Posted by: @ctv

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I wonder if more people would be backing if it wasn't so huge. I would but I don't have the space for it in my Avengers display.

I quietly wonder the same thing, but I've admitted defeat on HasLabs. As much as I want them, they aren't built for my baby display.

Posted by: @yojoebro82

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My Avengers display consists of about 8 characters, so there's room.

Who are the eight? I've got seven in mine (nine if you count Ant-Man and Wasp minifigs).

• Cap
• Thor
• Iron Man
• Hulk
• Black Panther
• Black Widow
• Hawkeye

I go back and forth about adding Vision, but I feel like you can't have her without Scarlet Witch. And Wanda is one of my least favorite Marvel characters.

Posted by: @sepster

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How about a HasLab centered around a giant, articulated Phoenix Force and related hosts? 

 

The project could be contain a large Phoenix to depict the Force on it's own, then also include a smaller effect that you can plug individual characters (Jean, Rachel, Necrom, Echo, etc) into, plus all kinds of power blasts and effects.

 

EDIT: And, while I'm at it, Hasbro could release 2-Packs of the Imperial Guard, Starjammers, X-Men, and Excalibur characters to coincide with it's release.

I love this idea. I'd be totally behind this!!

The Milano would be around 6.5 feet long and 8 feet wide in Marvel Legends scale.

Maybe you could do a diorama of the cockpit. But then you'd be looking at just maybe 10" wide by 12" deep. I guess that could be a Haslab if you threw in the whole Guardians team.

Maybe a Knowhere playset with the Collector's specimens. Fully featured Howard the Duck.

Posted by: @pg-superfan

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The Milano would be around 6.5 feet long and 8 feet wide in Marvel Legends scale.

Almost every Star Wars 1:18 scale vehicle is a half to a third of the actual scale they should be.  Slave I and the Millennium Falcon should both be at least double the size they are to actually be in the right scale, but most collectors don't even realize it.  The same is true for the Razor Crest and Ghost Haslabs.

So any Marvel vehicle will probably be scaled down just like all Star Wars vehicles are.

I'm not worried about this campaign at all. Dollars to doughnuts it clears both tiers before the end with relative ease. I still hope they reveal something at PulseCon to help juice the numbers (either as part of the campaign or sold separately) but that's just because I'm a greedy person who wants all the figures.

Surely Wasp will be revealed this Friday. That seems like the biggest no-brainer ever right now.

Posted by: @tsi

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And Wanda is one of my least favorite Marvel characters.

Blasphemy. Repent. 

Giant-Man:

4,869 / 10,000 (+60) 48.69% of funding goal with 33d 17h left.

Couple things:

- A slight spoiler so I'll put the tags just in case, but really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone it is comic books after all:  

- Scale for vehicles is rarely 100% accurate due to all the things Hasbro has to consider (cost, price, budget, functionality, size, etc. etc.) So to expect a 100% accurate scale vehicle after a certain size is probably not realistic, at least coming from Hasbro.  Or at a "reasonable" price. 

- So far.....this seems to be trending along the lines of Galactus who didn't fund until day 42 I think, and then blew the doors off the Haslab model.  Now I don't think that will happen here, but I am still fairly positive about the end result for Giant-Man.

- So of related to my first point I think PulseCon reveals might be helpful, but I don't know how much they will help.  I guess it will be a wait and see thing.

Posted by: @canprime

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Giant-Man:

4,869 / 10,000 (+60) 48.69% of funding goal with 33d 17h left.

 

Couple things:

- A slight spoiler so I'll put the tags just in case, but really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone it is comic books after all:  

Spoiler

Hank Pym has just returned to comics in the first issue of Avengers Inc. and could possibly be a villain.  This is looks to be full human Hank and not Ultron/Hank

  I don't think this will make any difference to the Haslab, but it is at least some minor synergy.

- Scale for vehicles is rarely 100% accurate due to all the things Hasbro has to consider (cost, price, budget, functionality, size, etc. etc.) So to expect a 100% accurate scale vehicle after a certain size is probably not realistic, at least coming from Hasbro.  Or at a "reasonable" price. 

- So far.....this seems to be trending along the lines of Galactus who didn't fund until day 42 I think, and then blew the doors off the Haslab model.  Now I don't think that will happen here, but I am still fairly positive about the end result for Giant-Man.

- So of related to my first point I think PulseCon reveals might be helpful, but I don't know how much they will help.  I guess it will be a wait and see thing.

With regards to that spoiler:

With regards to Hank being a sometimes villain, I have to admit that a part of me has long wanted an inverted Avengers Forever story that unites the worst versions of the Avengers from the most hated heel turns.

