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Is anyone able to get Dragon Man's tail back off? It's just a ball joint, right? I didn't note what the connector looked like before I plugged it in. I'm pulling on it at about half strength so I'll just pull harder if you guys are getting it to come off and it's designed to come off, but I hate pulling on joints at full strength since more often than not that results in plastic tearing somewhere.
 
at first i had no interest in Mephisto, the price point is...so much. He's not that big, and I don't really care about the throne.

But then I thought about displaying him in scenes where MJ is breaking up with peter and i cackled in amusement
 
EnigmaticClarity said:
Is anyone able to get Dragon Man's tail back off? It's just a ball joint, right? I didn't note what the connector looked like before I plugged it in. I'm pulling on it at about half strength so I'll just pull harder if you guys are getting it to come off and it's designed to come off, but I hate pulling on joints at full strength since more often than not that results in plastic tearing somewhere.
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I just pulled it off and replaced it with little effort.
 
NORM said:
I just pulled it off and replaced it with little effort.
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Thanks, just got mine off as well by still using half-strength but twisting as I pulled. Came right off as soon as I started twisting.

The plastic on the inside of the tail looks a bit stressed so I'm unsure how many times we can do this, or perhaps there are just some orientations of the tail as you pull that work well and others that stress the tail's plastic. Should be all purple in there, but mine is now white around the edges of where the ball goes into the tail.
 
I got my Dragon Man yesterday. Overall, I really like it. Only problem is that the book on mine seems to have the cover applied upside-down. Anyone else have that issue? Easiest tell is to look at the interior of the book. The bar graph on mine is upside down when the cover is right-side up.
 
sephiroth61787 said:
I got my Dragon Man yesterday. Overall, I really like it. Only problem is that the book on mine seems to have the cover applied upside-down. Anyone else have that issue? Easiest tell is to look at the interior of the book. The bar graph on mine is upside down when the cover is right-side up.
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I think it’s purposely printed like that because the original front cover of the book has sculpted lettering on it. It’s why the pages don’t have paint in the etched lettering and graphics.
 
NORM said:
I think it’s purposely printed like that because the original front cover of the book has sculpted lettering on it. It’s why the pages don’t have paint in the etched lettering and graphics.
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I thought the Future Foundation cover might have been the back. The sculpted part of the cover should have the two sculpted lines (assuming it's the title) at the top and then the one line (author's name) at the bottom.

Here's pictures of what I'm talking about.

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sephiroth61787 said:
I thought the Future Foundation cover might have been the back. The sculpted part of the cover should have the two sculpted lines (assuming it's the title) at the top and then the one line (author's name) at the bottom.

Here's pictures of what I'm talking about.

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Yeah, this book is reused from previous figures like Dr Strange (Vishanti), Dr Doom (Darkhold), Beast (textbook). The cover with the sculpted text was used for Strange, Doom, etc. The Future Foundation print necessitates a flat surface, so they printed it on the back cover of the original sculpt.
 
NORM said:
Yeah, this book is reused from previous figures like Dr Strange (Vishanti), Dr Doom (Darkhold), Beast (textbook). The cover with the sculpted text was used for Strange, Doom, etc. The Future Foundation print necessitates a flat surface, so they printed it on the back cover of the original sculpt.
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I do understand it's reuse. Is the Future Foundation logo technically upside down though? Should it have been applied the opposite way?
 
sephiroth61787 said:
I do understand it's reuse. Is the Future Foundation logo technically upside down though? Should it have been applied the opposite way?
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No. Imagine closing the book. If it could close, the binding should be on the left side of the cover.
 
Chooch555 said:
I remember loving that the Book of Vishanti has graphs.
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Even a Sorcerer Supreme needs analytical data.

NORM said:
No. Imagine closing the book. If it could close, the binding should be on the left side of the cover.
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Yes. From the front, it sort of looks fine. When you flip the book over to the interior, the graphs are then upside down. The text also does not seem to be reading left-to-right.
 
sephiroth61787 said:
Even a Sorcerer Supreme needs analytical data.


Yes. From the front, it sort of looks fine. When you flip the book over to the interior, the graphs are then upside down. The text also does not seem to be reading left-to-right.
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You are correct. Apparently that either doesn’t matter to those who chose to reuse the book, or these same people hoped people wouldn’t notice. Which is why they didn’t paint the interior text on the pages, which would have drawn more attention to the fact that it’s upside down reuse.
 
NORM said:
You are correct. Apparently that either doesn’t matter to those who chose to reuse the book, or these same people hoped people wouldn’t notice. Which is why they didn’t paint the interior text on the pages, which would have drawn more attention to the fact that it’s upside down reuse.
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Thanks for confirming! I thought I was going crazy. It's not the end-of-the-world and I'll live. Just slightly annoying. Oh well.
 
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