Originally Posted by Starlord67 (Post 851135)

Could you photograph the box please?

Originally Posted by bashpics99 (Post 851133)

I don't quite get why we are arguing about making marvel characters more diverse in an action figure thread. Seems like anyone who is upset about those changes should be complaining in an mcu or marvel comics thread, as i don't think hasbro has any say in the matter.

Originally Posted by Archangel (Post 851151)

It’s usually the same handful of posters that feel the need to preach in a thread devoted to 6-inch toys. I don’t question it anymore. They seem incapable of grasping how to start another thread despite their superb ability to craft a lecture on diversity in comic vs the MCU.

Seriously, it would be a wonderful thread. Someone needs to start it...please, I beg of thee!

Originally Posted by Robb (Post 851150)

Here is the sides, back, and inside folded out.

Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd (Post 851154)

Yeah that definitely looks like one of those character collage posters, a generic image chosen because it contained all three candidates so the box could be made in advance. I don't think it should be read as a tease of upcoming figures.

Originally Posted by Starlord67 (Post 851132)

I'm about to set them up with their new home. So EXCITED!!
And here they are...Emma needs a cup-holding hand to complete the look but wow...what a great set!
https://i.postimg.cc/9XwnNTh7/20201004-164432.jpg

Originally Posted by usernamedustin (Post 851091)

I wish Hasbro would stop offering store exclusives and just sell them through Pulse. It doesn't make sense. I assume Target pays $5 wholesale for an action figure that sells for $20. If Hasbro is selling them directly, at full retail price, they make a lot more money and don't have to sell as many figures.

Originally Posted by usernamedustin (Post 851158)

I love that you are super excited about this set, but immediately threw Jean in the background to put in kitbash Selene.
I'm probably going to do the same thing and just use my custom Selene as the Black Queen. I might even sell the Jean because I'm not real attached to that storyline.

Originally Posted by Mimicboy (Post 851166)

I hope we get a Marvel Monday! After all the reveals from Hasbro's con I feel like I dont really have any guesses for what they might reveal, though Im guessing it wont be anything X-men related. Maybe a Spider-man and friends 3 pack of Firestar, Iceman, and Spidey? Maybe it will be that rumored Hawkeye skysled?

I love everyones ideas for a Brotherhood pack! The BoEM's are some of my top most wants. A 3 pack could hopefully get us a new Blob, Avalance, and Toad. A 6 pack though could get us Blob, Avalanche, Toad, Unus, Mastermind, and wishful thinking a Destiny! Then my top villian want would be a new Spiral to round out Freedom Force.

Originally Posted by Benn Roe (Post 851161)

Yeah, so unfortunately this isn't the case at all. If Target was getting a margin that good, they'd do a better job stocking the line. I can't tell you what they're paying, because their wholesale rate is probably a bit better than what I pay, but it's a lot closer to $15 than $5.

Originally Posted by Veronica Mars (Post 851167)

I was thinking about Freedom Force recently, trying to decide if I leave Julia Carpenter with the Avengers or put her with Freedom Force once they fill out the team more

Originally Posted by Jester (Post 851138)

You seem to respond almost entirely in cliché.

I suspect that you know this already but "First World Problems" are what you have when you're living so comfortably (including having the extra income to spend on large numbers of expensive pieces of plastic) that the only things that you have to complain about are absurdly minor annoyances that a less well-off person would never have the luxury of being bothered by.

In your case, this applies because, evidently, it's not good enough that a black superheroine is, and has been for decades, one the most popular and prominent members of her particular group of characters, strong, brave, beautiful and powerful, loved and respected by her peers and desired by numerous powerful and popular male characters (up to and including literal gods like Thor), no, none of that counts for anything because she had a brief career as a child pickpocket and was introduced "barefoot and topless." But neither of these things are in and of themselves unreasonable given Storm's backstory: Africa is an infamously impoverished continent despite its tremendous wealth of natural resources and while many nations are home to well-developed, modern cities, (often orphaned) street children engaged in endeavors of varying degrees of legality are still an issue in many places. Likewise, even in 2020, African women in some regions will still attend traditional ceremonies quite literally barefoot and topless (although it's apparently becoming common for many of the participants to wear sneakers).

But go on, do tell us more about your argumentative technique. :rolleyes:

In your words, the genesis of the Storm character is a tale of "negative African stereotypes," involving "worst depictions of native cultures," "antiquated tomes like National Geographic," "cringe-worthy backstory," "other grating elements, "ugly silliness" and "off-putting devices." Token caveats aside, that's a very clear attack on Chris Claremont and other early X-Men writers, particularly given the pretentiously pseudo-academic tone that you're couching it all in.

For a guy who sees himself "as a person of color with a sense for both history and perspective" you're displaying very little awareness of the latter two categories. You've cited Daniel Patrick Moynihan; perhaps you've also heard of his contemporary, Marshall McLuhan, another influential figure in late 1960s/early 1970s public discourse, and his famous observation that "the medium is the message." In the case of Giant-Sized X-Men, what sort of message do you think is being conveyed, in 1975, by the medium of a group of heroes comprised of a Japanese man, a demonic-looking German, a reservation Apache, an ugly, near-midget Canadian, a Soviet collective farmer and a beautiful African woman?

https://i.imgflip.com/3c8a1x.jpg

"Accurate cultural depictions" could include such things as eating albinos to gain magic powers, raping virgins/children in the hopes of curing AIDs or lynching alleged "penis-thieves". Rather horrifying, of course, but certainly not bland or boring by any estimation.

