[The Creator]

!!!!!!!!!!!! Thor !!!!!!!!!!!!
body; Heroic age Thor
arms, hands, feet;Hyperion
head; Ultimate Thor modded with a helmet dremeled out and donated from a movie thor (perfect fit) and a ton of tedious dremeling
custom articulated cape
(2) different hammers
custom comic no airbrush hand paint
everything removable.....

[The Creator]

!!!!!!!!!!! Thor !!!!!!!!!!!
body; secret wars Thor
head; MU Eric Masters Thor
hammer; heroic age Thor
custom articulated cape
upper thigh,feet; Hyperion
lower leg; Showdown Thor (fits this Thor Better)
custom comic hand paint no airbrush

[Agemo]

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Originally Posted by Sender

Thanks bro. Things are improving with the new year.

Happy to see people creating!

i've been working on a few Marvelous Joes to post but got sidetracked with some recent purchases.

Among the latter is the new Aliens line from Lanard. i missed Hiya's Alien line but was able to pick up a few of their Colonial Marines. Lanard's yellow mechs make for AIM armors. The Aliens themselves look good but Lanard's Colonial Marines are very 5 PoA Chap Mei. i'll try to post some comparo pics in the MU Compatibility Thread.

I'll stay on topic, but I missed out on alot of the Marines. I want to get their female molds in bulk if I can since they turned out great for my Carol.

The Domez jacket Carol head technically "works", it's just that the face is a bit large in person.

Luckily you can boil a pop the hair of a modify the forehead and cranium to be smaller. The issue though is that once it does seem natural, the hairline makes her look more like Vancamp than Larson. Decided to fix this by making her face "pop" with peach colored paint and darkening her eyebrows with brown paint to make her expression more defined.

Sanded the heck out of her legs, doing a better job this time making the legs look natural compared to mt HM Spidey.

Will cover Thor in another post.

[The Creator]

Nice job Agemo as I had fun making Carol also.....

[Agemo]

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Originally Posted by The Creator

Nice job Agemo as I had fun making Carol also.....

Nice. I'll return the favor showing off my Thors. As you can tell I prefer the helmet-less look, influenced by Ultimate Thor growing up. With that said, still like the classic design, just later ones like Heroic age (with the exception of your figure) didn't really do it for me.

Swapped the heads after seeing someone do it in the old thread.

http://www.toyark.com/marvel-3-75-ap...4214-page1044/

My actual custom is admittedly a hackjob, but my best hackjob and is technically a WIP.

Super/hot glued a 3.75 The hobbit "Kili" hair piece with a BnB WWE hair piece for the rubber beard and ended up with my somewhat "Endgame" esque Thor head using the IW figurine as the base. Best likeness to Hemsworth at this scale, hands down.

Used the Heroic age Thor mold, replaced the Ball joint for a Movie hinge joint, and gave him enough length from the figurine neck to have the right amount of clearance to do flight and looking down poses.

Plus a pic of him confirming that he "likes this one".

Also, got the new Hulk in the mail. Not as articulated as I like, but is stable (it's currently on a high shelf) and comes with a pefect accessory that leads to the next figure.

Have to say, of all the Toybox figures, this is the one to get for 1:18 scale collection. Aside from the legs the proportions of the figure is decent and is pretty articulated for typical bulk characters at this scale. The Hulk Nano-gaunlet also fits.

Will update tomorrow since I'm painting my Peter head.

[The Creator]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agemo

Nice. I'll return the favor showing off my Thors. As you can tell I prefer the helmet-less look, influenced by Ultimate Thor growing up. With that said, still like the classic design, just later ones like Heroic age (with the exception of your figure) didn't really do it for me.

Swapped the heads after seeing someone do it in the old thread.

http://www.toyark.com/marvel-3-75-ap...4214-page1044/

My actual custom is admittedly a hackjob, but my best hackjob and is technically a WIP.

Super/hot glued a 3.75 The hobbit "Kili" hair piece with a BnB WWE hair piece for the rubber beard and ended up with my somewhat "Endgame" esque Thor head using the IW figurine as the base. Best likeness to Hemsworth at this scale, hands down.

Used the Heroic age Thor mold, replaced the Ball joint for a Movie hinge joint, and gave him enough length from the figurine neck to have the right amount of clearance to do flight and looking down poses.

Plus a pic of him confirming that he "likes this one".

Also, got the new Hulk in the mail. Not as articulated as I like, but is stable (it's currently on a high shelf) and comes with a pefect accessory that leads to the next figure.

Have to say, of all the Toybox figures, this is the one to get for 1:18 scale collection. Aside from the legs the proportions of the figure is decent and is pretty articulated for typical bulk characters at this scale. The Hulk Nano-gaunlet also fits.

