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Wish I had read this before I headed out yesterday - my local has had a Yelena / Red guardian 2-pack out for a while. If it's still there next time I go I'll grab one.

Wow, those are exceptional. I love your solution to Sunspot's power effect -- I may need to borrow that idea!

Does anyone know of a good color match for the comic-based WWII Wolverine? (Wave 29) I want to make a long-sleeved version of this body.

Marvel actually created a Dr. Who knockoff, and Dalek knockoffs, in the pages of Heroes for Hire. His name was Professor Gamble, and the Dalek-alikes were "Incinerators." And in a shameless plug, I'll share a pic here of a mostly-quick custom I did:

I've been a proponent of a Hellions "army builder" -- it would just have the alternate heads & gear to do Jetstream, Empath and Thunderbird (Warpath). Pack that with a female version of the costume with alt heads & gear for Roulette, Catseye & Tarot. Catseye would need another figure for her cat form, but the above would be drive the hardcore x-collectors to buy 3x each.

Thanks for the update Luke! Looking forward to Warstar! In other collecting news, I hope it isn't poor form to post this here, but there are no current hits for Luke's customs in the trade thread... I missed the boat on Luke's previous-year customs, and would like to trade some modern-character customs from this year to anyone who missed them, and who would be willing to part with older customs. I have Bastion, Quicksand and Spider-X available for trade. Please PM if interested in a swap!

I obviously really want a classic Shang-Chi. And I wouldn't oppose an updated version of Power Man & Iron Fist from the 70s/80s. But what about some Hulk love? Doc Samson and First Appearance She-Hulk would be great along with an obligatory Hulk variant. You could round them out with: Rick Jones who can transform into A-Bomb, Bi-Beast, and Zzzax. If this were back in the day and we were still doing Army Builders, then the Leader's Humanoids or the Toad Men would fit the bill.

Great designs, happy that these are coming. I am also unreasonably excited for HERBIE.

Overall I'm very happy with my Predator mates. I recently raided my Aliens / Predator mates and have enjoyed revisiting them, but there are still a few options from the first movie I'd like to see. Looks like they will be beating this dead horse once again, with Dan Trachtenberg now set to helm a reboot, so if this opens the window for "one last shot," here's what I'd like to see in a 3-set wave or boxed set: 1. Battle-Damaged Blain (aka chest hole) with Plasma Casting Stealth Predator 2. Battle-Damaged Dillon (dismembered arm) with Skinned Corpse 3. a New Dutch Release, with a New Predator Release & spinal column accessory More streamlined and therefore perhaps more achievable would be a box set: Battle-Damaged Blain, Plasma Casting Predator, Battle Damaged Dillon, Dutch Variant, with bonus spinal accessory. In one pack, you'd have the three most prominent/popular human characters and a Predator. In other words: two State Governors, Greef Karga and a hostile alien.

Man I'd really like to see Ferro and Bishop one day. Seems like it would take some new media tie-in, like a show or a game. I'm assuming they were meant to have been packed with Damaged and Undamaged Dropships. Were designs ever shared for it?

Wow! So cool and unexpected!

I'm on the edge of my seat here... who is our upcoming demonic villain?

When do we get to find out?

So the hint... was about a mystic-y X-villain that looks like it could be a Thor villain (I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember exactly). I'm guessing Belasco or S'ym, with heavier odds on Belasco.

Got my Spider X - looks great. And we have a new clue to discuss, though I'll keep it to myself until more people confirm they've received it. Luke is very good at making clues that could easily be two (or more) different characters...

Hmm... Fang? Starbolt? Smasher? Those three are achievable with some clever parts re-use. But really, any of the IG could be done with the right combo of decals, so it's anyone's guess. The original hint was: Starjammer, but not one of the well-known ones. Will this be a lesser-known IG member?

I'll happily be a pleb in this context: I dug Thor 3. Super fun to watch. I appreciated that it wasn't afraid to poke fun at itself. Was it Godfather II? Some ponderous Terrence Malick affair? Gaspar Noe? Haha, no, of course not. Sometimes I want to eat brunch at that new trendy fancy place that has a line out the door, and sometimes I want a bowl of Lucky Charms. I'm not going to rate the Lucky Charms against a gosh-dang grilled peach & burrata salad; I would find that to be an invariably unreasonable and ultimately disappointing exercise. Different scales entirely, and appropriately so.

Garokk and Living Monolith would both be amazing. Excited to learn who it'll end up being.

I read the fine print, and the inclusion of a "victim" means you're probably right. Man I'm bad at guessing this year

No, but he was wearing Jeans.

Yep either of those would be all "win."

Shadow King is awesome! The next hint suggests... Empath?

I was going to ask the same thing Freaqualizer... I do think it's pretty amazing that Luke was ready & willing to pivot on the MOE custom based on the aforementioned bird singing.

A must-buy wave. Did Cyclops ever wear a leather jacket in the 70s though?

Who are the last two?