Got the announcement email for Extendar.
Yep! May 22nd, it's coming. I will definitely try to get one. Thats one more towards finishing the Vintage MOTU Collection. We will only need 13 after Extendar.
So, I wonder when the Lady Slither's Palace Playset will go up to crowdfund? Also, do you guys think Lady Slither will be one of the unlockable tiers? I know she already had a figure, but a lot of folks didn't get one. You'd think they'd put her with this since it's her palace/castle.
Even if it's some variation of her. I was lucky enough to get her, but it seems like they'd have to put her with this set for all those who didn't get her. it would be weird to have her Castle and not have her.
Cartoon Stratos and Merman just landed in my PoL.
During the crash, I caved on some DEEPLY discounted WWExMotU figures. Mostly for the armor, but I just kinda like how these particular characters fit in with the overall collection. I got Ultimate Warrior, Ricky Steamboat, Roddy Piper, Goldberg, and Steph McMahon. I've swapped parts around so my Warrior is just a wrestling figure, and picked up a Randy Savage off eBay to go with him. But the rest will be MotUO vehicle drivers. I've got Goldberg/Ram Man on the Road Ripper, Steamboat in the Wind Raider, though he'd work well with the Rulers of the Sun figures too. Piper was given Warrior's chest armor and cape, elbow and knee pads removed, so he looks like a basic barbarian. Haven't really found a use for Steph, but I'm sure she could make some good fodder eventually.
I'm getting Extendar if I can manage to do so, but I gotta be honest; I'm less excited about it than I'd like to be. I just hate how Mattel just clearly doesn't care about customers with this 'get it before it sells out, one release at a time so you have to keep paying shipping charges' strategy. It's so anti-customer and just.. I don't know.. ignorant?
Unless something really amazing comes along, or they start doing multi-figure drops, I imagine Extendar will be my last regular Origins figure (I'll continue cherry-picking the cartoon collection since it's available from BBTS).
@theknightdamien Don't forget the possible denial we Canadians might get trying to actually order it. Sy-Klone was a pain in the ass to order because I had to actually log out to get them to ship it to me in Ottawa.
Extendar is not a big want for me but I'll put in an order for one anyway because he is a classic character.
Oh and welcome back everyone, nice to have The Fwoosh back as an option.
@supercamel-1982 They better not. I have Lady Slither and I want her value to stay high so I can retire and send my kids to university on what I sell her for later!!!!! hahaha
I wouldn't mind them doing another run of her, but I suspect they probably won't.
As for the playset, I really thought they were going to do the crowdfund in the first quarter of this year, but now I am worried they are going to wait until the summer which would be terrible because of how much stuff will be revealed/released during the con season. On top of the Haslabs and exclusives and whatever else.
Extendar is not super high (seewhatididthere) on my priority list, but I definitely plan to order him because, like canprime shared, he's a classic character. It won't be the end of the world if I miss out, but really, no one should be missing out on what they want. There's no reason to make things difficult to get, no matter what.
@canprime Ugh, I honestly forgot about that. I guess I could send the figure to my mother in the States. But I hate doing that because she never lets me pay her for the cost of shipping it up to me. She's, honestly, pretty insufferable about it. And it makes getting my figure take even longer.
Extendar looks pretty cool! Honestly though, I have to admit the difficulty in collecting this line has soured me to the point were I think I'm done. I'll probably grab the remaining two turtles if I see em at Target though, just to round out the TMNT set. And would still like a Snake Mountain to display Skeletor and his goons on...
@canprime Ugh, I honestly forgot about that. I guess I could send the figure to my mother in the States. But I hate doing that because she never lets me pay her for the cost of shipping it up to me. She's, honestly, pretty insufferable about it. And it makes getting my figure take even longer.
(In Nelson Muntz's voice from the Simpsons)
HA-HA Your mother loves you! HA-HA
I hope it won't be an issue to get Extendar, but if somehow they do screw us over in Canada then at least you have that option.
Now what about that Horde Trooper Prime??!! I'm really hoping, like the other supposedly Walmart exclusive releases this year, it ends up available at other retailers so we have a chance at getting it here in Canada. I still don't understand Mattel's utter lack of interest in getting any product, especially exclusives, to us in Canada. I see so much product end up on clearance in the US and they could have sent a container, or two, to Canada and it would have sold for more than whatever clearance price it ends up at in the US.
Extendar looks pretty cool! Honestly though, I have to admit the difficulty in collecting this line has soured me to the point were I think I'm done. I'll probably grab the remaining two turtles if I see em at Target though, just to round out the TMNT set. And would still like a Snake Mountain to display Skeletor and his goons on...
Now that a bit of time has passed, I am a bit glad that the Turtles of Grayskull line never made it to regular retail here in Canada. Since it was online etailers, or some bits on Amazon.ca, it was never really front of mind for me after the reveals. As such I haven't picked up a single figure from the line and now I am okay with that. Some of the figures are amazing, but I don't need them and wouldn't pay the retail price for them now.
Same goes for the Cartoon Collection. Not seeing them on the shelves made it easier for me to be "out of sight, out of mind" and not get started on them. I really like them because of how accurate they are to the show, but once again I am okay missing out at full retail price.
Snake Mountain is the one thing I wish I had picked up, but I was stubborn and thought it would get a wide release like Castle Grayskull. Now the only place I see it regularly is Amazon, but the price is a bit high for my tastes. Maybe I'll work out a trade down the road for one.
I'm still so bitter about Lady Slither being so limited - but if they included her with a fortress set, that might be a way to tempt me to back it. What would be even better for me is if they re-release Lady Slither at around the time her lair is up to fund, so I could just buy her and not the playset I don't have room for.
Thankfully I have no interest in this Extendar, so can safely skip the madness this time.
BBTS processed Stratos and Merman for the cartoon collection and will be getting the TMNT wave 3 soon. I literally just shipped two figures in my POL on Monday thinking i had some time before the MOTU stuff started arriving!
So, is BBTS the only place to buy the re-issued Fan Favorite Tri-Klops? I can't seem to find him anywhere else.
I stopped in an out of town Walmart and found Stratos and Merman, like two days after they dropped in my POL. I was about to cancel and take a store credit, but BBTS has a seven day rule to return funds to your account. I felt bad about them having to return the payment, so I kept the figures in my POL.
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