Rad

Cheers guys. Sorry, I am a bit of a stranger nowadays. I pop up and post occasionally, then realise it's been days since I last visited the board. I still love this place (and you guys though).

My son gave me the Enterprise and Kirk set as a pressie. I was over the moon when I unwrapped it. It's sitting inbetween two banks of Star Trek minimates and really sets the display off.

As 9 would say...

Saw this set at my comic shop over the weekend. Was kinda underwhelmed with it, but now I see that Iron Man has a helmet to complete his outfit, so I might end up buying it today. LOL, didnt like it since I saw Iron Man with just a bodysuit and no armor. But this story line is one of those other universe like AoA, right?

Nah, it's not an AoA. It happened but got reset by much time-meddling. Which is having major consequences in the MU right now.

I only read Spawn occasionally, but I consider Angela toy royalty, since she was one of the first truly collectible direct-market action figures, after Warrior Nun Areala. I have owned several of her figures.

No hard feelings, Rad, I guess I took offense when there was none intended, and you and PL are right. There is nothing wrong with an effeminate Ultron:

We really need a 'like' button

All is copacetic Zach, Cheers dude.

Damn, I miss the Wasp!

Wasn't trying to tell you off, just explain that the figure was bulky, and needed to be put in the package a certain way. Sorry if it came off as rude -- I thought I was fairly polite.

That said, if you really like a set, calling Ultron "effeminate" on our Facebook page is not going to help sales.

Zach, I didn't take it as rude at all, dude. It made me chuckle, though at the time I didn't realise I was commenting

on the official page. My bad, so I apologise.

Having said that... What's wrong with having an effeminate bad guy anyway? Didn't do Zoltar any harm

I said I thought Ultron looked effeminate in the blister tray pic I saw on facebook. DST told me off (I think)

I don't think Ultron actually looks effeminate, it's just the way he's been rammed into the blister!

FWIW it's a great looking set, I can't wait to own it

50th anniversary week was just excellent. An Adventure in Time and Space left a tear in me eye. The Day of the Doctor had me enthralled from start to finish. John Hurt. Bloody John Hurt... How good was he? The line about pointing screwdrivers at people had me in stitches! Great episode. Nice love letter back to the series, and it does change things for the Doctor.

This made me wish the War Doctor had his own run. I loved Hurt in this role and I think, given sufficient episodes, he could have easily become my favorite incarnation of the Doctor.

Anyone else want to see a movie of a major Time War conflict with Timothy Dalton as the Lord President, Derek Jacobi as the Master and John Hurt as the War Doctor?

I'd love to see that. Same as I'd love to see more of the 8th Doctor. They won't do it, because there's only so much budget for Doctor Who. But I think the introduction of the War Doctor, and the changes to the 8th, should open up a brand new seam to be mined for off-screen stories. Be they books or audio-drama's. Not sure we'll ever see John Hurt back though.

50th anniversary week was just excellent. An Adventure in Time and Space left a tear in me eye. The Day of the Doctor had me enthralled from start to finish. John Hurt. Bloody John Hurt... How good was he? The line about pointing screwdrivers at people had me in stitches! Great episode. Nice love letter back to the series, and it does change things for the Doctor.

A more gnarly looking Bobby, with chunks of ice coming out of his head and shoulders would be pretty cool.

I like some of the new costumes, but frankly there are some rather egregious holes in the roster of X-Men and practically the entire Brotherhood, I don't think the new looks all merit being made over characters who still haven't been made.

I'm prepared to compromise though. Pack that Magneto with Toad and that Cyclops with Pyro and everyone wins. You, me, America.

I could live with that!

Going back to Tenime_Art's question. Christopher Muse can heal pretty much any wound. Up to and including death. Eva's power of Chronokinesis is bloody brilliant. She creates time bubbles around herself. Everything stops except her. She completely shafted the Avengers when they came to take her into custody.

There's also as Turtle mentioned, Goldballs. His power is to project solid balls out of his body. They happen to be golden in colour. It's been played for laughs so far, but the future X-Men go all geekgasm when they meet him during BOTA

And am I the only one that thinks Sif is like a billion times hotter then Jane Foster? I spent the whole movie thinking "what is wrong with you, Thor?"

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/god-blunder-why-thor-chose-wrong-woman-dark-073013928.html

Jaimie Alexander would be perfect as Wonder Woman. I said as much back in 2011. Sif rocks!

There you go Tenime. Not the greatest depiction of the characters, but it's the clearest picture of all the costumes that I could find.

While I admire you gentlemen for your passion about the storyline, I don't believe for a second that Professor X is going to stay dead. He and Magneto have died more times than I can remember, I guess it was Xavier's turn this year.

