It's definitely sad, especially since MU always seemed to be treated like the red-headed step-child of Hasbro's action figure properties (though that dubious honour now seems to have fallen upon the venerable progenitor of all action figures, G.I. Joe himself).

The paintjobs were bad, headsculpts always seemed to fall just inside the wrong end of the uncanny valley, and there were constantly-changing problems with the proportions and articulation of the base bodies (the comic-style figures accompanying the movies were much more stylistically harmonious, but always fewer and farther between). I do take some consolation, though, from the meteoric rise of 1/18th-scale Kickstarters, like Marauder Task Force, Vitruvian H.A.C.K.S., Eagle Force, Captain Action, Hell Screamerz and the like, most of which far surpass Hasbro's recent attempts in the scale. I'm particularly looking forward to the new Sectaurs and Power Lords.

That X-23 body and head. ugh. Deathlok looks badass, though.

I miss the smaller figures, sure. But when they started going up in price, losing accessories and stands, combined with the fact that I could never find them in stores, well that put the nail in the coffin for me. Only 3.75" I'd consider now are GI Joes.

Yeah, I want to see Dwight do one of those dios with 6" figures and prove it cost less to do in time, materials and figures for a dio with the same number of figures in it. Better, lets see him make a 6" scale Helicarrier comparable to the Flagg and sell it for LESS than the original Flagg sold for. I bet everything I own he cannot do it and still make a profit.


CCC.

Man you just told Hasbro how they could be printing money :D

1. Hasbro does do big 6" dios at SDCC (they put this year's one up Saturday).

2. They can't make a 6" scale Helicarrier for many reasons, some of them being ones that would keep them from even doing another 3.75" Flagg again.

I do like a sure thing.


CCC.

That's not relevant to the argument.

The point stands:

http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/x...Falcon_Box.jpg

LOL :D

I too am going to stay with and enjoy 3.75 inch scale. I am sorry, I just do not feel it for 6 inch figures. Also I like my 3.75 collection.

IMHO 3.75 line is the only one where you can create the feeling of heroes facing really large opponents (ie. FFF, Sentinels, various giants), feeling of large battles with all those buildings, vehicles etc. That will be never be possible in 6in scale.

It is, because the initial argument implied that there weren't 6" dios at all:

If LordMudd's point was that, yes, they do do 6" dios, but he'd like to see Dwight prove it cost less etc. etc., he shouldn't have worded it like they don't do 6" dios at all. That was my point from the start: correcting what seemed to be a false notion.

That is a significantly smaller vehicle than the Flagg. So was the 6" Black Series FO Special Forces TIE Fighter. I don't think they're likely to do vehicles much bigger than maybe 3' in any direction anytime soon.

That is admittedly one of the strengths of the 3.75" scale; please, don't mistake me for one of the jerks saying this scale is "objectively inferior" to 6" or anything like that, I never made that argument. I don't think it's at all impossible to do the things you mentioned in 6" scale rather than 3.75", just more expensive/less practical.

While I don't mind the angry masked head, they've released enough figures with alternate portraits at this point that I'm kinda assuming/hoping they'll give her an additional mask-less head. It would make sense as she did have her own comic series, in which she wore her X-force duds sans mask. Regarding the body, it's kinda there only option at keeping scale continuity after putting Jubilee and Magik on the same teen body.

I wish they would reissue that Falcon...

Have you checked out the Zombie Lab 1:18 Kickstarter that's currently up? It's already funded and unlocking stretch goals. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...re/description

Only thing that looks interesting to me is that deathlok...would've liked to see him on a vintage toy biz card instead of Black Widow.

He didn't "word it like they don't do 6" dios at all." That's a very laboured, circumlocutious interpretation of his comment.

Irrelevant. The point is that they'd never be able to make and market something like that in 1/12th scale.

Again, I refer you back to the above-mentioned BMF.

Been waiting on this. That one chick in the red skirt looks a lot like Jenny Agutter's congresswoman from Civil War.


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Those are going to be some amazing stand-ins for Resident Evil characters. I can't wait!

My point is that that point is irrelevant because they wouldn't be able to do something like that (specifically, the Flagg that was mentioned) in 3.75" scale these days either. It doesn't matter that they can't do it in 6" specifically if they can't do it in 3.75" either.

I mean, if they were to do a 6" scale Millennium Falcon that was the same amount smaller than it should be in scale as the BMF was compared to the actual dimensions (aka only 40% the length it should be if it were truly in scale), it would only be 3.75 feet long. Which is big, but not entirely undoable.

Yeah, it just looks really disproportionate, imo. Huge head and small body. And I'm sure I've seen that head and body on another figure and it made that one look awful too, imo.

i agree, JOE drew the short straw this year in terms of foreseeable future though consolation in Renegades Roadblock. The same parallels can be drawn with MU's Skurge finally too.

i was thinking the same thing.

Mos-def!

^ yeah the X-23 head kinda looks like a bobble head or something, they may have to shrink the head a lil bit.

Also VERY dissapointed in the 3.75" showings (or lack thereof) this year. Hopefully it's better next year.

Who is this character?

http://news.toyark.com/wp-content/up...Update-034.jpg

Songbird (Thunderbolts) started out as Screaming Mimi.


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Thanks for the information. Is she going to be in some sort of exclusive pack, or single pack in a wave?

She's gonna be in the Avengers wave.