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I never received my mail-away Mr Gone. I bought all of the Shocker Toys Indie Spotlight figures from BBTS and have them all to this day. Some are good. Some aren't. My Dick Tracy is really bad.
 
TheGillMan said:
I *almost* bought SCUD when I saw him at TrU back in the day. I ultimately passed, because I didn't know anything about the character, but most of the reviews of him were positive.
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Wait, those Spotlight figures were actually sold at TRU? I don't remember that!

I feel like we need to split out into a separate Shocker Toys / Geoff Beckett thread at this point. Anyway...

At one point I wrote up a history of Beckett, though I know a lot more came after: https://poeghostal.com/2008/02/the-saga-of-shocker-toys.html

And I even did an interview with him: https://poeghostal.com/2008/03/5-questions-with-geoff-beckett-of-shocker-toys.html

I also reviewed the Tick figure, which was pretty good, I have to say (though I heard rumors there was another collector who bankrolled that particular figure): https://poeghostal.com/2011/04/review-the-tick-indie-spotlight-shocker-toys.html
 
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Alt said:
This must have been during my dark ages, 07-15?

I still picked up the odd toy but I wasn't as connected as I was back at the Toyfare and RTM days.
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I believe the first wave was announced around 2006 or 2007, and released around 2009.
Reno said:
I never received my mail-away Mr Gone. I bought all of the Shocker Toys Indie Spotlight figures from BBTS and have them all to this day. Some are good. Some aren't. My Dick Tracy is really bad.
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Nothing worse than a bad Dick!
Poe Ghostal said:
Wait, those Spotlight figures were actually sold at TRU? I don't remember that!
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Yeah...I don't know how widespread they were, or if they were distributed across the country, but I saw SCUD (both the standard yellow and the black variant), Katchoo, Shadowhawk, and Kabuki there. I was a big fan of the Kabuki comic, but passed on the figure because I felt it was rather lacking (and I still had the one Clayburn Moore had done, so I saw no need). I believe some folks found Tick and Maxx at TrU as well, but I can't be 100% certain I'm remembering that correctly.
 
I definitely bought all of Wave 1 of the Shocker figures at Toys R Us.

The Tick I bought at a con.... can't remember if it was Wizard World LA or SDCC. Thats where he got me to pre order Grendel and Barry Tick
 
TempusFromMars said:
I used to enjoy emailing Geoff to ask where my figures were 🤪
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Dude... I did the same thing - every month or two for years. I did something similar with Alvis Underground. They both eventually changed their e-mail, but it made me feel better to be a pebble in their shoe since they each stole triple digit dollars from me.
 
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