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I feel like I should get an Emmet mini-figure from “the Lego Movie” so he can hang out with the Star-Lord minimate and be buddies.

Sailor Venus is up for pre-order at BBTS!!!!!

I want a modern/current/straight haired Rogue... I don’t know if she counts as “modern X-men” but that’s my hope.

the Mark 5’s feet don’t add much height, but they do have the sculpted shin piece

To echo what Rock Steady said: What makes Jean so special? Why does he feel guilt? He’s killed countless other people between loosing his memory and Jean’s Death, and since he stabbed a dude with a poison arrow in “The Wolverine” before his Japanese adventure starts we can assume after her death he didn’t give up murdering either. What makes HER death haunt him? Why does he “love” her? She was with Scott so it’s not like they dated or got to know each other, he didn’t stick around the X-Mansion because being a mysterious loner was more important to him even though he could have pretended to stay “to protect Rogue” so it’s not even like the two of them could have just grown close from hanging over the years. So Wolverine feels bad out of the hundreds of dudes he remembers killing ONE of them was a hot redhead who didn’t mace him in the face. How this ties into my question of how Jean was presented in “The Wolverine”: If Jean is his guilt it means he’s creepy as f**k for obsessing over another man’s wife long term girlfriend, but it also means he’s letting go not only of his guilt but “what never was”, we know she never rolled around in a nightie in the movies with him as it’s not shown or mentioned by any one (and really, if Hugh Jackman and Famke Janssen’s characters are going to the bone zone there’s no way that’s not ending up on film) so this is an invention of his mind. When he’s able to let go of his guilt, he let’s go of the ‘memory’ of woman who never really loved him to save another woman who DID roll around in a nightgown with him AND left her long term boyfriend fiancee for Logan, trading a false one sided love for something that could turn into real love two sided someday or something. If it’s the Phoenix force it’s more clear cut. It knows Logan thought Jean was hot (I’m 90% certain she even hit on him in X3 as Dark Phoenix but Logan rejected knowing something was wrong... but I haven’t watched X3 in years since I don’t hate myself so I can’t be certain) so it’s using that against him begging him to “come join her” is it saying “Hey, kill yourself a-hole! It’s not cool you managed to kill me, so you die too!” and at the end when Logan realizes he can’t keep feeling bad about Jean’s death the Phoenix just up and decides “f**k it, I’ll just come back in a sequel... get you then a-hole” (yeah, the Phoenix force swears a lot...) neither version changes the movie much as either way the only changes are subtextual: Is Logan a total creep or being tormented by the supernatural? Doesn’t matter since the train scene is pretty bad ass and up until the ninja street fight ends it’s a pretty perfect movie (Giant boss level fight ruined it so much, but creep or ghost victim a dumb ending is still going to be a dumb ending)

Does it matter? Even if they weren’t does it change the fact she and Scott were at least at one point in love and had been for several years, where as she met Wolverine in “X-Men” and she dies at the end of “X2” and it’s implied Logan spent much of the time between the two movies driving around trying to figure out his past only stopping by the mansion now and then to say hi to Rogue and check in with the Prof... So if it makes it more accurate I’ll rephrase it: "Is Jean supposed to be a representation of Wolverine’s guilt over killing a woman in a long term relationship he knew for three or so years on and off depending on the gap between X1 and X2 (which couldn’t be more than 3 years since the X-kids are still in school as it opens with a school trip) and it should be noted it was mostly off since it’s implied by Rogue’s reaction to his return in X2 he’s rarely at the mansion OR was it the actual factual phoenix force talking to him from beyond the grave?

So this has been confusing me since I saw the movie: Is Jean supposed to be a representation of Wolverine’s guilt over killing a married woman he knew for 3 months OR was it the actual factual phoenix force talking to him from beyond the grave? (with her leaving through the white light at the end either representing his putting his guilt to rest or her leaving to go resurrect in a future sequel) I know it doesn’t change the movie one way or another, I’m just not sure how to read the scenes.

new series out, not a lot of new in it. Just Pink Yoshi (who I guess will have to do since I don’t think red is cannon anymore), Cheap Cheap, and Bullet Bill (who I *think* is new a single pack... I’ve had one for a while from a race track set, but I know a gold one is in the 3 packs)... if you didn’t buy the 3 packs Hammer Bro is available as a solo now. first digit underline: Bullet Bill first digit double underline: Cheap Cheap second digit: Mario (same old, meat and potatoes, plain jane, missionary style Mario not one of the countless powered up versions he could have been) third digit: Bowser forth digit: Pink Yoshi fifth digit: Toad (original, I don’t know if blue/yellow Toad where released, but this is plan old red spot Toad) sixth digit: Diddy Kong seventh digit: Hammer Bro I would still like to see Raccoon Mario/Fox Luigi, Takunki Mario/Kitsune Luigi, Silver Luigi, Ice Mario, Thwomp, Blooper and Goomba make their way into the blind bags since they have the molds and I’m not going to buy a $30 set of sticks and cogs for one figure. But, eh, my Yoshi set is complete and Bowser has a nice sized army, so if they stopped here I’d be good.

