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[mrjayberry]

Nice, yeah no doubt about paint apps, although it seems the one time I saw them they looked crisp enough.

Target finally put out the new wave for my purchasing pleasure, haven't had time to open any of them yet though. I was just glad to find them. The one Target seemed to have gotten a refresher case and two Spider-Man endcap displays instead of the new wave.

[Ridureyu]

I JUST missed out on a transluscent Human Torch today! (d'oh!) Apparently it wasbought before I got to Wal-Mart, hah. Awesome-looking figure, but I won't pay $30 for one, so we'll see if that case pops up again.

In the meantime, I'm hoping to find a Doctor Strange someday. Eventually. And my Marvel Shelf has been reconfigured a tiny bit with some new finds.



I have all four Wreckers now, but not enough shelf-space to pose the whole group.

[mrjayberry]

It didn't take long for Toys R Us here in Boise to put out a Sentinal, wow I love the Masterworks line. I also was able to pick up a Cable and a Nova Torch. A lot of new goodness for my rotating displays.

Ridureyu-Your a sly one is that another non MU figure sneaking in. The color scheme and extra arms made me think it was Spiral for a second. That would have made me very jealous.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Cool Jay! I can't wait to get mine. I got my DP/TM set in today, but I assume they won't ship my Sentinel till tomorrow. Gas has been high for me lately, so I can't go on as many care free toy hunts as I'm used to.

I was thinking the other day how I'd love to get a Classic Apocalypse, but figured Hasbro wouldn't give us one due to tooling cost. But I saw this custom the other day, and thought, PERFECT!! A Buck reuse that I didn't think of! I hope this is the way Hasbro goes to get us one. All they have to do is retool the neck plating, and the chest piece, and BAM!

[Ridureyu]

'mrjayberry', on 04 Aug 2011 - 4:53 PM, said:

It didn't take long for Toys R Us here in Boise to put out a Sentinal, wow I love the Masterworks line. I also was able to pick up a Cable and a Nova Torch. A lot of new goodness for my rotating displays.

Ridureyu-Your a sly one is that another non MU figure sneaking in. The color scheme and extra arms made me think it was Spiral for a second. That would have made me very jealous.

Well, Satan Cross has to be the super-secret rare in every toyline, you know.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Got an email from TRU saying my sentinel is on backorder. FOUL!!!

[Ridureyu]

I just added Loki to the shelf. He's mincing and prancing near Thanos.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

The team packs are back up at HTS if anyone needed em. I passed the first time cause they were pre-orders.. then everyone said HTS started shipping them a few days after they sold out, so I was pissed. This time I bit the bullet and pre-ordered them. Now they will take about 60 days to ship I'm sure.

Also spotted a lone single carded Doom at a Wal-mart along with sentinels. So I guess these will all be showing up soon at Wally Worlds. The sentinels were $55 a pop, which was crazy when TRU has em for $50.

[mrjayberry]

Been a very good weekend for me Marvel toy line wise, first at Wal-Mart I picked up a couple of Giant Battles on discount(not sure where they came from since they weren't out last time I was there), finally found a Destroyer from the Thor movie line, and picked up a couple of Cap figures from Toys R' Us 2 for $10.99 sale. Alright the TrU part could have been better, like if they had anything besides Winter Soldier and Wreckers on the MU pegs but the other two are awesome.

I think I'm caught up with everything except regular Dr. Strange, and team packs, and comic colored Hydra Soldiers from the Cap line, and something else I'm probably missing like new two packs. Drat if this isn't starting to get a little pricey to keep up with all the cool stuff I want.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

I was annoyed today, I printed out a few 20% off TRU coupons to try and snag a second Sentinel on the cheap. But my store didn't even have any in stock when I went there. Ended up just giving all my coupons away.

Havn't seen anything new. And seeing how practically none of the Thor figures in my area have moved at all I'll never see a Destroyer.

So, zero hits for MU lately. But all I really need are the Reg Strange and Scarlet Spider. Found Skaar last weekend. And my Sentinel came in Friday.

I don't think any new 2 packs have hit yet. Or are you still missing the Samurai/Taskmaster sets?

Edited by Universal Ruler Supreme, 13 August 2011 - 11:30 PM.

[mrjayberry]

Nope, Samurai and Taskmaster sets are accounted for, thankfully not at TrU where I noticed they are $18, and the only reason I found a Destroyer is because there is a store in Boise who just started to carry the Thor line, everybody else is stuck on wave 1.

