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Masterverse Shadow Weaver for not quite as cheap as ID were clearing them a couple of weeks ago, but still way below RRP. Much nicer than the inaccurate stock photos, the cloth cape works well and possibly nicer overall than the Classics with the visible torso joint. Certainly easier to come by for...

Legacy Generations Select Magnificus because apparently ID found some more to clearance in a stock take... and got a 75% off Rakor to even out postage. And then they apparently found more Dicelings to clear after I ordered... so will be trying to get one example of each creature, I think, if anywhe...

Think I read at least an issue of the MLP crossover, and can't remember a thing about it. Shared universe seems to be the entire premise of this series, and is presumably why whoever at Hasbro loves the idea were supportive of the licence bid. The "Void Rivals" preview issue was okay. I ju...

Group photo?

Vaguely remember Blackout as well as Starscream and I assume Barricade and Scorponok were the 'normal' size releases, but find it impossible to visualise most of the fifteen years of movie releases.

I might check it out again when a TPB drops.

IDW stuff not as far as I know, Hasbro/Skybound seem happier for now to push people towards piracy rather than having the material available via legitimate avenues and competing with the current publisher.

It's a winning mix of homogeneity and genetic material degrading. As I understand it, not all retailers use manufacturer product codes as their inventory and POS equipment are more limited, toys aren't core business, etc. So they may have an identifier per wave, or per product line, or per product c...

Totally agree re: the copyright thing, but at this stage there's still a fair bit of tidy up needed in a lot of cases. I think rather than photocopying the metaphor is gene pools. Second generation LLM trained on first generation LLM outputs has less diverse data to work with and thus more bias in i...

Vintage Beast Wars Wolfang Vintage Beast Wars Cybershark I've always had the impression they are/were still easy to find originals of, I got Cybershark a few years back for the alt-mode and Wolfang much earlier to swap parts with a Max-B on to do alt-mode Carnivac for a Wreckers display. Wolfang un...

Fucking hell yes.

Potatoes. Such versatile things. I wonder who the first person to try cooking them after trying (or watching) other people eat them raw was.

There are lots of good Polish soup recipes that involve them, too.

The sculpting on this figure is amazing. The head sculpt looks like it jumped right off of the page. The 90s comic-print shading is subtle enough that it doesn't look weird on a 3-D object, too, which is something that comic/cartoon-accurate figures from all sorts of companies seem to struggle with...

Twenty years ago, it was perfectly normal to buy toys just because they were cool. Nowadays the fandom has pivoted hard towards collecting characters instead of figures. Would tend to agree, and I'm somewhere in-between. It takes an unusually good/cool design to get me to go for a character I have ...

Yeah, there are regular and online releases over here of stuff that's store exclusive in the US, whereas Walgreens may have a deal that e.g. Minerva stock doesn't go to other US retailers. Over here it's only really Amazon that occasionally goes for semi-exclusives, although Smyths might have gotten...

I'm guessing they can make a bit more money shipping the stuff over here. Possibly a minor factor of no language issues/relabelling with sales to the UK. Possibly that Hasbro doesn't want its leading brands liquidated in an obvious way in the US/Canada, plus exchange rates are generally prohibitive ...

Yeah, Amazon search and failure to enforce grouping of listings is appalling enough to send me to eBay pretty often for things that are small, non-urgent and cheap. Amazon seem to take a bigger cut of the base price that means they can often be beaten on that stuff. But it's handy to be able to get ...

Over here, Prime customers (and it's worth the cost of Prime annually if you order at least a few things a month, and they partner with supermarkets and have a few original shows that I actually watch) can specify a preferred delivery day for in stock items, including weekends. Ethics aside, Amazon'...

The deep discounts mostly aren't retailers clearing their own stock. Although both brick and mortar stores like Smyths and online retailers such as Kapow, ID and C&C do it to clear down older inventory and at significant mark down to clear the last few of things, deep discounts are now constant ...

Question spinning off from discussion about 'dead' Ironhide and Prowl in the Top X of 2023 thread... How long do we think big box stores will keep taking stuff that gets heavily clearanced? Are misfires forgiven, or are they locked into multi-year agreements (which seems unlikely based on how Walmar...

I don't think the complexity argument holds that much water in justifying jumping a whole SKU bracket either personally. Hasbro just have a fairly blanket policy of cost cutting regardless of whether it compromises the product enough that people won't buy at the price point. Size and a half is a goo...

Feel free to share any tips or tricks you come up with. Depending where you shop, deferred delivery (e.g. Amazon day, or BBTS do a "pile of loot" thing) -- if something's ordered but cancellable without penalty and you've lost interest two days later, simple matter to do so. I'm sure stor...

I think that's where the emphasis has shifted to. Instead of each figure being it's own intricate puzzle that has to be engaged/manipulated with in a deliberate way (lest you absentmindedly break something delicate), we've now got this design ethos focused on things that are nicely poseable yet can...