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Post by RSCTom on Aug 26, 2020 9:59:17 GMT -5
Crash & Hardcore land first for me, but...
Steve Blackman??
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Post by RSCTom on Aug 25, 2020 14:47:28 GMT -5
...some of y'all still complain about this despite it being explained thousands of times between case breakdowns and premium for the overnight delivery, huh?
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Post by RSCTom on Aug 3, 2020 21:05:17 GMT -5
CINEMAX CALLED, THEY WANT THEIR 1:30 AM 1997 PROGRAMMING BACK, AM I RIGHT FOLKS?!
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Post by RSCTom on Jul 25, 2020 11:39:14 GMT -5
I'm the Tom of figure collecting
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 30, 2020 13:20:40 GMT -5
don't tell my indie peers this but I hate leg slaps
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 30, 2020 10:24:56 GMT -5
Hey, @ringsidec gang!
Hope you enjoy this look at some (now classic) exclusives!
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 26, 2020 9:47:32 GMT -5
Ringside Collectibles
Can I air a grievance, actually? I hate the channel CinemaSins and the 'Everything Wrong With' series. Am I the only one that finds those videos utterly joyless and obnoxious? To each their own when it comes to watching movies but that is the last way I would ever want to watch/think about a film.
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 24, 2020 9:31:33 GMT -5
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 18, 2020 15:34:48 GMT -5
I think that's exactly the issue with WWE overall and almost all of the talent from 'the past' they bring back. In my opinion it's worse than WCW. The Dudleys, we got a 'greatest hits' run. Edge and Christian at one point received a 'greatest hits' run. DX has had numerous 'greatest hits' runs that have all been lackluster. Undertaker, Sting. There is no reason these folks can't evolve and change while nodding to the past without creating something fresh out of it.
Edge did a shoot once talking about how his plan was to put over Christian at WrestleMania after a lengthy feud and that is much fresher than having them do 5 second poses...AGAIN. WWE sometimes is like a snake eating itself for not just taking the simple yet different way to move forward and just doing it.
EDIT: Forgot about The Shield! And they aren't even a decade old yet. You can't go back to the same well when you can evolve, grow and change, no matter the age of the talent.
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 18, 2020 14:30:00 GMT -5
They should be going against EACH OTHER. This is the storyline we never got in the modern era other than that botched attempt to split them up.
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 16, 2020 16:19:44 GMT -5
Easily Burger King chicken tenders. It makes absolutely NO sense that they would ever change this because it was always the best alternative to 'nuggets' that are constantly pushed on us. Had a unique taste, everything about it was good. It's a bummer these don't exist anymore. Also, this one kind of doesn't count, but Doritos Salsa Verde (which are actually currently out of production because of the pandemic) were the best of the best back in the day in multiple parts of the country. I didn't know they still existed for ages until a west coast trip where I found them. Since then I've had them a few times and shoved them into my suitcase to bring back, but I don't get why these are limited to the west coast and not nation wide instead of the gross sweet chili ones and whatever else Doritos comes up with. Salsa Verde Doritos are one of the best tasting snacks like that ever.
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 15, 2020 16:29:43 GMT -5
WELL I AM SUDDENLY VERY EXCITED FOR RAW
WHO WOULDA THUNK?!
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 15, 2020 11:40:00 GMT -5
Wow, it's like the first two choices were for me!!!
I have the E&C Christian already and wouldn't mind a new version. A 2010 era version would be cool, but it should've definitely been either the Pick Your Poison match with Edge or the ECW hardcore match with Dreamer. Glad everyone will get another attitude-era version, I suppose.
X-Pac is an insanely missed opportunity. The nWo version could come with a Kane mask and that was definitely height of X-Pac's heel persona. I feel like X-Factor is a non-entity for most folks, including me who hails the dude as his all-time favorite, so I'm not sure where all those votes came from. Maybe people just think it looks cool?
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 12, 2020 11:13:05 GMT -5
Anyone have an extra (or one they don't want anymore) Diamond Select Vigo? Mine has croaked unfortunately. Hit me up, I'll swap for WWE figs!
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 10, 2020 12:59:13 GMT -5
Amazing thread idea. For me it's always been a plesiosaur up first: Also love iguanodon and Pachycephhlosaurus. Anything aquatic, anything unique!
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 9, 2020 19:12:09 GMT -5
I'm excited for this. The trailer's definitely...thin, but it's Bill & Ted. Seems in line with the others. Also I love their future selves.
Is it just me though or does Ted seem like he's too much like John Wick to be Ted anymore haha
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 9, 2020 12:21:54 GMT -5
Got these in the mail today from Target shipping. They're pretty neat looking. I will say I do miss the level of detail that Diamond Select hits but those definitely are too fragile and just have too many accessories. I'm hoping for a Ghostbusters II wave here and that might make me chill out a bit. Anybody hear anything about the future of this line at the moment? Thankfully it seems like it's gaining some steam so I hope we see more.
