Zincdust
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Post by Zincdust on Oct 16, 2024 11:16:21 GMT -5
Ha ha, Rush started following me on IG. I went over to his page, and saw the NES "Pro Wrestling" retros. I got pretty excited about 'em, as I am a huge fan! So I came here to see if there was any info, and quickly realized "Ugh, it's THIS guy." Pass. Even though those would be amazing, I have my sincere doubts that I'd ever get my grubby little mitts on 'em (plus he didn't bother to make a Giant Panther, who was my main man!). Not only that, but if the Big N ever got wind of this... I sincerely doubt that they are licensed. I'm 99% sure that Nintendo would still hold the copyright for these characters. They usually keep their IPs pretty close to their chest.
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@Chair.Shot
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Post by @Chair.Shot on Oct 16, 2024 11:33:20 GMT -5
Ha ha, Rush started following me on IG. I went over to his page, and saw the NES "Pro Wrestling" retros. I got pretty excited about 'em, as I am a huge fan! So I came here to see if there was any info, and quickly realized "Ugh, it's THIS guy." Pass. Even though those would be amazing, I have my sincere doubts that I'd ever get my grubby little mitts on 'em (plus he didn't bother to make a Giant Panther, who was my main man!). Not only that, but if the Big N ever got wind of this... I sincerely doubt that they are licensed. I'm 99% sure that Nintendo would still hold the copyright for these characters. They usually keep their IPs pretty close to their chest. It truly is a shame that he has “plans” for so many amazing things but has produced so little. If he ever manages to to release several more things, confidence might slowly start to grow. But he is so far behind right now that it feels like it’s impossible to ever shake that reputation. If he wants to announce projects for the future? Fine. Cool. But asking for money for that well in advance when there has been zero real movement on everything else…that is just absurd. But I do want to reward and encourage the products that are actually in hand. The monsters and the NES figures really excite me…I just can’t hang my hopes on them. At least with the NES figures they would only require different heads.
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parrish
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Post by parrish on Oct 16, 2024 13:32:58 GMT -5
Ha ha, Rush started following me on IG. I went over to his page, and saw the NES "Pro Wrestling" retros. I got pretty excited about 'em, as I am a huge fan! So I came here to see if there was any info, and quickly realized "Ugh, it's THIS guy." Pass. Even though those would be amazing, I have my sincere doubts that I'd ever get my grubby little mitts on 'em (plus he didn't bother to make a Giant Panther, who was my main man!). Not only that, but if the Big N ever got wind of this... I sincerely doubt that they are licensed. I'm 99% sure that Nintendo would still hold the copyright for these characters. They usually keep their IPs pretty close to their chest. Giant Panther is coming in wave 2. Give the guy a chance to improve. From what I see he is trying.
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britishbrickfan
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Post by britishbrickfan on Oct 16, 2024 14:48:07 GMT -5
Giant Panther is coming in wave 2. Give the guy a chance to improve. From what I see he is trying. what are you looking at?
he's still not shipped out the French Angel figures to the people who paid for them.
he's still not even produced the CVV figures that people paid for over 18 months ago.
he's still not produced the Frankenstein figure that people paid for as a preorder, and then subsequently launched a Kickstarter to fund (which was the purpose of the preorder....)
if he is "trying" to improve, he isn't demonstrating it very well. he's failed to deliver anything of the value or quality he claims to want to produce. what he has actually delivered is not even bargain bin quality.
I've said repeatedly, he's a scam artist pulling a fast one on the collecting community. he's still at it, just using a different marketing strategy to once again take people's money and not provide.
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parrish
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Post by parrish on Oct 16, 2024 16:34:15 GMT -5
Giant Panther is coming in wave 2. Give the guy a chance to improve. From what I see he is trying. what are you looking at?
he's still not shipped out the French Angel figures to the people who paid for them.
he's still not even produced the CVV figures that people paid for over 18 months ago.
he's still not produced the Frankenstein figure that people paid for as a preorder, and then subsequently launched a Kickstarter to fund (which was the purpose of the preorder....)
if he is "trying" to improve, he isn't demonstrating it very well. he's failed to deliver anything of the value or quality he claims to want to produce. what he has actually delivered is not even bargain bin quality.
I've said repeatedly, he's a scam artist pulling a fast one on the collecting community. he's still at it, just using a different marketing strategy to once again take people's money and not provide.
