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  1. I'm not calling you a 'Hasbro hater' at all. I'm not even saying that your opinion is unfounded. You are making a good point rather than just blindly condemning as some do, and I completely respect that... I just don't agree with it. I think we both understand each other, we're just on different sides about it. No harm, no foul. :)

     

    Works for me. My main issue with artist specific figures is once a company realizes they can show a higher profit margin by doing them. They end up releasing figures of the same half dozen charecters over and over in different artistic styles. Charecter diversity goes out the window and you're lucky to get any new ones at all. IMO Hasbro needs to stick with generic versions of established charecters in costumes from different eras and let Marvel Select do the artist specific figures.

  2. Yup, because it's easier to ignore someone than respond to blatent snarkiness. @smilepunch@ The bottom line is that YES my issue is that they chose to go with the Frank Cho artist specific version because anyone who's read comics for any real length of time. Knows that artists tend to come and go, while it's the charecters that endure from decade to decade. One of the things that has made the M.L. line so popular is that you can build a coherant display of charecters and teams that aren't crippled by being artist specific the way the majority of figures by a company like D.C. Direct are. Charecters that are lucky to get 1 chance at having a figure done should never be artist specific for that reason. It wouldn't matter to me IF these where ones like Spider Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk or Wolverine who have had and will have figures done in several different styles, but these are more than likely the only versions we'll ever see. You can rationalize them being "good enough" however you want. Even try to turn it into and dismiss my issue by claiming I'm a "Hasbro hater". It's still not going to change my opinion or make these figures any less of a disapointment for me.

  3. That's a plausible rationalization about the bikini costume. At least until you do a simple search for one of the covers to the 2005 Frank Cho limited series with the Natzi created superhuman version set in an alternate universe.

     

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    and even her hair is more red than blonde. Which IMO after flipping threw the 1st issue, would have been improved by the nudity he originally wanted to include. Other than some over the top T & A, that version has absolutely nothing going for it.

  4. They're not true to any of the comics I've read over the years. Here's a list of her appearances before the 2005 Frank Cho limited series that was set in an alternate universe. Hopefully you have at least 1 of those issue's in your collection that you can dig out and check for yourself.

     

    Shanna The She-Devil #1-5

    Daredevil Vol. 1 #109-113 & 117

    Savage Tales #8-10

    The Rampaging Hulk #9

    Marvel Fanfare #56-59 (story printed after years of shelving)

    Ka-Zar Vol. 2 #1-2

    Ka-Zar Vol. 3 #1-34

    Ka-Zar Vol. 4 #1-20

    Uncanny X-Men #250, 274-275

    Uncanny X-Men Annual #7 & 12

    Marvel Comics Presents #68-77

    Namor #16-19, 21

    Tales of the Marvel Universe

    Sensational Spider-Man #13-15

    Captain America Vol. 3 #31

    X-Men Unlimited vol. 1, #1

     

    Every charecter is someone's favorite and even though these look like decent sculpts with the exception of the G.I. Joe Adventure team repainted Tiger. They're not the established versions that I know or want.

  5. What I want to know is WHY they chose to go with the alternate/Ultimate version of these charecters who have only appeared in 12 or 13 issues instead of the 616 ones who have been around for decades. Personally I would have paid convention exclusive prices and made room in my displays for the charecters I knew, but not these artist specific versions that will barely be remembered 5 or 10 years from now.

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanna_the_She-Devil

     

     

    "A blond, alternate-universe version of the character starred in the seven-issue miniseries Shanna, the She-Devil vol. 2 (April-Oct. 2005), writer-artist Frank Cho. This Shanna is the result of a genetic experiment and has superhuman strength and agility. One member of a scientific expedition that encountered her named her Shanna after the "comic book character".

     

    The series was originally scheduled for release under Marvel's "mature readers" MAX imprint,[citation needed] but was reworked, with Cho eliminating its nudity before publication. Ir ran with a "PSR+" rating through issue #4, and a "Parental Advisory" rating afterward.

     

    A four-issue sequel miniseries, Shanna The She-Devil: Survival of the Fittest (Oct. 2007 - Jan. 2008) by writers Justin Gray and James Palmiotti and penciler Khari Evans, featured this same alternate version of Shanna.

     

    Shanna appears in ultimate form in issue #3 with ultimate Ka-Zar on the last page of Ultimates 3."

  6. The only thing worse than these reissue's is that they're sure to clog the pegs so that nobody reorders any assortments with new charectors when or IF they get produced. Just like with Toybiz and the 2nd wave of Fantastic Four Classics that were almost impossible to find because of all the movie figs nobody could get rid of even at rock bottom clearance prices.

  7. I think the BAF concept is essential IF we want to get less recognizable or obscure charecters out of the M.L. line. Plus it ensures that the figures are more evenly packed in a case. I don't think anybody wants to go back to the way things were before they were introduced when it was a certifiable pain trying to track down short packed figures like Pheonix, Deadpool, Juggernaut, Hawkeye, ect and chase figures were almost impossible to find.

    IMO the main problem with Hasbro is they don't have a toy/comic geek in charge of the line who understands the concept of team and display building the way Jesse or the 4 Horsemen do. Who understands that kids and collectors both will buy figures of charecters they're not familiar with IF they're nicely done.

