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05-02-2023, 04:41 PM | #6531 |
Balloon Bear
Join Date: Jul 2022
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Storage: One bin per year. Each figure goes in a baggie. Accessories go in a smaller baggie that gets stored with the figure, because I'm paranoid of a bipod or something getting loose if I just want to handle the figure. I'd like to move some out to be on a more permanent display, but don't really have the room to do it in a way that I would feel safe with.
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05-02-2023, 04:54 PM | #6532 |
Fartbutt McGillicuddy
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I've got lots of small ziploc bags holding the weapons while these containers hold figures from similar years or lines:
https://www.sterilite.com/product-pa...oduct=18038612 i want to put all my 4" action figures in individual plastic coffins when i dont want to look at them and not bankrupt myself doing it. is that too much to ask, universe? |
05-02-2023, 05:03 PM | #6533 |
stretching your O-ring
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I think the best possible outcome we can reasonably hope for is Super7 getting the green light to do O-rings a la Hiya Toys and ME.
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05-02-2023, 05:25 PM | #6534 |
Crimson Guard
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Location: Florida
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somewhere i saw someone had plastic containers that fit 4" figures. i swear empire toy works had these, but when i asked him again on facebook he showed me this thing and baggies.
i want to put all my 4" action figures in individual plastic coffins when i dont want to look at them and not bankrupt myself doing it. is that too much to ask, universe? What's nice is those Sterilite containers fit eight on my Closetmaid shelves like the pic here: Last edited by GoodGuy9; 05-02-2023 at 05:32 PM.. |
05-02-2023, 05:36 PM | #6535 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: Kentucky
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Speaking of anniversary lines, I was thinking about previous anniversary lines in 1/18 scale. 15th Anniversary: TRU exclusive. Ran for 2 years and 39 figures, with product still shipping in 1999. So safe to say despite being announced as an anniversary line, it was not beholden to one year. 20th anniversary: Regular line was full strength at retail, so the only "anniversary" offering I can remember was the Toyfare Snake Eyes/Scarlett 2-pack, not a line per se. 25th Anniversary: "25 figures for the 25th" was how it was touted but it ended up running for part of 2007, all of 2008, and part of 2009 until it was supplanted by the movie line and Resolute. This one WAS announced as having an end that was then destroyed by great sales and interest. Created the "Modern Era." 30th Anniversary: Straight continuation of the "Modern Era" that had not left stores. Lead into Retaliation. So far, the only anniversary "line" that lasted just that year. 50th Anniversary (of the franchise, the cheaters ;-)): TRU exclusive that lasted 3 years. 60 figures. 40th Anniversary: Though the Skystriker came out in 2023, I'll call it a 1-year line. 16 figures. The 15th, 25th, and 50th, Anniversary lines all continued well past one year, so it is disappointing if the 40th is already over. They are why I half expected more product despite being an "anniversary". |
05-02-2023, 05:40 PM | #6536 |
Fartbutt McGillicuddy
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i was down to looking at fishing tackle boxes but 5 bucks for these things, to put almost if not a thousand figures in is not cost effective.
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05-02-2023, 05:57 PM | #6537 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Feb 2022
Location: America
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I agree that Hasbro put none-to-minimal effort on this o-ring line. Most of the innovative work, making Transformers transform in GI Joe vehicles, was done by the Transformers team. The only innovative thing GI Joe team did was... Fail-Safe and Ramp Rat. Everything else was scanning old figures.
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05-02-2023, 06:31 PM | #6538 |
o-ring or nothing
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Location: In the 1980's
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Pulse is shipping - today or tomorrow or maybe later this week, possibly even next - Retro Cardback Zartan and Storm Shadow, preorders that went up 9 months ago and sold out immediately. Without disagreeing with the premise in your first sentence, you're laser-focused on insisting that fans are wrong here, rather than accepting that both fans can be overbearing jerks but also Hasbro has hobbled GI Joe as a brand with molasses-slow delivery dates and a general lack of PR across the board.
This same logic - a product exists already, so you should just go buy that instead of expecting a new product from a company who has recently discovered that the brand in question is quite popular again - is simply lacking. Encouraging Hasbro to pursue O-Rings would benefit the company and collectors, while encouraging buying vintage only does zero to Hasbro's bottom line and demands customers must pay premiums for incomplete/old/broken product. This assuages nobody except the person who seems to be obsessed with the idea that asking for new O-Rings means a person is unreasonable. Hasbro is also in the wrong because they definitely half-assed the whole thing. I'm just saying that we at least have options. And I'd rather have the small amount of stuff they made than nothing at all. Classified is probably closer to the end than they are the beginning at this point and you can be sure somebody out there who is the biggest fan of Airtight or Voltar is going to be pissed that his favorite character was never made. We at least don't have that problem. But I do give credit to Hasbro for cranking out more figures than I ever thought they would and think people are overlooking just how good these past few years have been and aren't letting themselves enjoy it nearly enough. We're grown men buying toys. Maybe us o-ring fans fortunes will change next year when our kickstarter figures start rolling in and Hasbro can see a real reaction to them. |
05-02-2023, 06:55 PM | #6539 |
Mass Nerderer
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That said, they're not afraid of deep cuts, so I'd be all for supporting a company that's going to finally put out something I don't already have.
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05-02-2023, 07:04 PM | #6540 |
Fartbutt McGillicuddy
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Man. What if funko nut up and made o-ring figures. Take the wind out of super7's sails for ganking the reaction line and tripling the price by making o-ring figures for the same price as a pop or less.
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