drgnrbrn316

Dinobot did hint at a good point. The Secret Wars box set (the last fan-made box set) is peg warming at the TRUs that it showed up in, and it featured the 4 "most popular" characters from a choice of 10. This set would feature the 4 "most popular" costumes of 1 character from a choice of 6. If we can't sell a box set with 4 different characters, does a box set featuring 4 versions of 1 character (and most of these versions look almost the same) stand much of a chance. I like the Through the Ages sets, I just don't know if this will do that well outside of a comic shop or as an event exclusive. Especially since we're taking the easy way out here by offering 4 repeats as part of the 6 options. I'd wager that AA/DST are expecting Suspended Animation Cap and Armored Cap to make the cut, so they're hoping to cut costs by throwing a few reprints in. Makes sense from a business perspective, and it'll give the new fans a chance to snag some of the long lost ones, but it makes for one dull box set from an established collector's standpoint.

We need the Armored and Suspended Animation ones, the rest are retreads, though hopefully with updates. A redo of US Agent wouldn't be bad, since his original was cobbled together as a part reuse and he was an exclusive to a hard to find retailer. I am surprised that Civil War even made it into the voting. There have been other looks that might stand out in people's minds that wouldn't have been bad choices, like Nomad and the upcoming Super Soldier look. I agree with the sentiment that if your choice doesn't make it in, you'll probably see it mixed in with future TRU releases. There's only 2 losers this time, so I can't see them being hard sells, though maybe difficult to package together, since who wants two Caps instead of a Cap and a bad guy.

If they were tossing around ideas, think of what the ideas that got rejected were like.

See, now that I wouldn't mind having. If they could find a way to put the C3 pegs on the floors of each of those compartments, you'd be able to stand several figures together with room for the accessories and stuff too. You wouldn't be able to display the figures individually in something that size, but you could display them per 2-pack or box set, certainly. I wonder what DST has in mind. They can't really go the route of that Bearbrick thing that BHM showed, since a lot of the various Minimates (especially the more recent ones) require special molding for all the detailed capes, hair, etc.

It involves taking off your pants, and you probably don't want any more details than that.

I may change my mind once I actually see them, but on paper it seems more like a good TRU assortment than an actual wave. Look what we have: Yet another Spidey, which by the description sounds like we're going to try and reinvent the classic red and blue again. Yet another Thing. While I'll agree that we need an update to the Fantastic Four, Thing probably needs it the least. Sue really needs it and we could go for a regular version of Reed to correspond with his tattered version. And the definitive Human Torch is from WWII, so Johnny might need an update as well. Yet another Thing, this time in a trench coat. If he's bulky and has a hat as well, then this could be good, but if its a puny Thing with Sabretooth or Gambit's coat, then he isn't really a must have. Yet another Xavier. If its a repaint of either of the exclusive ones, then yawn. If he has his hover chair, or at least a different variety of outfit, then he has potential. Warpath. If he's just a black and gray repaint of the TRU version, boo. If he has more character specific knives and features a bit more of the bulk that he has in the comics, yeah. Doombot. If it is something along the lines of Luke's custom, or otherwise distances itself from Victor, then bring it on. If its just a Dr. Doom with a different face, then I have a small army of Dooms already. Lizard. He'll be awesome, so long as he has a tail. It just has the potential to be either decent or awful. Nothing overly stellar. Hey, maybe the Spidey slot can be filled with an update to the Friends & Foes version, which would work with a Lizard figure.

I actually hope that Xavier comes with a hoverchair, just to kill my fear that we're looking at one of those fabled part reuse/cost cutting waves. Out of all the figures announced, they could easily do Spider-Man, Xavier, Thing, and the Doombot all with just a painted blank Minimate. Warpath can be done as a repaint of the TRU variety, and Trench Coat Thing could easily snag one of several long coats floating around. They could even do Lizard as a blank 'mate with a long coat (though they'd have to suffer the backlash of half-assing one of the most requested Spidey villains). Of course, taking into consideration that we've gone quite some time since the last half-assed series (12&13), we may be beyond those times. I'm not even opposed to the concept of part-reuse or simplicity, I just think at least some of these characters could benefit from a bit more love than detail lines on a blank torso, not to mention the price increase on these wouldn't sit well if I were getting less than what I used to get for $6.99 and $7.99.

