General Marvel Legends

Yeah, having roommates in college/my 20s meant I regularly came home to my small display of figures rearranged in various states of inappropriateness.

The best (worst?) was when someone had a tube of brown caulk they were doing some work around the house with..."Everybody Poops" - action figure edition!
 
When I can't remember what thread I'm in, I know I've found my people. I tell my 12 year old son that I'd have loved to have his setup when I was his age. Instead of a PC, 4k TV, Xbox One and turntable with bluetooth speakers I had books, comics and action figures. That was it. When that's all you've got...well, the imagination is key, so yes, all of your "experimenting" with action figures was typical in my experience as well.
 
Super Articulated has a couple new videos out. I think he was active on Fwoosh several years ago. The first one tackled replacing the dying BAF concept:


In the second, he argues that Hasbro should separate MCU and comic figures into different lines:


I'm not sure I agree with any of this, but it's interesting food for thought.
 
I'd be fine for splitting them across waves and not having any more waves that are a combination of comic and live action. I'd want them to continue to be made with the overall same design, articulation and such, though. I'd hate for them to end up being no longer compatible at all.

I'm primarily a comic figure collector, but there are still quite a few MCU figures that I have fudged into my collection because no comic version of the character has ever been made. There are too many examples of that to fully list but I'm thinking of characters like Mantis, Executioner, Nebula, Collector, Grandmaster, Korg, Killmonger, The Cull Obsidian (the full group not just what they called Black Dwarf), Jimmy Woo, Nadia/Hope Van Dyne, Nakia, Okoye, M'Baku, Attuma, etc, etc.... Now my preference of course would be to just have comic versions of all of those characters, but that doesn't seem to be happening. I've become generally OK with using those live action stand-ins in my comic collection mostly because the modern comics generally end up adjusting the traditional comic version of the character to look more like the MCU version now anyway.

I do tend to agree thought that comic, movie and video game figures should all be in separate waves. Honestly though, I don't know if it even matters if BAF parts aren't included.
 
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If they keep doing what they're doing mechanically and just do some in-name-and-marketing division of labor, I think it'd make sense. I know a ton of MCU-only or Comics-only collectors. They haven't been doing many mixed waves lately, right? I collect both so I used to love the three and three BAF waves, especially if they gave us super random villains as filler (SERPENT SOCIETY FTW) but I mean... I almost never mix the versions, so I'm basically collecting two lines unofficially. Making it official wouldn't hurt. But Reno, you actually had the word I was looking for - compatible. I do want them to be compatible. If only because Legends is my favorite line in terms of articulation and I'm really happy with what they're doing so I'd hate for one or the other to morph into something noticeably different.
 
I believe that the last mixed wave comic/live action wave was for The Marvels movies with the Amadeus Hulk BAF, but I might be forgetting something. That was an example of a time when I really wanted the BAF but absolutely did not want the 3 movie figures. That's really the only time that I have a problem with them being mixed is when a BAF is involved, and that's becoming less and less common all the time anyway.
 
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I believe that the last mixed wave comic/live action wave was for The Marvels movies with the Amadeus Hulk BAF, but I might be forgetting something. That was an example of a time when I really wanted the BAF but absolutely did not want the 3 movie figures. That's really the only time that I have a problem with them being mixed is when a BAF is involved, and that's becoming less and less common all the time anyway.
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Accurate. D&W had a 3 figure wave, BNW had 3 deluxe figures, Thunderbolts has 2 multiple packs, and FF is getting a 6 figure all MCU no BAF wave.
 
Don't forget: ALL of those films had their release schedules completely jacked. All of those were/are a scramble of some sort. So separating the products does make some sense so an entire product line isn't held hostage - like The Marvels wave that sat in warehouses for months.

FF is a bit of an exception - it's date has moved but may be the only one ever actually announced.

As long as both waves are stocked at retail, if this means I can get a D-list MCU character rather than a D-list comics character I'm in.
 
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True. I would have been happy with either way. Split the line, or switch to deluxe over BAFs. They kinda did both for the most part
 
This is a random question, but what Marvel legends Comic Captain America figure do you guys consider the best? And do you feel like this new Captain America in the Gamerverse 2 Pack with Venom is likely to be the best so far?
 
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