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After what happened this weekend, do you ~REALLY~ want more pics posted on this board after we've been thinking of a million nude women in swimming pools?
And Doc, I'm asking Veers. Not you. We know your answer.
One Miiiillllion MUSCLEs
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Posted 06 October 2008 - 07:39 AM
Our glorious Milky Way is a tiny, infinitesimal speck of sand in this vast, incomprehensible universe. And somewhere in that Milky Way is our own solar system, less than one billionth of that speck of sand that is the Milky Way. And then there is our planet Earth, one hundred trillionth of that one billionth of that one speck of sand. And on this planet Earth there is DEV-0, an insignificant blemish with a lifespan too short to measure when placed in infinite time.
And you are here, with them, as so many specks of sand.
And you are here, with them, as so many specks of sand.
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Posted 06 October 2008 - 07:41 AM
This thread is about one thing:After what happened this weekend, do you ~REALLY~ want more pics posted on this board after we've been thinking of a million nude women in swimming pools?
I'd love to see the progress Czarcher has made.One Millllllion Muscles
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Posted 06 October 2008 - 07:43 AM
Do negative numbers count?
Our glorious Milky Way is a tiny, infinitesimal speck of sand in this vast, incomprehensible universe. And somewhere in that Milky Way is our own solar system, less than one billionth of that speck of sand that is the Milky Way. And then there is our planet Earth, one hundred trillionth of that one billionth of that one speck of sand. And on this planet Earth there is DEV-0, an insignificant blemish with a lifespan too short to measure when placed in infinite time.
And you are here, with them, as so many specks of sand.
And you are here, with them, as so many specks of sand.
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 12:28 PM
Not to rain on anyone's parade if one does accumulate one million M.U.S.C.L.E.s, but perhaps 2-3 million should be your goal. Just think, every time you see the M.U.S.C.L.E. logo and read Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere, but you don't have millions 
, you have a million 
. That may begin to weigh on you. 
If you bought 2 large mirrors it would seem like millions.
However besides having achieved greatness in the M.U.S.C.L.E.,ummm toy community,ummmm collector's community you would be able to open your very own M.U.S.C.L.E. store. The doors could be made to resemble Junkman's hands, Sunshine could be the basis for all the furniture, resembling the likeness of each figure. Many colors, but mostly that M.U.S.C.L.E. pink. M.U.S.C.L.E. keyrings, earings, pencil toppers. You could sell Sunshine tops seperately for a inflated price. Regular sized clear garbage cans full of one color figures, one garbage can for each color. One additional can for damaged. The extra figures that would not be sold seperately would be in the stock room. As for packaged figures, they would have to carry outrageous prices. Have an offer on the store advertisement that if you posess a M.U.S.C.L.E. figure that cannot be located in the store, the figure can be traded in for a thousand M.U.S.C.L.E.s. The restrooms will have urinals just like the urinal man figure. Hammers and pliers just like the smaller figures. Goofy balls like the volleyball figure. The store vendors would of course have to wear Kinnikuman masks. Gumball machines with all sorts of bootlegs. A cash register and computer like the two robots. Security cameras resembling the VCR man and the security guards to resemble the robin mask knight look. Perhaps a ball play pen for younger children filled with the volleyball figures(arms and legs being chopped off).
Well perhaps I went a little off topic,
Collect one million M.U.S.C.L.E. figures, perhaps we should just add up everyone's current collections and see if we could even put a dent in that number. I am at about 500, give or take a few!
, you have a million . That may begin to weigh on you. If you bought 2 large mirrors it would seem like millions.However besides having achieved greatness in the M.U.S.C.L.E.,ummm toy community,ummmm collector's community you would be able to open your very own M.U.S.C.L.E. store. The doors could be made to resemble Junkman's hands, Sunshine could be the basis for all the furniture, resembling the likeness of each figure. Many colors, but mostly that M.U.S.C.L.E. pink. M.U.S.C.L.E. keyrings, earings, pencil toppers. You could sell Sunshine tops seperately for a inflated price. Regular sized clear garbage cans full of one color figures, one garbage can for each color. One additional can for damaged. The extra figures that would not be sold seperately would be in the stock room. As for packaged figures, they would have to carry outrageous prices. Have an offer on the store advertisement that if you posess a M.U.S.C.L.E. figure that cannot be located in the store, the figure can be traded in for a thousand M.U.S.C.L.E.s. The restrooms will have urinals just like the urinal man figure. Hammers and pliers just like the smaller figures. Goofy balls like the volleyball figure. The store vendors would of course have to wear Kinnikuman masks. Gumball machines with all sorts of bootlegs. A cash register and computer like the two robots. Security cameras resembling the VCR man and the security guards to resemble the robin mask knight look. Perhaps a ball play pen for younger children filled with the volleyball figures(arms and legs being chopped off).
