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  1. AgentHemlock

    Marvel Legends Maximum Series

    Looking at some good pose pics of Maximum Hulk makes me want to pick him up, but I just can't do it at $60. If he drops to $40 I'll take the plunge, or look for him loose/used someday. I think I'm one of the few people who loves all the heads, even the big teeth goonish looking one. It's...
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    S.H.Figuarts General Anime (Dragon Ball, Naruto, MHA, etc.)

    That is an example of all the junior designers afraid of raising their hand and getting fired.
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    Super 7 TMNT figures

    I'd have tons of ReActions if they were $7 or $8, sometimes marked down to $4-$5. 5 for $100 is ridiculous. I bought most of my GI Joe Classifieds and Black Series on Amazon for sub $20. I have 0 ReActions. I've come to realize there are action figure collectors/toy collectors, and there are...
  4. AgentHemlock

    S.H.Figuarts General Anime (Dragon Ball, Naruto, MHA, etc.)

    Krillin is $63 at Nin Nin plus shipping, but no tax. Still a pass for me, I think. I think he looks great, but I also love Earth's Strongest Man and there really isn't enough in the box to snag me. A normal smiling head would have gotten me though, and the promise he could head swap with ESM...
  5. AgentHemlock

    U.S. Politics

    I'm hoping this is all one big painful disgusting boil lancing or zit popping. Only silver lining I can see. One of the many new things about this era is that we are able to see ourselves so clearly and change norms so quickly. Before a billionaire could just billionaire, but the 20teens...
  6. AgentHemlock

    U.S. Politics

    Heartbreaking on a million different levels, maddening on a million more. I hope history, at least, tells the truth for all to see.
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    Super 7 TMNT figures

    I spent some spare time this week opening up some old pickups and getting out what little S7 I have. Wound up adding a matte finish to the original four brothers, and some select parts of Sewer Surfing Mikey (I wanted his wetsuit to remain a little satiny). Also kiki'd all the loose hips. Big...
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    Tracking toy tariffs

    I have a couple preorders that came due during this time, on their way into the country now from China. I'll report back to say what I was charged, and if I was charged. I still don't even know how I'll be charged, but if it's a bill, I think I'll just sit on it until this all goes away. Unless...
  9. AgentHemlock

    NECA - General Thread

    They have the chops to do almost anything I think. They're one of the few companies that showed they can master cartoon stuff, creature stuff, and regular looking human stuff. So it's fun speculating. I'd love to see them do: Smurfs - maybe released as 4 packs of smaller, 3 inch figs that...
  10. AgentHemlock

    Mezco One:12

    Mezco just dropped a "Collector's Capsule" release of their Shadow action figure, which you can order here. At a whopping $175, it's the same figure they released last year with some accessory swap outs, a giant smoke effect, more black added to the costume, a completely blacked out portrait...
  11. AgentHemlock

    NECA '87 Toon TMNT

    There's good deals on older toon stuff on Amazon every now and then. I think it's 3rd party shops that thought they could scalp during Haulathons etc, then are left with peg warmers once the buzz died down.
  12. AgentHemlock

    NECA - General Thread

    Nah, accidentally playing telephone I guess. My bad.
  13. AgentHemlock

    NECA - General Thread

    I would have gotten into the Gargoyles line, but the wings stopped me. I would have just gotten the main clan anyhow, but I didn't like having to pick up other figures just for a part. I would have rather paid extra for articulated wings. But they just looked too unwieldily. Sad to see...
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    Tracking toy tariffs

    Just got a package in from Nin Nin, a SHF Ahsoka shipped via Japan Post, delivered here via USPS. No tariff. Country of origin listed as Japan, and they valued the package at 3,745 yen (figure was actually $65 or 8,930 yen) FYI for Nin Nin shoppers, so far so good.
  15. AgentHemlock

    NECA Mirage Comics line

    I LOVE stuff like that. Same with the Roadkill Rodney's emerging from the ground effect, and their zoom dust effects. They really bring a figure to life. Wish we saw more creativity like that across the figure landscape.
  16. AgentHemlock

    Tracking toy tariffs

    I'm 99% sure Venus will eventually get a figure from NECA, unless the rights are in some sort of strange web. Not because her or the Next Mutation are beloved, but because at a certain point every single iteration of the brand will have representation but that one, and for the sake of...
  17. AgentHemlock

    NECA Mirage Comics line

    NECA also did right by him, I think. It seemed like all the products were launched in a way to tie in to Stan making a profit off of directly retailing them as well as whatever he got for the rights to make the figures themselves. He had exclusives for his store, right? Maybe I'm misremembering...
  18. AgentHemlock

    Super 7 TMNT figures

    Thanks for the review, Misfit. These are an interesting test for Super7, seeing how they are direct representations of the cartoon, and not homages to classic figures. So many of their lines, but not all, walk a line between a cartoon adaptation and a toyline adaptation, or at least attempt to...
  19. AgentHemlock

    Super 7 TMNT figures

    Alright, definitely passing on Samurai Leo. I never had Rock Leo as a kid, but he'd fit in better with Space Raph, Sewer Mikey, and Basketball Don — all of which are on the absurd/funnier side of things. And I like the head wih the closed eyes. Gonna keep my eyes pealed for some sales.
  20. AgentHemlock

    Tracking toy tariffs

    Yeah, I mean I guess my entire point is that they likely were already discussing whether or not moving forward with Ultimates was in the best interest of the company, and the tariff uncertainty made the decision for them. Not that the tariffs were 100% to blame. But on the other hand, in another...
  21. AgentHemlock

    Super 7 TMNT figures

    I thought sports were existentially boring when I was a kid, lol. I enjoy them now, though. How can you have patience for watching a football game when there's movies about ninjas on TV?? I remember a kid in my class got Panda Khan and Fugitoid before I even knew those figures existed. I don't...
  22. AgentHemlock

    NECA '87 Toon TMNT

    I can't imagine they'd rerelease the van, now of all times. Tariffs plus all the ill-will with Donnie's Lab... but who knows. Crazier things have happened I guess. I tried selling mine on eBay and it sat like a rock for a while, eventually I took it down. It was only a little, like maybe 5...
  23. AgentHemlock

    Super 7 TMNT figures

    All the hubbub over S7 made me remember I have a couple Ultimates I bought during one the sales I never opened. Just opened up Sewer Surfin Mikey. Years late to the party but I love this guy more than I thought I would. Granted, he was sub $20. So that definitely colors my vision. I actually...
  24. AgentHemlock

    NECA '87 Toon TMNT

    Might be sewer surfing versions of the boys? Kinda like how they've been doing toy inspired designs.
  25. AgentHemlock

    Tracking toy tariffs

    How old are you, Schizm, if you don't mind me asking? I was born in 1984, same with TMNT, but I didn't know about them until 87-88, when the cartoon came out. So I was pretty fresh in the world when turtlmania hit and I fell hard. I had some toys of course before then but TMNT were the first...
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