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Went shopping around today. Saw the Venom/Daken 2 pack but no Cyclops/Phoenix (I hope I get mine in the mail soon). Bought the Wolverine vs. Hand Ninja. The first pic is of Wolvie, He's a little too tall like the other MU Wolvies (pic 2) but his head sculpt is the best so far IMO and he looks a LOT better than the Wolverine:Origins one as you can see in the third pic. I still like the Brown Wolverine from the Origins line best though(pic 4) as it's the right size. I'm also officially avoiding Wolverines from now on. I also got Iron Spidey. He's cool and they even explain why this figure has 4 tentacles instead of 3. Evidently the suits are being used by other "Scarlet Spiders" and now have the 4 arms. I am also officially avoiding Spider-mans now. I have enough. Also got a Darth Vader/Snowtrooper/BikerScout set on sale.

Ouch. That's what I was afraid of. I need to keep money in my Paypal account in case another stolen Classic Storm shows up on e-bay (I missed the two that have shown up). I know...that's contributing to crime, but I'm mad at Hasbro after they specifically said that they would give info on the Giant-Sized X-Men set at SDCC, but didn't. It was like, "We're going to make everyone suffer for our secret getting spoiled!". I also resent buying 6 figures to get 1 that I want.

I've seen reviews (check out the one on Chase Variant) of the SDCC Captain America and they're almost all positive. I'm jealous that you snagged one.

Let's go kill Nazis!

Kinda disappointed that not one Marvel female has been revealed yet...and with Thor being in it, I feel like I can kiss Storm's chances bye bye * frowns* LOL. I'm STILL getting this though, mind you.

I know these would be awfully controversial, but not only would Brad Pitt's Aldo Raine & Christopher Waltz's Hans Landa make cool looking minimates...the entire cast would make fantastic army builders. The Platoon minimates were excellent for capturing the Vietnam era. These would capture the WWII era. I'd love to pose my Captain America punching Landa.

I would love a 3.75" DC line of figures, but let's face it. They need to scrap this line and start from scratch. At least bring them up to the Marvel Universe level. MU has it's own issues with quality control but they are still superior IMO. I only own the new, more articulated Batman. He is dwarfed by my MU figures and doesn't look buff enough. The females in this line are atrocious-looking. If only they could take the phenomenal DC Universe Classics and shrink them LOL!

I already have an X-Force Wolverine and this was the wrong line-up for me, personally. I would have gotten a set with Domino, Vanisher, Elixir, & Wolfsbane. I'm at the point that I'll refuse anything with Wolvie in it even if I like the other characters. Yes, I'm THAT sick of him.

Don't feel bad. I grew up in the 70's collecting Megos and then selling them all in a garage sale because I had started collecting 3.75" figures. Mostly Star Wars, but also Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, & anything else that scale. By the early 80's I was getting G.I. Joe and the occasional MOTU. In the early 90's Toy Biz had switched the scale to 5" and I sold all my 3.75" vintage figures so I could go to a rave in St. Louis. I continued to collect 5" figures and some of the 8" Famous Covers series until the Marvel Legends craze hit. I simply couldn't go through this again and missed out on the entire 6-7" line. Now MU came out and I was like...no, I already collect minimates and I love them, that's enough. But I just couldn't resist having them in this scale. I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. I thought I had gotten past all this.

By the way, I don't collect Star Wars, however; I recently snagged Boba Fett and all the bounty hunter characters because I always liked them. The I-G88 & Bossk figures come with a huge bag of extra weapons behind the cards. More than enough weapons that are in scale with your MU figures. It was kinda a neat surprise.

Russell Edgington, Vampire King of Mississippi: Sophie-Ann Leclerq, Vampire Queen of Louisiana: Alcide Herveaux:

I wasn't a huge fan of AOA but I sure know that a lot of other people were. I really want that Sunfire. So much so, that I'll buy the whole 4-pack to get him.

I got these in the mail today: Captain Britain: Mystique: Wrecker:

One more TB character before going to work, Tara Thornton:

A Hasbro rep. recently admitted that they had messed up on the distribution (Especially the Jean/Vision/Warpath Wave), but as it was the first year of the MU line they were still learning and that we should see an improvement in waves to come. However, some of the recent cases sent to Target have been more peg-warmers which is really ticking off fans. They need to realize that everybody has an Iron Man that wants one. It's the new characters that are selling out and we need to stay strong and refuse to give into expensive online prices (unless it's your absolute favorite character). I'm also very tired of them packing new characters with repaints that you don't want so they can charge extra. I'd honestly rather them all be single-carded because even though I can save money on a pack that has 2 characters that I want, usually I'm wasting money on someone I don't! Speaking of Jean, I keep hearing collectors call her ugly, which I think is mis-leading. The head was placed too forward as Nessex said, giving her a very unattractive hunchback...but they did give her a pretty heart-shaped face that was much nicer than anything else I've seen in their 3.75 inch females including the G.I. Joe line.

Ask and ye shall receive, eclipse. Here's Eric Northman who was suprisingly fun to do:

Since True Blood is coming on tonight I thought I'd add Jessica Hamby to go with my previous Bill & Sookie designs.

She's great. It just upsets me more that she won't be in the new box set coming out. I thought Magik would be a shoe-in. I find her very interesting visually. Magik, Magma, & Dani would all have been more interesting than Karma IMO. Although, speaking of Karma, you made a very good face-choice.

I used the Drunken Tony Stark's (Iron Man Thru the Ages) hairpiece for my Karma. It's not pretty, but I never felt she had good taste in hairstyles.

I'm happy for all of the Fantastic Four fans...it's been a long time since they were shown some love (and these look great). I'm perfectly happy with my old FF minimates though, so I can sit this one out (Thank God! I hate searching for TRU exclusives!).

Well, Luke... I for one am old enough to know all four of these characters and you did a great job as usual.

Definitely want The New Mutants! Sad that Illyana didn't make the cut though. DST has been great at listening to us, though. This is soooo much cooler to me than Liefeld's X-Force.

I just keep thinking of all the dirty jokes that will be made with that face: "Uh, no...really...I LIKE it!"

Great job on Movie Silk Spectre... that work with the dremmal paid off.

You could use Whiplash arms for a Constrictor custom or even a Blacklash custom. Storm's mohawk may be too bushy for a Gladiator custom but it could work. WWHulk's armor could be used to create medieval warriors.