Hasbro Made-to-Order Figures

"Your four and a half pound package has arrived from Hasbro Pulse"

Dragon Man really is great. My only complaint is I really just don't like the tail - he's such a thicc boy I wish the tail could counterbalance him a little better. Otherwise though, just a fantastic figure.
 
Wow Dragon Man is awesome! Love the detailed scale sculpt and shading. Fantastic head sculpt with poseable jaws. Love the articulation and the huge wing span. The reading glasses and book are such a nice touch. I am skeptical of butterfly joints cutting into pec sculpts (my true hobby passion is weight lifting) but this Dragon Man works so well.

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So far the main thing I'm not a fan of with Dragon Man is that the plastic is very slightly gummy. This is problematic mostly when posing him dynamically; the legs give way a bit due to the plastic not being quite stiff enough to easily support the figure's weight which limits the range of posing options just a bit. There are still plenty of dynamic posing possibilities, but as noted by others the fact that he can't look up or swivel his feet up also limit posing. The plastic quality is also problematic while bending his elbows; the hands pop right off almost every time I try to bend the arms since the hand peg plastic is slightly gummy.

But those are just nit-picks. Great figure overall, but probably not top ten Legends of the year material. Definitely top 20 to 40 though, and that ain't bad.
 
Oh neat, FedEx dropped my Dragon Man at the wrong house in the middle of a thunderstorm. Very cool.
 
My thrill of the week is we have RAMPANT porch pirates and while I usually work from home, the one day this week I was on the road all day they dropped Dragon Man off about 30 minutes after I'd left the house and my partner's away dealing with a family health crisis, so I got to check the security camera (which was installed ONLY for the porch pirates) waiting for them to steal an irreplaceable made to order figure. I think it was too hot that day, the package thieves stayed home.
 
Even neater, I found the house a few doors down from ours (there was a second package, along with a picture of the drop off). The other package was there but Dragon Man is nowhere to be found! What the hell bruh
 
docsilence said:
My thrill of the week is we have RAMPANT porch pirates and while I usually work from home,
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My sister moved to NYC this week, ancient brownstone. I suggested she get acclimated to all the pick up options in her hood. She said it's fine.

She hasn't had a single package for her new household received, and everyone of them has had a photo of the door.

But that's none of my business.
 
altcunningham said:
My sister moved to NYC this week, ancient brownstone. I suggested she get acclimated to all the pick up options in her hood. She said it's fine.

She hasn't had a single package for her new household received, and everyone of them has had a photo of the door.

But that's none of my business.
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UPS won't even insure shipping to my entire city. They won't explain why but I think it's "there's some sort of Dickensian cadre of child thieves on bicycles stealing every package."

I put up signs asking packages be left on the side porch. Still stolen. I put up cameras. Still stolen. I put out a covered bin for the packages. That HAS helped, because I think the thieves look for loose packages and they can't see boxes in the dropbox from the street. But they're FAST - I was sitting next to my front door on a work call and had a $125 in gaming miniatures ganked one night (that was when I bought the cameras).

The best theft was when they stole our Christmas cards. Every year my partner and I have ourselves photoshopped into a movie scene (last year was Indiana Jones and Marion). One year the thieves stole our cards, which had us photoshopped onto Han Solo and Leia. It was a very snowy winter and my neighbor called us in March. "You won't believe what i found buried in the snow in my back yard!" Our best guess was the thief thought the box had an iPhone in it, found our cards and yeeted them into the nearest yard when they had no resale value.

Anyway, this is why I now plan everything around being home to pick up expensive packages. I was a WRECK waiting for the Haslab Rattler. I will be waiting by the door with a sniper scope for the Savage Land set.
 
I hear you. I started routing everything to access points when I knew I'd be out for fifteen min at the drug store. It's like they always show up right when you aren't available. Made sense to me because even if I Sign for it, if I'm not home, it's still gonna get redelivered or pick up pointed.

My last straw was when Purolator fake signed for a package that was stolen. Thankfully because I challenged the signature I got a refund and a replacement when the original plan was to be SOL, My Fault on their end. Driver must've been canned too, because I've never seen that kid since.

That's awful and I hope those guys casing your area all get severe UTIs.
 
I know folks love to crap on USPS but at least around here, if I see it's coming from USPS I breathe a sigh of relief. Dude always puts stuff in the drop box and always arives within the same 90 minute window or so. UPS doesn't gives a solitary shit about anything (my arch-nemesis neighbor works for them and I swear there's some kind of revenge happening there) and Fedex is hit or miss, sometimes they're great and sometimes I see them yeet the package on the porch from ten feet away. Buuuuut their tracking system is half-decent.
 
I live in a highrise. Basic security features, nothing fancy. Most of the theft is internal.

All the couriers used to just dump shit in the lobby inside the door, which led to lots of theft. My favourite one was a Pulse Fed Ex drop they left in the lobby. I saw the notice within 5 minutes. Ran down. Gone.

Hunted around. Nothing. Happened to see the super, mentioned it. He said he can't check cameras, doubts it was stolen, yadda yadda.

I go back to my place and call Hasbro about it. They offer a seamless replacement, no questions asked.

While I'm on with them, the super knocks.

He's holding the savaged open box. Raises his voice at me about throwing my trash everywhere, he found it on the tenth floor stairwell. I live lower. Point out I just ten minutes ago told him I had a box stolen, do the math.

He looks at it, shrugs, and then hands it to me to recycle

I like to think it was my call about that that bounced his ass.
 
Jesus. One of the (admittedly few) good things about living in Bumfuck in the South is everyone assumes you own a lot of guns and won't mess around. I've never had a package stolen and the only reason I have a camera on the porch is because I have crippling anxiety when it comes to people knocking on the door and I have to know who it is before I open it.
 
Justice said:
Jesus. One of the (admittedly few) good things about living in Bumfuck in the South is everyone assumes you own a lot of guns and won't mess around. I've never had a package stolen and the only reason I have a camera on the porch is because I have crippling anxiety when it comes to people knocking on the door and I have to know who it is before I open it.
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I would probably change my shopping habits if I didn't mostly work from home. I hate, hate needing security cameras, I don't want to be THAT neighbor who is always watching, but the night they stole a beautiful board game from me and like, $300 in new work clothes from my partner I bought a camera for each door.
 
I've even gone on week-long trips and just let packages accumulate on the porch and it was all still there. I was still paranoid the whole time though and kept checking the camera every now and then to reassure myself they were still there.
 
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