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[Scumdogg]

yeah, looking at that hulk is the closest i've ever come to being turned on by a man.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Well, I just opened em up. Pretty rough going. I started with issue 1 and made my way through to 3.

Klaw was Pretty Cool, he reuses the Black Costume Spidey body, which in my opinion is a decent body type, and I thought it fit perfectly for the character. Other than a few sloppy paint apps here and there I had no trouble. However Cap was a different story completely! All of his joints were fine except his Shoulder Ball Hinge and the Upper Arm Swivel. The SB-Hinge was completely STUCK, in the position were his arm positioned straight out from his side. However they just jammed him in the packaging anyway. Bending up the UA-Swivel peg, warping it. So first I tried the Hot Tap Water method to try and bend the peg back into place, and get that Ball hinge to move. I got the peg straight enough, but it's pretty loose on that swivel, but I couldn't get the hinge to break free for my life. I had to wedge a small exacto knife into the crevices around the edges of the plastic hinge to try and pry it, maybe there was some glue or paint in there for some reason. I got it a tiny bit loose, and then basically had to wrench it back and forth as hard as I could without breaking either peg on the inner chest or upper arm. Eventually I got it loose. That was like a 15 minute mess. He's fine now. And I actually really like him.

The stickage didn't stop there, and I had to pretty much Heat up something on three of the remaining 4 to break joints loose. Wolverines Foot Swivels and Wrist Swivels were all stuck, so I had to heat up his wrists and pop off the hands, then ran the parts under a cold tap, and popped them back on, then twisted them back and forth till I was satisfied that they wouldn't get restuck (My Dark Spidey variant had this problem, had to heat and pop his hands twice already), and then broke loose his feet as well using the same heat and cool method. Again I loved both the figures in this pack! Torch was great, and a color variant I was looking forward too, especially with the new head sculpt which is way better. He had some small yellow spots of paint on his face though. The Wolverine is a great variant, but I still don't like that he is so out of scale. Hasbro claimed this was because they weren't sure how often they would reuse this body for other characters, and didn't want more than one character to be out of scale...however I think they would have been fine, since there are tons of possible Wolverine variations they could do.

Thuderball is the Bees Knees! Both of his Upper Arm Swivels were stuck, but a quick heat method broke them loose without any trouble. Really they get way too carried away with the paint washes, and seem to get more inside the joints than on the figures themselves...if they just stopped doing that all these guys would be fine. Spidey is okay, it is a great body type and figure, but you have seen one spidey you have seen em all. Both his wrists were stuck so again, Heat, Pop, Cool, Pop, Twist... One of his Foot Hinges were stuck too. He is a lighter red and blue than the Wave 1 Spidey...I just wonder what kind of difference there will be with the 3 pack spidey. Hope that is the last standard colored spidey we get stuck with for a while.

Lot of Quality issues with these packs...I just hope they aren't that bad with the future packs. This crap is too expensive to be breaking. And too popular to be so sloppy. Some major let downs, but They are still the shizznit. Oh! And like Scummy, all my comics were all bent up on the bottom. Who packs this crap? I want to know how the heck they squeeze all these figures in so tight without breaking them as well! You need a crowbar to pry them out. I think I'll just start using scissors and cut the stinking trays apart. Right now my fingers hurt from all the prying, heating, and pulling, and bending I had to do.

Edited by Universal Ruler Supreme, 02 August 2009 - 12:38 AM.

[dankingery]

struck out out target today. no secret wars, gormiti 5.5" or new wave 4/5 figures. i did pick up that green goblin i was on the fence about. hello buyers remorse. sadly i'm not that happy with him. and to be honest, i'm a little less thrilled with hobgoblin now too. the sculpts are great. the paint apps are also top shelf. my only real problem with them is two semi-minor things. number one, i'm going to have to do some modifying to get the pumpkin bomb to fit into the tiny peg hole they give you. seems to have shrunk up a bit on me. number two, they do not hold a good pose for their gliders. this being a little more annoying since i'd like to have them sitting on my shelf like they're flying around while i'm not playing with them. i guess if i wanted to get nitpicky i could also complain about the green goblins eyes. he looks like he just fell out of the artificial atmosphere environment and onto the mars surface.

[Scumdogg]

I actually really like the Green Goblin figure, he's one of the reasons i started collecting this line. I do intend to eventually paint Hobgoblin's glider purple though, to further differentiate the two. Thought about trying to clean up all his ragged edges too.

