Boss Fight Studios 1/12 and EPIC HACKS

I think the new Sonja isn't popular because it's probably just a weird thing to most fans of Sonja or the genre in general. Steampunk and Sonja feels like oil & water to me. I know there was a comic and the figure is probably faithful to that, so maybe there's an audience? I saw they released a "gold bikini" version too, which is weird to me too.

I actually just opened the first Boss Fight Sonja the other day, and I was pleasantly surprised. She's not as gangly as I was led to believe. Mine doesn't have any loose joints and the bits aren't as fiddly as I thought they would be. I think this one looks more like my minds version of her than the Loose Collector figure (which I have and has such loose joints, she cant even stand anymore). Honestly, the only things I could complain about is that her elbow joints are a bit glaring, and the no panties thing (lol).

Not the greatest pose, I know:

https://imgur.com/a/pZpXL7W
 
Reefer Shark said:
She's not as gangly as I was led to believe. Mine doesn't have any loose joints and the bits aren't as fiddly as I thought they would be. I think this one looks more like my minds version of her than the Loose Collector figure (which I have and has such loose joints, she cant even stand anymore). Honestly, the only things I could complain about is that her elbow joints are a bit glaring, and the no panties thing (lol).

Not the greatest pose, I know:

https://imgur.com/a/pZpXL7W
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Yeah, I have two and agree. Aside from the loin cloth, I must just have a higher tolerance for fiddly. And I think she just looks better than the LC, but I'm coming at it from a bunch of recent Dynamite books.

I didn't even know the Steampunk released. No fanfare. I'd love to get the direct version for the bonuses. Maybe I owe myself a treat. I haven't gotten a figure since this morning.
 
Alt said:
Yeah, I have two and agree. Aside from the loin cloth, I must just have a higher tolerance for fiddly. And I think she just looks better than the LC, but I'm coming at it from a bunch of recent Dynamite books.

I didn't even know the Steampunk released. No fanfare. I'd love to get the direct version for the bonuses. Maybe I owe myself a treat. I haven't gotten a figure since this morning.
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lol I think you nailed "us". "it's been over an hour since I've ordered a figure, lets goo! What's next!!!"
 
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Red & Gold Sonja is just super obviously 'we paid for this tooling, but we'd prefer you pay for it' kind of re-use.
Steampunk Sonja is a cool look based on a comic, so I would say it's fair game. But I think choosing such a specific, short-lived, very non-iconic look for an action figure at that price point is certainly a fucking choice that I would not be brave enough to make if I owned a toy company.
 
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The price is a fucking choice.

"Choices!" seems to be the industry motto going forward.
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Yeah. They choose to fuck us over. And we let them because the world is a depressing hellpit and playing with toys makes us feel slightly better until we remember how badly the toy company rawdogged us.
 
Damien said:
Yeah. They choose to fuck us over. And we let them because the world is a depressing hellpit and playing with toys makes us feel slightly better until we remember how badly the toy company rawdogged us.
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They want us to consume.

They don't allow wages to allow us to consume.

Pick a lane, Michael.
 
Alt said:
They want us to consume.

They don't allow wages to allow us to consume.

Pick a lane, Michael.
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It's called debt.

They expect you to get deeper and deeper into debt to prop up the economy.

The added bonus is you get overextended, default, lose everything and someone with deeper pockets picks your carcass clean for pennies on the dollar and gets even richer.

Then you end up working slave wages for the rest of your life while they drink champagne and dance in ballrooms.

The never ending cycle (and I wish it was just fantastical thinking).
 
They prey on us, but we allow it. It's a vicious cycle. I try to temper this tiny part of things by refusing to use credit cards for any hobby purchases. I might do a paypal "pay in 4" plan type of thing here and there, but getting too deep is bad news. I've been there before and will never go there again.
 
Reefer Shark said:
They prey on us, but we allow it. It's a vicious cycle. I try to temper this tiny part of things by refusing to use credit cards for any hobby purchases. I might do a paypal "pay in 4" plan type of thing here and there, but getting too deep is bad news. I've been there before and will never go there again.
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Absolutely. My parents conditioned me early on with a teenage credit card, but also "if you can't afford to pay it out of pocket, why would you even buy it" mentality on "fun" things like music, toys, even a meal out.

I let things roll for the reward points, but it's a good personal alarm for me if I can't swing paying debit, why even get the figure?

I had a desperate year once, and yeah, never again.

Of course, the flip side is pulling cash out at a convention, and then feeling like I should burn it all rather than put the leftover back, it's already out of the account.
 
Alt said:
Absolutely. My parents conditioned me early on with a teenage credit card, but also "if you can't afford to pay it out of pocket, why would you even buy it" mentality on "fun" things like music, toys, even a meal out.
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I had some nasty years and I'm now extremely anal retentive about credit use. I *do* use my cards for nearly everything, but I pay them off 100% every month, so I check my totals almost daily to make sure I'm not going over what i can immediately zero out when the paycheck comes. Means I get a LOT of Amazon rewards points, so that's nice, but yeah, credit's dangerous if you don't effectively treat it like cash.
 
Alt said:
Of course, the flip side is pulling cash out at a convention, and then feeling like I should burn it all rather than put the leftover back, it's already out of the account.
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Ha, yeah I totally get this. Being a obsessive hobby guy, usually any extra pulled out cash ends up getting spent on this stuff. I'll admit I've even held on to extra Vegas cash until I got back to use on on tiny plastic men. So shameful!
 
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Yeah, there's no incentives for paying the bills early. We all know they don't make as much $$$ of us when we do that. But damn it feels good when you do it!
 
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JakeEkiss said:
I had some nasty years and I'm now extremely anal retentive about credit use. I *do* use my cards for nearly everything, but I pay them off 100% every month, so I check my totals almost daily to make sure I'm not going over what i can immediately zero out when the paycheck comes. Means I get a LOT of Amazon rewards points, so that's nice, but yeah, credit's dangerous if you don't effectively treat it like cash.
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So before the PlayStation price jump last month, I was considering trading up to a Pro. Wolverine and GTA are worth it, as little as I even game these days.

No stock, still no stock post hike, so hasn't happened.

But I mentioned it in a casual social chat and this guy perked up and started laying out all the ways I could use credit, loans, reward point cash farming, to afford one.

And I said, "Oh ,I was just going to pay out of pocket and then sell the PlayStation on Marketplace after I did the transfer. I have the cash. It's not a problem. The stocks the problem."

He could not fathom this. Maybe it hit his own money trauma or something, but he was very put out by the idea that I could just hit the ATM and walk into EB, and wouldn't be slow burning it on credit cards.

Is this a wise use of assets? Hell no. I should invest in Lockheed Martin or something.
 
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