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This week was also stellar. I hope we hear of merch for our community sooner rather than later.

Well, I think the messaging with Joes is the problem as the Military hasn’t had a consistent popular sentiment rating since Iraq. The Gen Alpha Honey Badgers being raised by Millienials and Gen X probably won’t connect with these and their mission ever. I am thinking of it as the pívot the brand had to make after Vietnam. That’s how we got the space force etc that May be in the box sets we get this summer. My envy for your trek… it’s palatable. I’m currently learning how to make decals just for this reason as I think the ship sailed, crashed, and the remains went through a worm hole. Robots > Soldiers always. Hopefully the Energon Universe revitalizes the brand. I’ve been loving the comics.

I love the Transformers mates but part of the magic is they transform… our mates do not and have slightly limited movement. They are beautiful but as a kid could I play with them or would I rather buy something that transforms? This is a nostalgic buy for me. Whereas Joes fit the play pattern and in some ways are superior to the other toys offered like Super7. On principle, Super 7 and Minimates share a similar structure of same mold slight variations on the characters (not sure I’m articulating that correctly). Where Minimates wins is the articulation and the interchangeable parts. They have managed to have perceived success because of the amount of skus and the variation in characters imho. My OG Star Trek disdain grows by the moment. I am so frustrated we can’t get to TNG which I consider “my” trek because we keep recycling the OG. Even then just give me three boxsets following Mmpr wave 2. One red shirt, one yellow shirt, one blue shirt and an alien with heads for variations and call it a bloody day. Even if you can’t do all the heads in one Boxset then just follow the formula and give us a Klingon, A Borg, a Romulan.

I’m used to my role as playing the voice of dissent here. I respectfully don’t think it’s over saturated I just don’t think it connected for a few reasons. 1. Clarity that there would be an exclusive cartoon set that would be followed up with two waves with a higher price point and odd box. 2. The two waves had half the characters from the first box set. The con exclusive was also retreads of 3 figures and a lesser known comic entity. 3. The extended (but justified) rollout. 4. Distribution/access. Less we forget the original box set sold out same day. Having only 16 slots, and 11 of them being the same 4 figures, was a choice. It just makes the play pattern harder and makes it harder to justify the price point. It’s easy for me to arm chair quarter back but the footlockers should have been com exclusives and the vhs boxes should have been the mainstream buy. I am thrown that we got more Transformers done then GiJoe. I love them but the transformers mates aren’t even in the same league as the Joes. It’s odd there are more.

Well, I think that’s the issue. If fans of a license and fans of a toyline aren’t willing to buy the figures at full price that sends a message that there isn’t interest. Hopefully something shifts for this line. I firmly believe that an army builder pack would sell out and drive interest in this line. Even a box set like turtles where it’s 5 figures. Off the top of my head. a BAT a Crimson Guard a twin with parts for the other. a Joe like clutch/rock n roll that can easily convert into another character Zartan with multiple heads and or shape changer parts.

Amen.

Well, we could eventually get a third Imperial Guard member in Smasher through the Avengers if DST was generous they might even give us the Male chest block in addition to the female one but I see your point. A play pattern I had since the 90s was just to lump the StarJammers with the Imperial Guard since we only had Guardian and Warstar.

Thanks. If people want to Army build they can have a Guard Fang, a Kitty, depowered Binary, and a cape Deathbird. The three Starjammers though… well who doesn’t need multiple Green things.

Slight suggestion: Sprite Deathbird Fang Wolverine with Daken Claws and alternate heads. Binary Ch'od & Cr'reee and the Bug.

That’s so weird to me. I had like 6 Heathers at one point.

I agree I just hate windswept anything without a neutral option 😆

He’s the best

I used a First Class Jean Grey head on it and forgot about it until you just brought it up.

I love this custom so much.

Yeah…. You don’t?!?

I think I remember Spector Creative saying something about the characters usage rights made him problematic. One of my toy friends just suggested Deadly Foes of Spider-Man and I hope he’s right.

