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[canprime]

Forgot to mention I have seen reports of minor QC issues with the HAL.   

Mostly around Grand Slam, but also with the support struts.   

For Grand Slam it seems to be more about carelessness of the factory packing the figure.   I have seen him packed upside down in the box  and someone reported his Grand Slam was missing his helmet.   So it probably isn't a quality of the figure thing, just carelessness with packing the figure.

As for the struts, people have been complaining they don't support the HAL well unless in certain positions.   It looks like it is a design issue to allow the struts to move into different positions for firing and transport.   To make them move the way they needed to the connection point seems to be smoother so allow that smooth movement, but at the expense of a ratchet joint style strength in firing position.

[Pete The Greek]

So much for EB Games having the website ready to go yesterday.  It's under maintenance.  Same for Toys R Us. 

I wanted to check out EB online to see what stores have a retro Zap in stock.  I should have bought it when I had the chance. 

[martin-montreal]

As for Zap, from a Canadian independant store:

https://mapleandmangoes.ca/collections/g-i-joe/products/g-i-joe-classified-series-retro-cardback-rafael-zap-melendez

[canprime]

So Pulse on their social media has apparently announced that the Thunder Machine MTO will go live tomorrow (Sept. 9th).

I know The Full Force heavily hinted at that during a recent stream so I am going to accept it as fact for now.

Less than 24 hours to find out for sure.

[akpayne]

I didn't like the renders that were first shown, and I was very afraid of what the price was going to be.  But the newest images look much better, and the price is better than what I feared.

[canprime]

Also someone posted that EBGames is also carrying it for $205Cdn. 

I did the math and while it seems high, it actually works out to about the same as Pulse once you take into account the exchange rate, CC fees and Edge discounts.

I'll probably stick with Pulse, but I am trying to decide on getting one, or two.   I'm going to be selling at the Mississauga Collector Con in October and how well I do there will probably determine my final choice.

[akpayne]

So for the last 2 years, Hasbro has dumped a bunch of product all at once,  I just received Deep Six, Dusy & the fatal Fluffies, and tomorrow I should have Hal with Grand Slam, and early next week Hooded CC will show up, followed by the 3 retro carded figures  At the same time Hasbro will want me to pay up front for the Triple T and the Thunder machine.  If I was a completest this would be braking the bank.

[canprime]

Yeah the amount of product coming out seemingly all at once is becoming a common problem every Sept/Oct.

I think Hasbro is going to find they can't keep going to the well like this, especially with how things are going worldwide right now.   Someone needs to get them to spread the wealth over the year, or reduce how much product they are making.

I got notice that my Hooded CC is ready for pick up (from DJC Collectibles).   Thankfully I paid for it upfront and don't have to worry about paying for it now.  However I know I have a couple things coming from EBGames that are probably going to all hit at once, not to mention I just got dinged for the MTO Marvel Legends Apocalypse and now I have to get ready for the MTO Thunder Machine to hit next month, followed by the MTO Arctic HISS which will probably hit before the end of the year.   

I am going to be selling at the Mississauga Collector Con on October 4th and I think I'll be trying to move a lot of my ML collection and only keep the really important (to me) stuff.   Maybe also some Transformers as well and just accept that I'm going to stick with Classified and make it my main focus going forward.   Saves me money and clears up some space.

[canprime]

Thanks a lot Hasbro.

Gotta love the tidal wave of stuff that is releasing all at the same time.   I can see why people are canceling preorders and cutting back.   

Of course part of it is personal choice and I don't need to purchase as much as I have recently.   However it has been an expensive September and October.   

I have picked up the Triple T, Crimson SNAKE, Scarlett/T'Jbang, Legacy Special Forces, Zanya w/Chameleon, Hydro-Viper, Airtight, Dawn Moreno, Retro Grunt and Hooded CC (that was paid for in advance thankfully).   

That doesn't even count the upcoming Arctic HISS which is now showing up in Europe or the Thunder Machine.

I also picked up a couple of wants from other lines, but with the new price ($40) for a standard figure and the cost of everything going up I have cut back quite a bit.   Plus if the rumour turns out to be true that Hasbro is going up to $30US for standard figures soon, and especially so soon after going to $28US, then I can see collectors bailing in larger numbers than ever before.


On a more positive note I like the look of the new Dreadnok Flatline.   Lenny was obviously a big fan of the Dreadnoks and getting to create a brand new one from scratch let him go a bit crazy in a good way.   Overall I like the design except I wish there was an unmasked head.  Also the filecard is good in that wacky sort of way.

[akpayne]

Agreed, Flatline looks great, but with the current price increases and the massive amount of product just release. it is new characters like this, Rottclaw and Synapse that I am passing on - I just don't have a connection with them.

[akpayne]

Also still haven't gotten my snow cat yet.   grrrr