Brainstorming Innovations/Improvements to the Legends Line

Lucid Silverback

Lucid Silverback

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I figured we could use a thread devoted to all the ingenious ideas and innovations we constantly discuss on this board. Maybe, by housing them all under one roof, the clandestine Hasbro operatives who lurk on this site might just read something they find advantageous or intuitive, and take that information back to the planning room and actually implement it into the production process.
So by all means, propose, explain, discuss, and argue how to improve Legends however you see fit.
 
I'll get this mf party started!
I think many agree we could use some new power-effects to be introduced into the line. One I propose would be a flat hand blast effect somewhat similar to the effect that accompanied the Toybiz Face-off Mandarin, except that it envelops the entire hand. Bronze era comics were replete with depictions of characters zapping people with that type of effect. I suggest something akin to the fireballs that came with modern era Captain Marvel (Binary Form), or the firey fist effects that accompanied Sunfire. Basically, they should slip completely over the universal flat chop/knife hands so they could be used across the board interchangeably.

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And I would love to see them reapproach and redesign some proper Kirby Krackle effects in assorted configurations and colors.

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(BTW, those are some power effects I made a while back out of plastic folder/binder covers and sharpies. Feel free to save and print them out on a nice card stock if you like, then cut them out and give them to any character in your collections. Or, you can make them from scratch out of plastic.)
 
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I don't usually pay attention to articulation schemes, but I'm always drawn to the neck joints with the forward/back cuts. On flesh tones they stick out like a sore thumb. They have alternatives, right?

Outside of that I'd like them to take a cue from Transformers and do a group of regular sized figures as an MTO.
 
1) Standardize peg sizes for heads and hands.
2) Swappable hair for characters with big manes.
3) Whoever is in charge of putting horizontal hinges on weapon holding hands needs a one-way ticket on the Trebuchet Express into the sun.
4) Balance out the hand selection. None of this only-comes-with-one-fist bullshit.
 
I'll add...
5) mandatory inclusion of two heads/portraits; one modern (because that seems to be their default), and one classic (when applicable). This way everyone is happy and some collectors will buy two in order to have both versions in their collection.
And when the modern & classic portraits aren't applicable, the two portraits should be much more drastically different from one another; no more of this bland, emotionless expression accompanied by a second, slightly less emotionless bullshit.

Oh yah, and immediately fire whoever sculpted those Doc Samson and Thor portraits. Hahaha
 
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Lucid Silverback said:
I'll add...
5) mandatory inclusion of two heads/portraits; one modern (because that seems to be their default), and one classic (when applicable). This way everyone is happy and some collectors will buy two in order to have both versions in their collection.
And when the modern & classic portraits aren't applicable, the two portraits should be much more drastically different from one another; no more of this bland, emotionless expression accompanied by a second, slightly less emotionless bullshit.

Oh yah, and immediately fire whoever sculpted those Doc Samson and Thor portraits. Hahaha
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5+) More unmasked portraits , where applicable, and not just for the A-listers..
 
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6) Proofreading and spell check for all posts made in this and all other threads on the board, and not just for the anal-retentive, ...like me. hahaha

(I'm really not directing that comment at anyone in particular, ...cough cough @PantherCult, cough cough.)
 
I know there are a good number of people on this board that really love soft goods capes and such. As I've made clear, I'm not one of them. Well, I literally just had a THOUGHT, and now let's see if I can ARTICULATE it. (See what I did there?)
Do y'all think it's possible, utilizing bendy-wire technology, to fabricate a poseable PLASTIC cape?
Back in the toybiz days, I distinctly remember a few capes were made from a very thin, rubbery plastic that was waaaay more pliable/floppy than the rigid, plastic capes of today. I think, at least maybe Vision had a cape like this?
Anyway, I'm imagining an industrial process that inserts a bendy wire into a slightly thicker lip and cuff, so that the cape can be manipulated into varied configurations.
Sure, it wouldn't be nearly as flexible as a fabric cape, but I imagine we'd be able to get quite a range of articulation out of it.
What do y'all think??
 
Lucid Silverback said:
I know there are a good number of people on this board that really love soft goods capes and such. As I've made clear, I'm not one of them. Well, I literally just had a THOUGHT, and now let's see if I can ARTICULATE it. (See what I did there?)
Do y'all think it's possible, utilizing bendy-wire technology, to fabricate a poseable PLASTIC cape?
Back in the toybiz days, I distinctly remember a few capes were made from a very thin, rubbery plastic that was waaaay more pliable/floppy than the rigid, plastic capes of today. I think, at least maybe Vision had a cape like this?
Anyway, I'm imagining an industrial process that inserts a bendy wire into a slightly thicker lip and cuff, so that the cape can be manipulated into varied configurations.
Sure, it wouldn't be nearly as flexible as a fabric cape, but I imagine we'd be able to get quite a range of articulation out of it.
What do y'all think??
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Maaaaaaaaybe, but I would think it would be very prone to ripping, and probably not great at the attachment for the shoulders.

I think bendy wired capes are prety much the best solution myself.
 
You're probably right about the wear-and-tear aspect.

Hmmmm.

Maybe, if the whole UFO thang turns out to be real, Hasbro could get their hands on some of that reverse-engineered memory fabric. That'd be the shit.
 
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