Is Firestar an online exclusive or will she be sold in stores? I kind of haven't been online for the last 8 hours since I was busy playing Mario Galaxy.

EDIT: Okay, she's apparently an online exclusive and sold out on Pulse and I can't finnd anything for Amazon yet.

I was wondering where you were coming up with "Alkema". That TB Dog face Ultron based on the video game of the time was atrocious imo & not what the majority of Ultron fans were asking for. I have waited a long time for Hasbro to make a classic comic based Perez Ultron & although the MS version was based on Perez art, it was in the 7'scale & that was a no buy for me, plus the ball joint hips were an eyesore as well.

I would say they shouldn't have made such a highly requested release any kind of exclusive, but it's not that hasn't been what they've been doing half the time (FA Storm, Mystique, the Walgreens F4).

It's fine as I don't really need to have her in my collection, I just figured she has some cool aspects that I would buy her if I saw her in person. I don't want to pay shipping for her.

No, just the standard order has shipped with tracking. Dorkside does post on a thread on another site when they are expecting shipments.

Fan channel exclusives are not online exclusives. They're figures exclusive to a particular distribution network, rather than a particular retailer. My store has carried every fan channel exclusive the last few years, both in-store and online, and we'll have these too. Gamestop will likely have them in-store too. You just can't get them at Target, Walgreens, or Walmart.

I received my Stilt-Man wave from Dorkside the other day and finally had time to open it. Overall, it's not a bad wave but it follows the pattern of the December/January Spiderman wave being a bit dull compared to the summer Spiderman wave.

Frog-Man: Not a character that I'm familiar with. My first impression of the figure out of the box is that he looks like the Marvel counter-part for Killer Moth in Batgirl: Year One. The figure makes good use of the Doc Ock body although the backpack doesn't completely cover the tentacle ports.

Prowler: Not a bad figure but it's not wowing me. I think the figure would have benefited from some open hands (he comes with two grip hands), an unmasked head, or some energy effects. Just a little something extra to help make him more expressive.

Spider-Gwen with Spider-Ham: Gwen's an improvement on the original Into The Spider-Verse Gwen. Both head sculpts are now movie accurate, her ballet shoes are sculpted, and she comes with two pairs of hands (fists and web shooting). However, I would still like to see her come with some wall crawling hands. Spider-Ham is unmovable, aside from his head. I'd like to fill in his web lines with some black paint but I don't see it turning out well given how small he is.

Miles: Bad news first, his unmasked head can't be used with the original Miles figure from Into The Spider-Verse. Both heads have their own ball joints that are removed from the neck. Otherwise, the figure turned out pretty well. I like his unmasked head the best which is probably what I'll stick with. His Spiderman costume is sculpted this time which makes me hopefully that Hasbro will reuse these parts to make a new, fully costumed Miles.

Peter B. Parker: I was looking forward to this figure the most out of the wave simply because I want to customize it by filling in the web lines and adding some gray to his hair. Out of the three heroes, Peter's two head sculpts turned out the best. Like Miles, I feel like Hasbro will make a fully costumed Peter at some point since the costume details are sculpted on the back (but not painted) and the bare neck is a separate piece from the torso.

Hand Ninja: Probably the best carded figure in the wave. While I prefer the zukin head sculpt on the Articulated Icons, I think the Legends Hand Ninja turned out really well and is far more economical than the AI ninjas. My one nit with the figures is the shoulders. They look like they sit too low and there is some extra sculpt on the inside fo the bicep that prevents the arms from going flat against the torso. Would I say the Legends Hand Ninja is better than the Classified Red Ninja? I'm not sure. Maybe I'll take some pics and do a comparison at some point.

Stilt-Man: Not a villain I had a lot of interest in but I'm impressed with how he turned out. I bought two Hand Ninjas and used both sets of stilt legs on my figure. I haven't measured his height to see how tall he is but he now stands taller than my DOFP Sentinel. The legs come with a clear display stand for his feet to plug into which I would recommend using since his feet aren't much bigger than his legs.

Yeah, human memory is usually unreliable. We'd like to believe otherwise, but research proves the notion to be a consistent fallacy.

That rider fig was pretty fugly and a disappointment, but had they pulled off that illustration more faithfully, TB would have sold many more non-Ultron repurposed drones to me...

Sometimes they show up at Best Buy too... Fan Channel Exclusives are the best exclusives IMO... wish all exclusives were also Fan Channel exclusives too. Pulse exclusives I can understand though... Hasbro needs a way to entice people to use Pulse, but the rest of the exclusives... I hate them all.

*Sigh* Looks like I'm just gonna have to pick-up that new MODOK, now...:D

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Where did you get that?

Best Buy’s online site can be a honey hole if you’re hunting deals on Legends. I picked up 6 Ronin figures on clearance. They should make for good ninjas between my Legends and Joe collection.

Alfred Molina is reprising his role as Doc Ock.....




THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE! WE MAY VERY WELL BE GETTING A LIVE ACTION SPIDERVERSE MOVIE!!!

I loved him as ock.

Which disappoints me because it's too freaking soon. They need to let Holland's Peter at least graduate high school and get into college before dealing with a multiverse of Spideys.

I kinda agree, although if they actually bring Emma Stone back as Spider Gwen I might be able to overlook it

Yeah, I’m not really interested in revisiting McGuire or Garfield’s Spider-Men. I’d like to just see more fun, low-stakes, John Hughes-inspired Spider-Man adventures. FFH’s post-credit scene set up a really cool movie, with Spider-Man’s identity public, and various villains gunning for him. Remember when Mac Gargan told Adrian Toomes that he had people on the outside waiting for Spidey once they figured out who he was? Or how they introduced Prowler? I was excited to see them do something with that. ITTSV was great, this just feels like riding on its coat-tails.

I love the idea of a live action Spiderverse. Holland is 2 movies in (+ CW, IW, and EG) so there has already been plenty of Spiderman character building as far as I'm concerned. And it will be nice to get at least a couple more solo movies out of him after something like this. And this happening side-by-side with Doc Strange showing off the multiverse- I think this is the perfect time for Holland to do it. Very excited about the latest news!

Well popfindr is officially useless. It no longer brings up items in amounts or locations just he item and a few different things...no locations.

Doc Ock drowned in Spiderman 2, They gonna bring back Uncle Ben & GG too? I have zero interest in seeing this crap. How about letting Holland be the only Spiderman for a few more movies? BTW, those 3.75 retro Marvel figs look like fast food happy meals toys & not worth $5 , let alone $20.

Never had a chance at Rogue with all of my stores selling out instantaneously, but was lucky enough to score this one online for about retail. Shocking how much better she looks compared to her initial press shots.

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Found it at a local Burke's Outlet. Not sure how widespread of a chain it is, but it's very close in style and design to a Ross or TJMaxx.

Ahhh everybody says that now, but we all know we'll be seeing it :D it's too wild a concept and too much fanservice to pass up!!

Alfred Molina's back?

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Just because Alfred Molina is coming back as Doc Ock doesn't mean he's going to be the literal same character from Spider-Man 2. Even if he is, they can easily say they plucked him from a point in time before his death. It seems likely that the events of WandaVision is going to lead to the multiverse being all out of wack, so anything is possible.

I'm also imagining Tom Holland is still going to get plenty of development in the 3rd movie. I'm imagining the multiverse shenanigans won't really start until halfway through the second act, if not the third act.