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Marvel Legends - New Vs Old With Bucky Cap Vs Vulcan


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Hasbro's Ryan Ting posted up this image featuring the old Marvel Legends Bucky Captain America next to the new X-Men Vulcan figure. Commonly refereed to as the Bucky Cap mold, this had been the first figure to feature what has been for a long time the standard buck used in the line. Vulcan which features a new updated body with their pin-less technology will slowly start to phase out the use of older body used on Bucky Cap.

The Vulcan figure is part of the next X-Men wave which will also include figures of Siryn, Classic Havok, Darwin, Wolverine With Heated Claws, Classic Sabretooth, Maggott and Reever Bonebreaker. Look for that wave to be going up for pre-order soon.

 

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I really liked the Bucky Cap mold. Really when anatomy proportions started getting as realistic as possible. No more ToyBiz era gangly arms and popped out shoulders. Or unnecessary finger articulation. 

This Vulcan buck looks to be the next great step. Thankfully it isn’t too different that the figures using the buck will look out of place next to Bucky Cap bodies. 

Ive asked this question before but haven’t gotten a response. This is for customizes, does the pinless tech make it harder to swap parts or no change? It seems to me that it would be much harder but admittedly, the extent of my customizing is normally head swapping haha

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Yes. It’s way harder to mix n match biceps and forearms, thighs and shins/boots than the pinned versions. For arms you have to take the whole arm as is and for legs it’s really difficult since swapping whole legs is a crapshoot because of the differing hip socket sizes. They’re not interchangeable. 
 

Technically, you can cut the internal support pin and swap out at the knee and elbow but you risk locking the joint when you superglue it back and like a lot of pinned molds, the diameter of the internal support pins can be different.  
 

I love the new look of pinless molds but, yeah—a LOT more difficult to customize than the older ones. 

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Great information. I figured it would be harder but certainly didn’t realize HOW much more harder it would be. 

Had ideas on how to improve certain figures but lack of know-how and budget prevents me from going all in..

again, thanks for the break down. Always interesting to get a peek on how customizers work.

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On 1/6/2022 at 11:09 AM, Mjolnir_Customs said:

Yes. It’s way harder to mix n match biceps and forearms, thighs and shins/boots than the pinned versions. For arms you have to take the whole arm as is and for legs it’s really difficult since swapping whole legs is a crapshoot because of the differing hip socket sizes. They’re not interchangeable. 
 

Technically, you can cut the internal support pin and swap out at the knee and elbow but you risk locking the joint when you superglue it back and like a lot of pinned molds, the diameter of the internal support pins can be different.  
 

I love the new look of pinless molds but, yeah—a LOT more difficult to customize than the older ones. 

Have they shown a diagram of this? I assumed they were sort of pinched in place. There is a pin inside somehow?

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it’s like the pin system from before except the pin is one with the bicep or forearm—all molded together. Not sure how it’s pulled off in manufacturing. But you can Xacto the pin on the side of the elbow middle piece and heat it up enough to pull it off the cylinder. It’s like the pre-Shriek female elbows (or elBros as we call Hasbro’s single elbows). Supergluing the cylinder back after replacing the forearm with something else is tricky. It’s possible but the joint is not as sturdy after that. 

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I mean its a cool title and idea but theres no motion, movement to the poses. Everything, mostly is very vanilla and bland. This isnt a diss just advice. Daredevil looks good. Keep realism and personality in mind when it comes to poses. If it has a P.O.A. move it, twist, bend it. Bring the fig to life bro. Keep at doin your thing Bro

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On 1/6/2022 at 3:14 PM, evildead said:

I mean its a cool title and idea but theres no motion, movement to the poses. Everything, mostly is very vanilla and bland. This isnt a diss just advice. Daredevil looks good. Keep realism and personality in mind when it comes to poses. If it has a P.O.A. move it, twist, bend it. Bring the fig to life bro. Keep at doin your thing Bro

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Well put!

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Looks really nice from what I can see. Based on his wider stance than the Bucky Cap figure, it appears he is a fair amount taller, which is great in my opinion. If this is going to be the go-to buck for 'average' figures moving forward, I am encouraged. I can't wait to get some side-by-side and back-to-back comparison pictures of the two. The pinless tech definitely gives the figure a smoother look and the feet look to be a good size larger and therefore more stable, than the Bucky Cap ones. Looking forward to seeing more characters with this buck.

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Good riddance Bucky Cap! It is finally time to make new figures with the highly revered butterfly joints with a new medium body. The next body that needs to be phased out is Pizza Spidey. I do not like the musculature. The new Retro mold is a neat replacement. But we need a skinnier body without the akward definitions of Pizza Spidey..

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On 1/7/2022 at 6:34 AM, Hogun said:

Good riddance Bucky Cap! It is finally time to make new figures with the highly revered butterfly joints with a new medium body. The next body that needs to be phased out is Pizza Spidey. I do not like the musculature. The new Retro mold is a neat replacement. But we need a skinnier body without the akward definitions of Pizza Spidey..

Total agreement on sending pizza spidey to the grave. The sooner the better. I'd like them to re-do the Vulture, only this time take that grin off his face. He's a grim, hateful old buzzard, not some laughing loon. An upgrade from the pizza spidey body is in order, and use the same textured feel they did with the alt Blackie Drago head.

I'm glad to see they're moving on from buckycap to newer molds. I really feel that the superarticulated Sunfire/Spider-Man buck is where Legends should be. That mold, in different sizes (its too small for the Vision, the Falcon, and Moon Knight but perfect for Spider-Man, Shang-Chi, etc) and also a female counterpart, is what the line needs now. 

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