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Another company killed off by Amazon. It’s hard to imagine any retail chains that aren’t food or clothing or bargain specific existing in 20 years. 

Distribution on this wave must be piss poor because I’ve barely even seen an eBay listing. 

Morph. For real? Y’all really know how to derail a thread. 

Well, both the TRUs in Nashville had the Black Panther wave, but no luck on these. Unfortunately they still have tons of unsold TRU 24 and 23 sets, which makes me worried that we aren’t going to get these...so if anyone wants to help a brother out with a set of these TRU 25s, I would be much obliged.

The last several X-Men/Wolverine waves have been amazing for filling in so many of my most wanted figs (especially when it comes to villains). Here’s my revised top 10 X-Villains wishlist:

Dark Phoenix redo

Mimic

Arcade

Legion

Stryfe

Goblin Queen

Sebastian Shaw & White Queen Emma Frost redo

Black Tom Cassidy & Juggernaut redo

I guess with the new movie not exactly smashing records at the box office, this seems far fetched, but man do I really want a couple of Blade Runner waves. Even two boxed sets would be good.

2049 set: K, Joi, Luv, Old Man Deckard.

Classic set: Deckard, Roy Batty, Priss, Rachel

Anybody got a Skurge they can help me out with? None of the 400 Walgreens in Nashville seem to have this wave. 

Outside of Planet Hulk, this is by far the least interested I've been in a wave since I began collecting minimates. Definitely didn't need another Old Man Logan when I already made a quick custom of this look with the Secret Wars figure. Oh well, the X-Men box set is still great. Hopefully 75 is killer.

Oh nice. Didn't catch that.

I can't remember, are some of these box set figures going to also be in the regular wave? 

I love the inclusion of a Mastermind head and chest block. He's an easy custom with the Old Man Logan jacket and some random brown legs.

Korvac, Magus, or Hela would be my top 3 wants for Cosmic comic foes, but I'm clueless as to who this is gonna be.

Found these yesterday in Nashville. Got em all except the Hulk Carnage pack, cuz who wants that garbage? 

I guess all I had to do to solve my problem of NEVER finding new Walgreens waves was to move to a completely different city in a different state. 

I'm not a fan of the armor design, but i am really happy we finally got some new goddamn arms for these Iron Man figs that can actually move.

2 hours ago, DarthBurkie said:

I ordered a 2nd set from Luke. Gonna cut the arrows off Ninja Attack, spray paint it black and make the Wolverine #1 1988 cover quick (-ish) custom!

that's a pretty great idea. i really wish we would have gotten the Madripoor Wolverine as part of this wave in place of Ninja Attack Wolvie, but I can't complain too much. 

13 minutes ago, stack32 said:

If "most" of us hate movie waves so much, who's buying them? DST has said more than once that movie waves are generally good sellers.

I think perfect is a stretch but this wave is definitely above average in overall quality (Wolverine's boots being the only real issue) and innovative design.

I don't know about other locations, but the last several MCU movie waves didn't sell at all at any of the TRU locations near me. There are still Civil War mates on the shelf from both waves, NONE of the Dr. Strange ones sold (even on discount), and the Guardians aren't exactly moving either. The Wolverine wave has sold out and been restocked already after 2 weeks of showing up. 

19 hours ago, NerdyTrev said:

Well....... I'll give you that he's same size as Wolvie, but Puck is quite literally a Dwarf. We're talking Oompa Loompa size. I trust DST will make the right choices considering the fact that we've been promised a toad for years (see that poster for details). Personally, I just wanna try and make sure that he can be as short as possible when in crouching position. 

Toad is average height. He's taller than Wolverine. He's listed as 5'8" and 260 pounds in the Official Handbook of The Marvel Universe. 

On 5/20/2017 at 8:13 PM, Mysterious Stranger said:

Saw a lone Mojo/Spiral set at the TRU in Burbsnk, mixed in with the GotG sets. I just need the Wolverine/Magneto set.

I've got an extra if you need one. Cost plus shipping, obviously. 

Did anyone else end up with 2 right hands on their Lady Deathstrike figure?

They're gonna need some extra large hallways to accommodate 4 people fighting at once.

Medusa looks like someone playing a Disney Princess at a little girl's birthday party. 

5 hours ago, DSTZach said:

The whole "this animated-style Minimate does not fit in with my comic Mates due to a slight degree of simplification and is therefore invalid" thing is incomprehensible to me. It's a very detailed Minimate. 

Hopefully people appreciate what this line provides, as well as what the comic line provides, which will be a lot this year. There are a thousand Marvel costumes that need to be made or updated, so appearing in this line is not necessarily the reason a costume does not appear in the comic line.

i'd appreciate this line a lot more if the waves were properly distributed by Walgreens. These figures are the biggest pain in the ass to collect. I live in a town with 3 Walgreens in between 2 major cities that have probably another 30 stores. I NEVER see new waves. Nothing past 1.5 has ever shown up on the shelves. When mates have been restocked they are always more older waves. Some stores don't even have ANY mates on the shelf. Staff that I've asked questions to either have no clue or tell me things like "we get what they send us". 

Having to rely on other members of this messageboard and ebay to get them really defeats the point of these Minimates being an exclusive at a major chain. This is only a problem with Minimates. The stores near me have no problem getting the new Marvel Legends, Star Wars Black Series, and Funko Pop exclusives. 

4 hours ago, BuffaloDelorean said:

Sales were sluggish for Thor movies, or MCU in general? The Marvel movie waves move faster than the comic stuff at my LCS.

I don't know about LCS's but the movie waves don't sell worth a damn at the two TRUs near me. There are still unsold Civil War minimates and NOBODY bought any of the Dr Strange ones. The Guardians sets haven't moved at all either. 

the Leader and Kang are much needed as well as Ms. Marvel. I didn't need another hulkbuster, but i like the Hydra-ish color scheme. Luckily those 4 figures are together cuz I don't care about the rest and I am really sick of the animated Iron Man repaints. 

I was back in my hometown where there are like 12 Walgreens and in 3 of them there were no Minimates at all. Not even a shelf spot for them. The rest of the stores just had waves 1 and 1.5.