ML Monsters & Supernatural

I find it crazy that nobody at Hasbro made a long list of interesting monsters to churn out as BAFs at a steady rate in order to assist getting deep cut characters into waves.

It’s clearly possible, if they actually did the research, I mean we haven’t even gotten a Bi-Beast or Stegron or Forearm or Man-Spider but they could have all supported waves that could help Willie Lumpkin or Slapstick or Jarvis get figures.

Weird and Wacky figures can be so much fun, as Xemnu proves.


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The way I look at it is that comics are Americana. A unique American art form. Marvel and DC are deep in that Americana and these monsters (pre FF #1) are distinct and wholly apart from the Kaiju.

Let’s forget the superhero stuff for a moment…this is American Kaiju. Completely untapped and exploitable for books, movies, TV, comics, and yes, toys. And Marvel owns it.

Anybody watch Monarch on Apple TV? Tip of the day…it’s fantastic. And Marvel Studios could have its own version.
 
Atomic Knight said:
Let’s forget the superhero stuff for a moment…this is American Kaiju. Completely untapped and exploitable for books, movies, TV, comics, and yes, toys. And Marvel owns it.
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Yep! By-products of my favorite era and movement in film history, the "radioactive monster" boom of the fifties. Lest we forget that Ray Harryhausen gave Toho the notion for everybody's favorite dino with radioactive breath:

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SDcomics said:
"Suggested by the Sensational SATURDAY EVENING POST Story by RAY BRADBURY!"

Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen were so cool.

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I loved those guys.
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Bradbury has been my favorite author since my mom brought me home "The Martian Chronicles" at twelve. "The Foghorn" is my favorite of his stories, too.

"That's life for you ... Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can hurt you no more."

And Ray Harryhausen ... man. Before Marvel, before Star Wars, before anything else I love, there was Ray. I got to see a bunch of his stuff on exhibit in Tucson last week. Flew out there just for it. Coolest thing I've ever experienced. The lighthouse from "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" was among the items on display.

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Harryhausen is so damn cool. I’ve been showing some of his stuff to my wife lately; she’s a massive Clash of the Titans fan but hadn’t really branched outside of that. On top of some of my old favorites (Jason and the Argonauts, Golden Voyage of Sinbad, etc), I got to see one I’d never actually sat through: The Valley of Gwangi. What a trip! Great fun. Rodeo cowboys vs dinosaurs? Amazing. Gwangi himself is one of the coolest dinos ever onscreen.
 
Gwangi rules!!! I had the poster on my wall in college. Definitely one of my favorite characters Ray created. The cowboys and dinosaurs combo is magic.

Cool casting note I recently discovered: the old Romani woman in Gwangi is Freda Jackson, who was also one of the Fates in "Clash of the Titans!" Plus she's in Hammer's "Brides of Dracula" & "Shadow of the Cat" and AIP's "Die, Monster, Die!"
 
Ultra Seven said:
Cool casting note I recently discovered: the old Romani woman in Gwangi is Freda Jackson, who was also one of the Fates in "Clash of the Titans!" Plus she's in Hammer's "Brides of Dracula" & "Shadow of the Cat" and AIP's "Die, Monster, Die!"
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I noticed her immediately!!
Brides of Dracula is one of my favorite Hammer Horrors, and her performance is a big reason why.
 
AceofKnaves said:
They are *crazy* not to run harder with Marvel Monsters / Supernatural stuff. DC absolutely cannot compete with them in the “classic monster” OR “giant monster” categories, Marvel can just run wild. Halloween/fall is a perfect time for yearly monster/spooky Marvel Legends offerings. They don’t even have to do cheeky shit like repaints and t-shirts à la Black Series: they can go straight to easily-recognizable classic monsters, zombie/monster versions of A-list Marvel characters (Marvel Zombies, Man-Spider, Cap-Wolf, Wolverine: Lord of the Vampires . . .), monster hunters (Blade, Elsa & Ulysses Bloodstone, CLASSIC Brother Voodoo . . .), stuff like Agatha Harkness and Darkchylde, any Dr Strange stuff . . .

Come on, guys, do it!!
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I think, and I'm including Hulk in this, Marvel's big name and rep hurt us here. They're so character-rich and vast a company that this corner gets pushed on the backburner. I love the modern Hulk run which is essentially horror and like the Marvel Knights figures. If NECA or Todd had like just that corner of Marvel they could mine it for years. It takes Hasbro forever to get to things. Todd would have gotten us the Hellcharger too...and none of that is meant to be Hasbro-bashing.
 
With the help of Wikipedia and Google AI, I did a little more digging into the “Atlas Monsters”. Wow. This is a deep, rich vein. Someone at Hasbro needs to strap on their miners helmet, glove up and start digging (sculpting). I get that Fin Fang Foom is a one and done. There’s not likely to be anymore at that size. I’m OK with that. BaF size is fine. Hulk, Abomination, etc. Xemnu and Groot are the bare beginnings of the potential here.

And Marvel Studios definitely needs to make this movie.
 
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