I
am now going to talk a bit about Sergeant Slaughter despite the fact
that he is not a part of this box set.
Actually,
it just struck me how irritating it is that two figures that should
have been essential parts of this box set and the Dreadnoks box set
that I reviewed on Wednesday came out as SDCC Exclusives. Extremely
limited exclusives. I had to pay top dollar for Sgt. Slaughter in
2011 and just about had an aneurysm from trying to order Zarana from
HasbroToyShop.com in 2012. And I couldn’t find the variants of
either for any kind of reasonable price. The Dreadnoks set could have
easily replaced the unknown Burn Out with Zarana and this Marauders
set has even more chaff that could have been replaced or eliminated.
As things stand I have Slaughter and Zarana up on the wall in their
packaging because they’re special figures that I hate to open. Yes,
even I – the great opener and destroyer of packaging – keep
things in the box from time to time.