Benn
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6 hours ago, Aldryff said:
The introduction of cloth capes like the Star Wars Black Series.
I'm with you on experimentation, but I actually really like the current soft plastic solution for capes and coats. I kinda hate those cloth capes they use in the Black Series.
I'd like to see more BAF experimentation, like huge BAFs that take two or three waves to complete, or smaller BAFs where they can do two in a single wave. Or even a wave where individual smaller companions accompany each figure in lieu of a BAF (Artie, Leech, little demons from limbo, Kymera's cat, bamfs, No-Girl, Iceman's weird ice creations, Shogo, EVA, etc.)
Mostly I'd like to see movie figures occupy separate waves from comics figures, but I'm not trying to start an argument about it. Oh, and I want a bunch of New Mutants figures.
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I'm really stoked for Dazzler, Nightcrawler, and Sinister!
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I guess here's a more complete list for me:
Archangel (X-Force)
Beast (Age of Apocalypse)
Bishop (X-Force revenant hunter)
Colossus (red/white 80s look and outback era)
Forge (Age of Apocalypse)
Havok (classic/outback era)
Iceman (Age of Apocalypse)
Magik (either era of New Mutants)
Magneto (Morrison era and white costume)
Nightcrawler (Age of Apocalypse, X-Force, and a more modern take on his classic look)
Multiple Man (Age of Apocalypse)
Psylocke (armoured outback era, Uncanny X-Force, and more modern black costume with gray X)
Rogue (green/white hooded look from Uncanny Avengers era and outback era)
Sinister (Victorian look from Uncanny X-Men vol.2)
Sunfire (Age of Apocalypse/horseman era)
Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men era and X-Force)
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Amelia Voght, Blindfold, Cypher, Destiny, Dr. Nemesis, Douglock, Dust, Frenzy, Masque, Phantazia, Revanche, Sage, Senyaka, Sugar Man, Tempus, Vanisher, and Zero.
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Here's the worst X-Men wave I could imagine:
BAF: Doop
Choir
Eye-boy
Goldballs
Lucifer
Maggott
Shark-girl
Wildside
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I love Storm, but we already have her best costumes, in my opinion: 80s mohawk and Marvel Now mohawk. I wouldn't resent any new Storm figure, but I'm pretty content with what we've got. I'd mostly only want others to finish various team eras.
Now that I'm looking back at this, Longshot is definitely possible for the vintage wave too.
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X-Men (BAF: Armor)
Bishop (Uncanny X-Force)
Magik (New Mutants)
Psylocke (outback armour)
Senyaka
Spiral
Sunfire (Age of Apocalypse/horseman)
Wolverine (X-Force) [double-packed]
X-Men (BAF: Sugar Man)
Chamber
Dust
Emma Frost (Astonishing X-Men) [double-packed]
Exodus
Karma (Astonishing X-Men)
Rachel Grey (all-women adjectiveless-era)
Wolverine (Dark X-Men Daken)
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2019's a big year for the X-Men. With this year's Ultimate Riders offerings, the Caliban wave, the Family Matters Amazon three-pack, a smattering of 80th anniversary products, and several Walgreens exclusives, there's a lot of confirmed mutants coming our way. It seems at least possible, though, that the Toy Fair reveals gave us only partial information for the two major X-centric post-Caliban waves: X-Force and X-Men vintage. Here's what we know:
X-Force
Boom-Boom
Cannonball
Guardian
Mr. Sinister
Nightcrawler
X-Men Vintage
Cyclops
Dazzler
Silver Samurai
Wolverine
Following normal patterns (and I realize this vintage wave is somewhat uncharted territory), it seems possible there are about two figures still unknown for each of the above. It's possible Wendigo is the X-Force BAF, but I don't think that's confirmed. Anyone care to hazard any guesses (or hopes)?
I think Wendigo probably is the BAF for X-Force, and I still largely expect to see Warpath in that wave. The wave feels like it needs another villain, and we only have one lady revealed so far, so I'm going to round out my guesses by wishlisting Spiral. They did six-armed Spiderman and his doppleganger recently, and I know everyone's been complaining about the articulation on those figures, but I'm not really as concerned about articulation, so I'm still holding out hope. Maybe Lady Deathstrike is more likely?
For X-Men vintage, I'd love to see armoured 80s Psylocke to go with outback Dazzler, and it does seem like all the other figures are 80s-themed. I don't think there was an original Toy Biz version to throwback to, which is what the Cyclops and Silver Samurai packaging indicated they were doing, but I think the same is true of Dazzler, so who knows? I'd like to see another villain here too, though, and Pyro definitely feels like he meets the criteria, but--again--Lady Deathstrike feels like she could be a good fit here as well.
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On 1/27/2019 at 5:52 PM, Benn said:
So... Boom Boom, Cannonball, Spiral, Toad, Warpath, Wolfsbane, and Wolverine with a Blob build-a-figure seems like a solid and possible wave.
