General Marvel Legends

[docsilence]

Just dropping in to agree that the costumes are fine (not earth shattering, but perfectly serviceable) but X-treme anything has aged like a fine fart.

 

[AceofKnaves]

It immediately evokes snowboarding, frosted tips, limited-edition Mountain Dew flavors, and Jacoby Shaddix.

Oof. Yep. Turning 21 in 1999 and just generally being a guy at that time was exhausting and excruciatingly painful. That crap was the harbinger of my final retreat from even trying to be a part of the mainstream. It just hurt too much.

 

[Schizm]

These three and I'd be completely set. I've been tempted so many times to turn Red Queen Jean's head into Sage. But I'd like Rogue with the jacket.

A modern Storm is one character re-do that is LOOOONNNNGGGG overdue.

 

[Reno]

I'd take Sage anyway that I could get her. I've got a Black Queen kitbash of her right now but would prefer her in one of her X-Men costumes. She's a Top 10 want for me.

 

[Ru1977]

X-Treme got me back into X-Men for a little while, but really only because it was Claremont coming back. After a few issues though, it felt like they weren't really letting him play with all the toys he should have been given and I fell off. But at the time, I remember being into the art as well.

 

[CTV]

I didn't actually like the X-Treme X-Men book at all beyond the costumes. Plus Sage's look is always more-or-less based on that one. My favorite look for Rogue is from around the same time, but I doubt it'll ever be made so I'll eventually customize it:

 

[docsilence]

I was once on the marketing team for a cybersecurity company where the product marketing manager was DETERMINED to name a feature X-Treme. "With our patented X-TREME ARChITECTURE" and I'm like Chris, nothing makes you sound like a 50 year old marketing dude than using X-Treme in 2019...

Anyway, Sage feels like she'd be a really easy sculpt to pop out if they needed a filler character in an X-wave, yeah?

 

[JakeEkiss]

I gave myself a little present today and opened a figure that I'd put aside for a special occasion. I need to grab a nice robust stand for her so I can get her in a nice single leg dancing pose. The only thing I wish she had is a portrait with a wild grin sort of like Deathbird.

 

[altcunningham]

I feel this way about a ton of the "no one wants this" "this will never sell" "why do they keep making peg warmers" etc etc commentary that gets thrown around. Surely the guys who have been doing this for decades and have access to a bunch of sales data and other information no one else does have a slightly better handle on things than some rando on the internet? Maybe?

It boils down to I Didn't Want It, which is fair, but these days everyone thinks they're the main character.

 

[JakeEkiss]

I feel this way about a ton of the "no one wants this" "this will never sell" "why do they keep making peg warmers" etc etc commentary that gets thrown around. Surely the guys who have been doing this for decades and have access to a bunch of sales data and other information no one else does have a slightly better handle on things than some rando on the internet? Maybe?

It's true, and also (and this is the thing that keeps the conversation going), nobody *knows* anything. That is to say, even with amazing predictive models and sales data, you cannot actually predict the future, you can't even necessarily accurately know the past. It just means it's an educated guess.

But because of that, sometimes they miss, because of course they do, and when that happens, all the folks who have *no* data feel validated in their less informed opinions.

 

[altcunningham]

I don't think we'd ever get it, but I was reading some of my Wolverine and Yukio would be cool.

 

[JakeEkiss]

I don't think we'd ever get it, but I was reading some of my Wolverine and Yukio would be cool.

Fuckin' A right she would be.

 

[yojoebro82]

I set up my Excalibur, X-Force, and X-Factor shelves. Then I decided smart Hulk has been in a box long enough and since he had a crossover with X-Factor, he went there. Then I decided Maestro should go there too because why not. Then I saw Spidey 2099 at Target for the "old" price ($25), remembered I didn't have a Spidey 2099 so why not get the new-y newest bestest one, then just decided to Peter David the hell out of this shelf.

 

[hmmberto]

I set up my Excalibur, X-Force, and X-Factor shelves. Then I decided smart Hulk has been in a box long enough and since he had a crossover with X-Factor, he went there. Then I decided Maestro should go there too because why not. Then I saw Spidey 2099 at Target for the "old" price ($25), remembered I didn't have a Spidey 2099 so why not get the new-y newest bestest one, then just decided to Peter David the hell out of this shelf.

Love this. The Smart Hulk/X-Factor crossover story (spanning both books, I think? or was it just X-Factor?) is a real gem, and Peter David deserves to get all the love thrown his way.

I loved the Hulk Classics Smart Hulk but finally let him go a few years ago - looking forward to a new one.

 

[hmmberto]

Zero X-Treme X-Men is the right amount.

I'm too much of a team completionist - eventually they will have made enough other X-people that I'll start asking for Lifeguard and Slipstream. Not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but one day...