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I'd love to exempt myself from that accusation, but I've been playing Frosthaven for like 3 years now.

I don't really have a long list at this point. Keeping to...semi-heroic characters, there's just one I really need that they haven't gotten to yet: Troll from Thunderbolts. All these deluxe figures and none for Troll, I just don't get it. I'll take any and all female martial artists, though...

This is personally what I'm waiting for. I can't believe these aren't supposed to be out until July. I'm going to have absolutely no friends left after I get these.

I remember a Cracked article once about insane G.I. Joe vehicles that said the only property of rocket exhaust the toy designers understood was the color orange. G.I. Joe is very much a "more turning things means faster" property.

It depends whether those are windows or just the spaces where panels became unglued and fell off.

Yeah, my thinking is that if it's early in a line and you're going to prioritze something because it's never been done before, it should probably have a ton of demand behind it. Jakks Simpsons making Stupid Sexy Flanders even before regular Flanders makes sense to me, that scene is a forever...

That's one of the exact mistakes they made with DCUC, like, "We can't do Two-Face in a normal format because our own much less popular line just did him a couple years ago," like that's a sane way to be at the same time as a major film with Two-Face in it.

GIULIA! Can't wait to get her.

I think initially it's going to be a heavier split with modern than we might expect, if only because Absolute is such a massive success and the demand for the figures is both large and underserved. And obviously characters that appear in modern media are going to get more attention, but Gunn...

They're going to make Batmen and Supermen and squeeze in whatever fan favorites they can when they can, and hopefully whoever's running the line isn't such a raging narcissist that the line becomes a tribute to their dream figure collection.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to even get what the joke was supposed to be. And the trouble is, that builds up potential energy that just makes the cringe that much more kinetic.

That shot of him holding the gun out even reminds me of the old Movie Maniacs Snake Plissken, it's like the same exact pose. TOTS has a lot of licenses I like, but nothing they do really fits with anything else I have. I've been meaning to pick up the Goosebumps stuff, because I'm okay with...

Look, Hasbro's gonna have to release much rounder cops for that.

If anything, the fact that every new streaming series seems to come from some hot new book or series on BookTok tells me that there's an audience actively trying and recommending new things all the time, it's just not in nerd spaces. We used to be forward-looking and now we're getting lapped by...

It's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all the way down! That's a reminder that I need to read that Ultimates series, I really like Ewing's stuff. This explains why my most Ewing-loving friend is inexplicably a big Blue Marvel stan, just like how Immortal Hulk convinced me Puck and Absorbing Man...

So just a side note to the Friday the 13th: The Game stuff: I noticed a horror shirt company I follow, Gutter Garbs, is also using the "Friday the 13th: The Game" labeling on their new Jason shirts. So I guess that's just the trick going forward for movie-specific looks from the Paramount era...

Yeah, I had been interested in the Double Dragon and Bloodsport figures, and I'm always up for a decent Pumpkinhead, but the Double Dragon stuff is crazy expensive for what it is so I never ended up buying them. Like, do you know how mid you have to be for me to nope out of a beat 'em up line...

I think he still shows up in stuff. He's definitely been on a lot of bigger-scope teams in the past decade as a sort of go-to Superman type, and his power set means he's a natural presence in bigger crossover events.

I feel like especially for DC I'd want an Acrobat equivalent for the women to cover all the female martial artists and thief types, assuming that base would allow for a greater range of posing.

Wait, there was a fan vote? I totally missed that. Who else was in it?

Well, the reason wrestling and superheroes are the two most perennial action figure concepts is the parts reuse. It's not like any Mattel DC line is going to be lacking that. A lot of superheroes are just dudes in form-fitting bodysuits. Reuse is going to happen no matter what, that's how...

No problem! And actually, the WWE chases are super easy to get, honestly. Most of them you can preorder through Ringside Collectibles, and I've found plenty of them in store. They're also just gear repaints, not like totally different characters like you might get in a superhero line (which I...

It's an absurd amount of figures, yeah. But wrestling moves extremely fast, WWE maintains multiple shows that all have their own rosters, and there's also a portion of the audience that's mainly concerned with retro and classic product, so you have to serve that too. It's a very demanding...

Yeah, I probably made it seem way more complicated than it is by throwing everything out there. Because they do have a ton of SKUs and sub-lines, which also contributes to line health by ensuring faster sell thru (while also having the Top Picks waves to ensure popular wrestlers are perennially...

That's very possible. I'd love to see Superman and Batman get more weird, surrealist indie comics like Tom Neely did with Doppelganger for Popeye.