I hear you on this. I feel like I have the same figure 17 times over. And I barely wanted one. I vaguely recall that the new costumes weren’t selling well but that might be a Legends topic. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I would love this but good luck getting my custom crew out of my hands!

The Avengers Time Suit 4 pack, to me, was pure bliss and the go forward for all team uniforms. I’d happily buy multiple of a GOTG set in those costumes. Also Alcolytes, X-Factor (ok it’s was just Scott and Jean but relax), New Mutants (x-edition), Hellions, and more.

Lol I bought so many I put heads on Vindicator/Guardian bodies to give them team uniforms. I whole heartedly agree with you and grieve TRU often. The reality is we are getting 15 full sized minimates a year (with the 3 smaller characters potentially) so we have to be realistic. I never in my life expected to own a Vindicator action figure I after the ToyBiz one. She’s still a proud possession. So getting a Minimate of Heather was unreal! We really had it good then and hopefully will have it good again. Ideally, if we were stuck in this model of 3 Marvel releases a year I would hope DST started a crowd funded option to drive buzz. For me a four pack Acolytes Vs X-Men that featured a male/female character in both suits with additional heads to make all the Acolytes and maybe parts for larger ones or more costumes ones like Senyaka paired with the “New X-Men” X uniform that Moonstar was released in as a Marvel Legend would be EPIC. Add in a Green costume Jamie Maddrox with different heads and I’m in heaven. I just don’t think they are open to it if we can’t even get a GI Joe Army Builder Pack. Yes, different companies, different contracts, different yadda. But the message I’m getting is crowd funding is off the table.

I own 6 lol. And I agree I’ve had my fill of Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain America, and Iron Man. At this point I am ready to put them as a set in plastic baggies and donate them to a store.

During the peak time, Deadly Foes, a four pack containing more accessories than a Deluxe Classified, featuring Doc Ock, Carnage, Sandman, and the Lizard was a peg warmer. So as much as it pains me to say this Z has valid points and I think he’s right. It’s a bitter pill to swallow but the fact is that you need an anchor even for LCS/online. Also, LCS are not in a boom. There’s under 3K in North America if that. They don’t want to hold on to inventory as that costs them money. They want to quickly sell out and make their profit while moving on to the next thing. The line needs guaranteed hits so I suspect we will always have a redo of a hugely popular figure in every box set go forward. Even Elektra as Daredevil with Bullseye and Kingpin wasn’t enough to get Stride of Pride DD knocked out of the boxset. Unless DST pivots on their crowdfunding positioning or an economic boom occurs the days of Alpha Flight Box Set 1 and 2 are over. At this rate we are lucky to get A con exclusive.

It must be the apocalypse… I disagree and we have numbers to prove that Z is right. Look at the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man set that Luke made. That thing was and is a love letter to the line and to fans. It wasn’t an instant success and that was in the prime years. You need an anchor character to get interest from casual fans and new ones. We would need at least two box sets to get all new Sinister Six figures and there would be a Spider-Man in both. Perhaps a battle damaged one. If the goal is to get an Electro, maybe focusing on a storyline that he’s heavily featured in. Like Untold Tales’ Shock before Shock. We could have Electro, Eel, Spider-Man Ditko, and any other two characters from that run. We could even have Amazing Spider-Man 422-425, The Rose, Electro, Spider-Man, Nate Grey, and the female Doc Ock.

I think if people were willing to compromise on one main Warrior being left out it could work across two packs released in the same year. We could do the 5 pack : Kid Nova, Nita, Thrash, Speedball, Firestar and then a fast follow GOTG with Vance (Two chest blocks and two heads), Marty, Yondu, Charlie 27, StarHawk with pieces for Aleta.

It’s definitely left its mark here in the city on the X-Fans. Especially, the ones here then. Great art should move you and this certainly did. I saw Lenore and was just in awe of how great the show has been. Hope we get mates from it.

It was a tough one.