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  1. fantastic_four
    The likelihood is you won't experience the issue. But mine is also still in my BBTS Pile of Loot so I haven't had experience with her yet myself. The reports I heard were from other collectors on The Fwoosh forums. Usually the worst Mafex design issues are experienced by reviewers, and I have yet to see a reviewer who has had ANY design flaws with Jean. I recall watching three reviewers break the wrist pegs of the Mafex cel-shaded comic Spider-Man DURING their reviews, and I've heard numerous other reports of that figure's wrists snapping. I've heard someone say that some of the cel-shading paint was getting into the wrist joints, and when you go to move the wrist it's stuck due to the paint, so people force it to break the paint and end up snapping the joint entirely. But that figure was from 2019, and like I said everything released from 2020 on has been almost entirely golden.
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    It's alright. I can see why it was on clearance. Why buy them when the Black Series version was on shelves at the time still and looked almost as good for a fraction of the price. The differences weren't dramatic enough to justify it as a full-amount purchase, IMO. Yea, I thought the same thing about their stormtroopers--the Black Series versions are good enough, didn't feel the need for the Mafex. I mostly feel that way about Vader as well. Lost part of a sentence in my post--I've heard two reports of Jean's wrist peg splitting in half. It didn't break in both cases and was easily repairable. Mafex wrist pegs are molded as two separate parts glued together, and both of the Jean wrists I heard came apart when the glue holding the two halves of the peg together gave out. Both people were able to re-glue the peg back together and it's totally fine after that.
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    How is it? I know it was made during a period when a third of Mafex's releases had design problems. The only Star Wars Mafex figures I have are Empire Strikes Back Boba Fett, Return of the Jedi Boba, and Mandalorian (Din Djarin). I'd like to have the one great Vader they made, but I haven't been able to find it for a decent price and am fine waiting for them to re-release it. They really hit their stride starting in 2020. Everything made from 2020 on is absolutely outstanding, and there have been VERY few design flaws the past few years. I have seen two reports of Jean's wrist peg
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    Even their lesser releases usually turn out to be the best version of the character in twelfth scale. Jean doesn't look perfect, but she looks better than every other version of her. And some Mafex releases are absolutely perfect. I'd put the brown suit Wolverine and Gambit in the perfection category. Lots of others are close to it as well such as Spidey, Ben Reilly, AoA Magneto, MCU Black Panther, MCU Iron Man, Hush Superman, Hush Batman, DKR Batman, Dark Knight Rises Batman, Heath Ledger Joker, Tom Hardy Bane, Anne Hathaway Catwoman, and plenty of others. I own over 30 Mafex figures now and am just totally in love with the line.
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    I don't collect sixth scale, but there are so few comic-based sixth scale figures that I take note when one gets released. A company called Mondo is making sixth scale figures for the X-Men animated series, and yesterday they unveiled the full details for an upcoming Magneto release. I'll probably end up caving and get this since Magneto is my favorite villain. He looks great, but I'm skeptical of the articulation. I've watched reviews for the Mondo animated series Wolverine, and the articulation on him isn't great. No worse than the articulation on Hot Toys or Sideshow figures, but those have bad articulation compared to smaller-scaled figures so that's not saying much. Hasbro did a bunch of comic-based 12-inch figures a few years ago that have GREAT articulation, so it's certainly possible in the scale. The Wolverine Hasbro did in 12-inch scale is the best action figure I've ever seen that company make in ANY scale, and owning that is the main reason it was so easy to skip the Mondo figure. But Magneto doesn't really need great articulation so I'm not sure it much matters here. The accessories look great so I'm sure I'll be ordering this. https://mondoshop.com/collections/collectibles/products/x-men-the-animated-series-magneto-1-6-scale-figure-mondo-exclusive-timed-edition
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    Both Ford and Spielberg did MORE than their part to dodge Crystal Skull. Lucas had the idea for that film back in the early 1990s, and both Ford and Spielberg didn't like it and refused to do it. They stuck to that for well over a decade, and so did Lucas. Eventually they realized Lucas never changes his mind and agreed to do it. My main curiosity are the reasons Spielberg stepped down as director. I've heard what he's said about it and am not convinced that the reasons he's giving are the reasons he stepped down. The concept for the current film has been around since 2016, and some sort of unspecified "disputes" have delayed it since then. I'm curious about what the disputes were... I'm also curious as to who they pass the mantle to. They tried with Shia LeBeouf, but he became such a flake after Crystal Skull that I'm not at all surprised they decided against passing the series to him. I thought for sure they'd pass it to Chris Pratt, but apparently not.
