McFarlane Spawn

altcunningham said:
I have the advantage of having met Todd once as a high schooler and once as an adult, and he was very gracious and supportive. That might color how it looks to me whenever he's talking about his stuff on his videos saying how cool it is. Look how cool. It's so cool. Comes with a cool batarang. Cool guys.

Vala I just don't even want to meet. My autistic spider sense just tells me he's the kind of person that would act like. Everything he's doing is a favor on my behalf even though it's actually only going to serve him.

Not that I thought he was cool in the first place, but the thing that put him into self-parody for me was when he started doing videos pontificating on the toy industry in a whiskey cellar with a custom table with ammunition in the lacquer, and he had a cigar and a glass of whiskey that he would never touch.

You want to talk about performative male. That's the picture in my dictionary.
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I remember waiting in like for like an hour to get spawn #1 and ASM 300 signed by him when I was like 11 years old.

Was really a high point of my childhood
 
vicious said:
I got so used to McF Spawn figures without the red deco on the body that I forgot how much it looks like he's wearing a woman's swim suit.
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Woman's bathing suit is a standard unisex superhero suit. Both Storm and Colossus wore that getup on the same team, after all.

As for the new classic Spawn, I agree with the sentiment that it isn't a full on upgrade that shits on the KS one from every angle. Nah. KS classic Spawn does exactly what it had to do to be a very well made figure. For me. With it having a shell cape I knew I wasn't gonna be doing crazy poses with it, just wanted it to look good in a couple of them and it does that very well. I have the MK11 Spawn for posing.

The new one seems great to fine, I don't like some of the details and design choices - especially making a new body with sculpted on white lines on the torso but not doing the same for the arms, just to have easy reuse for the variant. That's annoying so I'll most likely be skipping it.

Also, the KS was what, 5 years ago at this point? Why should anyone be mad that a new figure is better than something released half a decade ago?
 
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Shinigami Customs said:
Also, the KS was what, 5 years ago at this point? Why should anyone be mad that a new figure is better than something released half a decade ago?
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I never said people might be mad that it's a better figure.

I said that this figure is what loads of people during the KS were asking for. Which is 100% true. More articulation, a more classic design, softgoods cape, no weird stupid-ass preposed torso/neck assembly, and even the spikey board accessory. All things people were going all over the place, including the KS comments, to say they wanted in the KS figure.

And there were certainly people also saying they were only getting the KS figure because it was the closest to what they wanted it seemed like Todd was ever going to make. Bearing in mind this was before it seemed at all likely that any kind of resurgence of Spawn figures was going to happen.

So I was, and still am, curious what percentage of KS backers are pissed off that they got the KS figure only for Todd to end up releasing the exact thing they -actually wanted- later on. Are people going to be selling off their KS figures and getting this instead? Is there a general feeling of 'oh well, I like what I have but I like this too?' which is more where I land. We all know how toy collectors are. I'd be utterly shocked if there's no one out there fuming about Todd finally making the thing they were begging him to do 5 years ago.
 
Damien said:
How fucking pissed off are all the original Spawn Kickstarter backers when this new 'Elite Edition' Spawn is -basically- the exact figure everyone in the KS was asking Todd to make.
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Damien said:
I never said people might be mad that it's a better figure.
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If one was disappointed in the KS because it wasn't what one was expecting, which the new figure seems to be. Doesn't that mean that one is pissed off because the new figure is better (in their opinion) than the KS was?

Isn't this what you meant?
 
Shinigami Customs said:
If one was disappointed in the KS because it wasn't what one was expecting, which the new figure seems to be. Doesn't that mean that one is pissed off because the new figure is better (in their opinion) than the KS was?

Isn't this what you meant?
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No. Not in the sense you're talking about when you reference how far apart these figures are chronologically. Like the criticism would be that the new figure is more 'advanced' than the previous one.

Imagine Hasbro was running a KS for a Wolverine figure and they settled on X-Force Wolverine but lots of people in the comments are like 'I really want a BROWN costume Wolverine.' But Marvel Legends doesn't exist and no one is sure if Hasbro will make any further Wolverine figures at all. So everyone buys the X-Force version saying 'well, at least I'll have a cool Wolverine figure rather than nothing at all.'
If Hasbro released brown costume Wolverine 5 years later on exactly the same body, it's not a 'better figure because it came out five years later.' It's just the style that the X-Force version customers had actually been asking for.

In that sense, you can argue it's better only in that it's the one the fans wanted more, but it's not better that is in any way relevant to how much time has passed.
 
With Spawn in particular I don't see folks getting too upset. There's a new version multiple times a year with pluses and minuses. I imagine many Spawn collectors already have multiple Spawns and this'll be another one for the display.
 
Chooch555 said:
With Spawn in particular I don't see folks getting too upset. There's a new version multiple times a year with pluses and minuses. I imagine many Spawn collectors already have multiple Spawns and this'll be another one for the display.
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Like I (think?) I said once before, I'm not really plugged in to the Spawn/McFarlane crowd. So seeing this triggered my thoughts on how certain other collector groups can be with the 'oh, great, I already bought X and NOW they're doing Y' thing. Maybe you're right and Spawn guys just kind of expect/like this sort've thing.
 
The "I bought X now you make Y" mindset is insane. Bitching cause a company released a different figure of the character that you like more than the one they've made before? Nobody made you buy the first one. Don't buy an action figure if it's not up to your standard, is all.
 
Shinigami Customs said:
The "I bought X now you make Y" mindset is insane. Bitching cause a company released a different figure of the character that you like more than the one they've made before? Nobody made you buy the first one. Don't buy an action figure if it's not up to your standard, is all.
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It's very much a social media thing, and then when I'm at toy shows or meeting other collectors elsewhere, no one has these thoughts.

This angle is on my mind because there's similar discourse now on the Game Awards, and Expedition 33 being "cool" now. All the panicked takes and blogs (in 2025?!) that I've seen are all... I guess it must be a thing in some circle. Not my circle. Not the real world.
 
Shinigami Customs said:
The "I bought X now you make Y" mindset is insane.
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But fairly prevalent. Like I said, the reason this came to mind with THIS item specifically is because the new figure is doing so many things that people were specifically asking for with the KS figure. So my brain, maybe unfairly, immediately went to 'there's going to be so much bitching online about this.' But, to be fair, maybe I'm being ungenerous to my fellow collectors with that thought.

Now that I'm thinking more about this figure and if it has a place in my collection, I'm wondering how McFarlane figures look with Savage Crucible. Anyone ever put any of his DC stuff with them or anything like that?
 
altcunningham said:
Jaeger and Lizard Battlecat man. I loaned them out to a photographer, so I cannot provide comparison this eve.
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Oh okay, so McF figures are the ones that seem a little bigger and thicker? I'm actually okay with Spawn being more physically imposing than barbarians and lizard people, so that actually might still work.
 
Damien said:
Oh okay, so McF figures are the ones that seem a little bigger and thicker? I'm actually okay with Spawn being more physically imposing than barbarians and lizard people, so that actually might still work.
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Oh yeah, I see how I worded it.

Yes, I think SC runs a touch shorter and thinner than McFarlane. Specifically Spawn: I have the Spawn from the Batman set and Medieval Spawn and both impose on them. For lizard people it probably works out.
 
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