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Gypsy wrote:

Damn! Thats on a wholenother level.

Yeah it's incredible. Some truly great stuff has been shown here. Prime 1 stuff is out of my price range but I enjoy checking it out.

Welp, they finally revealed the Archie Comics TMNT figures that I'd need to snag to complete my run.

-The 4 turtles in their Archie wrestling outfits
-Bellybomb + Krang
-Mondo Gecko

Being a big wrestling fan, part of me is excited for the turtles, but I was really hoping for standard looking turtles for this line. I dig the designs enough (except Donnie, that one's boring), Mikey and Raph especially are cool, but I almost always prefer the standard looks. At this point, I may just snag the standard turtles from the animated line considering the Archie comics turtles look pretty much exactly the same (that may even be why they chose wrestlers for this line). Mondo is a Mutanimal like the other 4 that are already released, so he may be the first one I go for. But that Bellybomb figure + the Krang accessory is a must-have too. Classic 90s toy vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7XlDNZc4lQ

theJaw wrote:

Ill try to stay away from those but they do look pretty neat! I only try for their TMNT movies stuff and I want to say I have everything I need except Tokka & Rahzar. I did start with the Last Ronin line because they look insanely good (they revealed the other Ronin turtles at the show).

Not the best quality figure at all… in fact, it’s pretty bad. Flimsy removable hands and whatnot, real crappy stand. BUT it’s perfect for what I’m using it for: display purposes! Love Invincible and Omni-Man is probably my favorite character, plus I had a gift card leftover from my birthday, so figured “what the heck” and grabbed it.

I do love that the baseball glove hand was included. At this point, that’s an iconic scene from the comics.

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theJaw wrote:

What brand is it?

Doesnt look bad at all, except the eyes that look kinda funny.

willyum wrote:
Woah! That's scary. What happened to half of him (canon-wise)?

theJaw wrote:
Is the baseball removable?

You slyly telling us to play Pikmin over there? :)

nonamesleft wrote:

I reaaaaally doubt thats canon.

kevolones wrote:
I know hardly anything about Evangelion, so I certainly don't know.

@kevolones It’s Diamond Select Toys. It LOOKS good for sure, which is why I’m cool using it for display, but the quality of the hands is pretty bad. Very loose and wiggly, and the plastic itself feels a lot thinner than something like a NECA figure. The default hand it comes with just fell right off when I opened it, having never touched it before. The pegs seem suspect.

Then there’s the issue of paint scraping off a bit around the knee and ankle joints. I also feel like he’s hunched over more than he should be, like his neck is jutting out a bit too much (see the photo below). Doesn’t really reflect the broad-shouldered stature of the character himself. Just little issues that you wouldn’t see from some of the higher-caliber figure companies.

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@nonamesleft The baseball isn’t removable but you can switch hands and whatnot. The Invincible figure comes with another baseball mitt hand and I think a baseball accessory with a flame hanging off the back to make it look like it was thrown by a superhuman haha. Honestly it’s the baseball stuff that made me want the figures in the first place. Love that scene in the comics/cartoon so I thought it was real smart to include it with the figure.

And yes, everyone should play Pikmin 4.

@theJaw

A flame hanging off the back to make it look like a super throw is pretty cool. Will look that up.

Pikmin 4, hmmmm. Haven't played any games in the series.

Anyhow, buddy snagged me ol’ Toxie for my birthday this year. Still on the fence on whether I want to take him out of the packaging, but gosh darn does this figure rule.

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nonamesleft wrote:

Yah I’m planning to snag that one soon enough. It’s under $20 so I want it just to have him and Omni-Man playing catch haha


Pikmin 3 is an all-time favorite, and 4 seems to be on track to joining it.

theJaw wrote:
Okay, in the box or out, that's pretty awesome. And he looks so cheerful :)

I couldn't find the Omni-man flame piece. Maybe I'm just searching the wrong key words.

@nonamesleft it comes with the character named Invincible’s figure (son of Omni-man). Guess it’s less of a flame and more of just a “fast throw” effect haha

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theJaw wrote:
How does the baseball fit in his hand though, being that there's that flame piece attached to it? I tried finding a picture of it, even YouTubed unboxings of it, but can't find results for it.

Pretty cool, the detailing that many of these figures have.

nonamesleft wrote:


Yah that's a mystery to me too. Maybe there's a peg on the very edge of the effect that sticks into the palm of one of his open hands... but no idea. Would seem pretty silly to include that accessory if it can't be held somehow.

nonamesleft wrote:

I think it's just a fan mashup type thing. Just thought it was neat.

willyum wrote:
It is. It's a cool piece.

Just got this in the mail this week. Very nice add to my "Bastard" collection. Its bigger than I thought (what she said) so I had to put it back in the box for now. This probably needs its own detolf "shelf", Ill need to shuffle some things to make space for it. Hoping it scales with the other Bastard!! statues I own.

willyum wrote:

Thanks! I think I got a decent "discount" by preordering it from Japan.

I actually have another of their statues (Arshes Nei) in preorder as well, unfortunately I ordered that at full US price. Its pretty sick though.

Battletoads!!!!

BigBadToyStore is having a Black Friday sale; decent assortment of random stuff:

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Search?Theme=41873&...

willyum wrote:

Nothing for me this time. There's a couple of good prices on figure I already bought full priced. Hurts to see it!

If the $4 flat shipping applied to where I live, I would spend so much money on that site it would be ridiculous. I still buy from them from time to time. Ill have to use it more now that Entertainment Earth is out of the question due to insane shipping fees to ship to me.

Now they've got a Cyber Monday sale; more random stuff. Nothing for me this time around though...
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Search?Theme=41874&...

This may not be entirely appropriate for the topic, but if there are any Kingdom Hearts fans, I'm getting rid of a couple of KH figures here:
https://gametz.com/Classifieds/item-9-kingdom-hear...

Normally I stick to buying figures from series or games I like. I dont usually buy random figures but I had to get this! Very cool character and solid figure overall. I even ventured took it to the backyard for a quick try on toy photography.

willyum wrote:

Appears to be a Chinese Company called Maestro Union. Not sure if they have anything to do with Joytoy. Their website is weird so I cant find much. The line is called FuRay Planet and so far all of the figures look sick (the upcoming ones too). Got a 20% off during Amazon BF and got the tiger which I was eyeing for a while and also got the werewolf because I couldnt resist the discount.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Search?SearchText=F...

Thanks for the response! I thought they were JoyToy because they reminded me of their Dark Source figures, which are like wusha inspired.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDe...

But the Maestro ones are really awesome!!