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Still nothing here, after perusing a couple more Walgreens. But Jack Skellington head pillows are back! Great news, probably for no one on the earth other than myself, but I got my daughter one of those a couple of years ago, and she sleeps on it every night, and has worn that thing out. Gonna buy at least a couple. That Tony head is pretty sweet.

Wish I would have known you wanted the thermal Pred when I bought that case, Shane!

Now that I'm paying a bit more attention to these, I'm surprised Mac didn't come with a hat, as well. I bought a case for wave one and took a loss offloading the extras I didn't want (including the 1 per case Predators guy!). So, I'm hesitant to order another case here to encounter the same problem. . .but damn, I can't go without the Predator 1 dudes. So, I'll have to pull the trigger at some point. Can't not have Shane Black! Plus, Gary Busey and "Fatburn" Minimates would be kind of fun. I'm just catching up on season 3 of Hannibal, and Lawrence Fishburn is so damn good there.

May benefit you to get them out before the DVD release hits. . .or maybe not.

I've been to a few Walgreens across Louisiana and Alabama and still nothing thus far.

Glad to hear it. I was worried I might not be able to get these first hand. Nighthawk FTW.

Gimme Hyperion! Can't seem to find any recently released Minimates at local Walgreens, but hope springs eternal!

Bout damn time.

If you want great DC TPBs, you have to start right here: http://www.amazon.com/New-Teen-Titans-Vol/dp/1401251439/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461073929&sr=8-1&keywords=new+teen+titans Then Crisis on Infinite Earths, Year One, Dark Knight Returns, Year Two, Death in the Family, Long Halloween (scores of other Batman stories are worth reading), the early JLI stuff, the O'Neal and Adams Batman stuff, Byrne's Man of Steel mini series. I also personally liked Legends quite a bit, and the Alan Davis run on Batman and the Outsiders, though I'm not sure if they have TPBs or not. Skip most of the golden and silver age stuff for now unless you can appreciate it simply for the artwork, or fact that it's hokey, fun golden and silver age stuff. One exception may be Gil Kane's Green Lantern, since his art is so beautiful that it transcends the hokey storytelling. If you want good comics through most of the '60s, look to Marvel. A fun pseudo DC read that I come back to every couple of years is JLA/Avengers, but it requires a pretty good understanding of both companies to fully appreciate IMO. X-Men/Teen Titans is another really good one shot.

Looks like LEGO is revealing some early spoilers, as usual: https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/695284605465845762'>https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/695284605465845762

He interviewed the Koozebanian aliens in the reporter outfit, but he wasn't wearing the hat. Palisades did a version of that figure. I like all of these in this new shot except Kermit (again) and Rowlf. They design choices aren't the same ones I would have made. Rowlf looks more like one of the Banana Splits than a Muppet there. Dr. Teeth looks freaking awesome, though.

Those are nice and everything, but I really want to see some AIM-inspired Defenders and Alpha Flight, with all yellow suits and all wearing those funky belts. And we can get an AIM version of Carnage, and Hobgoblin, and Dr. Doom. Then they can fight the Hydra imposter heroes and villains, and also Spider-Hulk.

I noticed an incremental shift in SSC's customer service over the last few years, where they're less and less customer friendly, and more and more concerned with minimizing returns. Then, you get stuff like this (both shipping cost and crappier than usual packaging), while the products themselves haven't really improved much over the last five years or so, despite SSC's claims that they were developing new technologies (like the crappy separate eye pieces that end up just making products new worse) and new factories that apparently function just the same as older factories. I was pretty much done with 1/6 SSC when the Joe line unofficially died off--even sooner considering that they ended with a whimper with Destro and Storm Shadow V2. The only ones I still have on display are heavily modified. They charge too much, give you mediocre products, and don't care about customers. Statues have been their real forte, and they still succeed there more or less, but you never get something that feels like it is the quality of your typical Hot Toys 1/6 scale release. The only reason they are still so popular there, in my opinion, is that they have exclusive contracts that hold competition like XM Studios at bay. I only have two pre-orders through SSC--both Hot Toys Star Wars figures--and that's probably going to be the trend for me moving forward. I pretty much have all the quarter scale statues I need (more than I need, actually), and I doubt I'll even touch their 1/6 Ash unless he gets heavily discounted through Hastings or something.

Those look pretty great in those pics.

Why are you so dreamy?

I'm guessing something akin to the skimpily dressed Indie women we've seen released a few times in Minimate form.

Love it.

The crummy character designs turned me off to that show I still enjoy it, though.

The bad editing turned me off to that show.

Happy birthday bud!

Yeah, those prices listed are just the deposits. Hot Toys does gouge, but so do these companies

A couple of cool, X-Men "inspired" figures coming available: http://onesixthkit.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=602 http://onesixthkit.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=601

I doubt they are articulated. Otherwise, they would have mentioned it, and the price would likely go way up.

I'm afraid the most we can ever hope for is this

I like gimmicks like this, just like I enjoy the World's Smallest Transformers. I might get these.