Hasbro Made-to-Order Figures

JakeEkiss said:
There are a fair number of 3rd party options there too, though all the ones I've seen require you to buy armor bays one at a time and that gets just as expensive.
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I imagine that if Hasbro did an IM armory, it would be a HasLab, not an MTO. It would be huge, it would have lights and tons of details and moving parts, and it would include at least one actual IM figure (maybe that '90s Tony Stark with the silver under-suit that you could clip all the different armor parts onto?). I keep trying to see it in my brain, and I just don't see an MTO version of that which the Marvel team is happy about and can release for an MTO-type price.
 
I too missed out on the Disney Toy Box armory. I was aware of it but it didn't really seem like a good deal at the time. Kicking myself now, of course.
 
I wonder if Hasbro decided to do the IM Armory, would they commit to the glass cases that have zero playability or would the go the route of something that homages the vintage playsets from the 80’s and 90’s?

Because I imagine hidden concealed compartments and multilayered floors for Avengers mansion + an IM Armory assembly would be kind of cool. They could even do the old school vault with all of the armors suspended by chains as a nod to the Michelinie/Layton era of iron man comics.


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Mangog is definitely top of my list - I’d have to hope that him getting namedropped by Dwight means he’s at least on a short list.

Otherwise, anyone big and monstery that might stray out of BAF territory - Orka, Bi Beast, that kind of thing.

Doubt I’d bite on a Danger Room, but X sells, so I’m sure it’ll happen at some point. I just hope they’ve got all the Sentinels out of their system…


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I wouldn't mind a 1980s era, comic style Mandroid. I currently have those yellow robots from the Lightyear animated movie as stand-ins for Mandroids (and they are pretty close). However I would love for Hasbro to give us a comic accurate version all kitted out, and hey "army builder." The only question in my mind is do I want a figure or a suit for my regular legends, specifically SHIELD agents?
 
JakeEkiss said:
Clearly Damien is a fan of the mutants who fit under the umbrella heading of "knife guy", and are we really at all surprised?
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I scanned this as "umbrella headed knife guy" and thought someone was advocating for Hasbro to knock Killspree off the list of Toy Biz figures yet to join Marvel Legends. I'd be onboard.

Umbrella-headed Knife Guy:
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Killspree is one of the few 90s ToyBiz figures I never owned. He was X-Force, right? I didn’t read X-Force, so a lot of that was over my head.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Killspree is one of the few 90s ToyBiz figures I never owned. He was X-Force, right? I didn’t read X-Force, so a lot of that was over my head.
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Yes. He's not top of my list for Marvel Legends upgrade from old Toy Biz figures (those would be Warstar, Tusk, Krule, Grizzly, Kane, GW Bridge, and maybe Commcast and Quark) but Killspree was hard to find, I looked for him a long time, ended up having to trade to a comic shop for him, and I'd take the upgrade. Looking at my list, it seems a fair number of TB figures that haven't received ML treatment fall under the X-Force banner.
 
I can’t recall if I ever saw him. I remember him on the cross-sell, but those later X-Force figures definitely seemed to ship in fewer numbers. Unless your name is Senyaka. My Toys R Us had rows of that dude they eventually had to put on clearance.
 
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Killspree definitely looks like the handiwork of a would-be Image artist about to jump ship. A cat-of-nine-tails for a hair style you say? What could be more bad@$$?!?! Why an Indian guy on a hoverboard whose power is to simultaneously raise your cable bill while lowering the service quality?

I think I saw Krule in a comic panel once, I have no comic reference for ever seeing Killspree. Quark I know as some Barnyard Commando reject from the Mojoverse, still have never read an issue with him. I know Gideon WAS in the comics but had little interest in the design or the now third guy in the same line on a sliding scale of increasingly outlandish ponytails.

Even as a 9 year old buying the stuff I thought a lot of the X-Force line was just garbage. They'd have been better off just putting a Stan Lee figure in the line at that point. Fortunately the light up X-Men and AOA lines reeled me back in for a while. Never endeavored to get any of the 12in oversized figures though.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
Killspree definitely looks like the handiwork of a would-be Image artist about to jump ship. A cat-of-nine-tails for a hair style you say? What could be more bad@$$?!?! Why an Indian guy on a hoverboard whose power is to simultaneously raise your cable bill while lowering the service quality?

I think I saw Krule in a comic panel once, I have no comic reference for ever seeing Killspree. Quark I know as some Barnyard Commando reject from the Mojoverse, still have never read an issue with him. I know Gideon WAS in the comics but had little interest in the design or the now third guy in the same line on a sliding scale of increasingly outlandish ponytails.

Even as a 9 year old buying the stuff I thought a lot of the X-Force line was just garbage. They'd have been better off just putting a Stan Lee figure in the line at that point. Fortunately the light up X-Men and AOA lines reeled me back in for a while. Never endeavored to get any of the 12in oversized figures though.
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I readily admit that all of my desire for these as Legends stems from my nostalgia for the 5" line.
 
bat said:
I readily admit that all of my desire for these as Legends stems from my nostalgia for the 5" line.
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I'm that way with the retro card line. The windowless packaging experience of the last few years broke me of buying doubles of anything unless it's a retro card for that ToyBiz feel.
 
bat said:
I scanned this as "umbrella headed knife guy" and thought someone was advocating for Hasbro to knock Killspree off the list of Toy Biz figures yet to join Marvel Legends. I'd be onboard.

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I loved Killspree.

He had a cool action feature and was still posable. Killjoy, I think on the card.

I only ever saw him in one comic where he was standing in a helicopter.
 
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