TF Views

Eat all the food in the fridge! Conserve the power on your laptop! Try not to think about the fact that it's Summer (if I lost the electricity to power my air conditioner right now, in Fresno's 115-degree heat, I would die)! Just, uh, read books for entertainment! You've endured worse before, you can endure this!

The laptop's power cable and battery are screwed right now--it's basically stationary. (Putting it on a rolling chair has helped though.) Anyway, power's back, so it's all good now.

At this point I wonder if getting another DS is a good idea, given that you've had such rotten luck with them in the past. Not that they're a bad little system to have on hand.

At least I didn't pay for this one!

Definitely better than that hulked-out MMPR Red Ranger I was shamefully tempted by (I have the Figuarts version on pre-order, there is no reason to want to own this one, even for a clearanced-down ten dollars!).

What's this, exactly? I have a bunch of the ones from the "reversioned" season, when they first switched to the 3 3/4" size.

Onslaught Six wrote:What's this, exactly? I have a bunch of the ones from the "reversioned" season, when they first switched to the 3 3/4" size.

The current PR Mega Force (they aren't even trying with the names anymore) has these large, $15 dollar figures with attachable 'Super Mode' armor, with the wave consisting of the Red and Blue Goseiger/Mega Force Rangers as well as the Red MMPR Ranger for 'retro'/anniversary value, coming with attachable Armed parts to recreate him wearing the Dragon/Green Ranger's shield and arm-wrap things. The base figure is extemely posable and detailed, and includes a full compliment of accessories and alternate hands, but definitely swings towards the...American style of rendering the Rangers, which is to say he appears as if Ernie's Juice Bar suddenly started serving double-shot protein shakes juiced up with creatine. It always drives me crazy the way they do this, since the Rangers have never looked like that in the show anyway, and every kid knows it. (It's the same way I can't understand people who think Tamashii needs to make an SHF Tiger Ranger with a female body. The MMPR Yellow Ranger never *had* a female-looking body in the show itself, so a figure that looks like a slim, male, Japanese stunt actor is totally accurate!)

Anyway, Target has the figures clearanced down to $10, and at 5 cents per pound of BEEF, is a pretty good value if you're into that sort of thing.

Ah. Sounds like something I'm not interested in, then, for a variety of reasons. (We've had the scale discussion, plus I have a full set of the 4" Rangers from a few years back.)

Anyway, package from Prowl came in that I completely was not expecting because I forgot about it--it contained an old Snake Eyes who I needed parts from for a custom that I forgot what it is and now have to figure it out again, plus a Kreon Powerglide and a Marvel Universe Wolverine, which I assume is there because Prowl probably has a dozen of them. Little did Prowl know that this is pretty much exactly the kind of Wolverine I would want--big ol' huge black cowl, 80s brown costume, no gimped articulation and only one hand is moulded closed? I'm in. (The only thing that'd make it better if it was the blue/yellow costume, but I don't know if this mould was in those colours. I am blissfully unaware of how many Wolverine variants there are. And besides that, I swap back and forth between what costume I like on him more.) Now if only the rest of my MU wasn't in a storage box.

I also bought Hotline Miami for $2.50 on Steam. I tried to pirate it a few months back (to try it out before I bought it) but then it didn't work on my laptop, so I never did, but at $2.50 I can't pass it up.

Onslaught Six wrote:Ah. Sounds like something I'm not interested in, then, for a variety of reasons. (We've had the scale discussion, plus I have a full set of the 4" Rangers from a few years back.)

Technically, you told me you didn't like figures past the 4" scale, but I don't think we ever got to *why*. So that part I still don't fully grasp.

Anyway, the SHF Zyurangers/MM Power Rangers are handily going to be the best toys of them ever produced, so there's no reason to own the thing, regardless.

a Marvel Universe Wolverine, which I assume is there because Prowl probably has a dozen of them. Little did Prowl know that this is pretty much exactly the kind of Wolverine I would want--big ol' huge black cowl, 80s brown costume, no gimped articulation and only one hand is moulded closed? I'm in.

Joke's on you, I sent that along because it came in the pack with the Rogue I wanted and it was one of the absolute worst action figures I've ever encountered. Stumpy dated look, infuriating y-joint hips, hideous paint job on the head? I'm out.

I actually don't own any Wolverines now, that was my only one. I'm actually glad to hear it tickles your fancy.