Well perhaps I went a little off topic,
Collect one million M.U.S.C.L.E. figures, perhaps we should just add up everyone's current collections and see if we could even put a dent in that number. I am at about 500, give or take a few!
Fight for M.U.S.C.L.E.
On second thought, just watch.... M.U.S.C.L.E. Wrestling Videos
On second thought, just watch.... M.U.S.C.L.E. Wrestling Videos
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 12:30 PM
I am currently sitting on about 8,000 - 10,000 that need to be sorted and put into sets.
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 12:36 PM
I don't have many, but I've got about 350 
Every little counts
Every little counts
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 12:45 PM
i have at least 500. we are counting just muscles, and not kinkeshi right?
if i encounter the demons in hell, i will kill them all..
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 03:25 PM
1433 total for me,1295 in my master set.
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 03:32 PM
i have about 450
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 04:29 PM
I have about 325--hoping to (at least) double that within the next six months.
Current collecting goal: obtain all 148 Monster In My Pocket Series 1 figures in regular colors (71.62% there)
So many toys, so little money!
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 05:39 PM
1433 total for me,1295 in my master set.
Awesome avatar Meat. Very fitting !
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 08:58 PM
Thanks Bro,nice to see you popping around again.1433 total for me,1295 in my master set.
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 11:33 PM
I have like 410 unique, and around 15-20 dupes. Pretty weak, but i've been meaning to get on that.
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Posted 03 January 2009 - 11:52 PM
Dang....It's weird how stuff can change so much in little over a year. 
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 04:18 PM
Dang....It's weird how stuff can change so much in little over a year.
im still here...................so put a smile on you face.
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 05:43 PM
Dang....It's weird how stuff can change so much in little over a year.
im still here...................so put a smile on you face.
Now I want to collect One Million Muttonchops.
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 10:37 PM
Dang....It's weird how stuff can change so much in little over a year.
im still here...................so put a smile on you face.
I'd be willing to donate mine to the cause.
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Posted 05 January 2009 - 05:36 AM
did anyone ever come up with a weight or volume estimate for 1 mill muscles?
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I have about 1000.
People who have recorded their collections on the MuscleDB have a total of 59,422 MUSCLEs. Yeah, yeah, I know the flaws of the MuscleDB, but at least it gives us a ballpark estimate. But a few collectors don't have their entire collections recorded there, like Johnny and me. But judging by that number, I'd say that the number of MUSCLEs in circulation (meaning, that still exist) now number roughly 100,000.
People who have recorded their collections on the MuscleDB have a total of 59,422 MUSCLEs. Yeah, yeah, I know the flaws of the MuscleDB, but at least it gives us a ballpark estimate. But a few collectors don't have their entire collections recorded there, like Johnny and me. But judging by that number, I'd say that the number of MUSCLEs in circulation (meaning, that still exist) now number roughly 100,000.
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Posted 05 January 2009 - 06:52 AM
Still my favorite line.I don't think I'm being too unrealistic.
Anyways, here's one other way to play the numbers game.
My guess is that a "serious" collector has approximately 1500 figures, and a "regular" collector has approximately 500. We currently have 1602 members of this board, half of those can be thrown away as worthless accounts – which gives us 801 people (maybe a good guess of all collectors, on the board or otherwise). I think about 20% (160 people) of those people would be serious collectors (240,000 figures), the remaining 641 people would have 320,500. That's a total of 560,500 figures.
My little number game makes me feel like easily a million figures were made back in the 80's.
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I was going to reply with some long equation based on numerical assumptions, but I don't think it would have added anything extra to the discussion.
I was probably lowballing it with my estimate, and I'd say the "truth" is somewhere between my estimate and Veers'. If we were being scientific about it, we would take an average of both Veers' estimate and mine to find a probable number of about 330,000 MUSCLEs available today.
