DSTZach

No, it will be Thong Kang.

May 4th? Unless I hear otherwise, date of premiere or date of release, whichever comes first. (I think it has to be the premiere.) Not in this case, no. I've never been one to avoid spoilers, but I would not classify this as one. The battle will be amazing regardless of what the villains look like, and there are no real plot elements revealed by the figures. Just a name and a design scheme. I can't wait for everyone to see them.

Looked at the control art, and it looks like her face is supposed to be slightly more centered, giving her a chin. Hopefully will be fixed in production. Art also shows a thigh holster, so I'm assuming that will be there as well. Specialty wave. And she is NOT the rare chase figure any more. She's the three-per-case, with the mystery villain army builder. The one-per-case variant will be another mystery villain.

I actually guessed Storm would be the short simply because the Skrull is a dude, and a potential army builder. We tend to play it safe with the female characters and make fewer of them. Hence, more Skrulls. Although Storm and Jill are arguably more famous than Viper and Kl'rt. And who is the 4 in the case? Wolverine or Spidey? Did that get mentioned earlier? I try not to bug the home office too much, and it's always safer to see what actually made it to stores. :biggrin:

Well, people have been asking for that Storm. And she IS an Avenger now. And she DOES come with Jill Valentine, the star of a mega-popular video game. And she might be the two-per-case in the assortment. (Confirmation, anyone?) So I'm not TOO surprised. But I hope you find one!

Hey, check your local stores, because you may already be a winner. But I saw a TRU set at Forbidden Planet in NYC on Wednesday. (I'll let hellpop share his location.) So far that's all I've heard. I am hoping these are isolated incidents.

...Yeah, that surprised me as well. I thought Bay's Dark of the Moon was attacking. Keep checking Marvel.com... :biggrin: ... ... Man, you guys don't allow too many emoticons, do you.

Looks like a couple of TRU cases went to specialty in error. No scalping that I know of. Trying to see how widespread it is. Anyone else sees this, PM me.

Whoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoa. Stiltman's not an A-lister!? I...I feel so lied to... I use Stgilt-Man in the new Marvel strip, and I don't think we used him in a decade of Twisted ToyFare. What a waste.

Here's a sortable MU checklist, with a separate visual guide by year. Actually very well done. Rivals the Database in terms of sortability. But I don't have time to count. http://www.itsalltrue.net/?page_id=10987 And we showed how many that haven't been done as MU figures? Brood, Longshot, Dazzler, Box, Kree Sentry, Rhino, The Serpent, Odin, Mokk/Gargoyle, Sin/Skaadi, Miles Morales Spidey (new alter ego/costume), Ant Man II (new alter ego/costume), Flash Thompson Venom (new alter ego/costume), Vindicator (gender change), She-Venom (gender change), Worthy Thing (costume), Mighty Spidey (costume), Mighty IM (costume), Mighty Hawkeye (costume), Rogue (costume), Iron Man (costume), Brood Wolverine (costume kinda), plus 3 pieces of Hulk art that have not been made as MU. Not counting movie figures, some of whom could pass for the comics (Gwen, Curt Connors, Uncle Ben, etc.) OR extra costume parts on Colossus and Dazzler, I get 10 new + 3 new alter ego/costume + 2 new gender + 7 new costume + 3 pieces of art showing new costumes. Out of 38 shown, I believe.

I think we need to be given a little Avengers leeway while the Avengers are literally the hottest property on the planet. Looking back, the first seven waves were REALLY light on Avengers: Hulk in Wave 1, Cap in Wave 5, Iron Man and Hulk in Wave 6 and then nothing until Wave 12! But we did a LOT of X-Men in that time, because they were a lot hotter, mainly because we had one movie hitting in 2003 and another hitting in 2006. And those movies were nowhere NEAR as big as Cap, Thor, and the Avengers movies. I think after this glut you'll see the Avengers take a back seat to other teams and solo heroes. Mostly. And I get that it's getting them all at once that bugs you guys, but I hope you'll all bear with us while we attempt to ride this set of giant coattails take advantage of this marketing opportunity. Two Thors in one wave was an experiment, one that seemed to do well, but one Captain America every two waves is NOT bad, especially when there's two MORE waves coming to Toys "R" Us at the same time with no Caps in them at all. I'll remind you of the kid who wanted a Wolverine, but couldn't find a Wolverine, and it made me the kid sad. Think of the children.

