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Post by Thor Laserpunch on May 3, 2017 18:09:06 GMT -6
I now have four of these--Judge Dredd, Captain America, Daredevil, and Green Arrow.
Dredd cost me about $65 I think last summer, maybe a little earlier. Standard, non-bike version. My favorite thing for him is he can stow all the accessories but the handcuffs on his person--so important! He looks great in just about every way except for the sort of oversized zipper and chain on his leathers and his badge which is held up by magnets often ends up upside down.
Captain America I got the standard version for about $80. The MSRP is looking to be about $80-85 on average throughout the whole growing line now. Looks a little too round on the shoulders and I hate the pouches on the wrists. Aside from that, he's pretty snazzy. The way they've done the scales on the outfit is pretty dope.
Green Arrow is good, but he can't draw the bow back that far and he can't hold an arrow straight that well. Otherwise perfecto, great look for him. Bout $75 or $80 for him iirc.
Daredevil is easily my favorite. Think about $75 for him and worth every penny. He is total hand candy and the outfit is tight and modern without losing anything at all to the classic look and making everything work and pop in just different versions of complete red throughout all the materials. I like the alternate beat up head also. I like alternate heads when I would actually use them.
I missed out on the Punisher, he's getting too expensive now and they are limiting the classic white gloved and web geared up version to 400 pieces or something so I shan't be getting that probably unless there are a lot of cancellations on the preorders. The line overall is getting too expensive but I am going to limit myself to a couple must-haves. They are pretty high quality, like 1/6th scale figures are known for. I don't really regret my buys so far--Dredd is good for the price I got him, Daredevil is definitely a must-have for me, the other 2 I'm not sure I'd buy again at the same price and Cap I could probably live without entirely although I'm still happy to give him a home now. Wolverine is looking good but I don't really know if I definitely want to drop the money on him. He looks pretty good, just not sold. Deadpool on the other hand I'm 100% in for. Deathstroke also looks great, but I don't really care about the character so I will pass unless I can get him well under the retail price. The Joker looks good as well, but the price is a bit high for what you get, and now he seems to be going for $80+. I'll be interested to see what other licensing they might get, a lot of things could work well.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jun 3, 2017 15:45:14 GMT -6
The classic Punisher has been out a while and he looks pretty amazing. I wish I could find one in a somewhat reasonable price range or they'd just re-release him since he was limited to 400 pieces, which is ridiculous. He looks the best of any of them but they are all commanding stupid high prices and are hard to get. I would even go for the original regular version, which has a more modern version with different colored web gear, boots, and gloves, but even he tends to be steep in price. I really need a 6" punisher because I held onto the interrogated thug handcuffed and tied to a Spider Man pinball machine with a grenade in his mouth accessory that came with the crummy, slightly poseable Garth Ennis looking Punisher that DST put out years ago. It is probably one of the best accessory and diorama pieces ever.
Spider Man also is looking to be one of the truly awesome figures for this year. He has such a classic Amazing look and Mezco is not really doing their take on the design or anything, it's just straight up. One of the exclusives is the black costume Spidey but it doesn't look as good as the classic suit in my opinion.
Red Skull might be one I wanna grab also. He just looks so perfect with the uniform and trench coat and all. Gotta keep an eye peeled for him at a good price.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jul 5, 2017 16:38:34 GMT -6
I know, I know--I am the only one posting here. But my love of these figures is really growing. I went ahead and pre-ordered the standard Spidey, Deadpool, Wolverine, & Harley Quinn. I don't even like Suicide Squad that much but the Harley is fantastic. I'm pretty sure that this is the first time fishnet stockings have ever been done in 6" scale. I'm still pissed I missed out on Punisher... so much so that I'm not willing to take a chance on any others that are interesting going super expensive on the secondary market before I get a shot at them. I probably should really take a stab at Deathstroke as well since the regular version is sold out at many places.