Will update tomorrow since I'm painting my Peter head.

Nice work bro, and as I do not care for movie figures because classic rules in my mind. With that being said the (1) Disney figure that i seek is the Hulk Buster articulated fingers and all sweet......

[Agemo]

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Originally Posted by The Creator

Nice work bro, and as I do not care for movie figures because classic rules in my mind. With that being said the (1) Disney figure that i seek is the Hulk Buster articulated fingers and all sweet......

I'll be honest, I kick myself sometimes for not getting more into the comics but I never find the time.

[Sender]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agemo

I'll be honest, I kick myself sometimes for not getting more into the comics but I never find the time.

It's never too late to get into comics...

...timeless great stories to be discover.

[Autobot_Goldbug]

The next best things are the cartoons.

[Agemo]

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Originally Posted by Autobot_Goldbug

The next best things are the cartoons.

In that case, that would have to be the lionsgate cartoon movies and the early 2000s Fantastic Four Cartoon.

Sadly wished I recalled more of Spectacular Spider-man.

[Ninjinister]

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Originally Posted by The Creator

Best they did not have them as they are GARBAGE..........

I should have listened to you. They are worse than garbage. They're not even 3.75" despite what the box says! HULK IS SHORTER THAN MOST OF MY FIGURES IN THIS SCALE ASUDFHUO:

Screw you, Hasblo

[The Creator]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

I should have listened to you. They are worse than garbage. They're not even 3.75" despite what the box says! HULK IS SHORTER THAN MOST OF MY FIGURES IN THIS SCALE ASUDFHUO:

Screw you, Hasblo

Damn right Ninjinister 100 percent with you bro...........

[Il Cattivo]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

I should have listened to you. They are worse than garbage. They're not even 3.75" despite what the box says! HULK IS SHORTER THAN MOST OF MY FIGURES IN THIS SCALE ASUDFHUO:

Screw you, Hasblo

I kinda had a feeling they aren't really 3.75 even after asking the seller. was so close to buying the set mostly for ironman. glad I didn't now. how tall are they, 3 inches?

[ZombieLoki]

For my fellow Mattel collectors, I found a set of the MOTU/WWE set online. There is one complete set plus the ring and the exclusives for $240 on ebay. Comes with Ghostbusters Undertaker and #100 Gamer John Cena too. Are they even at retail now?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184083292434

[Madame Warlock]

BEEP BEEP
IT'S THE X-SCOOTER BINCHES

[Kernel]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZombieLoki

For my fellow Mattel collectors, I found a set of the MOTU/WWE set online. There is one complete set plus the ring and the exclusives for $240 on ebay. Comes with Ghostbusters Undertaker and #100 Gamer John Cena too. Are they even at retail now?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184083292434

I saw these today at Walmart but they looked like shit

[Harbinger]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Madame Warlock

BEEP BEEP
IT'S THE X-SCOOTER BINCHES

HAHA! That is hilarious.

[Agemo]

Found a Ohio based store with several Hyper Motions Disk War Spider-man in stock.

Size comparisons seem to suggest that he is about as tall as the Avengers Movie Captain America, which means he is shorter than the up-scaled male MU molds with the ankle pivot.

Felt it would make a good Ultimate Spider-Man, and my search for review made me stumble upon these customs of Spider-Men from Japanese hobbyists.

Makes me really jealous, but their "1:18 scale" culture is arguably in better shape than ours due to the popularity of candy toys of model skits and figures of Kamen Rider.

https://twitter.com/babi_musou/statu...82860297994240

食玩改é€*：スパイダームžãƒ³ - 模型

https://twitter.com/holecat_tw/statu...11336456310784

https://twitter.com/arubok1230/statu...10237054640129

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Plus, Marvel Toys are alot more scarce there obviously, so there is higher demand for customs.

[The Creator]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agemo

Found a Ohio based store with several Hyper Motions Disk War Spider-man in stock.

Size comparisons seem to suggest that he is about as tall as the Avengers Movie Captain America, which means he is shorter than the up-scaled male MU molds with the ankle pivot.

Felt it would make a good Ultimate Spider-Man, and my search for review made me stumble upon these customs of Spider-Men from Japanese hobbyists.

Makes me really jealous, but their "1:18 scale" culture is arguably in better shape than ours due to the popularity of candy toys of model skits and figures of Kamen Rider.

https://twitter.com/babi_musou/statu...82860297994240

食玩改é€*：スパ゠¤ãƒ€ãƒ¼ãƒžãƒ³ - 模型

https://twitter.com/holecat_tw/statu...11336456310784

https://twitter.com/arubok1230/statu...10237054640129

factory

Plus, Marvel Toys are alot more scarce there obviously, so there is higher demand for customs.

