Hulk Deluxe/Retro Wave

After seeing that image, I really, REALLY wish we got an updated classic Abomination instead for this year's Retro Hulk wave. I'm sure we'll get a classic Abomination like this eventually, with one only head, an extra set of hands, and a price point that will be too high for everyone's wallets yet we'll all get pre-ordered.
 
I think I'm going to let the preorder slide on Professor Hulk. Sure he looks cool but I'm increasingly saying to myself that I can live off "on sale or not at all" figures unless it's some highly sought after Batman or X-Men stuff. I'm not sure it will sell out completely and just stay gone. Blob sold out and many thought he was gone for good, and I'd imagine they're going to make more Hulks given that this is a wave than they did Blobs, plus more people have other financial battles to deal with right now than the every increasingly pricey oil-based plastic collecting that we all bemoan.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
I think I'm going to let the preorder slide on Professor Hulk. Sure he looks cool but I'm increasingly saying to myself that I can live off "on sale or not at all" figures unless it's some highly sought after Batman or X-Men stuff. I'm not sure it will sell out completely and just stay gone. Blob sold out and many thought he was gone for good, and I'd imagine they're going to make more Hulks given that this is a wave than they did Blobs, plus more people have other financial battles to deal with right now than the every increasingly pricey oil-based plastic collecting that we all bemoan.
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I feel like you shouldn’t sleep on Professor Hulk. This iteration of the hulk hasn’t been made in action figure form all that frequently. Only three times since 1997-present day. For plenty of Hulk fans who view Peter David’s seminal run as a litmus test for how this character should be portrayed in the comics, the Professor Hulk era was top tier. As if Marvel finally found their Goldilocks formula for the Hulk and is still highly praised. Because in that run we still saw the absolute savagery of the hulk whenever he wanted to throw hands and cut loose, but he still had the genius intellect of Bruce Banner and the book was still mired in the same kind of quirkiness that fans were used to in the She-Hulk book from a decade prior.

So bottom line is that it’s a popular design from an adored era and I’m sure hulk fans are going to be stumbling over them to grab this.


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Red She-Hulk arrived today and she’s a really nice figure. I liked that mold when it was Jennifer, and the additions to the costume make a really good Betty.

Do not know the exact details behind it, or the sais, nor do I care. They went into her accessory bag never to be used anyway.
 
StuartGreen3 said:
After seeing that image, I really, REALLY wish we got an updated classic Abomination instead for this year's Retro Hulk wave. I'm sure we'll get a classic Abomination like this eventually, with one only head, an extra set of hands, and a price point that will be too high for everyone's wallets yet we'll all get pre-ordered.
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I think I said it earlier in this thread, but if they took the exact aesthetic of the Toy Biz Legends Abomination and have it modern articulation - it would be a massive hit. Even at deluxe price.
 
I don't need Abomination any bigger than Hulk really. That's a modern thing as well and doesn't really need to be on a "classic" Abomination. The old classic one just has those short legs. They could have done new legs adding like 1/2 to 3/4 an inch on him and it would have been a solid update.
 
I loved those old hulk figures from the 90’s. Never picked up any from the UPN cartoon series though. The more deluxe figures were really fun though


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I know I'm showing my age, but I got several of the U.P.N. based "The Incredible Hulk" figures back when they first came out, including the Transforming Hulk with the little Bruce Banner and the Leader, even at a time when kids my age were "too grown up" for buying figures like those and I had so much fun displaying those. I didn't get any of the five inch figures, even though I really wanted Leader, Doc Samson and one of the Hulks.

I know I've said it before, but I do wish that Hasbro had given us an actual Retro Hulk wave with some human-sized figures too. Don't tell me you couldn't put figures of Bruce Banner, Tyrannus, Ringmaster, the Leader in his orange-and-black suit, Boomerang, Bereet or Jarella, and a Kirby-esque Hulk with purple trunks when he was an Avenger to make a wave and not have fans want to pre-order at least some of these characters.
 
StuartGreen3 said:
I know I'm showing my age, but I got several of the U.P.N. based "The Incredible Hulk" figures back when they first came out, including the Transforming Hulk with the little Bruce Banner and the Leader, even at a time when kids my age were "too grown up" for buying figures like those and I had so much fun displaying those. I didn't get any of the five inch figures, even though I really wanted Leader, Doc Samson and one of the Hulks.

I know I've said it before, but I do wish that Hasbro had given us an actual Retro Hulk wave with some human-sized figures too. Don't tell me you couldn't put figures of Bruce Banner, Tyrannus, Ringmaster, the Leader in his orange-and-black suit, Boomerang, Bereet or Jarella, and a Kirby-esque Hulk with purple trunks when he was an Avenger to make a wave and not have fans want to pre-order at least some of these characters.
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Speaking of first appearance Hulk and Bruce Banner, I recently grabbed that Avengers 60th 2-pack of those characters and I distinctively remember Dwight saying that this hulk is on a smaller body to reflect the size that Hulk was shown to be back in the Strange Tales comic. But he’s literally just the same 80th anniversary Hulk body. Hell he looks no different than the retro carded Grey Hulk that came out a few years ago


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