So if TRU probably has wave 18 already we can expect them in October!!!

I usually get my mother-in-law a minimate for Christmas from a property she enjoys to go with her other gifts. (Trek, Hugh Jackman, Universal Monsters, Sheriff Rick have been past gifts) but this year she bought her own Trek mates and doesn’t need another Wolverine, so there were no new minimates I could get her... So I made this: DEAD SHIRT! (with alternate pieces for maximum fun!) Not the most original idea (I know I saw a “Battle Damage Red Shirt” here using DD’s chest when it was a new piece) but it was effective and she enjoyed it.

But I am also not as high as others on Bag-man though and would much prefer Spidey-Hulk. To each their own I guess! I like Bag Man, but even still all I can say is: OH HELL YEAH!!! I WANT A SPIDER-HULK TOO!!!!

I finally found another set 2 for rather cheap so I was able to make this: TRU 7 Sue Storm limbs color match pretty well to make “Phasing Tygra”

actual question: Why does Bandai show their prototypes in greyscale? It’s not even like they’re just showing the basic sculpt or something because stuff that’s paint opps like eyes or Kratos’ tattoo were also filled in. “Coloring” in greyscale is just as time consuming as coloring in real colors, so why do they do this? Licensing issues? To clearly show who’s not ready yet? Just for fun? (reason for question: changing subject since I don’t want to think about how Venus is 6 months away)

WANT!

make both as SDCC exclusives, DST carries one AFX carries the other, 4 big names in two interesting different looks (or three for spidey and Hulk if you include the extra parts) so everyone wins!

I’ll take any Spider-man costume, even redos of the classic version if it’s done right (we could use a new black and dark blue version since the most recent ones have all been light blue) but Bag Man has a Bag on his head, like my name! it wins. They can kill 2 birds with one stone and make a “New Fantastic Four” box set just include the back-sign, bare feet, and bag head and extras... also Hulk could come with alternate feet with the torn pant legs and alternate ‘jean front’ crotch piece instead of “4” belt and he doubles as a savage grey Hulk.

I agree! I want to change my sig banner

Ah so it *IS* a trace, but he’s tracing himself so it’s okay.

Is... is that second panel just a blatant trace of the first?!

I got mine today, I’m a little disappointed most of the Hulkbuster/Hulk in Armor’s Gloves lack paint detail... given these are all existing tooling and cost MORE then an average set (with practically none of that cost going towards packaging) it seems inexcusable. I’m sure there’s some logical answer, like they’re produced in a much smaller number or something, but still it’s disappointing there’s HUGE chunks of red plastic going on. (and I’m nitpicking, they’re still pretty great and I’m always excited for a new ironman-mask-on-actual-face-block piece, I do like them especially the Tony Stark head, it’s fun.)

How do you kill a zombie? Headshot. How do you kill a Marvel Zombie? Disney. Except pre-Disney Marvel is the one who said “no more Marvel Zombie merch” and Disney owned Marvel is the one who said “okay... but Villains only"

.... so BBTS sent me a pre-ordered product now available notice, I was expecting it to be Age of Ultron, but nope. These are apparently out now.

I have no idea where to donate an open DVD (I’m using mine as a ‘card’ to give my nephew the $50 I was gonna give him for Christmas so he can buy Skylanders) but I came up with some options on what people who don’t want the movie and don’t have a seven year old they can dump it on can do... 1-Help international board members by purchasing multiple copies and selling them for cost of DVD+minimates+shipping, since they probably don’t want the DVD’s either start building a little pile... then on Christmas morning at 4am drive down the street like Jesse Pinkman tossing DVD’s on people’s lawns. 2-“Accidentally” “Return” it to Netflix or Redbox with whatever movie you actually wanted to watch, don’t want to watch a movie? Stick in one of the return bins at the closing forever Blockbusters, it’s their f**king problem now! 3-Leave it somewhere kids go: the table of a fast food restaurant, the bench of a park, the hood of a minivan you see in the parking lot of toys-r-us... sure most parents will slap it out of kids hands thinking it’s probably a mislabeled porno as a “prank” (or worse a properly labeled porno and the heroes’ are uniting in horrifying ways) but eventually a tired one will say “sure, put it in my bag..." 4-Trick someone into taking it by saying “excuse me, I think you dropped this!” and handing to someone in a crowded mall, then quickly disappear into the horde of shopping having successfully passed on your burden 5-Ask the people you know at work who have kids if they want it, alternatively if it’s too shameful to say you bought it just for toys put a sticky that says “free” on it and leave it by the coffee machine, someone will take it.

thanks, for some reason the board’s taken to rotating my uploads (obviously it was taken vertically, but some how once uploaded it’s horizontal)