Originally Posted by SymbiSpidey (Post 681993)

I still have yet to see Nick Fury at retail. My local Wal-Mart has (or had, not sure what the current situation is) plenty of Black Panthers and everybody else though.


The rag doll thing seems to be a common problem with that particular figure too, which is sad.

Originally Posted by Exodus (Post 681994)

I have seen the first wave of CW, but never a BP or Nick Fury but that was only at Walmart. My Targets and TRU's nada...still sitting on old stock. I kind of think there's too much Legends coming out for retail to keep track of I feel like. Cap, X-Men, Spider-Man and now Dr. Strange. Good for us but for retail they don't know how to receive and put out the distribution.

Originally Posted by SymbiSpidey (Post 681999)

Totally agree. Not to mention something is going on where the stores have been receiving too much stock all at once. Several stores in my area are still sitting on Thanos, Allfather and Hulkbuster waves. And it's not like the big retailers can differentiate between what's sought after and what's not within the ML line, at least not enough to put certain waves/figures on clearance to clear up the shelves.

Nice that Hasbro is knocking out so many highly requested figures, but we need to be able to actually get them at retail lol

Originally Posted by SymbiSpidey (Post 681999)

Totally agree. Not to mention something is going on where the stores have been receiving too much stock all at once. Several stores in my area are still sitting on Thanos, Allfather and Hulkbuster waves. And it's not like the big retailers can differentiate between what's sought after and what's not within the ML line, at least not enough to put certain waves/figures on clearance to clear up the shelves.

Nice that Hasbro is knocking out so many highly requested figures, but we need to be able to actually get them at retail lol

Originally Posted by chaosorc (Post 682001)

My TRU almost never gets new products, it is really sad. They have about 20 speed demon figures from the spider-man wave sitting on the shelves. Not a single other figure.

Sadly this is typical for most of the items they stock. They have 15 2.5" diddy kong figures on the pegs for about a year now, they do not get any new waves in since the pegs are full and they never clearance them out.

They really need to learn how to cycle out non selling products so they can make some sales on new releases.

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 682037)

Is she supposed to look like she has a disease?

Originally Posted by Boy Blunder (Post 682032)

So I can't comment on the legitimacy of this figure (bought it from an Asian seller and it came out of Hong Kong), but nonetheless I'm happy to tick a grail off my list...

http://i67.tinypic.com/orv1i1.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/2435mcz.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2w4cpwk.jpg

Came loose with no accessories, but for $16 and free shipping, I'm not gonna argue. Besides, once I (finally) grab myself a set of the Tamashii fire effects, the lack of accessories won't matter to me. She needs a little paint touch-up (which was the case with my old vanilla Rachel too, so nothing new there), and she doesn't scale well with one of her old Excalibur crew (Rachel's closer to the current teen female-size figures, while the new Kitty is mid-adult-sized), but I'm very pleased with this purchase.

Originally Posted by SymbiSpidey (Post 681987)

Still no Abomination wave in sight, has this thing even hit retail? I thought this was supposed to be released a month or two ago. I'm not even seeing remnants anywhere outside of comic book shops.

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 682037)

Is she supposed to look like she has a disease?

Originally Posted by donmeca2020 (Post 682050)

So remember we had the discussion on possible fugures to come? I thought maybe the newer action figure variants might give us a clue. I can see these ones possibly being made. Hell i'd consider them... thoughts ?

Originally Posted by Veronica Mars (Post 682064)

WIPs:

*snip*

Originally Posted by Veronica Mars (Post 682064)

WIPs:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...skbxl4c21.jpeg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...srwamdote.jpeg

Originally Posted by Scythe (Post 682066)

Pretty awesome so far.

Originally Posted by LapuLapu (Post 682069)

Scythe! Scythe!

Originally Posted by Boy Blunder (Post 681984)

I tend not to encounter a lot of toy swaps out this way - a few BAF part thefts at one nearby TRU (or random accessories being torn out of 3 3/4" Star Wars figures once in a blue moon), but that's often the extent of it.

However, one of the local Targets had someone who went through and did a parts swap for a bunch of BAF parts for the Allfather wave (why is what I wanna know), resulting in a couple of figures lingering like poor Danny here:
http://i63.tinypic.com/2j5dzdk.jpg

I don't even know what that leg is from, but I've also seen a Machine Man float around with matching arms. This happened a few months ago, and they've lingered since (though it looks like someone finally bought that forlorn Aaron). I didn't really think anything of it because that wave can be found pretty much anywhere for a dime and a song. I mean, yeah, the action was reprehensible and all parties involved should be appropriately kicked in the ass, but it just didn't ping very high on my radar.

This weekend, my wife and I were at that very Target, and saw two Dr. Strange figures sitting in a returns cart. Awesome, right? They were laying face-down, but I could see that one was Strange/Voodoo and the other was Enchantress/Nico. Naturally, I pop over closer and grab them, to flip them over...

http://i66.tinypic.com/jkd0uv.jpg

What. The. Shit.

Pretty sure whoever did this even sliced open Wanda's cape so that it would fit over Hulkbuster Strange's head there, and I can't even tell for certain what those figure pieces are (though that torso is clearly not a BAF). I can't hold this against the employees too much (because, unless they have a reason to take this up to their manager and back up that this is a toy swap, they gotta go with the corporate rules, which is to just take it back), but whoever did this needs a right beatdown.

Originally Posted by Boy Blunder (Post 681984)

I tend not to encounter a lot of toy swaps out this way - a few BAF part thefts at one nearby TRU (or random accessories being torn out of 3 3/4" Star Wars figures once in a blue moon), but that's often the extent of it.

However, one of the local Targets had someone who went through and did a parts swap for a bunch of BAF parts for the Allfather wave (why is what I wanna know), resulting in a couple of figures lingering like poor Danny here:
http://i63.tinypic.com/2j5dzdk.jpg

I don't even know what that leg is from, but I've also seen a Machine Man float around with matching arms. This happened a few months ago, and they've lingered since (though it looks like someone finally bought that forlorn Aaron). I didn't really think anything of it because that wave can be found pretty much anywhere for a dime and a song. I mean, yeah, the action was reprehensible and all parties involved should be appropriately kicked in the ass, but it just didn't ping very high on my radar.

This weekend, my wife and I were at that very Target, and saw two Dr. Strange figures sitting in a returns cart. Awesome, right? They were laying face-down, but I could see that one was Strange/Voodoo and the other was Enchantress/Nico. Naturally, I pop over closer and grab them, to flip them over...

http://i66.tinypic.com/jkd0uv.jpg

What. The. Shit.

Pretty sure whoever did this even sliced open Wanda's cape so that it would fit over Hulkbuster Strange's head there, and I can't even tell for certain what those figure pieces are (though that torso is clearly not a BAF). I can't hold this against the employees too much (because, unless they have a reason to take this up to their manager and back up that this is a toy swap, they gotta go with the corporate rules, which is to just take it back), but whoever did this needs a right beatdown.

Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd (Post 682061)

Those are probably just done as covers and not indicative of Hasbro's plans. We've gotten a lot of these action figure variant covers and next to none have actually correlated to any real toys. Even when they do happen to correlate it's often a different costume which gets the toy or shares very little with the comic variants. I wish these variant covers were telling of Hasbro's plans because then we'd be getting a Mr. Knight Moon Knight figure but I think it's safe to say that Hasbro and Marvel don't meet to plan these.