And you guys can debate that all you want! Your wide gulf is our bit, and our bit may be the difference between the line's success or failure, but not in the direction that you think it does. I think perception is most of it. MU is getting you guys antsy, but MU is playing catch-up with us. I won't be the ninth guy to rattle off 50 characters we've made that MU hasn't, but someday I'll add up the numbers in my spare time. (Someone here actually calculated the number of unique characters in Marvel Minimates once before, I need to look it up.) But I'll pit our Toy Fair showing against MU's any day:

Maybe I'll just derail threads from now on. Here's the Best of Cyclops set I want to see: And the suit-wearing one would have the flip-up sunglasses: Also, I want this guy:

Oh, good, so this is normal. :biggrin: In that case, I hope my presence here will eventually heal this great rift between those who voice their issues and those who have no complaints. For I am a uniter of men. BUT I still think we make a lot of new characters. The ratio of new to "re-hash" (be it new costumes or needed re-dos) may have dipped a bit, but I think that's simply a sign of the line's age, as well as the sheer number of figures being produced. And I still think we're competitive, ratio-wise, with other biggish lines. That said, I feel for completists, and while I have never been one strictly speaking (I'm missing some Muppets, Simpsons and TB Legends, but I have 95% of them), I can certainly understand their frustration sometimes. But I imagine that frustration must be the same for pretty much any line that puts out this amount of product at this many different retailers. Star Wars and Transformers completists must be rich or crazy or both.

See, THAT'S the kind of response I expected when I said we were making another Cyclops! Not this "I love Cyclops" stuff. I think you meant "No matter how you dress him he looks awesome." But don't worry, I seriously doubt this one Cyclops is going to spoil all the new characters we're doing for you. Or it will, probably.

Unfortunately, the cost of tampo printing makes four-sided printing on each leg not cost-effective. We'd essentially have to retire Spider-Man as a character. Of course, we could always do more like this: http://www.minimatedatabase.com/figure.php?i=44&n=Ultimate+Spider-Man

Still waiting for my case to come in, but if anyone else notices this flashing issue, please let me know.

I apologize if my presence here has made it less okay to express opinions. I may try to address them, to suss out how, exactly we're screwing up, but I'd hate to see strife caused simply because people don't want to offend me. Message boards are foor opinions; it was like that when I was on WUMB, it's like that today. (No, I haven't reallyy been on message boards very long.)

Chosen by DSTChuck, usually in conjunction with our 9-inch PVC statue line of the same name. Hopefully we'll get to do more of these, in the meantime the specialty waves of MvC3 and SFxT are pretty heavy on the lady warriors. (Also, Marvel 13.)

Might have been me, I just don't remember that one. I sent Kratos to one winner, and I just found a Shi supporting character, I think. Marvel ones, I would need the Database at the ready to tell if it's one we did or not. Don't expect another Avengers wave besides 44, but there will be more Avengers ancillary product with new characters, yes. Good idea. Except for half the figures in the wave being different, yes. Yes it does. Who's Titania? Blowback achieved!

Nope, Marvel Select did it first.

It SHOULD be 4-3-3-2. Waiting for my case to confirm. Damn shame some of that sample case ended up in the hands of scalpers. Glad others here landed a set or two.

When was that said? I've never seen such a thing. And I certainly didn't expect to see such a response to a 13-timer like Cyclops. All will be revealed. That X-wave is largely post-Avengers. And we've seen a lot of Avengers slated for spring/summer. We haven't even shown all of them yet. Or were you kidding? According to the "One Wave in Stores, Next Wave Almost Coming Out and Last Wave Announced" DST policy, maybe we will have to wait for Wave 44 to hit the shelves next month to know the rest of this new line up !! Toy Fair kind of throws that out the window -- you've got 43 in stores (kinda), 13 due soonish, 44 AND 45 due in a couple months, and you've already seen 14, 46 and 47. Not sure when another full wave will be shown, to be honest. SDCC maybe? But box sets are another story.

Diamond Comics Distributors. It's their baby.

I love that people are asking for more of the line some of you were chasing with torches a month ago. Hey, if retailers come back to DCD asking for another wave of superstars, or if we totally sell out of it, maybe we'll do it, but right now this is meant to be an evergreen wave. BUT here's an idea for how build your own Wave 2: - Black Costume Spidey (from Wave 43) and Bulked-Up Rhino (from TRU 14) - Smart Hulk (from Wave 44) and Punisher (from TRU 13) - Daredevil and Kingpin (from TRU 13) - Colossus (from Wave 47) and Cyclops from... uh-oh, haven't announced that one yet. Soon. Speaking of the best, I finally got my hands on the 6-armed Spidey/Lizard pack from Wave 37, and it's my new favorite. My first Spidey comic was Amazing 101: first appearance of Morbius, first full appearance of 6-Armed Spidey, and Lizard shows up at the very end. Best!