McFarlane Toys: The Walking Dead

[NoodleChow]

I'm gonna hold out hope for an Abraham Ford and somehow a hair/hat Glenn with swappable Neganified head.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Any word yet on a comic series 4/tv series 7? Todd was busy selling his ******** building blocks at SDCC.

 

[RPM716]

Any word yet on a comic series 4/tv series 7? Todd was busy selling his ******** building blocks at SDCC.

Nope, nothing. If I had to guess, I'd say TV Series 7 will likely pop up on BBTS or another site first, and Comic Series 4 will likely be revealed at New York Toy Fair.

 

[RPM716]

Speaking of TV Series 7, what do you guys want to see? A line-up I'd like to see is:
-Biker Daryl (New torso overlay and arms)
-Beth Greene
-Joe
-Sasha (With better fitting riot gear)
-Season 5 premiere Zombie(? Dunno any zombies to go here)
If they do another Series 6 Governor thing, I'd like to see a Maggie with a decent head sculpt and maybe the sweater from the second half of Season 4. Hell, I'd take a new Maggie (with the Daryl hip articulation) over Beth to be honest.

 

[Buttmunch]

Got series 3 today from BBTS. Overall, I'm very impressed. Great line. Biggest issue though are the loose joints. Some are pretty floppy. The zombie has a floppy arm, but since he's a zombie, it works. Dwight is really bad though. Mostly his wrists. Makes it hard for him to do much. I can't even get him posed holding the crossbow ready to fire, which is very disappointing considering they've done Daryls that could and there is no reason they couldn't have had the same articulation in the arms for that.

Other than the loose joints, the only issue I have is Dwight's chest hair paint. It doesn't look like hair. It basically looks like he slid in poop. There is just no definition of individual hairs. Its just one big blob on brown. I'd have rather there been very little or no painted hair there rather than what we ended up with.

Besides the loose joints and chest hair, the wave is fantastic. Probably the best comic line up wave yet and Rick is near perfect. I'd have liked him to have a pistol rather than the TV revolver and it would have been nice for some alternate hands (maybe even an unbandaged arm). Would have liked to see some ungloved Andrea hands too. But those are pretty minor nits. I plan on getting at least 1 more Rick to swap the head on to Riot Glenn and have a Riot Gear Rick to go with him.

Its great having Ezekiel and Negan to go with this wave. Really makes me wish we had a better Michonne now, but with as few figures we get with the comic waves, its hard justifying variants in this line, even of major characters. Rick was REALLY needed as he changed so much since the first figure's look. I'd like to see them pop out a variant with the leather jacket (would jus require new arms and a jacket 'vest' to go over the current torso) some how. I'm glad Skybound is getting exclusive figures. We were able to get 1 1/2 waves worth of figures this last year since wave 2 and SDCC Governor hit. 6 figures is much better than just the 4 a normal wave haves. Not sure why they felt Dwight was better for retail than Negan or why Ezekiel wasn't a great candidate for a box site with Shiva. Those would have been changes they should have made, but I'm just happy to get what we get as it is. I'm glad we get 2 TV waves a year, but I'd really like to see the comic line get that kind of treatment as well. Or at least larger waves like the TV line. 4 figures with at least 1 of those a zombie really makes it tough to get lots of main characters. Heck, we still haven't gotten Carl and now everyone's looks have changed so much with the time gap we need new versions of everyone we already have

 

[Buttmunch]

Speaking of TV Series 7, what do you guys want to see? A line-up I'd like to see is:
-Biker Daryl (New torso overlay and arms)
-Beth Greene
-Joe
-Sasha (With better fitting riot gear)
-Season 5 premiere Zombie(? Dunno any zombies to go here)
If they do another Series 6 Governor thing, I'd like to see a Maggie with a decent head sculpt and maybe the sweater from the second half of Season 4. Hell, I'd take a new Maggie (with the Daryl hip articulation) over Beth to be honest.

I think Biker jacket/poncho Daryl would be a good candidate for the "flashback" variant singles line like Shane and Michonne. Minimal new parts, high demand character. Easy to sell full cases of him to retailers. Plus its been a while since we had a single carded Daryl.

For series 7, I could see:

Beth (she's due now I think) Maybe with Judith
Bloody eye plague zombie
Eugene (got to add to the group)
Bob

Other than that, I'm not really sure. There are a lot of female characters to be made at the moment : Beth, Tara, Rosita, Judith, Michonne in pirate shirt update, etc. I'm just not sure they'd do more than 1 female in a wave. I could see them doing 2 tops, but I don't see them doing more than that unless one is a zombie or Judith is packed with someone else, like maybe Beth. Sad truth of retail toys.

I suppose Joe is still a possibility though. The "winter wave" still seems influenced on the previous season rather than the current, upcoming one, which is where I'd expect series 8 figures to come from. Just not sure if Joe and his gang were a big enough part of the show to warrant a figure. I'd expect Gareth sooner rather than later though as he seems to be the Governor replacement.

I still wouldn't be surprised to see another Governor though. I think a leather jacket finale version could be cool. Might be a good multi pack with a Herschel variant if they ever go that route. Might be a good Flashback figure down the line as well. Still no idea if they plan on doing older character that route as well. Lori? Dale? T-Dog? New Sheriff Rick etc

 

[Dyson]

6 figure asst...

Beth
Sasha
Zombie (We need to catch up)
Zombie Female "we're due"
Zombie
Zombie

Still like to see Dale, Lori and T-dawg too.

 

[Johnny Utah]

My choice would be:

Eugene
Gareth
Rosita
Sasha
Zombie

and

Father Gabriel...

...but only to have a figure of Seth Gilliam! He kicked so much ass in The Wire!

 

[TurdFerguson]

I've shown them before but here's all my custom Ricks

(some more customized then others)

 

[Buttmunch]

Still surprised this wasn't the SDCC exclusive

Simplest of simple customs. Just pop and swap heads. Tried using Rick's neck joint, but its too short, so I left Glenn's in. Now to come up with some use for the Glenn head and Rick body!

 

[Dyson]

Thanks.... Now I need another Rick

 

[mikedanger]

anyone else grab the season 4 CE yesterday?

 

[KingGrayskull]

I envy you. In Germany they will not release it before November to hype the free TV premiere on Helloween. Fortunatly S4 is restarting this Friday on pay TV (FOX Germany). Finally I will see S4!

What scale is the tree zombie?

 

[ocielz]

I got mine yesterday although the arm doesn't rise all the way up, it should but it doesn't

 

[Dyson]

What scale is the tree zombie?

Good question. Photo with figure?

 

[mikedanger]

best i have right now is one next to the season 2 head...

 

[mikedanger]

that sucks, ocielz...i would definitely contact mcfarlane customer support for a replacement

 

[ocielz]

that sucks, ocielz...i would definitely contact mcfarlane customer support for a replacement

I would but I'm fine how it is. It's not like I'm going to be using the gimmick much. I'm not going to leave the Digipack inside, I keep them separate.

 

[DarthTrafford]

best i have right now is one next to the season 2 head...

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I'm so pissed that I missed that season 2 special edition.
It's going for crazy money on eBay and even crazier money for used on Amazon

 

[Dyson]

That Tree zombie isn't 7" scale by any chance is it?