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Discuss Giant-Man, Galactus, the Sentinel, speculate/wishlist, or monitor an ongoing campaign. This thread's got it all.
 
I would also like HasLabs to be over. I think the market is tapped AND customers shouldn't have to foot the bill for a giant corporation.

I'd still very much like to see an MCU Giant Giant-Man, and I know people want Foom, but those projects are just fine being done like Dragon Man and the Sentinels. Did we pre-pay on those? I honestly can't remember and my Order History is unclear.
 
While a new Fin Fang Foom would be cool, I think there are more made-to-order, oversized characters like Dragon Man to be tapped. Mangog for example. Living Android. Etc. Maybe some day FFF will be in a Marvel movie and get more exposure as a character, and he'll eventually get a Haslab figure.
 
I think at this point the only Haslabs that are viable are the Fantasticar (with either some specific FF villains, or a specific rendition of the 4, say a Kirby style FF), and a Quinjet. Either could be run similar to the Ecto-1 since that one went pretty well.

Everything else is either too big, too niche, or both. Fin Fang Foom would be cool, but he couldn't be any bigger than Galactus, and I just don't believe there's as much love for him out there. Even for the vehicles I mentioned, the Fantasticar I think would probably work better as the Dragon-Man model as just the vehicle. The Quinjet too maybe, though it'll probably need to be on the larger size unless they do the "rounded bullet" sort of design and scale it down a lot. I'm thinking the ML equivalent to the old Star Trek shuttlecraft they released in the 90s. All cockpit and two little nubbin wings.
 
Would I be wrong in comparing how unbelievable the Mythic Dragon was funded at that price and how a Fin Fan Foom in comparisson would be easier to fund?
All the bigger wishes like a Helicarrier or a Quinjet seems out of reach especially with tarriff wars going on.
If they do continue the Haslabs, I'd vote for a Thunderbolts Atlas to be done.
 
I'd love to see a Haslab Fin Fang Foom. I think they could make something really incredible looking. If I were running the show I'd also pack him in with a lot of extras - fire effects, 3-4 related figures, removable trunks - to really make the whole package as attractive as possible. No stretch unlock goals either, just make it one big set.

For the preorder model my first and foremost is Awesome Android. I'd want them to make him in his classic look, and I'd definitely be picking up some extra clothes for Andy.

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There is not one single character in any line that I want a 30" version of.* I'm also resistant to a vehicle like the Quinjet that would obscure any figures put in it. All this to say I  really want a HasLab FantastiCar. It's compact and modular nature would make it relatively easy to find display space; it's open-top let's you see all the team members riding in it; and it's a core element of the team that would make a great centerpiece.

My preference is for the FantastiCar II, because a) that's my era of comics, and 2) if you're going to sell me a HasLab, it better be a highly-detailed model of a highly-detailed vehicle. Don't ask $300 for a flying bathtub.


* that might be a lie. How big would a 1/12 scale Optimus Prime be?
 
Ajax said:
Would I be wrong in comparing how unbelievable the Mythic Dragon was funded at that price and how a Fin Fan Foom in comparisson would be easier to fund?
All the bigger wishes like a Helicarrier or a Quinjet seems out of reach especially with tarriff wars going on.
If they do continue the Haslabs, I'd vote for a Thunderbolts Atlas to be done.
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I don't think the "generic green fantasy dragon" fanbase is a direct overlap to the "specific Marvel pseudodragon with underpants" fanbase. There is some cross-pollination, sure, we're all nerds, but I would be very skeptical of how much. Like, I entertained the idea of the dragon, but I wouldn't even blink at passing on FFF. While there would be some for whom the opposite would be true, FFF is a niche subcharacter in a larger universe, while that dragon fits in any fantasy display (and probably dominates it).

Helicarrier is a non-starter at 1/12 scale. Even a properly scaled F-14 Tomcat would be over 5 feet long. You could maybe do a single room of the helicarrier, but outside that no way. A quinjet is only remotely viable assuming you shrank the proportions down a lot and made it a flying cockpit. I think honestly as far as vehicles go the Fantasticar is probably as good as anyone would get after the EoV tanked. If they were going to do a Fantasticar, this would be the year to try it.

Similar feelings about Atlas, they couldn't clear all the stretch goals on Giant Man, I can't fathom Atlas doing better.

I do think they could conceivably do teams or something on the Haslab model, but they seem resistant to that idea and my guess is because parsing characters out into waves encourages more sales overall. FFF is the last big character I think would have even a chance at Haslab, but I just have a hard time fathoming it smashing any expectations. I could be wrong, just hard for me to see.
 
Fletch said:
There is not one single character in any line that I want a 30" version of.* I'm also resistant to a vehicle like the Quinjet that would obscure any figures put in it. All this to say I  really want a HasLab FantastiCar. It's compact and modular nature would make it relatively easy to find display space; it's open-top let's you see all the team members riding in it; and it's a core element of the team that would make a great centerpiece.
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Yeah, I think the Fantasticar is probably the best bang for buck. You can attach figures to it easily, you can give it cool features, and it connects to every era of one of the top ten superteams.
Fletch said:
My preference is for the FantastiCar II, because a) that's my era of comics, and 2) if you're going to sell me a HasLab, it better be a highly-detailed model of a highly-detailed vehicle. Don't ask $300 for a flying bathtub.
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I'd expect something like the EoV level. Sounds, lights, modularity, some stands. Like, when they've made vehicles, the HISS, the Dragonfly, the Razorcrest, they seem to knock it out of the park. It was so hard for me not to get the Ecto-1, but I just couldn't justify that much shelf space for GB when I'm not a superfan. I don't think it's a matter of getting the money's worth, it's just is it the right offering for the fans.
Fletch said:
* that might be a lie. How big would a 1/12 scale Optimus Prime be?
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Just the truck or the trailer too? The truck would be about 30 inches long, 11 high and 10 across if we're going classic cartoon Optimus. The trailer would be a no-go.
 
I don't think the Legends team will be in a hurry to go back to the vehicle well when the last when failed so spectacularly.
 
I agree. I just don't see many options that wouldn't fit better under the Dragon Man model, or which they've just seemed uninterested in like teams.
 
Resilient said:
I don't think the Legends team will be in a hurry to go back to the vehicle well when the last when failed so spectacularly.
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You're probably right, but not for nothing, their choice for a vehicle was for the new iteration of a character that didn't have 60 years with of fans to find customers for.

I've no numbers to back this up, but I believe that was the biggest flaw in the EOV HasLab: most readers of 2010s comics haven't reached the nostalgia stage OR the disposable cash stage to support a HasLab.
 
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