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Star Wars Rebels / Star Wars Rebels - Cardback Revealed
« on: October 9, 2013, 11:31 PM »
2014 Star Wars Rebels line look revealed at Hasbro's NYCC2013 Party -
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Other Collectibles / Re: 31" Darth Vader
« on: October 7, 2013, 10:52 PM »I really want to see this in person to figure out what the heck they did with his belt. The original has the saber hilt firmly attached to his belt. Since he doesn't wield two lightsabers, I am hoping they went back and resculpted that belt.
Sorry for the phone pic, didn't turn out as well as I had hoped...
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Movie Heroes / Saga Legends '12-? / Re: Battle of Geonosis: Jedi Knights Battle Packs
« on: October 4, 2013, 02:36 PM »
So, we're pretty sure from these pics that the clones are 03-50 sculpts (like the EE sets) and not the newer VC45 body, right?
That's the only bummer for me. I like all the Jedi, but I would have preferred they use the VC45 sculpt so we'd have the Red and Yellow officers to go along with the TVC blue Lts and TBS olive green Sgts.
That's the only bummer for me. I like all the Jedi, but I would have preferred they use the VC45 sculpt so we'd have the Red and Yellow officers to go along with the TVC blue Lts and TBS olive green Sgts.
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The Black Series 3.75" Figures / Re: Defender Wishlists 2013: The Empire Strikes Back
« on: October 4, 2013, 01:41 PM »
Huh. I was just comparing the results to my top ten list and noticed I voted Piett twice on my list... 
I must really want a Piett redo... or I'm an idiot.
5. Captain Piett
9. Captain Piett
I must really want a Piett redo... or I'm an idiot.
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NHL 2013-14
« on: October 3, 2013, 12:23 PM »
Two nights of watching other teams get going has my juices flowing for our kickoff tonight. Even more than last year, we'll live or die this year with our rookies/kids. I'm expecting big things from Brodin and Coyle sophomore years. And we'll see what happens with Fontaine, Granlund, Niederritter, Zucker. I'm not expecting us to win the Central with Chicago and St. Louis in there, but hopefully we'll be able to hold onto that 3 spot in the Central.
Oh and excellent news today that we were able to extend Pominville for a reasonable 5yr/$28mil. Nice cap hit and when Heatley's $7.5mil comes off the books next summer, we'll have even more room tosign Tomas Vanek add some talent next year. 
Oh and excellent news today that we were able to extend Pominville for a reasonable 5yr/$28mil. Nice cap hit and when Heatley's $7.5mil comes off the books next summer, we'll have even more room to
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NHL 2013-14
« on: September 23, 2013, 04:55 PM »
Picked up a couple of games in ticket swaps (with my Dad), so I'll be adding Thu, Oct 24 - Carolina and Fri, Nov 29 - Colorado to my list. 
ps.
Congrats Toronto on losing your new star player for ten games due to a stupid preseason melee (though the goalie fight was a nice touch). Bad blood already brewing in BUF-TOR series. And VAN-EDM has their share of bad blood stewing now too (Gagner busted jaw).
ps.
Congrats Toronto on losing your new star player for ten games due to a stupid preseason melee (though the goalie fight was a nice touch). Bad blood already brewing in BUF-TOR series. And VAN-EDM has their share of bad blood stewing now too (Gagner busted jaw).
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The Black Series 3.75" Figures / Re: The "I Don't Play With My Toys... I Pose Them" Thread
« on: September 20, 2013, 09:31 AM »20 views and I'm the only guy making his figures look awesome? For shame, people.
I used to have a lot of my figures in awesome poses... then I moved. Now they are all in the "smooshed inside a ziplock bag" pose. Not very exciting.
When I get my new collection room set up, I'll have to revisit this thread...
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Hall of Justice / Re: DC Collectibles 3.75" Green Lantern Convention Figures
« on: September 13, 2013, 02:05 PM »
Must buy. Still need to track down that 2013 SDCC 4-pack too.
Time for the update on who's left from the 2012 SDCC display - GL Tomar Tu, GL Hannu, GL Isamot, GL Soranik, and RL Bleeze. Still hoping for the eventual reveal of Sinestro Corps Sinestro, Sapphire Carol, and Indigo-1 too!
