I got Titania today as well. Great looking figure. And I love the packaging and retro Lenticular shield presentation. I haven't got Beyonder yet, but he has shipped. Wolverine still hasn't shipped from Pulse. I ordered x2 of him, planning to open both.
But after getting Titania today and liking the packaging so much, I may leave one of my Wolverines in the package.
Titania via Pulse arrived today, and Amazon just shipped Titania and Iron Man. Now I have two of each, I can open the worse package. The second Beyonder I got came from Amazon yesterday and the package was so mangled, the card was practically torn off.
Iron Man arrived from Amazon yesterday. The first from this wave that I've got in hand. Sigh. Probably the least inspiring from the wave, honestly - I feel like I have this figure already... I guess the roller skates are new.
Eager for Titania and Black Spidey though.
Opened Titania and Iron Man. They’re fine. Her hair limits her neck range, but her articulation is otherwise good. Her expression doesn’t seem angry enough.
Iron Man feels much more sturdy than the previous mold. Glad they upgraded the limbs to pinless. Roller skates are fun. Otherwise it’s not much different than older versions.
Received Titania yesterday- the first to arrive. Honestly, I love the figure other than the pink and, as Norm mentioned, the hair inhibiting the ROM of the head. Otherwise, chef's kiss. Putting her next to Absorbing Man makes me realize that we need a smaller version of ol' Crusher Creel.
Edit: painted the pink on Titania. Much better.
Looks like Pulse shipped my Wolvie and Spidey.
Honestly, I love the figure other than the pink and, as Norm mentioned, the hair inhibiting the ROM of the head.
ROM wasn’t in Secret Wars, but he should have been. 😉
Pulse shipped Cap for me today. I'd already picked up Beyonder, Iron Man and Titania from Target and cancelled my pre-orders for them. Skipped Spidey and Wolverine.
Pulse shipped my x2 Wolverines. I'm really excited about this figure. Even though I have so many Wolverine action figures, this one looks pretty much exactly like what I want.
I missed Wolverine and Spidey on Pulse when they went up. But they shipped Cap to me. Been taking longer with DHL, also less reliable to track through them. Amazon hasn't moved on Cap, Wolvie, Spidey.
So I was comparing Secret Wars Iron Man to AI Iron Man from the Mr Hyde wave. I thought their coloring would be similar, but I like AI better because the red is darker. SW IM has the brightest candy colored red and yellow. The red is almost like a red-orange. The figure build is superior, with tighter hip joints and pinless elbows and knees. But those colors are so garish. It's kind of a bummer.
I feel like I might be similarly disappointed with Cap. I'm not crazy about the lack of a neutral face. The toothy smile is too much. People can smile with closed mouths, Hasbro! The angry gritted teeth look is not something I want for a permanent display either. I think I'll like the colors, but those heads...
During the buy-one-get-one-at-50%-off sale, I actually had Cap in hand for a hot second and was able to take a good look at him. The two peculiar faces in concert with the useless shield and the goofy abdomen stripes made my decision to pass on him an easy one.
Instead, I opted to take Iron Man and agree completely with your assessment of his garish color scheme. He looks like something you would play with during tub-time. He should have come with a snorkel instead of those skates.
I missed Wolverine and Spidey on Pulse when they went up. But they shipped Cap to me. Been taking longer with DHL, also less reliable to track through them. Amazon hasn't moved on Cap, Wolvie, Spidey.
So I was comparing Secret Wars Iron Man to AI Iron Man from the Mr Hyde wave. I thought their coloring would be similar, but I like AI better because the red is darker. SW IM has the brightest candy colored red and yellow. The red is almost like a red-orange. The figure build is superior, with tighter hip joints and pinless elbows and knees. But those colors are so garish. It's kind of a bummer.
I feel like I might be similarly disappointed with Cap. I'm not crazy about the lack of a neutral face. The toothy smile is too much. People can smile with closed mouths, Hasbro! The angry gritted teeth look is not something I want for a permanent display either. I think I'll like the colors, but those heads...
Wolverine is or was the only one in stock in the GameStop buy two get one sale.
for a few days I kept checking their site but everything was showing not available. When I scrolled through saved items in my cart I moved a cobra commander to the cart to see if he was available and he was. Then I moved the cobra trooper and changed it to quantity 5 and went through the checkout and they are delivering today…..yet they still show as not available.
the only way I could figure out to get others to my cart was go to an item and select store pickup. I then started searching within 100 miles of random zip codes and when I found it available I added to the cart. I then went to the cart and selected save for later because you can’t unselect store pickup. When I had enough in saved for later I moved them to the cart and they were then available for shipping. A few items were not available but it seemed like 4 out of 5 where.
everything I ordered shipped from their headquarters warehouse in Texas.
@pogo-the-clown Nice sleuthing to figure out those loopholes to work around availability. I don't know if I want to do all that, even though the savings seems worth it. I was able to pick up three Classified figures in store yesterday, and with my monthly $5 off, I got each down to about $15. Maybe if I have a few minutes I'll explore GameStop's website, but I generally have more luck in store than online with them.
Got half of the wave from Pulse so far. Iron Man as folks have said is nice but nothing too groundbreaking. I'm chalking him up to a nostalgia buy cos the old Secret Wars IM was my first time ever encountering the character. Beyonder is so ridiculous to me but in a good way. Fun to have Donnie Osmond in action figure form.
Titania might not be perfect but she's probably one of, if not my top figures of the year. She's just a character I've wanted in the collection for so long that "good" is "awesome" on my scale. I didn't even notice the purple censoring of her old school look til someone mentioned it in this thread so I guess it doesn't bug me much? I think I was so convinced we'd get the MCU version of her years before a comic version that I'm just happy to have her.
Cap, Spidey, and Logan are all en route. Cap is another poor impulse control buy (also my first action figure of him as a kid). Love that we're getting all-black Spidey on the slighter buck as much as I loved the height-of-his-power muscular version we got recently. And I've had brown and gold Wolverine on display forever with the old, couldn't form a straight row if their lives depended on claws, so getting brown/gold with better claws has been a wishlist thing for a bit, probably going to finally retire the old one from the shelf when he gets here.
Gah. That new symbiote Spider-Man is tempting even though I love the MAFEX figure.