Could be. Although for Living Laser, I feel like you sculpt a new head with horns on the helmet piece and his distinctive chest/shoulder costume and then have one version painted like his original human costume and then release the same figure again in translucent plastic. Seems very easy and cost-saving from a design standpoint.
Living Laser was in the first two incarnations of the Lethal Legion, so at least one of his classic forms would be ripe for use in an Avengers two-pack or boxed set.
Does Nefaria really need a powerhouse build? I thought he was just a regular sized peak human with super strength and invulnerability? The Vulcan body should reflect that. It’s used appropriately for Vision whose stats are very similar.
The trouble is they've watered down the Vulcan body's usefulness by making it almost universal. It's become the standard Marvel male superhero body, for better or worse. It largely works with some major caveats:
- Vision - 6'3, 300lb
- Count Nefaria - 6'2, 230lb
But they also use it for tall, skinny guys and smaller guys:
- Cyclops - 6'3, 195
- Bucky - 5'9, 260lb
- Black Panther - 6', 200lb
Why is Daredevil (5'11, 185lb) on a different body than Black Panther? They're basically the same size.
I think the economic realities of the Legends line make it necessary for some of these characters to share bodies. I'm good with Cyclops and Vision on the same mold. There's also the fact that most of their other bodies aren't very good. Vulcan, RYV Spidey, and whatever body the new Sabretooth is using are leagues ahead of the rest of their male body library. You could probably include AF15 Spidey, but I don't own it and it seems very small.
All that said, there is no way in hell that Bucky and Vision should share a body.
Does Nefaria really need a powerhouse build? I thought he was just a regular sized peak human with super strength and invulnerability? The Vulcan body should reflect that.
He’s never really been presented as anything other than the normal (ridiculous) super hero physique unless by a highly stylized artist. Scale creep all over the place. As if. 6’3” 235 all muscle dudes aren’t big. Why does Hulk need to be 9 feet tall? People realize how massive a 7’2” person is? I’ve stood next to some nba players and they are huge and I’m 6’4”
Does Nefaria really need a powerhouse build? I thought he was just a regular sized peak human with super strength and invulnerability? The Vulcan body should reflect that. It’s used appropriately for Vision whose stats are very similar.
The trouble is they've watered down the Vulcan body's usefulness by making it almost universal. It's become the standard Marvel male superhero body, for better or worse. It largely works with some major caveats:
- Vision - 6'3, 300lb
- Count Nefaria - 6'2, 230lb
But they also use it for tall, skinny guys and smaller guys:
- Cyclops - 6'3, 195
- Bucky - 5'9, 260lb
- Black Panther - 6', 200lb
Why is Daredevil (5'11, 185lb) on a different body than Black Panther? They're basically the same size.
I think the economic realities of the Legends line make it necessary for some of these characters to share bodies. I'm good with Cyclops and Vision on the same mold. There's also the fact that most of their other bodies aren't very good. Vulcan, RYV Spidey, and whatever body the new Sabretooth is using are leagues ahead of the rest of their male body library. You could probably include AF15 Spidey, but I don't own it and it seems very small.
All that said, there is no way in hell that Bucky and Vision should share a body.
It is most certainly Barnes Captain America that is wrong. It was my most anticipated update in the Avengers anniversary line, and while it’s a good figure on its own, it looks so wrong next to other figures because of the scale.
Bucky is not drawn proportionally as someone 5’9” 260. Unless that’s the arm or something
Does anyone know is this a retail wave or another fan channel exclusive?
Seems the Retro waves are all universally major retailer availability, assuming that you can ever actually find them in a store!
The announcement very clearly said "Fan Channel - available at vendors like Entertainment Earth, Big Bad Toy Store and Hasbro Pulse"
It is unclear at this stage if that will or won't include Amazon. Sometimes Amazon is in on Fan Channel and sometimes they are not.
It very clearly means Wal Mart and Target will NOT be.
And even if previous retro releases have been available at major retailers the absolute clearance price / remainder store bloodbath that took place with the FF Retro and last X-Men retro wave almost certainly put an end to that - at least for a minute.
@akatsuki While I am down for a Dark Aegis figure, if they were going to do a surprise figure again I would love it if they could somehow pull off a Firepower. Version one, not the later versions. I love me some Firepower and the ridiculousness of the armour. Also it was right in my reading wheelhouse with Armor Wars.
Sunturion would be cool-looking also! I'd be down with the Vanko version of Whiplash as well!
Model 20 Iron Man is now a must after seeing that is has butterfly joints.
I literally just had Pentagon Armor on my Top Ten List 😀 Awesome. And we have Superior Iron Man and apparently Heroes Reborn on the way. Crazy fun year for Iron Man!! Hope Hulkbuster is 90s comic too!
Maybe, but I'm doubting that Heroes Reborn is coming this year. Seems like too much Iron Man. I'm guessing either it got swapped from the Iron Armor 20 suit after the fact or the leaker flat out mistook it for the Heroes Reborn suit.
The whole wave is a winner for me. Interesting that the MCU has elevated Iron Man to Spider-Man levels where a retro comic wave with 3 variants will sell.
I think that's more due to them thinking Iron Man's villains and allies are way less likely to sell than Spidey's are. So less of a compliment to Iron Man and more of an insult to everyone else in his line.
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