Yeah Marrow is coming. I'm salty some old 5" Toy Biz figures like Maggot were never made.
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Toy Biz! I'll dig up a pic later. There was a wicked cool Techno Organic Cable figure they shelved too. Toy Biz was fun, the best at times. I found a Dark Aegis proto on ebay that never saw release either. Only $1000 🤣
I remember the Maggot, alongside AoA Sinister, Cyclops, and what would have been the first uncompromised Jim Lee Jean Grey in the line.
http://www.oafe.net/blog/2022/09/soon-forget-x-men-flying-fighters/
I didn't remember the Cable but man that is cool.
http://www.oafe.net/blog/2023/08/soon-forget-missile-fighters-cable/
That Cable is a little much. By a little, I mean a lot. They got carried away.
I still really wish for a Dark Aegis figure. I bet he could be made with a lot of reuse of the BAF Crimson Dynamo figure. He would make for such a cool looking action figure!
@bat Hell yes. Those figures were great - too bad. Love how Toy Biz took chances, something you'd never get from the 'bro. Or artistic figures. Art is such a subjective thing and I tend to like the extreme things that others seem to hate. I just don't get excited for boring shite, but that Cable, while a bit much, would have been eye catching. I could go either way on the blood splatter lol.
Now that's one I'd consider ponying up for if a proto existed. I think around the same time there was a cool series of "street fighter" Spider-man figures that actually did get made. Was a fun end to the 5" days.
Toy Biz! I'll dig up a pic later. There was a wicked cool Techno Organic Cable figure they shelved too. Toy Biz was fun, the best at times. I found a Dark Aegis proto on ebay that never saw release either. Only $1000 🤣
Oh yeah! That one. IIRC there was also a Cockrum era skullcap Cyclops proto at some point. They eventually released one based on the Beetle figure with a soft goods jacket, but it wasn't the same. I also recall that the production version of Black Cat was not as cool as the proto picture. Lots of old TB ephemera that never saw the light of day.
@bat Hell yes. Those figures were great - too bad. Love how Toy Biz took chances, something you'd never get from the 'bro. Or artistic figures. Art is such a subjective thing and I tend to like the extreme things that others seem to hate. I just don't get excited for boring shite, but that Cable, while a bit much, would have been eye catching. I could go either way on the blood splatter lol.
Now that's one I'd consider ponying up for if a proto existed. I think around the same time there was a cool series of "street fighter" Spider-man figures that actually did get made. Was a fun end to the 5" days.
Agreed, I like the techno organic bits gone wild aspect but wouldn't have needed the blood. I have to think that it would not have been bloody had it seen release. Outside of their Resident Evil line, did any of Toy Biz's 5" figures lean into gore? I think even the battle damaged Spidey and Wolverine had torn clothing but no blood, the latter being more the territory of McF and NECA at the time.
It’d be interesting to think about what pre-Legends characters and looks by ToyBiz Hasbro still hasn’t done.
Joseph, Stegron, Triton, Gorgon, noseless Wolverine and the Gen X kids immediately come to mind.
Spat and Grovel. 🙂
Definitely would like a Shiar Space Adventure X-Men team in their space suits (Beast, Rogue, Gambit, Bishop, Joseph & Trish Tilby). I assume we'll be getting Deathbird soon enough anyway. Toss in blue/yellow X-Men uniform Cannonball/Gladiator rerelease 2pk from his showdown with Gladiator in NYC since he was with them right before they all ended up getting abducted to the Shiar craft. And of course Spat and Grovel were part of that storyline...along with (an) "Eric the Red" and skinny version of Nanny on steroids. Her not scary form would fit in with an AOA collection, and I could fudge using Goblin Queen 97's baby Nathan as baby Charles from that timeline.
It’d be interesting to think about what pre-Legends characters and looks by ToyBiz Hasbro still hasn’t done.
Joseph, Stegron, Triton, Gorgon, noseless Wolverine and the Gen X kids immediately come to mind.
Titanium Man
Crimson Dynamo—Mark V
Mandarin
Blizzard 1
I *think* this was my first ever X-Men comic. Seeing it like this pinged something in my brain and I knew I started collecting at the Shi'ar storyline, hence why Shi'ar Rogue is always one of my top wants.
Fun memory! And why I also really want this Cannonball. 🙂
I *think* this was my first ever X-Men comic. Seeing it like this pinged something in my brain and I knew I started collecting at the Shi'ar storyline, hence why Shi'ar Rogue is always one of my top wants.
Fun memory! And why I also really want this Cannonball. 🙂
Clearly you are a man of taste and sophistication. Sam is the only "recent" (being that it's 20-some years ago) junior mutant to "graduate" to the main team, that I've enjoyed and rooted for. It seemed like he truly earned it, even when he stayed undercover in Graydon Creed's presidential campaign after Iceman got found out and his father was put in the hospital for it. He proved himself fighting Gladiator and going to save Wolverine in Apocalypse's pyramid when Wolvie ended up turning feral and killing most of the Dark Riders. Plus it helped that editorial didn't just shove him on the team and then forget he was there like so many other additions. He actually stayed a somewhat important mainstay on the team up until beyond Messiah Complex, so that was at least 12+ years before putting him back predominantly around his X-Force friends. I did like Pixie for a time when she was innocent, naive and hopeful, like a more optimistic Jubilee. But of course they had to make her dark and tortured before discarding her.
I remember my first X-Men comic vividly. Still have the same copy I bought from my local 7-11. I'm still a little biased towards Paul Smith's art because he's where I started.
I hadn't seen Alien yet at age 11 so I didn't know at the time that the Brood were inspired by/ripped off from that movie's xenomorph so I loved them. I still do since I was exposed to them before the xenomorphs, plus the idea of the Brood getting their host's superpowers was more interesting within a superhero context.
I love that run when Sam officially joined the X-Men. Following him from New Mutants to X-Force to Uncanny X-Men (plus his appearances in the Wolverine solo book after joining the team) is really a great journey. That Gladiator 1-1 fight is fantastic - he had no business holding his own like that but did it in a plausible and creative way.
This might not have actually been the first comic I owned, but its the one I have the earliest memory of. I would have been 6 years old when this released in 1993 - I probably didn't actually get it that early, and instead was gifted it a few years later. Tons of plot threads and characters in here I didn't understand until going back and reading all that preceded it over the years, but this was the first.
Really crazy that we have every character on that cover in ML form. We'd need alternate looks of some of them to match exactly - Cannonball, Boom Boom, Shatterstar, Quicksilver, Polaris, Iceman - technically probably Warpath and Strong Guy too, but they're hiding. But they've really knocked out the 90s mutant teams.
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