[thechris]

Okay, happy post. The bright side. Okay, well, I guess I could always pretend the repaint is Dr. Doom and the old one is a Doombot or vice versa. Also, Ultron with red highlights is Ultron 11 from Secret Wars, so Ultron with green highlights can be Ultron "Mark 12" who is a good Ultron from a heartwarming story that turns tragic. Spoiler: Ultron 12 calls himself Mark 12 in an attempt to seem more human and calls Hank Pym dad. He goes by Mark and tries to save Pym from Ultron 11. In doing so, he dies via robo-decapitation. Unfortunately, I can't find a use for a second Absorbing Man or Magneto... It'd better be something really special like a brick pattern or something better then splashing mud all over the guy. And Magneto with no helmet perhaps although this could be achieved by putting the new Quicksilver head on Magneto's body...

Hmmm... Yeah, I'm really trying hard to like this new line but I'm still not going to be satisfied until they give closure to the Secret Wars line, finish off X-Men's classic line up with Beast, finish off Dark Avengers with Ares and Noh-Varr. Frick, give us an Invisible Girl that has the same costume as the rest of the Fantastic Four for frick sakes. Like seriously. What's up with these unfinished lines? Give us a Scarlet Witch to pair up with Quicksilver. And Banshee to finish off Giant Size X-Men.

"Oh, they'll give us those figures. Don't worry." Oh will they? Like they gave us Beast instead of 10 more Spider-Men? I have to wait 2 years for them, though, right? By then, this toyline will be dead like every toyline and we won't get Beast or Banshee or the rest of the Secret Wars guys and I will never trust another Hasbro toyline ever again. Hasbro is using the age old ploy of baiting. Like I said in my previous post, all toy companies do it but we the collectors suffer in the end. The hardcore ones that buy all the toys to support this line in hopes that we will be able to "complete" our collections and with this false hope, they keep messing up until we lose interest and the toyline dies and it remains unfinished. Stop giving us one thing without the other. People are only going to keep buying left shoes until they stop buying without promise of a full pair.

They're only giving us what they can recycle. We got a Pheonix/Cyclops repack basically in the X-Men First Class set. Are we getting Beast and Angel? Fat chance. Beast requires a brand new sculpt and Angel requires new wings to be sculpted. Too much work. Who wants to wager we'll get a Cyclops repaint with Astonishing X-Men costume packaged with some piece of crap? I mean we basically got the same Pheonix pack Cyclops packaged in the Giant Size X-Men boxset, right? I mean it's essentially the same figure, even same colour scheme. It's just one has the wash highlights and the other has the comic book style highlights.

Okay, what I'm saying is I pretty much bought as well as pre-ordered every single Marvel Universe figure. I even have the Nick Fury mail-away and X-Force Archangel mail-aways. I'm not "boycotting" this line but I'm about ready to cut my losses. I'm not on strike. It's more like "Well, my collection will never get done now, so what's the point?" I am SO disappointed with this new wave, it's not even funny. I waited ages for this wave to get announced and I actually saw it on BBTS before it was even posted on here after days of refreshing their page until it got updated.

I am absolutely disgusted. I realize I said this post would be in better spirits and it started out that way, but Hasbro, you have really let me down in a bad way. I know a lot of people will snicker about this post but keep in mind that there are a lot more people with my mentality than the ones whose undies crust over from pre-jizz over a new Wolverine repaint and there's only so much we can take before we say screw it.

Look, you guys like doing repaints, right?? Take the thing, sand off his rocks, take some epoxy and mold some fur on him, give him a new head, you got Beast. Repaint Marvel Girl, you got Titania, repaint another girl, you got Volcana, put a new head on Absorbing Man, stick on some new sleeves, Sandman. Repaint Green Goblin as Gray Goblin. Just PLEASE, give us a NEW guy. I don't care that Karla Sofen is made from pieces of both Ms. Marvels with a new head sculpt. That was GREAT because it was a new character. I prefer that over 20 Wolverines. I don't give a CRAP if you guys just take a Spider-Man head and stick it on Spider Woman's body, give it a paint job and call it Spider-Girl. Just give us NEW characters.

It's just upsetting when I see a new line and one of the slots is taken up by Peter Parker, Tony Stark or James "Logan" Howlett in a variety of different "shades" or minor variations. The fact that we're getting so many Iron Man variation sculpts is bad enough but when you keep recycling Spider-Man and Wolverine and give them various repaints of different shades and make Spider-Man's eyeballs bigger or Wolverine's brown is darker brown. I'd better stop ranting before I explode.