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General Marvel Legends
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Link - not sure if this was the original listing or not.
I utilize packaging in my displays and I realize Hasbro has given us a few - prime examples being The Raft and The Defenders SDCC sets. I would LOVE to see more like that. Savage Land I guess technically counts like Iceman's puddle.
Those are Hasbro's major contributions and the various extra HasLab Sentinel heads. But almost all of my physical environment displays are from DST or Toy Biz.
BTW, "prototypes" are available for Ark Angel and Hob Goblin. Tempted to buy one for the novelty but neither character is one I love enough.
I don't think the bases were why they went out of business.
I utilize packaging in my displays and I realize Hasbro has given us a few - prime examples being The Raft and The Defenders SDCC sets. I would LOVE to see more like that. Savage Land I guess technically counts like Iceman's puddle.
Those are Hasbro's major contributions and the various extra HasLab Sentinel heads. But almost all of my physical environment displays are from DST or Toy Biz.
BTW, "prototypes" are available for Ark Angel and Hob Goblin. Tempted to buy one for the novelty but neither character is one I love enough.
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I can pass on those, but if a grey proto was listed for Select Annihilus, my finger would be lingering over that Buy button for sure…
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Sure, I wasn't saying they haven't done a lot of great things (like the HasLabs) and the line overall has been amazing. And granted, the source material doesn't have a ton of obvious larger vehicles or locations - which is kind of why I feel it is a shame they haven't done it for the few things they could aim for:
There are four obvious figures with horses (Valkyrie, Black Knight, Phantom Rider, Two-Gun Kid, maybe Web-Slinger);
There are three obvious vehicles (Fantasticar, Punisher Van, Hell Charger);
Two obvious truly modular environments (Danger Room, Hall of Armor - could do Avengers mansion/situation room).
Some of the bigger monsters may be too big (Surtur, Foom, Mangog, Giganto) to really do well.
Not that many 1:12 lines do environments to be sure. McFarlane did some for their Batman 66/Retro line (Batcave, Library, Villains Lair). Nacelle is pushing the envelope with their planned Star Trek TOS Bridge pieces which will form a full Enterprise Bridge. Many lines have done 1:12 key Vehicles (Ghostbusters, TMNT, Batman, Fortnite)
I am thinking more like what Select had done with the walls and floors for the Danger Room that could connect, or a version of the modular walls that Star Wars Vintage did for the hallways and Tatooine sets. The Hall of Armor modules that Disney ToyBox sold are another example they could follow. I don't want a dollhouse, but what about a brick wall or fire escape for Spidey, or a rooftop water tower or vents for DD, or some Kirby-esque lab equipment/computer banks. NECA has their environment packs for the Universal Monsters which have larger accessories.
Reno
Collagen Factory
Dioramas for displays are such a need. I've spent hundreds of dollars over the last few years on stuff like the NECA cityscape and Extreme Set's stuff just because I got so tired of just having everything on bookshelves. The really nice stuff being made today is outrageously expensive. The best stuff I've seen is homemade, though.
For years I've thought that Hasbro should pivot from Build-a-Figures to something closer to a Build-a-Diorama concept. Or alternatively this is huge opportunity for them in Made to Order space. I say that, but I have no idea if enough people would buy. With the rise of 3-D printing, it might be cheaper just to buy a 3-D printer and associated files. I haven't pulled the trigger on that yet myself but have really been thinking about it!
For years I've thought that Hasbro should pivot from Build-a-Figures to something closer to a Build-a-Diorama concept. Or alternatively this is huge opportunity for them in Made to Order space. I say that, but I have no idea if enough people would buy. With the rise of 3-D printing, it might be cheaper just to buy a 3-D printer and associated files. I haven't pulled the trigger on that yet myself but have really been thinking about it!
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Thor-El
Asgardian
I made the decision to sacrifice a lot of figures for display in favor of a decent display setup. Most of my figures are in storage, while select ones (like all my Avengers) occupy my mansion display.
The figures themselves are where my bread is buttered. I'd rather display them all than display some with the bases. I'd possibly be more interested in displaying bases if they actually connected to complete a diorama. The closest thing that does that is the DST Danger Room sections. The X-Mansion gates are also a nice backdrop. The TB wrecked Sentinel bases were cool, til scale became inconsistent the more they released. I'd say those were the most successful diorama style bases. There were some centerpiece style pieces like Doom's throne from DST, the wall/safe from Black Cat (that works with other furniture pieces like JJJ's desk from TB SM1), Emma Frost's fireplace. Toy Biz COULD have made the brick walls and ledges and fire escapes more consistent, but they made pretty much none of them match.