I even remember a time when Xavier was possessed by the Phoenix force and Kitty nicknamed him 'Bald Phoenix!'

He'll be back, of course he will, this is comics where not even Bucky stays dead.

Cyke killing Xavier was a major shocker for me, but as others have pointed out he was acting under the influence of the Phoenix force and you know what they say about absolute power. What still hasn't really been addressed (as far as I know) is the Avengers taking any responsibility for what happened to Xavier. If the Avengers hadn't demanded that Cyclops hand over Hope (who in essence is Cyclops's grandaughter) and then attacked utopia. Then none of this would have come to pass.

If Iron-Man and the Space Avengers hadn't diluted the Phoenix Force into five constituent parts then none of this would have happened. I'm glad it did happen, cos I think it's lead to some good stories and a real re-invigoration for the X-books.

I think Wolverine is in a major state of denial right now. For all he lashes out at Scott at every opportunity there has to come a point where he asks himself 'If I'm right, then why is everybody joining his team?' Especially Kitty.

There's also Hank McCoy's hubris to deal with. He's guilty of contributing to the screwing up the 616 timeline right now, who's going to take him to task for that?

Many good reads to come, and many good minimates too (I hope).

Slayback.... damn - that brings back memories. I don't think i've ever actually read him in a comic, but i also thought that trading card was cool and i have the circa 90's action figure of him too!

I have this figure, though mine is loose and has been donated to my son, along with all my 90's X-men figures.

I tell you what guys, we moan about incomplete sets for our minimates. But the 90's X-men line was atrocious. Mismatched scales, Bizarrre choices for figures. I mean, Slayback at least looks cool, but Commcast? Grizzly? Bridge!!!

I don't think we ever got a complete 90's X-Men team that was in scale to each other. I had a 90's Jean Grey figure that was amazing (for the time) but if her pose had been straightened out she'd have been about 10 feet tall compared to the rest of the line.

A genuine crusade 'mate for me would probably be a modern era Wasp. I miss Jan.

I can certainly say that her career isn't going to need any major push-up for a long time.

She's certainly a very well established actress. I'm sure she has all the support she needs.

Okay, I don't get the Kat Dennings thing. Darcy was barely in this movie, so what's with all the love? Should I know who she is?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kat+dennings+

she might barely be in that movie, but what time she has in the movie is AMAZING (meowmeow!)

Good lord! She has simply enormous star potential!

Super Adaptoid is way up there for me, but I've never cared for Mimic. He is like the Goober of Marvel's Mayberry.

I'd like to see both at some point. Mimic was a one shot villain until he was ressurected for Exiles. They made a lame character very interesting.

I was gutted when he was written out of the book.

Cheers guys. Wolvie's in a place right now where everything's black and white. Cyke sees the greys.

I loved the argument that Cyke and Wolverine have in BotA #2 where Cyclops says "'Professor Wolverine' Do you realise how ridiculous that sounds?" and Wolverine agrees

...and a wave of minimates inspired by the art of Fred Hembeck!

Forbush Man!

Time travel is nowhere near as complicated as people make it out to be. When you have inept writers like Bendis try to reinvent the rules, that's where problems start.

Care to explain why the original Xmen can't return but when Raze (mystique/wolverine son) goes as cyclops there's no problem??

Because Raze isn't Cyclops. He just looked like him.

Count me in the Yay camp for BOTA and Marvel Now X-Men 'mates.

X faced Cyclops is a must, as are Now Magik, and Now Beast.

I'd also like to see a set of the O5 in their impending suits. Don't like the suits that much, but I love the O5

and will buy as many variations of them as DST choose to make.

Someone mentioned that Cyclops's team is essentially the Brotherhood, I disagree. Scott's just trying to apply Xavier's dream to their current reality.

He built Utopia. The Avengers destroyed it. Governments the world over are trying to clamp down on the new wave of Mutants and Cyke is trying to protect them.

The raison d'etre of the Brotherhood was always Mutant Dominion. Cyke just wants his race to live.

Yeah, I'm an unabashed Cyclops fan

That Excalibur set is fantastic!

I'm hoping you're right, Rob.

Though I think the 'one look' idea was stretched a bit by Matt Smith. He certainly liked messing about with hats. And his current choice of outfit is quite different to how he first appeared.

The bow-tie is still cool

I'm just looking forward to a new incarnation. I've loved Smith's crack of the whip, but feel he's been let down by some poor stories. He's definitely doing the right thing by moving on.

Cheers for posting the links JJWSpider, I can totally see it's the Ross costume now. Not that I doubted you, Kostis

According to Dan Slott's twitter feed anyone not intending to buy Christos Gage's SSM annual, really ought to reconsider.

Something... Happens!

Ah shit! This is rotten news, fella. Hope you can keep things together. Good luck for the future, mate