[Peteparker]

Okay fellow Arkers, took me a few days to make it through 20+ pages of thread, but I'm on top now. Sorry if I respond to old stuff, just skim for your name or the interesting parts.

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Originally Posted by LORD MARVEL

hasbro must be some idiots...."figure out how to release it"


holiday exclusive, nycc, hts exclusive..here is the winner "general retail"

fff is beast.. really wanted him this year

I laughingly suggested to Symbiote that they make it a Gigantic Battles BAF. Otherwise we're probably waiting for Thor 2...

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Originally Posted by LapuLapu

Anyways, this just got me thinking, with some sites offering to shrink scale awesome head sculpts of 6" into 3.75", how come Hasbro wont do this? The technology/technique is available why not use it or go this route. I think this will be more cost effective on Hasbro's part just to shrink scale instead of making new molds, at least the face sculpt as I see Legends has better face sculpt than MU.

I guess I don't know enough about shrink scaling things, but I'd always heard that you basically have to retool a figure anytime you change size, and tooling is the most expensive part of the entire process.

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Originally Posted by 1andonly5711

i have a qustion is x froce aa and doom considerd rare because these are figures that you can get a certain way just coast alot

Rare? Nah. Expensive? Yes. I suppose Rare could be a subjective term...

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Originally Posted by evilanimation

So no one wants skrulls i guess anymore i saw about 10 of them today...Too bad i have 20 of them already.

Crap. I've been buying them up left and right on vacation in anticipation of army builders wanting/needing them. I might just have a MOC Skrull Army of my own I guess.

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Originally Posted by Fedup23

Rare would be held for something like short blonde haired Black Widow. Or tan shirt Cage. We know they exist.. but it is probably a case of only a few out there.

Those aren't rares, they're impossibles. They've never seen full-scale production!

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Originally Posted by 1andonly5711

theres a white tee luke on ebay for 750$

Couldn't find it. Was it MOC?

Incidentally, I talked to Hasbro specifically about this, and they had me give them a written list of figures which we've seen that have never seen full-scale production. They said they'd be great figures for future revision cases.
White tee Cage, Blonde Widow, and Short-haired Widow were on the list.

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Originally Posted by gunzilla

There is nothing I want more than that new rhino

I agree he looks great, but I don't get why they're not putting him in the Spidey 2-Pack! Why use the shitty older mold when the new one is out at the same time? (Probably just to be able to produce them at the same time).

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Originally Posted by bmorr

I like that he has better articulated legs and amrs but his head still suffers from the hulk syndrome.

His entire upper body minus his head is completely the Hulk's. He's new from the no-neck up and the waist down.

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Originally Posted by D00MTR0N

I still wanna know why such a Doom focus at the hasbro MU display?having all those Doombots and what not,perhaps there will be a Dr.Doom event coming soon in the comics?who knows,I know tiberius has been wanting a house of Doom.

Every year the display has to have a location, this year, the customizer (ONE GUY!) decided to make it Castle Von Doom. That same guy made the entire set and painted all the figures. Hasbro custom painter Tony and Dwight Stockham actually posed and put the figures in the case. They specifically changed small elements of the display every day to see if anyone would notice.

Some of us noticed an AWESOME change to Snowbird that I'll have to post pics of later (they're on my phone so someone remind me!).

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Originally Posted by bmorr

18th. on wednesday. Thats why im hoping the new waves of MU hut my LCS.

Ill be 26.

Happy Birthday! I loved 26-27. Old enough to have a little money, but young enough to still be either single or newly married.

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Originally Posted by Boba Fettuccini

Incidentally, anyone got a Modern Thor/Ages of Thunder Thor they'd be willing to part with? I need better lower legs, and beleive it or not I've never seen a MU Thor at retail.

I have an AoT if you still need it, PM me.

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Originally Posted by Symbiote

Alright arkers. Its been a long week but it was great to finally meet some arkers this past weekend (Peter Parker, Trainwreck, Iceman, Martian410, and Solidwii). Glad that Greenskar and I were able to hang out with these guys.

A few pages back I posted pics of the SDCC Helicarrier. Its starting to grow on me. Well I finally had time to take some close up pics and do a review of it, narrated by Deadpool. (Caution, picture heavy post)

LOVE the quick-review by a figure! That's all I pretty much wanted to know anyway. Now I can leave mine happily in the box.

Of course it was FANTASTIC getting to meet all of you guys out there. You other Arkers need to start making plans so we can ALL meet up next year!

