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MrClean

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  1. MAX and Battle Beast were my favorite lines. I also really enjoyed the Pathfinder stuff having zero knowledge of the property itself. I’d love to see them re-visit MAX and Battle Beasts, along with a deeper dive into Marvel Comics, not movies. But all of that is null and void if I can’t find them in any store they may be exclusive to.
  2. I’ve been collecting since I first picked up wave 1 of the Marvel series at Suncoast, and the clearanced Trek ones at Target. I’ve been able to get 99% of them at retail - up until Walgreens. Wave 8 and up - lost me. I’ve only seen Avengers BC and Captain Marvel since then. Walgreens doesn’t seem to know what to do with them. If they had an online presence beyond that one wave, I’d probably still be all in. But my interest in the past year has barely gone beyond buying Luke’s customs. I’m just too busy with life and family to make the fruitless retail runs anymore. If anything kills this line, it will be undoubtedly distribution, not interest. I’d love to find any of those missing waves. But time spent with my family and daughters is too precious to waste on “the hunt”. Give me an online presence and I’ll bite. But I’m not chasing them into every Walgreens with an open wallet while they run away from me, daring me to catch them just for the privilege of buying them.
  3. I just noticed Mystique is on walgreens website for order at 13.99 also.
  4. This past weekend I went to a Walgreens after a long hiatus just to see what was there. Still no wave 8, 9 or 10. However I happily purchased a Marvel Legends Mystique and Genis-Vell for 13.99 each, leaving behind the Captain Marvel movie minimates.
  5. You could always do a one per person, but create a multiple man backdrop with numerous others to include with him.
  6. If only he had an extra white Puck hand to hold the stand out in front of him like a portal.... Like the extra head though!
  7. I like the idea. I think it would at least be as interesting to buyers as the whole Avengers BC concept, probably moreso.
  8. I found two packs today while there looking for Marvel Legends. Shock of shocks, new minimates. Only two though because there was no more room on the pegs with waves 7 and previous rotting there. BTW, very happy to finally complete the Marvel Legends Fantastic Four with the Thing! It's a great figure!
  9. Wherever it's offered, it's better than Walgreens.
  10. I can’t be the only one who would like an Andy Kaufmann, right?
  11. I've stopped checking Walgreens. My excitement for any new stuff, beginning with wave 8, 9 and IW2, is gone.
  12. I’m with you on that. If the seller counters with less than a dollar reduction, I will decline and write off the auction entirely. Seems like a pointless thing to do if that’s all they’re going to offer.
  13. Seems to still be in stock. But they've been so screwed up with their inventory of this line, it might have sold out and restocked.
  14. I guess what appeals to me is that I don't want or need figures that are the "next level". I look at Megos with the eyes of my 6 year old self, not the with the blurred vision of the 47 year old eyes I have today. Oh, they will be opened and displayed with my originals. I've bought vintage ones and they were opened as well. These are childhood loves, not investments. They were my first exposure to Super Hero toys and have a special place in my collection. And, they are out. Went looking for Sulu and found Chekov today! Didn't even know Chekov was part of the release. He has Kirk and Spock pictured on his package instead of the Gorn and Roman. Lots of other licenses, but no Sulu, Action Jackson or Mirror Mirror 2-pack.
  15. I can imagine a Hanna Barbera package for a 2-pack looking something like a retro TV set with posed figures in the screen.
  16. Why on earth is there a street date of August 1st on these? Was the lesson not learned before?
  17. Just a heads up Luke, I never received the Flair invoice through email. I only saw it once I logged into PayPal. Didn’t go to junk mail either. Not sure if PayPal didn’t forward it, or if something else went wrong. Figured I’d let you know in case anyone else here is having the same thing happen.
  18. My imagination carries through to this day. But times have changed over the last 40+ years. Kids have changed. Without media recognition, a cool figure isn’t necesarily a wanted figure. My own girls might give me a shrug when I show them Battle Beasts, but the TRU Parker/Spidey costume change minimate gets oohs and ahhs and “that’s cool”. And in my house, Chewie and Groot figures wins hand down because when it’s up to my girls, obscurity doesn’t have a chance.
  19. In the cartoon, the Ghost Riders are a group of Mad Max Road Warrior type gang summoned by the Beyonder to stop the heroes. They all seemed pretty mindless, although a couple had some cool looks.
  20. How are these characters, with no A-list characters, going to get a single non comic collector to go to walgreens to buy these? I can just hear the conversation played out like this "Hey Mom, can I get a Spider-Man toy? Sure son,...oh wait, I don't see any... oh what about this caveman looking guy and the bald woman in a green bikini? No thanks mom...do they have a Black Panther? Yes son, but...he's naked. Oh. Mom, can I just get a hot wheels?"
  21. How are these characters, with no A-list characters, going to get a single non comic collector to go to walgreens to buy these? I can just hear the conversation played out like this "Hey Mom, can I get a Spider-Man toy? Sure son,...oh wait, I don't see any... oh what about this caveman looking guy and the bald woman in a green bikini? No thanks mom...do they have a Black Panther? Yes son, but...he's naked. Oh. Mom, can I just get a hot wheels?"
  22. I think the bigger overlying problem is that they just don't have the shelf space. They already take up 2 pegs at most stores. I don't see any other lines with more space than that. It's not a dominant toy brand in a store that's not a toy store. It's a losing recipe either way.
  23. I wish I could say I can't wait, but seeing as how I've yet to see Infinity War wave 2, Animated series 8 or Animated series 9 in any Walgreens, I'm pretty sure the 2 full pegs of older series, currently sitting untouched everywhere, will not have room for multiple comic based or animated lines for a very long time, if ever. That Walgreens exclusive sticker might as well have a big middle finger on it.
  24. So that means I might actually try to fill my Mego collection with official Megos of Sulu and Chekov (and whoever else from DC and Marvel and other lines) instead of these upstart Mego wannabe companies from the last few years.
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