Looks like I'm two for seven so far, and practically everyone guessed Boom Boom and Cannonball, so that's not saying much. With five figures revealed, there's still room for one or two more figures on my list to make it, but I'm muuuuch less confident. I expected them to play a little loose with various X-Force eras, but I should've expected "X-Force" to mean "X-Men with a minor X-Force subtheme", a'la the second Deadpool wave. I guess Age of Apocalypse Nightcrawler was on X-Force for a little while. Heh.
On 1/28/2019 at 11:56 AM, RAMCAT said:And just because it's a vintage wave doesn't necessarily mean they will stick strictly to the formula they've used for the 2 vintage waves we got.
Man, credit where credit is due. You said this, and I thought "obviously they'll stick to that formula", but you nailed it. Wolverine, Cyclops, and Dazzler are probably 90%+ retooled parts, but they're still presented in a much newer way than I would've believed likely, and I'd be surprised to learn that Silver Samurai's not mostly a new sculpt.
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19 hours ago, ADour said:
I'm not a big X-Men fan so the only kind of comment I could make is that I wish they'd put some of that plastic to use in figures from other corners of the Marvel Universe. I hate to sound negative, but I do feel like Hasbro is neglecting other families of characters in favor of the X-Men, Spider-Man and the Avengers (though the latter is more like a catch-all umbrella).
They're just making up for lost time with the X-Men. Other than a hard-to-find Toys 'R Us exclusive wave, there were 14 Infinite series waves before we saw any X-Men. And then they got one wave per year for two years before they started getting peppered into Deadpool waves and getting spin-off stuff and exclusives. There's honestly not much in the Marvel Universe that couldn't be grouped with Avengers, Spider-Man, or X-Men. I guess the Inhumans could use more love? What stuff would you like to see more of? I actually think they've been doing a decent job sneaking the weird stuff into the big three lines.
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Didn't we get classic Deadpool in the first Deadpool wave last year? How would a vintage one differ?
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I never saw whatever movie that's from, but surely it's Jeff Goldblum, right? It doesn't look much like Steve Guttenberg to me.
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Vintage Wolverine is on Amazon for $19.99 right now, for those interested. It normally hovers around $35.
4 hours ago, JHS said:I went to hit up a few stores today. I finally found the Vulture wave Moon Knight, Juggernaut wave Iceman and Deadpool, Obsidian wave Black Widow.
I don't suppose they had any more copies of Juggernaut-wave Iceman, did they? That's pretty much my one remaining want. If you could get it for me, there's a lot of stuff I can get that I'd be happy to trade for it.
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It wasn't my intention to "paint you with an intolerant brush". If I came across that way, I apologize. I was asking for clarification based on your last post, not making accusations. If there has been heavy-handed harping on Captain Marvel's gender, I haven't caught it. I've seen a few trailers, but haven't noticed anything about it in any of them.
I agree that the Captain Marvel wave seemed really boring, but it honestly didn't seem any different from any of the movie tie-in waves to me; there just seem to be fewer splashy characters in this movie. The comic characters seemed like really weird choices, but I've thought that about one to two figures in virtually every wave, so what do I know? They don't seem to be clogging up shelves near me at all. You're totally right about wasted opportunity with the wave, but it seems more like a casualty of this bizarre mixed movie/comics model than of Disney's social agenda.
And, frankly, the whole narrative that fostering diversity is some sort of brainwashing conspiracy is pretty tiresome, and gets weaponized as an agenda far more often than calls for diversity do. It would be awesome if more representative pop culture could emerge organically, but I'd always rather see companies step in and help it along than see that representation stifled by enabling complacency (or worse). "Not seeing colour" is a luxury a lot of people just don't have.
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I have, but it's been a long time. Thanks for the clarification!
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Yeah, I know her last name's Ferguson, but names get passed down in a variety of ways, and she was also portrayed by an Asian actress in Days of Future Past, so I just wasn't sure. Nevertheless...
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2 hours ago, monron999 said:
But, if anyone really wants to understand the biggest reason Disney forces Hasbro to manipulate the character selection in any particular wave, they need only understand Disney's sudden worldwide appointment as propagator of all social and political issues.
I'm sorry. I was with you until you took a hard turn into MRA rhetoric. Are you really saying you're opposed to more representation of women in comics culture? I agree with your assessment that Disney is making a concerted effort to better represent a diverse array of people in their movies, but how could that possibly be a bad thing? More accessibility can only ever be good for the fans in the long run.
None of the movies perfectly align to comic history, which is great, because comic history is riddled with really questionable storytelling, much of which is pretty out of step with the world of today. Carol is the iconic Captain Marvel. The fact that they didn't feel it was necessary to have Carol inherit the mantle from a dude is pretty refreshing for a movie franchise that began with a super team of five white dudes and one (also white) lady. I'm not a fan of her Legends wave (which, I might add, is still majority male), but the movie's not out yet, so we really have no idea why they made the character choices they did. On the face, it seems reasonable to focus it around the titular character, though.
