General Marvel Legends

Please please please...

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That's a little bit similar to a pretty famous Lovecraftian line: "That is not dead which can eternal lie/and with strange aeons, even death may die." It's a bit of a stretch, but something Dr. Strange-ish like Dweller in Darkness might be a candidate here.
 
All this talk of undead and Dracula had me pulling out my street-level mystic Marvel figures tonight to swap out some display figures. First thought - I know he's much maligned, but what in the Francis Ford F*ckery is this armor Dracula is kind of a lot of fun to put into action poses even if he's not the ideal Drac. (I've got a copy of the Monster Force Dracula en route I'm hoping will scratch that itch.)

But I'm also really not satisified with the Mobius iterations we've had so far. The last one is fun to pose but while I like a good open-mouthed biting vampire, I wish they gave swappable close-mouth heads for any version of him (y'know, like they did Dracula). Anyway I pulled both of them out to stick with a new Loosecollectors Vampirella on the shelf for a bit. Salem's almost here, right?

And then there's Blade, and am I nuts in thinking the older version of him is just way more fun? The coat on the more recent Blade is such a miserable thing, can't put his arms to the side, gets in the way of torso and leg movement... And again, only the screaming/biting head, no neutral expression. Meanwhile the older version is anemic on accessories, but I just totally stole new Blade's weapons for him and they look great. NO bitey head for him, but two non-bitey heads. The skin tone definitely doesn't match with the newer one but it's close enough that I fudged the mostly-not-bald version on that body and it doesn't look terrible! But I still like the older version better.

(Speaking of mystic Legends, I really wish I hadn't stored the reborn Elektra's spare head in with her sword. Those crazy curls stripped the silver off the sword! Easy to fix with a bit of Vallejo paint but still, dumb move on my part.)
 
I didn't notice Strong Guy selling out anywhere. If he's on decent enough sale come Christmas I might see how well those heads' skin tone matches the smiling one. Honestly the body isn't doing it for me. They made his shoulders needlessly navy colored, the X paldron is only white in one misprint I've seen, all other times it's yellow. Might see how low that Wolverine MCU helmet gets too, as I remember the Magneto one was down around 1/3 of its price for a while there.
 
docsilence said:
All this talk of undead and Dracula had me pulling out my street-level mystic Marvel figures tonight to swap out some display figures. First thought - I know he's much maligned, but what in the Francis Ford F*ckery is this armor Dracula is kind of a lot of fun to put into action poses even if he's not the ideal Drac. (I've got a copy of the Monster Force Dracula en route I'm hoping will scratch that itch.)

But I'm also really not satisified with the Mobius iterations we've had so far. The last one is fun to pose but while I like a good open-mouthed biting vampire, I wish they gave swappable close-mouth heads for any version of him (y'know, like they did Dracula). Anyway I pulled both of them out to stick with a new Loosecollectors Vampirella on the shelf for a bit. Salem's almost here, right?

And then there's Blade, and am I nuts in thinking the older version of him is just way more fun? The coat on the more recent Blade is such a miserable thing, can't put his arms to the side, gets in the way of torso and leg movement... And again, only the screaming/biting head, no neutral expression. Meanwhile the older version is anemic on accessories, but I just totally stole new Blade's weapons for him and they look great. NO bitey head for him, but two non-bitey heads. The skin tone definitely doesn't match with the newer one but it's close enough that I fudged the mostly-not-bald version on that body and it doesn't look terrible! But I still like the older version better.

(Speaking of mystic Legends, I really wish I hadn't stored the reborn Elektra's spare head in with her sword. Those crazy curls stripped the silver off the sword! Easy to fix with a bit of Vallejo paint but still, dumb move on my part.)
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I am waiting on a Blade that I truly love. Both recent releases have not been exciting enough for me to do a lot with Figure Photo wise.
 
Chooch555 said:
Huh. Not enough to stop me from auto-renewing, but probably wouldn't have upgraded tiers for that.
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Not anything I would've expected, but I don't hate it. I'm already signed up for the membership anyway so I guess I'm ... moderately satisfied with it?
Enforcer said:
I am waiting on a Blade that I truly love. Both recent releases have not been exciting enough for me to do a lot with Figure Photo wise.
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Yeah, the older one is looking old (no vertical wrist hinges, very niche head sculpts, short on accessories... no butterfly joints). But I find him more fun than the jacketed version. And apparently I hallucinated that they made his old school green jacket look. I swear I thought I had that figure in my collection and must've dreamt it or something.
 
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