i was wondering who that was didn't look like you hehe

good to hear clobberin' time is sitll good, would hate to see the skrulls (although I expect the Chitauri/Skrulls, as they even say people call them Skrulls, will come with that TA) and ff go the way of the dodo.

Couldn't play without my vet thor or vet doom and doombots.

I thought Xplosion got retired too since it was in Universe, guess that's good news

Funny, last I checked. The post on the WK site still had the Critical Mass set missing from the list. People are gonna panic in outrage with this confusion.

Let anarchy rule!

Yep the heroclix.com site still has Critical Mass NOT listed!!!
But what do I care what's retired and what's not. Friends and me only play for fun anyways

the only problem is that the next set after Ultimates automatically retires Clobbering Time (just like it works in Magic)

Ouch, I know we don't speak _that_ highly of Critty Mass but this was rather unexpected.

TB - it has about 5 high use figs, c'mon...

Woah...Cap is 103 points...I didn't notice that before.

It's not listed on the site it is linking to http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix....asp?cid=38843 still says "...the following sets will be tournament legal in Marvel HeroClix Tournaments: Universe, Clobberin' Time, Xplosion, and Ulitimates."

I had been under the impression that the release of Ultimates would retire Clobberin' Time.

Have Wizkids reconsidered the retirement issue? Correct me if I misunderstood, but didn't the original press release state that the most recent base set (Universe) and the last three expansions (Ultimates, Critical Mass and X-Plosion) would be tourney legal.

This would mean that the most recent base set and the last FOUR expansons will be tounament legal.

Is this a change of policy, or just a typo, like excluding Critical Mass from the original post above?

Magister has stated on the WizKids Judges Forum that - 1) there wouldn't be a retirement with the release of Ultimates, and 2) there wouldn't be another retirement this summer.

My take on this is that they realized that if they did retire Clobberin' Time that all the F4 team members would retired; except for Alicia Masters. Of course, I can't forget their arch enemy Dr. Doom.

It appears we finally have a release date for Ultimates too- June 30th. After all sets become tournament legal 2 weeks after their release date and the press release gives July 14th as the date that Ultimates is tournament legal. I was hoping for a sooner date though. That means people going to WWE will be able to get their hands on Ultimates stuff over a month before the rest of us. Pretty much the entire list should be known after the pre-release too. That's kind of early to give the set away. I hope we at least get some Ultimates for our Australian nationals.So any bets on who the first sneak peek will be? I hope it's Mister Sinister. Or they might go with one of the Morlocks or Serpent Society to start with.

Actually I am truly enjoying the lack of sneak peeks. I have felt that the last couple of sets really held no surprises for me. I know I held back a lot on Unleashed and I truly enjoyed buying boosters, at least the first day, didn't see too much variety in the packaging.....anyways I like the surprise and not opening my first booster of a new set and already saying, DEO eh, R Big Barda eh, V Cyborg cool, HDC eh. I didn't even have to look through the dials, I already knew what they were and I had never held the piece before.

103 Points of Anti-Stealthing, Batman Smacking, Goodness!!!