VALIANT CHARACTERS

[drzenith]

what if the Legendary Comic Book Heroes acquire the rights to produce the figs?

 

Characters like Solar, Magnus, Rai, Rai 2, Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, Ninjak, Eternal Warrior, Geomancer, Turok, Harbinger.

 

I think they would still sell.

 

But the question is do people still remember them?

 

The younglings probably don't know who they are.

 

If you do then it reminds you one thing. We are getting old.

[Kenny28]

Valiant is releasing new collections of their stuff! Sure would be nice if Marvel Toys got in on that action *nudge wink*

[CapnJeffro]

Well, Valiant was a major 90's property much as Image (and I have all of the cross-company crossovers) - so you wouldn't have to be THAT old to remember them. Valiant was founded in '89, started pushing out comics in 1990, and ended before the decade was over. I collected Magnus Robot Fighter, Bloodshot, Ninjak, Armorines, XO, Turok, and a couple others. I would love to see these figures make it into plastic form.

[Kenny28]

The Gold Key characters are being handled by Dark Horse right now though...which actually doesn't matter so I don't know why I pointed that out....

[Rollo Tomassi]

I would be more excited to get a lot of those old Valiant characters than some of the stuff MarvelToys LCBH are actually making.

 

Thinking about Valiant Legends makes my weewee tingle.

[CLAM]

yep, I collected some of them myself.

 

Hard Corps

RAI

Bloodshot

Ninjak

Turok

 

I welcome figures of them and many more Valiant characters

[evenflow]

I would love to see them do Valiant and Defiant comics characters.

[Rollo Tomassi]

I would love to see them do Valiant and Defiant comics characters.

 

 

With a Jim Shooter BAF ( He'd be Sentinel/Galactus sized.)

[Kenny28]

#$@#, I'd settle for just a Quantum and Woody (with G.O.A.T.) pack

[pakledjim]

#$@#, I'd settle for just a Quantum and Woody (with G.O.A.T.) pack

Yes , I loved that series.

 

jiM

[drzenith]

jim shooter BAF would be funny.

 

I would rather buy Valiant characters rather than the other legendary characters I have not heard.

 

Unfortunately there is a power struggle in attaining the rights.

[Kenny28]

But they're already reprinting Harbingers....does that mean the rights for THAT are cleared up? I'm not quite sure how it all works....

[drzenith]

actually the power struggle begin with Jim Shooter and Voyager communications. It was a question who owns who and in which direction to go.

 

Jim Shooter left and Valiant experience a temporary rise to power even without him.

 

But with no direction like Shooter it failed to capitalize the declining comic book market.

 

It end up with lose-lose situation for both parties. Shooter didn't make the same success with his defiant line, while Valiant was sold to Acclaim comics.

 

Realism was the key to their success, but Acclaim reversed the method that put the Valiant universe to the grave.

 

Now another company bought back the rights and seemed to be bringing Shooter back to the fold. The Honeymoon was over and I guess the divorse was refutted.

 

I guess the title should be "I KNOW PRONOUNCE YOU JIM AND VALIANT."

[kreyonkid]

I liked Archer and Armstrong. I've still got a bunch of issues in storage that I haven't read.

[janderson]

Marvel Toys likely wont't touch Valiant because of Jim Shooter. He founded Valiant after Marvel editors fired him to hide their own mistakes running the company. He was their scapegoat and to this day the industry uses him as their punching bag. Not to mentiont he ownership rights to the characters seem to be a mess(it's no wonder the rights to the library sold cheap- with some stuff going back to Gold Key it nixes a lot of reprint opportinities- can't reprint all of Shadowman if a Gold Key character pops up).

 

Not like you can't get a lot of those books cheap. I own nearly the V1 Shadowan run plus some variants... spent about $25 total and that included duplicate copies. I think I'm 6 books shy of the full run.

 

I'd settle for NECA giving us stuff from the Shadowman and Turok games. Probably the best to hope for assuming Acclaim is easy on game rights and such(hmm, do they still own the games themselves?)

[drzenith]

I think Acclaim already sold their rights to another third party that is why this group is bringing back Jim Shooter for Harbinger.

[iammingy]

Just to imagine how to set up your display:

 

 

 

...IF the figures are made that is!!! :P

[drzenith]

it would be really nice to see the display in 3D.

 

Rai can be customed from a madman figure.

[Leatusiv]

I would love a Solar figure and the variant could be the universe looking Solar from the four part mini series put out by Acclaim.I'd also really love an X-O Manowar figure.I thought Valiant was awesome back in the day and still do. I don't know why DC or Marvel don't snatch up the core characters and introduce them in their own universes.

[drzenith]

You can customize Solar using a Series 10 Cyclops. All you need is red, yellow and black paint.

[bucktarded]

I would love to see them do Valiant and Defiant comics characters.

 

 

With a Jim Shooter BAF ( He'd be Sentinel/Galactus sized.)

 

 

But marvel owns the rights to the Beyonder.... (secret wars 2)

[dayraven]

the unfortunate thing is that some of those characters are currently licensed (supposedly) to shocker toys for their indie no-show, i mean spotlight line. i know they have said they have solar and magnus...but then again, if shocker were to be believed, i'd have had oderus urungus in my hands two years ago. but i would totally love to see them in lcbh, those that aren't already spoken for elsewhere. and howzabout some love for the ultraverse characters? i know most of them weren't really origial concepts, but the look was certainly distinctive and would "pop" on the pegs. i wants me a prime!

[Leatusiv]

I'm already working on a solar....Actually that body is no good for that....What I do need is this cyclops head that's coming out....

[jjlecaros]

i always liked

-xo manowar

-magnus robot fighter-solar

-rai

-harbinger

[drzenith]

I'm already working on a solar....Actually that body is no good for that....What I do need is this cyclops head that's coming out....

 

Good luck, friend.

 

Hope you could make a good Solar figs and show it to us Valiant fans.

 

I am not really into customizing, but I did saw someone able to use Cyclops as a base figure. Tweak a thing or two for the hands and feet, since Solar has nothing except pajamas on. then viola Solar Man of the Atom.