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Man, talking about the reuse on Silver Samurai, out of everything they did for him, not giving him butterfly shoulders was such a miss. I really like the last ML Silver Samurai but this is just a lateral move.
 
vicious said:
Man, talking about the reuse on Silver Samurai, out of everything they did for him, not giving him butterfly shoulders was such a miss. I really like the last ML Silver Samurai but this is just a lateral move.
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If I was a betting man, I'd wager that the arms which they did manage to re-use would not work with a butterfuly joint as is, so it was never considered for the design.
 
Yeah. It's a hard place to improve, and with Wolverine getting new sculpt, it makes sense. Just lame ML two-pack things, a tale as old as time.
 
Enforcer said:
If I was a betting man, I'd wager that the arms which they did manage to re-use would not work with a butterfuly joint as is, so it was never considered for the design.
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This pic was just posted by Mr Leeee on instagram and if you look at Silver Samurai, I think the butterfly joints would have had the most impediment via those giant shoulder pads and the size of those deltoids rather than the rest of the arms from the biceps on down. Especially since the new logo is sculpted on and it extends pretty much across his entire torso.
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They could have figured something out. I'm imagining a version where those pads were posable, too, that would be ideal (are they?). The arm reuse is really the worst part to me, MvC SS had biceps bigger than Wolverine. They certainly didn't have so many clothing folds, either, which clashes with the rest of his skin-tight outfit. Still looks cool, I'm just kind of wishlisting out loud at this point.
 
Yea, sure would’ve been nice to get shoulder swivels on Silver Samurai. Sure the new shoulder armor might hinder or look odd with a lot of poses depending on how they’re attached. Not a real deal breaker or anything since a ton of his in-game attacks and standing poses have him just one-handing his sword.

I wanted three ninja stars though.
 
I regret not putting more of an effort into having someone ask the Hasbro team about a new dedicated sculpt Advanced Suit Spider-Man. The 2 previous phoned in releases with painted details seemed to sell very well and maintain a high demand. The new symbiote figure with a dedicated sculpt also looks t be very popular. What else do you need to see in order to spend the money on a figure that fits in with the rest of the releases from a detail aesthetic perspective.
 
Enforcer said:
I regret not putting more of an effort into having someone ask the Hasbro team about a new dedicated sculpt Advanced Suit Spider-Man. The 2 previous phoned in releases with painted details seemed to sell very well and maintain a high demand. The new symbiote figure with a dedicated sculpt also looks t be very popular. What else do you need to see in order to spend the money on a figure that fits in with the rest of the releases from a detail aesthetic perspective.
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For what it’s worth I don’t think the Insomniac spider-man waves are done. Still so many characters to mine. If Hasbro remains diligent enough then we might see another 4-5 assortments between now and rhe 3rd sequel


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Enforcer said:
If I was a betting man, I'd wager that the arms which they did manage to re-use would not work with a butterfuly joint as is, so it was never considered for the design.
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That would only take replacing the disc inside the shoulder hinge for Hasbro to make them butterfly compatible. I probably wouldn't have been all that hard for them to do, if they had wanted to go that route.
 
Stoopid_Sandwich said:
For what it’s worth I don’t think the Insomniac spider-man waves are done. Still so many characters to mine. If Hasbro remains diligent enough then we might see another 4-5 assortments between now and rhe 3rd sequel


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Maybe - but it's not exactly current events or relevant anymore. And I think the last wave of odd Miles variants and a completely phoned in Spider-Man repaint aren't going to help the odds of additional future waves...
 
Resilient said:
That would only take replacing the disc inside the shoulder hinge for Hasbro to make them butterfly compatible. I probably wouldn't have been all that hard for them to do, if they had wanted to go that route.
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Agreed - but it's admittedly very on-brand for Hasbro to... not do that, but go to the trouble of making a new torso. I also wonder if there is a necessary aversion to revising things like joints (specifically the inner workings) - like those are harder to tweak in designs. Dunno, maybe I'm trying to give them too much benefit of the doubt.
 
Enforcer said:
Agreed - but it's admittedly very on-brand for Hasbro to... not do that, but go to the trouble of making a new torso. I also wonder if there is a necessary aversion to revising things like joints (specifically the inner workings) - like those are harder to tweak in designs. Dunno, maybe I'm trying to give them too much benefit of the doubt.
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Agreed it's very on brand to not update. I did think about your second point, too. I wonder if maybe the tolerances and clearances are hard to reproduce if the parts are re-tooled separately? It probably does not make sense, but manufacturing has a lot of (pardon the pun) moving parts. Just an issue I could see coming up in production. I don't know... just something that crossed my mind as I was thinking about this.
 
I think they would have to make a whole new Silver Samurai from the ground up for this kind of articulation to work seamlessly. It would definitely need either a brand new body of his own or at least it should have been modified to fit on the venom mold or that new Captain America torso


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