And all of that is on top of the fact that, regardless of Disney's push, Marvel Legends is still predominantly composed of white male characters. I don't know the non-X waves well enough to evaluate them from memory, but of the recent X-Men waves:
Wave 1: six white dudes (one of whom is LGBTQ+) and three white ladies (one of whom is Jewish)
Wave 2: four white dudes (one of whom is LGBTQ+, and sort of an alien or a clone or a paradox or all three, I guess), one Asian dude, two white ladies, and one technarch
Wave 3: four white dudes, one purple dude, one black lady, one (kind of) Asian lady, and one ancient Egyptian dude
Wave 4: five white dudes, one native American dude, and two (?) Asian ladies (I'm admittedly not sure of Blink's race)
That's pretty overwhelmingly white and male.
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5 hours ago, enzosaurusrex said:
You don't see yourself buying X-men movie figures?
Probably not. They just don't hold any appeal for me. Who knows when they come out, obviously, but my suspicion is 'no'.
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That seems pretty flimsy to me. Big box stores have been carrying comic-based action figures since well before there were good, well-merchandised super hero movies. And those sorts of stores really only care about their bottom line. They'll keep carrying whatever sells. And they have entire departments that exist just to analyze those sales in absurd detail. There's not really a sentimental component to their strategy.
Likewise, smaller stores are usually pretty in-touch with their customers, and can be trusted not to make crazy assumptions like "nobody will buy these comic figures" unless they're true, which might be the case for movies/music/media stores, etc. I would have to guess the movie figures do great at big box stores but a lot less well at smaller specialty stores, whereas I would think comics figures do great at specialty stores and still do pretty well at the bigger outlets.
Ultimately, I'm not all that concerned, personally. Until the X-Men join the MCU I don't really have a horse in this race. The current methodology just seems to bum people out so much, which tells me it's not a very smart way of doing it.
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It seems like most people have, at the very least, a pronounced preference for either comic- or movie-based figures, so I assume Hasbro's game-plan is to use BAFs to lure people in to picking up whichever of the two types of figures they least prefer. But isn't that plan just as likely to back fire?
I'm firmly on team comics, but I also only care about X-Men-related characters, so I've been lucky so far not to have to deal with mixed waves. I wouldn't pick up a movie-based figure under probably any circumstances, so isn't Hasbro just cutting off customers like me, who would otherwise buy the entirety of a wave if it were all-comic? If the annual X-Men wave suddenly had four movie figures in it (as it seems likely to do after the X-Men join the MCU), they'd sell me four fewer figures that year. If they put out a comics-based BAF that involved buying movie figures, I'd just buy the BAF parts second-hand from a collector who only wants movie figures.
I don't know. I'm sure they're getting a lot of people to buy figures they otherwise wouldn't this way, but feel-bad purchases deteriorate enthusiasm for collecting the line, and everything just feels so muddled this way. It seems like separate waves would lead to happier customers more often than not.
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1 hour ago, The Mad Bubbler said:
Entertainment Earth = Diamond; same company.
I don't think that's true. Where did you hear that? As far as I'm aware, the only connection between the two companies is that EE carries Diamond Select products. Diamond owns a lot of other companies, but they're all based in Baltimore. EE is based in LA. I don't think they're related.
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I'd want to see:
Apocalypse and Ozymandias (or one of any number of horsemen; Wolverine, Gambit, Sunfire, Banshee, Hulk, etc.)
Krakoa and Vulcan (or maybe Cyclops, just to make the Dark Phoenix two-pack version more accessible)
N'astirh and Darkchylde (or the Goblyn Queen)
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15 minutes ago, leokearon said:
So Cecilla Reyes wouldn't counter since she is/was a member of the X-Men.
She might dispute that somewhat, but you're not wrong.
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I'm probably stretching the definition of civilian somewhat here, but I'd say nobody on this list identifies as a super hero or villain.
Cameron Hodge (pre-cyborg/phalanx)
Cecilia Reyes
Graydon Creed
Moira MacTaggert
Senator Robert Kelly
Stevie Hunter
Reverend William Stryker
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Infamous Iron Man and Emma Frost
in Marvel Legends Figure Discussion
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You guys really need to chill out with this "Moonstone buck" madness (not specifically addressed at you KiloinNorcal, nor any other particular poster). It's making it really hard for me to enjoy posting on this forum, and I can't be the only one. I can only imagine how much worse it must be for women. I get it. Emma Frost was a weird choice for such a heavy chest de-emphasis, but this isn't the first thread I've had to abandon for incessant complaining about female proportions.
Different artists have portrayed every woman and man in the Marvel universe in different ways, and the 90s in general was a bastion of absurd-looking balloon chests that have largely been toned down since. There has been no consistency in the comics and there's no consistency in real life. Not every woman has a physique like that Moonstone figure, and it would be ludicrous pandering for them to use that frame for every female character. Because these action figures are portrayals of characters.
This particular figure portrays Emma during a particular era. Go back and look at Bachalo's illustrations during that era. It's a pretty accurate take on the body he was drawing. It's totally fine to like that Moonstone body. It's a great sculpt, but it would make no sense whatsoever to use it for every female character. (Again, I acknowledge that isn't what was said here, but I've seen it explicitly stated elsewhere, and I'm just tired of reading over and over "should've been Moonstone"; this is just the post that finally triggered a rant.)