Recent Purchases March 2020 Edition
 

New Month, new thread. Let's show off what you got this month.

Found an absolute madlad selling this for its original price rather than the $200+ it typically goes for on the aftermarket. Arrived in near perfect condition too.

March is getting off to a great/terrible start:

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That's, from least to most important:

-Transformers Ectotron
-Transformers Earthrise Leader Class Optimus Prime
-A deluge of tiny mans (SO-DO Chronicle OOO ComboChange2, SO-DO Zero-One AI 02 and 03)
-and Power Pack Classic Omnibus (Volume 1, they said optimistically), collecting the first three years of Power Pack comics. This was the first series I ever collected as a kid, and I'm thrilled they've put this many issues in one giant book. Between this and August's upcoming Legion of Super-Heroes: Five Years Later Omnibus, it's looking to be a great year for me getting all-time favorite comic series in archival-quality hardcovers.

Wait, OOO Chronicle 2 is out already?! Damn. Feels like only yesterday they got shown off...

Hope you're ready to have zero context for those zero-one figures for like a year :p

Yeah, I'm glad that most of the Zero-One sets I've gotten in have had stuff from the Grease movie, since I just watched that. The other tiny mans and womans, the ones I won't learn about until 2021... I'm not sure how many of those I'm going to build versus how many I'm going to leave until I start watching the show. I don't know. I'm backed up on SO-DO right now, so it's easy to leave the Zero-One characters for later, but there's probably (hopefully?) going to be a point where I've got no other tiny mans to build, and there'll be these tiny mans and womans just sitting there, sooooo...

Dang man, you're really going all in on So-Do. Glad you're enjoying it! I apologise to your wallet for giving you your first taste of them. My OOO wave 2 hasn't arrived yet, I'm eagerly awaiting it. Despite not having watched OOO yet, Tajador is one of my favorite looking suits in the franchise

Tajador is right up there with RabbitRabbit as one of my favourite suits! And Liner Form is also really good... Flame Dragon isn't bad either...

I think I just really like red super forms

So, maybe controversial opinion, but I feel like the monochrome OOO suits lose some of what's fun and special about the aesthetic.

When I first saw the OOO basic suit in (I think) the Build/Ex-Aid movie, the red/yellow/green against a black bodysuit, I found it super intriguing. Those colors shouldn't all work together, but they totally do. (I'm no artist, but I think making the secondary color, green, the largest non-black color block helps to lessen what could be a garish contrast.) The OOO designs that get me the most excited are the weirder, multi-color ones. So, TaJaDor, it's very pretty, but it's not what I love best about OOO.

I've got a Mandarake order that should be showing up in the next week (some random Build tiny-man-halfs, and RIDE PLAYER NICO), but besides that and AmiAmi preorders, I'm pumping the brakes on older figs, at least until I work through this backlog. Put together Build SharkBike last night, and I brought Evol(t) Black Hole to work to sticker up after lunch, so I'm definitely feeling that SO-DO bug. I'll probably be cleared out and buying more soon enough. It's hard to say No to these tiny mans!

That's very fair, but to me the context of them being the 'special' more powerful ones is what makes them work for me. Like, it's a specific unusual thing when he's going all of the same colour, if that makes sense.

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Got myself Black Series Jedi Knight Revan and LC Magna Defender recently.

Sure, no, that totally makes sense. I'll always take the cleanliness and dynamism of TaJaDor over the busyness and So Many Things detailing of other powered-up suits. (Cosmic States! Why Cosmic States?!) It's just, there's a flattening out of stuff on monochrome suits that bums me out a little bit. If anything, I'd kind-of like to see, like, Rainbow OOO, with every color represented, Build Genius-style. I think Eiji could pull it off!

Endgame Thor (took 5 weeks for N-Y to ship this dude, and I chose EMS shipping!)
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Planet X War for Cybertron Ultra Magnus and Dr Wu Filler pieces for Siege WfC Ultra Magnus
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MMC Incursus and Upgrade Set
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Storm Collectibles Goro
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Mezco PX Exclusive Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
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Doctor Who The Annimation Collection

Power Of The Daleks Parts 1 - 6 Colorized
Shada
The Scream Of The Shakla
The Infinity Quest
Dreamland

Doctor Who XXXVII Resolution

Doctor Who
The Lost Television Episodes
12 CD Set

Marco Polo
The Reign Of Terror
The Crusade
Galaxy 4
The Myth Makers

Mission Impossible VI Fallout DVD
Hurricane Ranger Shout Factory set

Saved By The Bell The Complete Collection
Shout Factory Set

Good Morning Miss Bliss
Saved By The Bell
Saved By The Bell The College Years
Saved By The Bell Hawaiian Style
Saved By The Bell II Wedding In Las Vegas

Fuller House Series IV DVD (Netflix exclusive)
Cobra Kai Series I And 2 (You Tube Red Exclusive)
Warehouse 13 Series I - V

The Annimation Collection is a USA exclusive DVD set.

