[Byrnes]

You guys are rocking the customs. Great work.

[kenm2474]

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Originally Posted by Tim

Hahaha I'm gonna kick you and DTL's asses especially his for starting it LOL. Yeah i have and I think it's either a problem with my Wifi or Photobucket cuz it says it uploaded it but when i go to Do it, it says an error has occurred try again later.

Its all in good Fun. I'll try and Stop.

[Augustus_Cole]

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Originally Posted by kenm2474

Its all in good Fun. I'll try and Stop.

i definitely won't....hahaha..
my theory is gaining ground....

*yelling*

HEY EVERYONE....TIM DOESN'T OWN ANY ACTION FIGURES!!!

[Tim]

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Originally Posted by kenm2474

Its all in good Fun. I'll try and Stop.

Man i know i was just messing with ya and DTL.

[Tim]

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Originally Posted by DarkToyLord

i definitely won't....hahaha..
my theory is gaining ground....

Hahahaha yeah i know it is you little punk. I gotta think of one for ya. Like you sleep with a picture of Oprah's ass under ya pillow.

[Augustus_Cole]

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Originally Posted by Tim

Hahahaha yeah i know it is you little punk. I gotta think of one for ya. Like you sleep with a picture of Oprah's ass under ya pillow.

youuuuuuu say that like that's a bad thing...
do you know how much THAT particular ass is WORTH?!?!?!

[kenm2474]

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Originally Posted by DarkToyLord

looking good...where is that Mystique from ?
and where is that Crossbones from?

I'm def gonna buy that Blob one day. My goal is to sell my stuff on ebay to use to pay for it.. instead of just spending my hard earned loot.
i also think that Pyro body has held up well...but i'm a lil biased with that character as well..did he come with anything..he looks like he needs an effect or something..

Byrnes FORCED me to buy that Mr. Sinister of off him...heh...so I should have that next week. I think he's still pretty cool looking too.

Sinister Is still a Fav. for me. Pyro I got to complete my ongoing Brotherhood of Evil mutants. No He did not come with anything. Blob I got for a good deal on the Bay. Mystique is from teh recent Epic Heroes Line of Marvel Legends. Crossbones is a Walmart Exclusive. You can find him on eBay but hes not Cheap. I had mine customized to have all his weapons Removable and added a Holster to his right leg. Also had Hydra Symbols placed on his Guns.

[Tim]

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Originally Posted by DarkToyLord

youuuuuuu say that like that's a bad thing...
do you know how much THAT particular ass is WORTH?!?!?!

My man her ass is priceless same with Scar jo's and beyonce. Don't you ever doubt how much i think a ass is worth my friend. I'm a ass expert.

[Spyne98]

So I was going through my collection and I have decided it's time to sell off a lot of stuff. My goal is to keep the definitive/my favorite version of that character. I'll be updating my sale thread soon, but I wanted to tell you guys first so you are aware.

[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Spyne98

So I was going through my collection and I have decided it's time to sell off a lot of stuff. My goal is to keep the definitive/my favorite version of that character. I'll be updating my sale thread soon, but I wanted to tell you guys first so you are aware.

You've got me trembling in antici

[Dr Kain]

Well I just completed the first Uncanny Omnibus and my god I am so impressed with this entire series right now. Chris and gang have provided some of the best comics I have ever read and I have read a ton of stuff. These may even be better than the best Spider-Man stories I have ever read, and a ton of DC stuff.

Nevertheless, that doesn't mean everything was perfect. I don't remember exactly where I last gave my insight on what I read, but there were some so-so things that occured in this batch. First, I loved that the X-Men got their asses handed to them by Magneto and never really came out on top despite stopping him for the time being.

The Savage Land stuff with Garrock was a mixed bag. I enjoyed it, but they never bothered to explain who Sauron or Garrock were, so if I had no knowledge of them before (or the animated adaptation of this story), I would have been lost. As such, even though I enjoyed it, I have to nitpick the poor writing.

The same goes for the story in Japan, sadly. I enjoyed it, but it was poorly paced and I have no idea who this Magnum guy was as I had never heard of him before. Also, who the hell is Colleen? She just appears, is suddenly in love with Cyclops, makes no mention of Jean, and they are going out with each other like nothing. But then she is never mentioned again the moment Cyke finds out Jean is still alive.

I'm getting ahead of myself though. I'm not really a fan of Alpha Flight, but I would be lying if I said the two issues with them were bad. That was a really great way to introduce this team for the very first time as they made great rivals to the X-Men. Still trying to figure out why the government doesn't suddenly recognize Wolverine's resignation when they had no issue with it in Giant Sized though.

