Hasbro Made-to-Order Figures

bat said:
Yes. He's not top of my list for Marvel Legends upgrade from old Toy Biz figures (those would be Warstar, Tusk, Krule, Grizzly, Kane, GW Bridge, and maybe Commcast and Quark) but Killspree was hard to find, I looked for him a long time, ended up having to trade to a comic shop for him, and I'd take the upgrade. Looking at my list, it seems a fair number of TB figures that haven't received ML treatment fall under the X-Force banner.
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Like, retroactively collecting or at the time?
 
altcunningham said:
Like, retroactively collecting or at the time?
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At the time. Couldn't find Killspree anywhere except the back of other figures' packaging and a comic shop that wanted something outlandish like $30 for him. In desperation, I asked if I could trade for him, brought in a ( relatively easier to find) Phoenix, and the guy who owned the figures took pity on 15-16 yo me and made the trade.
 
altcunningham said:
I loved Killspree.

He had a cool action feature and was still posable. Killjoy, I think on the card.
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Forgot about that! Wasn't the ultimately unreleased Dark Rider Barrage also solicited as Gauntlet? We were truly in the wild west, TB cranking out figures of characters so unestablished we weren't even certain of their names!
 
bat said:
Forgot about that! Wasn't the ultimately unreleased Dark Rider Barrage also solicited as Gauntlet? We were truly in the wild west, TB cranking out figures of characters so unestablished we weren't even certain of their names!
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I remember getting Comcast and thinking he was going to be the cool new villain and I don't think I ever saw him outside of a random panel. But he was definitely a heavy hitter on the play sessions.
 
altcunningham said:
I remember getting Comcast and thinking he was going to be the cool new villain and I don't think I ever saw him outside of a random panel. But he was definitely a heavy hitter on the play sessions.
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Same! Was considering customizing that guy from an Iron Man or Sentinel with a GI Joe diver head.
 
An idea occurred to me….

We all want figures from some of marvel’s most iconic storylines, crossovers and company wide events. So what if Hasbro used this made to order model as a way to make an entire run of figures (say 15-20 figures) and sell them in a batch and call it “The Excelsior Collection” and it would provide Hasbro an avenue to make figures from The Korvac Saga, the Clone Saga, Weapon X, Onslaught, Civil War, Secret Invasion, Secret Empire, The Kree Skull War etc

I think it would fill in quite a few gaps in our respective collections. And if Hasbro sold these collections for about $500 a pop as they would a Haslab, speaking for myself I’d be willing to put that much money down for about 20 clone saga figures in a single lot


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altcunningham said:
I remember getting Comcast and thinking he was going to be the cool new villain and I don't think I ever saw him outside of a random panel. But he was definitely a heavy hitter on the play sessions.
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You guys are speaking to me. I would lose my shit for figures of Killspree, Krule, Comcast, and some of the other randos who somehow made it onto Toy Biz's radar for figures. I can think of exactly one story each where those guys appeared, and I have no idea if they had any other relevance. But who cares, because their 5" figures were awesome. I need a ML Krule with his insane ponytail mace thing!
 
Stoopid_Sandwich said:
An idea occurred to me….

We all want figures from some of marvel’s most iconic storylines, crossovers and company wide events. So what if Hasbro used this made to order model as a way to make an entire run of figures (say 15-20 figures) and sell them in a batch and call it “The Excelsior Collection” and it would provide Hasbro an avenue to make figures from The Korvac Saga, the Clone Saga, Weapon X, Onslaught, Civil War, Secret Invasion, Secret Empire, The Kree Skull War etc

I think it would fill in quite a few gaps in our respective collections. And if Hasbro sold these collections for about $500 a pop as they would a Haslab, speaking for myself I’d be willing to put that much money down for about 20 clone saga figures in a single lot


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I would prefer this to single monstrously large figures.
 
I don't recall ever seeing Killspree in a comic...why does he have hair with hearts on the end of each ponytail? The 90s sure were weird.

I also had no idea there was a character called Comcast until today. Must have missed his great battle-to-the-death with the mutants known as Verizon & T-Mobile!
 
Guys like Killspree and Commcast I definitely skipped at the time, but ironically if they released them now in Marvel Legends I would almost certainly buy them. I was much choosier as a kid/teen and had no desire to be a completionist. Now? Different story.
 
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