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I mostly agree with this list with one exception--X-Men 1. The supply on that one is an order of magnitude or two lower than the others, particularly FF 48 which seems like a perfect Silver Age example since it is by far the Silver key with the highest supply due to being present in multiple warehouse finds. Why X-men 1? I've been out of the market for the last decade, but over the last few days I've been looking at prices again and FF 48 is by far the biggest surprise increase I've seen. I don't get it...feels a bit Gamestop-y.

As long as she didn't change the core concepts from Kirby, i.e. the relationships between the Celestials, Eternals, Deviants, humans, and mutants, giving her free reign makes sense. Her only real restriction should have been to just stick to those key story points so that the film can serve as back story for the X-Men.

Yikes! That's eye catching indeed, thanks. And a special thanks to gocollect for their delays in capturing data... I might be going back to GPA, how can I not? What's the point of having a pricing service if they don't update their prices? The whole point is to be informed, and I'm not (or at least wasn't in this instance). Sorry, rant over.... Sorry to ask what seems like common knowledge, but I'm a bit out of touch with the market...why isn't this sale in GPA? How long are their delays for capturing eBay data? Looks like this auction ended almost three weeks ago.

I never have liked the character in the comics. Didn't like him here either. Wyatt Russell does a good job as an actor of portraying the character, IMO. He was meant to be rather unlikable in the comics, and they mostly did the same in the MCU. Overall he's more likable in the MCU than he was in the comics...he was a never-ending insufferable Richard in the comics.

That's a movie I missed. Was the name "Steel"? I try to watch most superhero movies, terrible or not. I even watched the first Supergirl and that was terrible. I'm a big NBA fan and I've been wow'ed by Shaq since his first year playing at LSU, but man, this movie looked WAY too cheesy to even give a shot. I think I've seen a few minutes of it flipping channels, but I didn't stay long.

Yea that ROTJ Fett looks awesome, can't wait for mine. It's the last 3.75" figure I have active plans to buy, and I'm just buying him to put in the pilot's seat of Slave I next to Mando and Grogu.

Just got the new Marvel Legends MODOK in. Can't decide which I like better, this one or the 2006 version from Toy Biz on the right...there's pros and cons to both. Overall they're so similar it's easy to prefer either over the other.

I bought the NECA movie turtles for my son for Christmas in 2019. They're amazing. I assume the ones he pictured are the twelfth-scale versions, but they also have 1:4 scale ones as well that look just as good. Here's a pic of both scales together:

Those NECA turtles are some of the best action figures ever created. The articulation is somewhat limited, but wow, the figures look almost EXACTLY like they did in the films.

It's explicit in the direction that Verhoeven was going for comedy. Had I been a fan of Heinlein's story I might've hated it, but I just appreciated the EXCEPTIONAL CGI for its day and the explicit camp just carried it further. Not as good as Jurassic Park in terms of CGI excellence (almost no films are), but it was close to its quality of work just a few years after JP's release.

That one does look great, nice pickup! I don't like 95% of what Mezco does. Usually the cloth goods are out of scale or too loose, or the faces look really weird. I only own one, Black Bolt and Lockjaw, and I've got Magneto on the way and the deluxe tiger stripe Wolverine with the Sentinel base and 8 swappable heads pre-ordered. Didn't like their previous tiger stripe Wolverine at all, but this one looks great.

Agreed on all fronts except Captain Marvel. I'll allow them creating one girl version of every male hero or vice versa just so female superhero fans have something to relate to, so I'm fine with Ms Marvel, Spider-Woman, She-Hulk, Lady Thor, Lady Loki, or name your favorite gender-alternative version of an established male superhero here. I can certainly say that my 5-year old daughter appreciates it IMMENSELY since she's only interested in the girl characters and her twin brother is only interested in the boy characters. I certainly agree gender character alternatives don't make much rational sense, but it makes perfect emotional sense so I've always been fine with it. And it started a LONG time ago. Who was the first gender alternative superhero? The earliest one I know of was Mary Marvel, the female version of the Captain Marvel figure that today is known as Shazam.

I'm so many years past my apathy for a new person being called Captain America that I forgot why I didn't care in the first place, but now I remember. Throughout most of my time knowing about Cap the writers mostly tried to keep his power set unique. They experimented on him in World War 2, the doctor who did the experiment died, nobody could replicate it, over, done, he's a 1 of 1 who is roughly 10x faster, stronger, and tougher than the average human who for whatever reason loved using a shield, and that's who Cap is. I took that as a given for decades, but then writers slowly started eroding that, and I didn't even realize it in most cases until years after they had done it since I wasn't actively reading Cap. They gave Cap's powers to Bucky, and then a bunch of others, and now how many Cap-equivalents are there, dozens? Hundreds? I've lost track. Certainly in the MCU we're already up to dozens. Anyway, Cap has always been this set of super-soldier powers who was largely eclipsed by superheroes who followed him with new and interesting power-sets, and the costume was just jingoistically bizarre. When I heard Falcon "took over the mantle of Cap" back around 2014/2015 my first thought is still the core of my thought today--what? Did he somehow get Cap's powers? No? Then he's not Cap. And if he did become a super-soldier, eroding the uniqueness of Steve Rogers...ugh. Nice story point, watering down Cap with new Caps popping up all over the place. So overall I'm not really a fan of this direction Cap and the serum has taken over the last decade or two. It has nothing to do with Falcon or Sam Wilson, it's just the whole idea of pulling out the super soldier serum as a story or character device and the idea of Cap as a title as opposed to a unique superhero. Cap had already been watered down by Stan's creations from the 1960s, mass-producing the super soldier serum did it far more, and relegating Cap to just a title tied a bow on my disdain for the direction the character has gone in.

