the vynsane asylum

They are probably testing both regular and after market prices.
Maybe they figure they can scalp their own toys on ebay and increase profits.

I saw the first 6 of these at Walmart today. They had 2 variations of SuperPatriot. There were 2 versions of Judge Dread too...I think. One looked like a ghost Judge Dread. The other 4 were Witchblade, Savage Dragon, Madman and Ripclaw.

Rogue II wrote:They had 2 variations of SuperPatriot.

that sounds right. with and without mask.

There were 2 versions of Judge Dread too...I think. One looked like a ghost Judge Dread.

that's a little weird... i'd heard that JD didn't have a variant, that the other one in the series that had a variant was the dragon, with the wifebeater shirt on. in addition, the judge DEATH variant that i'd heard about from series 2 is transparent. weird...

The other 4 were Witchblade, Savage Dragon, Madman and Ripclaw.

yeah, that all sounds right. damn. i went to my local WM on the off chance that they were there. yeah, right. fat chance. apparently NY is the last place on the face of the planet to get anything new. or at least the last place in america.

here's a post i made over at the robert kirkman area of the image comics forum:

i was thinking that another, more abstract, BAF for an invincible series would be a different variant of angstrom levy (from the different dimensions) with each figure. i think that would be pretty funny. or they could do one the way they did PITT and make a monster girl BAF for the monstrous form (like PITT), and one less articulated version of her human form (like timmy)?

so, what kind of series would you put together?

series 1:

invincible (natch... maybe with battle-damaged variant?)
atom eve
allen the alien
robot
mauler twin (with "clone" variant )
rex splode
and BAF big honkin' version of robot

series 2:

omni-man
battle beast
dupli-kate (maybe with a sheet of stickers with different numbers to place in the circle on her chest?)
reanimen (triple-variant?)
damien darkblood: demon detective (hrm!)
angstrom levy (giant brain version)
BAF monster girl or multiple regular versions of angstrom levy

don't know if any of that means anything to any of you, but there you have it.

vynsane wrote:yeah, that all sounds right. damn. i went to my local WM on the off chance that they were there. yeah, right. fat chance. apparently NY is the last place on the face of the planet to get anything new. or at least the last place in america.

Yeah, right. Here in Canada Jr. we still have Bib Fortunas and Jerjerrods on the pegs.

Diabolical wrote:Yeah, right. Here in Canada Jr. we still have Bib Fortunas and Jerjerrods on the pegs.

you got those already? i haven't seem them yet! (actually i don't know anything about the SW toys and their waves at this point. been out of that game for a loooong-o time-o.)

oh, and i did qualify my statement with "last place in america" - if you're in canada jr., that statement doesn't apply to you

I guess "ghost" Judge Dread was the wrong term. He was transparent.

What surprised me is that Walmart had a whole end cap of these things. Then again, the end cap next to it was full of the last 3 waves of Star Wars Saga 2 figues (some were $3.50).

Usually we get toys here a few weeks after they hit in California and Phoenix.

Rogue II wrote:I guess "ghost" Judge Dread was the wrong term. He was transparent.

it's not how you referred to him that surprised me, it's the fact that he's the variant. or more appropriately that he's ANOTHER variant... if that's true, then there are three variants in this set: superpatriot, JD, and savage dragon, which would make two of them short-packed in a case of 8, which sucks balls. if you saw SP and JD, then SD is the variant that didn't make it. unfortunately that's the version that i want, the one with the wifebeater shirt.

Usually we get toys here a few weeks after they hit in California and Phoenix.

except that colorado was a test-market for this series, and i guess the test market is expanding out of that location, so you're in the newest radius of influence.

Hmmph. I saw some of these at SDCC ( way overpriced) and I wasn't that impressed. Especially with Dragon. I'd have to see more of them, but they're kinda average.

hey EP - they were supposed to announce the 3rd series at the con - did you see any of that info?

