Anybody else's gold Iron Man from the Avengers classic pack have a really loose wrist?

The left hand...yeah

This is so awesome. I have to make one!!

Ironman, Spider-man, and Wolverine are mainstays. It's the best way to entice retailers. (Like the comic packs used when the push was on retailers not fans) So Modular/90s TAS Ironman would be perfect.

It'd continue to make retailers happy, and would give fans something they want. That's one of the things hasbro has to balance. Appeasing retailers to keep them stocking the lines, and give fans and customers what they would buy. Modular/TAS ironman fits both.

It's actually a great strategy tbh. The retailers only care about the name spider-man, Ironman, Wolverine, X-Men, etc, but the fans can still get what they love by having hasbro make the different versions that have been popular in media. So the real hypervelocity armor may come eventually, as will other more popular figures. It's just a matter of waiting for the right time.

We can see this with Astonishing Wolverine too. Hasbro saved him until later knowing the fans and customer base would eat him up. First they pushed that costume in the animated line but not MU to sell figures(which worked to an extent since a lot of people did buy that wolverine at least). Then they gave us the right costume but unmasked in XMO:W. Now finally when they hit a wave that needed a wolverine to help bolster and appease retailers they gave us the fan demanded right one to make sure it'd sell.

Avengers is probably doing the same thing but via articulation. This year is all about sculpts and first movie. The next movie will probably have more articulation to help push figures you've already bought once. It's all about marketing, keeping retailers happy, and balancing what can sell now with what you might need to sell later. If customers will eat up a 'lesser' version now, you can save the best version for later to make them rebuy the same character. That works for when it's going to be the same costume at least. If new costumes are available to use, that's another way to do the same thing(Ironman, spider-man, and wolverine in particular have a ton of costumes to draw upon).

Greetings from Malaysia!!! I've been a member for awhile now but normally I just browse through the awesome pictures you guys share in this forum, be it the latest haul or the custom figures you did, it's all very impressive. Here's some customs my friends and I just started, it's not as impressive as what you guys did but it's a start. Nevertheless, I'm showing my appreciate towards you guys for giving us some pointers in customizing figures. Enjoy guys and positive criticisms are welcomed.

Here's Black Panther, I notice his height was shorter than Storm, so I used the Green Guardsman and just painted it black. Head and cape are from the 2 pack.


Next is Symbiote Spider-man, again I wanted to have an accurate scale as the normal Spider-man MU did, so I took another exact same spider-man and painted it black, my friend helped me with the symbiote.


Hope you guys liked it and I do apologize for the crappy pic.
Cheers guys and take care.

Welcome Seth!!! Nice work on the customs!!

greetings SethReborn in Malaysia!!

the Marvel Universe is vast. welcome.

crappy pics have more soul. dont apologise. thx for sharing!

thanks for the warm welcome.
as for the MUs here, they have the latest wave(Psylocke & Adam Warlock/Thanos pack) here already. what they don't have here is the Gigantic Battles and 3 pack, they just don't have those here.
I wish i could get the X-Force, Fantastic4 and GOTG pack here.

im sure someone here will gladly trade you their gotg ff xf sets in exchange for the new comic packs.

So do we think we'll see anything new at Wondercon next month?

No, Veronica, I dont. There's already a crazy ton of Marvel product to full toy shelves till Christmas- our only hope for more comic packs and Gigantic Battles is hat the Avengers movie is such a hit that kids go nuts and buy everything already out there....


Exactly- they made something and called it the Hypervelocity armor.
We still never got an accurate Stelth armor- they always cheap out and just repaint the red and gold version- there's a lot of difference, damnit!

thanks so much for the list! currently on the hunt for 'em :D

i also think a few Marvel Figure factory bases would work..like Nightcrawler's :D

my Marvel 3.75" collection now stands at 115 loose figs - and counting, hand picked for quality.

if that's not appreciation, i dont know what is!

Sleeping with them is pretty damn appreciative. But I am sure you do that already, yes? ;)

not quite, but they are all in a box near my bed in case of an emergency Cali fire, riot, or earthquake.

S-Wave, I am near there! I should take pics of my set up!

Good enough :P.

Put the red blast off stand from comic series Iron Man into the midddle of that bamf effect for a great base for MU Nightcrawler!
Get the Reed from that line for his long stretchy arms and put them on the MU fig at the wrist joint!

cool man. once i get my man cave i'll display my goods in full splendour. for now i just like knowing i have them!

I know I posted this before, but I like my "As classic as I can get" display haha.

http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/...0/P2120396.jpg

what is classic, the display or the 5 disc changer??? ;)

Both, bwahahahaha. Good one man that gave ma a chuckle. It still works too! I think. Is isn't hooked up haha.

Tiberus man,...you gotta lose that awful, scrawny MU Iron man and upgrade to the IM2 comic series version- it's like the difference between the first Daredevil and the comic pack version!

Maybe. I was thinking of putting the Silver Centurion one there. I do like this one though...don't know why haha.

Nice display Tiberius