[SymbiSpidey]

Brickseek had the number of X-Men at my Local Target go from 3 to 11......obviously a new wave came in. Went in, asked the employee to see if they had more X-Men (there weren't any on the shelves at all) and he said there weren't anymore but he was gonna check the stockroom. Of course, I walked through the aisle and see a fresh, unopened case sitting there. I take it to him and ask if I could have two figures from there, and picked up OML and Colossus, the last figures I needed from the wave. This wave has been surprisingly easy to find at retail. Brickseek has been an excellent resource.


Regarding TB vs Hasbro, TB is far superior when it comes to detail and paint work, but Hasbro is far superior when it comes to the overall silhouette and proportions of the figure. The thing that knocks ToyBiz though is that paint is something that can be overlooked moreso than bad proportions, so while Hasbro figures aren't insanely detailed when it comes to paint, they still at least look like a human being. Meanwhile.....ToyBiz gave us that awful Black Cat lol.

Don't get me wrong, many of the ToyBiz figures are still far superior to what Hasbro is putting out, but their duds are really, really bad. Hasbro's "bad" figures from recent years are still mostly decent enough because of all the part reuse, and the parts they reuse are generally pretty good.