24 thoughts on “Checklist Update!
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1. As always, thank you for your hard work in making this site such a comprehensive and invaluable source of information for all collectors. It’s greatly appreciated!

   1. Seconded! Well said, sir!

      1. Thanks, Beedo!

   2. Thirded (is that a weird) easily one of the best. Not just saying cause I check each day for anything new.

      1. Thanks, J!

   3. Thanks, Clutch!

   4. Fourth’d

2. Fourthed!

   1. Thanks, Iz!

   2. Damnit! I meant Fifth’d

3. Oh, yeah: Lord Dactys’ link doesn’t work. It just takes you back to the main page. Thought you should know.

   1. Much appreciated. Y’all are my eyes and ears on little bugs like that!

   2. Had an extra quotation mark on it! It’s the little things that screw up websites.

      1. Heh. When learning how to build websites with HTML (back in 1997), our instructor gave us one vital piece of information that was boiled down to an almost-universally true maxim: “You probably left out a quotation mark.”

         1. That happens too. And it’s okay about 1997 HTML – I kinda still rely on it. LOL And it’s still the tables that vex me.

4. i’m trying to conceive of what could possibly by offered this year for motuc that would intrigue me enough to feel like i was missing something by not subbing up… and i just don’t see it. don’t get me wrong, there are like three names that i would love to see get made, but the list is nary so long or thorough as to fill out the majority of a year’s worth of product. at this point, the snake men feel very uneven for me, so if i miss ssqqquueeze, or tung lashor, i kind of don’t care. blast attak i would care about… so there’s one figure.

   i’d love to see lodar, but he’s mini-comics only, and not a vintage figure…

   never really cared about ninjor, and given the engineering issues of the last two years, i have no faith that he wouldn’t come out bloated looking thanks to the ludicrous chub overlay issue… i need a fat ninja about as much as i need a dedicated line of allan arkin action figures.

   i’d love to see huntara, and that would be one more character i would disappointed not to see get made, or done properly… so there’s two.

   skeleton warriors for skeletor… that would be the third thing they could offer that would be very tempting, but they’re not vintage, so the likelihood seems pretty thin.

   aside from that, i’ve never been as attached to gwildor or saurod as some people are, and i feel let down by the vintage-update branch of this line, and that will be the bulk of what we’re being offered… the beast/two-pack slot is really the only SKU i could see yielding something really surprising in a pleasant way, but given the precedents we have for the line, i just flat out don’t see that happening. for those who think there are intrigues ahead, great, more power to you, but truth be told, i won’t get intrigued by motu again until the rebrand, and maybe not even then. it’s not that i love the property any less, i am just fatigued to exhaustion with the tedium of dealing with the line. one of the things i’ve run into this year trying the sub was how much it bothers me to have to buy toys i friggin hate, like hydron or glimmer… i don’t mind them in the sense that i can mod them into something more interesting, but the base figure, for the cost, is just nothing i would have bought had i not had to. same for the upcoming flogg, and therein lies the low point for the quarterly sub, when you open that long-desired box, and half the entries in it are pieces you resent having to buy, it takes the shine completely off the pieces you were looking forward to. like the last box, i was really excited about extendar, kind of excited about scorpia, not really excited about blade (cuz i’d bought an extra and already had one, not cuz i didn’t like the figure), and then completely unexcited about battle lion… and of course, he ate the bulk of the box. opening him didn’t make me any happier, he is kind of cute, but three quarters of the artic is useless because the figure is heavy and the articulation is shit (in construction) why can marvel select made a juggernaut who has HUGE arms that each outweigh the entire battle lion model, but when posed with his arms upright, they don’ sag, but you can’t get battle lion into a paw-up swiping pose and keep it there long enough to even snag a photo? bugs the crap out of me, and why i would have skipped the figure, after battle cat, i knew what the cat’s were about… and i hate that he’s too friggin small. it was a travesty not giving him a proper figure.

   1. I tend to be in the same boat with the vintage ones not really doing it for me. And I’m a little jaded at the moment because Rio Blast turned out so awful in that first look on the Fwoosh. That was one of a handful they had to get right and they appear to have blew it.

      Things I’m excited for, or at least hopeful they turn out well. Mermista for some strange reason. I’m excited to see a possible NA She-Ra before the end of the year and see if she’s cool. Next year, I’m hopeful that one of those $52 2pks will be hella cool and something no one expects. I want to play with Multi-Bot. I do kinda want to see Saurod. I think my biggest chance for excitement/disappointment will be the mini-sub, if one is offered. Vintage doesn’t need one, Filmation & POP have had theirs, NA is the red-headed stepchild, so there’s not a lot of themes out there left for a mini-sub, y’know. I’ll be eager to see if a guy like me has any luck at Toy Fair.

      1. Really? What don’t you like about Rio Blast? I was disappointed by the lack of cavities for his guns to fit into, but I can live with it. I love the new wind-blown hair and spurs and all that other new detail stuff.

         As for Saurod, I’ve always loved reptilian characters, and a new, more slender scaled dude would provide buck [pieces for Lizard Man and Lizorr. Bring ’em on!

         1. It’s all the armor. The base is good, but the Rubenized armor is bulky. The pic that kills me is a three quarters view at Fwoosh wher you can see that the chest flap conforms in no way to the chest armor. It sits straight up, sticking out & away from the chest.

            1. Oh, yeah, that. I may have a solution for that. It involves either a hobby knife or a roto-tool.

            2. Multi Bot was the third name that would intrigue me. 🙂

               Yeah, rio’s armor bugs me, but so does the head… I LOVE djordje’s heads but this one came out soft… And you can’t take a detailed sculpt and soften it and then fail to pain it properly… If I had to wager, I bet the figure is black plastic, hence the softening of the sculpt. And paint less guns bugs me. I thought the price increase was to avoid these cheapening tricks?

5. I like Rio Blast. I love figures with tons of new tooling and he’s just bizarre enough to catch my interest. I’m also looking forward to NA Skeletor, Eldor and Light Hope. The rest of the year is looking pretty good from where I’m sitting.

6. Your checklist is an invalubal resource. Thank you for all your work.

7. I think you left out Strong-Or and Castle Grayskull Man’s links, too.

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