Impossible Legends (or at least very difficult)

Posted by: @derrabbi

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@sdcomics I'm not the convention going type but is nice to hear any sort of non genre comics or artist being discussed on the boards.

Well, I could tell you what a kind, thoughtful and considerate man Art Spiegelman was.  What a crack up and funny guy Harvey Pekar was.  What a kind, gracious, talented and thoughtful lady Trina Robbins was.  How intelligent Lee Marrs was.  George Pratt was quiet and dignified and if you spent a little time around him you could tell that he was a deep thinker. 

Everyone liked to meet at the bar in the Hotel San Diego at night after the dealer's room closed.  If you sat there and listened you could learn a lot.

I'm sorry I never got to meet Robert Crumb, a true icon in the alternative comics world.  I saw the documentary on him that was directed by Terry Zwigoff.  It came out in 93 or 94, I think.  Crumb was an amazing creator of art.  Well, he's 81 and still alive so if he ever does make it out here (doubtful) I will try and meet him. 

Crossgen had such promise and their talent pool was crazy - especially on the art side where they were gambling on relative unknowns.

@sdcomics I saw Crumb and Spiegelman do a Q&A from Francoise Mouly (sp?) It was fun but certainly didn't get to meet either. Shame you'd think Crumb has one last comic in him. I guess he occasionally does a page or 2 for the New Yorker. I could see him doing some sort of tribute to Aline but maybe that is just to hard for him.

Red Ronin.

I was a big Shogun Warriors fan growing up and still love giant robots.  A Haslab size Red Ronin would be a dream come true.  Or someone making a Shogun Warriors Jumbo Machiner style one.  It'll never happen, but maybe he'll appear in a MCU movie and enough people will want a figure of him

Posted by: @justice

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@renfield75 I am really dreading seeing the price tag on the deluxe William Howard Taft.  On the bright side I hope that they are able to share parts across lines because parts of him could be used for Harry Leland to complete the Hellfire Club.

Only if his wave comes with a BAFtub.

Doubt they have the licensing anymore.

He’ll come in a wave with Alf, Beavis and Butthead and the Shogun Warriors.

Slug would be hard to make.

I'm not sure why everyone thinks Armor would be so difficult. A regular Marvel Legends figure with a translucent pink exoskeleton that clips on to the wrists and ankles and has parallel swivel hinges in the knees, elbows, etc., would work just fine. The exoskeleton would need a few gaps in the joints to make it all work, but it would look great, and articulate fine. It would probably be on the smaller end of her exoskeleton's size range, obviously. It could be done bigger and still work fine, but she would need to be articulated separately and then clipped in.

I don't think anyone here wants a figure with gaps in the armor. I certainly don't.

The exoskeleton would need a few gaps in the joints to make it all work, but it would look great, and articulate fine.

I'd really like to see a sketch of what you're thinking because I can't imagine how to create dual overlapping joints, especially not with a translucent plastic meant to show the inner figure.

I've tried to sketch it out a couple of times, but technical drawings aren't really my specialty. I was able to Google up an example at my other computer, and should have posted it then, but am striking out with my Google-Fu right now. I'll keep searching and try to post something soon.

I guess a better way to describe it would be that, at the elbow (for example), each of the outer edges of the exoskeleton's arm would pop into each of the inner edges of the forearm, like a snap, such that it would allow both connection points to swivel, while retaining a hollow interior. When clipped to the interior action figure's wrist, this would still allow movement of the exoskeleton's arm to move the interior figure's arm accordingly. Or, hell, maybe not even a button snap, maybe something like the two piece connector that gets used in dials for games like X-Wing.

See that little black plastic thing in the corner? That's a two-piece swivelling button that goes through the two holes of the dial, holding them together while allowing them to pivot independently from one another. If you put one of those on either side of the elbow, and imagine that the two parts of the dial are three-dimensional interlocking exoskeletal arm segments, you have a fully hollow figure that still articulates.