Really?
Doctor Octopus?! Who is posed caught in his fury against the Public Works Department, destroying a fire hydrant? Maybe he's fighting a reformed Wild Pack or Avengers-era Sandman and he plans to turn Sandy into that mud creature like when Sandman fought Hydro-Man. Gad, that was an awful time in comics.
We stopped by Toys R Us today (Clark's fourth visit! He's averaging one a week) and I picked up another Marvel Figure Factory set. The selection looked like the same packs that were there last time when I pulled Storm out of the Mystery Figure box. So, with 12 Mystery Figures, I estimated the odds of getting another Storm out of the same rack seemed awfully low.
There was one other Mystery Figure, two or three Iron Men, two or three Hulks, and three or four Doctor Octopi.
I passed over three or four labelled Doc Ocks so that I could get a flaming Doc Ock inside a Mystery Figure package?!?!!! Look at this:
Doc Ock is clearly shown as one of the eight "known" figures, the ones that come in a labelled package. (Sidenote: observe how my TRU stocks only the lamest of the known figures, Iron Man, Hulk and Doc Ock. What, no Green Stupid Goblins?) I can't believe they would also sneak Doc Ock into a Mystery Figure package! What a pile of crap!
The even bigger burn is that, for a split second, I thought I had gotten Mr. Fantastic. When we got home, I asked Rhon to open the package because I couldn't stand the pain of getting a second Storm. She asked me who I would like to get (she often has incredible luck with that sort of thing) and I said "Silver Surfer, Dr. Doom, or any of the Fantastic Four. But it will probably be somebody dorky like Daredevil or Cyclops or Captain America." When she popped the lid to the little crate, she said "I think it's long arms guy." She had mistaken the metal tentacles for a stretched limb. Then I looked at the silver arms and went into shock.
He is a pretty neat-looking figure though. Should I go back and get the remaining Mystery Figure? What are the odds it will be another Doc Ock?
