Hey, my fellow Plastic Addicts. Today's the day. Today is the day I think many of my readers have been waiting for. After 7 years, I have finally finished doing a NCS for every character that has had a Marvel Legends scale figure made of them, from the Toybiz days all the way up to now, as well as every Army Builder. (Until at least Monday). So, I can take a break, right? I mean what else can there be? Oh, so much more. Today we start our newest part of the site, which I am dubbing "Team Building".
Before we get into it, I just want to explain how this will work. First of all, like always, Characters' NCS and Grunts will always take priority. That's never going to change. As for how I'm going to go about this, I thought I would try something different. Instead of starting with the first character starting with A (usually Abomination), I thought I would start in reverse and start with the last character on the character page, Zombie, and work my way up from there. This way, as I move up the list, the teams I must do will get smaller and smaller. Why not start with the bigger name teams? Simple. I don't want to. I should also let you know that a team will only be considered IF they have at least two members that have been made into ML figures.
As for how the page will work. First, I will give a brief profile like the Characters. Then I go into the origin of the team and will go into when and how each member joined (or as best as I can.). Next, I will go into every member you have in figure form. (NOTE: If a character has been a member of the team but doesn't have the costume s/he wore during the time he was part of the team, he will STILL be included. IE. Punisher is included in today's team, but we don't have his Frankencastle figure). These will be broken into various sections, always starting with the Founder (The first members of the team) followed by either YEAR (1960 recruits, 1970 recruit etc), Incarnations (The first Midnight sons, the second Midnight son) or through stories arcs (IE Infinity Guantlet).
After that we have a slideshow of all the characters we are missing, in order of when they joined, as well as my opinion (can't emphasis that enough) on whether or not that character has a chance of being made, regardless of the costume. This is followed by "Other members". This is reserved for characters that have no chance of being made as they are essentially random members of the team that are seen in the background. If I were to use a video game term, they would be NPC characters, like all the SHIELD or Hydra members. Last thing, if you want to see what team a character has been a part of by himself, just head to the bottom of the character page.
It sounds more complicated than it actually is. So let's show you two examples. We start with All-New Howling Commandos, one of many versions of the SHIELD monster teams, which we are only missing one character from and, Legion of Monsters, which we only need 3 to complete.