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  1. Yup, this figure is definitely being added to my Wants List. The wing architecture and head sculpts are winning points.
  2. I like the Lilandra in this set a lot, but for some odd reason I think that the Brood-Wolverine in this set seems.......somewhat held back. I don't recall exactly what his brood-morphing looked all like, but my brain thinks his anatomy should maybe be more....distorted.
  3. There looks like some "Hugh Jackman" in the face sculpt of the less-hairy Logan head, especially on the 3/4 profile. it's a nice touch to the better-looking head. The bigger thing is the sculpted-on cowboy had which looks FAR better than a separate accessory.
  4. I'm kinda locked into nostalgia with characters like the X-men......like 50 years ago, in what I consider to be their hey-day. Sure, the whole property has evolved a dozen times over since then, but.......it's largely left me behind a long time ago. I've peeked at storylines occasionally and things like the Logan/Jean/Emma/Scott-stuff was just too distasteful for me. Somewhere along the way, they forsakened the premise and gave it lip-service ( maybe a little tongue, too.....ewwwwww) and kind of went off the rails too far with the characters. They say it's evolution, but...............nah, I'd rather throwback to nostalgia.
  5. There was an old story years back going around about how the Marvel office wanted to change Cyclops' costume, but couldn't nail down a look they liked. Artists were turning in designs were he was covered in lightning bolt graphics and such. Seems like not a lot has changed.
  6. YUP. In animation and studio circles.......a whole lot of mid-level sins get overlooked and even forgiven, stuff like being a jerk, or going over-budget etc. But stuff like sexual harassment or embezzlement is too grave a loss of face to survive (for long anyways) in a corporate environment. Resigning or being "retired" or "looking for a new, different role" are the easy ways out, being fired is damage control.
  7. The face shadow should have been airbrushed. The hard demarcation ruins the effect. Quite disappointing.
  8. Marvel ( and DC) omics are very much "product" these days, because they are potential IP for a vast number of potential dollars ( movies, games, toys etc) so everything about has to be structured and scrutinized and approved by committees. Long gone are the days of somewhat free-form, on-a-whim/off-the-cuff storytelling. Everything thing is worked out far in advance and deadlines are demanding. I contend that the spark is missing from a lot of these books, and there's a twisted self-indulgence that's often trying to be either lurid, or clever and ending up as neither. "My Marvel" ended sometime in the 80's, had a few gasps in the 90's and then slowly declined post-2000. Nowadays, I look at headlines for the last arcs, and don't bother with the guts of the books. I enjoy reacquainting myself with the older stories from the heydays.
  9. Shhh. small historial note: Bandai actually innovated the ganged-hinge elbows and finger/toe articulation with their Kankicki Ryotsu figures. back in arounf 1997. They were really the first to use what's now a standard articulation scheme--and the figures were really good.
  10. We've come so far from "hyper-articulation"--the old Toybiz days--that I no longer miss the articulated toes and fingers and I seldom notice torso articulation too. I'm not really doing ab-crunches in the poses I display, but they can be helpful in some circumstances. Now, mind you....I refuse to go back to 5 PoAs anymore, and anything less than 20 PoAs makes me itchy, but it really depends on who the characters/figures are.
  11. Marvel Studios is about a hairs-breath from becoming Warner Bros studios. Their first dozen or so films did great business because they let the filmmakers make their movies. They understood the material and they went ahead with it. After Endgame, and the billion+ dollar box office, all everyone sees with marvel is dollar signs. That is a kiss-of-death......or at least a nasty injury to the brand. It's not about entertainment so much anymore, as it is about making bank. And that trickles down to the soundstage. They need to unclench.
  12. One of the critical things about Barks' work was that he gave his stories a strong sense of place. A lot of set and exotic locales gave the characters and tales a good believability, which drew in the readers. I hope the art team do the work herein, because it lends so much to the stories.
  13. Hasbro probably provides a character profile sheet to retail buyers so they can assess if the specific figures or wave swill be popular or not. They've got decades worth of appealing cover and promo art for a lot of these characters, even if it's just classic imagery. That does not mean the buyers will necessarily be familiar with them, but that they will not go in blind ordering a wave. But someone like Kazar or Ikaris isn't current, true, so I'd suspect they'd be assessed by how toyetic they appear to be. You can generally tell the era a comic was printed in by the cover, and so the appeal to a demographic can be reasonably guessed, They just hope that assessment matches the audience demand. It IS guesswork, and they will probably under-order to their minimum to play it safe, but it sure ain't no science.
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