X-Men '97

Yeah, I have a friend who works at Ollie's as a manager and he never has figures, skateboards,nor any of the cool things I see in my circles.

They did get a bunch of HC and Omnis from Marvel at his store.
 
I saw a bunch of hoops a year ago or so but they've all long sold out.

Were The Brood adapted in the OG Animated Series? I don't think they were bc I always thought I don't actually know that story, only heard about it. That would be a good story to adapt provided they don't do it in 15 minutes.
 
Yes, but no.

In Season 3 Rogue has a Cody focused episode. I'll let the Internet do its thing:

"You have to remember, we had no confirmation we'd have a pickup of the series from year to year back then, especially year one. Adding the Easter eggs/cameos placement and the amount were strategic for me, because each year of the X-Men was never a guarantee. Each year we knew we thirteen episodes, on average, to work with, so my cameo decisions were based upon only what we knew we had to work with. The redesign of the Brood in their own episode "Love in Vain" was partially due to their previous appearance, yes, and partially the desire by character designers Frank Brunner, Mark Lewis and myself wanting to make them a little more distinctive and a little bit more animator-friendly."

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One of my first X-Men issues as a kid was a Brood story so I knew exactly what those things were supposed to be, I just didn’t understand why they looked dumb. And I thought Cody sucked - he got what he deserved.
 
Ordered another 97 Emma Frost since my one from EE had its arm fall off at the bicep and right leg kept falling off at the hip. The one sent to me by Amazon has SINGLE JOINTED ELBOWS, whereas the previous busted one from EE has double jointed elbows and could pivot at the bicep cut where her gloves end. This one has painted biceps to match the gloves, the shoulders are fleshtone but the grooves for the joint in the top of the shoulder appear to be much wider. I have to wonder if this is a running change because of the bicep-fall-off I and others experienced.

I don't really like this version, it looks passable, but the paint makes it shiny whereas the rest of the figure is a matte which looks good as it is. I have to wonder if I'm not just better off putting superglue around the peg of the broken arm and letting it dry to build up the peg so it sits in the the socket better. I cut off all the excess flashing/plastic that would be encumbering it sitting flush depth-wise.
 
It sounds like Amazon sold you a swapped figure. Did you buy it new or Warehouse? Not that it matters, they don't care, but if you bought it new and they obviously sold you a returned figure, I'd fight them.

I received a swap last week - a female black suit body with a D'Spayre head cosplaying as "Morph" - and Amazon made me return it to get a refund. I put a giant Post-it on it saying THIS IS TRASH - DO NOT RESELL.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
Ordered another 97 Emma Frost since my one from EE had its arm fall off at the bicep and right leg kept falling off at the hip. The one sent to me by Amazon has SINGLE JOINTED ELBOWS, whereas the previous busted one from EE has double jointed elbows and could pivot at the bicep cut where her gloves end. This one has painted biceps to match the gloves, the shoulders are fleshtone but the grooves for the joint in the top of the shoulder appear to be much wider. I have to wonder if this is a running change because of the bicep-fall-off I and others experienced.

I don't really like this version, it looks passable, but the paint makes it shiny whereas the rest of the figure is a matte which looks good as it is. I have to wonder if I'm not just better off putting superglue around the peg of the broken arm and letting it dry to build up the peg so it sits in the the socket better. I cut off all the excess flashing/plastic that would be encumbering it sitting flush depth-wise.
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Can you post a pic of the second Emma you received?
 
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Can you post a pic of the second Emma you received?
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Said it was new. I avoid the Amazon warehouse finds given what I'd seen most people post. My phone is potato quality sadly, but I found an LPN sticker on the back of the cardback. Google says that it means it recorded as a returned item within Amazon's system, which means someone got this, unsealed it pretty tactically, swapped the arms, resealed it and then returned it to Amazon just for the arms. I dunno who would go through all this trouble for just the cr@ppy arms that seems to be inherently flawed in that I've seen a number of them break at the bicep swivel.

Apparently this will be round 3 of my attempt to get a decent 97 Emma.

Ironically the legs are fine so far, and these swapped arms seem to have solved an inherent flaw in the design. I just want something entirely matte. If I get another busted Emma on round three, I may just stick with this odd swap as it seems to solve the issue I was having.

What's weird is that the arms ratchet around rather well, I assume the ratchet must be on the socket side of things rather than built into the arm peg.

So basically this thief has some sort of engineering prowess or just general dumb luck, but the card didn't look tampered with at all. Of course Amazon sent it in a bubble mailer so the bubble on the card was crimped, but this point sat-on retro cards are the least of my worries.


This is the sort of cr@p plastic I'm referring to. The leg literally fell off 20 min after the arm did. "Yeah, I want a Maximum now , thanks."
 
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My Emma doesn't have any of those problems and I've been playing with her (giggidy) alot. Shes my favorite hand candy right now.

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Said it was new.

So basically this thief has some sort of engineering prowess or just general dumb luck, but the card didn't look tampered with at all. Of course Amazon sent it in a bubble mailer so the bubble on the card was crimped, but this point sat-on retro cards are the least of my worries.
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Easier than any other package to do figure swaps on because you don't even have to mess with tape. Some retail workers know enough to sus out the tape being different or tampered since it changes opacity when you restick it.

Take a blade. There's an opening on every Hasbro Legends retro card bottom that gets the blade into the bubble and between the two cardboard sheets that are glued together. Slide right and up. Then go back and left

Lift the bubble from the gap and you can slide the tray out. If you did it with a slow hand and sharp enough blade, you won't damage the card, and can replace the figure and then just super glue it back down. No trace.

I can even rip them by hand to make them look untouched if you wanted to reseal it. All in the speed and angle you tear.

There was a lot of talk about how these cards are the most theft proof possible when they first shifted to them, and that just isn't true. That belief actually works against it.
 
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