And not to rehash the EoV (but I guess I will), I think the main flaw was that these are meant to be centerpieces of a collection or display - anyone with a half-dozen X-Men figures of any era could see adding a Sentinel to that; anyone who has one of the FF teams could see adding a Galactus; and obviously anyone with classic Avengers might want a Giant Man; but the EoV was kind of left to stand on its own as we only had the one Ghost Rider with bike in the Hasbro era and virtually no GR villains. The other three campaigns added to already existing teams/factions, EoV was essentially the start of a new one, and then the tiers were 2/3rds barely connected. Apart from the stand-alone Blaze figure and I guess the Orb, there was not already a GR shelf with Blaze, Ketch, Phanotm Rider, Vengeance, Blackheart etc. to add the EoV to and complete it - unless you planned to have Robbie with the Avengers. I feel the HasLabs work when it is taking what we have collected already to the next level (which is why I do think an X-Men mansion/danger room or a Quinjet or a Fantasticar would sell) and you see in your mind how cool it will look together with your current figures.
I really loved the idea, when the EoV was teased as Ghost Rider related but not yet announced, that the project was going to be a sort of "Eras of Ghost Rider" set with some combination (4 total maybe) of Johnny Blaze, Dan Ketch, Robbie, Carter Slade, Alejandra Jones, Vengeance, and their rides, with various GR villains as tiers (Zarathos, Blackout, Deathwatch, etc etc). Many people pointed out that such a set would have been outrageously expensive and pissed off a lot of people who wanted one or two but not the whole group (especially with the Charger being the main price driver) but it would have cast a wide net by really celebrating GR as a legacy character and been a really fun set. With how costly the EoV ended up being, such a set would cost like $500 so probably a non-starter, but it was fun to think about. Ah well!
This campaign has spoiled me on Giant-Man, and I can't look at my old Toy Biz BAF again. If it doesn't fund I'll be stuck with a figure that I always knew had wonky proportions, weak joints, and weird hands, but had to accept because he was my best option. Now I just don't know how we'll go on together...
We have got to get things rolling if we're get Giant-Man funded, we need 4 thousand more backers.
The Facebook Marvel Legends groups are the worst. All they do is hate on Hasbro and bitch and whine about everything. And if you try to offer a counter argument, you’re told to “read the room” and treated like an idiot.
So good luck there. I’d imagine they’ve been whining and bitching about this pretty consistently.
I’ve been trying to spread the word, but they encouraged me to leave Wendy’s pretty quickly.
Everyone knows Wendy's shills for DC, you should be working it over at Burger King. Giant-Man and the Whopper go hand-in-hand. (all puns/innuendos intended)
Anyway:
Giant-Man:
6,330 / 10,000 (+119) 63.30% of funding goal with 4d 19h left.
Well still increasing by triple digits, but I will admit to a bit of surprise that it is lower than yesterday. This is the time where the number of daily backers should be increasing every day.
I don’t think it’s gonna fund!
I think it's gonna fund!
I haven't done the math on the rate of increase of Sentinel and Galactus over their final five days so I have no idea if it's going to fund!
But just from eyeballing those numbers I suspect it's going more slowly than it needs to... 😖
This is very useful to keep track of the progress
This is very useful to keep track of the progress
When I said I had eyeballed it that's what I eyeballed. Looks to me like it should have been increasing more in recent days for it to fund if it followed the same rate of increase that Sentinel and Galactus did in the final week of their campaigns.
It's going to be such a shame if this doesn't cross the finish line. It's exactly the costume I want for a classic Hank Pym Giant-Man to join my display. 🙁 And for the folks who say they've not backed it because it's not the size they want, they're in for a surprise when Hasbro doesn't make the character again because they'll take this failure as a message that the character himself isn't desired.
Anyone remember Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes by Joe Casey and Scott Kolins circa 2005-ish? I've been revisiting the original Lee/Kirby/Roy Thomas/Don Heck Avengers run since this campaign was launched - currently on issue 42 - but was reminded of this and just picked up the hardcover. It's a great retelling of the launch of the Avengers in a contemporary storytelling form, exploring some of the cultural response to a group of superfolks forming. It's a fun companion to reading those early adventures with all of their dated storytelling conventions and tropes, and I'd put it up there with the animated Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes TV show as far as best Avengers adaptations. I've been on an Avengers kick lately and was excited to be reminded of this!
And of course I have to share the Giant-Man cover!
It's going to get an 11th hour push, I'm telling you.....
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