Miles Morales Spider-Man is looking pretty good also. I won't be too sad if I miss out on him but I can't get over how sharp he looks. Apparently, there was also a Diabolik figure shown at cons last year that I never noticed--that might be a get also.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jul 9, 2017 7:54:02 GMT -6
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jul 24, 2017 18:06:12 GMT -6
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jul 24, 2017 18:54:45 GMT -6
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jul 24, 2017 19:29:25 GMT -6
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jul 29, 2017 9:03:51 GMT -6
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Aug 4, 2017 17:17:51 GMT -6
Love that Joker! This guy is seriously amazing. I finally broke him out of his carboard prison and it sucks I have to stow him away til I find a place to fit him in. I love the two portraits--just how I like my Joker, with that sinister rictus smile or just completely unhinged and laughing maniacally. Reminds me of the late 80s to about mid 90s Death in the Family/Killing Joke era, and that's what I always wanted, not just another makeover of some fluff Mego figure visage or the terrible modern mental patient look with or without buzz cut hair and stapled on face. Check out the bat symbol print on the socks also. Plus he's basically hand candy you wanna mess around with. My one qualm is accessories, or lack thereof. He gets five hands total. Lame. He needs a good complement of hands for expressive posing. The included massive revolver is ok, but it doesn't really fit his character... it's a repaint of a Punisher accessory also. I mean, they could have done any number of things like a cane, crowbar, revolver with perhaps a removable bang flag, a bundle of dynamite, Joker fish, joy buzzer hand, maybe something akin to the Super Powers mallet... the list goes on. Maybe they could reissue him with a smattering of new accessories and perhaps a hat and long jacket.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Sept 3, 2017 10:05:46 GMT -6
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Post by spockoda on Sept 3, 2017 18:55:23 GMT -6
I had aspirations towards collecting the Star Trek figures from this company but those went down a toilet. The "Cage" Spock is pretty cool.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Sept 3, 2017 19:09:31 GMT -6
There's a lot of stuff now and in recent years that I wish was around 20 years ago when I was actively collecting the Playmates line and Trek stuff in general. I think I am gonna pass on Mezco's Trek One: 12 figures though unless, like this one, they eventually hit clearance prices. They're nice, but my Star Trek interest in general has waned over the years due mainly to a lack of a good TV series I could actually really get into and connect with. The JJ movies are good, I just don't feel the same way as I did with the franchise from the classic series and movies up through the TNG and DS9 years.
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Post by spockoda on Sept 3, 2017 19:16:35 GMT -6
There's a lot of stuff now and in recent years that I wish was around 20 years ago when I was actively collecting the Playmates line and Trek stuff in general. I think I am gonna pass on Mezco's Trek One: 12 figures though unless, like this one, they eventually hit clearance prices. They're nice, but my Star Trek interest in general has waned over the years due mainly to a lack of a good TV series I could actually really get into and connect with. The JJ movies are good, I just don't feel the same way as I did with the franchise from the classic series and movies up through the TNG and DS9 years. I'm classic Trek all the way when it comes to it so I haven't seen the JJ movies and have no plans to. I think Sulu and Spock were the first One:12 figures that I saw released and I ordered them from a foreign seller on ebay and, surprise surprise, never got the figures. That kind of stopped any momentum I had for the line as I just can't do $70 per figure.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Sept 3, 2017 19:27:32 GMT -6
The price tag is steep. I don't think it's out of line with the quality in general for the line, but even the original MSRP of $65 each was a bit much considering the uniforms are so simple. That's the world we live in though. If I were to have my old Star Trek passion reignited somehow I might feel different, but I think that's a long shot.
