One A Day 2.0: Day #296 - 3-D Man

PantherCult said:
Dear god... talk about figures destined for Ollie's. Just every wave stores sending repacked cases of the civilians to the clearance outlet
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I'd argue there's an event horizon -- and I don't know where, exactly, it is -- where a civilian character becomes crucial enough that they overcome the inherently boring, non-toyetic nature of action figures of regular people in regular clothes. It's where I get nervous about a Jarvis or a Foggy Nelson. Conversely, Gwen & Jolly Jonah did move pretty briskly ...

d2bruce said:
As much as it pains me, I must say pass on all of these. I have very few civilians in my collection. As well as the fact that my displays rarely involve hanging around the water cooler talking about the game.
Crap. And I loved these guys growing up.
And I think that PantherCult is right.
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You know, it's funny ... as an emphatic "yes" to all of these characters, I still feel similarly. I rearranged my shelves over the weekend, and was struck by how my civilian Spider-Man characters were at a tipping point: there were like five of them clustered around the retro wave Peter Parker, and I realized if I got too many more, they'd either need their own shelf, or need to be arbitrarily spread between my couple of "Spider-Man versus decade-grouped villains" shelves.
 
I don't need ALL of them, and I know we'll likely get NONE of them, but I would preorder a boxed set of Daily Bugle staff in a New York Minute. Maybe we could get a MTO set from Pulse? My biggest wants are Robbie, Betty, and Ben, but I wouldn't even tap the breaks on Ned and Glory too. Maybe it's my old newspaper reporter nerd showing through, but give me the whole damned newsroom. I'll build a diorama by hand for them.

(Preferably comics versions since my display is mostly comics, but Vondie Curtis-Hall stole every damned scene he was in in Daredevil and Elizabeth Banks basically WAS the comic book version of Betty. I like MCU Spidey fine but I didn't love their re-use of staff names, I want grizzled newsroom folks.)
 
NORM said:
I donno, the civilians that they’ve released in the retro line - JJJ and Gwen Stacy - aren’t exactly easy to find. JJJ even had a reissue at Walmart that still wasn’t available everywhere.
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Civilian figures have this funny thing where we know the characters don't fly off the shelves for what they are, but the parts reuse drives the secondary/resale value up through the roof. I recently tried to get some civilian bucks to make custom GI Joe supporting characters and you're paying 50 bucks easy for some of these figures. I still buy any copy of Everett Ross I happen to stumble across cheaply in case I need to stick someone's head on a civilian body. Even bought an extra Mandarin to make Peter Wisdom and went to pick up an extra Matt Murdock for parts just last night. They definitely make for boring figures, but I think they have use in the collector world.
 
There's a guy who used to post at Fwoosh that I follow on IG, Darth Primus. He has such a comprehensive collection of civilian figures that he uses as background crowd characters in his photos. He often tosses in Easter eggs with those characters, which only complements the true subjects of his photos. They definitely come in handy especially if you have a variety (not just the Coulson suit body over and over).
 
The only civilian figures I want for sure are Jarvis and Rick Jones. I made myself a Don Blake, and civilian Steve Rogers and Tony Stark are easy kitbashes as well.
 
After 25+ years of collecting, civilian figures are often among my most wanted figures for both Marvel and DC. For Marvel all of Robbie Robertson, Edwin Jarvis and Rick Jones are in my personal Top 10.

The rest of my biggest wants are all modern (mostly introduced post-2000) X-Men characters. Even though I'm 50 years old now, I'd never read a comic book before 2000 and didn't really get into them until 2010 so that skews my desires differently from a lot of this community.
 
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Reno said:
After 25+ years of collecting, civilian figures are often among my most wanted figures for both Marvel and DC. For Marvel all of Robbie Robertson, Edwin Jarvis and Rick Jones are in my personal Top 10. The rest of my biggest wants are all modern (mostly introduced post-2000) X-Men characters. Even though I'm 50 years old now, I'd never read a comic book before 2000 and didn't really get into them until 2010 so that skews my desires differently from a lot of this community.
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I have similar sensibilities. Aside from some older must-read trades like Dark Phoenix Saga or God Loves, Man Kills, my reading started with Jim Lee's adjective-less X-Men. Followed by Generation X, and a comeback when Morrison took on New X-Men, and Astonishing X-Men by Whedon/Cassaday. The late '90s/early Oughts got me into Daredevil, Spider-Man, Avengers, Fantastic Four. I could fit the majority of my comic reading in between 1999-2011. There were definitely a number of civilian or civilian appearing characters from that era that I like (Barton Hawkguy, Bishop Hawkeye, Jessica Jones). I even like having civilian versions of characters who are always in costume like Murdock, Rogers, Scott Summers, the F4.
 
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Day #296 - 3-D Man

Would I buy? Yes!
Which version? Classic with a head swap. I'd but 2 figures to display both of them.

Although Delroy Garrett, Jr. already has a dedicated One A Day entry which includes his 3-D Man suit, I've included him here as well since he is a 3-D Man.
It's just an additional head swap between Chandler and Garrett, right? The belt is different, but is that a deal breaker?

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So I'm not opposed to some civilians sprinkled in the line, for sure. Tjere are obvious ones like Aunt May, JJJ and Spidey's top two girlfriends and Jarvis and Moira MacTaggert that make a lot of sense to have.

I would argue civilian Flash Thompson and Alicia Masters should probably make that cut. And civilian representations of the heroes shouldn't be off limits - how many versions of Logan do we have.? I certainly wouldn't pass up a T'challa in royal robes Jessica Jones probably works.

But we saw what happens with a character like Misty Knight... Target could barely give that figure away. Maybe the world is more racist than I think but I have a hard time believing a Betty Brant figure moves the needle more than Misty.

On Amazon right this second MCU Jimmy Wu and Agent Ross are $13 each.

Like I said before - a Daily Bugle newsroom boxset with limited release is the only chance at releasing these figures - and even then they'd toss in a Peter Parker or Eddie Brock to pique interest If they did it as a Pulse Exclusive I am confident it would not sell out.
 
Totally in on 3-D Man. Current top ten Atlas/ Golden Age thread made me remember how badly I want the 50s Avengers team. Given that he's pretty much a blank buck, this feels like an easy character to slot into an Avengers/ Marvel Universe catch-all BAF wave.

I'd prefer Triathlon's Perez costume, but I'd welcome the pack-in head with a classic 3-D Man.
 
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