General Marvel Legends

The picks by @Beamish for two Defenders For a Day waves sound pretty darn good, though I'd actually like to see the classic Beetle with suction cup fingers for the Retro Spider-Man series on the old Toy Biz box art. That said, I'd just settle for a new taller/more muscular classic Valkyrie, a new classic Sub-Mariner, and a new Deluxe figure of Hulk with new alternate heads that have better face sculpts and hair and a chest that doesn't crack/break like the "Maximum" figure (yep, still hate that figure, Hasbro).

And yes, George Pérez is, was, and always will be one of the greatest artists in all of comics.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Glen makes great points about the ball-and-socket pelvis.

Come for the argument, stay to watch him accidentally snap a $100 figure in half.


We gotta come up with a better name than ball-and-socket pelvis, though.
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I watched that too and physically winced when he snapped that figure. That definitely could have been a shorter video if he just held up that Wolverine and said "Look how it moves - case closed!"
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Glen makes great points about the ball-and-socket pelvis.

Come for the argument, stay to watch him accidentally snap a $100 figure in half.


We gotta come up with a better name than ball-and-socket pelvis, though.
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Very impressed with this guy. He seems to actually be trying to grapple with some of the considerations that Hasbro might have with some of their choices that most people ignore - having to meet a wide range of safety standards, manufacturing processes, etc. I have no idea if he's right, but he seems to at least be making a good faith effort to think why they make the choices they do.

Plus, he's totally right and ball and socket pelvises are vastly superior and should immediately become the standard.
 
Yeah, I subscribed to him a couple months ago and I appreciate his approach.
Watching him snap that Spider-Man in half was painful. Mine took a 6-foot shelf dive 8-10 years ago and split his neck piece in half. Luckily, a little super glue saved the day, but I have a feeling that torso break was a finishing move.
 
Oh yeah, he's probably going to have get out a Dremel and 3D print parts or something to repair it. Or just find a way to glue it back together and accept that he no longer has articulation in the torso.
 
Very well-spoken guy who makes strong points. Sometimes I feel like he makes assumptions that he just states confidently as fact - but who knows. He may just have some insider info on production and cost-outs.
 
That's the aspect of his videos I can't ascertain on my own, though he does seem to mention when he's uncertain about something. I get the impression he's spoken with people on the production side for some of his info, but how much is hard to tell. I was trying to count pieces in my head along with him and had to give up. Some stuff I'm willing to take at face value if it means not having to break into an action figure. Plus, I think a lot of the arguments he tried to make were kind of irrelevant anyway. We know tooling costs are the big mover in production and when it comes to Hasbro they need to make generic bucks to put as many characters on as possible so they're a slow moving glacier when it comes to transitioning to another format. Why create a new Vulcan when the current one still sells fine? I consider it a good sign that with the animated Beast they chose to go this route since it required an all new sculpt. It looks like the 97 Apocalypse is going this route too though I can't tell with Mephisto. He doesn't seem to have the inverted ab crunch, but he may not have any waist articulation at all. If they're integrating ball and socket joints for figures that necessitate brand new tools then that may be what they do with any all new sculpt they have to produce. Would be a great question to ask Dwight and team at a convention.
 
He's like Anthony Customs in that he goes on and on into detailed analysis about articulations schemes and what companies "can" and "can't" do, what costs more to make, what doesn't. This guy's delivery is a lot more even keel (except after the point where he breaks his figure.....then he starts to loose it), Anthony's is more angry and annoyed. I always wonder what criteria they have to say these things with such certainty. Don't get me wrong, I agree with what they are saying.

He's also correct in that Toybiz ML implemented the ball socket waist, and DC Direct implemented the inverted ab crunch (AND Mattel DC Multiverse implemented pinless joints) years before Hasbro ML.

Unfortunately I think it just comes down to Hasbro knows all of this but for whatever reason it serves their purposes to NOT implement industry-standard articulation, milk the stuff they have until they absolutely cannot do it anymore, and an acceptable amount to product will still be sold. So why change? We're still being sold Sunfire bucks in 2026, guys.....


PS. I would wager I still handle my old Toybiz MLs more than anyone here. I know the feel and the sound of that old, old plastic. I KNEW he was bending that thing too hard and wasn't at all surprised when it snapped. Ugh.
 
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It's why I haven't missed the 99% of my Hasbro figures that I've sold and why I'm actually pretty excited to sell of my SOTA Street Fighter. A lot of stuff from that era was so fragile and really didn't feel build for "play"
 
That was an interesting watch! That was also very painful to watch. Poor guy. That is a sound I have heard before. Kudos for holding back the tears. Seriously. I would have been blubbering badly.
 
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