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little of the track, but Toynami are also producing some new Robotech I-Men also.... if by new you count redecos of the existing New Gen I-Men to become Shadow Chronicles I-Men...

Really interesting as much like Speed Racer the Kellogg mates were a Art Asylum only license, so if they're still alive now their a DST license...

Joy. What did I tell you, New X-men Phoenix hair and Dark Phoenix belt equals Ms. Marvel!

and given Taskmaster sporting a bow, easy to guess Hawkeye would be along.

But yeah, it's another Wave 16 style fan-fest. This... THIS is the kind of varied character line-ups we like DST

Either Bloodspider (crappy and easily defeated evil "clone" of Spider-man trained by Taskmaster) or Jolt from Thunderbolts.

That's the double edged sword, DST/Marvel/Retailers get more excited about cross-media promotion that movie licensing represents and are more willing to open the purse strings for new molding (Spidey 3 I'm looking at you) as opposed to a more generic line, which would be less meanlingless fad based (movie and zombie mates I'm looking in your direction) and stand the test of time better if they can't be released on time (movie mates I'm glaring at you here).

Hmm... This Batman variation is the same one that was in the Miniflyer wave along with Nightwing & Flash.

The wave is okay, but I tend to agree it seems to be 2.5" for largeness sake only

To quote one of my fav Midnight Oil tracks "Short memory, must have a..."

DCD mates were originally meant to come out in 2006 but were bumped back due to quality concerns

Wave One due Aug 06 actually arrived Feb 07

Wave Two due Oct 06 actually arrived March 07

Wave 3 due Dec 06 arrived April 07

Everybody bumps dates, sad fact is we just have to learn to live with it.

Considering DST is producing most of the mates in the timeline, then generally one would assume they have the best intel for when they will be delivering them to store. But things change as indicated by the jump we've seen away from July.

But that would require an insane level of smoozing on DST's part to get the license early enough, and past experience (X-Men 3, Ghost Rider an Spidey 3) doesn't really indicate they could...

But at the other extreme I'm really running out of ideas for likely suspects for new waves

I think the point has been missed that this is less a case of "What licenses can we get?" and more a case of "How can we use the licenses we have" situation, as these aren't the only I, Robot products Popbox are making.

This, along with the Giant Man and Wasp we're also getting, seems to indicate that there may be a second Avengers wave coming after the many series on the horizon. Think about it, we've seen Giant Man and Wasp (well, part of her), now these two and there are two major Avengers missing from the last wave, namely Hawkeye and Vision.

Zombie Wasp's hairpiece also indudes the top portion of her spine, so not reeeally viable for re-use.

AFX are going to offer the Giant-Man/Daredevil Zombie set at their booth, the newer just announced set won't be ready in time

Depends if those scratches are embedded or just painted on like the Battle Damage Daredevil & Cap masks.

and again going against the flow, not a zombie fan and but again another never before done character

Normally I'd say we'd have plenty of advance warning of any exclusive, but then John Stewart did up rather suddenly...

Hi Chuck, I was wondering how the character selection works for the marvel waves?

I'm not Chuck, but I can probably answer.

*holds up "Not Chuck" placard*

Red/grey rings = DST Choice

Outer White/Black ring = Retailer Choice

Inner White/Black ring = Marvel Choice

Bullseye = Fan Preference

I think people are missing the point, this is effectively just an uprated TRU 4-Pack, it was never intended to a box of entirely new mates, just away to get maximum use of stuff requested by Target, especially if Target have chosen to pull the pin and pass on their wave...

Ms Marvel... Nice, which hair piece though?

Wave 10 shows us the way. New X-Men Phoneix hairpiece for all your reuse long haired female needs.

Ah, the sweat laziness of uniforms allows Nicholas Fury to lead the might forces of SHIELD!

G.W. Bridge - Nick Fury mate with fully gray hairpiece and different face color/tampo

Dum Dum Dungan - Nick Fury mate Miniflyer Riddler hat and new face tampo

And if more than a little effort is allowed, ie full new paint tampos, *points at remaining unmade character in sig*

Well Ultimate or more correctly modern Bagley Black Costume Spidey (as his later Amazing work featured the same tight look as he was forced to draw Venom more and more, and I question if Ulimate didn't have a complete join of symbols) is one option but the Melee one shows significant visual differences in design of eyes and spider symbol and yet DST still felt it wasn't unique enough to not compete against the existing Black costume mate without further changes.

I think DST still wanted to make the black costume really distinct, even if the eyes and everything are different. But then Torment Spidey shows they aren't against revisiting older mates.

But at least while it is heavy with parts reuse (SFII fireballs, JJJ Mask, Visorless Cyclops hair) it's inventive and effective instead of somewhat dodgy of the main line wave such as the original Sandman mate.

Definately sad to see the site go silent, I'm yet another person that the quality and detail of your reviews helped tempt and convince me to collect the little buggers

It's possible, as exclusives price point is controlled by the retailer so they can opt to spring for extra effort more so than the main line, and all AFX excusives (apart from Silver Surfer & Thanos who were both technically mainline mates) have featured all new and exclusive to figure molding.

The Classic (even late 80's/early 90's Comics = Classic as opposed to Movie) set is a touted as a Previews exclusive, so doubt it'll appear at TRU

It's placement would be right for being attached to a plug to go in the head. That would be a cheaper/easier why to replicate it without going to the trouble of molding/making a unique headpiece like the PP/SM had.

One set if possible.