The Murderworld arc was fantastic. I highly enjoyed that and felt like the writing finally started to get back on top, especially as we entered the Proteus story. Holy ****, that was dark and intense, especially coming off just recently watching the animated version of that story. And then of course, it ends with the first three issues of the Dark Phoenix Saga that I read last month, but to have them in better quality and bigger is wonderful. In fact, I can't see myself ever reading these stories again in normal comic book size.

I do need to address the biggest poorly written story in this book though, and that was the Annual. Perez's art was great, but the rest of the story was pretty bad. Not as bad as the animated version of it where they gave Storm stockholm syndrome, but still bad enough compared to the rest of the stories. This random guy shows up, threatens to kill Jarvis because reasons, and then heads off to beat the crap out of the X-Men because he wants Storm. He teleports Storm to his world against her will but then the next time we see her, which is probably like an hour later, she is willing to sacrifice her life for this planet because... why? We don't see anything nor are told anything that makes her want to willingly help these people out. None of it makes any sense and the whole story is just bad. Then Arkon just suddenly has a compelte personality change in the last few pages, which goes against how he acted throughout the entire story and it sounds like he acted this way in his previous appearances. This story could have used another 20 pages to tell its story as it feels like an abridged version to it.

The other thing that bothers me about the whole series is how much they belittled Phoenix in the middle of it. It's like they made her so powerful they had no idea what to do with her, so they had to dumb her down. Fortunately, the writing is so good that I can easily let it slide, but I did feel the need to mention it.

Well that is it until the next volume arrives, which looks like it should be hopefully tomorrow. In the meantime, I guess I should read through my backlog of Rebirth comics.

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Originally Posted by kenm2474

When are we to expect an Idea of what is in the new Spidey and Xmen wave?

Hasbro said not until next year, which sucks because that means we have 6 months with no Spidey or X-Men figures.

[lordbest]

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Originally Posted by kenm2474

That's Just Simply not Normal.

It depends what you mean by normal. It's not exactly commonplace in in Western culture (and some others) because we have a societal fixation for nudity, probably stemming from many centuries of repression. But there are plenty of other cultures where nudity is unremarkable and uninteresting (even some European countries and Australia to some extent get less worked up over it than the US and UK). Even in our cultures people who see a lot of naked bodies outside a sexual context seem to get very uninterested in them quite quickly.

A question for anyone doing Marvel Legends customs, do you have to split open the female upper torso to get the arms out, or can you heat them and pop them out?

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by lordbest

A question for anyone doing Marvel Legends customs, do you have to split open the female upper torso to get the arms out, or can you heat them and pop them out?

For the female teen bodies like White Tiger and Spider-Girl, you can heat them up and pull them out. I believe this is the same for the adult female characters and for the new male teen bodies, but I've never tried it, so I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you.

For male bodies, you're not getting that arm out without splitting the torso.

[lordbest]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

For the female teen bodies like White Tiger and Spider-Girl, you can heat them up and pull them out. I believe this is the same for the adult female characters and for the new male teen bodies, but I've never tried it, so I honestly wouldn't be able to tell you.

For male bodies, you're not getting that arm out without splitting the torso.

Great, thank you, I meant to say I was thinking about the White Tiger body specifically. I'm nervous enough about heating and pulling it apart never mind cracking torsos.

[lordbest]

Everyone: "Black Cat has terrible feet and can't stand up"
Me:


Her feet are terrible though.

[UpDog]

How are you guys feeling about the Doc Strange wave? Seems like Hasbro is definitely playing more it more cautious with waves for movies with less established heroes and using them more to push out a few movie figures and characters they've had on the back burner and only committing to one wave. Did it with Ant-Man and to a lesser extent GotG and it makes me wonder how Black Panther/Captain Marvel lines will be handled.

Personally as someone who couldn't get Vishanti, I'm excited for the wave

[warmachine6]

Iron fist , all 3 dr strange's , brother voodoo , iron fist, enchantress seems to have grown on me.. dont have much interest in Nico will likely sell her off along with good guy baron mordo if he was the comic version this would have been a different story though i hope we get a sequel, where he turns evil.. i only want 6 figures from this wave and the BAF of course, might get a set and sell off the other 2 figures without BAF items
6 out of 8 figures might be worth getting them all in a boxset

[Startaiger]

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Originally Posted by UpDog

How are you guys feeling about the Doc Strange wave?

