All I know is my wallet is fairly happy this year. 12 figures total not including 8 preorders. Is it bad I want to change that?

So, single-panel looks are in now? Cool, can we get Nightcrawler as Groucho Marx? The costumes Kitty Pryde made for herself on the Shi’Ar ship?

It feels like there has to be a healthy medium between con exclusives being Excalibur and this weirdness.

No, I’m in the same boat. Very light year for me, and I’m more disappointed than relieved. Every new reveal is so underwhelming. I don’t think they’ve shown off anything I want in months.

Venom from yesterday’s the closest thing I’ve come to buying. But it’s a no with the $31.49 price tag plus shipping.

Damn and it's a shame knowing Elsa is probably not going to see a rerelease outside of that A-force set. I agree it's stupid as hell that this is getting made when there could've been better things, but damn it I like it. This registers to me a whole more than that Miami Vice Deadpool Hit Monkey set from a few years ago. Some may say only fools rush in, but I can't help falling in love with this set

I knew Hasbro was going to have to find a way to make use of that MODOK body somehow, but this was just... I have no idea. Was anyone asking for this?

Mine too. Between my normal 80's Joe collecting rapidly surpassing my personal price ceiling, not being able to find new product easily, and not loving much of what is coming out, I'm saving a ton.

Oh well, I guess I could show my SNES collection a little love.

Hasbro needs to retool that modok into magnanimous
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Regarding Elvis MODOK, I guess event exclusives are the best venue for this kind of novelty. I'm sure the source comics are entertaining, but the fact that he only appears in one panel just has me SMH that this reveal was given any sort of build-up at all.

Looking ahead, now I'm even more curious about when/how/where the supposed Excalibur set will be released. Before today, Pulse-Con would have been my guess.

I think you sold me.

That figure is an abomination though :eek:

It's nice to know my Captain fig will come with $45 of something I don't want.

EDIT: and, yes, NextWave was fantastic, but not so much so as to validate that M.O.D.O.K.

I'd go on about what could have been done with the NextWave reveal, but whatever...

Same. Hadn’t heard of it, but the poetic waxing from so many people on this board means that I’ve got some reading to do this weekend. Conversely, maybe I shouldn’t, so that I’ll continue to have no strong feelings toward this reveal.

Comics is one thing, but motherfuck Elvis MODOK and John Wayne.

That whole Fin Fang Foom poem was engraved in my mind forever. Mommy was a slut lizard...

Jameson apparently has an alternate calm head.

https://i.redd.it/np8s83x1mv871.png

Why on Earth would anyone ever display triple-J with a calm head? What’s the point?

… that said, the inclusion is appreciated.

Serenity is anathema to JJJ. Maybe it’s a life model decoy.

To make it just a toy of JK Simmons, I guess? The likeness on the yelling head was looking pretty good but this one is seeming excellent.

He will make an excellent addition to my Coen Brothers Cinematic Universe shelf.

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The reference.

The facial features on the figures are legitimately excellent. It’s really stark compared to figures from even three or five years ago.

I’d be upset too. Poor fella.

I guess the MODOK is also nice if you have the other and you'd prefer the gold and blue color scheme to swap bits between both. But if I get this set I think I'll keep this one with his blue suede shoes. I don't think I'll have too hard a time securing this given the mostly bleh reception. Seems mostly everyone would rather return to sender.

I don’t wanna be his teddy bear.

Guardsman head sculpt opens up the possibility of us AF fans getting Windshear in some future X-related or DP line, along with Weapon Omega, who's just Spidey in Canadian attire.

Oh shit, I’d love figures of Windshear & Weapon Omega. Also if we could get Talisman & Marrina, that’d be great. Marrina feels more likely since she could share so much tooling with Namorita, who has to be coming sooner than later.