  8. Outside of a video game cut scene and maybe a 10 minute boss batte. Shadow King really hasn't had an established look that IMO is strong enough to warrent a BAF. He's another one of those backdrop charecters like the Kree Supreme Intelligence that would look good standing behind your figures, but really isn't worth wasting shelf space on. Abyss has only had a couple mainstream 616 appearances besides the AOA ones and the video game. He might make a fairly decent single caded figure IF they could figure out how to do his arms or torso to show him using his powers, but there are larger charecters with more appearances that are better suited to the BAF concept. I'm all for a Living Monolith, but honestly he hasn't appeared more than a handfull of times in comics in the past 20-30 years and besides he would need to be Giant Man size to look half way decent. Personally I've always hated Nimrod's name and original color scheme. Altho the pale scarlet he's been sporting in recent issue's of New X-Men is a slight improvement. When it comes to more Sentinals I'd much rather have a classic one as a BAF or Bastion with some OZT Prime Sentinals as army builders.

  9. So the green Pterodactyl man named after a LOTR villian is lame, but a pansy pink mutant hunting Nimrod is kewl? @loll@ Don't even get me stated on the obese Egyptian fezz wearing mind mucker. @grumpy@

  10. Ideally I think he should have been included in the box set with Ka-zar, Shanna and Zabu. Altho I do like the idea of a 2 pack with Garokk. Otherwise he should deffinately be a single carded figure. Personally I'm tired of X-Men themed BAF's since they've done almost twice as many of those as they have the others.

  11. Usually I try to group them by era or the order in which they joined.

    For example

     

    Top shelf = Giant Man, FA gold Iron Man, FA green Hulk, Wasp (Goliath pack in) and Thor

    Middle shelf = Black Widow, Hercules, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Quicksilver, Captain America, Black Panther, classic Iron Man

    Bottom shelf = Falcon, Mrs Marvel, Beast, Wonder Man, She Hulk, Ant Man, Yellowjacket, Wasp,War Machine and the Iron Man armory display

  12. Besides all that. IF you stop and think about it. You're prolly spending more money for the gas to go toy hunting on a regular basis than you would for the cost of shipping from buying them online. Not to mention it's a LOT less frustrating than keeping track of when stores get in new shipments and trying to beat the scalpers to them.

  13. The major mistake they made was trying to force people to buy them to get BAF parts in the regular M.L. line. Along with changing the scale and including much requested figures like a new version of Black Cat in them. Having said that. The only one's that "might" interest me are an X3 Multiple Man because it would be similar to his current X-Factor look and possibley a Bullseye.

  14. Has anybody heard when the official release date for these is supposed to be? I haven't heard of them even showing up in China yet and that line about how he got them from his "secret friends" makes me wonder just how "hot" these are. Even IF he did get them from a ligitimate source. IMO it's not kosher to turn around and sell something for a serious profit when someone has possibly risked their job to get you something in advance.

  15. So is there any figure tha isn't a repaint or reissue in the 1st 2 waves? So far the only one I'd even consider buying would be Shocker. IF they had fixed that crippling lame a$$ action feature that kept me from getting the original. What I don't understand is IF they're going to bog the line down with reissues. Why aren't they doing the ones from the box sets that were harder to find. Like Black Cat, regular armed Electro, Rhino, Lizard and Vulture?

  16. Honestly I just wish Hasbro would make up their mind about which direction they're going with the cosmic charecters. Either do Annhilation versions like the Ronan BAF or classic ones like Nova in HML 4. My choices based on the cosmic figure's I already have in my display would be:

     

    Terrax

    Classic Adam Warlock

    Classic Moondragon - Avengers/Infinity watch green costume

    Quasar - Wendel in his Avengers costume

    Starfox

    High Evolutionary

     

    Classic Drax BAF

     

    Then follow that up with an Annhilation/Conquest wave

     

    Nova

    Gamora

    Star Lord

    Drax

    Super Skrull

    Quasar - Phyla Vel

     

    Ultron Phalanx BAF

     

    Of course 2 packs are another option

     

    Nova, Gamora, with Cosmo

     

    Star Lord, Mantis (classic varient) with Rocket Racoon

     

    Moondragon, Drax

     

    Phyla and black Moon Dragon

  17. Deffinately the Spider Slayer and the Series 1 was the best IMO because the torso on the SMC version IS odd looking. I'm not holding my breath on the rumored HML version being any better. Wouldn't surprise me IF it's a reissue of the SMC version with a comic accurate paint app instead of the silver it had the last time they reissued it. That's based on the first wave of the latest Spider Man wave that has the movie figures reissued for the 3rd time by Hasbro with a different packaging.

  18. Of the 8 figures left that pics were either leaked of or were mentioned

     

    CUT

     

    Grey Hulk - we already have the FA and Joe Fixit versions

    Red King - too story specific and it's douptfull he'll apear in comics again

    Skarr; son of Hulk - Hasn't appeared in comics yet and has zero popularity at this point

    Mick G Hulk - Even Red he hasn't been around long enough to warrent a figure

     

    KEEP

     

    King Hulk - the obligatory Hulk figure

    Valkyrie - adds to the Defenders display

    Bi Beast - classic villian

    Doc Sampson - supporting charecter

     

    IF they do end up cutting Val or Sampson. Then they should stick them in a regular M.L. wave instead of a repeat charecters like Symbiote Spider Man or story specific versions like Silver Savage.

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