Skurge the Executioner BAF Wave

Man, I was hoping EE would offer a case. They normally do and their cases come quick. I wonder why they didn't this time.
 
SDcomics said:
SD wishes he could just go back to forgetting that Warbow ever existed, SD was much happier then.

And listen, my ire is not because Hasbro is making Warbow. No, there have been a lot of Marvel Legends figures I've skipped over the years. My collection is a long, long way from complete. And I would very easily and happily skip this Warbow mort EXCEPT A) He's never been requested by anybody that I know of and he's part of a BAF wave to complete a very much long requested figure in Skurge and B) We can get Warbow but we can't get the Warriors Three because they cost too much and they're too obscure.

THAT is why I'm pissed about this Warbow thing. I hope everyone understands that. Go ahead and make Warbow if it makes the one guy on this planet Earth happy but then don't turn around and tell me no Balder because he's too niche. How many years have we been asking for characters like more Asgardians here? And for the love of Odin, don't force me to buy this stupid green thing to get a classic villain like Skurge. I am so sick and tired of playing that game.

SDCC is going to be interesting next year if the Hasbro guys are reading this. I don't know what they're going to make of it. But it may not make any difference. If I get out of the hobby I won't stop in their booth anyway. What would be the point?
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Yeah buddy, i feel s much of that. I've never even heard of Warbow, and I been waiting how long for the rest of the serpent society? who are all super easy to make!?

But nah, need warbow, yet another spider-man, iron man, and wolverine....and only one woman in the wave...
 
Hadn’t visited this thread in a day. Jesus. Watching an adult have a meltdown over an action figure is something else. Literally, an action figure’s existence broke an adult human.

What makes it hilarious to me is next to Executioner, Warbow is my most wanted from this wave. I don’t care about the Crystar comics. But I had the Crystar and Warbow action figures in the 80s. Cool neat-looking toys. I think I have a fondness for green guys, since my favorite Silverhawks figure was Flashback. Green crystal guy with an eyepatch and crossbow just seems so cool and unique. Crystal based characters are rather unique and rather interesting visually amongst all these spandex and armor wearing sameness.

I don’t feel a need to know a character’s backstory. Or read numerous adventures about them to like their design and want a physical representation of them. Some of my favorite toys are ones not based on any intellectual property but just cool looking figures (imports, not mass retail lines). Hell, I love these Bandai gashapon insect and animal toys they make for a few bucks each. I don’t need to know everything about a rhinoceros beetle to enjoy a toy of it.

I think the Iron Man armor in this wave is a hideous design (black just looks extremely out of place), but other people seem to like it. And this line isn’t all about my preferences. To see someone literally lose their mind over a figure is quite the mixture of sadness and humor.
 
PantherCult said:
Grumpy, salty SD comics is the energy I didn't know I needed on this Friday afternoon.
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It's giving Phineas Curmudgeon.
SDcomics said:
It's Wolverine. You can put his hairy runt ass in a Harley Quinn costume and he'll sell.
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Okay, I might need Harley Quinn Wolverine now.
Ashtalon said:
Watching an adult have a meltdown over an action figure is something else.
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Hey, we've all been there. Don't tell me you haven't.

Just wait until Hasbro reveals this rumored Magik and she's in her Darkchilde look. You ain't seen nothin' yet.
 
Ashtalon said:
To see someone literally lose their mind over a figure is quite the mixture of sadness and humor.
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My mind is quite intact, "Doctor". Thanks for the concern, though.

Glad you're going to enjoy your Warbow. I see you've missed the points, though. I'm tired of having to buy a figure I have no interest in to get one that's been long requested by several members of this board. Unless I want a one armed Skurge. I was also told by the Hasbro team members at SDCC that several characters that have long been requested by members of this community were too "obscure" and too "niche" to get made at this time. Yet a character who is much more obscure than any Asgardian or member if the Serpent Society is apparently not. That to me is cause to complain. If you consider that a "meltdown" than you need to go back to medical school.

