Scorpion and Sub-Zero look ok but Raiden and Johnny are aweful. I really wish NECA would get the license or better Hot Toys (though that would seriously burn my wallet). Still I'll probably pick these up since they're the only MK figures availible atm. I do hope we get a Shao Kahn figure though. Despite being disappointed in his design in the new game, I've been wanting a figure of him since I 1993 and I'll take what I can get.

I think it would have been the easiest thing in the world, really. It's the fact that she's got one leg just going all the way out behind her, and another out front. It wouldn't have been the most dynamic pose in the world, but I think she'd have been much better off copping more of a squat, so to speak. She just needed proper centering.
Do you have the Star Sapphire from that line? Her feet are basically pinheads. I have to lean her against a wall.



I gotta say that online's probably a better option for the MOTU classics though, seeing has how it''s primarily aimed at old-school collectors. Probably Ghostbusters too to a lesser extent. MOTU didn't start as online exclusive IIRC, but I think poor sales pushed them to make it as such. That's a line that I do recall a friend of mine having problems finding when it first started out (but now these DC/MOTU 2-packs are flooding TRU shelves near where I live). Damned fine figures though; I bought Hordak as he was the only figure I remember owning as a kid.

We're having opposite experiences for the most part; I got ahold of AzBats easily enough. Only DC figure I missed utterly I really wanted was Gentleman Ghost.

When the GI Joes were pouring out, I was pulling my hair trying to find Major Bludd (who did later flood the market). I got lucky and nabbed the 'Joe' version of Storm Shadow, but I had to do it online as I never once saw him in stores. And oh my god, they should have just sold the B.A.T.S in five-packs. First carded one I saw had to have come a clear four months after the wave hit. One thing that they did with that line that bothers me was the constant re-releases of certain figures they never bothered to improve, or if they did, it was just barely. Duke had the same awful-mid-forearm swiveling claws through most of the line IIRC, and the amount of times they packaged Cobra Commander with some other figure available nowhere else...ugh. I think I had like four of him by the end.

I'm not having much trouble with Marvel save that I haven't seen Thanos around...though I'm not really focusing on too much else apart from X-Men characters. My only real gripe with the line is the questionable choice for incentive figures that are highly desirable but impossible to nab, like classic Havok or, for some reason, a Bullseye who's actually black. My local specialty shop is selling that one for 40 goddamn dollars.

Thanks for posting this Ive had my Ermac pre ordered for quite a while now I think he comes out in august or something. I might buy more of these since the SM series was so rare I have a custom Ermac made from the SM scorpion and that base figure alone cost me $170

Good move preordering that Ermac. I don't care much for these 6 inch figures, but the classic 3 3/4" sound awesome. They can't be worse than the old GI Joe versions....or could they?