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This is a good catch, and if I recall, his likeness has been a stumbling block with other manufacturers that have gone after the license.

Yep. I love Constrictor and Absorbing Man. Couple of my favorite Marvel villains, really. But I can't do it. And I've been wanting the New Mutants for basically as long as I've been seriously reading comics, but man ... those three and Falcon will be one-twenty. That used to be six figures, plus...

The trouble for me is really that as much as I like a lot of the Secret Wars wave, I just can't talk myself into it at thirty dollars apiece.

My figuring is that they'll release a powered-up Sunspot as the "comic version" of him for building out the New Mutants, making the team technically complete within the comic line ... and then the '97 version is just the only way to get him in his training uniform. Wondering how they'll do...

This but with Maximum Spidey. I'd really like a Romita-style take on the figure.

Please please please let me see the tooling from Magik's training uniform reused post-haste for Kitty Pryde. Please.

The blood-splatter effects with Muse and Bullseye are interesting. Those are really grisly, "grown-up" accessories, I wonder if that's indicative that fan channel releases going forward might not be governed by the "it's a kid's toyline" appropriateness stipulations that have sometimes affected...

Of all the storylines/ eras to get started on ... "the Crossing," really? That came out in the midst of a bankruptcy as a Producers-esque write-off. No, seriously: https://www.cbr.com/i-was-a-marvel-intern-zombie/. That said, I do kind of love that we're that deep on alternate costumes and...

Spidey variants is a cool idea, but I feel like it'd look cooler with the symbiote parts covering more of the figure. Like half black costume, half red and blue.

Wow, Falcon was worth the wait. Edit: goddamn, we are 4/4 on this wave so far. Everyone looks perfect. Magik is exactly the way I was hoping she'd look.

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...

Next HasLab project: an eighties-era Marvel Comics Macy's parade float, complete with the bizarre assortment of characters who inhabited it.

The recent announcement of a Carl Kolchak from Wandering Planet Toys makes me want these more ... I need Kolchak and Ben Urich to go solve supernatural mysteries together.

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...

I am somewhere between curious and downright anxious to hear how their figures are. And if you have any real inclination toward horror, I can't recommend the show enough. Darren McGavin is just superb, the writing is imaginative and usually pretty engaging, and it's fascinating for its immense...

What, no love for Village People Richard Kiel?

HOLY FUCK! He's been a top two or three want of mine for as long as I've collected toys. Hell, since I've been playing with them ... I always wanted him to square off against my Gill-Man or Drac. Between Kolchak, Doc Savage, & Van Helsing, my top three childhood figure wants have been...

Yes! Classic comics versions of any and all of these characters would be super welcome. To me, Spidey's supporting cast is so key to his world and character that my shelves are kind of incomplete without them. Robbie and Betty Brant would take priority ... Betty's Peter Parker's first love, that...

My closest is the 85th Anniversary Iron Fist. Ask any friend or relative, every conversation with me eventually turns to the topic of how he isn't really a classic Iron Fist -- he's modern Iron Fist, and dammit there's a big, v-shaped difference. Gi needs to look like THIS: Not this:

This was actually trickier than I figured it would be! There are probably 25-30 characters from this era I'd be thrilled to have. It'd make for a hell of a display, especially paired with a giant golden age DC shelf (ball is in your court, Mattel). 1) Whizzer 2) Miss America 3) Venus 4) Kid...

Yeah, I'd love a Clay Quartermain. Great character. Bonus points if the headsculpt is modeled off of Burt Lancaster like he was drawn back in the 60s-70s.

Reviving this thread because I finally finished the Zabu BAF wave, prompted by a recent rewatch of "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger." I gotta say, as much as I love the BAF, the wave I procrastinated for two years on buying to finish him really leaves me cold. It's just weird looking at a wave...

First time I remember seeing someone do it was John Cusack in "Grosse Pointe Blank."

I'd absolutely love this group of characters, even though basically none of them have made more than a handful of appearances since. Arabian Knight & Peregrine are priorities. "Contest of Champions" was sort of my yardstick for a long time of every character I would need to have in order to...

I found my set in Disneyland over the summer, so you might have some luck. If it fits in your itinerary, the dedicated Marvel store at Disney Springs tends to have solid inventory. I managed to snag the ML X-Force set from there a few years back.