I used to collect hockey and baseball cards (late 80's to early 90's). I managed to get a decent sized collection but now that I no longer want the cards, I was told I'd be farther off just torching my collection.

Quote from: Matt_Fury on November 16, 2006, 04:54 PM

What's really sad about this is that he can just come out and say he did it and there's nothing anyone could do about it due to the whole Double Jeopardy thing.

I choose not to watch this crap.

He could be charged with perjury.

No he couldn't for the criminal case. Never followed the civil case, but I was taking a grade 12 law class when the trial was going on so it got discussed alot. The only forms of testimony OJ gave (like the trying on the glove) were not done on the stand so he was not under oath. Since he wasn't under oath, he could lie all he wanted and nobody could do sweet eff all about it legally.

Just bought this today. Was in TRU and thankfully, I had just got a GST check which was able to cover the sale price of this (74.97+tax) and they only had one left on the shelf.

Haven't had a chance to open it yet. Unfortunately my mom is a psycho when it comes to me being a toy collector despite the fact that I'm 28. So unfortunately it is currently sitting in the trunk of my dad's car.

I only picked up Superion and he's been in storage for quite some time now.  He didn't hold together as strong as I thought he would.  The leg assembly was wanky and he would fall from time to time.

I only have the torso and 1 arm for Devastator, but tried using the Superion bots to test the torso and he is a bit sturdier than Superion, but still has some problems.

Take out and buffet I usually never tip. If I'm at a buffet and the waitress is really cute, I will tip.

Restaurants I always leave a tip.

How much I tip depends on service, waitress' attitude and her looks  Largest tip I ever gave was $50. The restaurant I was in at the time, the spot they had the debit machine set up was not visible by customers and the waitress decided to flash me while we were back there. I figured a $50 tip was the least I could do. To bad I didn't live in that city or else I woulda tried to get her phone number.

I saw that Rumble pic on another forum and the first thing I noticed was the cassette tape design for the chest.

I wonder what they mean by working pile drivers. Now I just need to find a pic of him in car mode.

Back to the e-mail, though, for a moment:

Who in the blue hell refers to themselves as "an all around groovy dude" in their sig?!

Who in the blue hell refers to themselves at all in their sig?

Someone with a severly over-inflated ego.  oops did I say that outload 

Quote from: Pete_Fett on July 21, 2005, 04:18 PM

Dear Hasbro:

I know I am just a peasant to you. I know that you think I know NOTHING about the action figure industry, how toys are made, which way the wind is blowing in terms of collectibles and retailer interest, etc... but I want to offer this piece of advice.

GET RID OF DARRYL DEPRIEST NOW BEFORE HE DESTROYS YOUR STAR WARS BRAND.

Ok - so before I go any further let me say this. You are at the same cross-roads the Star Trek franchise and Playmates Toys faced with Star Trek: The Next Generation went off the air. Instead of continuing to produce figures that would expand on the well over 200 Star Trek characters already created, Playmates resorted to scale changes, action feature gimmicks and left its core line to languish only until it was too late, many had stopped collecting and the line died a horrible death at the hands of being basically a toy line exclusive to Target stores.

So here we are now, the last Star Wars movie has been released. There are TV shows, as well as re-releases of all six movies with 3-D presentations rumored on the near and far horizons. There should be enough Star Wars from now until at least 2010 in the main-stream media to keep this toy line afloat. Yet what are you doing?

Making scale changes via Force Battlers & Attacktix.

Figures have BARELY working action features - the Battle Packs should be aimed at COLLECTORS - not children, children "buyers" go into a store with their mom or dad and their parent says "you can have ONE", they don't say "oh look, I'm going to buy you this $25 box set".

Employing gimmicky concepts - Titanium Forged Figures, Star Wars 'Choppers', Unleashed Battle Packs and Star Wars Transformers are all products that have NO PLACE WHATSOEVER as part of a Star Wars toy line. Sure there were those "Armies of Middle Earth" things for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but the last time I checked, they didn't sell that well. You claim a 7" unleashed figure for $15 doesn't sell and you can't make as much money off it, yet you think you're going to make more off of a $15 3.75" figure made of die-cast metal? I would think plastic is CHEAPER then metal. And of course, last but certainly NOT least is the concept of Star Wars 'Choppers' - FIRE THE ******* WHO SPENDS HIS FREE TIME WATCHING AMERICAN CHOPPER ON T.L.C. RIGHT NOW AND KILL THIS LINE BEFORE YOU SPEND A DIME ON IT. To spend the time designing, sculpting, tooling, manufacturing, developing packaging, selling it to retailers and marketing is the ULTIMATE slap in the face to the loyal collectors who have followed your 3.75" line since 1995. (or even longer since 1978)

So before your Star Wars line starts down the slippery slope that was already travelled by Star Trek, put a REAL FAN in charge, not some jerk-off who used to run the GI Joe line and start asking collectors what kinds of items they want to see - develop TRUE market research and use that as your tools to get retailers interested in the line.

Please before it's too late.

Almost a year later and Pete is RIGHT onthe MARK! Hasbro has just commented on how they have a first quarter loss and are blaming it on declining interest in SW.

Hello, Hasbro! That's not it. It's a NON-INTEREST in those ridiculous off-shoot novelty lines that are killing the license.

The new slogan for Hasbro's SW line should be "Getting Back to Basics" (Providing they actually do that). Right now I'd say the slogan could read "Diversified to Death..." for how bad the line is.

Well said. Going into TRU, WalMart or Zellers, the only SW figs I've been able to find are the peg warmers I already have (Leia Boussh, Han Carbonite, Bib Fortuna). I did luck out and manage to get 1 Utapua Clone. At TRU I see full pegs of SW Transformers and the titanium figures.

The titanium figures don't really look too impressive and cost too much for such a small figure. And I would like to say I am afan of both Transformers and SW, but the combination of the two is an abomination that should never have happened.