You can get their ReAction SDCC exclusive carrying case for 30 bucks right now at BBTS and that thing is 3 years old at this point. I think I saw the blue B.A.T. at Walmart last time I was in there. This is TMNT, so maybe it sells better? I would bet though that it will be very easy to come by and doesn't look like something that will be very popular anyway unless it's shockingly cheap, which I'm sure it won't be. I'm surprised their exclusive isn't a variant of an up-and-coming figure. I bet they could have sold a bunch of glow-in-the-dark Rat Kings or Triceratons.
Don't you dare talk me into a GitD Triceraton, you jerk!
Is that typical though? Because this seems like, EXTRA lazy. Even by Super7's standards. This is like they had a bunch of Mikey's laying around and got on Etsy for little aprons and chef hats.
They’ll come without the aprons though, so in typical Super7 fashion those will have to be sent out later.
They’ll come without the aprons though, so in typical Super7 fashion those will have to be sent out later.
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So to play Devil’s Advocate, this isn’t the worse exclusive:
-If you pair it with Ninja Nomad Leo and Undercover Raph, you have nice set of Nude Turtles who can’t take off their hats*, maybe next they could do a Lab Coat Donnie with some tech goggles (everyone LOVES when Donnie gets extra eye wear slapped on his face!!!) to round out the quartet.
-It’s not stupider than the Pizza Club Mikey NECA is currently selling
-Super7 SDCC exclusives are easy to get (too easy it seems) and as someone who isn’t a fan of the vintage heads or ULTIMATES! Mikey’s standard alt head and bought a Surfer Mikey on deep discount just for the tongue out head, this would allow a hypothetical new collector a chance to get a basic Mikey with the superior tongue out alt head for $10-30 less (depending on what Big Bad prices the over stock at) than it cost me to kitbash the same look!
So yeah, I think it’s a decent (but not very exciting) exclusive. Better than GI Joe guy with a coat and clear D&D Girl, and WAY BETTER than Ghost Grune who I literally forgot existed and had to look up to remember who the fourth figure was.
*I guess we have no proof Ninja Nomad Leo and Pizza Party Mikey can’t take their hats off, but it’s Super7, I don’t think these are the figures they’d suddenly do a super good job on.
Are you talking about the chef's hat that comes with NECA Pizza Club Mikey? It's separate in the package, so it's definitely not stuck on his head.
@tenime I’m talking about the Super7 exclusive, I meant to say Pizza Party, not Pizza Club.
the render shows the hat on his head, which for a Super7 figure usually means the hat IS his head, but *shrug emoji* maybe this is the one time they make a removable hat for fun
Oh, gotcha gotcha. Yeah, I was more than slightly perturbed when I got Undercover Raph & found the hat was permanently on his head (because I literally bought the entire set to give a spare Donatello - that I thankfully have not gotten yet - all of the gear).
I think there's definitely arguments to be made in both directions for this exclusive. On the one hand, exclusives should definitely not be something collectors NEED. That's bullshit and company execs should be publicly flogged whenever it's allowed to happen.
However, an exclusive should still be something that you might.. want? In that sense that it should offer something unique. And I'm not sure 'chef's hat' really does it. Maybe if they released it at the original Ultimates pricepoint that would be something kind of fun that generates hype and interest. But at whatever fuckidiotic price this surely is, it just comes off as lazy/cheap.
At the very least they could have thrown in a totally unique head or new unique hand sculpts. Not something you -need- to have in your collection, but the kind of thing that makes you go 'oh.. hmm.. that's neat and I'm gonna think about it.' If this thing even moves a few hundred units I'm going to be very disappointed in my fellow collectors.
And definitely no one is saying there's anything wrong with buying extras of figures for your collection because you just like that they might be rare or whatever. I'm not going to claim to necessarily understand the mentality - because I could not give even the smallest of fucks how rare or common a figure is - but there's nothing wrong with thinking that way.
It’s not that I buy any figure specifically because it’s rare, it’s that I anticipate not being able to buy the figure later due to the community’s perception of rarity, and if I was on the fence, I’d rather buy it when I see the opportunity vs pay twice as much on eBay if I change my mind later. For example, I waved on and missed the preorder for Bucky Cap, and the figure was like $50 up until recently. I wish I knew to buy it when it was retail, so I recently bought retro classified Duke because I felt the same way but saw Duke in stores. I didnt wanna regret it later.
@supreme_d Oh, I get'cha. And that's also totally reasonable. I often WISH I'd had the foresight or good sense to pick up something that was going to be popular. But, frankly, my instincts on that front are absolutely terrible most of the time. It's totally reasonable to say 'I'm not sure yet if I want it, so I'm going to grab it while the grabbing is good instead of pay some scalper a 300% mark-up in six months.' Smart way to collect if you can afford to risk ending up with stuff you -don't- want and that may end up falling drastically in value. Definitely a double-edged sword.
Not a lot of TMNT news during the blackout at Fwoosh, but one piece of news was that the 2k3 TMNT from Super7 will go up on June 13 and they'll include double-jointed elbows (ooo!). It was all discussed in the latest interview with former Fwoosh master Veebee. And if you like Brian train-wreck interviews, oh boy is that one for you! The justification for the added joints was pretty laughable, but I don't want to spoil the fun for those who want to watch it.
Super7 is adding double joints because Millennials who grew up with these Turtles are whiners. (Including Me)
@misfit I was cringing the whole time. Like there's made up bullshit reasons for things, and then there's made up bullshit reasons for things.
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