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I'm pretty sure toy prices are going to skyrocket... which personally sucks but from a broad economy standpoint is 100% the right move, IMO. Kinda glad I went on a robot binge the last 6-7 months, as that would be a prohibitive prospect with a 34% surcharge. Joes are made in Vietnam, right...

BACC - I agree, I expected him to be more angular. And rather than the serpent-eyed head, I'd have MUCH preferred an unmasked Fred head. This is a missed opportunity... or yet another case of getting the intentionally worse version first so we have to double dip on the better version in the...

Gotta love those WM computers. Pretty sure they don't mean March of 2026. So not sure what the holdup is. I kinda winced when you said you PO'd all the new stuff with WM. Sometimes they come through with ease, and sometimes your order goes into a black hole, never to return. And they...

Yeah, in the last month or so. I assumed he'd drop in the fall like everything else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Then again, it might not mean much... I got a similar email about S7 Ultimate Red Laser a long time ago, and it hasn't budged. So it might just be the WM computer screwing with me.

Just got the "check your address, your item is about to ship" email from WM for Crystal Ball. He and Raptor and Croc Master can have a nutjob support group. They'll invite Big Boa for good measure.

Yeah, my WMs are sold out too, although they still have one peg for CS and one for retro. My last trip to Ollie's was much like yours, pretty much no Joe but a ton of Eternals, Black Panther, and Dr Strange legends... and D+ SWB figures that will probably go to the landfill unopened.

So, a few weeks ago, I finally took the time to field strip my airbrush and fix whatever was gummed up in it so that I could do some painting in the garage airbrush booth as the weather got nicer. Having accumulated a lot of noggins for various projects, I wanted to try a technique I read about...

Of course... I can imagine companies jacking up prices in anticipation of not-yet-realized tariffs... as they're ordering many months in advance and don't know what things will look like at that time. However, if stuff really isn't being sourced from CHI-na (or canada... or mexico), then it...

BBTS went up 2/4/7 dollars on the various price points and that is causing people some heartburn. There is a lot of speculation that it's tariff driven... but I also read the claim that Joes are made in Vietnam, and there is no tariff on their goods. So it's hard to know if BBTS is doing it out...

While all the big info from yesterday's fan-stream is already "old news", I went back and watched the event anyway, just to get the little insights about what they were thinking, where certain details came from, what inspired them, etc. It was a fun video. The team is really good and seems to...

Me too! I really put that project on the backburner... hoping that Hasbro would do it right and save me the trouble. But alas, it looks like I'll end up doing it anyway. Glad I bought the trucks when I did, as the Amazon listing still exists, but the truck/missile design has changed (they now...

I'm all over this. It could be more blonde, but I can cure that. A bigger disappointment is them not fixing the missiles to actually look like old-school MIM-23 HAWK missiles with the big fins at the rear. But I'm going to cure that too. Back before Classified when I was working on my custom...

Agreed. I'm not sure I care about the Frag Viper, but I might customize him into something better. The others are clear buys, even stupid Darklon. In for a pinch of IGs, in for a pound (except that cash-grab BAT repaint). But I'm not gonna lie, Blowtorch kinda bugs me. All that black gear...

He looks like ancient Roman Hasselhoff! ;)

He was the ultimate peg warmer. In the entirity of the 80's, there was no figure that rotted in stores en mass more than CB. Seeing him now, I still get a wave of disappointment. Not because he's a bad figure, but it's just a pavlovian response at this point. I'll still get one b/c my Cobra...

It's not clear to me why Hasbro simply isn't using the original artwork. you know they have it. It was work-for-hire, so I doubt there are any royalties or anything they have to pay to use it. No one is going to mistake a Classified Retro for a vintage ARAH figure... just use the OG...

As someone has pointed out, Super7 is now using AI for ReAction+ card art. I'm guessing Hasbro did too just looking at Retro Flint. It's so bad. Every AI image generation software I've ever used is terrible with hands and feet. The AI understands they exist, but the way hands, feet, fingers...

It has the gun mounted underneath with lateral movement as well... but I had it pushed over to the right side while wrestling with the assembly and failed to re-center it, so it didn't show in the pics. Yeah, 3d printing is a mixed bag. Some people are making great designs, but I cannot stand...

On a happier note, I finally got some time to unbox the Fanshobby Air Eagle, aka Sky Hawk, and it's massive. The pics don't do the size justice. I threw in some Hot Wheels just for scale. It's yuuuuuuuge. I actually like their original design configuration, as it gives the thing some...

No... she doesn't use my account. She doesn't order anything online. She just sends me links and says "go". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Honestly, my luck with target is so bad, I don't even check them when I'm hunting anything. Unless someone posts a specific link to something on sale, they're totally off my...