That Groot picture is awesome! Nice shots!

I think Toybiz overall is better, minus their women characters. I liked the articulation Toybiz had better, plus the price point was half of what Hasbros was. I remember skipping the Hasbro hulk wave because they jacked the price up to $15 a figure and their build a figures were tiny compared to Toybiz. At least now Hasbro is adding hands and heads, it helps .

Honestly I would let sleeping dogs lie. Unlike many of Hasbro's, Toy Biz BAFs were never meant to be disassembled once assembled. Attempts to do so, even to attach a new piece, really puts you at risk for damaging the figure or breaking it all together. On top of that, remember that the figure itself is over 15 years old, meaning the plastic quality has also had 15 years to degrade, making it even more of a risk to attempt to fix.

Many people have had success in tightening joints by using clear floor polish and an eyedropper to get it into the cracks, and then working the joint as it dries. I am not sure how Galactus's, joints are since I do not have this figure, but you might be able to make that work. Just be sure to test the polish on a small area on the figure to ensure that it will not damage the paint, and to clean up any excess so that it will not freeze the figure in other places.

always a bonus when your doing other things and find a figure you been hunting!

Nice haul!

Agree.

And yeah, I really miss the prices of yesteryear. Over $20 a figure is getting out of hand. If it goes up any further I may have to get out of collecting for a while :(

This is the first I've heard of this, are there any tutorials anywhere?

Now i could only do that with a 5' 7" redhead with a rockin body and 36 inch bust....and female. ;)

Got bored so made some Toybiz vs Hasbro comparisons. There are more, but most of my legends are in storage.

Haha, thanks. Not quite sure what to do with it. Thought was a toy that Sam had or something. Can't hold him either nor stand on its own. For sure my cat will eat it or I'll Hoover it by mistake.

The top torso slides over the abdomen, is the peg that's a bit weak. Just handle with care and should be fine. But I must admit I glued mine. It's an old, but great piece.

I collect all sort of toys and dolls, and you kind of learn as you go along what deteriorates and what's not. I cannot count how many repairs I've done. I use invisible Mitre glue normally that's spray and glue, because it's invisible and hard as nails. Also the "horns" bend everytime I move house. I've have a box just for mr. G.

Slap some tape on it and put it on a headless body ;)

Not sure that will taste better...

Bbq sauce and a couple drops of siracha?

This one here goes over the techniques using nail polish and floor polish. Figure Realm also has some excellent tutorials on doing this.

https://youtu.be/WOgsahUSZ-Q

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Thanks for the info! I'll leave it as is for now. I don't think it will bother me since I'm just going to find an nice spot on the shelf for it. I can alway mess with it down the road if I really have to, but hopefully I can restrain myself lol.

Now I have to find a good Silver Surfer and Fantastic Four team. I don't have any of either. Any suggestions for older figures or are these ones that I'm better off waiting for them to make new ones?

Hasbro is currently in the (slow, but steady) process of releasing the Fantastic Four as Walgreens exclusives. They just released Sue, and they're releasing Johnny later this year; Reed and Ben will probably come out next year.

It's been a good week!

With some other companies like DST and NECA I feel like I'm getting a good value because they put a lot of effort into making their figures look good and they're still pretty well articulated but yeah with Hasbro it can sometimes feel hard to justify the spending.
Wow I forgot how weird the old symbiote Spidey looked, I liked that one a lot when it was new. Also welcome to the Ark!

Bought ML Cable for $13 clearance from Gamestop... this is not good... my ML collection is growing too fast for my liking. LOL. Not my fav Cable costume, but pretty amazing figure in hand.

I agree. NECA even has those nice boxes, and DST gives those amazing dioramas.

Sometimes I feel like some of the people who used to do the Toybiz Legends ended up working at Diamond. The sculpting on some of the Select marvel figures really feels like the modern/advanced take on the sculpting of the TB Legends and then the diorama pieces/bases give me the same vibe as those that came with TB's figures. The big difference of course is that the Select figures have restrictions on articulation.

That works out perfectly! Is Sue starting to show up on shelves or not yet?

Nope. There were a couple that "fell off the truck" so to speak a while back, but they have all dried up since then. Even Ebay searches are coming up empty, so it may be a while still...

This is definitely an interesting theory. Could be true. I guess all those people had to find work somewhere.

Super excited to have finally found a good price for a White Costume Jim Lee Storm! Just need to wait for Cyclops to show up (i've seen him at retail but i already have him on order)

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