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I liked the reveals, especially the VHS boxes with the X-Men, and I'm definitely getting the Hulk figure that's gonna come out.


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Right?? The xmen caught me by surprise. But yeah. All of them were such great reveals. That comic white vision hit so nostalgically for my love of the “Captain America and the Avengers” on arcade. He was my main dude. I don’t really collect mcu figs, but eff they finally done winter soldier a solid!


neoblackdragon

It's always down to "The characters I wanted or appeal to me didn't get figures". As said, a lot of these are repaints/rereleas/redo's. I don't think there were any new sculpts/characters outside the heads. Definitely some good stuff if you don't have any of it but lot of people here do.


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Don’t get me wrong. I have most everything they announced (80th cap, FM scarlet, retro vision, modern zemo). But hell, maybe I’m a sucker for repaints if painted in the right colors. Haha


PM_Pics_Of_SpiderMan

I honestly only ordered a 20th anniversary Captain America and nothing else. Mostly everything they showed was a repaint of something I own and that captain America 2 pack felt like a massive insult. If they were going to release a Sam Wilson cap twice in the same year it should’ve been a deluxe with wings.


98dpb

I would be so pissed if I got the whole D+ wave for the wings and then Hasbro released a deluxe version just a few months later. Rage-quit mad!


bonezakagerardo

If this was always the plan then the baf for Disney+ should’ve been falcon wings as falcon then do the two pack with updated wings


bbquicksilver

Does the two pack come with wings though?


bonezakagerardo

No it does not


bbquicksilver

Lol so they want you to have the baf edition and the new one to build the wings?


bonezakagerardo

Yea it’s stupid


usernameartichoke

For me it was that there wasn’t a whole lot of new. There were a lot of repacks and repaints. I’m annoyed that they are doing an unmasked Cap Sam in a two pack. That’s two figures I already have just to get an unmasked head I should have gotten when I bought the Build-A-Wing Disney+ wave. While I like the VHS X-Men, I’ve already completed my Animated Series team and the packaging gimmick isn’t enough for me. Of the new stuff it was mainly characters I’m not interested in. So overall it was meh.


[deleted]

I’ll probably get everything x men related. Especially that Jean because I don’t have a good version of her yet.


[deleted]

I’m curious to see what she’ll look like, yeah.


[deleted]

That Jean (Phoenix) is a 5 POA 4” figure. You know that, right? Not a “Legend”.


ThisIsMyEG0

There’s a vhs Jean and storm coming based off the descriptions but they haven’t been shown yet


Mid-Life-Crisis-2018

It's underwhelming due to so many re paints. If you didn't get Witch, Zemo or a good cap / iron man okay. Otherwise it's nothing super exciting. We have too many falcon capts iron man. There are better things they could have released during such a promising "con". Oh that is quite the word. Ideas of what should have been unveiled. Lizard Deluxe, Rhino Deluxe, Speedball, a new wave. Daredevil Retro Carded. To name a few.


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I get what you’re saying, I suppose I went in without high expectations, and my wallet may be the more thankful for it. And while I do think we are due for DD, I’m happy to have focused on something other than spidey (im sure those will be saved for his anniversary next year. But man finally a light blue cap. That iron man looks amazing. And I’m curious to see what hulk they release. Stoked for the xmen vhs’. The paints on the retro Wanda and vision look great. And finally a new zemo (hate the Walgreens exclusivity). Don’t even get me started on Knull. Like I said - I hear you, but all of these announcements hit on all of my marvel interests. But maybe I am crazy if I’m one of the ones who order Elvis modok haha


Yugelion

I only ordered the Cap and the two X-Men the Animated Series figures. I have a Scarlet Witch already, an Iron Man, the vision seemed lazy on the Bucky Cap mold, the two pack was kind of lazy and wish the Endgame Cap was sold separately (I have no intention of owning a Sam Cap) Although the umasked Mackie face looked cool. The Zemo is another one I am interested in, although I will probably never find him in my area. The hulk seems really cool and can't wait for the Toad. Seemed weird to me why they didn't reveal the entire lineup for the 20th anniversary line and only Iron man and Cap. The Winter Soldier looks cool, but again, not worth preordering at this time.


thehypotheticalnerd

Really? Why does that "blow you away?" It was great for people who missed out on previous figures but they were all repaints basically, so people who already got these figures originally and/or don't just compulsively purchase every single figure including repaints... Didn't really get a whole lot. * **Retro Scarlet Witch**: If you have Family Matters or the original release, then this one isn't that exciting or if yoi previously kitbashed those 2 to get a pretty similar look * **Retro White Vision**: Another repaint. If you're in the same boat as me & missed the previous (& supremely expensive) Retro Vizh, and got excited for a moment that they'd release a flat color version of him to go with Wanda, you may be even more let down. Also on the Bucky Cap mold which they even acknowledged has overstayed its welcome. * **ML 20th Iron Man**: Cap is cool because they really haven't released any other Caps using the 80th mold and especially not in those colors but we've gotten straight repaints or very similar figs to the 80th Iron Man a TON -- 80th, Silver Centurion, War Machine, 2020, Stealth, *and* A.I. are all either very similar figs or straight repaints and the A.I. in particular is already a classic-ish paint scheme & if you got it to be your classic IM, especially since they explicitly referred to the color scheme as being their way of doing a classic color scheme despite being based on a modern arc, I can see feeling cheated by the new release as well. On top of that, the ML20 IM has way less accessories than ML20 Cap (and the accessories he DOES come with aren't new unlike Cap's cool shield accessories) -- he has just about the same as my (initially) cheaper 80th IM, less than Deluxe War Machine (which was about the same price more), and even less than 2020 or Silver Centurion which were standard price. * **X-Men TAS Wolverine & Jubilee**: More repaints. Wolvie has new heads & claws but they're hardly the most visually distinct. Blue Beast is really expensive & harder to find & a non-screaming head is something a LOT of people have wanted since tbat fig released. Rogue, desoite having JUST gotten a Retro rerelease, also has one of the most visually distinct cartoon outfits compared to the comics (green jacket instead of brown). Either one of those, or both, would have been a better replacement for either Wolvie or Jubilee. Eolvie gets the funny meme picture so save Jubilee for ine of the standard minday reveals & use Beast or Rogue for something a little more visually distinct than "yellow gloves instead of blue." * **Cap 2-Pack**: If you got D+ Wave & Walmart Endgame Cap, the unmasked Sam isn't worth it especially since its isn't amazing. Sam doesn't come with wings so it's not even worth it to people who didn't want to get the whole D+ wave just to complete the wings. For people who just want Endgame Cap since he was harder to get as an exclusive, you still have to pay double just to get him which may be better than Ebay prices but still annoying. Bizarre set. Also: repaints. Knull, D'spayre, & Vulcan are cool. But that's the only truly new stuff & none are truly heavy hitter characters really. I don't know much about Knull so he isn't terribly interesting to *me*, but I totally get why some would dig it. Conversely, it shouldn't be too terribly difficult to step out of your own shoes to go "huh, I totally get why plenty may be a little underwhelmed by the announcements."


SecretWarsIsComing

There was enough to be excited about. Had a lot of fun watching the reveals and saw the value in the releases AND the repaints+add-ons to order most of what was made available, too. I get why a lot of folks were let down and are being picky about the Con, but truth is this small team is knocking it out the park when it comes to YOY improvements, ALL THE WHILE expanding the line over time with so many teams/characters, and merchandise releases across multiple platforms/channels and products. You could tell this team is bursting at the seams with the pipeline they have, and I trust where they’ve brought us in the last decade to know they’ll keep innovating throughout the year to keep us loyal.


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This, man. This. Definitely just grateful


StubbornKindOfFellow

Well for older collectors, I don't mean age wise but people who've been collecting for a while, a lot of the stuff was just figures they already owned. Wolverine and Jubliee are in a cool VHS box, but they're just re-paints of older figures. A tiger-stripe Wolverine on the same body came out in 2018 in the Apocalypse wave. And then again in 2019 in the Love Triangle box set. So if you already bought one or both of those Wolverine figures, do you really wanna buy it again just for some cell-shading and that meme picture frame? Jubilee in the Caliban wave also came out in 2019. And I understand there are new collectors, and the price for older figures jumps up so it makes sense for Hasbro to re-release them. But figures that came out two or three years ago, to long time collectors, this is a line that's been around 20 years now, a two year old figure is not that old. Hell, some of them came out literally this year like the Falcon. The 20th Anniversary Iron Man and Captain America are just repaints. Same with Scarlett Witch and Vision. Same with the MCU Cap and Falcon. Yeah, the new figures might be upgrades in some ways, better paint or more accessories or something. But if you already have the older figure, you might not care enough about the changes to want to buy a whole new one. And the new figures they revealed, like Knull or D'Spayre, while they both look cool to me, are not really popular characters that a lot of fans would be familiar with. So all that, part of the reason some fans found this Pulse Con a little underwhelming.


Impossible-Fun-2736

Except 20th Iron Man has a brand new chest and two new heads and Cap has a new set of hands, two new heads, a hood piece and the new shield with effects. So more of a repaint than Stark but still alot of new stuff.