NECA 2012 Turtles

I mean they did offer to pay the return and everything, so I have no sympathy for anyone that thought they could still keep product after that.
 
Misfit said:
Are there people out there still waiting on their Lab?
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Don't know. I think I heard of one or two folks that got refunds because their order could not be fulfilled.

Some people that I have on ignore here seem to think I'm condoning keeping the labs. I'm not. However, at the end of the day, we are once again attributing this to *NECA* being the one's to fuck up in the first place. THEY screwed up. Not the people that received them. Had NECA not screwed up in the first place, this wouldn't be an issue.
 
Now that you mention it, I do know of a few who got refunds so I’m guessing that whole thing is closed now. I have to imagine they’ll attempt another go at it. I know they’re still planning on doing the kitchen, but pricing things out is proving problematic in the current climate.
 
Ashtalon said:
If NECA and WM can't figure out the problem, it's on them. As long as you're not getting charged double.
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I was only charged for one set, otherwise I’d have just driven to Walmart on my way to work and returned the second set for my money back.

BUT RAPH IS ON WALMART!
Hopefully I receive the ONE I paid for and this whole dark chapter can be closed…

So dumb question… which element would you all assign to which Turtle? I got those Tamashii effects for Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire and thought “well those might cool with a set of Turts…” and I think these are the Turtles to be those Turts… probably is… who gets which element?!

Like I think it’d probably go Leo: Water (“be like water”), Raph: Fire (hot head), Mikey: Wind (I think he’d ride an air ball like Aang), Donnie: Earth (would lend to metallurgy, like he could use it to find impurities in robots to strike their armor)… but even that doesn’t feel right… would love any opinions on this very serious and critical matter.
 
RicksNerdLife said:
Don't know. I think I heard of one or two folks that got refunds because their order could not be fulfilled.

Some people that I have on ignore here seem to think I'm condoning keeping the labs. I'm not. However, at the end of the day, we are once again attributing this to *NECA* being the one's to fuck up in the first place. THEY screwed up. Not the people that received them. Had NECA not screwed up in the first place, this wouldn't be an issue.
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And NECA tried to fix that mistake, but then there's people such as yourself that decide to throw a fit over that instead of just shipping things back easy peasy. It was a mistake they were more than willing to rectify.
 
Mint In Boks said:
I was only charged for one set, otherwise I’d have just driven to Walmart on my way to work and returned the second set for my money back.

BUT RAPH IS ON WALMART!
Hopefully I receive the ONE I paid for and this whole dark chapter can be closed…

So dumb question… which element would you all assign to which Turtle? I got those Tamashii effects for Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire and thought “well those might cool with a set of Turts…” and I think these are the Turtles to be those Turts… probably is… who gets which element?!

Like I think it’d probably go Leo: Water (“be like water”), Raph: Fire (hot head), Mikey: Wind (I think he’d ride an air ball like Aang), Donnie: Earth (would lend to metallurgy, like he could use it to find impurities in robots to strike their armor)… but even that doesn’t feel right… would love any opinions on this very serious and critical matter.
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Didn’t they have an elemental affiliation in the show during that mystic storyline in the woods? I could be mistaken, I haven’t watched it in a few years, but that would certainly make your decision easier.
 
Detrimental Fig said:
And NECA tried to fix that mistake, but then there's people such as yourself that decide to throw a fit over that instead of just shipping things back easy peasy. It was a mistake they were more than willing to rectify.
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So you're not able to read?

I said that this never happened to me. However, I'm not a dickriding NECA apologist, unable to see their mistakes. Jesus Christ, guy...
 
Detrimental Fig said:
Not dickriding anything, just pointing out that they went out of their way to make it easy to return the things. Guy.
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And I repeat--had THEY not sent a 350 dollar item to multiple people...TWICE...there wouldn't be a necessity to have that happen.

One mistake is understandable.
Repeated mistakes are inexcusable.

Also, making people take time out of their schedule to repack and drive to a shipping facility and go out of *their* way for someone else's fuck up isn't easy. Jockrider.

Now, if you'll excuse me--I don't like you at all, I find you to be quite insufferable. I'd like to go back to not having to click on that "See ignored member" button again. Thanks. Guy.
 
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I can see NECA reaching out to send people shipping labels for mis-shipped items. I'm assuming they were able to track down who got extras. But they can't threaten legal action against people. They don't have a leg to stand on legally. If someone mistakenly ships you something you're not obligated to send it back to them.

Regarding Mint in Boks getting an extra shipment. The vendor apparently can't even figure out a return for them. I suppose Mint could just hold onto the extra figures for a while and see if WM/NECA figures something out. But I think time will pass and they'll eventually just own those items. Or return them for a refund and basically get their set for free.
 
Misfit said:
Didn’t they have an elemental affiliation in the show during that mystic storyline in the woods? I could be mistaken, I haven’t watched it in a few years, but that would certainly make your decision easier.
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They used the Furinkaza, which is Fire, Wind, Mountains (so… Earth), and Forest… which is cool because my lastname is the Chinese word for forest so when they did the minimates I got a kickass base with my lastname printed on it, but I’m not sure if that translates well to the Western/Avatar: TLA Four elements. Not that Leo: Wind, Raph: Fire, Donnie: Earth, Mikey: Water in place of Forest doesn’t work… but it feels like when I make a strong choice about what elements the first three Turts should be the last one is always “and you get this I guess…” and Mikey: water feels like “sorry, bud! Show said Leo was wind!” And if the show had used the four elements instead of Sun Tzu’s writings would Leo still be “swift like wind” or would be “swift like water”
Detrimental Fig said:
Or Rise? Did Rise do that? Or was that just mystic weapons? I didn't really pay attention to that one.
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Rise is just Mystic weapons, and if Rise had given them elemental powers I wouldn’t be asking because Rise is my favorite reboot of the series.
 
Mint In Boks said:
They used the Furinkaza, which is Fire, Wind, Mountains (so… Earth), and Forest… which is cool because my lastname is the Chinese word for forest so when they did the minimates I got a kickass base with my lastname printed on it, but I’m not sure if that translates well to the Western/Avatar: TLA Four elements. Not that Leo: Wind, Raph: Fire, Donnie: Earth, Mikey: Water in place of Forest doesn’t work… but it feels like when I make a strong choice about what elements the first three Turts should be the last one is always “and you get this I guess…” and Mikey: water feels like “sorry, bud! Show said Leo was wind!” And if the show had used the four elements instead of Sun Tzu’s writings would Leo still be “swift like wind” or would be “swift like water”

Rise is just Mystic weapons, and if Rise had given them elemental powers I wouldn’t be asking because Rise is my favorite reboot of the series.
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I actually like the idea of 2012 Mikey as water. It’s adaptable, has “flow,” and can also quickly overrun you if you don’t respect its power.
 
My maybe unconventional takes:

Air - intelligence, lofty, perspective - Donnie
Fire - intuition, creativity, vision, passion, hungry - Mikey
Water - emotion, variable states - Raph
Earth - embodied, grounded, present, practical - Leo
Spirit - Splinter

I always see anger associated with fire, which makes a certain sense, but since anger is an emotion and I associate emotions with water and their changeable states ("the sea was angry that day, my friends...") and since fire is more than anger...
 
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