Oh, I agree, but when it drifts into whether an artist is a tracer or not, I think it might be going off the rails a bit.

Yeaaah, that is the truth, haha. To be honest I think we're all just holding our breath for Toy Fair. Last year they revealed the most figures there, and I know I'm hoping for a Wonder Man, Captain Britain, Blue Marvel and Spectrum. Anything else is just icing!

Wonder Man would be sweet (roll of the dice as to which costume they'll decide on though), and I'd pick up a Blue Marvel for my shelf to punch my Sentry figure into space. =)

I am definitely just waiting for Toy Fair. we had SO much come at us during the summer, these next couple of waves were not THAT exciting to me (a few figures here or there and that's it). The combined anticipation and dread of the announcement of the X-wave line up....I mean I know normally SDCC is the big one for me, but since that wave is going to be revealed at TF i'm more looking forward to that. Good thing too since last year's SDCC was mostly a letdown.

I hope we get a Shang Chi figure reveal. As well as Blue Marvel...Spectrum, all the rest you mentioned Van. I don't know how any of those would fit into the rumored wave reveals, maybe we will have a generic Avengers wave after all? Gah, only about a month to go.

Did someone say, Blue Marvel? ;)

I don't even ask for my namesake much because I stand firm in the belief that he's not far off...

Blue Marvel can be included as a "Dudes who owned the Sentry" swap variant of an Avengers wave. =)

"Dudes who owned the Sentry, Ares, Wonder Man, Iron Man, and Ms Marvel" ...just a few tweaks for posterity, of course! ;)

I forgot they even brought out that Sentry figure! Mine has the gummiest knee joints, so he's resting in a box.

Yes, Shang Chi! I can't believe he still hasn't had the Marvel Legends treatment yet. Even though The Avengers have been the focus of most MLs this past year, they still have quite a number to cover. Another Tigra, perhaps? Jocasta? All-New Black Knight?

I also wouldn't say no to some Avengers Academy figures..

Haha I wouldn't know I got out collecting the 6 inch figures, only come here to see the images of you guys posting them :P
Probably why the 3.75 hasn't been getting much love lately :P The releases for them are a lot slower, not complaining though it's great on the wallet :P

Shang chi, Blue Marvel, Wonder Man, Spectrum, Nighthawk, Hellstorm & Gargoyle would be a dream wave for me! Well excluding a classic X-men wave with FA Storm, Sunfire, Thunderbird, Polaris and a Sauron BAF!

Hellstrom as in, Daimon? If so, that would a fantastic wave. Wouldn't sell for stones, but still.

Sauron BAF.... Don't give us false hope!

At least you lot are getting Jane Foster Thor and FalCap! I'm so surprised they haven't announced ML versions of those yet to capitalise on the popularity. Ms. Marvel, too.

I'm pretty sure Blue Marvel also beat Hyperion at one point. King Hyperion no less, though he was greatly weakened I think.

All this talk of tracing in comics has given me a wicked urge to watch Chasing Amy LOL.

Mine's still sitting unpurchased in a store somewhere :-P

For the longest time after I joined I thought your name was in reference to an amalgamation with Dr Fate (avatar looks like the Fate helmet). Then I stumbled across the Blue Marvel comic in Marvel Unlimited. Great series. I agree, I would very much like a Blue Marvel figure.

I would hope with the new Ultimates series that both Blue Marvel and Spectrum might be on a short list. I would definitely go for both.

Haha good swap title!

I want Nextwave Monica and Elsa Bloodstone. They can also pack a maskless Machine Man head with one.

Not sure if this has been brought up yet or if it has been confirmed, but my friend told me about this yesterday.

Idle Hands: Toy Fair 2016: A Second Chance at The Avengers Action Figures

I'm looking forward to this if it is true, now let us have Scarlet Wtich, Quicksilver, Vision, and Falcon!

Tracing would be putting putting a transparent piece of paper over a image and doing it EXACTLY as the image. he does copy poses from other photos but as i said prior i don't see that being traced...

I'll take Perez, Byrne, Buscema, Adams, Lee & Layton over the vast majority of todays "artists"

A little Toy Biz Marvel Legends love...my latest pick up...(FINALLY!)

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...6_143552-1.jpg

Sorry Hasbro...but I got tired of waiting for another re-issue or a future BAF of this guy. I doubt you could have pulled it off anyways, as this Doc is clearly "superior..." Heh...

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...116_145816.jpg

I was trying to get away from the artist talk, but since I'm sure that someone here will know, but what ever happened to Mark Brooks? I remember his work, mostly from the Marvel Age version of Spider-Man, and I always thought his artwork was fantastic...

Does anyone have the DPCI numbers for the Absorbing man Wave. (For Target for anyone wondering what that means..)

amen!

That actually looks pretty damn awesome. How well is he made?

I have this one, but in a different color scheme (Dark green and silver gloves). Not sure where that's from, but it's pretty much the same mold as this one. It is a great figure without a doubt!

This would be awesome , i did want that 4 pack thor but didn't want to pay really for the over figures like ones which didn't really change i.e hawkeye with a new head , black widow with new paint apps and a new banner if hawkeye was given his costume like in AOU then I'd be happy but nope re-use that mold , so a 4 pack with two new figures didnt seem right

If you're familiar with Toy Biz era Legends figures, it's really not all that different. Since the toy had remained in the package for over ten years, I did give it a nice warm bath in water before I attempted to move any of the joints because of possible paint lock (which there was on the tentacles) but once that was done, I've had no problems with him since. Plastic is nice and solid, paint apps crisp and clean, and those articulated thumbs...goodness was some of the ToyBiz stuff really good when they were on point.

The only issue I've had is that due to his sculpt, he has a sort of wide gait at the hips, and no ankle rocker, but I plan on posing Doc like this or in something similar to it when I get the room, so it's of no bother. Granted, I am cheating a little with this pose, as I have him slightly leaning on the bins behind him, but the fact that I can pose the Doc like this to begin with is awesome.

The price was a little hefty (I paid a little over forty dollars shipped) but considering that I've been waiting for Hasbro to either re-release Doc Ock, or do him possibly as a build a figure, it made the extra cost easier to swallow. Plus, I have a feeling that when we do get him eventually, he won't be as well done overall. Better to drop 40 dollars now, than to buy possibly an entire wave sometime down the line, only to be ultimately disappointed in some fashion.

The silver and green schemed Doc Ock that you mentioned is the re-release version of the figure that I mentioned a couple of times. It was released with Hasbro's Spider-Man Origins line, which debuted shortly after Hasbro acquired the license from Toy Biz. Since the line was fairly new, most of the stuff that was put out for the line were re-releases of older Toy Biz molds, only with paint variations to identify them more easily as a re-release, and to give collectors a chance to either pick up some older releases that had since jumped to crazy prices on the secondary market (remember, this was the early 2000's, where prices on older waves of Marvel Legends would fetch a pretty penny...) or missed out on entirely the first time around.

It came down to both that version and the original Toy Biz versions when I was hunting him down, but the seller liked my offer for the classic version while the other just kinda sat on it, so I snagged him up! Who wants anything other than classic Otto anyways? lol

Man, that series 8 Doc Ock is the best. I remember waiting FOREVER to find one on the secondary at a decent price, and ending up finding him in a convention bin for $5! (well, the silver and green repaint, but whatever... lol). Come to think of it, I never got around to repainting his silver bits orange. Think I'll hit that up tonight. =P