General Marvel Legends

This whole discussion is basically the exact internal debate I've had on adding Red Sonja and Conan to my Marvel collection. I'm definitely not a "mix and match" display kinda guy and I want everything on the shelf to make sense according to the canon/continuity (as slippery as concept as that can be). Conan and Red Sonja interacting with and being part of the comic/616 Marvel U is different than (for example) a Star Wars or Indiana Jones comic published under the Marvel imprint. I definitely lean towards including them.
 
DarthDre758 said:
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Schizm said:
I only have two shelves that really mix and match licenses - but I think y'all will get it.

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All the one-off characters I've collected over the years, or my favorite figures of favorite actors. The scale being off doesn't bother me on this shelf - it's a feature, not a bug.

What does bug me is Felicity and Dark Angel are not nearly as important as anyone else on that shelf, but I have no other place to put them and they're not worth anything or putting in a box. And my Entranced Galadriel is currently elsewhere because her box doesn't fit.

I have a male version of this shelf, which was incidental - the shelf above was the point - and a friend couldn't figure out the theme of said shelf. She said "hair?"
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I just figured the theme was "badass ladies"!
 
fac said:
(I should note that I know many collectors say they want character X made in 1:12 scale so that they can have Luke Skywalker, Iron Man, Gandalf and X all interacting - which to me is like listening to an album while watching TV or putting chocolate syrup on a steak - some things just don't go together.)
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For me, if Chester Cheetah meets Chun Li and Sylvanas and Battlecat on my shelf, I'm already playing Toy Story so scale doesn't matter.

And yet. If McFarlane Batman doesn't scale with Mafex Daredevil, then I would never waste a photoshoot and pose session because it doesn't work in my head.
 
fac said:
I feel those characters, like the horror guys like Dracula and Franky, don't really fit with the Marvel display given they are licensed characters that have their own story outside of Marvel. I know they did some crossovers but it seems weird to me, like if they had a comic where WWII Captain America meet Indiana Jones, that doesn't mean Indiana goes on my Marvel shelf.
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I respect your thoughts on the matter, but I see it differently. I have a Golden Age shelf that has the Justice Society, the few Invaders that Hasbro has made so far, World War II Logan, a DC Direct Sgt. Rock, the Universal Monsters and ... The Rocketeer and Indiana Jones.

God willing and I live long enough to see it happen, they'll be joined someday by the rest of the Inavders, Doc Savage, the Shadow, the Green Hornet and Kato, Flash Gordon, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Spirit, The Spider, Buck Rogers, Mandrake the Magician, Dick Tracy, The Phantom, Justice Inc, the Black Cat, Captain Midnight, Miss Fury and maybe one or two others I'm forgetting.

You can blame Stan Lee. When the Fantastic Four, the Hulk and Spider-Man proved to be hits, he started thinking about the direction he wanted his newly formed superhero line to go in. He looked at DC Comics with their multiple Earths (Earths 1, 2, 3 and 297) and he decided he didn't want that. The idea was that Marvel would be one world and most of the characters would live in New York which is where he was from. Stan wanted all (And I mean ALL) of these characters to exist in the same universe. Millie The Model was at Reed and Sue's wedding. So was Patsy Walker and her best friend Hedy. Patsy as we all know eventually became the Hellcat. If you read teen romance comics from the 1950's, you knew who they were.

When Roy Thomas became Editor in Chief, he took that idea and ran with it. And that is why ... Spider-Man appeared in stories with Dracula, Doc Savage, the son of Fu Manchu and Red Sonja. Conan was a Savage Avenger. That's why Rom and the Micronauts were Marvel characters.

It's how Stan and Roy wanted it, and I'm not going to argue with Stan and Roy. ;)

It's interesting that Disney owns the rights to Marvel, Indiana Jones and the Rocketeer. A crossover set during the Golden Age would be a lot of fun.
 
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NORM said:
You can't go wrong with most of the Conan figures out there.
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I have the LCBH Conan from Toybiz and the Mezco Conan. I love 80s Marvel and I'll make no bones about displaying Conan with a Captain America and a Classified Duke.

NORM said:
I have both the LooseCollector and Boss Fight Studios Red Sonja figures, and no contest, BFS is the better figure. LC's isn't awful, but it's more expensive, has looser joints, and overly exaggerated proportions. BFS has better proportions, similar but smoother articulation that's better integrated into the sculpt, and can change outfits.
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.....or have no outfits at all!
I have BFS Sonjia too, she's pretty great.
 
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