Ultra Seven
Studious
About a year ago, I decided I'd rather have clean looking shelves than display every character I own. The pro is that I can really see and appreciate every figure on display; the con is that a lot of secondary/ tertiary characters (X-Men especially) and characters that don't readily fit in with a shelf or corner of the Marvel Universe (Deathlok, for example) end up confined to the bins.
This has also had the effect of making me much more laser-focused on getting characters who complete or add to rosters that I have shelf space allotted for, like the Avengers or Defenders. It also means that I both want and dread more characters from underserved areas like Marvel horror, because then I'd have to figure out where the hell to put them.
My display is embarrassingly cluttered because I've chosen to include as many characters as I can, though that's gone way beyond what can actually fit. I have figures spilling (still standing) onto the floor in front of the shelf. I just don't want to not display them. The shelves are categorized by era, because I feel like I can't prioritize just one! All of them are still 616, none of the alternate universes or timelines are displayed.
Idiosyncratically, I also haven't replaced most figures in the display that have been upgraded. For example, I've still got Love Triangle Cyke and Jean, Apocalypse wave Psylocke, Caliban wave Gambit, Juggernaut wave Rogue, in the display despite far better figures having been released. I'd prefer to keep the upgrades closer to me as hand candy, which just literally pile up on storage bins next to my desk.
There is true evidence of hoarding in my display room, with all the stuff I have yet to open, open stuff that has not found permanent display space.. It's overwhelming. One day I'll find time to revamp the room. First thing coming down is the now complete Marvel Select collection. I can't bring myself to take down any display I may still be potentially adding to. I also refuse to not display higher end items like Mezco One:12 or Transformers Masterpiece/3P MPs.
I have most of my figures permanently in cubic shelving units behind my home office desk. But most of the shelves have doors as I need to do a fair amount of Zoom calling and I’m not an out and proud enough nerd to have a bunch of figures on display behind me (my issue, I know…).
I’ve often wished I could have somewhere to actually look at my figures, and I do have a decent sized table in the office corner, out of Zoom range, that has usually been full of overspill (new figures yet to find a forever home). So I’ve been spending all my customising time for the last year or so building a big diorama to max out that space.
Now I’ve pretty much completed it, I’m planning to have a bunch of figures permanently out on it, rotating weekly or so, either by theme (Spidey vs his rogues) or at random (5 heroes vs 5 villains). Shame to keep the cool stuff hidden away.
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I’ve often wished I could have somewhere to actually look at my figures, and I do have a decent sized table in the office corner, out of Zoom range, that has usually been full of overspill (new figures yet to find a forever home). So I’ve been spending all my customising time for the last year or so building a big diorama to max out that space.
Now I’ve pretty much completed it, I’m planning to have a bunch of figures permanently out on it, rotating weekly or so, either by theme (Spidey vs his rogues) or at random (5 heroes vs 5 villains). Shame to keep the cool stuff hidden away.
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BasilElks
Alias: Basilisk
Is there gonna be a live stream, this month?
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That version of the Hulk is really all we need to complete that team and re-create that cover.
You'll note that Hulk is not (yet) a behemoth. He should be roughly the same height as Thor and Iron Man. He should also have a sloped, protruding brow and flat head like the Frankenstein monster, along with a hairy chest and three toes on each foot.
You know, Avengers wasn't supposed to come out at all. Marvel had two new titles on the schedule for June 1963: Daredevil and the Uncanny X-Men. They scheduled the books with the printer thinking they had plenty of time. Now in those days you had to pay the printing bill on the dates you reserved whether you had a book ready to print or not. So Stan had a big problem when it looked like Daredevil wasn't going to be completed in time. The artist was Bill Everett, a man that Stan loved as both a friend and illustrator. Unfortunately, Bill was having some big time health problems. Stan stalled as long as he could but when it became evident they weren't going to have a book, it was King Kirby to the rescue. Stan, Jack and inker Dick Ayers literally put together that first issue of Avengers over a weekend. From concept (Their answer to DC's Justice League) to plot to pencils to script to letterlng to inking to coloring and ready to ship off to the printer, all in the course of about three days. An amazing mind blowing feat. Even more amazing is that issue of Avengers became one of the most important comics Marvel ever published. It's still going to this day. And it kicked off a multi-billion dollar movie franchise.
So yeah my buddy @AceofKnaves is correct. I really want that Hulk. I'd love to recreate that cover someday.