Boy, you sure are sensitive about your Crystar character that hasn't been seen anywhere in 40 years. Is he a childhood fav of yours or something?
 
@Beamish could you edit the original thread-starting post to include some of the official images from this wave? I know you posted a few from the panel somewhere a handful of pages back and someone else posted a link to MCU collector's Instagram where they posted all the official images but it's a pain in the posterior digging through numerous pages to find them.
 
Speaking strictly from my own perspective, I think this is more about realizing that something that has brought you so much joy over the last 25+ years is gradually becoming an albatross. First World problems and all that, but it is a little unnerving, especially when being considered “middle aged” is starting to feel like a compliment.
 
Lucid Silverback said:
@Beamish could you edit the original thread-starting post to include some of the official images from this wave? I know you posted a few from the panel somewhere a handful of pages back and someone else posted a link to MCU collector's Instagram where they posted all the official images but it's a pain in the posterior digging through numerous pages to find them.
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ToyArk has all the official images in one post.
 
@SDcomics, I get the frustration. In the last few months I've basically shut down my buying - cancelled almost all existing preorders (except MTO items), no new preorders, and almost entirely stopped any purchases. I've also started liquidating a huge chunk of things I'd been holding on to to raise cash, including a lot of GI Joe Classified items that will be too expensive to ever get back. For me, this is a response not to a loss of love for collecting but a cost of living shock. Rising prices across the board, skyrocketing healthcare, and my paycheck suddenly needing to cover most of our family expenses.

So, for me personally, I'm still enthusiastic about ML generally. But when the price ticks up - again - even though I don't blame Hasbro for the increased taxes that have been unilaterally imposed by the current government - it still grates. When a release is announced that I've been waiting for, but it comes packaged in some way that makes it more expensive than it needs to be - yeah, it does kind of suck. Truth be told, nothing they're doing here is different than what the line has always done (multipacks, BAFs, remakes/rereleases, etc) and what I assume it needs to do, on some level, to last as long as it has. And the BAF model, at least, seems to be on the wane. But when everything else in my life is getting squeezed, this one source of joy having various impediments can really set me off. I just want this *one thing* in life to be uncomplicated, easy, and fun.

Anyway, just sharing some thoughts and (hopefully) expressing some solidarity. I'm sure you know that if you decide to stick with it you'll find people here who will help you avoid Warbow at all costs and still get your Skurge piece!
 
Lucid Silverback said:
@Beamish could you edit the original thread-starting post to include some of the official images from this wave? I know you posted a few from the panel somewhere a handful of pages back and someone else posted a link to MCU collector's Instagram where they posted all the official images but it's a pain in the posterior digging through numerous pages to find them.
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Done!
 
Ashtalon said:
What makes it hilarious to me is next to Executioner, Warbow is my most wanted from this wave. I don’t care about the Crystar comics. But I had the Crystar and Warbow action figures in the 80s. Cool neat-looking toys
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I was actually going to say something similar to this.

Not for me, personally, I don't give a single fuck about Warbow. BUT, I don't think there's a 'comic' reason for him and Crystar to be in this line. I think the reason is that '80s-'90s nostalgia is THE big nostalgia in collecting right now. And these figures appeal to people of a certain age who are currently collecting action figures that had the original toys, and probably never even picked up the original comics. Or not until much much later.
I'd argue all the 'retro card' releases are doing the exact same thing; they're appealing to TOY nostalgia, not comic nostalgia. A friend of mine has a retro card Spider-Man figure who has never read a comic in his life and doesn't even like comics or comic book movies. BUT, he remembers going to the toy store as a kid and buying a few Spider-Man toys with his grandparents. So that packaged Spidey hit hard.

So yeah, it's both fair to say that characters like Crystar and Warbow have basically no worthwhile pedigree in the comics, but also can command a lot of nostalgia with a certain age group regardless.
 
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