@yojoebro82 I had Witchblade out the other day as I'm preparing to offload a bunch of stuff and whew is she bad.
It looks like they tried to sculpt in that heavy Michael Turner eyeliner and then didn't quite paint it so she has big rings around her eyes. Plus the tiny lower torso, no rotation at the biceps,wrists or forearms and dull armor color.
Did anyone ever do a repaint of Scarlet Mitch's face to see what could have been? Ugh.
Who didn't? (at least not those who had the ability)
The real problem with Scarlet Witch wasn't her head. It was her body. It was very scrawny and the articulation killed the sculpt. The hip articulation wasn't even functional being pinned into the pelvis at a weird angle, with NO thigh swivels! It was THAT kind of experimentation that was such a sore spot for me. There was no reason to fuck that up, but they did. Same shit with Witchblade. Leaving off articulation like bicep and forearm/wrist swivels for no real reason? "Hey, let's make our figures worse!" I appreciate experimentation, but let's not abandon common sense.
Raybot had the customizing community's jaw hanging with his repaint of that Scarlet Witch head.
I agree Norm. I would like to add that the departure from the prototype shown was major fuel to the fire.
That Scarlet Witch was fetching for a pretty penny cause of the false rumor it wasn't going to be released, then boom! Here you go and enjoy!
Oh man, Raybot. I wish he'd come back to customizing! His work was always stunning. He'd have a huge following on instagram by now. Dustin Baetz too.
Getting ready to sell these so put together a little class picture (with special guest stars Shocker Toys Scud and The Maxx)
There's some weird Toybiz joints in the bunch of course and Witchblade is a nightmare but there were some great figures in LCBH.
O'Brien still really makes me sad about the Hasbro She-Hulk's Elbrows and no waist articulation.
Monkeyman was so great. I'll admit I never read the comic he's from, but I collected LCBH cause I was ridin' high on Toy Biz back in the day. Monkeyman lasted longer after I sold off the rest, and I only got rid of him a few years ago. Do you still have his glasses, or did you lose them like I did?
@h-bird Monkeyman's glasses and Timmy are gone unfortunately. I think I made Artie and Leech out of two Timmys. Seems like most of the auctions for Monkeyman are missing the glasses.
Huh. I gotta check on my Monkey Man to see if I still have the glasses! When LCBH missed, it missed badly. But when it hit the mark… holy shit. Pitt and MM & O’Brien were artist specific! Dale Keown and Art Adams figures? Sign me up! Even Savage Dragon and Superpatriot were pretty close to Erik Larsen’s art. It’s too bad others suffered from reuse. Ripclaw would have been stellar if his proportions matched Marc Silvestri’s art better, but instead we got reuse of the awful Black Panther textured body. Star was more basic reuse of the Captain Marvel body (which lost something after being reused from Bullseye). Madman was all new, but those proportions were wack, and looked very little like Mike Allred’s awesome art.
Huh. I gotta check on my Monkey Man to see if I still have the glasses! When LCBH missed, it missed badly. But when it hit the mark… holy shit. Pitt and MM & O’Brien were artist specific! Dale Keown and Art Adams figures? Sign me up! Even Savage Dragon and Superpatriot were pretty close to Erik Larsen’s art. It’s too bad others suffered from reuse. Ripclaw would have been stellar if his proportions matched Marc Silvestri’s art better, but instead we got reuse of the awful Black Panther textured body. Star was more basic reuse of the Captain Marvel body (which lost something after being reused from Bullseye). Madman was all new, but those proportions were wack, and looked very little like Mike Allred’s awesome art.
That's a fair assessment of those figures. I would have loved to own Pitt and Money Man even though I have no real connection to either, but I'm not going be be able to front those aftermarket prices any time soon. The Darkenss is another really good figure of a character that I've never cared about.
I have the Savage Dragon and not only does he have articulated figures, but articulated knuckles too! Come on! He's pretty good. I like that textured Black Panther body on Black Panther himself. It didn't work at all on Sentury or Captain Britain. Ripclaw has more of an outrageous look so the texturing blends in more. It's forgivable.
I really love Marv from Sin City and Conan. I just go a Conan scabbard to complete my figure and I can't stop looking at him.
Getting ready to sell these so put together a little class picture (with special guest stars Shocker Toys Scud and The Maxx)
There's some weird Toybiz joints in the bunch of course and Witchblade is a nightmare but there were some great figures in LCBH.
O'Brien still really makes me sad about the Hasbro She-Hulk's Elbrows and no waist articulation.
Nice. Are they going to ebay?
@yojoebro82 Yeah, I'm probably asking too much for the bundle but we'll see. Trying to pay off some bills and they've just been in bins in a closet forever. Trimmed down to just Legends,DCUC, and some wrestling.
One of the things I loved about the Toybiz Marvel Legends and Spider-Man Classics is it seemed like each figure had personality. Even with figures that shared the same body with another figure, each figure had a uniqueness to it. Now of course every action figure comes from a factory assembly line but with Hasbro, it seems a lot more blatant.
Don't get me wrong because I'm loving what Hasbro has been doing the last couple of years but a lot of the figures have the sameness to them.
I've pretty much sold all my Toybiz Legends but a few still remain like the Legends Green Goblin, Spider-Man Classics Hobgoblin and Sandman. Hasbro has yet make superior versions of them and while I do have the Hasbro versions, the Toybiz versions remain my default figures of those characters.
Those early Toy Biz Spider-Man Classics and Legends definitely still had some McFarlane influence to them, which was the hottest name in action figures at the time because their sculpts and paint were so much better than the rest. The first Venom they did with the crocodile mouth and Eddie's face behind it had a bunch of articulation, but it wasn't like there was much to do with it given how they sculpted it. If that was the first Venom in a toy line today everyone would be pissed it's not just a "regular" Venom, though back then I was just super impressed and it made that figure a must-buy for me.
Those early Toy Biz Spider-Man Classics and Legends definitely still had some McFarlane influence to them, which was the hottest name in action figures at the time because their sculpts and paint were so much better than the rest. The first Venom they did with the crocodile mouth and Eddie's face behind it had a bunch of articulation, but it wasn't like there was much to do with it given how they sculpted it. If that was the first Venom in a toy line today everyone would be pissed it's not just a "regular" Venom, though back then I was just super impressed and it made that figure a must-buy for me.
I was the opposite with those SMC figures. I liked how well that Venom (and Man-Spider) were sculpted, but didn't love the pre-posed nature of either, especially when examples of what could be existed within the same wave with the Spider-Man with "30 points of articulation"! Once I got that taste, I never wanted to go back. I wound up getting that Venom just to customize into a "regular" Venom. To this day, I never picked up that Man-Spider.
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