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  • palitoy
    live. laugh. lisa needs braces
    • Jun 16, 2001
    • 59507

    Has anyone else noticed?

    63f98f3c-8c0f-43c6-a0ae-56f078bc32f0_text.gif That Wave 19 is a celebration of bald characters?
    Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions

    Buy Toy-Ventures Magazine here:
    http://www.plaidstallions.com/reboot/shop
  • palitoy
    live. laugh. lisa needs braces
    • Jun 16, 2001
    • 59507

    #2
    PS I am having issues with the new forum.
    Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions

    Buy Toy-Ventures Magazine here:
    http://www.plaidstallions.com/reboot/shop

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    • sprytel
      Talkative Member
      • Jun 26, 2009
      • 6585

      #3
      Covalt charges extra for hair.

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      • CrimsonGhost
        Often invisible
        • Jul 18, 2002
        • 3594

        #4
        Originally posted by sprytel
        Covalt charges extra for hair.
        It’s too hard to sculpt and I’m lazy.
        Expectation is the death of discovery.

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        • palitoy
          live. laugh. lisa needs braces
          • Jun 16, 2001
          • 59507

          #5
          Originally posted by crimsonghost

          it’s too hard to sculpt and i’m lazy.
          ah-haaaaaaa!

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          Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions

          Buy Toy-Ventures Magazine here:
          http://www.plaidstallions.com/reboot/shop

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          • Werewolf
            Inhuman
            • Jul 14, 2003
            • 14690

            #6
            Lex looks like the Mattel Retro Action figure.
            You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...

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            • CrimsonGhost
              Often invisible
              • Jul 18, 2002
              • 3594

              #7
              Originally posted by Werewolf
              Lex looks like the Mattel Retro Action figure.
              The outfit is the same, the head is new.
              Expectation is the death of discovery.

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              • TheXFactor
                Museum Super Collector
                • Oct 31, 2013
                • 164

                #8
                Actually, what I've noticed with the announcement of Wave 19 is that the original point has- very slowly- gotten lost somewhere along the way. This doesn't feel like the 50th Anniversary of anything, honestly. I understand that licensing the Marvel characters is (likely) cost prohibitive, but there's still a lot of original DC characters missing. All four Teen Titans, all five Super Gals, and yes, even Mxyzptlk​. Plus we've got nothing for POTA, almost nothing for Star Trek (technically, absolutely nothing as far as the original line is concerned), and Mad Monsters seems all but forgotten. In their stead, characters are already getting repeated i.e. the wrap-around cape Batman. I suppose you could technically also include the four Big Lots characters as repeats, but since people had such a hard time finding them it's almost like they didn't even exist to begin with.

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                • Megotastrophe
                  Permanent Member
                  • Jun 29, 2018
                  • 2929

                  #9
                  Never even saw a whisper of the Big Lots figures. Oh well. I have a boxed Original style Mego set of the Fab Four as well as boxed ftc Mego style comic style and tv style. And I don’t really think of myself as a packaging collector

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                  • TheXFactor
                    Museum Super Collector
                    • Oct 31, 2013
                    • 164

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Megotastrophe
                    Never even saw a whisper of the Big Lots figures. Oh well. I have a boxed Original style Mego set of the Fab Four as well as boxed ftc Mego style comic style and tv style. And I don’t really think of myself as a packaging collector
                    Most people didn't, and that because every store only got something like nine of each character and scumbags were going in, purchasing all of them at one shot, and then listing them on eBay for $100 each ("ULTRA RARE!!", "SOLD OUT NATIONWIDE!!") just in time for the holidays.

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                    • Megotastrophe
                      Permanent Member
                      • Jun 29, 2018
                      • 2929

                      #11
                      I don’t have a hate for scalpers anymore. I used to but now I see them as part of the force that drives you manufacturers to make more interesting product. And also they help curb my spending Haha.
                      At this point I’m just buying a few pieces now and then for my own enjoyment. When the kids were younger I bought them Megos and FTC and CTVT figures of their own. We were frequent eBay and Doc Mego customers. We made our own castle out of rocky shelf paper and laminate sheets for our knights and mad monsters and Breyer horses. The horses also worked for our Ted Witter CTVT sets and Robin Hood. I treated my reproduction and vintage figures like toys. Still do.

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                      • TheXFactor
                        Museum Super Collector
                        • Oct 31, 2013
                        • 164

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Megotastrophe
                        I don’t have a hate for scalpers anymore. I used to but now I see them as part of the force that drives you manufacturers to make more interesting product. And also they help curb my spending Haha. At this point I’m just buying a few pieces now and then for my own enjoyment.
                        In the case of Big Lots though, the scalpers prevented most people from being able to buy them for their own enjoyment in the first place. Plus- at the time when the problem was being discussed on the Mego Ambassador FB page- there was someone actively lambasting anyone and everyone who mentioned having an issue finding them. The guy literally joined a Mego group to post things like "I can't believe the amount of grown men here complaining about not being able to buy toys". Eventually I got sick of reading the (unchecked) verbal abuse over and over and posted something of a... let's call it a creative suggestion with specific instruction on how to accomplish said suggestion. Of course that got zapped ("Muh TOU violation") while the abusive posts continued on one after the other after the other. I think that was the shortest time period (for me, I mean) between joining and leaving a FB group.

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                        • Megotastrophe
                          Permanent Member
                          • Jun 29, 2018
                          • 2929

                          #13
                          I left the Amblastodors shortly after the Bela Lugosi figures landed

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                          • Jmass
                            Museum Super Collector
                            • Jan 19, 2006
                            • 171

                            #14
                            What a coincidence! I'm a bald character!

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                            • scott metzger
                              Persistent Member
                              • Jul 9, 2007
                              • 2135

                              #15
                              Originally posted by palitoy
                              63f98f3c-8c0f-43c6-a0ae-56f078bc32f0_text.gif That Wave 19 is a celebration of bald characters?
                              We need more bald Mego heads! There's like 3 usable bald Mego scaled male flesh tone heads out there, and there's only so much you can do with Mattel's Retro Lex and Real Men Boxer, and Knickerbocker's Daddy Warbucks. (And, yeah, there are a couple more shiny domes out there, but they're either badly out of scale or stylistically don't fit with standard Megos)

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