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    I open everything aside from things I bought to possibly re-sell later. If I wanted action figures I couldn't pose I'd still be buying statues instead.
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    That way lies madness if you don't have a significant place to display and/or store things.
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    Weird for them to put so much design into Crabfeeder but then he dies off-camera without us finding out much about him.
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    Wondering the same. I have to rewatch the episode and take a closer look to see if Daemon is wearing gauntlets/ gloves. It's probably an old bout with greyscale that he survived. In Game of Thrones that little girl who was a princess had greyscale but she survived it. The damage to her skin remained but she wasn't contagious anymore.
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    I was wondering that too. Is the 1:18 scale that far dead? I know 6-inch is king right now, but I still thought there was a market for 3.75". Margins must be too thin for a publicly-traded company like Hasbro...
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    I absolutely LOVED Farscape from the first episode I saw. Evolution on different planets should be entirely different and no two species from different planets should look similar, yet in most science fiction most of the aliens are humanoid. Farscape was and still is the best series I've seen do a variety of alien body types. There were still too many humanoid species, but that was probably due to budget. Even so the production value was high since it was Henson Studios doing it, and the makeup on Ka D'Argo, puppetry on Rygel and Pilot, and the variety in many guest aliens was just outstanding. Acting was great with a huge array of likable characters. I always wanted to see how many weird aliens they'd do if it ever got popular enough to make into a film series, but nope. In film I'd say "Arrival" had the best depiction of aliens, but that was only one species. Farscape had a bunch of alien species as main characters; particularly Rygel, Pilot, and Moya.
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    Just when I assume you're about to give us too much credit you give us right around an accurate amount.
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    I'm funny that way..... It'd be a point in your favor circa 2024, but not circa 1024.
  15. fantastic_four
    Whether you still enjoy sausage or not...this place is DEFINITELY still the sausage-fest it has always mostly been, and even more now than it ever was. Which I'm guessing is some part of what keeps you coming back.
  16. fantastic_four
    So you wouldn't sacrifice your personal and/or moral preferences in favor of those in the realm you live in and everyone else who lives there with you?
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    I haven't heard of technology that translates words typed into a keyboard into audible sounds. If that existed you'd hear a LOT less of it, much less the ideas that could exist beyond those ideas you're referring to. You're essentially asking if most people here were born between 1950 and 2000. The answer to that implicit question is yep, we're in a sausage fest. Hope you like sausage!
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    Best moment of the show so far. I suppose any scene with a dramatic dragon confrontation is automatically a candidate for that though.
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    I'm guessing we'll be getting a BIG time jump relatively soon since IMDB lists a 30-year old actress as playing an adult Rhaenyra in season 1.
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    I'm glad we didn't get an actual look at this guy flaying someone at the end of episode 2. The screams as he swung that axe were bad enough. Leatherface?
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    The Targaryens lasted almost two centuries beyond where this show is moving so quickly. Plenty of time with plenty of events to fill plenty more seasons if they want to. One thing I'm not liking is we already know the fates of all of these characters. Or will they diverge from the books? I don't recall how often GoT diverged. Marvel movies and Walking Dead shows diverge from the source at least half of the time to keep you guessing, but GoT didn't diverge from Martin's written stuff much, did it?
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    Daemon Targaryen said it best while playing Doctor Who:
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    Wonder which characters we'll get as Thunderbolts. Zemo seems like a given, and Blonsky, Bucky, US Agent, Ghost, and Deadpool are all possibilities--but you'd have to assume most of the lineup will be new characters we haven't seen in the MCU yet.
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    Should we assume Blonsky's "seven soulmates" he wants to buy a plot of land with are the Thunderbolts?
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    NONE of the MCU content is little kid-friendly, so I wouldn't suddenly expect She-Hulk to be. I'm on vacation in San Francisco and I re-watched it on the plane and my son listened in. A bunch of cussing so my significant other promptly chewed me out.