As for the number of MUSCLEs available back in the day, there's probably no way to come up with a reasonable estimate. The only reliable data I've found for the numbers of toys produced are on the Playmates Star Trek figures that had the production numbers printed on the feet. I think they got into the 150,000 range for some figures (my Season 1 Worf has a number of about 126,000), but that probably depends on the character. I can see them selling 150,000 Worfs, but not that many Benzites. Still, that's probably about a million figures each wave.
MUSCLE is a totally different line both in collecting style and in consumer appeal so the numbers are probably totally different. I can't imagine that Mattel would produce 150,000 of each figure, because there's no way that there would be enough consumers collecting every figure to buy them. But there might have been a million of them total made back in the day.
I was probably lowballing it with my estimate, and I'd say the "truth" is somewhere between my estimate and Veers'. If we were being scientific about it, we would take an average of both Veers' estimate and mine to find a probable number of about 330,000 MUSCLEs available today.
As for the number of MUSCLEs available back in the day, there's probably no way to come up with a reasonable estimate. The only reliable data I've found for the numbers of toys produced are on the Playmates Star Trek figures that had the production numbers printed on the feet. I think they got into the 150,000 range for some figures (my Season 1 Worf has a number of about 126,000), but that probably depends on the character. I can see them selling 150,000 Worfs, but not that many Benzites. Still, that's probably about a million figures each wave.
MUSCLE is a totally different line both in collecting style and in consumer appeal so the numbers are probably totally different. I can't imagine that Mattel would produce 150,000 of each figure, because there's no way that there would be enough consumers collecting every figure to buy them. But there might have been a million of them total made back in the day.
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Posted 05 January 2009 - 09:59 AM
Still my favorite line.I don't think I'm being too unrealistic.
Still a DOUCHE I see !
Piss off A-Hole !
YOU'RE one of the reasons I don't come around here much anymore. You're a disgrace to LRG !
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Posted 05 January 2009 - 11:11 AM
I'd have to agree. A 4-pack case contained 576 figures. Multiply that by who knows how many stores sold them back in the '80s, and then factor in the 10-packs and 28-packs...and then work in multiple orders/re-orders...My little number game makes me feel like easily a million figures were made back in the 80's.
Is it possible that tens or hundreds of millions of M.U.S.C.L.E.s were made? Not really. Is it likely? Hell no. Mattel has made over a billion Hot Wheels cars, but that took over 20 years. I can't see more than a couple-few million M.U.S.C.L.E.s having been made back in the day, and I'd guess maybe 250,000 to 350,000 are still around. But that's just a guess, and it should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Current collecting goal: obtain all 148 Monster In My Pocket Series 1 figures in regular colors (71.62% there)
So many toys, so little money!
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I'm you're excuse for not posting more, I'm sure you still lurk. I think the real reason you don't post more is that you've taken quite a bit of heat for your complaining in art contests and this thread is an embarrassment. Really I think you should be mature enough to realize when you've done something ridiculous and embrace it. At this point, even you should laugh at this thread. But not everybody has the ability to laugh at themselves because they don't have the confidence to do it. My impression is that confidence, not me, is the real issue. I'm simply your scapegoat, which is fine with me. I'm sure this defensiveness has proven effective for coping with lots of things, it's a very common behavior.YOU'RE one of the reasons I don't come around here much anymore. You're a disgrace to LRG !
Back on topic, yeah I agree with you too Jet. When you think that TRU used to simply order everything from a manufacturer it's hard to imagine how many figures TRU alone put into circulation. Then throw in all the smaller toy stores, grocery stores, and even mom and pop shops. And on top of it all, they had a low price-point.
EDIT - Czarcher, you continue to illustrate my point for me. You don't have anything insightful, creative, funny, clever, and/or mean to say. You simply glob on to an unrelated post and post a picture of me and my son. You're simply too afraid to actually say something with merit. Instead you bury this post in something that most people won't even notice. You've made your passive-aggressive move, which makes you feel better, but it is so meaningless that no one notices – so it is safe for you.
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Posted 06 January 2009 - 02:55 PM
I think the only way to settle this dispute is to have a Super Top Trumps battle between Veers and Czarcher. So...any volunteers to come up with the stats? Veers obviously will have 'Fear Factor' 100!! Nothing beats 'Fear Factor' 100!!
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