joe_collector

And these are the same people who spent $50 a day on coins/gems/diamond/gold/etc. for Freemium IOS games, whose OCD force them to pay, pay, pay to get their instant gratification. Whales! That's what the gaming industry calls those people. They're rare in the gaming world, but they shell it out. I think it's really sad that the gaming biz has stooped to stealing from the disadvantaged in order to make a buck. And I don't spend a cent on IOS simply because of all the freemium and paid games going freemium. The first time a game I paid for went freemium, I vowed never to spend another dime on mobile games, and I won't. Being able to arbitrarily change the license like that is a super scam.

And these are the same people who spent $50 a day on coins/gems/diamond/gold/etc. for Freemium IOS games, whose OCD force them to pay, pay, pay to get their instant gratification.

Nope, there is no chance there, just "pre-August 1990" (i.e. Copper) appearances, and NM 87 nicely slides right into late-late-late-CA.

I don't see anything wrong with established members with a long sales history running something like this, but you can't run around enforcing this and excluding newer members.

The reason I am asking it is NOT because of 1Cool, but because once you open the door, the rest of the dirt will automatically flow in. What happens when a 12-post newbie starts a raffle thread, and people buy tickets (and they will, from past experience with newbie sales threads) are you going to be against them then? And BTW, the only laws are against running a raffle for PERSONAL gain - local charities, churches, non-private schools, etc. are exempt. It's only when a person or a for-profit business runs an unlicensed raffle that it breaks lottery laws.

Once Liefeld Mania really took off, New Mutants was the best-selling book on the rack. People tend to forget that, and it's why I always liked NM 87 compared to 90-100, as this issue was before the rush, and had a much lower print run due to NM selling badly, Liefeld being an unknown and Cable really catching everyone by surprise. It's still far from rare, but relative to the other NM issues, it's downright scarce. Imagine is Deadpool debuted in 87 instead of 98. Imagine if Cable appears in a movie.

And it's now a 9.4!!

Story of my life. Yep, he probably sold his under-copy and made a profit.

Are all these raffles I see popping up allowed on the selling forums? I know you have to have a lottery license to run these in North America, and I'm not sure what's going on.

Somehow greggy found it in his shriveled heart to wade through his longboxes, and selected a wide array of his high-grade rejects to add to my Byrne-geoning 70's Marvel stash, all shipped before my slowass paid, packed like he was expecting WWIII to erupt, and taped together by his part-time mountain gorilla assistant. It's good to be back.

Once Liefeld Mania really took off, New Mutants was the best-selling book on the rack. People tend to forget that, and it's why I always liked NM 87 compared to 90-100, as this issue was before the rush, and had a much lower print run due to NM selling badly, Liefeld being an unknown and Cable really catching everyone by surprise. It's still far from rare, but relative to the other NM issues, it's downright scarce.

Real content is expensive and time-consuming, while pressing "+ 5%" on their price guide program took about 2 seconds.

Those two books look nothing alike, and I think a good part of the price difference is the QP (along with stupid bidders) of the latter copy.

Oh man, I'm buying me a case of those.

No idea, but this is another one I would try to snag whenever I saw it (and it doesn't pop up often in NM) - it seems that any 20/25-cent "first appearance" is being mined hard by the speculators.

I would have put the $5 extra on just to be able to play RDR off the HD.

Now that's a deal. (thumbs u

Okay, so Kevin Bacon was only 55 when the movie was released - totally blew my point out of the water.

Exactly, I don't know what movie he watched, but Fassbender and Bacon comprised the majority of the X-men First Class, and then you add in McAvoy and Jones for another 1/4.

Wow, did you even see the movie? Main Stars/Roles: Michael Fassbender - Magneto - age 37 Kevin Bacon - Sebastian Shaw - age 56 James McAvoy - Prof. X - age 35 These three actors had the primary roles, and along with (January Jones - White Queen - age 36) provided the basic plotline - Magneto was the clear star of the movie and Shaw was the main villain, while the producers smartly allowed the younger actors to play co-starring roles as neophyte X-Men. The FF casting is totally different, and it's the younger actors with 3 of the 4 main roles.

Because the first movie made them $80 million in pure profit, but the second one made almost nothing, which is why they're retooling it for the Twilight crowd. And this is a really stupid plan, because virtually all the glut of Twilight clones have tanked at the box office. There was a great article about this recently and I couldn't believe the sheer number of YA movies and novel adaptions that absolutely died at the box office - some were gone so fast (although they had big budgets and stars) that I didn't even know they were released.

Come on, the studio didn't make anywhere near those amounts, and when theater take, currency adjustment, film and distribution expenses, promotion, advertising, etc. are taken into account, I seriously doubt they make more than $100 total, on both movies, in net profit. If you see a WW box office total, take approximately 55% of it as take-home by the studio, then subtract production budget, advertising budget and distro/film copies, etc. Probably about $70 million on FF1 and maybe $20 million on FF2 in net take-home profit. And then that $90 million in real money gets put through the HW accounting machine and it comes out as a massive loss.

But then the studios have your money - and I'll wait for some reviews before even thinking about spending a cent.

Here's some early press photos from Reed and Sue's wedding:

The point is, that by casting these young adults (not Mara) as the FF, it's clear they're going to the Twilight/teen-angst angle, and are not remotely interested in making a quality movie. There will be a lot of soulful stares, angry love triangles, I'm-in-lust-confrontations, and the obligatory "Why can't I get the girl!!" whining by Ben Grimm.