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and Caliban's

Yeah I found Caliban’s worked better.

I think the final recipe I went with was Shadow King head on Joe Fixit body with the Caliban hands and then it bugged me that they rotund nature of Farouk made more sense as he’s a psychic villain it would track more that even in the height of battle he’s still sitting on his fat arse getting zero cardio, so I opted to preorder the reissue of retro card Kingpin so I could use that body for him instead. Why that body and not the baf? To me Kingpin seems like a guy who would have too much of a discerning eye to wear such a pukesome ensemble, he’s stylish in all white or all black like Donofrio’s wardrobe in the tv series. Farouk on the other hand strikes me as likely having no taste and he’d absolutely wear that awful mismatch of patterns and colours the animated/classic Kingpin wears.


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Fair but I stand by my assertions that the fashion choices of the artists, or rather lack of inclination to adjust the wardrobe of a character don’t click with the personalities of them.
Often it’s just a shorthand way of making characters distinguishable on the page when drawn repeatedly that sticks longterm and earns them some of the more bizarre or questionable aesthetics (I’m looking at you Osborn boy - oof, those haircuts are certainly a choice…)


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Revisiting my ideal year of releases, looks like some will need to be replaced... which isn't bad :)

Wish Wave
Yellowjacket
Ronin
Nova Prime
Classic Hercules
Classic Falcon Winter Soldier
Doc Sampson Classic Madame Masque
Elektra (red)

BAF Annihilus

First Retro Revisit Wave
Captain America (Secret Wars pinless body) Scale armor torso... with butterfly joints?
Punisher (Gamerverse 2-pk with black/white deco)
Spider-Man (Maximum with Ditko head)
Iron Man (Secret Wars pinless with 80th Anniversary red/gold deco)
Wolverine ('97 pinless with comic head)
Black Widow (Yelena head included... because... we got tons of Natasha)

Random Retro Card Releases
Daredevil (Secret Wars with regular comic deco)
Classic Black Cat
Spider-Man (AF15 body, bright red/blue)
Cyclops (Animated/'97 body with new comic head)
Doppleganger (Dark Avengers Spider-Man body)
6-Arm Spider-Man (Dark Avengers Spidey... again)
Modern Iron Fist (RYV Spidey body)
Extremis Iron Man (2 pk w/ unhooded Tony Stark head... because I'm still waiting for the perfect modern Stark head)

While we're at it, OG X-Men 5 pack on new bodies and a Modern She-Hulk tossed in there somewhere.

Maximum
Captain America
Wolverine
Thor (gonna be a wait for Classic)
Gambit
Magneto
 
That whole post made me twitch so hard I thought I was having a seizure.... an entire wave of redos... we're asking for this?
my nightmare
Well... to say "we" are asking for it is a bit presumptive that all Legends collectors are completely unified in their wants and desires from the line. It would be an entire wave of well-selling re-dos which also appeal to the long term collectors who have been looking to replace some very outdated figures on their shelves. A couple very strong selling waves would hopefully buy some leeway to include all the wonderful and obscure D-listers every niche collector has in their back pocket in future waves for the year. Success = more of a chance 9 people get their dream of owning a Dr. Bong or General Admission or whoever.
 
That whole post made me twitch so hard I thought I was having a seizure.... an entire wave of redos... we're asking for this?
my nightmare
I had a similar reaction. I guess that it would save me a lot of money.

If something has ever been made in the past, especially within the past decade then I don't personally ever need it again. I don't even want alternate costumes for characters myself. Just preferably one fairly definitive version and done, and ready to move on to a character that I don't already have. I don't want to own more than one of anybody, but I'll absolutely buy one of every single distinct character that is made regardless of obscurity.
 
I don't think they can do classic Howard. Wasn't one of the conditions of the lawsuit that Howard always has has to be wearing pants now in depictions? No Donald Duckin' for Howard the Duck?

I could swear it is.
 
Maybe we will get a Howard the Duck and Dr. Bong two-pack. We still don't have a proper comic representation of Howard yet! I would buy it in a heartbeat!
This is my absolute, no bullshit, #1 Marvel Legends wish that isn’t directly Dracula/horror oriented. I’d buy a set for every room in my house, for my car, for my office . . . just put Howard and Doctor Bong in my veins!!!!
 
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