The Sentinel figures have shown up at TJ Maxx also.  I spotted one a couple of months ago but I didn't know about the variant so didn't pay attention.  It was in a crushed box so I didn't pick it up for trade bait.

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Picked up 5 random packs of the Series 8 minifigures at Target tonight.  Pulled the Conquistador, Diver, Skier and 2 Fairys.  If anyone needs a Diver, Skier or Fairy, I'd trade for a Pirate Captain, Robot and/or Santa or Series 7 Grandma Visitor or Computer Programmer.

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I found a Target that had a full end cap of all the 1st wave of stuff a couple of weeks ago.  They didn't have the Ninja Combat Cruiser (VAMP repaint) which I really want to pick up.

I was surprised to find all that I did at Target, even TRU didn't have that much left over stuff.

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After seeing Dredd this past weekend, I have a new appreciation for Olivia Thirlby, who looked pretty damn hot in that movie.

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Saw that same wave at my WM today.  I ended up on passing on BW.

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Found, and bought, Nick Fury today at KMart.  They had two on the shelf.  I was kind of surprised to see him. 

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Here's a general question for those collecting the 3.75" scale Marvel movie lines:  are you into having three seperate collections?

Iron Man 2 did this with a Movie Line, a Comic Line, and a Concept Line.

The Avengers line has done this, too.  And seeing all of those stupid Reactron Armor Iron Man Concept figures warming the pegs has gotten to be ridiculous.

The Thor line seems to have done away with the comic line, but still clung to the concept / alternate hero look figures.

And the Captain America line still had three distinct classes of offerings.


I for one have stuck almost exclusively with movie figures from all of these lines.  There have been some select figures from the concept and comic series lines that I've picked up, but those are minimal at best.  Has anyone else been doing the same?

I don't collect a lot of any of these lines and find that all the different versions only confuse me when I'm looking for a specific figure.  On the Avengers line, for example, I wanted a movie CA but after loooking at all the versions of him out, I never did buy one because I never found a version that I liked that said it was from the movie line. 

The only time I ever specifically went looking for a figure that wasn't from the film was on the IM2 line when I was looking for both the comic and movie versions of War Machine. 

Personally, I think they should just do a movie line and forget about the comic/concept crap.  Seriously, if I can't figure it out, will kids who just want the characters they saw on screen figure it out?  I could see Hasbro coming back for the DVD release, Christmas and early into next year with a wave of Avengers figures based on comic/concept outfits but they should have led the summer and movie release with only movie figures.

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Out of nowhere, my WM put 1 lone deluxe Chitauri figure in their new clearance section at the front of the store.  Far as I know, they never had any of the deluxe figures before now so I have no idea where that came from.  It was very odd.

Saw some more Skrull figures and a couple Hawkeye figs, no Black Widow to be seen anywhere, however. 

I'm also starting to see the Helicarrier around and one WM I was in had the Quinjet on sale for $21.  Not a lot of basic figures around anywhere, though.  Other than the Skrull and Hawk fgs, at TRU, the other stores I was in had a couple Cap, IM or Thor figs and the rest of the pegs were filled in with those Flip & Attack figures.

Did see some Thor and Cap line releases on clearance at TJ Maxx and a ****-ton of IM2 figures for $3 - $5 at, well, pretty much every store I was in.  God that movie release was a huge cluster ****.

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