But bland and boring is apparently what you want, given your whining about Storm's traumatic childhood and adolescence (which appears to betray an unfamiliarity with one of the recurring themes of the X-Men series as a whole, that being the titular heroes having to endure various hardships prior to finding a spiritual home with the team).

Do you even reed dance, bro? ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNrbpcNTMv4

Congratulations, you own a dictionary. :rolleyes:

I'm glad that you're able to acknowledge that your objections are childish. :p

Don't throw stones from glass houses.

I have no grounds to regard your opinion as honest, if you're not even willing to accept that I am or that I even could be genuinely perturbed by such a tragic and unnecessary loss of life.

The fact is, though, that death was a predictable outcome of "Current Year" racial/sexual insanity, which appears to hold that any existing white fictional character with a bit of name-recognition is fair game for portrayal in a live-action adaption of the material by a non-white (especially black) performer, that women are physically equal to men in all respects, and that films or printed fiction featuring black and/or female characters should be directed/written by directors and writers with the same melanin count/genitalia as the primary characters (something that veteran comic-book scribe Christopher Priest complains has resulted in his being pigeon-holed into the box of "black superhero writer"). These are all obvious influences on your "series of tragically poor decisions" which started with casting Beetz as a sop to the fragile ego of Donald "let me play Spider-Man" Glover.

By any honest liberal assessment, affirmative action isn't good for the soul (or the body either, as experienced by the late, unfortunate Joi Harris), prioritizing as it does the color of your skin rather than the content of your character (or the extent of your experience and skill).

See here (nice backhanded accusation of autism, BTW):

stereotype (n.)

1798, "method of printing from a plate," from French stéréotype (adj.) "printed by means of a solid plate of type," from Greek stereos "solid" (see stereo-) + French type "type" (see type (n.)). Meaning "a stereotype plate" is from 1817. Meaning "image perpetuated without change" is first recorded 1850, from the verb in this sense. Meaning "preconceived and oversimplified notion of characteristics typical of a person or group" is recorded from 1922 (Walter Lippmann, "Public Opinion").

It's kind of like "bigot," appropriately enough. The truer sense of the word is a person who believes himself to occupy an exalted moral position versus his neighbors (cf. the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector in Luke 18:9-14) rather than someone who simply bears an unreasoned dislike of someone or something else, so in fact, the sort of people who nowadays are most likely to accuse others of bigotry are in fact bigots themselves according to the uncorrupted meaning of the term. :rolleyes:

Have they ever explained why the male members of the Hellfire Club dress like 18th century gentlemen but their female counterparts dress like mid-20th century dominatrices?

Originally Posted by usernamedustin (Post 851168)

I have her with Pyro, Mystique, and Spiral. I got her specifically for the purpose of filling out the team more.

Originally Posted by usernamedustin (Post 851168)

$5 was probably a low estimate, but I'm not sold on that idea of $15 for the big chains that buy directly from Hasbro. I watched the Walmart exclusive Thanos go straight to $5 clearance. It was something like 2 weeks after it was released. I don't think Walmart would drop the price to a 66% loss that quickly.

Originally Posted by usernamedustin (Post 851168)

I watched the Walmart exclusive Thanos go straight to $5 clearance. It was something like 2 weeks after it was released.

Originally Posted by usernamedustin (Post 851168)

I watched the Walmart exclusive Thanos go straight to $5 clearance. It was something like 2 weeks after it was released.

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 851175)

Put me on team Gwen. They had no right killing her off.

Originally Posted by Benn Roe (Post 851171)

The thing is that Target and Walmart don't act like they make any money selling toys. Have you ever seen any other section in a Target or Walmart look as consistently decimated as the action figure aisle? They know exactly how much to order for every other section to keep those shelves stocked, and Hasbro basically manufactures to order, so there's no way Target's getting less than they're ordering. They're just intentionally ordering less than demand would dictate. Why would they do that?

Originally Posted by Benn Roe (Post 851171)

All their behaviour screams loss-leader. Nothing they're doing makes sense unless you accept that they want toy collectors as customers, but they don't really want to sell them toys.

Originally Posted by Benn Roe (Post 851171)

My guess with Thanos is that they over-estimated demand, and since the exclusives exist to repeatedly drive collectors into the stores, and rely entirely on scarcity to accomplish that, they just cut their losses and cleared them out. Clearance deals generate FOMO, which in turn creates scarcity, so it's a win-win for Walmart, especially since they likely broke even after considering their pre-clearance sales.

Originally Posted by name (Post 851123)

The “Overall” issue here is people thinking not liking something means “disagreeing” with something. The message of diversity is welcomed, the methods are mixed.
This type of “all or nothing” mentality has led to all nuance being lost, Which is why you have stupid shit like “you're just a (insert name) being thrown so casually.