Haven't paid much attention to video game movies for the last 25 years. Have any truly good ones ever been made, or are they all mediocre? Looked at a few lists and they mostly all look mediocre. Highest-ranked one on Rotten Tomatoes is Angry Birds 2 at 73%.

Was the Cole character based upon anyone from any of the games?

Yep, solid "meh," but I generally enjoyed it and am glad I saw it. I enjoyed all of the fighting scenes more than enough for it to keep my attention, but I was getting bored whenever they delved into the story elements during the first half. Overall the fight scenes in this one were better than the 1995 film. The 1995 film's campy take was better. Taking the terrible MK storyline as seriously as this film did just makes it share in its terrible-ness. And the soundtrack on this one was FAR inferior to the original. That one beat played during the fighting sequences was good, but not as good as the original film's theme. The 1995 theme is still such a great song.

I thought the 1995 film was the best video game film up to that point. Not great, just entertaining and not horribly bad like video game-based films up to that point had been. The fighting sequences were great and the techno soundtrack was superb. I still listen to the main theme as a part of my workout playlist. Plenty of cheese in it, plenty of camp, plenty to hate, but overall enjoyable if you ignored the cheese. Reviews thus far look mixed, but close enough to the original also-mixed reviews to give it a shot. The entire concept of Mortal Kombat is fairly ridiculous so this was was never going to be a film most critics would enjoy. Half of them disliking it is no surprise, but close to half of the rest enjoying it suggests there's something there to see if you're already at all partial to the game. I never liked the game all that much--I far prefer Tekken and Street Fighter--but I like the genre, so I'm at the periphery of the core audience.

Not sure I get the culture shock since it seems as if most of us already have known Falcon would probably become Cap after Endgame and knew it happened that way in the comics back in 2014. It never meant much to me since I look at superheroes as individuals so the idea of Captain America being a title seemed unnatural and I never took to it.

I don't get your Action 1 example within any context of fairness. Congress has had the power to collect income tax since the Constitution was ratified in 1789, and they've been actively exercising that power via federal income taxes since passing the 16th amendment in 1909. Note the wording in the original draft below--"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived." That applied to any Action 1 bought in 1939 and sold later at a massive profit. Comics have always been subject to income tax on profits since long before they ever started being printed.

Those may eventually prove to be possible, and we're doing something vaguely similar already with the fusion reactors being worked on diligently by multiple groups and portrayed throughout science fiction (Tony Stark's ARC reactor, Star Trek's warp reactor, etc). They're a miniaturized version of the general physics behind the way a tokamak contains plasma with magnetic fields, except that instead of being shaped like a torus it has a long, cylindrical shape.

I'm willing to suspend disbelief, because the show isn't about the physics of the shield, and would quickly become a parody if it followed the laws of physics and Cap had to go retrieve his shield EVERY TIME he threw it. That said, if we're meant to believe that the shield, when thrown at enemy combatants, can incapacitate them, but it doesn't if you manage to catch it with your normal human fingers, then that's a little bit of a problem. For me, the show is doing a great job of character-building and establishing the motivations of all of the different parties involved that makes you sympathetic o all of them when considering their side, so I'll overlook the shield, because that's so baked into Captain America that you've got to let *something* go if you want to see comics on the screen. Yea I gave up questioning the reality of bouncing the shield back or catching it decades ago back when they were doing it in the comics. It doesn't make sense in almost any way I can work out, but meh, I'm kinda fine with it. It's dumb, but only a little.

I would argue that it plays a LITTLE differently than the real arcade game.

No attachment to the character since my only exposure has always been that he would occasionally cross over into Spider-Man comics, and when I did see him I (correctly) assumed he was a Marvel rip-off of Bruce Lee which means I was never all that excited when he did cross over. Movie looks decent from the trailer, definitely looks worth watching as long as the reviews are at least mixed.

Oh, wow...the forums were up for about seven months before this post. All my earliest posts are gone!

I haven't thought about serial numbers in well over a decade. Where's the new thread discussing them you're referring to? And how on earth did you find this one--was it from a Google search? The forum's search function only finds stuff within the last five years doesn't it?