Technically, you told me you didn't like figures past the 4" scale, but I don't think we ever got to *why*. So that part I still don't fully grasp.

We started talking about it in another thread around here! 5", 6", etc. are all just too big and chunky and generally Not Fun. I have wee baby lady hands, so bigger toys don't generally appeal to me when they're supposed to be human-sized guys. I actually think the larger amount of my toy collecting being TF is either a symptom of, or the cause of, the whole thing--most of my toys are Fuckhuge Robots, and even though a large amount of them are Deluxes, having a toy of a character who is supposed to be Fuckhuge being Deluxed-sized kind of...I don't know, creates this expectation, and when I have toys of Human Dudes that are clearly bigger than half of my TFs, it creates this weird disconnect, to me, I think. (And I'll readily admit to it making zero sense, too, because it's not like I expect them to interact with each other beyond the idea that they're all toys.)

I have a handful of Nolanverse Batman Movie Master toys (A Bats, a Joker, a Two-Face and a Bane) but they never quite strike me the way they should because they just don't...fit into anywhere I try to put them in. I mean, at least Marvel Universe and GI Joe could be on adjacent shelves and look pretty good--but the Batman guys would look ridiculously out of place and shit.

And again--I have smaller hands, so I guess smaller toys just work better for me? I kind of blame TMNT for this. It was, in many ways, my "first" toyline, and even though Power Rangers and Marvel stuff came later in my life (circa 93, 94, etc.) they were bigger and didn't feel "right" compared to my TMNT toys. I think that's a big part of it. (For what it's worth, I do prefer the modern GI Joe/Marvel Universe scale compared to the original. I'm selling off a bunch of pre-2007 Joes now and I'm amazed at how tiny they are.)

Anyway, the SHF Zyurangers/MM Power Rangers are handily going to be the best toys of them ever produced, so there's no reason to own the thing, regardless.

I won't have money for these and I'm going to be so fucking pissed because they're going to be like hundreds of dollars on the aftermarket in a year or two. (I know they're not 4" either, but for PR, I can make an exception.)

Joke's on you, I sent that along because it came in the pack with the Rogue I wanted and it was one of the absolute worst action figures I've ever encountered. Stumpy dated look, infuriating y-joint hips, hideous paint job on the head? I'm out.

I actually don't own any Wolverines now, that was my only one. I'm actually glad to hear it tickles your fancy.

I remember that now! I'm really surprised, then, because to me he's just fine. I'll definitely agree with you about his hip joints, but at this point I realize that's just A Thing that Marvel Universe does and I guess I've accepted it. The legs look good for what I've been doing with him so far today (He's Wolverine, if he's not crouching down and looking menacing, what's the point?) and the paint job looks alright on the head. I may be more accepting because I didn't exactly pay for this guy like you did, especially in a huge multipack with only one guy you actually wanted. (How much is Rogue on eBay? I'll need her eventually, because the 90s X-Men cartoon is my basis for all my X-Men knowlege.) I also confess that I might maybe be more inclined to give Marvel Universe figs a pass on shit like this for reasons I don't fully understand. (I don't know. Brand loyalty? Past goodwill?)

And also, I can't really agree with your assessment of "absolute worst action figures I've ever encountered" when Hasbro is shitting out things like this for the new Wolverine film.

Onslaught Six wrote:We started talking about it in another thread around here! 5", 6", etc. are all just too big and chunky and generally Not Fun. I have wee baby lady hands, so bigger toys don't generally appeal to me when they're supposed to be human-sized guys. I actually think the larger amount of my toy collecting being TF is either a symptom of, or the cause of, the whole thing--most of my toys are Fuckhuge Robots, and even though a large amount of them are Deluxes, having a toy of a character who is supposed to be Fuckhuge being Deluxed-sized kind of...I don't know, creates this expectation, and when I have toys of Human Dudes that are clearly bigger than half of my TFs, it creates this weird disconnect, to me, I think. (And I'll readily admit to it making zero sense, too, because it's not like I expect them to interact with each other beyond the idea that they're all toys.)

And again--I have smaller hands, so I guess smaller toys just work better for me? I kind of blame TMNT for this. It was, in many ways, my "first" toyline, and even though Power Rangers and Marvel stuff came later in my life (circa 93, 94, etc.) they were bigger and didn't feel "right" compared to my TMNT toys. I think that's a big part of it. (For what it's worth, I do prefer the modern GI Joe/Marvel Universe scale compared to the original. I'm selling off a bunch of pre-2007 Joes now and I'm amazed at how tiny they are.)

