DetectiveHoag
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Wasted slots & flat-out fails
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Akatsuki
Iron Legion Mk. 13
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I don’t like the idea of wasted slots. As others have written earlier, any character could be somebody’s favorite and most wanted. For me, every Iron Man armor is a highlight of the year. I like having a positive attitude.
That said, Silver Centurion Iron Man could use a redo with a new wider torso, the larger pauldrons from the box set, and a better head and neck. And I think every Iron Man should have proportions like the Modular Armor figure.
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That said, Silver Centurion Iron Man could use a redo with a new wider torso, the larger pauldrons from the box set, and a better head and neck. And I think every Iron Man should have proportions like the Modular Armor figure.
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d2bruce
Pensive
altcunningham
Hooker with a heart of gold
Not so much here, but it's fun on other comment sections or in person at toy shows to Age Check people when they complain that a character is too new or a passing fad (Miles Morales and Gwen are over a decade old) or that they are tired of modern things when the Classics need to be made (Clone Saga or Onslaught are like 29 years ago, not Modern Stories, my dude).
Real examples from recent toy show chats, and people really hate facing mortality, geez.
bennroe
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See, I was happy they gave us 90s Toad. That's exactly the version I wanted. I have zero affinity for the 60s stories.
Here are the figures that disappointed me:
Avalanche (retro wave): what happened?
Cannonball (Wendigo wave): I get that they had to make hard choices with costs on this figure, and I honestly don't even mind not having legs (though I was happy to get the apology figure in the three-pack), but the included blast that's not even large enough to fully envelop his legs made me so sad
Ch'od (BAF): the hands are a bummer, but easily fixed
Cyber (Wolverine Villains): being so tall just to get re-use out of the Colossus body was a bit of a bummer; I don't know how they would have done it, but I would have loved to have seen him somehow take on the hunched physique of Sam Kieth art
Cyclops (Colossus wave): missing boots; a minor detail, but a bummer
Dark Beast (Sugar Man wave): I know he was depicted different ways in the comics, but I was sad they went with a head sculpt inspired by his depictions in one-offs, rather than in Factor X (where his hair was flatter and longer), since that was the main title he appeared in
Fang (Ch'od wave): I was surprised they didn't take the opportunity to include a Wolverine head, but even more surprised they decided to put him on a body that made him about a foot taller than Wolverine; I guess it's good for swapping on a Daken head, but weird choice...
Iceman (retro wave): bizarre head-sculpt
Jean Grey (retro X-Factor): it's not the worst, but the missing boots bother me too
Magneto (Family Matters): helmets sat far too high on their heads, and looked bizarre
Magneto (Jubilee wave): dead-eyed plastic looking portrait
Marvel Girl (Tri-Sentinel wave): I usually roll my eyes when people refer to a figure as a statue, but woof...
Omega Sentinel (Tri-Sentinel wave): her old-school head depicting a white woman with brown hair was about the most inexcusable thing I've seen in a Legends toy; I picked up an extra and painted the head, but I couldn't believe this
Rogue (Juggernaut wave/retro re-rerelease): just weird proportions and anatomy from top to bottom
Sabretooth (Bonebreaker wave): that portrait... and the artistic license on the open-finger gloves
Storm (retro Outback): Rogue's Outback hair was a little off, but not enough to bother me, but they didn't even try to get Storm's hair right on this one; the Toy Biz 5" figure from their very first wave did a better job
Wolverine (Apocalypse wave): weirdly proportioned mask
Wolverine (Jubilee wave): gangly, weird proportions and way too tall
But honestly, for the entirety of X-Men Marvel Legends since 2014, that's it, and that's not bad. These are the figures with issues so egregious they bothered me right away, but none of that matters when I see completely flawless figures like Deathbird, Destiny, Spiral, and the Haslab Sentinel (I know, I know, the knees... never really affected my ones, and has an easy fix). The vast majority of figures they do fall on the spectrum between good and fantastic, and they've put out favourite characters of mine like Chamber, Karma, and Magik (and nods again to Destiny and Spiral) that I never would have believed I'd get to see in articulated plastic. Hell, we could get classic Magik and Outback Psylocke this year! Anyway, didn't want to post that list without ending on a more upbeat note, because for all my complaints, I still think this toy line is mostly incredible.
TFitz
Resident Trickster God
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Yeah, google is all kinds of wrong. Read any of the stories with him and he is a good foot taller than Spider-Man, hence the pics I posted. They aren't outliers, they are how tall he is, consistently, in the books.
Morlun (Earth-001)
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altcunningham
Hooker with a heart of gold
I'd say it's wrong if it doesn't consistently put him at being a lanky tall gangly goof looming over Peter.
This is why I don't put stock in the stats because comic characters tend to just stabilize into silhouette and "how many heads taller/shorter" rules.
This is why I don't put stock in the stats because comic characters tend to just stabilize into silhouette and "how many heads taller/shorter" rules.