Again, I don't know what you're hoping to accomplish here in the first place. There are plenty of other threads to express this type of post, and even one about the Deadpool 3 wave unless it got erased in one of these times the forum went down. But yes, get mad cause a movie fan in a movie collecting oriented thread called you out for saying you wished they made less movie figures and did comic ones for the wave instead. Makes perfect sense and is in no way troll behavior
I just want some decent X Men movie figures again. They went all out for that first movie back in 2000, and after that, we gradually got less and less. After X3, there weren't movie figures at all, apart from X Men Origins: Wolverine, and the less said about that the better. Yeah, we got the anniversary figures years later, but man, what wasted potential there. Say what you will about any of the movies, but X Men is one of the most toyetic Marvel properties, one could argue, and for nothing to be done for any of the newer movies just seems wrong. They weren't my favs, but I'd still happily take a figure of almost any portrayal of Nightcrawler. I'd have gladly taken a Hoult Beast figure, or a young Storm, or Sheridan Cyclops. Heck, Iceman and Nightcrawler from X2 actually got figures (Nightcrawler was definitely better than Iceman), but both seem like important parts of those original X movies that deserve newer figures. Not to mention all of the original X Men movie figs that desperately need redos- a Ray Park Toad with modern articulation? Hell to the yeah. Same goes for all the X-Men- Storm, Cyclops, Jean, Rogue. I'm quite thankful for the anniversary Logan, Xavier, Magneto, and Mystique, but Hasbro, you wicked temptress, only releasing them and not finishing up the lineup? Damn you.
Honestly, as the MCU introduces X-Men, my desire for an extensive line up of the Fox X-Men decreases. I would like the core X1 team, but that'd be about it for me at this point.
X2 Deathstryke.
That's it Hasbro.
That's all I need.
If I had my way and could dictate every aspect, the MCU would completely reboot X-Men and do the MCU version of Claremont's greatest hits (broad strokes, I'd expect details to be very different), and resolve with as close as they could get to what he'd planned for their shadow King showdown before Jim Lee happened. Along with that, they would introduce all the big mutants (the original five, the all new all different, Kitty, Rogue, Psylocke, Havok, Polaris, Forge, etc) and all have costumes as close to the comics as Sam's on F&WS or Kamala's on her show. AND hasbro would do figures of alllllll of those, even if it takes a few years.
But I don't mind mixing continuities so I would absolutely take Cyclops, Storm, and Nightcrawler from the end of Apocalypse, Colossus from DP, and so on. Rogue and Wolverine are the two I reeeeally would rather the MCU do closer to the comics and figures of those versions happen.
As it is now, I'm kinda braced for my mutant shelf to be a tall but yellow suited Wolverine, Deadpool, Colossus, Charles, and Magneto.
@tenime hey now, I said nothing against Jim Lee. I don't really blame him for prying Claremont from the longest run on any mainstream comic, that was entirely Claremont's choice but if I blame anyone it would be the editor. I also don't blame Lee for jumping ship months later for Image. I still like his art and he was utterly delightful when he did a signing at the comic shop where I had my first job.
I'm just saying Claremont had a plan which was derailed when marvel, and their editors, decided artists were to be the end all. And Jim Lee wanted to go back to status quo, do all the hits, and I don't blame him for that. Of course he wanted that.
Claremont wasn't perfect at all either, had a lot of crazy stuff and not great stuff, but I would really love to live in a world where he kept going uninterrupted. And Feige has a chance to maybe get close to that.
Good!
Also, "then Jim Lee happened" is the perfect way to put it because he was such a phenomenon at the time. And I'm sure a ton of people see it as a positive since X-Men #1 was a perfect jumping on point for new fans, even aside from his influence being all over the animated series (which I admit I never got into). Before Lee, if you wanted to get into X-Men, you had to hunt down back issues or reprints. When I got into X-Men, it took me a while, but I eventually got all the Classic X-Men reprints. My first comic con, I went to town that Sunday getting everything I could back to Giant Size X-Men (in reprints).
So I don't really blame anyone for adoring him, even aside from his art being really cool. I never liked Liefeld, and I've kinda soured on Todd, but Lee and Silvestri I still really love their art.
The Animated Series was my introduction to the characters, and my first X-book ever was X-Force #16 (because "animated" Wolverine, Rogue, and Gambit are on the cover), and then my first introduction to Jim Lee was WildC.A.T.s (the comic this time, not the cartoon, lolol), so I didn't even experience Jim Lee X-Men (other than the iconic #1 gatefold cover) until I was older and went back to find those issues, lol.
I wonder if that was a better way.
Hunting down back issues was always such a fun quest to me, and pouring over the old stories was like discovery.
I recently came upon art by Lucas Werneck just for fun of MCU mutants. I'd love if Marvel Studios went with something along these lines.
That's just one of multiple reasons I can't wait for secret wars. Yes I expect a real mother of a blowout with everyone, but also will likely put the multiverse to rest.
I agree the MCU needs a total X-Men reboot.
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