Speaking of wave 4, i finally saw it again today. Well except Moon Knight and Red Hulk. I picked up Union Jack because he's the only one i passed on the first time, and the more i looked at the figure online the more i liked it.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Yeah, the figures seem to be pretty stationary on their gliders, but that doesn't bother me since almost every Goblin figure ever has been the same way. They are kind of hard to stand on their gliders as well. They really should have included a stand with a short pole that would plug into the bottom of the gliders so they could sort of just float there in your display. A little creativity can do just as well though.

And Scum, Jack is probably my favorite figure right now with the DareDevil Body type. Probably because his paint apps are so clean. But I'm kind of glad to have him, cause he gets to chill out with my Invaders team when I get them.

Oh and my BW Cap shipped today!


***Edit Also a quick edit to my earlier post about my SW's figures. The Spidey is a Lighter red, but Darker Blue than the Wave 1 Spidey.

Edited by Universal Ruler Supreme, 02 August 2009 - 11:50 AM.

[mrjayberry]

I went to the closer Target, nada, so I drove to the Target across town and I couldn't even find Marvel Universe pegs, nothing.
Than I found another half aisle of action figures with Secret Wars figures hooray.

How many action figure aisle do your targets have. I thought it weird that there was such a diffrence between the two.

[lhssenior]

I went to the closer Target, nada, so I drove to the Target across town and I couldn't even find Marvel Universe pegs, nothing.
Than I found another half aisle of action figures with Secret Wars figures hooray.

How many action figure aisle do your targets have. I thought it weird that there was such a diffrence between the two.

There are 6 Targets within 20 minutes of my house, and in the past few days they've ALL added the additional half aisle of action figures . They're all pretty well stocked with everything, except Gormiti as well. 5 of the 6 had secret wars, they all had the crappy new iron man 3.5" figures and in general the shelves were all packed full of everything, again, except Gormiti
-Barry

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

A few of my Targets have 2 action figure aisles. But most have only one. But really they all have bigger toy sections than most of my Wal-Mart stores it seems. I actually hope Target starts putting the screws to Wally World. They are by far the better stores, at least over here. I'm pretty sick of Wal-mart. Half the time their stuff is more expensive than Target too. For instance their Directors Cut of Watchmen was 27.99, but Target had it for 22.99. Likewise most of their action figures appear to be .50 cents to a dollar less than walmart. And Target has very decent clearances. Walmart thinks clearance is knocking off about a buck anymore. Lately when shopping for my Marvel kick, I go to Target first, and have actually been skipping Walmarts. Sucks that Hasbro has been playing that Exclusive BS with this line already.

[Scumdogg]

I moved my Marvel Universe figures off the comic shelf today and into a bigger home:



There was some downtime, during which i managed to snag this candid shot of Red Hulk being an a-hole.

[Ghost Lion]

Whoops! Red Hulk broke the seal.

[Scumdogg]

One thing to add before i return to my forced internet exile for another day, i was at TRU yesterday and they had a case of the Daredevil/Iron Man/Silver Surfer three-packs. The one that's $29.99 for some reason instead of $23.99 like the others.

It looks nice, and i wanted to get it pretty badly. Especially with my desire to own all the Iron Man figures from this line. But at $30 for three characters i already have, i just couldn't pull the trigger. Still on the lookout for the other two packs though, there wasn't even a shelf tag for those yet.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

I keep calling my Toys'R'Us asking if they have them in stock, but I think I'm starting to scare them.

"Oh crap! Steve, it's that guy asking about those exclusive Marvel 3 packs again!"

[dankingery]

i just want to say that the invaders set is effing amazing. i think these are the best looking figs i've purchased so far. i'm very seriously contemplating getting a second set so i have one for play and one for display. if you haven't bought one yet don't be afraid. the price is right. 5 out of 5 chainsaws for sure.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Would anyone be interested in some kind of Invaders Pack Review?

[dankingery]

that'd be cool. i've liked all of your reviews so far.

i really like the packaging. that's one of the main reasons i'm thinking about getting a second set. very simple design, no too flashy. but everything about it is aces. even the magnet inclusion is great. totally lends itself to displaying. if i had any gripes it would be namor's slightly too heavy wash and red skull's eyes. i would have preferred something a little more menacing. like the package art for him has the dark sockets with burning white pupils. very cool. and why doesn't he have a german officer's hat. that'd been the maraschino cherry on the fantastic banana split that is this set. i think the biggest surprise is how much i love the human torch though. again, a simple design that completely carries it off.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

I had no problems with any of them as far as paint. I liked Namor's wash myself though. And the blued hair details were really cool. I think where his feet met his ankle was kind of goofy looking though, They should have tooled down the ankle part of the lower leg for a more streamlined appearance, but that's just me.

