Ripping open my JLU's-should I or shouldn't I?

[LOU]

HERE is a pretty good checklist. Maybe it will help you out some.

Excellent FMB! Thanks so much for your help! Looking at that I can scratch Firestorm and Booster Gold from the loose list above as they are coming in the new three packs anyway!

[LOU]

The loose figures I am going to seek out are:

1.)HAWKMAN
2.)CAPTAIN ATOM
3.)RED TORNADO
4.)THE QUESTION
5.)VIGILANTE
6.)BOOSTER GOLD
7.)DEMON ENTRIGAN
8.)RED ROCKET
9.)ATOM SMASHER
10.)FIRESTORM
11.)BLACKHAWK
12.)ROBIN
13.)FORAGER
14.)HAL JORDAN GREEN LANTERN
15.)GOLD AMAZO
16.)GIGANTA
17.)VOLCANA
18.)DOOMSDAY
19.)LASHINA
20.)MANTIS
21.)TWO-FACE
22.)CATWOMAN
23.)GRODD
24.)OMAC
25.)GALATIA
26.)SOLOMON GRUNDY
27.)ECLIPSO
28.)HAWKGIRL JUSTICE LORD
29.)RED HOOD
30.)ULTRAMAN
31.)SUPER WOMAN
32.)AQUAMAN ORANGE
33.)BLACK BATMAN
34.)BLUE/GRAY BATMAN
35.)JOHN STEWART WHITE GLOVES
36.)YELLOW SINESTRO

[Fire Marshal Bill]

Check out AFI's Toy Fair pics for JLU that was announced for 2011 HERE.

[Fire Marshal Bill]

HERE is a pretty good checklist. Maybe it will help you out some.

[LOU]

Yes, I just saw the Joker 3-pack I thought that Gray Ghost was, it was the one with Black Canary and Green Arrow though. So yes, it seems the Gray Ghost isn't out yet and his card does match the unreleased Supergirl 3-pack pictured there too. So perhaps the list IS accurate after all huedell!

[LOU]

I don't think that 3-pack is out yet Lou.

Oh, perhaps it's not then. I'd assumed the Joker was out for awhile so I thought that 3-pack was the one he came in. There must've been another one with Joker in it too then. I'll have to check.

[LOU]

I don't... but I just wanted to say that stuff like that can bug a guy
because it makes ya think "What ELSE is missing?".

LOLOL! Exactly huedell!!! That's why this line has been so annoying to collect, trying to find a totally complete checklist seems impossible. Now had I not discoverd the Gray Ghost in that 3-pack, I wouldn't even know that figure existed! So I totally relate to your remark. I'm sure I'm not the only one using that poster to check their collections so I'm sure others will notice missing figures. But it does make you wonder when one is missing, how many others are.

Thanks FMB! I will hit the Target near us here and see what I can snag. I also heard that some of the discount stores have these so I may hit a couple stores tomorrow.

[Fire Marshal Bill]

Still curious why Gray Ghost, seen in the first row, 5th across three-pack, isn't pictured on the poster though. Anyone have any idea why?

I don't think that 3-pack is out yet Lou.

[huedell]

Needless to say, I got some work ahead of me. Still curious why Gray Ghost, seen in the first row, 5th across three-pack, isn't pictured on the poster though. Anyone have any idea why?

I don't... but I just wanted to say that stuff like that can bug a guy
because it makes ya think "What ELSE is missing?".

[Fire Marshal Bill]

Hit a few Targets if you have then in your area Lou. You can probably find several of those still on the shelf/pegs. Good luck with your hunt to finish your collection. I have a pretty fair MOC JLU collection but i just started with the Target exclusive stuff a couple years ago. I am pretty much caught up and current at this point. There's just too much to have to try and catch up on if i try to start with the first waves that came out in what.... 2005 or so?

[LOU]

Thanks Fire Marshall Bill! "Let me show ya' somethin'!"....

As far as that poster checklist goes, I went through it with a fine tooth comb and figured out I would need to buy all the multipacks pictured below and then seek out about 35 loose figures in addition to that. That would pretty much catch me up, at least as far as the figures I want go...there are some I am passing on that are duplicate characters just sculpted or painted a bit differently like Huntress, Captain Atom, Doomsday (red), Booster Gold, and Atom. So here's what I'm looking at...



Needless to say, I got some work ahead of me. Still curious why Gray Ghost, seen in the first row, 5th across three-pack, isn't pictured on the poster though. Anyone have any idea why?

[Fire Marshal Bill]

As I said, I'm sure he must come with two other figures I need anyway, making it worth it to buy whatever 3-pack that was. I can't possibly remember now.

Flash came in a couple 3-packs:

Wonder Woman/The Flash/The Question (earlier)
Captain Boomerang/Captain Cold/The Flash (more recent)

[huedell]

Just my opinion....but I see no point in owning a toy that you never actually remove from the package and hold in your hands unless you purchase the toy for the purposes of reselling. If you buy toys b/c you like them, then open them and hold them, pose them, play with them.

After reading LOUs reply post to me, I began to relate a bit more
to his scenario.

Even tho' I am the KING of loose figure displaying... like Lou, I still (to
this day) have a lot of the 90s STAR WARS stuff packaged
and stored on the other side of the country because, at the time,
it seemed to be good trade leverage (and I haven't gotten around to
dealing with it yet).

Altho' this philosophy CAN work, i've found, most of the time, it's more
trouble than it's worth.

[LOU]

Hey, is it me or is Gray Ghost missing from this poster even though the other two figures from his 3-pack are pictured (Joker and Batman?)

[LOU]

Okay, that didn't take too long. I used a red slash to mark off the figures I have or to mark off figures I don't want. There's still many left for me to find but now I need to figure out how they come packaged. I'm hoping a bunch of the ones I need come together in 3-packs. Here's where I'm at though, not too bad...


I'm assuming that that's just a repaint Atom 3rd row down 6th over, so I marked him off the list as I don't need that one. Same for the all red and all blue Superman at the bottom.