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01-06-2021, 11:20 AM | #6581 |
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If you are talking about V17 RB from 2008, then you need to decide what is more important to you. V17 has a pea-sized head, terrible body proportions for the entire figure and hands that cannot hold his weapon. The plus about that figure is that it has double jointed knees and articulated ankles.
The Retro RB has great proportions for the head, torso, and arms. The downside of the figure is that the legs have single jointed knees and non-articulated ankles. Also, his face sculpt does not look like the vintage character. If you want the best of both worlds, you can take a V24 RB, add a Tiger Force RB head, and repaint the whole figure in V2 colors. I guess, I'm saying that the V17 is totally outdated and is a step backwards compared to what is out there now. The Retro RB is a perfect figure from the waist up, and a failure from the waist down. Hope that helps.
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01-06-2021, 11:36 AM | #6582 |
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If you are talking about V17 RB from 2008, then you need to decide what is more important to you. V17 has a pea-sized head, terrible body proportions for the entire figure and hands that cannot hold his weapon. The plus about that figure is that it has double jointed knees and articulated ankles.
The Retro RB has great proportions for the head, torso, and arms. The downside of the figure is that the legs have single jointed knees and non-articulated ankles. Also, his face sculpt does not look like the vintage character. If you want the best of both worlds, you can take a V24 RB, add a Tiger Force RB head, and repaint the whole figure in V2 colors. I guess, I'm saying that the V17 is totally outdated and is a step backwards compared to what is out there now. The Retro RB is a perfect figure from the waist up, and a failure from the waist down. Hope that helps. |
01-06-2021, 11:48 AM | #6583 |
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Walmart says my Scarletts are on their way, and have a tracking #. Fingers crossed.
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01-06-2021, 12:22 PM | #6584 |
A Makeupless Clown
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All three figures arrived today. They were shipped separately but from the same location according to the return address.
All were boxed and had air pillows around the bubble. The boxes were just barely big enough to fit the carded figures into them. The cards ended up slightly curved but not bent. Salvageable for on-card collectors. These will be opened and used, but I just mention this to give hope to any MOMC guys out there with figures on the way. They shipped mine with relatively good care. Roadblock's bubble did separate from the card slightly at the top. Might have happened as I was taking it out of the box though, since I pulled it out by the bubble. Best bet would be to open both sides of the shipping box and then just push the card through to get it out.
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01-06-2021, 12:27 PM | #6585 |
Cobra Soldier
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My W2 finally shipped today.
I had pretty good luck with W1 arriving in not awful condition so I am pretty hopeful. I think the thin cardboard they used for these card backs makes it difficult to stay in decent shape. Having been at a couple of Walmarts when they unboxed W1 and W2 waves in front of me, I found many of the actual cases got crushed in shipping to walmart and messed up the cards/bubbles and the cards are so thin that they seem like they would bend if the box got dropped on its top or side from any sort of height. |
01-06-2021, 12:48 PM | #6586 |
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One box and one bubble mailer today. Both cards were fine, but both bubbles were slightly crushed at top. There was no visible stress on even the bubble mailer, so I'm guessing they got dropkicked at the warehouse before shipping. Oh well, at least these are my openers.
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01-06-2021, 01:22 PM | #6587 |
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If you are going to paint the figure, then just paint the V24 vest to look like the V17 vest.
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01-06-2021, 01:49 PM | #6588 |
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Mine shipped in separate packages as well for some reason, but should be here tomorrow.
Is it possible Walmart pulled this shit off? Delivered a pre-order correctly and on-time?
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01-06-2021, 02:06 PM | #6589 |
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Destro and Scarlet shipped but not Roadblock. Odd.
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01-06-2021, 02:15 PM | #6590 |
A Makeupless Clown
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Mine were delivered a day early, in fact.
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