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Sadly gonna have to sit this one out...going to be attending SDCC for the first time this year, and since this overlaps that, can't guarantee I'll be able to get grades in every round...looking forward to the next one, though!

On 6/28/2023 at 9:05 AM, F For Fake said:

Oh, I love those Alpha Flight sets. I have bought and resold them so many times. I love the fact that at one point in time, Alpha Flight merited a sub toyline that was selling on toy store shelves. Blows my mind. SO, I pick them up...then eventually I sell them, because, eh, I don't need them. Then, eventually I run into them again and think "Man< i do love these." and I buy them again.

I've done this like three times.

They are super neat. And I'm not really a Byrne guy, but I think it's so cool that they used his art on the cardbacks and trading cards. Just a really cool presentation all around. 

Definitely agree. Plus they just look so clean and nice compared to some [most] of the ToyBiz sub-sets like X-Force and Gen X.

Argh, I forgot this was starting late Friday, and I don't usually check my computer over the weekend...ah well!

I'm in!

On 6/12/2023 at 10:33 AM, F For Fake said:

Drives. Me. Crazy. Still, happy the book is finally out.

Couldn't agree more...mine is still in transit, but I hate the fact that my copies are different spines (mine are a 2-3 split).

I'm in!

On 2/10/2023 at 4:10 AM, Flex Mentallo said:

A year in Taschen.

Great set! I love Taschen's comic-related books. Well, most of their books, really, but these are the only ones I'm interested in. They just all look so nice and well-made. I have the 75 Years of Marvel and 75 Years of DC first print XXL editions, plus a small stack of their little books. If only they weren't so expensive, I'd probably have more, heh.

The Royal Mail is putting out a series of stamps and other assorted whatnots celebrating 60 years of the X-Men! Already put in my pre-orders, items are listed as being available from February 16th. Some good items there, a few of which are limited runs.

https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/x-men

On 2/2/2023 at 6:33 PM, Ken Aldred said:

I'm astonished that Goldballs wasn't suggested as an option.

If only they'd put someone from The Five on the team, I'd love to see Proteus as an X-Man, haha.

I threw my vote in for Dazzler. Honestly, the lineups for all three years have disappointed me. Isn't the point of Krakoa that there was total mutant amnesty and everyone's equal now, until you prove you can't get along? I want more former villains in these votes...and not already-reformed ones like Frenzy. Real former villains. 2021 had Tempo, who never really landed big and then went to obscurity for 20 years. 2022 had...what, Gorgon and Avalanche? Avalanche had already sort of reformed in the Utopia era. Sadly, they already took the best villains and made them Council members, so it's already hard to get them into the lineup...I can't even think of who to put on there now. Which I guess goes well towards how they've reformed a lot? Or just how many never made strong impacts, so the pool of "good" villains is smaller or non-mutant. Ah well. I guess what I mean to say is...

Dazzler forever!

(But especially if paired with Banshee or Siryn.)

Ahh, well then thanks so much, @Murphman13!

A bit late coming back to the thread, but I've been away for a while so I wasn't able to open my gift until earlier this week. I didn't see anything in it that indicated who Boardie name-wise sent it, so I can't direct a shout-out (though maybe I missed something somewhere on it?), but thanks to whoever it was!

Put in my form, especially as I won't be able to pick live. Had trouble ordering, there were so many great items on the list this year!

My item (#10) should specify US only for shipping. Sorry.

Has the form been posted for absentee picking yet? Didn't want to miss it...

Stuff for my gift ordered, waiting for it all to arrive to wrap and send out...

Same, been getting it left and right this morning, along with a lot of slowness.

Argh, I got swept up in stuff all weekend and forgot about this...bah to me 

I'm in! I need to take some pictures, but I have a (used/read) copy of the Planetary Omnibus hardcover to offer!

I'm in, if there's still space!

I totally got these reversed in my head, thought this was the raffle and not the gift exchange, was reading through the instructions, and was like, "They aren't even starting the gift exchange thread until late Nov/early Dec?! That's not nearly enough time to try to find stuff!"...then wondered why I needed to send in a PM for the raffle, and realized I'd mentally flipped them 

My horribly wrong guesses are in!

On 10/11/2022 at 9:35 PM, Buzzetta said:

There's an even better way. 

Pro Badges and Exhibitors are prohibited from getting autographs or sucking up the time of talent before the paying attendees have a chance.  If caught you lose your status.  

This is coming from someone who has a pro badge. 

Can I echo this? I was in the line for a Jim Lee autograph Friday morning, and the entire line was kept waiting 45m after the scheduled start time, just because Lee was doing private signings/sketchings for other pros/exhibitors.

Like, I get that you want to do that for some friends while you're in town together, and that's great...but don't do it during the scheduled time that other people have actually paid to get signatures. There were nearly a few fights in line and one person got ejected, because people had other paid, scheduled events that they were going to miss, all because Lee held up the line so long doing stuff for other pros/exhibitors. Meanwhile, even the staff were getting concerned, because people were already showing up and lining up for the next signing scheduled, which was only around 15m away by the time he got started with the first batch.

Every time I went near Momoko's line...it was insane. I walked by the booth a few times when nothing was happening and nobody was there. But when she was...man. The alley went insane each time.

Congrats! As others have said, I can only imagine the burden that's lifted. Now someone start the timer for how long until you're back in the game...