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I think I’ll wait for the posted list to see what number I am…can’t keep count of names to remember what number it’s at, and anyway I figure mine’s by the bottom, it usually is lol. Oh, and my lot (26?) should say US shipping, but I’ll cover the first $15 to ship elsewhere.

Pulled out the books for my 80s Mutant gift box!

You keep your carded figures in longboxes? What do they look like inside? (Just curious; still trying to figure out storage solutions to mine.)

Congrats to all the winners!

Feel like I've seen the Superman set before...if it's the one I'm thinking of, it's a good one. Yeah, they made them for everything, though I think I'd say the most common I ever saw or still see are...I don't know what it's officially called, but like, skater art, rat fink art, random 90s-era zigzags, that kind of stuff. I never really had any myself (played it with friends a little, but only had a handful), but a while back, while clearing stuff out, my wife and I found a tube of pogs that she had as a kid, including her OJ Simpson slammer that said Guilty on one side and Not Guilty on the other . I'm hoping to find stuff like this out in the wild at some point or another, but I've only seen a handful of the Hardee's sheets over the years (plus some random loose ones).

You know it! The 90s are alive and well! Pog-wise, I have some Wolverine slammer still sealed from like 2005 when they apparently made some more, and a bunch of unpunched Hardee's three-pog sheets (including some duplicates, if anyone wants to trade ). There were a couple sets put out in the 90s that came all in like a plastic bag kind of deal (store-sold, as opposed to one of the fast food chain meal toys), but I haven't managed to find any of those packages in the wild (they're on eBay, but that's just...not fun, lol).

The Tiger game is awesome; it’s one of my three X-Men toy grails to try and find at a show/random store. Well, top 2 now I guess, since I managed to find my #1 at NYCC this year. Hmm, which I don’t remember if I ever posted… Top 2 things I hope to hunt down now are a working original issue Tiger X-Men game, and then all the X-Men pogs I can find (pooooogs!), preferably unpunched/unopened, hehe.

There’s no reveal thread yet (right? Or did I just totally miss it?), but after coming back from a not-super-fun long weekend trip, I decided to open mine up yesterday for Hanukkah. Thanks to the awesome @ADAMANTIUM for the great X-related grab bag! Gotta love a good Pressman! (One day, I’m going to find some good-looking way to display these games along with these variants, haha.)

After mashing my head on the keyboard several times and taking the average, the number that I came up with was... $975.34!

Yeah, these were re-released at some point in the 2010s, I think. These look like the re-releases.

Pics or it didn’t happen! Thanks to @ADAMANTIUM!

My gift from me is off in the mail already, and my gift to me has (after some accidental hurdles caused by me) been delivered already. Now to decide if I want to open it up later this week/next week for Hanukkah, or leave it for later in the month...

I...need more information. For science, of course.

Sad news...

Woohoo! Raffle time! I'm putting in my very own version of an MMMS mystery box -- that's right, Mutants, Mohawks, Mullets, and Spandex! Gonna fill a medium priority box (or something that size? I dunno, it's a box I got in a previous year's exchange/raffle) with some X-Men or X-related goodness from the glory days of the 80s, when our favorite mutants rocked some questionable hair styles. And while the X-Men may've been dodging the IRS by hiding out in Australia...I think this box'll have to be domestic only.

Congrats! And here's to another X-Men runner, it's definitely doable, especially 94-300!

I got my gift all set, just waiting for wrapping paper to arrive from Amazon later this week and hope to get it shipped out before this weekend!

From the Netflix docuseries Wrestlers...apparently Al Snow is a fan.

Royal Collectibles in Queens (Forest Hills). Beyond that, there's some places in Long Island, but you'd need a car.

Woo!

I kind of agree, I miss the older system of standing in the chutes on the morning of for Main Stage panels...although that made it a little tougher to do multiples, and that doesn't allow for the Empire Stage if they want any kind of reservations there. I managed to get all of my reservations, but two of the people I went with got shut out because they couldn't be around their computers at the time they needed to be for online reservations. I'm not sure there's any good system that would appease everyone, though.

I didn't take a ton of pictures, but I had a pretty good time. Show floor was packed pretty much every day, even Thursday felt more crowded than it usually does. You can definitely feel the decline of the older classes of vendors...I think I saw only one board/card game booth, the number of comic dealers is dropping, the number of vintage toy dealers is dropping (toy dealers overall seem fewer, even the ones just sticking to Legends/Multiverse/Black and other current toys)...and yeah, more mystery boxes, more random "stuff" that tangentially fits (everything that used to be in the "Block" area when they still called it that). The show floor is still fun to crawl through, but it does make me a little more sad each year to see the changes. I agree with other posters that I saw more people walking around with mystery boxes than anything else, but it still looked like the model kits/busts/statutes/etc. were selling well also. The cell service and wifi just seems to get worse every year. The new building (the panel rooms and Empire Stage bldg) are basically a complete dead zone to me in terms of just basic cell service, I get nothing while I'm in there. Almost every booth I stopped at, I heard the dealers complaining about the wifi while trying to make sales, or just straight up complaining about it. The panels I went to, I enjoyed. It definitely suffered from the SAG strike a bit, but not nearly as badly as SDCC did. They still had several spotlight/conversation panels with celebrities, they just couldn't directly talk about struck work. I didn't go to the David Tennant one, but from what I overheard, it sounds like he had a Q&A portion and most of the questions, he couldn't answer. The GOTG conversation panel and the Chris Evans spotlights that I went to both didn't have any kind of Q&A, it was just a moderator and chatting, so they may've adjusted to avoid that by taking out the question portion. They were still there, though, which is more than SDCC had. As others have noted, the dealers that were there still had good selections. There were a decent number of $1/2/3/5/7 boxes, which was nice to see. Wall books had some nice diversity, good pricings, lots of golden age which was nice to see. It wasn't the worst con experience I've had...it may not compare to NYCC 10 years ago, and I agree that at this point, it fits a rebranding as Entertainment Expo or Fan Expo more than a Comic Convention, but it was good. I had a good time, and I had newbies join me on Friday and Sunday and both had a blast and will be returning.

Any X-Mens?

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