150 isn't bad. That would be 1 bot and some change with the fan sets
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150 isn't bad. That would be 1 bot and some change with the fan sets
Oh yeah, I'm buying that Devastator.
I have a soft spot for Motormaster since it was the only large bot I ever collected the pieces for back in the day. Like Devastator managed to resist so far, even though the new version is damn nice looking.
I'm not a huge Transformers fan, but I still wish I had grabbed Masterpiece Soundwave before his price shot up into the upper fucking stratosphere.
I've got that one and it's fantastic. The one masterpiece I don't have that I really wish I hadn't missed is rodimus prime
NECA's flash sale where non-SDCC attendees can vie for con merchandise online is tonight at 9pm EST. NECA also said they would be shipping con exclusive stuff to random TRUs. I went to mine, and they actually had gotten in the shipment. They had an invisible Predator, the glow in the dark T-800 that Berringer has, and Pacific Rim mini-chibis. They also had the only thing I was interested in - the retro Mrs. Voorhees and kid Jason set - but that was the only thing that was sold out. The other shit wasn't even touched. That one hole in the display (with the dual $49.99 price tags) was where they were. Shit.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...4&d=1436380121
I considered picking up the T-800, but for $30 I said fuck it. Maybe if the whole thing actually glowed instead just a few parts.
So, I consoled myself with some Vasquez and Hudson Minimates. :)
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...5&d=1436380121
NEED those minimates.
Just got the Pam and little Jason set at NECA's online flash sale. I only spent a few bucks more than I would have at retail. :tu:
Ah, SDCC...I've been waiting for some good reveals!
That videogame Jason looks a hell of a lot better than their first attempt to copy yours. And hell yes to that Part 6 Ultimate figure! I'll be all over that.
That said, I think the Part 6 retro figure is due out this month. My Jason shelf is going to get crowded...
I might get the VI figure just for the badass box.
And yeah, the 8bit rerelease looks leagues better without the GITD nonsense. The black detailing and Pamela accessory are pretty boss. I like that the box will play NES music when opened! The free one I'm getting is pretty sweet, too.
Grabbed a masterpiece Bluestreak from TRU this morning since they put their Comic Con exclusives up for sale.
OMG, I knew they were making Predator 1 & 2 Minimates, but I didn't know they were doing Arnold, Carl Weathers, and DANNY F'IN GLOVER as well! Holy shit.
Bonus points for Danny's sweat stains, lol. That's amazing.
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Walgreens now has a Pizza Spider-Man figure apparently, so now I have a Pizza Spider-Man.
Hasbro is making a 6" Black Series Episode VII TIE Fighter:
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I love that they have the stones to do some vehicles in that scale.
Child's play. Hot Toys is doing an in scale TIE as well. In scale with their stuff, that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Hasbro is making a 6" Black Series Episode VII TIE Fighter:
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I love that they have the stones to do some vehicles in that scale.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1436654535
Good lord. Liking the red on the Hasbro one.
Does the Hots Toys one have a price? It has to be $500+, doesn't it?
Also, I forgot to post this, but the best things I've seen so far are Mondo's 1/6 scale Turtles:
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1436654811
Hard to say. That Marty McFly/Delorean set is $690, and the TIE absolutely dwarfs it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Ah, I was thinking that was more like $500, and the figure was half that.
Toy collecting is serious business these days.
Ouch, I can buy a used car for that.
That hasbro tie fighter is awesome. I just pre-ordered the animated series Batmobile that's coming out. Which is by far my favorite Batmobile.
Man, this is a thing of beauty...just when I think I'm going to leave them alone, TFs somehow manage to reel me back in.
http://s13.postimg.org/fqxoyqs5f/20150716_181955.jpg
DEVASTATOR!!!!!!!!!
Savings? Devastated
Worth it.
Still hot for Tracks, but wow at that Ironhide. Is this the first time we've actually gotten a proper toy for him?
Yeah I'll be getting tracks and ironside
They made an Ironhide back in the day, but it was awful. I remember how awful he looked.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/ironhide_ratchet_10.jpg
Hide, you heathen. He may have been a terrible toy, but he's not a battleship.
Lol, I didn't even notice that! Haha.
To be fair, they found a toy that they could call Ironhide. It was obvious he was some other line of robots that was never made to connect to the cartoon.