When I first started collecting this line a few moths ago I didn't really care for the Human Torch figures, but with each release of a new Torch I love them more as a group! I'm especially happy they have been using newer head sculpts on the latest few. I really am anxious about finding those 3 packs so I can get my animated Torch. And until they do a Toro figure, one of the other Torchs can fill in for him with my Invaders. AAAHHH we need a complete Invaders roster Hasbro! New and original... I wish I could invade Hasbro's Marvel team and make them make every single Marvel character ever made! MUWAHAHAHAHA!!

What sucks with 5000+ characters, even if they made 50 new characters a year it would take 100+ years to reach the character point Marvel is at right now. And with inflation and the current price mark you know if we could afford, and even lived that long we would have invested over $50,000 bucks into the line. Okay, I think I just hit an insanity point...

I want to at least be able to take a figure shot to look like this.

Edited by Universal Ruler Supreme, 06 August 2009 - 04:36 PM.

[lhssenior]

I had no problems with any of them as far as paint. I liked Namor's wash myself though. And the blued hair details were really cool. I think where his feet met his ankle was kind of goofy looking though, They should have tooled down the ankle part of the lower leg for a more streamlined appearance, but that's just me.

When I first started collecting this line a few moths ago I didn't really care for the Human Torch figures, but with each release of a new Torch I love them more as a group! I'm especially happy they have been using newer head sculpts on the latest few. I really am anxious about finding those 3 packs so I can get my animated Torch. And until they do a Toro figure, one of the other Torchs can fill in for him with my Invaders. AAAHHH we need a complete Invaders roster Hasbro! New and original... I wish I could invade Hasbro's Marvel team and make them make every single Marvel character ever made! MUWAHAHAHAHA!!

What sucks with 5000+ characters, even if they made 50 new characters a year it would take 100+ years to reach the character point Marvel is at right now. And with inflation and the current price mark you know if we could afford, and even lived that long we would have invested over $50,000 bucks into the line. Okay, I think I just hit an insanity point...

I want to at least be able to take a figure shot to look like this.

Haha, good luck, if they were going to even attempt to make figures for 5000+ unique characters that means we would have at least 3000+ new spidey/hulk/iron man/human torch sculpts to accompany them!!
-Barry

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Yeah, that was really just an interesting look at a real perspective and only at the highest chance that they would do that. But your right, we would surely have at least 500 Spidermans by then.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Well, my BW Captain America came in today!!! Wait....WTF!!! Opened the box, and Cap was nowhere to be found! In fact I became quickly worried just from the weight of the box! I mean how much does a BW Cap weigh?

For some reason Hasbro sent me this instead..... http://www.hasbrotoy...a...96&ID=24547

I don't know whether to be angry and contact Hasbro, or jump for joy! Maybe I'll do both for this insane inconvenience!

[Scumdogg]

I really am anxious about finding those 3 packs so I can get my animated Torch.

I hate to break this to you, but assuming you're talking about the TRU 3-packs (which we always are ), none of those contains a Human Torch figure.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Hmm....I wonder what I was thinking of then? I knew darn well that Iceman was the figure. I must have lost it, or dreamed something.

[BaltanII]

Holy crap, that's the sort of HTS screwup I always wished would happen to me. I can has SW? Hope no one ends up with your Cap instead of Soundwave though...

B&W Cap should not a figure to worry about too much if you never get it from HTS, because it's hard to scalp a ten-dollar figure available in rather plentiful numbers. eBay's proving as much right now despite some of the jokers with $40 BINs.

Edited by Boaconda, 07 August 2009 - 11:47 AM.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Yeah, I already put a bid in on another one, and will bid on one until I win it at the Hasbro price. But I was really stoked about the Soundwave! I know someone is gonna be bent! The Soundwave figure sold out early, and demand was pretty high. I'm gonna sell it, cause as much as I like him, I just don't collect Transformers. I just havn't decided whether I should ebay it, or just chock it on here at the Con/HTS price.

I've already seen them going for $20+ over the original price mark on eBay.

[dankingery]

well, ask yourself this: would you rather help out a fellow board member here with a killer deal, or sell it on the bay and get more money for marvel universe? i don't think either choice is better than the other. i know what i'd do, but everyone's different. it really is a pretty cool toy. i think either way you go, their eff up is your gain.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Well, I figure I could put it on eBay with the starting bid at the con price, and see what happens. Or if anyone here has immediate interest in purchasing it at that price + shipping, I'm game! Crap, I just made $32.99 cents profit either way!

I could afford a whole 70th anniversary 3 pack from Toys'R'Us. Hmm.... that puts it in perspective a bit doesn't it.