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I’m five towns away from being home... let’s not rush things until the working man has a chance to walk through the door. Bonus points to anyone who posts the proper Bronx Tale meme in response.

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What I would like to see. Fewer people claiming that their childhood was ruined. Less self manufactured butthurt.

Just out of curiosity I pulled out the books from last month and none of them had labels either. I wonder if they put the labels on the book at the point of shipment, rather than when they take possession of them.

They are actually very easy to work with and in times that they have made a mistake, do in fact take care of you.

You and I disagree on TLJ - I loved it, you hated it. However, I stand by my statement that JJ is a hack when it comes to SW movies. Picture this, Luke and Leia concealed the fact that she was having twins from Han. Leia gives birth while Han is away. One child goes into hiding. Rey is the child that goes into hiding. Why would they do something like that? Because JJ is a hack.

Apparently, last night was the wrong night to turn in early...

That was great actually. Movies have depicted it in naval warfare so why not in space? I think in Last Jedi the maneuver was named after the hammerhead ship that did it in Rogue One.

I would say it is more than likely that Leia appears as a Force ghost. In case they need to make any CGI fixes to flows of motion or syncing performance with the audio track of the lines they want to use, it would be easiest to hide the CGI through the force ghost ‘glow’ / ‘haze’.

I dunno about $1,000... But who would have thought that once dollar bin fodder Godzilla books would command $250 each in a 9.8 holder? There is a collector for every item it seems...

I am thinking that they would have retained the date stamp based on the mold. So the 82' is the American release and the 84 was the Sears version. I would guess that when Hasbro passed the molds off to Takara that they handed off the 84 stamped molds with the shovel. It is not completely unusual for re-releases of certain toys back then to retain the date stamps.

Seen a 'few'... but not enough 'yet' if that makes any sense. I have a ROTJ MOC Fett that I would one day sell... (not now), and the others are the ESB 1st Cardback of Yoda, ESB 1st Cardback of Hoth Rebel Soldier, the Jedi Luke POTF figure and a SW 21 Back Hammerhead with a Rocket Firing Fett Offer. Those I think I would keep also for as long as possible. I do not believe i have more than $350 invested in any of them as I bought the Fett and Yoda many many years ago... 10-15? with the Luke being the most I ever spent at $350. I don't think I ever posted my Hammerhead here... I never had the figure as a kid but was always fascinated by him. I wound up picking up my first Hammerhead when going after the complete SW collection loose... Since then I have the Gentle Giant Jumbo figure, (Only Jumbo I own) the AFA MOC, and a few loose figures. More on those on another day.

Glue and the bubble itself. The glue is not getting any stronger over time and the bubble is not becoming less brittle over time. I have 5 AFA MOC figures and all of them are stored away laying flat. Once I start seeing more broken and separating bubbles on AFA graded SW figures that is when I will cash in. I feel that a lot of MOC Toy buying is playing hot potato. That's why I started selling off the GI Joes almost immediately after I completed my collection. I started seeing more and more people looking to fix figures that broke if you sneezed toward them. I also started to see too many people posting pics of AFA graded figures that had snapped while on card or developed elbow cracks at the rivets. They were cool to have for a few months and I indulged myself but I can keep some and sell the rest for profit. The SW figures were made of a much better plastic so I do not mind keeping them indefinitely.

The Wheels are in Motion 2 ! Seriously though, I actually looked into this awhile ago and wondered the same thing after reading through Ian's Wheels are in Motion Thread. I came across this thread:

Nice! I can pay now or I can wait to see what else is coming up...

I do not know what pending specifically means... Does first in the thread still ? If so, I

Jedi Luke Mailcall I won the AFA graded Jedi Luke in Sealed Kenner Baggie... then the eBay incentive came. Picked up the AFA POTF MOC Jedi Luke after the seller discounted it and we settled on another slight discount. Jedi Luke Kenner Baggie AFA 80+ POTF Luke AFA 60 c60/b75/f85 I am not oblivious to the fact that all the MOC stuff is not going to last indefinitely... The bagged figure will last longer I think. However I would like to keep both for now though.

Next time you see Larry Hama, ask him to tell you a Vinnie Colletta story about going out for dessert in Little Italy. I will leave that here and let that be his story to tell. He told it to a friend and myself at NYCC and we left wide eyed and laughing.

I honestly just shook my head.

Okay I laughed and now I have to see if I can turn this into a new hobby when taking pictures through NYC and on the train in the morning. https://www.unilad.co.uk/celebrity/paul-rudds-greatest-talent-is-making-his-pinkie-into-a-great-scrotum-in-all-his-pics/

Hey listen to each their own. I actually enjoyed Rise of Skywalker. If anything i also believed had they never made episode 9 that Last Jedi had the most perfect scene to wrap up the whole series. I loved the idea that it ended on an idea of hope. To me, the Force Awakens was just weak.

True... I started following the boards anonymously around October of 2010. I finally signed up for an account on August 22, 2011 and then finally made my first post on September 14, 2011. One of my friends signed up here years ago and I think they have posted once but they regularly check up on things here.

Great question. It is not so much that I did not know the books existed but that it was possible to obtain the books. For example, these boards made me believe that it was possible to buy main title Golden Age. The boards provided links to outlets and dealers that I never knew existed. They in turn led me to books that only appeared (for me) in coffee table books about comics. As far as other books? I picked up several Sinatra books that I did not know existed because people showed them to me. The Real Life Comics come to mine or the Dell movie adaption of a Sinatra movie. I never knew about Planet Comics or many of the Fiction House books before these boards. If not for these boards I would have never known that GA artists such as Allen Bellman are not only alive but doing sketches which I have added to my collection.

And that's exactly why I hold Force Awakens as the most derivative and boring of the series. I've said it many times, I thought TLJ was infinitely better than TFA. I want new material rather than a reimagining of the old.