Shaak Ti has been revealed for Black series, fantastic! I only wanted three more figures and that was one of them (the others being Saesee Tiin and holo Palps). This happened at more or less the same time as my most wanted Black series figure finally turned up! Prequel Yoda. The head-sculpt and printing is very nicely done.
Talking about most wanted, I put in a preorder for the extortionately priced Mondo Real Ghostbusters Peter Venkman. Talking about preorders, I’ve been looking at the Joytoy Turtles stuff. Most of it is fairly stylised but I like the look of Bebop and Rocksteady. Pretty expensive though.
The new Constructicons look great, I will be buying two lots since I’ve decided that for the big five combiners (Devastator, Superion, Defensor, Bruticus and Menasor), I need them individually and in combined form (the other four I will keep the Combiner Wars versions but since CW Devs was supersized I will replace it). All up though, quite a good set of reveals. The Fallen was also shown off with a picture of Star Convoy on the side (I’m not convinced I would have identified it as such), but there is some suggestion that bits of look like Powermaster Optimus Prime. Makes sense for a remold. I hope the focus is on PMOP though, as I feel he (God Ginrai) is the one who most needs a decent figure (those ankles!).
Couple more Marvel Legends rumours, Triton, Chameleon and Mandarin. Nice! The Inhumans are a strange team, I don’t really know them but they rather appeal to me. (There’s a strange parallel between the prequel Jedi and the Inhumans, my new most wanted Jedi is Saesee Tiin, my new most wanted Legends is Gorgon, both have bull like features! Kit Fisto is like Triton……)
The Chameleon and Mandarin rumours really got me thinking - I had decided to focus on heroic characters in 6” scale and more villainous characters in 3.75” scale. (With an exemption for important villains such as Mandarin.) But then I thought how cool it would be to have the Insidious Six (from the Spider-Man cartoon) in figure form, and how fun to have the X-Men game characters in the same scale as Streetfighter. So I’ve made a bit of a change to my thinking - for Avengers and Fantastic 4 I will do my scale plan (especially since I’ve made lots of custom 3.75” A:EMH villains), but for Spider-Man and X-Men I will get everything in 6” (I say get, apart from Hydro Man I already have them, so really I mean keep). I also grabbed the new Phoenix (force) since it was available at a decent price.
Important villains is quite a subjective thing - I’ve come up with the following (based on the characters I think are important enough to warrant a space on my shelf. Importance is easily conflated with favourite! But I think Loki, Dr Doom, Magneto, Red Skull, Mandarin, Ultron, Ronan, Thanos, Norman Osborn, Kingpin, Sabretooth, Carnage, Dormammu, Abomination, Apocalypse and Galactus. (Some of those probably aren’t that important in a wider Marvel sense but from an individual character’s perspective, Iron Man for example.)
I received some Transformers. First up was Xaaron who I thought I wouldn’t like too much, but I like the Reflector mold, and although I didn’t read too much of the Marvel comic with him in it he’s a welcome addition for my Lost Light crew. (I’m not going to keep Flame.)
I also got Dinoking. I didn’t get the actual core Dinobots so these figures are all new to me. Dino modes are mostly a bit rubbish but the bot modes are pretty reasonable (apart from Rairyu). Combined mode is nice and I enjoyed putting it together. Overall, happy!
Also got the new Sludge plush (very glad I didn’t just jump at the SDCC version).
In less exciting news, I got Quake, who’s is neither a new character or mold. The mold does fit the character better than Hardhead though. I like him more than I thought I would.
I’ve decided to expand my Maximals to include the four ‘96 characters who weren’t in the cartoon - Wolfang (almost in the cartoon), Razorbeast (key IDW character), Armordillo (had him as a kid) and Polar Claw (he’s a polar bear!). Anyway, got the Wolfang reissue.
Finally, I bought the Lego X-Mansion (yay!), and got the couple of extra bits. I won’t open it until Christmas but the freebies are fair game. I also bought myself the Lego Marvel advent calendar, it’s a rather expensive way to get Venom but it’s fun. It’s Christmas……..
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