[Toxoviper]

Marvel Universe on sale 6.99+Buy 1 Get 1 Free at Target now until Aug20.
That's only $3.50 per figure.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Found Reg Strange and Scarlet yesterday at Target. Also picked up the new Lizard, and went ahead and snagged the Rhino too. Great Figs!

So I'm caught up for now I guess.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Got my team packs in today! Just as all the Wal-Marts in my area started stocking them as well. Actually busted open a fresh case to check for the FF variant pack.

[mrjayberry]

Did your Wal-Mart have the classic Avengers team pack, mine had out two X-Force and two Fantastic Four but no Avengers.

Maybe it's a good thing I was a little sad to find out I'd spent 40 bucks and the only new characters I got where Invisible Woman and H.E.R.B.I.E., had the Avengers pack been there it would have been 60.

I just need regular Strange and the Avengers team pack to be caught up since I don't need all the variants.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Yeah, the Case I checked had 4 packs and was marked as W2(wave 2). 2 FF, 1 XF, and 1Ave. Which is kind of weird. I guess they are pretty confident people want to finish their FF team. This may sound weird, but I opened all 3, and by far my favorite figure is HERBIE. Nice touch with the Ball Neck.

Avengers pack is nice too. Thor has some weird paint apps on the face, It looks good, but just weird how it looks like they stenciled on part of the face, almost like paint is missing on the cheeks and chin. Love the tiny little Ant Man, and he is TINY, like half the size of the Yellow Jacket AntMan.

X-Force set just sucks in my opinion. They used the sucky Deadpool from the XMO Deluxe pack, and all though this ones Paint Apps are better it's just lame to get another Stealth Warpath. Wolverine is fine though. But his legs are a bit loose on the ball hips.

Can't wait for better team packs.

HTS still has the Avengers set up for order I believe. And they just put up Wave 14 cases as well. Though I don't know why they insist on the cases.

[Ridureyu]

Yes (Wasp is a pack-in with Dr. Doom and Absorbing Man. There are a few Pyms around in his Hornet and giant-man costume, and a mini ant-man as a pack-in)

No

I'm not sure.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

As for Ant-Man, there will be a full size one next year, but right now there is only 2 miniatures, 1 comes with the YellowJacket figure, and another from the Avengers team pack, that is extremely miniscule.

As for Galactus in a Cartoon. There is the 60's FF series, the 90's FF series, 90's Silver Surfer series, and I believe he may have been in the Superhero Squad cartoon. So bare pickings for Galactus in media aside from comics.

Edited by Universal Ruler Supreme, 26 August 2011 - 02:38 PM.

[BaltanII]

Silver Surfer is definitely on Netflix, but if you want that for Galactus in action, hahaha. All he does is sit around and let his machines do the eating. You get a ton of exposition from him and that's about it. At the time that show was made, I think most of the budget was blown on the CG used for him and many of the ships. It's... not an incredible series but it's alright, and does more with Galactus than Fantastic Four or Superhero Squad since it's nothing but cosmic Marvel stuff.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Ant-Man will be the action figure size 3-4" scale.

The next MasterWorks figure (huge) will be Fin Fang Foom.

[BaltanII]

...in orange. I know, we got green for the Marvel Legends BAF, but the dude is green! The only time FFF was orange was when it wasn't actually him - the only notable orange appearance I've found was when the Midgard Serpent took on Fin Fang Foom's form (hell if I know why) in order to fight Thor.

[lhssenior]

Green FFF will probably be next year's SDCC exclusive color like the regular colored Sentinel was this year.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

'BaltanII', on 02 Sept 2011 - 9:50 PM, said:

...in orange. I know, we got green for the Marvel Legends BAF, but the dude is green! The only time FFF was orange was when it wasn't actually him - the only notable orange appearance I've found was when the Midgard Serpent took on Fin Fang Foom's form (hell if I know why) in order to fight Thor.

I know the color bothered me at first too, but it does look good, and FFF is a Shape Shifter as well. Sooo I can live with it. But I agree. I'm pretty sure we will get a Green Running change. Hasbro has made it pretty clear that they intend on repainting just about every figure they ever make at least once.

EDIT!!! OH! and I think I figured out where the orange came from. It appears to be an homage to "Fantasy Masterpieces #2" Where the first appearance of Foom is reprinted in Orange instead of Green. Cool!

http://jackkirbycomics.blogspot.com/2004/10/fantasy-masterpieces-2-fin-fang-foom.html

Edited by Universal Ruler Supreme, 02 September 2011 - 04:28 PM.