What figures have some kind of inaccuracy that as much as you want to, you can’t look past them and enjoy the figure?
Main ones in recent memory for me are the Chod BAF having 5 fingers instead of 4. And the retro carded Hobgoblin that is a weird hybrid of comic and cartoon features. I skipped both. The thing that bugs me is knowing we’ll never get another Chod from Hasbro and it will probably be another 5 years before we get a new comic Hobgoblin.
Maybe Marvel Select will make a 4-fingered Chod so I have some hope 😎
Which figures do you guys notice glaring flaws that are dealbreakers to your enjoyment?
I'm not really a stickler for costume accuracy for the most part (as long as it's close enough), but having an incorrect number of fingers isn't something I can look past.
The Gold Label (?) Flashpoint Barry Allen Flash figure's symbol having a yellow circle around it. I'm sorry, but that required them to legitimately not look at any reference material where his symbol was visible, because the yellow circle only happens once his suit is changed due to the reboot. It cost them more to do it wrong! It's petty, but it bothers me, especially since it's meant to be a very specific suit that we haven't gotten before.
That and Masterpiece Bumblebee (movie) Bumblebee. I know they were working off an earlier design, but man... Bumblebee is my favourite live-action Transformers movie (by default, but still) and I really dug Bee in that movie. But the Masterpiece figure just doesn't look that much like him, and the door wings standout in particular. They haven't given it another go either, and with how Masterpiece has been the last few years, I kind of don't want them to. There's still no official transforming Bumblebee movie Bumblebee that is actually accurate.
Edit: Oops, thought this was in the General section, my bad.
I realized a while ago that my own standards are unreasonable and Hasbro is a company that needs to make figures that fit in with their line's uniform aesthetic rather than artist specific going from one character to the next. Their figures will always be an approximation of a look or costume, and I'm fine with that, but I always welcome when they throw caution to the wind and go for their version of artist specific, most recently the Psylocke head in the Training Uniform three pack.
Their original run of the Jim Lee team was all over the place in terms of execution, apart from Beast who looked like he came directly off of the X-Men #1 cover. That really irked me, but I saw why it was done.
In conclusion, if it's not doing it for me, I'll just customize it, and I'm at peace with that!
I think either someone here or reddit simply chopped off the thumb & somewhat looked fine?
Cottonmouth is too buff. He is normally slimmer looking.
High Evolutionary and Silvermane are too short.
In conclusion, if it's not doing it for me, I'll just customize it, and I'm at peace with that!
This is where I am. Within my limited scope of ability, of course.
I'd really love to add a 6-armed Spider-Man to my collection, but the one they released was so abysmal that they didn't even paint his weblines! Any Spidey that doesn't have the webs painted in is almost entirely an immediate skip.
The pupils and fingerless gloves on the Bonebreaker Wave Sabretooth. At SOME point, I'll buy some brushes and paint to get into the customizing game and make that one of my first projects. He's easily my favorite villain, and it was the costume I first saw him in when I was around 4 in DD #238, before I even knew he was Wolverine's nemesis, so it has a special place in my heart.
I wouldn’t say the figures are ruined but I much would have preferred some paunch on Toad. Also it annoys me that Hasbro couldn’t have sculpted Black Knights more specific belt. Like how much could that really have cost? Just a belt. The lack of cord on the soon to be replaced Vision’s cape always annoys a little. Quicksilvers head seeming to be based on no character models and the lack of a bare neck. The refusal to give Iceman a unique body; either angular for classic or lumpy for FA. I mean how many Iceman figures have there been.
I skipped the VHS Symbiote Spider-Man/Carnage two-pack because Carnage wasn't really that accurate to the cartoon and had way less paint than he needed, especially on the chest. That they put symbiote Spidey on a different body than the retro carded animated Spidey was also a really baffling decision that I don't get.
That they put symbiote Spidey on a different body than the retro carded animated Spidey was also a really baffling decision that I don't get.
Hasbro does explain stuff like this as a budget and resources thing. They have $X to spend making a wave. It’s possible that using one body type might push the cost up above the budget. Or it could be that the tooling for a specific body part is in use by the factory at the same time to make a different figure they want to release at the same time.
While I don’t love it when budget reality causes me to get a suboptimal figure, I do understand it. But when a character who has 4 fingers in the comics gets made with 5 fingers, I think laziness and incompetence is afoot and it bothers me to the point I can’t enjoy that figure. That’s stuff that gets past you when you just don’t care. And you have the ability to embrace the mistake, apologize, and release new hands for free, at a loss. But you don’t. I find it disrespectful.
That they put symbiote Spidey on a different body than the retro carded animated Spidey was also a really baffling decision that I don't get.Hasbro does explain stuff like this as a budget and resources thing. They have $X to spend making a wave. It’s possible that using one body type might push the cost up above the budget. Or it could be that the tooling for a specific body part is in use by the factory at the same time to make a different figure they want to release at the same time.
While I don’t love it when budget reality causes me to get a suboptimal figure, I do understand it. But when a character who has 4 fingers in the comics gets made with 5 fingers, I think laziness and incompetence is afoot and it bothers me to the point I can’t enjoy that figure. That’s stuff that gets past you when you just don’t care. And you have the ability to embrace the mistake, apologize, and release new hands for free, at a loss. But you don’t. I find it disrespectful.
Isn't that exactly it? The mold already exists for the 5 fingers hand, it'll obviously cost a lot more to create a new specific 4 finger hand mold (which likely won't get any reuse).
It bugs me that Molecule Man isn't shorter. It bugged me that Spymaster didn't have pouches on his legs, that Viper didn't have shorter, "swoopier" hair and that Tarantula's mask/bandana was blue instead of black. I was able to modify the latter three figures to rectify my issues, but MM's height still bugs me.
Also, wish the upcoming Luke Cage/Power Man's legs were blue instead of black. Having said all that, none of these issues stopped me from buying them.
The one that did bother me enough to pass on was the Super Adaptoid's many inaccuracies. That and the price point; if it drops a large chunk in price, I'll pick one up.
I wouldn’t say the figures are ruined but I much would have preferred some paunch on Toad. The refusal to give Iceman a unique body; either angular for classic or lumpy for FA. I mean how many Iceman figures have there been.
These two bug me as well. The angular Iceman sculpt could be used for other characters (Prism, Martinex etc) as well as repaints.
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