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Post by TheLastDude on Jul 8, 2020 16:10:41 GMT -5
Honest opinions please, I moved some stuff around, and added Prime (and put Krang beside them) to see if I can fudge these in.... I'm on the fence on whether or not I think it works. Typically I'm a scale nazi with my shelves. I'm trying to be objective because I don't really care much about scale, but I think it looks great, and makes a good tribute to 80's and 90's cartoons.
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Post by marino13 on Jul 8, 2020 16:21:52 GMT -5
Honest opinions please, I moved some stuff around, and added Prime (and put Krang beside them) to see if I can fudge these in.... I'm on the fence on whether or not I think it works. Typically I'm a scale nazi with my shelves. I'm trying to be objective because I don't really care much about scale, but I think it looks great, and makes a good tribute to 80's and 90's cartoons. I'm so weird with scale that I didn't have Prime up because it didn't look like any of my 7 inch figures could fit in to drive him.
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Post by TheLastDude on Jul 8, 2020 16:40:55 GMT -5
I'm trying to be objective because I don't really care much about scale, but I think it looks great, and makes a good tribute to 80's and 90's cartoons. I'm so weird with scale that I didn't have Prime up because it didn't look like any of my 7 inch figures could fit in to drive him. Yeah, I see what you mean. He should probably be a bit bigger to be in "real" scale with human sized figures, but that's still a sharp looking Prime.
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Post by mrhoss on Jul 8, 2020 17:16:42 GMT -5
Just out of curiosity, did they just give it to you or did you have to buy it? I’ve heard of both happening with various things. The main reason I’m curious is because the company I work for often does those for our products and I’ve seen some of the invoices. They are ridiculously expensive for what they are. Granted most of the cost is in the design and the space in the store, but sometimes I’m like “We’re paying this much for what’s essentially a box?” It was given for free. I asked one of the women I've seen for years at that store and she seemed non-fussed, like it wasn't the first time somebody asked for a display. Interesting you mentioned the cost of space. You would be surprised how quickly my Walmarts pull down their displays.
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Post by bababooey on Jul 8, 2020 18:02:59 GMT -5
Just out of curiosity, did they just give it to you or did you have to buy it? I’ve heard of both happening with various things. The main reason I’m curious is because the company I work for often does those for our products and I’ve seen some of the invoices. They are ridiculously expensive for what they are. Granted most of the cost is in the design and the space in the store, but sometimes I’m like “We’re paying this much for what’s essentially a box?” It was given for free. I asked one of the women I've seen for years at that store and she seemed non-fussed, like it wasn't the first time somebody asked for a display. Interesting you mentioned the cost of space. You would be surprised how quickly my Walmarts pull down their displays. I’m not surprised Walmart pulls them down fast. They’re kind of considered a pay-to-play customer. They charge us for everything. They even charge us a percentage of every sale for having our products in their warehouses. The funny part about the side caps/end caps is sometimes we have to pay the customer to put it up and sometimes the customer will pay us with an agreement that they get a discount on the items they stock in there. Not gonna say what customer, but there’s one customer that took us almost a year to make and end cap agreement with. They had so many demands and kept changing the requirements they would allow after every mock-up. It got close to a point where we almost stopped doing business with them all together because they were costing us so much money on development. I’ve usually seen these things end up costing upwards of $10k.
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ellisd
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Post by ellisd on Jul 8, 2020 18:17:42 GMT -5
So I picked up Roadblock and Destro on my way home from work, to go with my Snake Eyes. Really digging these figures. I’m very tempted to grab Duke and Scarlet tomorrow to just round out wave one of this series. Preordered Cobra Commander on Amazon after opening my Destro lol. I’m trying hard to not get hooked on these, but they’re really awesome and we’ve been waiting so long for G I Joe to do Marvel Legends/Black Series style of figures.
I’ve heard mention of a classic line, is it gonna be 6 inch or 3 3/4 scale?
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Post by Chip on Jul 8, 2020 18:26:26 GMT -5
Honest opinions please, I moved some stuff around, and added Prime (and put Krang beside them) to see if I can fudge these in.... I'm on the fence on whether or not I think it works. Typically I'm a scale nazi with my shelves. I dig it. with the exception of Scrooge McDuck....honestly he looks out of place. what is the overall theme you're going for? just favorite characters? and also what are they displayed "on", i see like clear plastic...is that RSC stands?