The only figure I really want is Enchantress & I preordered her already. Maybe I'll get the comics Doc. Strange if by miracle I can find it in stores @ retail price, not paying double for it w/ international shipping.

[Harbinger]

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Originally Posted by UpDog

How are you guys feeling about the Doc Strange wave? Seems like Hasbro is definitely playing more it more cautious with waves for movies with less established heroes and using them more to push out a few movie figures and characters they've had on the back burner and only committing to one wave. Did it with Ant-Man and to a lesser extent GotG and it makes me wonder how Black Panther/Captain Marvel lines will be handled.

Personally as someone who couldn't get Vishanti, I'm excited for the wave

Never really cared much for him. Just want enchantress, iron fist and maybe nico. No care for the baf or the rest

[Spyne98]

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Originally Posted by UpDog

How are you guys feeling about the Doc Strange wave? Seems like Hasbro is definitely playing more it more cautious with waves for movies with less established heroes and using them more to push out a few movie figures and characters they've had on the back burner and only committing to one wave. Did it with Ant-Man and to a lesser extent GotG and it makes me wonder how Black Panther/Captain Marvel lines will be handled.

Personally as someone who couldn't get Vishanti, I'm excited for the wave

I got the Vishanti set so I am kind of *meh* on the Dr. Strange wave. I'll grab Nico and Iron Fist (I got this year's SDCC set so I don't need Enchantress). The comic style Dr. Strange is a total waste in my book, were he in the original costume, I'd buy it for sure. I also don't really buy movie figures unless they fill a hole for a character we do not have. Therefore I might buy Baron Mordo, I'm still torn on him.
You bring up an interesting point about the Black Panther and Captain Marvel movies. I can't help but wonder what those waves will look like.

[Tim]

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Originally Posted by UpDog

How are you guys feeling about the Doc Strange wave? Seems like Hasbro is definitely playing more it more cautious with waves for movies with less established heroes and using them more to push out a few movie figures and characters they've had on the back burner and only committing to one wave. Did it with Ant-Man and to a lesser extent GotG and it makes me wonder how Black Panther/Captain Marvel lines will be handled.

Personally as someone who couldn't get Vishanti, I'm excited for the wave

I'm like everyone else All i want is enchantress and Mcu Dr. Strange the rest of the wave i have zero interest in the BAF looks cool but I don't want him.

[Nutimus Prime]

Looking at these customs is making me want to complete so many different teams lol. We arrived in Florida after moving from Washington state. All my toys are currently packed up and sitting in a Pod out front.

Except for some figures in hand that I bought despite being on the road while ordering them... much to my wife's annoyance lol. And since I've been collecting MLs for less than a year, I have my first ML SDCC set as well, the Raft set. My daughter's loving Enchantress.

Gonna be a while before I get to pose my toys again and post any pictures but now that we're here I did finally ship my loot from BBTS. Hopefully my X-Men case gets here by Friday.

[donmeca2020]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Well I just completed the first Uncanny Omnibus and my god I am so impressed with this entire series right now. Chris and gang have provided some of the best comics I have ever read and I have read a ton of stuff. These may even be better than the best Spider-Man stories I have ever read, and a ton of DC stuff.

Nevertheless, that doesn't mean everything was perfect. I don't remember exactly where I last gave my insight on what I read, but there were some so-so things that occured in this batch. First, I loved that the X-Men got their asses handed to them by Magneto and never really came out on top despite stopping him for the time being.

The Savage Land stuff with Garrock was a mixed bag. I enjoyed it, but they never bothered to explain who Sauron or Garrock were, so if I had no knowledge of them before (or the animated adaptation of this story), I would have been lost. As such, even though I enjoyed it, I have to nitpick the poor writing.

The same goes for the story in Japan, sadly. I enjoyed it, but it was poorly paced and I have no idea who this Magnum guy was as I had never heard of him before. Also, who the hell is Colleen? She just appears, is suddenly in love with Cyclops, makes no mention of Jean, and they are going out with each other like nothing. But then she is never mentioned again the moment Cyke finds out Jean is still alive.

I'm getting ahead of myself though. I'm not really a fan of Alpha Flight, but I would be lying if I said the two issues with them were bad. That was a really great way to introduce this team for the very first time as they made great rivals to the X-Men. Still trying to figure out why the government doesn't suddenly recognize Wolverine's resignation when they had no issue with it in Giant Sized though.

