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Cyc

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  1. I wouldn't mind them, but I think that everybody overestimated the interest in Rocky as a whole, larger figures are shelfwarming everywhere down here. You can see how they tried to milk by going for the whole franchise, but the interest lived and died on back of recent movie and another instance of movie mates out after the movie had come and gone.

  2. Based on what we know of the trailers and the Ghost Rider wave (single wave for movie with single main character), probably a given a wave/set would include both clunky silver/ and ed & gold armor variations. I'd say the remainder would be a Tonk Stark in suit, Stane in suit or Stane in armor, single female (Pepper I'm guessing) and Stark either injuried/hostage or Stark wearing glove plugged into his chest as a chase.

  3. I'm mostly missing newer mates of all waves. I'm feeling increasing financial stress due to bub, so most of 07 I was sometimes very up to date with full waves and chases , other times really lagging behind. Now have a local retailer supporting Minimates again it's good to know not alone locally in liking them, but much more competition to get chases so making it harder to ensure full sets. Some of the lines (Star Trek, BGC) I missed out on even non-chase packs locally, so hitting the russian roulette that is ebay more often :(

  4. Can someone (anyone) explain why this Suncoast FYE crowd got this 'exclusive'. I know all about bad jokes & a fair bit about marketing . As far as marketing goes this is a bad joke.

    Diamond offered an exclusive 2-pack to any and all interested retailers, Suncoast/FYE was the retailer who agreed to cough up the money for it.

    Pretty much all the recent 2-pack exclusives have been developed by Diamond and then shopped around to various retailers to see if anybody is interested in carrying them. Some have found homes like this one, others find a home in Previews, and others such as BGC exclusive 2-packs didn't get any bites and were rolled into Series 4.

  5. Okay, another attempt, ended up worse:

    Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest 12-inch Davy Jones Action Figure with Sound - $24.99US

    SF2 Player 2 Chun Li vs M. Bison Minimates exclusive - $2.00US

    And again the only two shipping options AFX allows to Australia (everything else is "The shipping method you specified is not available to your address")

    USPS Priority Mail International - $49.00US

    UPS Worldwide Expedited - $124.31US

    And just for giggles, let's try a single minimate 2-pack:

    SF2 Player 2 Chun Li vs M. Bison Minimates exclusive - $2.00US

    USPS Priority Mail International - $26.25US

    UPS Worldwide Expedited - $72.74US

  6. Go away for a week and come back to this...

    Definitely interested in any way to make it cheaper for international fans to try and gets these, mainly because the shipping options AFX offer are never friendly to Australians (3 betty boop bobble heads plus SF2 exclusive minimate 2-pack = $26.75US - cheapest/first option shipping $40US, next option a whopping $104US)

  7. Well, could argue that LOTR (and C3 for that matter) had the problem of Play Along Toys not having the pull of the big boys, which effected their production and output due to so-so demand.

    But with regards to most of the movie and TV series mates coming out it's wrong to compare them to SF2 mates because they haven't really come out yet. It's entirely they will bomb and fail too , the only difference is SF2 had it's chances to prove it could be a contender and failed, where these guys have barely entered the ring.

  8. That's the thing, even with appearances on JL/JLU Martian Manhunter doesn't have the main stream pull, yet the DCD MM seem to be all about catering to the fans more than the mainstream. Even skipping those B-listers who had C3 mates seems off given some of the obscure choices in the DCD line.

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