Also, any word on an Ecto? There never has been a 1:12 scale!
EDIT:
Part 2...I think I actually misfired on this.
I'm not into the scale of these at all. I was kind of the same way with the Mattel ones. Stupidly I put them in front of the Diamond Select Firehouse and now they just look...too little. Also lately I've been going crazy with too many figures being around so I'm probably just going to put these up on ebay in chunks to at least get close to the cost. I should have just brought them back to target, but too late! Oh well. Might be selling this firehouse off, too.
Maybe one day there will be GB figs that don't seem like ones I don't want around forever at but these aren't those.
EDIT: Sold. thnx
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Post by RSCTom on Jun 3, 2020 12:35:17 GMT -5
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Post by RSCTom on May 31, 2020 11:36:32 GMT -5
If the independent autopsy gives the same results as the ME's does and the victim did have underlying medical conditions what I think happened was that they were flared up by the stress/distress that he was under and it ultimately led to his demise. The charges for the officer will be altered which he will be found guilty of but will be much less then then a sentence of 1st degree murder. I honestly expect the other officers to get much lesser charges and wouldnt be surprised if none at all. This is why people are reacting how they're reacting. If this is the justice system we're supposed to depend on, spinning an autopsy report to take care of the cops who were involved in this and giving them charges less extreme than 1st degree murder which is what's deserved, what's the point of any of it? Especially, what's the point of any of it when we're 6 years removed from Garner, 30 YEARS removed from Rodney King, almost 70 years from Emmett Till and people STILL aren't processing the fact that folks aren't held correctly accountable. Not only are there folks who are not processing it, there are still folks with even deeper issues out there who think it's NORMAL to pump bullets into a memorial sign for the same 70 year old incident for a laugh. And of course, never put in their place for it. The man had a knee on another man's neck for 9 minutes. Cries, pleas and calls for mother when he could have easily cuffed him, released him, detained him in some other way, anything that would let him up to breathe. If he and the other cops couldn't physically handle that type of restraint or didn't have the quick thinking, they shouldn't be on the police force. Period. Instead this cop with a history of the same type of (UNCHECKED!) behavior felt he had the right to play this out as he saw fit (meaning in this case slowly draining his life from him, knowingly) even though his actions were clearly beyond what should be our baseline standard for treating human beings (especially over something as stupid as a counterfeit bill). The cop is to blame for his actions, not the health of the person he was doing this to. If he isn't held accountable for it in the way he should be, we'll make absolutely no progress, again. People with this deep-seeded, ancestral mentality (or boys' club/cop brotherhood mentality, whichever one you want to focus on in him thinking he could get away with acting like this) need to change their thinking and the only way that can be done is with proper, stricter punishment. So, people are pissed and they protest. Beyond those mostly peaceful folks some people (probably with less than stellar lives in general and constantly hassled on top of it) are pissed and they let THEIR behavior hang loose and hook themselves up with some temporary indulgence of their feelings, helping themselves to some unchecked criminality in return. Incorrect, unlawful, but not unwarranted when nothing else seems to register for the people in power (because you know, a pro athlete kneeling at a football game is disrespectful and not a real, peaceful form of protest and inciting hatred against America). Looting is 100% connected to the situation at hand, whether we like it or not. Unfortunately some mom-and-pop shops suffer the consequences, but as usual large corporations don't have a lot to say other than 'we're with you, we think!' when if even ONE of them took a stand alongside the people who are hurting and said 'this is not ok and something needs to change about how we hold people accountable' the reactions would be 100x better. If Target took a real, hard line stance on this I'd think their storefronts would suffer a lot less but of course then they'll be alienating the folks who shoot signs and immediately get excited to call people 'thugs'. So the question I think people should be asking themselves isn't what's the point of looting and burning places down, it's why are people doing this? And why has nothing changed? Why are folks so much more concerned with people stealing overpriced junk than they are with the fact that this cop won't be punished like he should be? EDIT: The thread has been locked so I'm not going to respond to any of the responses I got, but want to say thanks to the folks who wrote to me for being mostly polite. I just wanted to make a quick edit to make it absolutely clear I do not support and I was not, and do not, condone any rioting or looting of any kind. I tried to make clear in my initial response that it's an illegal action and I probably shouldn't have said it's 'not unwarranted'. With that said, I was trying to point out the fact that systemic change needs to take place in many ways and until that happens, lots of people are going to have less than stellar responses in situations like this.
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Post by RSCTom on May 27, 2020 12:43:14 GMT -5
Looking forward to the Hasbro stuff. Diamond Select was a decent effort but the broken accessories are tough. I'm definitely going to sell mine and try and just keep the firehouse pieces because that looks too awesome.
Anyways, here's an unboxing. I'd be happy to replace these with Hasbro GB II:
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