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Tim O Neill
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Posted: 24 August 2019 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply



I'm in for those figures!


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Posted: 24 August 2019 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Shoving bamboo under my fingernails, this set not only gives us Heather as Guardian*, but totally messes up the flag on the costume.

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* A reminder that Vindicator was Chris’ name for the character, taken from a British (not Canadian) jet fighter.

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Posted: 24 August 2019 at 2:30pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

They could have gotten away with a “civilian Heather” in a box set... missed opportunity :( 
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Posted: 24 August 2019 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

When I first heard about this, I was very excited, but when I saw the set I was VERY disappointed:

1) Have NEVER liked Heather as a costumed hero
2) No Sasquatch figure (a non-starter for any purported ALPHA FLIGHT set)
3) No Marrina
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Posted: 24 August 2019 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

They’ve released a Guardian figure and a Sasquatch build-a-figure in recent X-Men releases.
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 24 August 2019 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

WHAT is the obsession with bare legs on Puck? I got rid of that almost immediately
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Think how Stan and Jack must have felt about the grey hulk.
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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 25 August 2019 at 6:16am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Shouldn't Puck be smaller?
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Posted: 25 August 2019 at 6:37am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Oh, well!! At least Northstar and Aurora have black hair!!
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Posted: 18 September 2019 at 10:23am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

Funko Pops has a cute series of the original X-Men, in their school uniforms. Blue, unfortunately, but that’s easily corrected.

(Depressing, tho, to Google “Funko Pops X-Men” and find a seemingly endless celebration of everything that went wrong with those characters.)

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Michael Roberts
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Posted: 18 September 2019 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

Blue, unfortunately, but that’s easily corrected. 

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I was pondering painting them black when they were announced as well. I got into a discussion on a Funko board over the blue/black issue, and they finally conceded my point when I asked what color Superman's hair should be.
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Posted: 18 September 2019 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

You must have fallen in with a hip crowd. I’ve been asked why everyone doesn’t know Superman and Clark are the same guy since they both have blue hair.
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Eric Sofer
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Mr. Byrne - it's the glasses. They distract his friends from the hair color.
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