I went back and checked WM. It was a transparent Judge Death, not Judge Dread.

MAN, it's been a damn good week. got my SDCC stan lee and abe sapien from rollo, and checked out WM on a whim today and picked up wife-beater savage dragon, both superpatriots, and madman from the pitt series. now that i see them in person, gotta say, they fuckin' ROCK!

now i find myself with a dilemma. do i sell off the pieces of pitt, or finish him somehow? while i don't care about the character in the slightest, he's just freakin' MASSIVE and it would be cool to put him together. either i buy the other figures i don't care about, open them, keep the pieces and sell the figures, or i buy/trade the pieces i need. since i got to superpatriots, i have two left arms. if i got the other version of the dragon, i would have to left legs. ostensibly i could trade those for the right arms and legs, and then only need to buy the figure that has the head/upper body (witchblade, i think.) that could work if i could find someone with those pieces that is willing to part with them. i'll have to look into that.

I picked up a loose wifebeater Dragon last week at a show for $5. They had opened a set and assembled Pitt for $75, and the rest of the loose figures they were just trying to get rid of. Pitt is MASSIVE. I didn't really get it until I saw him. Now I have to have him! I don't know about the future waves, but I'm totally tracking down the first one.

Poor, EP. He never got a PITT before he was callously murdered by Robin.

But I got one this weekend. Some buddies were renting a table at the monthly Los Angeles convention down at the Shrine, and I thought I would unload some stuff I had laying around for cheap. I made about $40 and then turned around and bought the entire PITT wave, the Conan/Wrarrl two pack, plus a loose Classics Grimlock for about $80. SO I spent more than I made, but it was a very entertaining day being the guy behind the table. And Helen Slater was there. She was looking very much her age. Oye.

soooooo, i ended up getting a full case of each series online, as i was liking series 2 more and more, but couldn't find much of them, and really wanted to build PITT and monkeyman. and they were well worth it... there's only one regular series (read, not 2-pack) that i don't have: the WM-only ann o'brien variant, with blue bodysuit and brown jacket as opposed to green bodysuit and yellow jacket. not that i'm all that broken up about it, but it's weird how they packed stuff to WM - they added judge death to series 1 shipments, and effectively series 2 got three variants: judge death and "ghost" judge death, different outfits ann, and a variant of madman from series 1, a different costume design, which is what i got in my case. very strange. not sure what they were going for there.

meanwhile, PITT and monkeyman are freakin' awesome. PITT is simply massive, and monkeyman only looks slightly less impressive because o'brien is so tall (she's 7' in the comics, so it makes sense.) there are a few figures that i'm surprised i even like - the darkness is a stupid stupid character, but the detailing on the figure is really impressive and makes me like him. ripclaw in the same vein - he's a cyberforce's wolverine, but this figure is actually pretty cool looking.

by buying a case, i get some fodder for the customs i want to make (someday...) - although i think i may need up to two more superpatriots to really do what i want to do. first, i want to swap out one "regular" arm with the other's "gun" arm and have a masked SP with two gun arms and one unmasked with two "regular" arms in addition to the two "factory" versions. next, i want to make a "covenant of the sword' version of superpatriot (possibly the one i swap out to have two gun arms...) really, only difference here is to paint/apply a decal of the covenant logo on his chest and paint his eye lenses red. pretty easy, but cool none-the-less. then i want to do a HUGE custom and turn SP into "cyborg x", the guy erik larsen created in adjectiveless spider-man during the "revenge of the sinister six" storyline:



if the image doesn't work check it out here: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/cyborgxs.htm

i think it just makes sense to customize superpatriot into the character that he was going to be originally.

then i want to make a "dark dragon" - an evil version of savage dragon:



here's another one...


basically, i'll just score him with a razor blade and give him a brown wash. but i think the shirtless version would be better, so i'd have to buy yet another one... maybe. eh, we'll see...

This line was cancelled.



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