rumor is false. Unless they can't fill all the orders.

[Boy Blunder]

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I was still typing my post out when this got posted but yeah you're right.

Your post was obviously a lot more, ahem, passionate about the topic Since I know a lot of people have very strong (read: negative) feelings about it, I just tried to be concise and objective.




But hey, I honestly love the new Venom. And now I'm leaving before I get stoned for being a heretic

[redfox]

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Your logic makes sense, but I've a feeling (nothing concrete) that this character may just buck the trend. With the excessive amount of fans that have called for an Enchantress, and the number of years these requests have topped the charts, I think there's a good chance Hasbro will find some way to work her into another release. It'd be cruel not to...

I truly hope we see Enchantress released, too. Releasing her as only as an SDCC exclusive would be pretty low.

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It's time for the obligatory "Show us the exclusive Hasbro!!!" post from me today. Two weeks out and just leaks...c'mon. This is just....augh!

^THIS

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Super slick dio!!

[Exodus]

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I emailed Dorkside the other day and they said that Hasbro was sending the wave out a little bit at a time. It's why the wave is still listed as preorder everwhere even tough some people have had theirs ship.

Really that's weird why Hasbro would do that...

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Yes, I read that Dorkside cancelled 100 orders. Although, I'm a little skeptical because I don't understand why Dorkside would publicize this info and the number is too specific if we're assuming it represents customer testimony (what, did everyone report the woeful news at the same time, in the same place?). My BBTS order remains unfulfilled...I guess we'll see.

Whoa that's nuts then if it's true. It's almost like the Wolverine BAF Puck wave, didn't that one get shafted a bit too?

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It's all about what you've read. I may be wrong, but I think a while back you had indicated you hadn't read much of non-recent x-books, and Jean has been gone from the books for aboug 15 years now, so it's understandable you wouldn't know this. Marvel has such a vast library that it's practically impossible to be well-versed in every corner of it. There's probably a ton of stuff I dont' know about F4, Spider-Man or Daredevil just from the lack of reading I've done in those corners of the MU.

Yeah don't like the new X-Men Jean either..prefer the old school Jean...too bad she's still dead.

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Has anyone heard rumors about BBTS canceling orders for the X-Men wave?

Whoa that is crazy yet again, are they shafting this set, hope not.

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Originally Posted by ariellagunas

The females are always the hardest to find. That's a well known truth on my 20 years of collecting. And then, random characters, like Gladiator, which are part of memorable storylines, but perhaps not popular enough. Go figure.
Thou we have been getting pretty random figures lately.
Obviously, Spider-man sells, so we get more females (Ashley Barton, really? I like the figure, but I'm shocked) , and villains seem to popping up, which is awesome.
Avengers is a hot property right now, so we are getting more obscure characters (thou missing a few 70's/80's classics.
X-men are all pretty much done, whether good or bad ((except of course a couple females, errm, Polaris, Dazzler anyone?)
The ones that we old collectors are missing are the b-teams; like New Mutants, Alpha Flight, New Warriors, Defenders, and Thunderbolts, to name a few (yeah I like Runaways too, but they don't scream classic characters-Nico being the exception).; but I gotta say, I am more and more impressed with the sneaky random choices, Hasbro is putting out there.
Someone up there, knows their Marvel stuff. Machine Man, Misty Knight, Blizzard? Satana?!. Heaven. I think I cry a little when Medusa was announced.
Now I think the whole Marvel Universe is seen as a whole market (specially under Disney, never shy to milk the cow). So whomever catches the imagination of the people-above can make it into toy form. Which is exciting.
I for one, will relish the day when my favourite ginoid Jocasta is made, and I will buy them all and form an army, and you will all hate me. Or not....

I used to think that, but not any more I still see peg warmers of certain ones, if anything depends on the popularity of them.

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X-Men are definitely nowhere near done. Aside from Polaris and Dazzler (which are probably two of the more prominent missing), we have Madrox, Monet, Wolfsbane, Exodus, Selene, Moonstar, Sunspot, Blink, Syrin, Emplate, Marrow, Hellion, Elixir, Cecelia Reyes, Callisto, Sebastian Shaw, Vulcan, Fitzroy, Rictor, Shatterstar Husk, Chamber, Dust, Karma, Surge, Rockslide, Mercury, Anole, Pixie, Magma, Warlock, Shadow King, Cypher, Pete Wisdom, Deathbird (more X-Men than anything else), Nimrod, Sauron, Bastion and those are just the ones I would buy. There's plenty others out there I would likely pass on that others want. And while I do realize that many of these will never get made, there are good number of the above I can see could be made (Madrox, Exodus, Moonstar, Sebastian Shaw, Sunspot, Sauron, Shatterstar, Nimrod and Blink being the most likely candidates).

That's not even including redos from both TB and Hasbro eras, that's just straight up never done before figures. So yeah, X-men are nowhere near done, there is a vast vein of figures to mine there.

There's so many characters that they can make X-Men related, I think they may have only touched on 30% of the X-Men characters that they've made so far, and I'm not talking about repaints of costumes either.

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Yeah apparently he has tons of connections.
Here's pics btw, they seem to be getting around now.

I do love the SDCC box sets of these, so much better then the 3.75 line.

