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karamazov80

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  1. Or knowing AFX, that have literally thousands of these. There's no way they're gona run out and I'll just wait till they dump the rest.

    I can see next year's Christmas special, where you have to spend 25 bucks to get a "Weapon X Wolverine" Minimate or something (can't have enough Spideys and Wolverines, can we?), and this year's Spidey exclusive will be on clearance in that deal, selling for 2.00.

  2. I've noticed two items have moved out of the Holiday Sale since this morning a Max Sentinel and the Spidey box set. This added to the charge of $18 shipping for $25 of product makes it hard for me to trust AFX.

    I was debating doing this deal, and the main part of it was going to be the Spiderman 5-pack. Now, I'll probably just order the Defenders set and forget about Iron Spidey.

    Related to this, if you order the set off of eBay, AFX lets you choose domestic priority mail shipping, which is 2 bucks cheaper than UPS shipping (the cheapest option on their website). . .strange. . .

  3. I guess I better go ahead and pre-order mine, then. I typically hate the whole pre-order nonsense, as I would rather buy them when I know they are in stock, but. . .those Defenders look bad-ass. Must have ASAP.

    --edit: on second thought. . .10 bucks for shipping! I think that I will wait a bit--

  4. This led to a man at my old job literally falling off his ladder the first time he heard me curse (providing hilarity for all).

    If America's Funniest Home Videos has taught me anything (and I believe that --edit Saget-- has taught me every important life lesson), it is that falling off of ladders is almost as funny as watching some other guy get hit in the balls. Sorry I missed that one.

  5. Despite their prices, they have released a few items that I have an interest in buying. Unfortunately, they are all discontinued, and go for way too much on eBay :(

    My number 1 example:

    http://www.sideshowtoy.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?item=6310

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Hot-Toys-Aliens-Corpor...bayphotohosting

    Nonetheless, with Indiana Jones licenses coming their way, and Darkman figures. . .I'll definitely consider buying from them, through here, at some point.

  6. I don't have many pics of myself, so most that I do have are pretty old, but that beer-swilling pic made me think of my visit to Ireland a couple years ago, and a pic that I had my Myspace page for a while. That Guinness was so freakin great. . .

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    This is Halloween last year:

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    And this is a picture of me as a 4 year old with my little sister (circa 1984)--look at that shirt, I was a geek from the get-go.

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  7. Oh awesome. I love Krylon Fusion. Go to Transtopia much?

    Good eye! I've browsed through there a few times, but I'm not a huge kitbasher or anything. I just wanted to get some G1-inspired Alts, and most of those figures weren't quite doing it for me as they were released (you might guess that I've spent a dollar or two over at Reprolabels). However, the first time I saw this, I fell deeply, madly in love:

    http://www.tfmaster.com/gallery_kb0167.php

  8. Regarding Krypto (and that is his name, thanks to my nephew), you should see some of the wacky situations he gets into, being the most hyper Jack Russell around (which is saying something). I have so many shots of him doing strange things. . .

    Share! Share!! :D

    Not exactly Transformers related, but. . .:

    Chasing my other dog, Odie:

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    Not letting me sleep 1. Notice the red eye? He is a Terminator.:

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    Not letting me sleep 2, tag-teaming me with Odie (the bandages are there because he was scratching his skin off completely due to an infection of some kind. That period of time sucked):

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    Caked in mud--making himself look as dirty as possible is his favorite past time

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    Here he is hiding from predators. . .can you see him? No, he is hidden.

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    These pictures don't even do justice to how insane he actually is, though.

  9. I was at an out-of-town Suncoast the yesterday. They had 3 of the 5-packs, but all still at full price ($19.99).... No luck finidng sale cylons around here.

    Did you check how much it rang up for? At my local FYE, they were priced 19.99, but rang up as 12.99 (I bought a couple of extras and have them in my want/have listings, btw, if anyone is interested in trading for them). . .

  10. Does anyone know if he has the same QC problems that Takara Greenscream had (stress points)?

    Also, I'm going to need to demand larger pictures of your Krypto... ;)

    I had read that one guy received a Skywarp missing a finger, but apart from that, I haven't heard much else. . .

    Regarding Krypto (and that is his name, thanks to my nephew), you should see some of the wacky situations he gets into, being the most hyper Jack Russell around (which is saying something). I have so many shots of him doing strange things. . .

  11. It sucks that Wal-Mart is only shipping these to specific stores, as I think it artificially inflates the eBay prices, as people think there are fewer of them than there actually are. Nonetheless, I anticipate that these prices will fall further as people realize that they aren't as scarce as they seem, probably within a couple of weeks (they still haven't circulated throughout the country yet, from what I gather).

    BTW, I got mine yesterday, and man, is he a thing of beauty. He now replaces my Classic Starscream as my favorite Transformer. . .of course, now I'm going to have to shell out 100+ bucks for MP Skywarp :(

  12. In case some of you aren't privy to the newest Joe-related news, pre-orders are now being taken from the Big Bad Toy Store for waves 1 and 2 of the 2-packs (with proofs of purchase from 6 of these, you can get an exclusive Doc mail-in figure). Most of wave 1 are brightly comic-colored repaints of existing characters (Duke, Snake Eyes, Cobra Commander, Storm Shadow) with the exception of Hawk (V1), who comes with repaint Scarlett. Wave 2, however, has:

    1) Ripper and Torch; and

    2) Destro (repaint) and Breaker (with bubble gum)

    http://www.hisstank.com/forum/attachment.p...mp;d=1193942052

    http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product...&picture=in

    That Breaker. . .is a thing of beauty (holds back tear)

  13. I opened all the mates last night and gotta say they're all awesome, though I worry about Hawkman and Hawkgirl's wings. I dunno, but I think maybe they should have been molded on to the figures somehow.

    They don't stay on my Minimates very well. I just hope that they will be compatible with Archangel's wing slots so that I don't have to go to too much trouble making a custom Angel from the variant. . .

  14. LOL MST3KFan, dude you are so screwed: you've got it bad. Welcome to the Asylum, where there is no cure for the addiction, only more plastic fixes, carefully metered to keep us strung out. ;)

    I wonder we could be given Lego figures or Kubricks to wean us off of the 'Mates. I'm thinking that those lesser block figs might work like Methadone does for heroin addiction. . .

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