Someone remind me--what era are the white gloves/boots with the green costume accurate to?
Hah. When I picture him in green, he has white gloves/boots, but I guess this is another case of an action figure overriding my mental image of the character.
I was able to find one reference image of him with white gloves/boots. FWIW, I think it looks better.
That is actually this.
An image or video on the internet was edited? I simply refuse to believe it.
Well, at least I can stand by the fact that I think it looks better.
Yeh figured I could clear that up for you and anyone curious of where that image comes from. You're welcome👍🙂👍
It is super interesting that in the prior Hasbro action figure AND in the Eaglemoss pewter figurine they go with the white gloves and boots on the green outfit
The Bowen mini bust and statue got it right though.
Generally the green costume was with a lighter green shorts, boots and gloves. The lightning bolt was white. I sorta prefer it that way. Makes the bolt stand out.
Not related to bad jokes or anything else really, but why is it that Marvel Legends are the only "adult collectible" that is consistently not stocked at my Targets?
I did a casual toy run yesterday on the hunt for something not ML related and I scanned the aisles: Transformers-check, DC Multiverse-check, GI Joe-check, kiddie Marvel-check, Todd Marvel statues-check, hole where ML should be-check, Star Wars-check, Wrestling-check, MOTU-check, Ninja Turtles-check, Jurassic Park-check......
This has been the norm for some time in my area. Yes, on a rare occasion I will find something new dangling, but that's only because I was there at exactly the right time. They are one-and-done offerings, they aren't coming back after that single, small assortment sells through. Nothing ever close to being a hearty, robust selection of figures. And yes, the selection of the other toy lines mentioned always varies, but there is always SOMETHING there to show that those lines exists. Not Marvel Legends. It's different for them. I don't get why.
You are correct. I still haven’t seen Warbird at Target, and she’s an exclusive.
Unrelated to toys, if any X-Men comic fans are interested, they're doing an X-Men: Work of Andy Kubert compendium on Kickstarter right now. Unfortunately all the head sketch options are already sold out but I was able to at least get mine as a signed version. Looks pretty cool as he did a lot of favorite 90s stories and pencilled a lot of X-Men while his brother was on the Wolverine book.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/essentialsequential/the-marvel-x-men-art-of-andy-kubert
I agree Target screws up and they can be a pain to deal with, but other figures from other lines, Hasbro or not, licensed IP or not, are all consistently available in some form. Target pays workers to set a place for ML in their aisles, but ML pegs are empty more often than not. Only ML. I don't get it.
That's not at all my experience either in the 11 local stores within 25 miles of me or from what I see when I look online. Target screws ALL toy lines up now, all the time. Not sure if they screw other product types too because I don't have to go scrounging for household goods like we do toy lines. The lines I see them screw inventory up for because I watch them for myself or my kids are Marvel Legends, Star Wars Black Series, Indiana Jones Adventure Series (now defunct, but it was active last year and Target was screwing it up), GI Joe Classified Series, and Power Rangers from Hasbro, plus Jurassic World Hammond Collection from Mattel, plus Street Fighter from Jada Toys, plus Naruto and Dragon Ball Z from Bandai. The worst of those has been Jada Toys Street Fighter. Those have NEVER been available online that I've ever seen, and finding them in the stores is uncommon.
What's particularly vexing is that Target's internal systems have always been split into two separate areas--one system for the web site (this is the TCIN or Target Dot Com Item Number they list for every product on their web site), and another for their internal inventory management (the number for this they call DPCI). The two systems communicate and until 2022 that worked well, but now those two systems working together has disintegrated, which I assume is a symptom of whatever steps they now skip that they used to follow before Covid scrambled their inventory management. What you see the Target web site saying no longer matches the stores. If you call the stores they will read from their internal inventory system and that's usually accurate, but online via Target.com or third-party sites that hook into Target's public inventory feeds like Brickseek and Popfindr are now mostly inaccurate, but not fully. When the external system reports inventory sometimes it is right so I do still use those to check for things, but you have to expect them to be wrong because they very often are now.
We have so many Targets and Walmarts in my area that I can check and they are all different in how and what the stock. It is crazy. One of the smaller Walmarts has gotten the Iron Man retro wave in multiple times and most of my Walmarts tend to stock on a pretty regular basis. Here it is the Targets you are least likely to find anything. A year from now the roles could be reversed. Usually the exclusives at Target have been really easy to find. Warbird is the first one that hasn't been. I hate that Walmart never carries the ML Exclusives in store anymore. I use to be able to find them there really easily and lots of them, especially when it was one I didn't care about. Now I have wanted all the recent ones and they never carry them so I have to wait until a comic/toy show to hopefully get them.
Usually the exclusives at Target have been really easy to find. Warbird is the first one that hasn't been.
That was mostly true before 2022, but Target exclusives across multiple toy brands have sucked to find for years. I haven't had much trouble with them myself, but that's only because I understand a lot about how their inventory system works and I'm quite vigilant about checking stores around the release dates of popular items. Last year's big exclusive screw-up was their super-articulated Black Widow, and well over a dozen people here have complained about how hard those were to find. Here's how they screwed up with that one:
- Pre-orders sold out within hours, and when the release date hit she sold out in under 12 hours online.
- She was pretty available in stores if you went to them within a few days of her release date, but she sold out SUPER-fast, usually within days or even within hours of being stocked. That's not a Target problem other than the stores that had her were not reporting via the Target web site correctly, so there was no way to know which stores actually had her other than to call the store and ask or go in yourself and check.
- They had a second sizeable re-stock of her, but they had set her to clearance by the time they got it about 1 to 2 months after the original release date. So when the re-stock hit stores she was already at half price. You can NEVER see clearance items in Target's web-based systems and they also don't show up in their internal inventory system, so there was no good way to find this second shipment other than to go to the stores and get very lucky. There was also no consistency as to where they put the second shipment on clearance--some stores put her in the regular aisle, some put her in randomly-selected clearance aisles, or some put her on random end caps. I saw all of those iterations because I went to around a half-dozen stores looking for the Avengers 60th line on clearance to fill in the ones I had skipped at full price.
The way that Black Widow re-stock went straight to clearance after the first stock sold out almost instantly illustrates how these screw-ups are randomly not at all in Target's favor since they could have easily sold them all at full price if they were managing inventory like they should.
It appears that I was charged for Crystal/Lockjaw same day as Odin, but the new Pulse app upgrade (haha) is horrendouc, I have orders I recieved a month ago still showing “in progress”. I know it wasnt on a lot of people’s preorders due to costs or whatever but did anyone else that did also see the charge for them?
So Quicksilver, who is known for basically running, doesn't get the knife hands? So he can't do the pose he's pictured doing on the box?
It appears that I was charged for Crystal/Lockjaw same day as Odin, but the new Pulse app upgrade (haha) is horrendouc, I have orders I recieved a month ago still showing “in progress”. I know it wasnt on a lot of people’s preorders due to costs or whatever but did anyone else that did also see the charge for them?
My set has that “address cannot be updated” notice now on the order page and I see a charge, so yeah looks like she’s about to be on her way.
So Quicksilver, who is known for basically running, doesn't get the knife hands? So he can't do the pose he's pictured doing on the box?
That was my main takeaway as well. Thankfully I have the ones that came in the Stryfe 5pk with Zero, I specifically got carded Falcon just for knife hands for the new Angel figure who also didn't come with them.
So I couldn't find a thread for this set, but Pulse seems to have already shipped Crystal and Lockjaw. I'll believe it when I have it in hand!
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