Time for the update on who's left from the 2012 SDCC display - GL Tomar Tu, GL Hannu, GL Isamot, GL Soranik, and RL Bleeze. Still hoping for the eventual reveal of Sinestro Corps Sinestro, Sapphire Carol, and Indigo-1 too!
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The Black Series 3.75" Figures / Re: The Future of Star Wars Collecting?
« on: September 11, 2013, 11:34 AM »
At the moment, I'm more concerned with "what will we get in the collector 3.75" line" than I am with whether or not it will exist in the future.
Once the Sequel juggernaut starts, with the "one-off" side-story movies squeezed inbetween ep7/8/9, will there be room for OT 3.75" collector figures at retail? Or will the toy lines be so movie/tv focused from 2015 and beyond that the days of "obscure OT background alien" are over?
It's probably a pipe-dream at this point, but my best case scenario would be:
- a 5-POA 3.75" sequel/new movie line for kids filled with gimmicky movie figures for kids (and some collectors)
- a 6" line for collectors with 2 waves of movie-inspired 6" figs in the Summer/Fall and 2 waves of OT/PT figures in the Winter/Spring
- a "Star Wars Universe" style 3.75" collector line that can give us figures from all over the place - OT, Prequels, CW, EU, KOTOR/SWTOR, Rebels, Ep7/8/9, Stand-Alones, etc.
If Hasbro doesn't find a way to include OT/PT/EU figures in the 3.75" collector line going forward, then I guess I won't really be all that upset if it dies.
Once the Sequel juggernaut starts, with the "one-off" side-story movies squeezed inbetween ep7/8/9, will there be room for OT 3.75" collector figures at retail? Or will the toy lines be so movie/tv focused from 2015 and beyond that the days of "obscure OT background alien" are over?
It's probably a pipe-dream at this point, but my best case scenario would be:
- a 5-POA 3.75" sequel/new movie line for kids filled with gimmicky movie figures for kids (and some collectors)
- a 6" line for collectors with 2 waves of movie-inspired 6" figs in the Summer/Fall and 2 waves of OT/PT figures in the Winter/Spring
- a "Star Wars Universe" style 3.75" collector line that can give us figures from all over the place - OT, Prequels, CW, EU, KOTOR/SWTOR, Rebels, Ep7/8/9, Stand-Alones, etc.
If Hasbro doesn't find a way to include OT/PT/EU figures in the 3.75" collector line going forward, then I guess I won't really be all that upset if it dies.
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NFL 2013-2014
« on: September 10, 2013, 03:33 PM »Harbaugh referred to it happening before the game? Is he psychic?
I don't think he needed to be psychic because the Packers were pretty vocal about wanting to take advantage of the rules changes last week. Leading up to the game, Clay Matthews said "When these quarterbacks carry out the fakes, they lose their right as a quarterback, a pocket-passing quarterback, the protection of a quarterback,” Matthews, in his radio interview, said he was told. “So you want to put hits as early and often on the quarterback and make them uncomfortable.".
It was pretty obvious that their gameplan was to hit Kaepernick as much as they could under the new rules. I don't think it was all dirty, but like Scott said I think they (and the Ravens) took advantage of the rule change to get in more hits on the QBs when they could.
I even saw Ndamukong Suh dive for Sulivan's knees, which he will hopefully be fined like all hell for.
Looks like $100k.