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Originally Posted by Fifth Fantastic

No, i saw Beta ray bill, Professor X, Blastaar variant, Spider Morales and Jubilee.

Are you in the Phillipines?

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Originally Posted by Jackieboy

Those are some scary-ass twins!

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Originally Posted by NerfTW

2012 wave 2: (Wave 18)

• Ultimate Spider-man with Miles Morales variant
• Modern Hulk
• Beast (Astonishing) with Upside-down packaging variant
• Beta Ray Bill
• Kraven

2012 wave 3: (Wave 19)

• Scarlet Witch
• Punisher (Classic)
• Spider-man (FF) with Paper Bag Spidey variant
• She-Hulk
• Kang

2012 wave 4: (Wave 20)

• Angel
• Nighthawk
• Nova
• Hercules
• Puck

2012 wave 4: (Wave 21)

• Jubilee with 90's non-vampire Variant
• Professor X
• Blastarr with blasting hands variant, shown in diorama

2013 wave 1: (Wave 22)

• Classic Rhino
• Elektra
• Mysterio

Comic packs: (Ordered based on when they came up on eBay)

• Colossus and Juggernaut
• Moon Knight and Ant Man
• Captain America and Falcon
• Dr. Doom and Spider-man
• She-Hulk and Wolverine
• Dr. Strange and Silver Surfer
• Magneto and Captain America
• Spider-Man and Rhino

Team Packs:

• Inhumans- Karnak, Black Bolt, Medusa
• Uncanny X-Men- Longshot, Wolverine, Rogue, with X-baby Cyclops
• Astonishing X-men- Colossus (as Juggernaut), Emma Frost, Cyclops
• Masters of Evil (Possibly)

SDCC Diorama Possibilities:

• Sharon Carter (A repainted Black Widow with new hair at least)
• Purple Man (repainted Destro, doubtful due to height)
• Norman Osborn (repainted Destro again)
• Snowbird Variant(s)

Gigantic Battles:

• Possibly a Goliath and Whirlwind (due to artwork on Helicarrier box)

Toy Fair Ungrouped Prototypes:

• Black Knight
• Thor (Eric Masters)
• Frog Thor

I cleaned it up a bit, and here's some notes:

In the SDCC Diorama Possibilities, were they two different Destros? They were wearing different suits!

"Gigantic Battles Ultimo" is actually meant to be a giant one-time custom Doombot. Multiple sources confirmed it's not meant to be a release in the future.

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Originally Posted by StarWarsPaul

I appreciate that I've got a guy like Skull from Hisstank looking out for me...

Dammit SWP, you're always getting these things first! I don't know if I'd be able to pay more to have things sooner. If you're doing that, it's my only respite.

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Originally Posted by bmorr

they could modify him into an Abomination i guess

I've heard rumors of that...

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Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

so do we think the Cyke from the 3 pack with Emma and colossus/juggernaut will be completely new or a reissue/repaint of XMO Cyclops? And is there any chance for a variant 3 pack of them in their Phoenix 5 costumes?

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Originally Posted by bmorr

im still wondering why they havent shown the figure. But hopefully theyre going for his recent costume. I mean theyre using the juggolossus so it a very recent thing.

I don't know about completely new. The exact quote from the Hasbro Panel is, "He's out for a facelift." To me, that means at least a new headsculpt, and the only time his 'face' has changed recently is either for the Phoenix 5, or for the aftermath, where he gets that big red X on the front. I suppose it could easily be a sunglasses Cyke head, since neither of the others line up with the other two characters in the case...

I don't think they'd do a Phoenix 5 variant case, as they'd have to re-tool the figures to put the specialized armor on them, but I'd be happy if they did it!

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Originally Posted by denmasterprime

I like the way you think! Barring an Abomination, perchance a Maestro? We are lacking in good Hulk villains. Gimme Madman! A-Bomb! Freaking LEADER!

Heard a rumor about this one too...

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Originally Posted by LORD MARVEL

i would like a connection like that.. getting exclusives early is beast

BEAST BEAST.

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Originally Posted by Sadisticace1091

Oh ._. well then im Retarded lol Gotta get to china town :P Bus/ train day when Im off from work im thinkin

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Originally Posted by Symbiote

Here are some more picture appreciation.
My Masters of Evil display.
AvX issue # 2. Magnetic Fastball special

Ended up finding another black widow at Target. The last one. I did a head, hand, wrist bands, and waist band swap. Black Widow can actually hold a rifle now.