Ah, this actually all makes plenty of sense, really. Particularly the hand-size thing, that makes the disconnect in our toy-size preferences instantly clear: I have gigantic, long-fingered, paddle-hands, so I find larger figures easier for my mitts to handle, which is why I tend to not prefer these smaller-scale toys; they feel very small and insubstantial in my bigass crane-game-claws.

I won't have money for these and I'm going to be so fucking pissed because they're going to be like hundreds of dollars on the aftermarket in a year or two. (I know they're not 4" either, but for PR, I can make an exception.)

I've got Green and Red on preorder at the hobby shop my brother works at, and I need to see about getting one in for the recently-announced Pink (White can stuff it, I swear I'm the only person who preferred Tommy as Green).

I daresay the 5"-ish scale SHFs reside in should be a happy medium with what each of us prefers.

I remember that now! I'm really surprised, then, because to me he's just fine. I'll definitely agree with you about his hip joints, but at this point I realize that's just A Thing that Marvel Universe does and I guess I've accepted it. The legs look good for what I've been doing with him so far today (He's Wolverine, if he's not crouching down and looking menacing, what's the point?) and the paint job looks alright on the head. I may be more accepting because I didn't exactly pay for this guy like you did, especially in a huge multipack with only one guy you actually wanted.

Fair point. I think it was mostly that, compared to Rogue and even Longshot (who I also didn't want, and who kind of terrifies me), Wolverine just felt very dated and simple and didn't look as nice. I have to at least give them props on the molding of the claws, doing them as one piece with the separations as ridges between them, rather than trying to do them all as individual pieces that would certainly get warped to hell in the package.

I also just have a *thing* about Wolverine toys, I hated almost all of them as a child since none of them (save for ONE I once encountered) could recreate his claws popping out as a gimmick. It's like, Wolverine was already the lamest member of the X-Men to me, since on a team where guys could do stuff like shoot big lasers out of their eyes or control the weather, his power was popping little claws out of his hands, and they couldn't even do that one little thing on the toys? Come on!

And also, I can't really agree with your assessment of "absolute worst action figures I've ever encountered" when Hasbro is shitting out things like this for the new Wolverine film.

Yeah, you're totally right on that. I've seen those Wolvering toys in stores, and it's abombinable (and I'd totally buy a *good* toy of that Silver Samurai design!). Honestly, that MU Wolverine isn't even the worst action figure I've ever owned, by a wide margin (I could've sent you some of those Jazzwares Street Fighter toys I was stupid enought to buy. Those are the biggest plastic regrets I have!). I think Wolvy there really just settles into 'underwhelming and unimpressive for a MU figure'.

Current issue of RID, which I plan to read at my sister's place where I'll be in exile from Sunday night through Wednesday morning thanks to termite tenting.

It's weird having no hauls for this long.

Bulking up my collections of Generations/Universe/RTS/Classics/whatever

Bought Darkmount, Rodimus and Laser Prime off Dom, and got Galv in an ebay action, and I'm waiting on Perceptor from 'Slaught. Feels good man.

Almighty Unicron wrote:Bulking up my collections of Generations/Universe/RTS/Classics/whatever

Bought Darkmount, Rodimus and Laser Prime off Dom, and got Galv in an ebay action, and I'm waiting on Perceptor from 'Slaught. Feels good man.

Nice, good pickups all around.

I sorta kinda regret not getting Laser Prime too, especially after Hasbro let the OTFCC steal the Scourge repaint.

JediTricks wrote:

Almighty Unicron wrote:Bulking up my collections of Generations/Universe/RTS/Classics/whatever

Bought Darkmount, Rodimus and Laser Prime off Dom, and got Galv in an ebay action, and I'm waiting on Perceptor from 'Slaught. Feels good man.

Nice, good pickups all around.

I sorta kinda regret not getting Laser Prime too, especially after Hasbro let the OTFCC steal the Scourge repaint.

Dom was bitching to me about his transformation (I forced him to take a pic of every figure in both modes since I was buying them loose), but I actually find him fun to transform, which is something I can't say for many figures.

Galvatron and Straxus, on the otherhand, are a bitch and a fucking half to transform and things keep poppin' off.