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The Black Series 3.75" Figures / Re: Defender Wishlists 2013: Expanded Universe
« on: September 10, 2013, 11:11 AM »
1. Crimson Jack (Marvel Star Wars)
2. Jolli (Marvel Star Wars)
3. Bollux/Blue Max (Han Solo Trilogy)
4. Admiral Pellaeon (Thrawn Trilogy)
5. Joruus C'baoth (Thrawn Trilogy)
6. Lumpawarrump (Holiday Special)
7. Attichitcuk (Holiday Special)
8. Malla (Holiday Special)
9. Anakin Solo (New Jedi Order)
10. Guri (Shadows of the Empire)
2. Jolli (Marvel Star Wars)
3. Bollux/Blue Max (Han Solo Trilogy)
4. Admiral Pellaeon (Thrawn Trilogy)
5. Joruus C'baoth (Thrawn Trilogy)
6. Lumpawarrump (Holiday Special)
7. Attichitcuk (Holiday Special)
8. Malla (Holiday Special)
9. Anakin Solo (New Jedi Order)
10. Guri (Shadows of the Empire)
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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NFL 2013-2014
« on: September 9, 2013, 12:13 PM »I've noticed some teams including the Packers and Ravens seem to be hitting players on the ground or as they are going to the ground...sure that is being agressive but I think they are taking advantage of the fact to get a few more hits on the ball carrier
So you're saying there's a chance that the Pack will do us a favor and take out Ponder? Don't get me wrong, I'm not cheering for a potential career ending injury... but maybe a nice sprained finger or something that knocks him out just long enough for Cassel to win the starting job for the rest of the year would be nice.
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Watto's Junk Yard / LEGO #2, Hasbro #3
« on: September 5, 2013, 12:52 PM »
LEGO Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker
First half of the year results for the big three:
Mattel: $2.16b
LEGO: $1.84b
Hasbro: $1.43b
LEGO has been knocking on Hasbro's door for a while, looks like they finally passed them. It will be interesting to hear Hasbro's spin on this when they have their big Investor Day presentations next week...
First half of the year results for the big three:
Mattel: $2.16b
LEGO: $1.84b
Hasbro: $1.43b
LEGO has been knocking on Hasbro's door for a while, looks like they finally passed them. It will be interesting to hear Hasbro's spin on this when they have their big Investor Day presentations next week...
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Movie Heroes / Saga Legends '12-? / Re: 2013 Japan Blind-Box Saga Legends Figures
« on: September 5, 2013, 10:35 AM »
I love how we started with simple blind-box versions of the existing $6 Legends figures in Japan and ended up creating a brand new $4 blind-bagged "build-a-figure" concept for kids/customizers.
The last batch of rumors/rumblings about Star Wars AMP'd did indeed have "licensing concerns" as the killer. I think Hasbro is OK if the "building toy" results in a classic action figure (ex: Iron Man Assemblers, Build-A-Droid), but if the idea ventures into "build-a-ship" then you venture into model and/or LEGO license territory. Probably need to get all that cleared through LFL and then some.
Over in Transformers land, where Hasbro doesn't have the same licensing issues, they went ahead with the AMP'd idea - Transformers Costruct-Bots.
Hasbro was going to do that AMP'D stuff that which was sort of building toys? (Could be why they canned it.)
The last batch of rumors/rumblings about Star Wars AMP'd did indeed have "licensing concerns" as the killer. I think Hasbro is OK if the "building toy" results in a classic action figure (ex: Iron Man Assemblers, Build-A-Droid), but if the idea ventures into "build-a-ship" then you venture into model and/or LEGO license territory. Probably need to get all that cleared through LFL and then some.
Over in Transformers land, where Hasbro doesn't have the same licensing issues, they went ahead with the AMP'd idea - Transformers Costruct-Bots.
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Movie Heroes / Saga Legends '12-? / Re: 2013 Japan Blind-Box Saga Legends Figures
« on: September 3, 2013, 03:18 PM »
Just catching up on some news from last week and saw these. Maybe it's because I have a soft-spot for Japanese trading figures (I <3 Kubricks 
), but it seems like a really unique, market-specific way to get these cheaper figures out there to kids.
Like others have said, collectors here in the USA would freak out, but over there where kids are already used to these type of 'trading figure' sets, I can totally see it working.
If $6 is too much for you to blind-box, be glad you guys aren't Kubrick/be@rbrick collectors then.
), but it seems like a really unique, market-specific way to get these cheaper figures out there to kids.Like others have said, collectors here in the USA would freak out, but over there where kids are already used to these type of 'trading figure' sets, I can totally see it working.
Anything blind bag/boxed over $3 or is too much to spend on chance
Kinda cool if cheap but if not (which IMO $6 is not)
If $6 is too much for you to blind-box, be glad you guys aren't Kubrick/be@rbrick collectors then.