I don't think either version of Warpath rounds out a set. If you go with the classic version, he pairs with Cable which doesn't round out anything, and if you go with modern, he goes with Wolverine & X-23, but still doesn't round out anything. Of course, 90s Xavier also doesn't round out the 90s X-Men, since we still lack Jubilee (and probably others, like Bishop)

Daken Wolverine and Bulls/Hawkeye for sure, not sure about the others... In Siege, Daken, Bullseye, and Venom all ride into the attack on Asgard on some sort of glider, though I wouldn't say it was a copy of Menace's glider (lose the bat head and make it a bit more round and you've got it). Ares rode in on the nose of a jet, and Osborn, Moonstone, and Sentry can fly, so they didn't need help. There's also a crap load of HAMMER agents, villains playing at being heroes, and others riding the gliders as well, so I hope you aren't planning on acting the scene out with a full cast, else you'd have to buy every copy of that glider in existence and I'm hanging on to mine.

Quiet you, he's with us now! :tongue:

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Nice work you did.

Am I the only one having "writers" block?

My Minimate subscription generally nets me 4 army builders from the 2-packs, and a whole case if they go the single pack route. If the LCS carried them, I'd add to the numbers to help keep them moving, but DC pretty much killed Minimates here. If the army builders came back to TRU, maybe I could add to the ranks then, but none of the waves that featured them showed up here.

Anyone have access to a spare Borders exclusive? EBay looks to be pretty expensive right now. I can trade or buy.

See, I'm not seeing the iconic set and thinking another team box set. Rather, I'm thinking 4 more (or 4 of the same) iconic looks for high profile characters.

It will be immediately after Chuck figures out a way to squeeze 14 Spider-Men into a single wave (I say 7 Spider-Men with removable gear to make 7 other Spider-Men).

The TouchMaster series is pretty much filled with games that you've probably seen before. Rhythm Heaven is another fairly easy game. Not so much a game as a guilt trip. Heaven help you if you don't pick it up for a few days, as the condescending professor will comment on how you aren't brain training often enough. Still, the games/training exercises are pretty approachable.

Nothing at the local TRU here in eastern NC. We just got the big up front display for the Iron Man 2 stuff though, so I'm expecting these to show up sooner than later. We don't even have a Borders, so it'll probably be eBay for those.

I can see now that whatever I come up with is going to pale in comparison to the rest of these entries.

I agree that the under-performing Terminator Salvation probably undermined this line. It was expected to be a big movie, based on the sheer amount of merchandise it produced, none of which I ever saw move at my local store. Oddly enough, the computer at my TRU showed them having a case of the first assortment of the T2 stuff, but it never made it onto a shelf and none of the employees could "find" it. Coulda been a computer error or just lack of initiative on the part of the staff. As far as the line itself is concerned, I'm not overly bothered by the end, since it looked like we were nearing it anyway. At best, we could have churned out one more assortment before we started hitting on too insignificant a difference to matter for some of the characters. Sarah was the only one who really changed clothes in the movie, and there was only so much damage they could do to Arnold and the T-1000 before it got stale. As for characters we missed, there's the doctor, Dyson's and John's families, and then a bunch of nameless saps who either died or ran away throughout the movie.

As nice as another trip to he Ultimate universe would be, I doubt they'd go that route, since it would be too similar to the regular "Amazing" universe. The buzz on Kotaku seems to suggest that 2099 would be one of the universes. They had an image of the Gamestop bonus material in the form of the Captain Universe version of the costumes, and one of the costumes was predominately blue with spikes on the arms. The other looked kind of dark, like the symbiote or something along those lines, if that tells you anything. As for the other universe, maybe Reign? It had a dark feel to it, which would match the Gamestop bonus somewhat.

I found the lack of detail lines on the sides and back of Vulture far more distracting than the color of his wings. Also, my Black Cat wasn't too bad. Sure, the color didn't match the face, but it still maintained a flesh tone look as opposed to an ashy color. Spidey was awful though. It looks like if they had put a thicker coat of flesh and white on the figure, then everything would have been fine, but the red, blue, and black just bled through everything else they put on the thing, so you get web lines in his face and eyes, and red and blue tint to the flesh color that's exposed everywhere else.

For anyone lacking black paint, the For a Few Dollars More box set featured a black version of the coat piece. For ties, we've had several over the years (Bruce Banner from way back in series 1 is the only one coming to mind at the moment). We've even had a sculpted tie for the Spirit box set.