Make My Marvel McFarlane!

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Just kidding. Please don't!

BUT - has anyone successfully found ways to work McFarlane's Marvel Statues into your action figure line-ups?

I'm most curious about his Jim Lee X-Men pieces and Storm. A $30 Beast is possibly the cheapest option on the market for that character right now and I'm curious how he looks in an ML line-up. I saw Cyclops in store in a different state and was surprised how much I liked the shading. His forehead was glaringly wrong, but overall, he looked good. And I don't love Storm's zig-zag cape sculpt, but she looks really good.

Anyone taken any good pics of these, or others, they're willing to share? Curious how Thing looks with MLs. And to anyone who has these, can they easily be removed from the bases or do they have to be broken apart?
 
I think the only one I've been even slightly tempted by so far is Storm, only because it's impossible to get her to do that with a cape any other way (to my knowledge)
 
I like how they did Thing, and I might be tempted if they were to recreate the full X-Men #1 cover, but I have zero interest in statues.
 
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Yeah, the only way that I'll ever touch any of these is when they eventually hit 90% off on his website like all of the other McFarlane "posed figure" stuff has eventually.
 
Found an interesting take on McFarlane's Rivals at Walmart yesterday:

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So many punchlines:

And *this* is why Sony is rebooting their live-action Spider-Verse.

DC's take on Venom is not the best.

They really will let Tom Hardy do anything.
 
Saw a Dr. Strange McFarlane did at Target that I liked enough I spur of the moment bought it. I posed it with a Clea custom I bought prior to Legends making her. Wasn't sure it would work but it actually turned out really well. Definitely not saying it would work with all of his stuff but it's at least possible under some circumstances.
 
NORM said:
I like how they did Thing, and I might be tempted if they were to recreate the full X-Men #1 cover, but I have zero interest in statues.
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These are the only ones I'm buying. Unless you meant Uncanny X-Men #1 with snowman Iceman on the cover. I think he could do those, but I don't know that I'd buy 'em. I think we're just waiting on Storm, Psylocke, Rogue, and however they intend to do the much smaller in frame Jean, Xavier, Archangel and Iceman. I like the display I've got going presently, it just takes up a lot of real estate when you factor in it's only half done right now.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
These are the only ones I'm buying. Unless you meant Uncanny X-Men #1 with snowman Iceman on the cover. I think he could do those, but I don't know that I'd buy 'em. I think we're just waiting on Storm, Psylocke, Rogue, and however they intend to do the much smaller in frame Jean, Xavier, Archangel and Iceman. I like the display I've got going presently, it just takes up a lot of real estate when you factor in it's only half done right now.
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Do the “Jim Lee Cover” X-Men statues connect? I’ve seen all of them in store so far - Wolvie, Cyke, Beast, Gambit at least - and they don’t look like they connect. And they each have an X-Men logo? Are those part of the sculpt or removable? All this is curiosity, I have no interest in picking any up. I’m sure I could also have googled this information but I’m trying to avoid their automatic AI responses.
 
Yeah, these "statues" or "posed figures" are a straight skip for me. I bought a Gold Label Spidey from Target on clearance for $8 and McF sent me a free Black Panther with an order not too long ago, but those are likely the only types of times these are going to end up in my collection.
 
NORM said:
Do the “Jim Lee Cover” X-Men statues connect? I’ve seen all of them in store so far - Wolvie, Cyke, Beast, Gambit at least - and they don’t look like they connect. And they each have an X-Men logo? Are those part of the sculpt or removable? All this is curiosity, I have no interest in picking any up. I’m sure I could also have googled this information but I’m trying to avoid their automatic AI responses.
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Wolverine and Cyclops fits together, I don't know if that was intentional or not. The others don't (ie: Colossus' fists overhang the base so there's no way for Gambit's base to fit in with that one, plus we don't have the other characters from THAT cover so I can't say whether they will or not). Beast's base is mostly mangled "metal" and bricks so it doesn't fit with anything else. The X-Men signage I'm sure could be pried off if you wanted but it doesn't bother me that much. You could probably even pry the figures off the bases if you care that much, but a lot of their knees are bent so you'd have to find another way to prop them up, plus Colossus is quite heavy compared to the others, so would likely fall over. Basically you just space them out to construct the cover yourself. As someone who collected statues before diving back into figures, I'm not really looking for a super elaborate X-Men #1 cover diorama, as that would likely end up in the thousands of dollars (see Iron Studios various X-Men dioramas in 1/10th scale, all very detailed but all very expensive), so a $30 statue coming out every 3-4 months doesn't really break the bank. Plus I think it's a decent way for folks on a budget to get their own statue wants met if there's no way they can afford Sideshow/ XM Studios /Iron Studios et al. I've seen people at work with McFarlane sports-based posed figured/statues on their desk, so I think this is just the nerdier side street for that. I don't know if there's another X-Men cover that I'd collect in this way and in this format if McFarlane chose to do another after this. Will really depend on what they choose next. Maybe Uncanny X-Men #318 if done correctly.
 
The choice of original costume Storm for this line still stands out as an odd one. I have Beast in with my MLs until such time as Hasbro decides to make him easily available again and it mostly works.
 
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