I know I shouldn't, but I just heard your words in the voice of Criswell, that seer of all things in "Plan 9 From Outer Space."

Could be. I'm very curious to see Black Bolt, and how they handle what Rick Jones can switch into, among others.
I don't mind, and prefer the chases be handled the way they've been more recently; I would make the concession that if they want to make them more over-powered, as they were doing for a time, I'm fine with that. I do want them to stick with making them very narrow, short-lived variants of known characters.

The level of a set can be raised appreciably by just giving more thought to the SRs and even Rares, along with giving us generics that are strongly sought-after.
You said it, queenie! Someone who tries the Earth-2 Superman (back when that meant something) as a chase stunt again deserves a junkshot with a steel-toed boot. Edit: Soak it with lighter fluid and set it ablaze first.

Thankee, my friend. Just goes to show what finding a bag of Spawn Pogs can do to a fella.
Dunno about anyone else here, but the closest thing to my own annual garden project involves renewing my love-hate relationship with our lawnmower.

Yeesh, how I wish we could get one without the need to pull on some dang cord to get it started.:cross-eye

So I was trying to come up with a list of songs for a "workout album." I don't care for Raggae, Rap, and shouting metal music. Probably need something a bit more upbeat. Thus far I have these songs as possible additions...

Crazy Train
Separate Ways
Eye of the Tiger
You're the Best Around

There's some other song, and I don't know the name of it. It probably falls under the category of classical music. It's pretty "epic," but I can't think of the name of it. The melody is in my head though.

All that said, I know you're not alone in that view, robedestroyer. I've just always found the chase approach to be the hobbyist equivalent of going nuclear. Besides, while we've yet to see how the new set size/collation will really work out in terms of how collectable a set is, I've found that the SRs - in terms of trying to complete a set via booster pulls - have already been more of a chase than I care for since the switch with Avengers.

The SR's, at least lately, haven't really added much to the collectible aspect of the game for me. You shouldn't pull a chase or sr and feel "oh, well that's nice. " but all too often that's happening more and more. I feel we need to pump more excitement and "Holy cow!" into this game again.

Well, I don't know if this bit of Pogs trivia is good enough to earn you a beer at the Hairy Fist Saloon, but...

From 1990-95, Mayim Bialik of “The Big Bang Theory” starred as Blossom on the TV show of the same name --- which happens to be the same first name as the Hawaiian teacher, Blossom Galbiso, credited with reviving the game of Pogs back in the 1990s.

Will this do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow

I'm in this for the character representations, so when I say "collectable" I simply mean how reasonable is this for me to collect. I get no thrill from the chase, and I saw from fairly early on (even pre-chases) that if all the focus goes to the high-rarity pieces then very soon one finds people opening boosters and if they don't have one of the uber-rare pieces in them they feel that they've been cheated... basically because in a sense they have, if one compares the cost of the booster to the resale value of its revealed contents. Chases kicked this up a notch or two.

Just received my Secret Santa assignment!

Time for a first look to see if he has a wishlist posted.

I disagree. I'm in this very specifically for the playing, not the collecting.

Would quite rare, very high-quality alternate sculpt chases do anything for you in this regard? I like the concept of a "Wow! I got a chase figure! This is awesome!" element, but not the "Hiding game elements from most of the player base" element. Purely aesthetic chases seem like a good idea to me.

That is some impressively arcane trivia.

Nooooooo!


But right now I'm scouring youtube, searching for the song I have in my head. In the beginning, it sounds like a choir hitting a big dramatic note, then it brings it down a peg after that building up again. Think of the final confrontation in a battle, something along those lines is where it would be used in a movie. The beginning of it sounds very similar to the opening few seconds of this song. I can't find it right now!

Oh my. Is it time for that already? I need to get my wishlist together.

I finally found it! But now that I heard it again, I don't think this would be the right fit on a workout sound track. My memory failed me.

Heh. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
You know what? Here's what I have in my head regarding a certain song: based on an old post of yours, whenever I see/hear mention of "Classical Gas," I think of you.

And right now what's in my head is Mrs. Soxolas pointing out, "Oh, sure, you can remember things like THAT, but when it comes to remembering [the most recent forgotten task], THAT you forget!!!"

And so it goes...