at the risk of sounding ignorant as to why Apu is/was a problematic character, I would be disappointed if Super7 does not produce an Apu figure as it would mean not having one of the show's prominent supporting characters (akin to not producing a figure of Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, etc.). so, uh, maybe time will tell. we have a lot of prominent characters left to go before we worry about Apu.

and as before, will add that these are all very nice looking figures.

Yeah I'm the same. I honestly don't think I'll even buy the regular family figures, or any of them at all. I'd rather pick and choose some highlights. I didn't PO anything from Wave 1, but I POed 3/4 of these minus Bartman. I don't really need regular Simpsons to interact with them.

not related to Simpsons Ultimates but Super7 has started in on Simpsons ReAction with four McBain-themed figures

https://news.toyark.com/wp-content/u...ion-mcbain.jpg

the lack of any firearms is rather conspicuous though. I'm assuming/hoping that these rules don't apply to the not-available-at-retail Ultimates figures as Robot Itchy and Scratchy get machine guns.

Can't have guns, but can have grenades, a vial of poison and a whole figure of a man peppered with bullet holes :D

not only that but the packaging has two prominent images of McBain holding a firearm. so I dunno what the deal is.

but it's not like I need to buy these either.

Super7 has updated the Ultimates Krusty figure by removing any items related to smoking (alternate smoking head, alternate hand with cigarette, smoking jacket, Mr. Teeny's cigarette).

on balance these aren't terribly huge omissions by themselves. but between this and no guns for the ReAction McBain, I'd rather not let myself get annoyed by whatever else Disney plans to exclude from the Simpsons line. so I plan on saving myself the frustration (and my large sums of money) and just not buy these.

I could regret it later on but that's life.

Yeah I saw it on Twitter. This semi-recent trend of "censoring" toys to have a better image of the property which does feature the very things they are taking away from the toys is so dumb.

Especially for Super7's made-to-order system. What’s the issue here Disney? They won’t be on store shelves anyways.

In defense of Super7, they added a new headsculpt and added a new accessory, even though that does not outweigh what was lost and only makes further implications about how this line will develop.

For those who want to know what was changed:

https://i.imgur.com/Kx33pJz.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/5jg6Q3N.jpg

There's also the fact that there'll never be an Apu figure, who's way more integral to a complete Simpsons line than Duffman or Itchy and Scratchy robots...

wellllllllll, we don’t know for sure whether Apu is off-limits. unless anybody from Disney’s licensing department or Super7 can confirm or refute. not collecting the line means I don’t have to trouble myself about that anyway.

cuz like I said earlier, I was always going to be of two minds about that situation. that I would be disappointed not to have one of the show’s core supporting characters but that I would be pretty tone-deaf to not understand why South Asian-Americans don’t see Apu as ideal representation. granted none of the characters on The Simpsons intend to be ‘ideal representation’, it is a show that specializes in broad characterizations and playing with stereotypes. but the dearth of South Asian-American representation in the 90’s (obviously it’s gotten better since) meant Apu became one of its most prominent pop culture figures and I’m sure many were not thrilled about that.

Wasn't Apu written off of the show? I'm not certain 'cuz I can't bring myself to watch modern Simpsons, but if he was I can't imagine any merch featuring him will come out, unless it's DVD sets of old seasons or those weird character collage posters haha

I imagine that aspect by itself wouldn't make a difference. after all, when was the last time Poochie or Hank Scorpio made an appearance?

So... super 7 gets rid of booze and cigs accessories for a Krusty action figure from the simpsons show?

messed up since Hasbro or whoever was able to make the Alan Grant figure for Jurassic World action figure to have an extra hand with a cigar

True, but no one made a fuss about how offensive Hank Scorpio is :p

Well they did drop the cigarettes, but I think the new head is nice. And they kept the drink. That shade of green... it could be absinthe.

I'd have swapped the cigarette head for the frowny one, then swapped the screaming head for a Homie the Clown head so you could have 2 characters in one!

photos are up for wave 3! includes C. Montgomery Burns, Ralph Wiggum, Kang, and Kodos

https://super7.com/collections/ultim...timates-wave-3

$260 for an evil old man, an idiot child and two very similar aliens (and lil Maggie alien). That's expensive. I dunno how you folk afford all the super 7 stuff. Multiple lines of figures over fifty bucks each.

Kang and Kodos are the first two figs in this line that have interested me, but $150 for the two seems excessive. I could be tempted to pay what I think is over the odds if Super 7 did a Futurama ultimates line

yo NECA if you're reading this you could be making bank by making more Simpsons figures in the 5-inch, 4-poa scale.

also gonna guess the episode-specific figures aren't selling as well as Super7 thought they would

I PO'd. All are fave characters for me, especially Kang and Kodos. I PO from BBTS as their ETA's are an optimistic guess.

$55+ for Ralph...oof

pricing aside they look very nice and despite what I said earlier about tapping out, I could cave into to FOMO.

somewhat off-topic but I've noticed that Super7 has announced three Simpsons waves planned but still only one Spongebob wave. I'm wondering if some people saw how out-of-scale the Spongebob figure was going to be and decided to cancel their pre-orders.

Wow, that is so stupid. Why would you do that Super7? Didn't people already have to pay for that Krusty?

I still can't believe they have yet to do any regular Simpsons family characters. Are these made in scale with other Simpsons toy lines?