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Me if any are left!!!!

If anybody is remotely interested.......my first rollerblades were purchased about 17 years ago which isn't that interesting unless you go-figure how old I was when I bought them .

Amongst the stuff I've found whilst shuffling around in my 'hoped for house-move' are my Bauer blades ....... for the right incentive I'll post a picture of me gliding on them .

Edit : No historic pictures .........."I will glide" .

I just did the math......I think I got mine around 22 years ago (I get the feeling I was probably younger than you though )

Most of the Gamestops around me had a lot of these. When the clearance price was $2, two stores closest to me had 30 each figures. Back in January or February, I bought a few and the clerk told me I was the first person they'd seen buying any, so there's a good month and a half of product possibly not being bought. by the time the clearance price hit 97 cents, many stores around me still had 10 or so figures at each store. So I'd say, in my area at least, these were not good sellers, but I doubt it was the blind bag issue alone that made them not sell, I noticed that there were very few (if any) of the blind boxed Transformers vinyl figures left (which were still priced at or above $3 each)

It's not just blind bags some stores shy away from either. I know a couple of my LCS typically don't even buy cases of Minimate two packs just because they know they'll be stuck with product. They usually only buy the 4 packs because they can buy one or two and not a full case.

Vampires glide, I don't know. I had Heelies when I was younger (around 2003) and went to Canada with my cousin for a hockey tournament. While I was in a clothing store I was rolling around and noticed I was being stared at. My aunt asked what the deal was and the cashier told her that they all thought I was a vampire (didn't see the wheels) because I was gliding/ not taking steps. I guess I just associated that memory with the Prince gif, I'm sorry for the confusion haha

I used to get the same reactions back when I wore rollerblades

Hate black & white figures, but my god I NEED that chuck accessory!!!!!!

Zach, will the color set also have those Chuck accessories?

I'll probably only get the Gonzo/Chef set mainly for the accessories and custom potential. If you make the Electric Mayhem band with instruments, I will buy the entire set (regardless of how the figures look.....I want minimate instruments)

^^^^^^This X 1,000,000

Does anyone have any good techniques for separating the head/mask pieces? I want to try different eye and mouth expressions, but can't seem to pull just the top part off. I end up removing the whole head every time

heat up the head (I use a hairdryer) that'll soften up the plastic and the glue. Then, using a small flat tip screwdriver, you can pry the top of the head off

I just don't like dealing with paint rub. I probably could have sanded down the joints a bit and then spray painted the individual arm parts then put it all back together, but honestly it's not that noticeable in person

Just doing part swaps, there aren't many heads that look like they'd work well Even with a knit cap on top of them. Maybe the MVC Super Skrull

Best bet would be a green head with a sticker for the face (or if you're really good at painting faces)

Thanx for the compliments guys!

The backgrounds were made from a few different playsets. The one in the Alien review was the Big Millennium Falcon

The Aliens sets were mostly the Aliens playset from Treehouse Kids (It's 3 levels tall and comes with army men styled figures, also where the Aliens eggs in the pictures came from)

Sometimes I'd use another piece in the background with the Aliens set like the Marvel Select Falcon backdrop in the picture with Hicks sitting on the floor and Ripley making the flamethrower/pulse rifle. The Apone picture is using a part from the Wheeled Warriors base sitting in the Aliens set

Most of the Drake pics were in the Wheeled Warriors base (This is also the set that I have Ripley walking out of in the Lego Powerloader I made)

I also have a small box of random accessories and such I toss into my review pictures like boxes from MegaBloks Halo or GI Joe and such

I bought both sets just for the sculpted hands, I really wish we could get a parts set full of just hands holding stuff, cans, chinese take out, chopsticks, burgers, cups, etc...

Recipes:

Gambit

Head - Wv 60
Torso - Annihilus
Arms - 24 EOD 1 Jack

Coat - Origins Sabertooth (Spray Painted)
Hands - Expendables Barney

Belt/Legs/Feet - MAX Silver Pilot (Belt and Feet have a coat of clear blue paint

Banshee

Head - Wv 60

Torso - Best of Loki

Arms/Legs/Waist - Deadly Doc Ock

Hands -Head - Wv 60

Feet - X-Men First Class

Jubilee

Head - Wv 60

Torso - SM3 Gwen (The torso is just turned around)

Arms - Chekov

Jacket - Wesker (Spray painted yellow)

Waist/Belt - Best of Captain America

Legs - Random nude legs (with painted on shorts legs)

Hands/Feet - Balder the Brave

Pink power - wave 60 Jubilee

Blue power - Mass Effect Liara

Morph

Hair - Dr Frankenstein

Head - UM Frank Whemple

Coat - Expendables Trent

Hands - Random bare hands
Rest of body - Wv 60

Finally got round to opening my parcel last week, and now the long delayed photo!

I love that set. Many of the main characters, glow in the dark parts AND the Double Decker Couch? Count me in!

Thanks! I knew grabbing all those Expendables sets at TRU would start to pay off eventually (Gambit's hands came from there along with Morph's jacket)

Here's my Wave 60 customs

Banshee is basically a placeholder til I get a chest sticker or an official green one. I may try sculpting a neck piece for Gambit at some time, but otherwise I'm happy with all of them

My LCS appears to have gotten in one case, I was surprised that none had sold by the second day when I went back for the Jubilee pack. I'll probably pick up another Banshee pack for customs this week. I've been getting parts together for when my three sets come in the mail

In my excitement to pre-order the Alien set I failed to notice there are other exclusives! (I thought it was just the Alien and AOU set)

I think two stores around me may have over 10 each

Just added the last of the review links under the pictures, hope you guys enjoy

I meant to post that I don't know if that's just for the store I was in or a nationwide clearance that may happen on Sunday

How have these sold in other areas? I think I'm the only person who has bought any at the store near me (in fact I was told this months ago by one of the employees) Yesterday I picked up 10 figures and there were still a lot left over

These are down to 1'.97 at GameStop stores. Took one labeled 3.99 to the counter scanned 1.97. Got a bunch more. Have an extra Ashely if anyone needs her and wants to trade.

Stopped in today and there were a bunch listed at $1.97 The cashier said on the 24th all the items in the collectibles box these were in would be going on clearance and that they may go even cheaper

I wasn't collecting Marvel Mates when the SDCC X-Men set came out so I missed out on a proper 90's Jubilee figure, with the wave 60 figure I decided it's time to make a 90's body for the head (because I'm not paying $30 for the official one) I was able to mostly just QC the body together with minimal paint

Head/Hair - Wave 60 Jubilee

Torso - SM3 Gwen (The torso is just turned around)

Arms - Chekov

Jacket - Wesker (Spray painted yellow)

Waist/Belt - Best of Captain America

Legs - Random nude legs (with painted on shorts legs)

Hands/Feet - Balder the Brave

Pink power - wave 60 Jubilee

Blue power - Mass Effect Liara

The painted parts aren't exact matches to the unpainted parts but they're pretty close and look fine in a group shot for me.

They did just confirm they'll be doing more vehicles in the recent Ask DST (Though that could have been in reference to the Power Loader)

So we know there's a half Bishop with the queen (or is it the powerloader?) Is it possible, we'll get legs and an alternate (not bleeding white) face with that Bishop to give us a normal one? Perhaps he won't be in any figure waves