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Originally Posted by redfox

Regarding Hasbro's re-releasing figures from SDCC exclusives, if you look at Hasbro's track record, it doesn't look good.

2012:
Archangel* (Hit Monkey Wave)
Psylocke
Wolverine* (Puck Wave)

2013:
Luke Cage
Ghost
Moonstone
Crossbones* (Ares Wave)
Satana

2014:
Star-lord* (Guardian’s Pack)
Black Bolt
Medusa
Gladiator
Blastaar

2015:
Doctor Strange* (Hulkbuster Wave)
Brother Voodoo
Hela
Magik
Dormammu* (Dormammu Wave)

2016:
Abomination* (Abomination Wave)
Enchantress
Dreadknight
Spider-man* (Hobgoblin Wave)
Purple Man
Sandman

Thanks for this info.

[Veronica Mars]

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[redx24]

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Got some money pallets!

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Nice setup! Just a accessories question where might one find a tiny pallet of cash like this and is it easily redone in 3 3/4 scale. I ask because I have the pallet but no cash for it

[Augustus_Cole]

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[Boy Blunder]

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Not pulling any punches there. Nice.

[Harbinger]

Just sitting here looking at my custom dirk anger thinking Jeffery Combs, slimmed up of course, would make a great dirk if somehow he got into the mcu, which i would love

[Tim]

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Just sitting here looking at my custom dirk anger thinking Jeffery Combs, slimmed up of course, would make a great dirk if somehow he got into the mcu, which i would love

The guy from reanimator? That would be perfect!

[vriverajr3]

Is there anyone here that is not planning on keeping the new Juggernaut because they prefer the older one? I actually like the new one and am trying to see if someone would swap their Juggernaut for my Onslaught

[Harbinger]

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[Harbinger]

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The guy from reanimator? That would be perfect!

AAAAANNNNNDDDDDD the voice of ratchet from Transformers Prime.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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But hey, I honestly love the new Venom. And now I'm leaving before I get stoned for being a heretic

Don't worry I won't aim for anything vital

[En Sabah Nerd]

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AAAAANNNNNDDDDDD the voice of ratchet from Transformers Prime.

I also really liked him as Scarecrow on the New Batman Adventures.

[Harbinger]

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I also really liked him as Scarecrow on the New Batman Adventures.

And question from justice league unlimited. I loved him as ratchet cause you could kinda see a lil bit of the great mad scientist herbert west bleed through every so often.

[Dr Kain]

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That's awesome.

Love the Heisenberg picture with the money.

As for Space Knight Venom, I think that is about as great sounding as Cap being a Hydra agent.

Anyway, I finished The Dark Phoenix Saga and damn that was mightily enjoyable. I already started the Days of Future Past book and read the issue that was pretty much summarizing all of their adventures up to that point. THat was great.

[Tim]

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And question from justice league unlimited. I loved him as ratchet cause you could kinda see a lil bit of the great mad scientist herbert west bleed through every so often.

you all taught me something i never knew that he was in anything but Reanimator.

[Starlord67]

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Originally Posted by vriverajr3

Is there anyone here that is not planning on keeping the new Juggernaut because they prefer the older one? I actually like the new one and am trying to see if someone would swap their Juggernaut for my Onslaught

I'm not planning on keeping juggey... But I don't need onslaught. Pm me and we can discuss it.

[Harbinger]

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you all taught me something i never knew that he was in anything but Reanimator.

Do yourself a favor and watch the frighteners, an underrated supernatural film. I loved it. If possible get the directors cuts. Hes in that too.

[VonPooten]

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Originally Posted by ariellagunas

Wanda, came from a seller in NY, he was very quick. Got black Panther from UK seller today.
In London the best shop to get waves quick is Orbital Comics, in Leicester Square. Don't know if they do ship, thou. But they had the Spider-man wave. I got Ashley, Electro and Ultimate Peter, but Silk and Hobgoblin were quickly gone.
I follow the shop on Twitter , as they post what they are getting the day before.
Forbidden Planet take much longer to get their new waves.
Online I use A Place In Space, they are quite good.

I have the chest, right leg, and unfortunately, a right arm with a left hand (rubbish I know).
I'm not interested in making the Space Venom, so if you want the pieces, I'll send them to you (within the UK of course), free of charge.
I have many pieces of BAF I need to get rid of, as they take space, and I don't care for them. The only BAF I'm not finished that I want is Ronan.
I'll try to find them all and post a list for any arkers that want them.

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Oh sorry, I forgot to mention: at the moment I'm popping most Tuesday's at Orbital if you want me to pick you up something, if they have it on stock. I will also attend London Comic con on the Friday and Sunday, so if there's anything I can look for for you, do let me know.

Thank you so much for the offer mate, but that's okay! I don't mind waiting longer for most of these figures. Although, if you happen upon the Abomination wave Wonder Man or Captain Britain, give me a bell!

Can I ask which BAF pieces you have? Sorry to say that I don't have any Ronan ones, but I'm sure someone on here will be able to help you out.

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I remember A.C.B.A posting this on their Facebook a while ago. A really impressive photo, and extremely scary that something like this needs to be made.

I know everyone rags on him, but Bendis did a stellar job of condemning police brutality in his Uncanny run. Unlike reality, though, the victims were Asian and Hispanic American, and it was Magik who saved their lives.