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Originally Posted by bman

Umm... OKAY, so I guess you've found Pile Driver/Thunderball, Daken/Masked Wolvie, Mdm Masque/Mdm Hydra, FF Spidey/BT Spidey, Punisher/Blade, Mystique/Dani Moonstar, FF Doom, Redpool and so on easily.

In a word, yes. I've seen all but the last four multiple times. Of the last four, I've seen Mystique, X-Force Deadpool and Punisher a couple times and the regular Doom only one time.

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A variant by any other name is a variant the same.

How's that phrase go? "All bourbons are whiskeys, but not all whiskeys are bourbons", or is it the other way around?

If you want to get technical, a running change is a type of variant in that it is different from the product's original release. However, "normal" variants are released to retail at the same time as their originals (like MU Blastaar, for example). Running changes replace the originals, which are no longer made or sold by the manufacturer.

That's a very important distinction to make, similar to the difference between a short-packed figure and a chase figure.

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I'm not sure which part of the world you live in but I live in the real world where not all (if any) of these are as easily found as you make it sound.

It says where right under my "Join Date". Considering I live in the primary market for this product, it would stand to reason that they would be much easier, on average, for me to find than for someone in another part of the world.

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And I'm next door to the factories in Hong Kong. The so called running changes only get made and shipped when there are refill orders. Meaning if there is no refill orders there are no r.c. released. So if WM or Target sells these well and re-orders 10 more cases in total there are only 10 more r.c. in total. They are still variants - as far as I know no retailer has re-ordered in quantities close to even their original orders. So what does that mean? It means that these are rarer than the original figures. If WM and Target re-orders then. But if K-Mart, TRU etc... don't sell well and don't re-order no r.c will get shipped. So no, in my world these are not readily found.

Yeah, um, I pretty much covered all of that with the last sentence in my previous post. Caveat, fine print, CYA - call it what you will.

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Originally Posted by Falconhood

hey, that bubble carded Shockwave, what scale is he? Deluxe or Legends?

He's a Cyberverse Commander. So a big Legend or a small Scout.

Oh, and nice R&S figures. I kind of regret not picking up one of the Logs when they were still available here. But TF mania knows no loyalty.

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Originally Posted by salsa4datass

that shockwave is the middle size ones that are about $9/$10 not deluxe. I saw one yesterday at walmart but I only want the big one so I passed on it.
though i'm still debating on that since they also have hardshell in that size and not a deluxe...

I'd recommend both Hardshell and Shockwave for several reasons:

1. They're fun little toys.
2. If you get either the voyager (or more likely, the ultimate) version of Predaking, the Cyberverse figures scale better with him than any other size class combo.
3. There's been no indication that Hardshell will be available in any other size-class.
4. No lobster cosplay bits.
5. Once you get the voyager, you'll have father and son together at last. Because you know ol' One Eye cloned himself at least once during his time alone on Cybertron.