Recent content by Damien

Boy Wonder thinks Deadpool is lame and has a pedestrian color scheme that isn't recognizable, confirmed. Taking this to the Marvel thread right away.

I would love for them to fail utterly, but as long as they're offering action figures for sale we know that's an impossibility. So I will settle for 'corporate failure' in the sense that they didn't make the ludicrous amounts of money they were not-very-quietly hoping for.

You and I live very different lives because whenever I see someone wearing clothes they weren't wearing the last time I saw them, I DEMAND answers.

Oh yeah, that is definitely the truth of it. If they could figure out how to do a close-enough Wolverine, we'd have three-clawed "vampire soldiers" or whatever, in a second.

That's for sure. ....I dunno. I think they knew what they were doing. The black patches on the upper arms, upper legs, upper torso (as well as black boots, black webgear, and black gloves) feel very intentional. They could have gone with red body and blue parts/accents, for a -color- homage to...

I'm not even clear on what you would be attempting to convince us -of-. What is the thesis? Is it 'don't focus on big names' or 'make the big names from the newest possible books?' Either way, you're not wrong to want those things, but you'd be wrong if you said they're necessarily (inherently...

C&Ds don't have to be enforceable. It can just be a bullying tactic you throw at someone that you know doesn't have the money to fight you and will just do what you say. So, -should- Hasbro or Marvel/Disney feel like this is just a little too close, they'll C&D it. Not because they think they'll...

Fuck yes to v2 Firefly. That is MY Firefly. Grey camo? Just some dude. Couldn't care. Fluorescent batting helmet Firefly? ALL. Day.

Vala DOES seem like more of a Michael Bay kind of guy, if you know what I mean.

Since the quote infers that the person at the top can be a complete piece of shit.... I don't think Vala is self-aware enough to make that joke.

It's been explained, though, that you are sometimes right and sometimes wrong about that idea. At least purely in terms of sales numbers on action figures. Mattel will, undoubtedly, do whatever they think is going to make them the most money. Especially in the first year or two. What that means...

It's no secret - I've gone on about this lots of times. Nightmaster (and Shadowpact), Saunders Vigilante, Shining Knight, Viking Prince (and the Five Warriors from Forever), Silent Knight, Question. I mean, I also like Batman, Hourman, Spectre, Constantine, and sometimes Hawkman. But in any...

Todd's sales model is very different from someone like Hasbro or Mattel. You also cannot rely on movie figures if you're doing DC toys because like... there's barely any movies.

You are leaping. For instance, I can tell you for a -fact- (believe me or not, as per my usual caveat) that the MCU figures are produced in greater volume than any of the comic figures in ML, and only undersell when a movie does poorly, like Eternals.

My god, dude. Everything about that figure sucked. The sword was hideous, the body was lazy, and he only had a LEFT gripping hand. I really don't even know what the fuck ANYONE involved with that figure was doing besides actively trying to get me to commit a felony.