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Adam Hutchinson
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Posted: 02 July 2012 at 7:15am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I had no idea. Repainting these figures is light-years beyond my artistic ability. :) I'm always impressed by the custom jobs you guys post.
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Posted: 03 July 2012 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Good grief.  Kid Flash is the final figure that will be released in the line.  What a way to puke all over the collection. 

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Posted: 03 July 2012 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Not really being subtle with the crotch arrows now, are they?
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Posted: 03 July 2012 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Man I hate the New 52. Good riddance to this line if THAT'S the direction it would be headed in! 


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Bill Catellier
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Posted: 04 July 2012 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Elongated Man is a definite GET.

Ventriloquist & Scarface maybe.

Gold is a NO and that Kid Flash doesn't even get consideration.  I would have loved a Wally West Kid Flash, but not this travesty.

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Thomas Moudry
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Posted: 04 July 2012 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

>>>Do you guys know the history of the Elongated Man? Running out of
Golden Age DC characters to reinvent, editorial decided to create an
imitation Plastic Man, and thus Ralph Dibney was invented.

Only later did someone point out that DC actually owned the rights to
Plastic Man.<<<


Interesting. Never knew that.
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Larry Gil
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Posted: 17 July 2012 at 11:59am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Thats Kid Flash...so much for the Classic Stuff..Not 1 original Teen Titan..
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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Ugh to that kid Flash. Who thought they could improve one of the best costumes ever?
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Ugh to that kid Flash. Who thought they could improve one of the best costumes ever?

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Well. . .   apparently DC, when they changed Wally's original costume!

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Thomas Moudry
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Posted: 05 August 2012 at 8:54am | IP Logged | 10 post reply

Wally West's second Kid Flash costume and Hal Jordan's Silver Age costume
(with or without Neal Adams' addition on the shoulders) remain two of the
best costume designs ever.
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Posted: 05 August 2012 at 10:09am | IP Logged | 11 post reply

…with or without Neal Adams' addition on the shoulders…

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Those "epaulets" predate Neal by about 40 issues!

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Thomas Moudry
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Posted: 05 August 2012 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

Did they?

Wow! Didn't realize! All these years I've thought they were a Neal Adams
change!

Thanks, JB!
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Thomas Moudry
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Posted: 05 August 2012 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | 13 post reply

There they are! Geez...I've always associated them with Neal Adams.

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Larry Gil
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Posted: 08 August 2012 at 3:21am | IP Logged | 14 post reply

The original Teen Titans and the 1st colored X-men costumes remain my all time favorirtes.

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Posted: 17 August 2012 at 3:56pm | IP Logged | 15 post reply

Picked up the Cliff Steele Robotman figure today (hadn't planned to, I just loves my robots). Downside: Since this is a figure of the earlier Robotman, the accompanying magazine features art from all the Grant Morrison whoohah and NONE of JB's.
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Michael, that's actually the most recent Robotman from the Keith Giffen series, making the exclusion of any Byrne artwork in that 'zine fairly inexplicable.

The Elasti-Girl figure in the Eaglemoss line is also from that series, which explains her "stretching" powers. While such abilities would previously have been off-model for the size-changing character, in the most recent iteration of the title, Giffen explained that the way in which the rat-bastard Chief "saved" Rita from Zahl and Rouge's attempt on their lives was to clone and regrow her from an experimental protoplasm, giving her not only shape-changing powers more in line with the general readership's post-Incredibles expectations, but a constantly endangered mental state and sense that she wasn't a real person.

 

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Posted: 20 September 2012 at 3:27pm | IP Logged | 17 post reply

Posted a couple of pics from my Marvel collection in the thread for that, and so it seemed only fitting to do the same for DC over here. Especially since even if the line wasn't ending I wouldn't be collecting them anymore due to the horrible newDC designs. So I guess I won't ever be expanding my JLA/JSA line beyond this:-
Or my Teen Titans beyond this:-
Though I am reasonably happy with that being my Teen Titans group..:)
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Jason Scott
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Posted: 20 September 2012 at 3:35pm | IP Logged | 18 post reply

And just for fun, if anyone wanted to see what my Avengers-JLA and X-men-Teen Titans figurine stand-offs looked like, well it'd be something like this:-

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Thomas Moudry
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Posted: 29 September 2012 at 1:41pm | IP Logged | 19 post reply

I really wanted them to continue the Justice Society of America and the
Legion of Super-Heroes. Sighhhhh...
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Francesco Consoli
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Posted: 15 October 2012 at 6:09am | IP Logged | 20 post reply

Oct Previews, part of the Chess Set (Special)

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Posted: 23 October 2012 at 3:48pm | IP Logged | 21 post reply

Wah!  That's almost so nice, but it's the nuDCU Batman.
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Lance Hill
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I hope this is the right place to post this. The next collection from Eaglemoss is... Batmobiles!

http://www.eaglemoss.com/batmobiles/
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 02 January 2013 at 5:26am | IP Logged | 23 post reply

Got the first issue yesterday - really good build. Looks like there will be a fair few coming out but they may have shot themselves in the foot in that the three most popular versions (well, the most well known) are all in the first three issues.
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Gah!! Saw this, and looked on the website to see what some of the upcoming ones are (I quite like the Burton movie one, and the Dozier TV one, but I'm hoping for some of the better-looking comicbook ones).

Obviously those two are #1 and #2, with the 'Tumbler' and 'Batman Forever' ones being #3 and #4 (urgh - no thanks to either...), followed by:

#5 - Detective Comics #400 (1970). Bit plain for my liking - not really fond of the 'blue car with a Bat head painted on' look, m'self.

#6 - Detective Comics #156 (1950). Nice. Been made in model form before, but this might be the best version I've seen. Definite possibility.

#7 - Batman #575 (2000). Probably one of the few decent designs from the recent-ish comics - shades of a Porsche/Lotus. Maybe, maybe...

#8 - The Animated Series (1992). Favourite Batmobile EVER. Going to auction off my left nut for this one.

#9 - Batman #5 (1941) - Like the 1950 one, it's been done before by Corgi, but this is a nice update, although I'm not quite as partial to it, personally.

#10 - Batman #311 (1979). No pic, and I can't recall what it looked like off-hand. I suspect it's one of the sleek 'futuristic-sports-car' ones, in which case it might be another potential buy.



They're also doing some specials - a 1989 movie Batwing (aargh - I've no room on my shelf...), and a slightly-redundant-unless-you're-a-mammoth-completist 1989 Batmobile with armour deployed (not a fan).

Trouble is, all the regular issues after issue 2 are going for a whopping £9.99 (that's just over $16.00 - again, that's each). I can maybe justify getting a couple at that price point (and that's assuming that the line doesn't suffer the erratic quality control that I found with the Marvel/DC figurines), but any more than that, and yikes...

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Posted: 17 January 2013 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | 25 post reply

What in the world?  Batwing, from the DC Chess collection.

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