For me, personally, anything short of a production-level item is just odd looking in the collection and doesn't fit the bill for me.  Even customs have to have a look.  I've seen people do amazing work painting a Hasbro figure, but unless they're repainting every Hasbro figure, it just looks off somehow in the wall of stuff that doesn't jive with it. 

I could not disagree more. I get it if your display is just a line of Hasbro toys that a custom painted fig can stick out like a sore thumb, but there's room in the collection for "oddities" and "out of place" things and it jives just fine.

The fact someone can tell my 4" Tzizvvt is a custom doesn't detract from the collection as a whole.

Quote from: Master_Phruby on April 19, 2017, 09:43 AM

You people act like you just can't pick up an NES on ebay and mod it for better video. You can do that or buy a clone or emulate it. I saw no reason for a mini NES with so many other alternatives.  If you have money burning a hole in your wallet, you can buy an Analogue NT mini with full HDMI and play games in 1080p.

Many casual users don't want--if they even know how--to mess with mods, emulators, ROMs, and any of that other ****. That's a big part of the appeal of the NES Classic. It's a really simple, plug-and-play, (theoretically) inexpensive way to play a bunch of games people remember from growing up. And all that without any of the moral/legal issues that come with emulators and ROMs.

And let's also not forget just how goddamn adorable it is. Nostalgia's a helluva drug.

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For $449? You could almost buy two NES Classics on eBay for that!

What Matt said.

I've had this obnoxious argument with my brother when I was trying to find one of these.

"You people act like you just can't pick up an NES on ebay and mod it for better video". This makes me laugh. Just that easy yep. How dare we just want to hand $60 to Target and have easy access to NES games if all we had to do was what you stated? 

I really want the "Life Size" $30 POP Groot they have at Target

Lol, I was just thinking ewww, that doesn't look anything like the Rebels character. I don't see the point in this. I thought Disney had put an embargo on all the non-canon EU stuff. Odd choice.

None of the 6" stuff has had a "cartoon" feel to it. Sabine, Kanan, etc.

Hopefully they have direction to have this endcap up for sure

Big difference between this must be up 4/16 and a general planogram date of 4/16

I hope they ship the pre-orders soon.

A little annoying that they haven't

$3 and change Rogue One figs and $2 and change Force Awakens figs at Kohls

Though very picked over

That is interesting...I believe they ship in cases of 4, so they must be referring to some sort of purchase limit. I hadn't heard that.

The CS guy at Target was saying there is a 4/16 date in their computer, so it's not coming from the box I guess. I felt like asking why some arbitrary day two weeks from now made more sense than selling them the week the DVD comes out, but I didn't have the energy.

I wouldn't mind waiting except that I wanted to use one of those coupons that expire Saturday.

There's also a huge difference between a hard distributor set street date and a Target planogram set date. These are not hard street dated and that's just Target employees being annoying