Have Tony from The Crossing use Kang's tech to go through and pull the Avengers at their worst from the 616. He'd go through and gather up God Hulk, Yellowjacket Pym mid-slap, King Thor (Jurgens version), Darkhold Wasp, Hydra Supreme, etc. And eventually proceed to gather every Marvel hero at their most corrupted point in their history like Dark Phoenix and so on. Kind of like Infinity War but where the evil versions aren't just gremlin creatures made by Magus but actually the worst of Marvel, facing hates/controversial stuff head on.

I feel like THAT would be a big Hank Pym centric story because I feel like he'd the emotional core of it. Many of the others are essentially brainwashed or indoctrinated or overwhelmed by evil but Hank is the one dealing with his own mental sickness at his worst point.

Posted by: @enigmaticclarity

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Posted by: @pg-superfan

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The Milano would be around 6.5 feet long and 8 feet wide in Marvel Legends scale.

Almost every Star Wars 1:18 scale vehicle is a half to a third of the actual scale they should be.  Slave I and the Millennium Falcon should both be at least double the size they are to actually be in the right scale, but most collectors don't even realize it.  The same is true for the Razor Crest and Ghost Haslabs.

So any Marvel vehicle will probably be scaled down just like all Star Wars vehicles are.

Of course, any Milano toy would be scaled down for action figures, but my point was more about that vehicle's wing-to-fuselage proportions. The fuselage has to be a certain size, even if scaled down, to provide any sort of playability for 1/12th action figures unless you just want a cockpit that fits two figures and maybe a small cargo area behind the seats. Then, you have to add the wings which make up 2/3rds the size of the vehicle meaning, even when scaled down, the overall size of the ship would be huge, unless you shrink the wings and are OK with a wildly out-of-proportion Milano.

Posted by: @pg-superfan

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I have to admit that a part of me has long wanted an inverted Avengers Forever story that unites the worst versions of the Avengers from the most hated heel turns.

Have Tony from The Crossing use Kang's tech to go through and pull the Avengers at their worst from the 616. He'd go through and gather up God Hulk, Yellowjacket Pym mid-slap, King Thor (Jurgens version), Darkhold Wasp, Hydra Supreme, etc. And eventually proceed to gather every Marvel hero at their most corrupted point in their history like Dark Phoenix and so on. Kind of like Infinity War but where the evil versions aren't just gremlin creatures made by Magus but actually the worst of Marvel, facing hates/controversial stuff head on.

I feel like THAT would be a big Hank Pym centric story because I feel like he'd the emotional core of it. Many of the others are essentially brainwashed or indoctrinated or overwhelmed by evil but Hank is the one dealing with his own mental sickness at his worst point.

I love this idea  ... and it actually feels like the kind of thing Busiek might even be interested in doing to make sure it was done right... but I'm sure there are other writers that could also do a story like that justice.   I don't buy a lot of comics anymore, but I'd buy that one.

If Hasbro hadn't killed Marvel Universe, vehicles would probably be more viable. 1:18 is a lot more doable than 1:12. In 6" scale, you're just looking at the likes of the Punisher van and Fantasticar.

Posted by: @tsi

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If Hasbro hadn't killed Marvel Universe, vehicles would probably be more viable. 1:18 is a lot more doable than 1:12. In 6" scale, you're just looking at the likes of the Punisher van and Fantasticar.

Totally.  But that's no reason to keep that 1:18 scale alive given that vehicles barely matter with superheroes aside from ones that have it integrated into their powers like Ghost Rider.  Since characters are supreme with superheroes the larger scale is far more appropriate.

I have grown to really dislike the 1:18 scale with Star Wars.  I completely get that it's the only scale that's practical for vehicles, but most of what I love about Star Wars are Jedi and Sith, plus the surrounding characters, and since Jedi and Sith are pretty much superheroes I don't mind missing out on vehicles in the 1:12 scale.

But I also collect articulated animals--particularly dinosaurs--and the ONLY viable way to get the big ones is in the 1:18 scale.  I don't mind Dr. Grant, Malcolm, or Sattler being tiny since I'm mostly just using them to marvel at or get attacked by the dinosaurs.  😎 

Posted by: @tsi

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If Hasbro hadn't killed Marvel Universe, vehicles would probably be more viable. 1:18 is a lot more doable than 1:12. In 6" scale, you're just looking at the likes of the Punisher van and Fantasticar.

It almost limits you to the short range bathtub FF car for a lot of collectors.

Posted by: @canprime

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Giant-Man:

4,869 / 10,000 (+60) 48.69% of funding goal with 33d 17h left.

The pace isn't promising. If it keeps up at this level, it would be more than 3K away from funding at the last day. 

I don't think this one is going to have the drama and considerable decline like the Ghost Rider one, but fear that it may just be forgotten about and trudge along to a lackluster finish. I hope that's not the case, though.