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Post by PJ on Jul 8, 2020 18:52:41 GMT -5
Honest opinions please, I moved some stuff around, and added Prime (and put Krang beside them) to see if I can fudge these in.... I'm on the fence on whether or not I think it works. Typically I'm a scale nazi with my shelves. With the exceptions of the Neca Batman, Superman, GL and the ML Rogue I think they all look good together. So just send the 4 scale troublemakers to me. So you don’t need to deal with them ever again!
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Post by marino13 on Jul 8, 2020 19:01:10 GMT -5
Honest opinions please, I moved some stuff around, and added Prime (and put Krang beside them) to see if I can fudge these in.... I'm on the fence on whether or not I think it works. Typically I'm a scale nazi with my shelves. I dig it. with the exception of Scrooge McDuck....honestly he looks out of place. what is the overall theme you're going for? just favorite characters? and also what are they displayed "on", i see like clear plastic...is that RSC stands? Kind of a 80's/90's cartoon shelf for the time being. And Joes were my favorite of them all, so that's why I'm trying so hard to include them.
They're the clear Neca stands you can usually buy at Target.
Honest opinions please, I moved some stuff around, and added Prime (and put Krang beside them) to see if I can fudge these in.... I'm on the fence on whether or not I think it works. Typically I'm a scale nazi with my shelves. With the exceptions of the Neca Batman, Superman, GL and the ML Rogue I think they all look good together. So just send the 4 scale troublemakers to me. So you don’t need to deal with them ever again! Lol. That's actually the Marvel Select Rogue. The whole Marvel shelf below is all Selects. That's the problem, the Neca, DC figures, & Mattel scale well with the 7 inch Selects. The 6 inch Joes, don't. If I had a Legends shelf, the Joes would scale perfectly.That's why I'm not sure if I'm feeling it.
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Post by PJ on Jul 8, 2020 19:18:53 GMT -5
I didn’t realize they made that many X-Men in Marvel Select figures.
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Post by ckhybrid on Jul 8, 2020 19:43:37 GMT -5
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Post by PJ on Jul 10, 2020 9:09:29 GMT -5
I originally was going to pass on Scarlett, but while at Walmart today out of all the line I collect (SM Batman, McFarlane DC, ML, WWE, GI Joe, SW) they had one figure that I didn’t have and that was.... GI Joe Classifieds Scarlett -So I purchased her. Stupid question Scarlett comes with three knives but from what I can tell she only has the one sheath. Where do the other two knives get stored on her? lol
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Post by Chip on Jul 10, 2020 12:14:30 GMT -5
still coming up empty handed at all the walmarts near me. only saw the shipper display once and there was just a duke & roadblock on it. i have those and scarlett on the way from amazon so the hunt continues for destro and snake eyes
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Post by JL Styles on Jul 10, 2020 12:56:45 GMT -5
The shipper display showed up in my area so I was able to get Scarlett to complete Series 1. Now the wait for Series 2.....
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Post by petmada on Jul 10, 2020 16:59:23 GMT -5
PJ They slide into the top of her backpack.
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Post by PJ on Jul 10, 2020 17:35:47 GMT -5
PJ They slide into the top of her backpack. The funny thing is I tried that at first before asking, but it seemed like the knife wasn’t fitting and was bending so I decided to ask. lol
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Post by walkingturtles on Jul 11, 2020 14:17:42 GMT -5
Are they gonna be available in WalMart?
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Post by PJ on Jul 11, 2020 19:01:07 GMT -5
Are they gonna be available in WalMart? That’s where we are finding them. My Target says July 26 when they do their reset.
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champofakind
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Post by champofakind on Jul 11, 2020 23:46:16 GMT -5
Finally got Destro today so now I have all of wave 1. Ready for wave 2 now.
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Post by bababooey on Jul 13, 2020 20:42:24 GMT -5
Ordered Duke, Roadblock, and Scarlett from Pulse. All on the same order. Just got an email saying Scarlett shipped. Nothing on Duke and Roadblock.
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