I rarely get a bad paint job from Amazon. You get the occasional one, yes, but 9/10, you get a goodie, and at decent prices if you wait on certain ones. 90% of my collection is from Amazon, so I know what I'm talking about.

Do they sell lucky charms cereal there?

Even if they did, it wouldn't be worth it.

They redesigned Lucky.

Found a new (now to me) Gamestop in my area last they had Emma Frost, Chameleon. Aries, North Star, Korg Antman and Triton. Picked up an extra Emma and Aries if anyone is looking for them? I a still in search for
Scarlet Spider (Modern)
Gold Ultron
Deadpool (Blue and Yellow X-Men colors)
Doc Oc
Armored DD
Colussnaut
let me know

I don't know what alternate timeline you live in but high shipping prices and the terrible exchange rate are the culprit. Beggars can't be choosers. I will take a jacked up paint app over not having the figure at all if I really want it.

It's probably a bit of both. I buy most of my stuff online now, but I'm also usually waiting until prices are below $20 for this line and $25 for the larger line (in a few cases I have paid more if I really want the figure.) Also with Amazon I've learned unless I really want the figure immediately to wait it out and the price will go cheaper. I know I got my Emma Frosts prior to waiting it out but mostly, I'm paying less than $15 including shipping (sometimes it's through Amazon Prime so there is no shipping cost.)

I think it's a waiting game but I do acknowledge there can certainly be issues with the price and shipping vs. balancing the patience in waiting for a more reasonable price. Still, to me it's better than waiting a year or more to get the new figures - hell what do I see most in stores around here, Wave 1 from 2014 still...two and a half years waiting. I've seen wave 1 of both 2015 and 2016 and the new comic packs, but to be honest i don't think I've anything past wave 1 from last year in the stores even once. I have no trust in retail at all stocking these things - the six inch line is much better but retail is still sucking at this line.

I just have been preordering from BBTS just to make sure I get what I want but it would still be nice to see that shit in a store, yeah? Would make me feel better about the line's health.

Plus with TRU exclusives it would be better for me to find it in the store because I have consistently gotten a misshipment from their site when ordering more than one thing at a time.

Yeah I used to go with BBTS, but their prices are crazy, although beats running around the stores to try and find them.

That's the hard balance part. Take this new wave 3 - essentially going to run around $20 to $25 per figure. That's a lot, retail is what like $12 or $13 now? So in some cases double.. but on the other hand I'd rather have them sooner-ish (like this year) rather than be stuck 2+ years from now still wondering if they will ever hit retail.

You're right, it's getting harder to justify.

Especially with the diminishing quality and gear.

Exactly, but BBTS doesn't seem to run out of them, so I wait and usually HTS if anything will get them in stock, and sometimes they'll have a coupon so pretty good win.

Too true...surprised BBTS didn't list any singles...

Thankfully they brought back the card art...

Stopped at TRU today and found all Avengers BOGO 40% off. Finally got Panther and 1st appearance IM.


CCC.

Id rather have articulation and accsories over card art. Honestly the old infinite no card art would be a better trade off if it meant getting back artic and gear....and FRAGGING STANDS!

Personally I miss the file cards/notes from the early days.

I love the one that came with Ghost Rider where Osborne is trying to get Doom to help him take on Ghost Rider and Doom is basically "Yeah...good luck with that." Fun stuff.

Anything on the back of Rage's jacket?

Indeed. Although useless those were fun. Don't personally care about stands. I rarely use them anyway.

For some reason the Ghost Rider I got came with Thor's card. Maybe because it was a re-issue they slipped up on that but it's pretty freaking weird.

That's weird indeed.

In my anticipation to see Scott's return in Civil War I've done some work to my MCU Ant-Man.
http://i.imgur.com/sPIfS4d.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8QJVV2C.jpg
Aside from the touch-ups that were desperately needed since Hasbro left tons of paint apps missing I also added more red since his suit in the comics is usually primarily red, gave him new hands so he could hold a shrink ray for even more fun times, attached a small backpack on his back even though I couldn't find one that looks similar to the one in the movie, and slightly longer antennae on the sides of the helmet.

Is that shrink ray cobra commanders hairdryer weapon?

Got it in one.

The Universe is expanding.... (pics to follow in next post)

No pure Hasbro product in this bunch. Panther (far right) is the closest but even with him I swapped the legs out and gave him a fresh coat of black paint. Because I'm OCD about my customs, Ronan got a touchup - filled in the odd gap I left on his front skirt panel and painted up the shoulder pads - so he's finally "done". Darkstar had a hair transplant to a head that actually fit the body and added some additional sculpt to said hair so it looked more like the reference art. Surfer just touched up the silver in spots and Antman is only there because I wanted to reference the costume without having to be online. And I'm still on a villain customizing kick, so heavy on the bad guys yet again. So, onto the rest...

Tombstone - Like this guy but not overly fond of my sculpt work. I sculpted him in two stages - not intentionally, forgot I put the lower jaw/face sculpt on and it completely cured before I finished sculpting it. Because I am so OCD about the figures I'll eventually get another head and redo it. Eventually...

Black Panther (left) - This was my original BP custom that was plain black. Since Hasbro released the newest one I added sculpt to this guy and made him my regal/modern Panther.

Jubilee - really don't like the character enough to give her other outfits, so customed up my last one to her original outfit which is the only costume I even remotely like.

Sandman - Wanted to have a "regular" Sandman to pair up with Silver Sable so swapped out the arms from a left over Thunderstrike. His "sand" arms will be kept with him so they can be changed out if needed. The other one is my "powering up" custom. I'd have the "Sand" version in the pic to complete the transformation but it's still in the package so use your imagination. :D

Unicorn - This cornball has the goofiest helmets I think I've ever seen (sans Changeling's purple monstrosity). This one was the least offensive of the bunch so this is the outfit I went with.

Blizzard - Wasn't sure which outfit to make for this guy. Finally decided on this one for the painting challenge it represented. Boy do I regret that. This guy took a lifetime to paint.

Controller - First exposure to this guy was way back in an Captain America "Acts of Vengeance" comic I read as a kid. Controller didn't do much for me since he was in the issue for only a few panels, but I was always intrigued by the character.

Razor Fist - I opted not to do his BDSM outfit as it's just too damn weird so combined the mask design from that outfit (again for the paint challenge) and one of his more...normal looks for the rest of him. Think he came out well.

Giant Man - someone had a great shot with this figure painted up along with Wasp (will give credit to who that is if I can find the pic/ you make yourself known). So using that idea as a base I went full on Avengers EMH with the design and gave him the silver ear buds that his helmet collapsed into and added the particle container. Since the MU Antman doesn't have white eyes I left the mask open on Giant Man. First ML figure I've bought in years.

For reference - the Darkstar art
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...psxofnrhpv.jpg

Group shot
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...psp52dwget.jpg

Black Panther
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...psshnqsn0c.jpg

Jubilee
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...pss80i1vvr.jpg

Controller
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...psyufyqsqr.jpg

Unicorn
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...psg4f6rt66.jpg

Razor Fist
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...psoi0ephcw.jpg

Sandman
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps8hvcgl74.jpg

Giant Man
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...psyxqjerdu.jpg

Blizzard and reference art - tried to mimic that pose but it's impossible.
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...pswh8rcbox.jpg
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/r...pstclygtrp.jpg

Nice work. Love the classic Giant-Man.