Man, I remember having that shitty G1 Ironhide... man that thing was terrible.
neurosisQuote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
you can't always luck out and take things from Macross like they did Jetfire.Quote:
Originally Posted by mollipen
I think Omega Supreme and Sky Linx were also from other toy lines. All in all, we're lucky we got so few duds.
There was a decent G1 Ironhide in the 2006 or so Universe line, but it was far from perfect.
http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/u...1393337095.jpg
Other than the perpetual downwards stare it was okay in robot mode but the transformation was a nightmare. There's going to be one as part of the Combiner Wars line coming up too, but it doesn't look much like G1 hide.
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/images...e/HAS24446.jpg
probably a recolor
jesus christ, these new Transformers have more in common with what the cheap store knock offs looked like than what Transformers looked like.
Yeah, the whole Combiner Wars line looks like utter shit. Such a cool concept too, shame the execution was so bad.
Definately, it's the same as the Stunticons truck with a different head. As much as I like the new line, there are way, WAY too many recolors/slight mold changes.
eh, sign of the times, really. The masterpiece releases are the only ones that can afford to be as solid as the toys of yesteryear and be as articulate as toys from the late 90s and up.
The kids that grew up with beast wars bitch about the old stuff, about how they are like little bricks, but damn if they don't feel good in the hand.
I agree, they are going overboard with the repaints...some of them look nice, but others are like WTF...the upcoming Sunstreakers looks TERRIBLE. So does Mirage. Now, Rook->Swindle->Hound looks NICE because it's a new mold. First Aid looks great, but Ironhide looks terrible.
How does one ship such a thing? Freight?
Probably freight. If you're throwing around that kind of cash you're probably getting things in crates fairly often as it is.
At this rate I look forward to Hot Toys' announcement of a 1:1 scale Falcon.
There are better places to hide your ex-wives' bodies.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Lookie what I just got. I've really been looking forward to this one. :)
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1437427181
Nice.
Dude knows how to accessorize
I love his Bat Utility belt.
I know they're cheaper to produce and thus easier to get green lit, but that style of figure just doesn't do it for me. The way the clothes fit reminds me of toddlers that often wear clothes slightly too big for their bodies.
Yeah, as someone too young to have any nostalgia for Megos, I am confident that's 100% of the appeal. That style of figure is objectively terrible and only memories from a childhood when they were all you had can possibly convince anyone otherwise. (See also: those dollar store refugee imitation 80's Kenner figures Neca hilariously expects ten bucks a pop for.)
Never owned any Megos as a kid. I think I just barely missed their heyday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Space Pirate Roberts
As for these figures, I just think they're adorable. I genuinely like them.
Not sure what figures you're referring to?Quote:
(See also: those dollar store refugee imitation 80's Kenner figures Neca hilariously expects ten bucks a pop for.)
This nonsense. (I was wrong about Neca making them though, it's Funko.)
This crap:
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/im...S/FU3915lg.jpg
It was cute when they were releasing actual unreleased "Alien" figures, but now it's spun off into every franchise because $$$.
Oh, those. Yeah, I'm not excusing them one bit. Those fuckers should be, like, $3.99 tops.
Yes. It was a huge novelty that they discovered actual molds from an abandoned line of 70's Alien figures and released them (plus those Alien figures actually ended up being pretty decent), but the quality of their in-house developed shit since then took a huge nosedive. I saw their Star Trek figures recently at TRU and they looked like total dogshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I do own a Jason and a Terminator (those two were fun and worked well in the style), but that's it.
I considered picking up the entire Alien line but then the drugs wore off.
I would have bought Ash if he came with a rolled-up porno mag accessory.
I thought those types of figures were shitty as a kid, especially in comparison to the awesome articulation of GI Joes. I wouldn't even buy them for nostalgia.
Usually that type of figure with that low level of detail came with something awesome to make up for it, like MASK or Dino Riders. The figure was an accessory for the vehicle/brain boxed dinosaur tank.
Starcom was like a tiny, more awesome MASK with bendable knees. Let's bring those back instead.
Both of those had knees. The ReAction stuff is more like... Star Wars.
I thought MASK guys just slid in with straight legs. My fault. Magnet feet are still better.
Some assembly required.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Speaking of MASK, Hasbro just announced that they're reviving the brand. No details on how yet.