The new CBS series Discovery looks pretty interesting. Too bad you have to pay for their streaming service to get it though. Maybe I'll check it out when the whole season is available.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Sept 20, 2017 15:30:45 GMT -6
Seems like it's taking forever for some of these guys to come out. Deadpool felt like a long wait, and hopefully Harley Quinn will actually see the light of day this month also. This is a typically awesome figure, but there are some negatives. First and foremost, the magazines fall out of the guns way too easily which is a bummer. The small straps on the holsters also do not really stay snapped in well. Ankle articulation also seems a bit goofy. On the plus side, the sculpted pieces are great, he's accessorized well, the magazines do have tiny bullets sculpted on which is purdy nifty, and the paint job is just as nice as on the other One: 12 figs. I also like that the 40mm grenades can be placed in the grenade launcher tube, although kind of pointless for display purposes. The SDCC X-Men version was a pass for me but I may end up grabbing the cool X-Force outfit DP. As a side note, the packaging has changed from a lovely fifth panel window box with slipcover to a regular generic Mezco window box with slipcover. Collector friendly, but not as sturdy and definitely not as attractive but if it helps them get the figures out faster and reduce costs I'm all for it.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Nov 1, 2017 17:44:35 GMT -6
I caved.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Nov 4, 2017 13:51:29 GMT -6
Some more pics of Spidey. I like the costume, the body size is appropriate, and poseability is pretty good--maybe not as good as some of the super-articulated options over the years such as the Revoltech figures and whatnot, but still pretty good. Only nits I have are the hand assortment (he has no tight grips to hold the bendable web rope even though the promo material for the regular Spidey includes them) and the way the wrist shot webbing pieces are made make it hard to get the webslinger hands on the wrist pegs... plus the wrist webs themselves seem pretty fragile even though I've had no problems yet. At NYCC they finally showed a deluxe version of the classic Joker which has some of my previous suggestions such as a longcoat, fedora, crowbar, and a bomb (so looking like a Killing Joke inspired assortment), plus a couple cool new swappable heads and some additional blades and guns. The hand assortment is still crappy, but at least includes some tight grips for the crowbar, knife, and straight razor.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Dec 11, 2017 17:26:59 GMT -6
^^^I did order that Joker. I'm pretty stoked. Here's this freak in full Nazi regalia. He is pretty impressive. I'll have to get some shots of him in his manly turtleneck later.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Dec 12, 2017 18:09:58 GMT -6
Didn't realize this was so blurry til I had him all bundled up in his cold weather duds again.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Dec 18, 2017 15:57:28 GMT -6
I LOVE HER. Ok, so the face is not quite gaunt enough and her features are a bit too severe to really nail Margot Robbie's likeness, but holy crap, the level of detail is amazing. The paint alone is pretty incredible. I mean the fact they painted her red bra on is such good attention to detail that you see at the Hot Toys level of quality. And it looks like they got all her tats. Each individual fingernail is painted. The fishnets and her high heel sneakers are so MONEY!! Everything else is just really impressive--the stitching and media used for the clothing, the separate bracelets and chokers and belts, the detail on her hands and accessories, the paint on the mouth and eyes, the movable ponytails... all really well done. Really well worth the wait.
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Post by rihia2k on Dec 19, 2017 0:15:55 GMT -6
Of all the figures you've posted in this thread that HQ really looks like it's bristling with the most wicked detailing. It's quite appealing & I don't even like Harley much outside of Batman TAS - but that bubblegum head wins me!
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Dec 19, 2017 17:32:30 GMT -6
They all have pretty intricate detailing, but she really does have something going on anywhere you look. I would marry this figure, and in 15 southern US states I can legally do that.
Deathstroke apparently is coming soon. Guess he'll be the one to beat since he plays deftly into both my armor and pouch fetishes.
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Post by figurecollector on Dec 19, 2017 20:29:04 GMT -6
They all have pretty intricate detailing, but she really does have something going on anywhere you look. I would marry this figure, and in 15 southern US states I can legally do that. Deathstroke apparently is coming soon. Guess he'll be the one to beat since he plays deftly into both my armor and pouch fetishes. She might be a little short for you.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Dec 20, 2017 7:38:00 GMT -6
Too short says you, easily impressed by size says me.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jan 22, 2018 20:57:04 GMT -6
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Jan 23, 2018 18:08:22 GMT -6
Lotsa folks not loving the trunks on Wolvie. I suppose I can live with them, if you can even call that living.
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Post by spockoda on Jan 28, 2018 18:28:45 GMT -6
I like the Mirror Spock figure, they did a fine job.
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Mar 16, 2018 15:50:32 GMT -6
I like the Mirror Spock figure, they did a fine job. They did. Nimoy has a face that has always been really well captured in plastic, but they did an exceptional job. The two Trek figs I have can be found all over the place for under $30 now, which is well worth it considering most Marvel Legends probably go for around that much on the secondary market. Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan Swingin' through your town like your neighborhood Spider-Man I found his package to be quite comical. Here he is wildly gesturing at his bulge.
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Post by StarRunn on Mar 17, 2018 13:30:32 GMT -6
Thor Laserpunch - Very nice Spidey action shots. Love your new avatar!
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Post by Thor Laserpunch on Mar 18, 2018 7:13:01 GMT -6
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