First haul of the month from AmiAmi and Mandarake:

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Looks like this week brought:
-Transformers Furai Model Kit: Devastator
-Transformers: The TV Manga Vol 1
-Marvel Monograph: The Art of Chris Bachalo
-and, as usual, a bunch of tiny mans and one tiny woman. This whole batch of SO-DO was done to offset the shipping on the Nico/Gamedeus Cronus pack. Legit psyched to get Ride Player Nico all stickered up. Shout out to Deepsea for reminding me she existed as a figure!

ToraUFO is pretty cool, was the first So-Do to have wrist articulation if I remember correctly! SmaphoWolf was another really fun looking one. Never collected Ex-Aid So-Do, but Poppy had a pretty cool design that I imagine would translate well into plastic

I love how the tractor beam of the UFO forms a little shoulder cape. I LOVE IT. I'm always impressed with how the Build suits find a clever way to incorporate the most random bullshit.

Poppy is maybe the next exclusive I need to pull the trigger on. Her or Prime Rogue, I don't know. It's almost time for another Mandarake order because I am weak so weak I should just give them my bank account numbers and they can give me what money they don't want oh god they know I need the tiny mans and tiny womans they got me they got me cold

I'd definitely recommend Prime Rogue if you don't mind paying a bit extra for a figure. The colors on it are gorgeous. Purple, gold, black and teal is an incredible combination

Time Ranger ordered this morning from Shout Factory VIA Amazon. Comes in Wednesday.

Got some retail transformers for like the 3rd time in the last year or so, Earthrise Prime and Wheeljack, and while I recognize the compromises that had to be made for a retail toy compared to a 3rd party figure, I really like both of these.
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I really love Prime, in particular, despite feeling like he probably costs $10 more than he should. He's just a really great figure. I am totally up for buying repaints of this one, black, white, purple, whatever.


my cousin found Jurassic World figures on sale so I was able to get Owen and Blue for a mere $35, together.
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Finally, I got a pretty good deal on the SHF Hulkbuster Mk II, yaay!

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I still hope to find a good deal on the Mk I Hulkbuster some day, so I don't always regret selling it.

I also got Mission Impossible VI Fallout and Hurricane Ranger on DVD.

Endgame Thor finally shipped and arrived:

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Look who finally decided to show up!

Did not originally intend to pick up Jiren but since EB Games had it for a price (with the Edge discount) that was less than what I would have paid if I pre-ordered from Japan, I figured I would regret it if I didn't since I have UI Goku pre-ordered anyways. Haha.

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Cliffjumper and DNA Upgrade kit for Siege Ultra Magnus
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Mezco One 12 Upgrade Suit Spider-Man
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Look who finally arrived at my doorstep.

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Small week, but some good stuff.

-Magic Square Bluestreak
-Bishoujo Batwoman (not usually a bishoujo guy, but I love that costume, and I think Shunya Yamashita captured it well)
-and, like everyone else this week, ANKH!

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I don't usually post photos of displays, but I was so psyched to get him that I wanted him up with my other Riders immediately.

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I -- oh, he dropped his phone. Weird. Let me --

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Wait, what is he --

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Wait --

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WAIT --

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NO --

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WAIT --

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SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT

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That was supposed to be a vid of Ken Watanabe saying "Let them fight" but I suck at the internet.

Man, we all make mistakes. Like, birds and cats, on the same shelf? Should've known better! Did not think that one through!

Now this is something I want to see in the next Super Hero Taisen.

DX Slash Riser ( pre-order )

DX Crime Counting W Progrise Key

DX Kiramei Changer

DX Build Gashat

CSM New Den-O Belt

Endgame War Machine Mk VI arrived!
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-Highlander: The Search for Vengeance
-Marvel Legends Angela
-Bring Arts Freya & Beatrix 2-Pack

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• Nendoroid Jasmine
• S.H. Figuarts Hulk (Infinity War)
• S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Zero-One Rising Hopper
• Transformers Masterpiece Lio Convoy
• S.H. Figuarts Thor (Endgame)
• Power Rangers Lightning Collection Zeo Blue Ranger
• Dragon Stars Cooler Final Form
• Transformers Earthrise Grapple
• Transformers Earthrise Hoist
• Star Wars Black Series Knight of Ren
• Star Wars Black Series Commander Bly
• Transformers Earthrise Optimus Prime
• Transformers Earthrise Ironworks
• Transformers Earthrise Cliffjumper
• World of Nintendo Wario
• Takara Tomy Greninja
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Figma Gilgamesh (re-release)

Picked up the Tech Suit Spidey by Mezco, since I have the Homemade and Upgrade Suits (and Stealth Suit on pre-order), figured I might as well have them all.
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New Items

TMNT 2007 (Replacement disk)
Samurai Jack The Complete Series DVD
Mission Impossible VI Fallout DVD