[Dolemite]

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Originally Posted by magma169

1. Cause its a Walgreens exclusive (hence more expensive). Mind you that the standard releases have gone up in price since a couple of years ago.

Incorrect. At least in NY, Walgreens ML figures are only $19.99, same as everywhere else (some other places charge more, actually). In fact, they're been running a promotion for a while where all their ML figures were on sale for $12.99.

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2. Cause The Surfer is basically your most basic figure mold + paint. No extra stuff to mold onto him (eg. holsters, ponytails, jacket, other accessories). You are basically painting your naked male figure and selling it at the same price as say Rogue.

Incorrect again. Rogue didn't come with any accessories (except maybe a BAF part). Surfer has alternate hands, effect pieces, and (of course) the surf board. It all evens out.

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On top of that, they didnt even bother with some blue shading (from what it seems), even though they clearly acknowledge that it is needed (see promo pic)

The "blue shading" you're referring to is just the shiny blue space background reflecting onto the character for dramatic advertising purposes and clearly not indicative of any painted shading on the figure itself or any "acknowledgement" by Hasbro that it is needed.

Besides, if they DID shade the figure I'd bet anything that there'd be a segment of the fandom bitching about that as well. "But I wanted a SILVER Surfer! GTFO with that blue shading!"

Can't please anyone, I'm tellin' ya.

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Pointless ? I am not some SJW complaining for the sake of it, or nitpicking. The Surfer is a plain figure, the least they could have done is mold new effects and throw in some shading (in place of all those useless hands)......

Ummmmmm....yeah, you're nitpicking. The Surfer design lends itself to a fairly plain figure. You're totally nitpicking.