Here’s our first look at the ThunderCats ULTIMATES! wave 1 replacement parts and extra goodies courtesy Big Bang Comics!
Big Bang is located in Ireland (follow them on Twitter!) so it may be a bit longer before we see them in the states. The new pieces showed up along with their order for Panthro and Jackalman. These should start going out soon to everyone who ordered these two.
Being serious… because I feel like you’ve dug your heels in on this. Density.
I like to talk toys, have fun here… but this is feeling like trollbait. That’s not who I am.
Why would I convince you? Who are you?
I don’t mind disagreeing, but this feels like trolling… I never understood that need.
Well, if we’re that close, why give up now? Enlighten me.
I feel like you almost got it, and if I keep going you’ll have a breakthrough, and we could do this… together… but I don’t know if I have enough faith to believe that.
I mean… seriously… you’re super close to getting it (You really are). That penultimate thing, you’re almost there.
Like a baby chicken cracking through the egg.
Not taking it personally at all. As I already said, just trying to understand your statement.
Tell me how I am redefining the question. I’ve covered it three times.
Yes… the criteria is that ultimate means last (as I have acknowledged more than once).
How do the reissued figures fit the criteria of ultimate meaning last?
If Super7’s figures are ultimate, then that makes Mattel’s release under the Classic titles the penultimate release. Right?
Cheers.
I’m just trying to humor you.
You’re doing the classic internet thing; you latched onto some strangers comment and took it personally and literally.
Now you’re doing ‘the thing’. The thing where you’re losing so you’re trying to redefine the question.
You’re saying I need to answer You based on a criteria you get to establish and I need to follow it so as to meet your bar… otherwise I’m wrong.
Here’s the criteria… ultimate means last. That’s funny.
If you don’t agree with me that it’s funny… so what?
Odd that you can’t or won’t directly answer the question.
You said: “Sure are a lot of re-issues for an ultimate [meaning ‘last’] line.” In regards to Thundercats Ultimates.
The five reissues in the Thundercats Ultimates line at the time this conversation began were never called Ultimates until their recent release by Super7. Therefore they are not relevant to your observation of the definition of the word ultimate.
If you can directly address that, I’m all ears. Otherwise, I’m tired of going in circles. Cheers.
Well, if I quote you “5 out of 16”.
Plus, the Conan Ultimate figures were more relevant when this conversation began, also the repaint and re-release of Voltron, and now with Lion-O, Mumm-Ra and someone else. And the Turtles are getting re-done… and Baxter…
I would say you should listen to “A boy named Sue” to understand why it is funny, but I think it would have the opposite effect.
Okay. But there’s something I keep asking that you’re not answering:
What is wrong with figures that were not previously labeled as Ultimates being reissued in a line called Ultimates?
Ultimate may mean “the final version” but it doesn’t mean “never before.”
Super7 took Mattel’s Classic figures and made them into their own Ultimate figures.
I’m just trying to understand what’s funny about that.
Well… You asked me.
But I wasn’t making the Legends thing up. That was the directive that Toybiz was following. Otherwise it’s just a funny observation.
To each his own, but I think that’s taking what amounts to eye-catching marketing titles a bit too literally. I always took “Legends” to be a loose reference to legendary characters, if anything.
Anyway, I still don’t get the problem with these reissues being in a “last” line. They were not marketed as “ultimates” until now.
To clarify… they’re both the same definition. That’s why it’s funny.
“Ultimate” means “the final version” because you’ll not need another. Something is “Ultimate” because it is the “last”. It’s the “Last” because it won’t be surpassed.
Legends did the same thing. There were not supposed to be re-do figures, alternate versions were fine, but the same figure wasn’t supposed to be done multiple times unless it was of a chase or a variant. The premise behind the line was that it was the legendary representation figure. It’s also why the X-men and Spider-Man lines were considered not Legends.
That’s one reason to go with names that have no meaning like amber collection or black series.
I’m not sure I follow. What’s wrong with reissues in a “last” line? It doesn’t mean “never before.”
And the figures that are reissues were from Mattel’s line that was called Thundercats Classic. Super7 changed the name to Ultimates.
And another definition of ultimate is “best.” Which in that case it leaves things open-ended.
It’s just funny that it’s a word that means something specific.