JoeCanuck

The NO locale was chosen well in advance of the Katrina hurricane--the reason why it took so long to finalize the arrangements was because the hurricane put doubts into the hotels ability to host the event. Once that was clarified and confirmed the decision was made to continue with NO as the hosting city. Folks that live there say great progress has been made on the cleanup and by the time the convention rolls around any attendees will like not see ANY of the damage, unless they go looking for it.
There's lots to see and do there, and a lot of it has survived the hurricane intact.

There is a lot of knee-jerk reactions and misinformation floating around about the location and the convention event itself. if anyone is interested in going, talk to as many folks as possible who LIVE in that area, as well as travel agents etc to gauge whether or not to make the trip.
My sources say it'll all be just fine.

Purple version of X-23.
I actually did not want the character, swore up and down I wouldn't buy the character, but when the 50% off discount was offered.......well, that broke me.

ML 12 is in Canada now?? **mutters a silent curse to Toy Biz**

Now that I'm working and am making money, I just started playing catch up. I'm missing Cyclops and Angel from wave 10, haven't even started on ML 11    Plus I still need to hunt down a few older figs, all of the box sets.

Can't wait till the bankrupcy is absolved so I can try and get my hands on a credit card to order figs I need online (and watch me get turned down when I apply for one anyway).

You'll have to wait a while before you can get a card, even a secured one.
Lenders are now cracking down on newly discharged bankrupts.
I filed about 2.5 years ago and I cannot get lenders to give me the time of day.
Trying now  for a secured card, but its not looking good--might have to wait out the full 7 years.

Ml11 was rushed--there's no doubt about it.
Wurd that seems to be floating around is a now-closed factory in China was crapping out the wave and did a so-so job on it.
Some of the figures are okay, some are not-so-okay.
Wonderman is fine to me, at least my version is ( Add the shades from the X2 Cyclops for a really neat looking Wonderman accessory) and Vengeance is just awful.
Some figures, like Ultron, obviously suffer from last minute design changes--note the head and lack of neck articulation--and some really amateurish paint apps.
 The rumour is that a new factory was brought in to make the latest runs ( ML12) and the expectation is that the figures will be much better looking from this point on. Actually, early word is that they are.

Well, here's where I make a proper intro of myself.

I'm Ken Davis, 43 yahren of age, cartoonist, teacher of cartooning and toy collector. Been working in the animation/cartooning biz for over 20 years now, having done most everything under the sun. Comics, illustration, animation, storyboarding, design......even owned a studio for a little while.
I'm currently teaching storyboarding/drawing at the Art Insitute of Vancouver and have a couple of animated shows I've worked on coming out in 2006--Class of the Titans being one.

Toy collecting has been a passion for an equal amount of time, with action figures being the main focus. I've still got a sizable collection of 12" military figures--mostly 21C Hasbro, Dragon and others--head count around 450 or so. I like the lil' joes as well and have slowly accquired quite a bit of the new stuff from the past few years--head count around 200 figures I'd reckon.

Marvel Legends is a current fav of mine to collect. I'm a dear afficionado of things superheroic and the ML line fits my interests to a tee.
I split my time between Vancouver and my home in the BC Cariboo, with my wife , two dogs, cats and horses.

Hey, what's up? How did you find our cove of Canadianism?

I've actually browsed the forums once or twice before, but have never registered.

The Toy Traders images were posted in another forum I frequent and caught my eye. When I learned that the store in question was in my AoO and the forum was for Canuck joeheads I decided this was the time to chime in.