Hasbro Made-to-Order Figures

altcunningham said:
Real talk. Of all the old figures, I would want Senyaka. He was the whip guy on the acolytes. Just a cool looking character as a kid.

And now I regret not getting XCutioner. He was one of my main villains.
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If it's any consolation I almost passed on Xcutioner altogether solely because he wasn't the comic accurate version which has a blue/teal design on the mask and chainmail. The 97 version seemed more watered down with a silver design on the mask, but wrong Xcutioner is better than no Xcutioner at all. Plus I haven't really seen anyone asking for the comic version since the 97 one came out. I don't know that he's high profile enough to most folks to want two versions of but I would definitely prefer a comic accurate version.

And a big ol' boxset of Acolytes including dear Senyaka of course.
 
Yeah, he's probably never going to return in figure form. I would also prefer that comic look. With the removable mask. I only saw him once in Uncanny, and I remember his name is Carl Denti and he's a former fed or shield type who stole stuff to kitbash his mutant hunting kit. I wish I knew why I remembered s*** like this but can't pass a math test.

Amelia Voight would also be a worthy Acolyte.
 
puckace said:
That was the yellow costume right?
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Definitely!
bat said:
Was T-Mobile's power set adding fraudulent charges to one's monthly phone bill, "forgetting" to add phone trade-in credits, and protracting hold time on customer service calls to infinity, or is reality intruding on comic book fantasy again?
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Yes, but she also could make calls drop even if you're standing right next to a tower!
renfield75 said:
Yeah but you know they have to give us the modern one first. And we'll certainly never see classic Golden Age characters like Bell Atlantic, Edison, and Switchboard.
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We won't even get a Bronze Age character like MCI!
puckace said:
That stings! I really want PacBell and the one who started it all, Telegraph.
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Classic Ma Bell will likely be a Build-A-Figure. @SDcomics is gonna be pissed he has to buy another Crystar character just to get her torso!
 
bennroe said:
All the characters they were putting out toys for were relatively current. This led to some serious flash-in-the-pan picks, but they had all recently appeared in comics. Many of the more "classic" ones you mentioned hadn't been in a comic for 20 or 30 years at that point. I was a pretty avid reader at the time, and I don't think any of the characters Toy Biz was putting out surprised me. If they had put out someone like Vanisher or Unus, I would have been very confused. 60s X-Men just never, ever spoke to me, though.
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This is bang on. It's easy to look back at how many of those characters never amounted to anything and say 'what a bizarre decision.' But it's like people looking back 30 years from now and saying 'why did they make Eternals movie figures? None of those characters ever appeared in another movie ever again.' They were made because they were current. In fact, I think TB deserves more credit for managing to even get out stuff that was reasonably current.
Even Hasbro -today- struggles to get a version of a character that's currently in comics onto shelves before that character isn't in the comics or isn't being featured anymore or has a new costume, or has reverted to an older costume.


As a fan of the ORIGINAL Black Knight comics, I totally understand 'why no classic?' frustrations. But also I understand why a '90s toyline wholly focused on characters relevant to the then-current comics wasn't spending a lot of resources on characters that hadn't been seen since the '80s, at best. I hazard to guess that most 9-11 year olds in 1993 did not know who Living Monolith was.
 
altcunningham said:
Yeah, he's probably never going to return in figure form. I would also prefer that comic look. With the removable mask. I only saw him once in Uncanny, and I remember his name is Carl Denti and he's a former fed or shield type who stole stuff to kitbash his mutant hunting kit. I wish I knew why I remembered s*** like this but can't pass a math test.

Amelia Voight would also be a worthy Acolyte.
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I thought making him the poster boy for the Friends of Humanity in X97 was apt. He was more of a lone nut in the comics. I don't remember him being allied with many people, just more of a would-be Punisher targeting mutants. Even as a kid I thought he was a bit lame as Cable and Cyclops took him out in an issue about father-son bonding time. More or less just "villain of the week," or no-name wrestler just arrived to fight a wrestler of note and you know exactly what will happen.

As I remember he was miffed because his partner in his investigative job died, I dunno if it was at the hands of a mutant but he was more or less from the Victor Creed side of human rationality where they gotsta' pay.
 
I've got Hoodie Miles Morales sitting next to me because I got him on sale and now I can't get rid of him.

This "current" look did not need an action figure.
 
Schizm said:
I've got Hoodie Miles Morales sitting next to me because I got him on sale and now I can't get rid of him.

This "current" look did not need an action figure.
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The problem is figuring that out only in hindsight.
 
I don't think knowing that design wouldn't last required that much foresight.

I keep trying to think what I could do with that hoodie sculpt and nothing comes to mind...
 
Schizm said:
I don't think knowing that design wouldn't last required that much foresight.

I keep trying to think what I could do with that hoodie sculpt and nothing comes to mind...
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I didn't think knowing lots of things were terrible ideas required much foresight but, you know... ~gestures broadly at the planet~ Here we are anyway. So never overestimate the foresight of your average person.

Also, to be fair, sometimes it's just because it was a design someone working on the line really liked and wanted for themselves. They might have KNOWN it was a shitty decision but they wanted what they wanted.
 
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