I'm looking at my French Angel figure that I received (After he shipped it out to people who paid for it). It's much better than the first 3 figures (I have every variant). The figure is put together a lot better than the first three, it is molded in skin tone rather than being molded in white and painted, and he released a version with soft goods which was a first for the line. That is 3 improvements just off the top of my head. Then I look at the samples of Trump and CVV and they have obviously improved from series 1. My distain for one of them personally aside, the figures look good. As far as it taking 18 months. . . . . and? Power and Glory from Zombie took just as long if not longer, Bulldog 92 and Diana from Hasttel took what 2 years? It took a long time because Mitch decided to switch factories. He's also been a little better about keeping the reels/videos on instagram rather than deleting them. I don't expect your opinion to change in the slightest, but these are improvements. I choose to be optimistic about the future, time will tell.
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britishbrickfan
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Post by britishbrickfan on Oct 17, 2024 0:15:35 GMT -5
I'm looking at my French Angel figure that I received (After he shipped it out to people who paid for it). It's much better than the first 3 figures (I have every variant). The figure is put together a lot better than the first three, it is molded in skin tone rather than being molded in white and painted, and he released a version with soft goods which was a first for the line. That is 3 improvements just off the top of my head. Then I look at the samples of Trump and CVV and they have obviously improved from series 1. My distain for one of them personally aside, the figures look good. As far as it taking 18 months. . . . . and? Power and Glory from Zombie took just as long if not longer, Bulldog 92 and Diana from Hasttel took what 2 years? It took a long time because Mitch decided to switch factories. He's also been a little better about keeping the reels/videos on instagram rather than deleting them. I don't expect your opinion to change in the slightest, but these are improvements. I choose to be optimistic about the future, time will tell. which one is that? the original, or one of the variants he said "he wasn't going to do out of respect for the estate" and then did anyway
well, you say you've received yours, he still hasn't shipped all of them and actively blocks people chasing for updates
I'm not surprised that the samples of Trump and CVV have "improved", the prototypes haven't been made by children this time around it seems but still, where is CVV??? the payments were taken years ago. Zombie and Mitch took a long time to release their figures, but at least Mitch didn't hold onto money for over 18 months before sending out figures that cost less than 10c to make
my opinion will change, once Sal puts his money where his mouth is and provides the figures that people paid for years ago, and have been waiting to receive. and it's interesting that you reference his background for deleting IG content - he still blocks people who contact him for updates, and he STILL deletes the "live" videos before the 24hrs is up, usually once someone comes on here and calls out his BS
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parrish
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Post by parrish on Oct 17, 2024 9:41:02 GMT -5
I'm looking at my French Angel figure that I received (After he shipped it out to people who paid for it). It's much better than the first 3 figures (I have every variant). The figure is put together a lot better than the first three, it is molded in skin tone rather than being molded in white and painted, and he released a version with soft goods which was a first for the line. That is 3 improvements just off the top of my head. Then I look at the samples of Trump and CVV and they have obviously improved from series 1. My distain for one of them personally aside, the figures look good. As far as it taking 18 months. . . . . and? Power and Glory from Zombie took just as long if not longer, Bulldog 92 and Diana from Hasttel took what 2 years? It took a long time because Mitch decided to switch factories. He's also been a little better about keeping the reels/videos on instagram rather than deleting them. I don't expect your opinion to change in the slightest, but these are improvements. I choose to be optimistic about the future, time will tell. which one is that? the original, or one of the variants he said "he wasn't going to do out of respect for the estate" and then did anyway
well, you say you've received yours, he still hasn't shipped all of them and actively blocks people chasing for updates
I'm not surprised that the samples of Trump and CVV have "improved", the prototypes haven't been made by children this time around it seems but still, where is CVV??? the payments were taken years ago. Zombie and Mitch took a long time to release their figures, but at least Mitch didn't hold onto money for over 18 months before sending out figures that cost less than 10c to make
my opinion will change, once Sal puts his money where his mouth is and provides the figures that people paid for years ago, and have been waiting to receive. and it's interesting that you reference his background for deleting IG content - he still blocks people who contact him for updates, and he STILL deletes the "live" videos before the 24hrs is up, usually once someone comes on here and calls out his BS
I only have the original figure that was up for pre order, black pants no cloak. I missed out on the cloak, so I ended up passing on the variants. I'd like to hunt them down possibly, but I wont pay more than $40 for them. I havent seen a review of the variants either. Are the pants painted over the black? If they are molded I'd like them, but if they are just paint overs I don't need them. To me that's more of a custom.
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