Not for me bro but I say go for it...

[The Creator]

!!!!!!!!!!! Jane Foster Thor !!!!!!!!!!!!
body and hammer; marvel infinite Jane Foster
hammer# (2) Thor avengers movie figures
modded and gave her wrist articulation on her left arm
custom articulated cape and skirt
custom comic no airbrush hand paint job

[Madame Warlock]

We're getting a whole new line of 4" DC stuff(Spin Master), on top of the ongoing Hiya Injustice stuff. This is largely because the license was split, AFAIK.

So there's obviously demand for 1/18th stuff. The problem was Hasbro and Mattel. The minute the license gets away from Hasbro we might have a chance, whenever that ends up being. Which is ironic since Habsro are known for their 1/18th stuff classically.

[Agemo]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Madame Warlock

We're getting a whole new line of 4" DC stuff(Spin Master), on top of the ongoing Hiya Injustice stuff. This is largely because the license was split, AFAIK.

So there's obviously demand for 1/18th stuff. The problem was Hasbro and Mattel. The minute the license gets away from Hasbro we might have a chance, whenever that ends up being. Which is ironic since Habsro are known for their 1/18th stuff classically.

Yeah, that is what makes it sad. When Vonner joined adter Toybiz there was clear a passion behind Marvel Universe figures even before they got really good.

Marvel, joining the ranks of SW and G.I Joe. Really hope someone gets hold of the license.

[Madame Warlock]

it's absolutely wild how Star Wars and GI Joe bit it too. At least Legends is sort of a Legacy 6" thing but not many people collecting were alive to remember any Joes bigger than 1/18th and Star Wars has always been that scale, AFAIK, which makes sense since it's good for vehicles and playsets.

It just proves that it's absolutely some crappy ideologue preference with not much regard for what people really want. Some people will defend businesses as just responding to the market as if they're hyper logical naturally occurring entities but that's BS.

Hasbro pretty much forced us to switch to 1/18th back when they bought the License as it was the 6" ones that had a drop in quality and frequency of release. Their modern 6 inchers are very good but the price is ridiculous. Wages & welfare(since we're still in a recession don't forget) have stagnated and yet we're paying at least twice as much for a similar quality of product as we did under Toybiz.

Granted Toybiz MLs haven't aged quite as well in retrospect(with some exceptions, and the later ones were generally pretty great) but they did have a style and character(and generally more detail/blackwashing and stuff) a lot of the modern ones lack.

[LordMudd]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Madame Warlock

We're getting a whole new line of 4" DC stuff(Spin Master), on top of the ongoing Hiya Injustice stuff. This is largely because the license was split, AFAIK.

So there's obviously demand for 1/18th stuff. The problem was Hasbro and Mattel. The minute the license gets away from Hasbro we might have a chance, whenever that ends up being. Which is ironic since Habsro are known for their 1/18th stuff classically.

and Mezco has picked up the Batman 66 license as well as classic animated Superman, in 1/18 scale.


CCC.

[LordMudd]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Madame Warlock

it's absolutely wild how Star Wars and GI Joe bit it too. At least Legends is sort of a Legacy 6" thing but not many people collecting were alive to remember any Joes bigger than 1/18th and Star Wars has always been that scale, AFAIK, which makes sense since it's good for vehicles and playsets.

It just proves that it's absolutely some crappy ideologue preference with not much regard for what people really want. Some people will defend businesses as just responding to the market as if they're hyper logical naturally occurring entities but that's BS.

Hasbro pretty much forced us to switch to 1/18th back when they bought the License as it was the 6" ones that had a drop in quality and frequency of release. Their modern 6 inchers are very good but the price is ridiculous. Wages & welfare(since we're still in a recession don't forget) have stagnated and yet we're paying at least twice as much for a similar quality of product as we did under Toybiz.

Granted Toybiz MLs haven't aged quite as well in retrospect(with some exceptions, and the later ones were generally pretty great) but they did have a style and character(and generally more detail/blackwashing and stuff) a lot of the modern ones lack.

If you watched the Golden Globes, you saw host Ricky Gervais attack the Hollywood elite for their isolationism and general shallowness. This has been extended upon on line by people pointing out that the so called leftist Hollywood elite are in fact nothing of the sort. They actually know NOTHING about politics or world events, they just get up in the morning, look at what is TRENDING, and throw something stupid out in order to get attention. TRENDING is the problem and it has been absorbed into every aspect of our lives, even toy manufacturing. Company executives who actually know nothing about what they make think stupid thoughts like "Oh look, 6" action figures are TRENDING. Make all of our figures 6"."

Personally I think it would be an excellent TREND to put people who actually know something about toys back in charge of these companies.


CCC.