SICK Pictures, as always. I could just hear Colossonaut crashing into the carrier.

Nice find on the Widow! I poked around your Targets before I left and cleaned out the Skrulls.

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Originally Posted by zim

I have the red hulk 3 pack if anyone wants him at cost+ shipping. PM me.

Did anyone ask about that strange case that had spiderman with bag and a bunch of figs from different waves?

Did you buy the Rulk pack at the con? Was he at retail?

I found the answer to that weird case over on Marvelous News, it was a special case created and put together by the local toy shops in the Phillipines. They have a completely different collecting retail structure out there, so it got weird.

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Originally Posted by mikefavata

Haha wtf?

MARVEL UNIVERSE AF ASST 201203 (C: 1-1-3) - Midtown Comics

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Originally Posted by bmorr

never mind price, who in their right mind thought we needed more falcons. wtf.

Holy crap, that's terrible!

I was the first person in line for questions at the panel, and the question I asked was how do they choose which figures get put into the rev cases. The BS answer we started to get was, "We look at which characters sold well and which ones are still hanging on pegs, but there's no one way it gets decided." Then they finished with the REAL answer, "It's random."

I was horrified. Included examples like solid Vision and Blade which are worth too much on eBay because they were hard to find.

Jesse Falcon's final insult as I was leaving was, "Just open your wallet and buy those on eBay!" What an asshole. I swear every answer he gave was just to shut people down, while Dwight Stall was at least pretending to give a crap about what our concerns are and what we care about.

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Originally Posted by SquirtleSquad7

The other two packages look so small compared to the helicarrier.. It didn't sink in how big that was till now, for me. .___.

It's WAY more massive than I expected. My problem is I don't know if I want to open the outer (shipping) box. I don't open my other exclusives like that, especially if they have custom artwork on the outside. But the outer box makes it EVEN BIGGER. I don't know what to do with it.

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Originally Posted by LORD MARVEL

while i was waiting for the phone call from Do Boy for my SDCC haul...i made this "Elecskrull"

You realize you're just showing us you're really a custom-making Skrull, right? No human could be that good at those aliens.

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Originally Posted by conan050

Yikes, UPS gives an estimate of $20+

That's nothing! I heard one guy tell me it cost him $90 to ship from the con floor, and another say it was $80 in his hotel lobby!

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Originally Posted by Jackieboy

All this talk of line discontinuation and death of MU has me so upset,the only possible way i could cheer myself up,was by purchasing more MU

Where'd you find the Invisible Girl pack, Jackie? Retail? I read the initials you said after this, but don't know what place that is...

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Originally Posted by FancyPants

Those deadpool videos made me laugh. I could never dress up as anyone.

Speaking of, here's what I dressed as this year:


And here's me last year:


Can you tell I love the 60's X-Men characters?

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Originally Posted by Exodus

Yes, just got it today.

Thank you.

Congrats dude!

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Originally Posted by mindmeldx

Has everyone that has bought from that happyeverydaysales guy on ebay had a good experience?

Yea, I did. Took about 2 weeks both times.

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Originally Posted by Iceman

You and you Kang lol. I swear, no one wants Kang more than you. When the wave releases should be the first to get one. I know we'll hook you up.

You didn't get two Helicarriers? I was hoping to see someone make a stretch version out of two.

Hey! I love Kang too! I just don't have a need for multiple, though I would if I was a loosey goosey.

I ran into another group of collectors in line for the Hasbro panel who said that between the 4 of them in their hotel room, they had SIX Helicarriers in their hotel room. They said to look for pictures of a helicarrier pyramid online later. The crazy thing was that 4 of them were owned by ONE DUDE! He was going to open one as-is, leave one MIB, and then take the last two and combine them into a mega-super-helicarrer!

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Originally Posted by SquirtleSquad7

So, I have the two Avengers 4 packs and a MU Wolverine coming my way, at least it's some good news that I'm getting good stuff. :3

I hate when that happens, but the 4-Packs are pretty great. Which Wolverine, Astonishing?

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Originally Posted by SoundWave88

Well, since Bruticus is probably a no go for me, anyone know what it would cost to ship a Dark Galactus from Canada to US?

I think you can get the whole thing for $90-100 shipped.

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Originally Posted by 77kustoms

I get the nostalgia part, but girl stuff is icky lol!
I just didnt expect to see Jem in the first round of sell outs. My little Pony yes because there is a cartoon currently.

Yea, that's surprising. They had Jem on Sunday morning, but were gone by Sunday afternoon: