{"id":108,"date":"2008-07-15T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-11-06T23:40:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T03:40:59","slug":"action-figure-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/15\/action-figure-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Figure Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been trying to get my hands on two action figures lately.\u00a0They came out a few months ago from Mattel in their line of DC Universe Classics (Wave 2).\u00a0 This is the brand of figures that are now carried in stores like Target.\u00a0 The action figure scuplts\u00a0are surprisingly good for distribution in regular stores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Firestorm\" href=\"http:\/\/dcuniverseclassics.com\/Wave-2\/Firestorm\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/firestorm_newfig.jpg\" alt=\"Firestorm DC Universe Classics figure\" width=\"350\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a>Personally, I&#8217;ve been\u00a0trying to get a <a title=\"Firestorm\" href=\"http:\/\/dcuniverseclassics.com\/Wave-2\/Firestorm\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Firestorm<\/a> and <a title=\"Aquaman\" href=\"http:\/\/dcuniverseclassics.com\/Wave-2\/Aquaman\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Aquaman<\/a> figure.\u00a0 You can see images of the figures here &#8211;\u00a0they look great!\u00a0 Unfortunately, they aren&#8217;t available anymore and are selling online for sick amounts of money.\u00a0 For example, the Aquaman figure\u00a0is going online for about $30, and that&#8217;s before shipping. In regard to the Firestorm figure, after weeks of bidding I actually just won an auction for one.\u00a0 I mean JUST won.\u00a0 When I started typing this blog entry, I was still searching for a Firestorm figure.\u00a0 I happened to find an auction that actually had a somewhat reasonable price.\u00a0 So I ended up paying $19 after shipping.\u00a0 See what I mean, sick amounts of money for action figures.\u00a0 But I gotta say that Firestorm figure looks bad ass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Part of the reason the prices bother me is that I&#8217;m not a &#8220;mint in box&#8221; kind of collector.\u00a0 I buy action figures of characters I really like, take them out of the package and display them.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve been reading my blog for a while, you have probably seen a few entries where I showed off my figures, like <a title=\"Shag's Comicatorium\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2008\/05\/22\/shag%e2%80%99s-comicatorium-aka-shag%e2%80%99s-sanctum-sanctorum\/\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"Doctor Who figs\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2008\/04\/04\/ex-cite-ment-ex-cite-ment\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Aquaman\" href=\"http:\/\/dcuniverseclassics.com\/Wave-2\/Aquaman\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/aqua_newfig.jpg\" alt=\"Aquaman DC Universe Classics figure\" width=\"250\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m going to do about the Aquaman figure.\u00a0 There is no way I&#8217;m going to spend that ludicrous amount of money on a figure, especially since I have lots of other Aquaman figures.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard rumors that more of the Wave 2 figures will be released, so I&#8217;m going to cross my fingers they release some more Aquadude 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