Super Collector Newsletter Discussion Thread

[EMCE Hammer]

Teamwork edition:

http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=72ce191d25905882ce4a90f43&id=72583f8066&e=ce704b24aa

[palitoy]

[Earth 2 Chris]

God help me, I know that clip comes from Challenge of the Super Friends: "The Time Trap". I need help.

Some great stuff in this week's newsletter, as always. Thanks to everyone who contributes! It's always a nice cap to the week!

Chris

[EMCE Hammer]

News is out, and it's got THIS:

http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=72ce191d25905882ce4a90f43&id=e3b4c8ebea

[MIB41]

I swear Pa Kent still looks like Les Nessman. We need a Johnny Fever figure now.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^My God he DOES!!! That being said, they are pretty close to the classic Kurt Schaffenberger look for the Kents from the 80s New Adventures of Superboy series.

Not sure about Superboy's teeth, but other than that, these look nice.

Chris

[TrekStar]

I agree about the Colgate smile Superboy, but I'm liking the Lex Luthor and Ma and Pa Kent, gotta love
those eyeglasses, these will be a neat pick up and all I would be waiting for is the Daily Planet news van.

[PNGwynne]

I think, all things considered, this Superman wave looks pretty good.

[EMCE Hammer]

This week - http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...e&e=ce704b24aa

[MIB41]

I felt the solid box idea would be hitting the horizon pretty soon but am disappointed to see them using the molded cowl and painted mask versions instead of the more predominant RC and RM versions in this style. That and the white carded packaging makes it register too much like a standard repro. Plus if they place the EC tag on the package showing the specific production number, it's defaced the box. But I am glad FTC is examining all the various packaging vintages. I assume the picture windows will be last.

[warlock664]

^^^^
This.
Not surprised these are coming, but disappointed they didn't go with the RC/RM variants.

[rodkeith]

I'll wait for the picture-window boxes, which are at the core of my childhood Mego memories. Never cared for the solid boxes-- I can't enjoy the figure if I can't see it! Glad for those who want these though.

On another note, I like that the newsletter points out the new Mezco offerings, for those that haven't seen them yet.

[thunderbolt]

no RC Bats, no sale for me. And it looks like you have to buy the 130 dollar set, too. Really lame and pretty expensive for inaccurate repros.

[TrekStar]

I really do like these, but I don't remember Mego making this kind of box, the first box was a solid brown box
with no way of knowing which character was inside, shoppers were opening them to see which hero it was.

Because of this, they made the window boxes with box art, which is my first remembrance, then the cardbacks
I'm not sure if FTC will make window boxes since with these boxes, you already know which hero is inside,
you just can't see the figure inside, if they were going to make window boxes, why bother wasting time and money
on thirds boxes first?

[thunderbolt]

^^^ Those are modeled on the first boxed figures, people still opened them to see what was inside of them. That's when the window boxes came into production, to stop the box destruction. GI Joe went 10 years or so without this issue and used solid boxes.