I wonder if floppy disks gaining popularity killed that line off.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
I'm just cover this hard drive in toys and... dammit.
I want to say they were both pricier and smaller than other toy lines, but it's all hazy memory at this point.
I remember a friend had a hand-me-down Starforce toy, the badguy logo is a Triforce.
I have the 8bit Freddy and Jason, a shiny Terminator Endiskeleton, and an Alien xenomorph I got in a Loot Crate. No real desire to get anymore of them
That's awesome, but if I had that kind of space, I'd have more candy cabs.
People used to buy boats. Now the people with hand-me-down money are nerdy fuckers.
sometimes I sit back and just ask myself "why"
Like, when I look at those awesome third party combiners, "why"
Our generation apparently love's its childhood more than anything ever. I'm not knocking childish frivolities, but Jesus at the price of some of these things. And lord at the stuff you could buy as an alternative.
Our dad's and their dad's were the car restorers. They liked to find and restore "the car" they wanted in their late teens to twenties. "that' was the mainstream expensive hobby. What does it say that the people in our generation that now have that extra cash are spending it on children's toys?
Are we growing up too fast? That the ages from 8 to 14 are the last freedom years?
Is gas too high and pay so low and everything else is so expensive that teenagers and slightly above are just not enjoying 16 to 26 like they used to? No glory to reclaim?
People's "happy place," their Gods and idols, say something about society. I'm not sure I like what children's toys that cost as much as a house being ours, says about the current one.
I think it's actually that the people with money earned it doing more nerdy jobs. The hand-me-down set is still buying boats.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
The car industry killed that off real quick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Is toy collection now the "mainstream expensive hobby"? Is there even such a thing?
That's a fair question. It is hard to say.
If you really get down to it, the mainstream hobby is now pretty hollow. Now you just go buy a boat, golf clubs, a gun for hunting. There isn't a lot of doing and a whole lot of go buy it then work all the time and never use it.
And it changes by region. Does middle America on the west coast have extra income for adult hobbies? Can they afford a boat with the cost of living? Can they get vacation time to use it ?
I'm not sure we're reclaiming childhood as much as we never left it. And why would we want to? Our childhood was cartoons and Nintendo and sugary cereal and a solid economy and peace. Our adulthood is 9/11 and income inequality and debt and climate change and never ending wars. Trauma arrests/regresses people at formative ages.
Or: we're the first gen to have grown up absolutely submersed in advertisements. We were raised by marketing departments. Maybe all those screaming '80s and '90s toy ads--literally screaming--sunk in a little too deep. We saw the same flashing ads for Transformers every five minutes for entire summers. That's probably going to have a lasting effect.
I think you're on to something here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
We've had nerds with money since forever. At least going as far back as industry. At least as far back as Edison and the 100s he had developing things.
They used to take productive hobbies. A lot of them got into ham radio which was pretty much the pre internet message board.
But that brings us to something well documented. Pre 90s, nerds were people way to good at something and often a little socially inept. Now you can be a nerd by buying the right things at walmart.
yo
http://m.imgur.com/a/eJXm3
What a great idea.
Those are awesome. No huge welt on Chun's head though.
Political correctness invades Street Fighter. A woman fighter can't be shown injured. I guess MMA better get on real-time special effects for their broadcasts.
"First they came for the plastic toy heads based on 25-year-old Super Nintendo screenshots..."
There's hope yet, we haven't seen her right temple.
So this came in the mail from NECA today. :)
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1438194675
I really love the backing cards that have been coming with these retro figures. The guy they hire to do the F13 art is just killing it.
"First they called Street Fighter II a Super Nintendo game..."Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
That's like calling Deus Ex a PS2 game.
It was.
If any console 'owns' SF2 it's the SNES.
Picked up the Rocky and Gremlins 8bit figures. Feast your eyes on the hideousness.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1438201334
Look what you did.
None does. That's exactly my point. SFII is an arcade game.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Disagree, SFII is a "game". If you were playing it in the arcade you were very likely to buy the console version, and out of the gate that was SNES. Blam.
If you held out for that mutant Champion Edition Turbo thing Genesis got you were a sucker.
I got us off topic, so I'll drop this, but out of that gate, there was no console version. The SNES version came out almost a year and a half later.
A year and a half of demand later, yes.
It's ok to be off topic. We can only talk about 8 bit figures so much.