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Originally Posted by redx24

What the name of the purple robot thing I'd like a couple of those.
Back in the day I had the spawn 1 the spawn 3 and then all gold repaint of the spawn 1 figure

I believe I have a Cyber-Tooth to sell or trade. I also have the fishtank exclusive version of Spawn III for the same.

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Originally Posted by Cyclopswc

Ah, yes, I remember those days fondly! It's funny, we get on the forum to complain about how hard it is to hunt down some of these McFarlane variants, but feel so good when we actually find one! It's like plastic crack! (much like what we do here).

Looking at what McFarlane stuff I still have on the shelves:
Matrix Sentinel - same as above.

I went through the same experiences as well. I managed to get a lot of rare versions from B&M stores when they first came out - the others I had to trade for or buy from other collectors. But I only went for the stuff I cared about most, not everything he did. So I only ended up with about 200-250 figures, only about 20 of which are still sealed. I also got a large lot of sealed figures in damaged packages to sell from a friend.

Speaking of the Sentinel, I picked one up at a flea market loose missing some parts a few months back. I'm wondering if anyone has a junker one that could be stripped for the parts I need? The small legs and maybe something else, I'll have to check.

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Originally Posted by Cyclopswc

McFarlane has always produced beautiful mini-statues with minimal or meaningless articulations, but those of us that collected it never complained, because they're just beautiful to look at and we don't actually play with them anyway! I guess the expectation has changed.

If you look at what the 4HM are doing now, they are basically marrying the best sculpts with decent paint apps and the best combination of economy and range of motion in their articulation (with less breakup to the sculpt than many other lines). It's as if they're taking Todd's foundation and carrying it further toward the logical conclusion that we were all hoping for. If they added bicep swivels and slightly more RoM in the knees and elbows I think they'd have about a perfect combination, plus bringing their stuff to B&M stores would allow them to up their paint apps a bit.

This is truly a great time to be a collector.