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Other Toy Lines / Re: The Walking Dead
« on: July 30, 2015, 02:32 PM »
All 3: Pre gun shot. Bandaged post gun shot. And best of all post gun shot gaping wound.
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Other Toy Lines / Re: The Walking Dead
« on: July 30, 2015, 11:34 AM »
Grabbed a comic series gun shot wound Carl at TRU today.
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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: '67 Shelby Cobra found after 45 years
« on: July 26, 2015, 12:51 PM »
Non-woman speaking it doesn't get any more beautiful
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Vintage Kenner / Re: Modern Vintage Repros and Bootlegs
« on: July 23, 2015, 06:17 PM »
Picked up a reproduction carded Uzay R2D2 for $5. That "cigarette" sticking out of it's head is just too funny not to have one.
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Vintage Kenner / Re: Wow!
« on: July 21, 2015, 02:25 PM »
Looks even better than the last time I saw it in person!! Nice Justin!!
Though it gives my vintage collection some pretty bad penis envy.
Though it gives my vintage collection some pretty bad penis envy.
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The Black Series 3.75" / Re: San Diego Comic-Con 2015
« on: July 14, 2015, 01:12 PM »You know, you don't have to buy anything.
You lost me here.
My point is that if I budget $x for September 4 and knew what was being released, I could go into target see what they had from my want list, leave stuff i may like but know not as much as other itrms and then head to tru hoping they had the rest.
With no complete list I may find $x worth of stuff I find worth buying at Target. Then find out I should have passed onsome things because something else at tru was more spend worthy
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The Black Series 3.75" / Re: San Diego Comic-Con 2015
« on: July 14, 2015, 07:20 AM »
Not being able to budget for this is a kick in the nuts. I'm concerned I'm going to go to Target, buy what they have only to find out tru chose to carry a line target didn't
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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: TFA 6" Scale First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter
« on: July 12, 2015, 11:02 PM »I'd be tempted to try and make room for it, if it was an OT TIE.
Still cool
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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: TFA 6" Scale First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter
« on: July 12, 2015, 09:43 AM »
Maybe it'll be under produced or more likely under distributed. I could see Target/TRU/etc. being super wary of buying these in quantity.
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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Official Television Thread
« on: July 12, 2015, 12:53 AM »
Anyone else catch R5D4 commit suicide on Conan O'Brien? Pretty funny.
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The Black Series 6" Figures / Re: TFA 6" Scale First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter
« on: July 10, 2015, 11:40 PM »Alright, anyone seriously considering plunking down $185 or so with tax for this?!
I don't even know where I'd be able to put it if I did think the price was reasonable...
I sure want to
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Vintage Kenner / Re: Wow!
« on: July 10, 2015, 08:09 PM »
I have never seen pictures of the 12" Lili Ledy R2D2 until today. That's awesome. Looks like Lili Ledy beat Gentle Giant to the Jumbo versions of Kenner 4" figs by 35 years. The one on eBay coming up on $200 already so I'm out but.........
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The Black Series 3.75" / Re: San Diego Comic-Con 2015
« on: July 10, 2015, 12:23 PM »
Anyone buy any potato chips or cereal in the last couple years? Less product. More expensive. Is there a gmdefender.com because I feel forced to buy it anyway and would like to gripe.
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The Black Series 3.75" / Re: San Diego Comic-Con 2015
« on: July 10, 2015, 06:56 AM »
As is the case with most of my posts this will probably be a bunch of random sentences not necessarily related to one another.
I think Hasbro has dropped the ball in the last X number of years. BUT only a percentage of that is on them, the other just is what it is. A large part of "Hasblo" is the collector's mindset.
Do prices feel high? Yes. Do the paint apps seem bad for no good reason? Yes. Is it hard to watch the figures become lest collector friendly? Yes.
But they are toys. Some retail Hasbro stuff is obviously more adult oriented than others, but still they are toys that you can buy for relatively cheap. They aren't online only, "Museum Quality" (isn't that what Sideshow says?), figurines meant to display for the world to see and marvel at their quality.
My one time weekly toy run friend and now time to time toy run friend and I discuss how hard it is to listen to people upset about everything with SW toys all the time. Is there any other pop culture movie/show/whatever that even comes close to getting the toys we have gotten for 20 years (not including vintage)? So I mean, the character crop we've gotten? 38 years later you can go to Target (and I realize last wave syndrome may ruin my point here) and get some random dude who is just a background at a retail chain? How cool is that? I don't just get to choose from my 765th Vader or pay some company who's under producing toys online specifically for collectors and chose to charge a lot to make a random character. I think we've had it good for too long and not that things seem to be plateauing or even declining people have this weird reaction that "we are owed" something.
Thankfully the only thing that matters to me with collecting is MY ENJOYMENT and all the people who do it but apparently hate it aren't therefore able to break through my bubble and ruin it for me, but I can see how they might for some.
Hasbro you are not close to perfect, but you sure don't suck as bad as it feels (and we all know the internet is only for bitching and porn) most everyone is saying.
Ok time to get ready for work.
I think Hasbro has dropped the ball in the last X number of years. BUT only a percentage of that is on them, the other just is what it is. A large part of "Hasblo" is the collector's mindset.
Do prices feel high? Yes. Do the paint apps seem bad for no good reason? Yes. Is it hard to watch the figures become lest collector friendly? Yes.
But they are toys. Some retail Hasbro stuff is obviously more adult oriented than others, but still they are toys that you can buy for relatively cheap. They aren't online only, "Museum Quality" (isn't that what Sideshow says?), figurines meant to display for the world to see and marvel at their quality.
My one time weekly toy run friend and now time to time toy run friend and I discuss how hard it is to listen to people upset about everything with SW toys all the time. Is there any other pop culture movie/show/whatever that even comes close to getting the toys we have gotten for 20 years (not including vintage)? So I mean, the character crop we've gotten? 38 years later you can go to Target (and I realize last wave syndrome may ruin my point here) and get some random dude who is just a background at a retail chain? How cool is that? I don't just get to choose from my 765th Vader or pay some company who's under producing toys online specifically for collectors and chose to charge a lot to make a random character. I think we've had it good for too long and not that things seem to be plateauing or even declining people have this weird reaction that "we are owed" something.
Thankfully the only thing that matters to me with collecting is MY ENJOYMENT and all the people who do it but apparently hate it aren't therefore able to break through my bubble and ruin it for me, but I can see how they might for some.
Hasbro you are not close to perfect, but you sure don't suck as bad as it feels (and we all know the internet is only for bitching and porn) most everyone is saying.
Ok time to get ready for work.