The Murderworld arc was fantastic. I highly enjoyed that and felt like the writing finally started to get back on top, especially as we entered the Proteus story. Holy ****, that was dark and intense, especially coming off just recently watching the animated version of that story. And then of course, it ends with the first three issues of the Dark Phoenix Saga that I read last month, but to have them in better quality and bigger is wonderful. In fact, I can't see myself ever reading these stories again in normal comic book size.

I do need to address the biggest poorly written story in this book though, and that was the Annual. Perez's art was great, but the rest of the story was pretty bad. Not as bad as the animated version of it where they gave Storm stockholm syndrome, but still bad enough compared to the rest of the stories. This random guy shows up, threatens to kill Jarvis because reasons, and then heads off to beat the crap out of the X-Men because he wants Storm. He teleports Storm to his world against her will but then the next time we see her, which is probably like an hour later, she is willing to sacrifice her life for this planet because... why? We don't see anything nor are told anything that makes her want to willingly help these people out. None of it makes any sense and the whole story is just bad. Then Arkon just suddenly has a compelte personality change in the last few pages, which goes against how he acted throughout the entire story and it sounds like he acted this way in his previous appearances. This story could have used another 20 pages to tell its story as it feels like an abridged version to it.

The other thing that bothers me about the whole series is how much they belittled Phoenix in the middle of it. It's like they made her so powerful they had no idea what to do with her, so they had to dumb her down. Fortunately, the writing is so good that I can easily let it slide, but I did feel the need to mention it.

Well that is it until the next volume arrives, which looks like it should be hopefully tomorrow. In the meantime, I guess I should read through my backlog of Rebirth comics.



Hasbro said not until next year, which sucks because that means we have 6 months with no Spidey or X-Men figures.

You read the best X-men arcs there are. Chris Claremount era was probably their best stories. I'm glad you enjoyed them. As for rebirth titles which ones have you gotten? i've been reading a few of them, so far Batman has been great, superman # 1 was good however didnt follow up afterwords, still heard it was excellent. Harley quinn wasn't bad.... and im about to start up Deathstroke rebirth tonight.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by UpDog

How are you guys feeling about the Doc Strange wave? Seems like Hasbro is definitely playing more it more cautious with waves for movies with less established heroes and using them more to push out a few movie figures and characters they've had on the back burner and only committing to one wave. Did it with Ant-Man and to a lesser extent GotG and it makes me wonder how Black Panther/Captain Marvel lines will be handled.

Personally as someone who couldn't get Vishanti, I'm excited for the wave

Well I ended up getting the SDCC set last year so I have my Dormammu. I've also got that Strange in the Hulkbuster set. Sure, this version comes with his cape, but that is the only different. If it was the actual classic Strange, I would have gone after him.

I do think Brother Voodoo looks better with the Hobgoblin cape instead of the Vision one with a hood attached, but I'm not going to waste money on a character I really don't care about in general.

Not interested in the movie versions of Strange or Mordo and the Astral Version is total crap. I've got the white Iron Fist, so I don't see a reason to buy this new one. Nico is the only figure in the wave I may buy provided I actually see her in stores.

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Originally Posted by donmeca2020

You read the best X-men arcs there are. Chris Claremount era was probably their best stories. I'm glad you enjoyed them. As for rebirth titles which ones have you gotten? i've been reading a few of them, so far Batman has been great, superman # 1 was good however didnt follow up afterwords, still heard it was excellent. Harley quinn wasn't bad.... and im about to start up Deathstroke rebirth tonight.

I've been getting Action Comics, Detective Comics, Flash, Aquaman, Titans, Justice League, Batgirl and the Birds of the Prey, and I dropped Green Arrow after two issues. It wasn't because it was bad, but because I needed to drop something and that was the weakest link. I'll also be dropping Detective Comics after this story arc since they are going to be doing some crossover event with other Batman books. My favorites right now have been Action, Titans, and Aquaman. Justice League has been a slight disappointment, so I might drop it since they aren't doing anything that deals with the main Rebirth storyline. It seems like Titans is the only book on that case, so that feels like the only one I must read. Haven't had the chance to read the Birds of Prey one at all yet though.

[Augustus_Cole]

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Originally Posted by Spyne98

So I was going through my collection and I have decided it's time to sell off a lot of stuff. My goal is to keep the definitive/my favorite version of that character. I'll be updating my sale thread soon, but I wanted to tell you guys first so you are aware.

FRIENDS LIST priority so i call dibs on the pre-sale email (PM)....