[thechris]

I can see myself passing on this line, at least on the hero figures. I'm just not a huge fan of movie likeness figures. Iron Man being a minor exception being as Robert Downey Jr. actually looks almost exactly like Tony Stark, though I don't have any figures that bare his resemblance, I maaay make an exception on that. Might pick up villains depending on what they have to fill out my Marvel Universe rogues. Hulk, Cap and Thor were disappointments with their movie accurate GI Joe body Emil Blonsky and Hulkbusters team and crappy movie accurate Abomination. Cap only had one rogue I could consider transferable into the MU line being Crossbones, and Thor's line having the Destroyer.

USAgent looks ridiculous next to MU, Red Guardian is somewhat passable. Iron Man 2 definitely gets the win for putting out figures that translate well to MU giving us, off the top of my head, at least FIVE usable comic rogues in Mandarin, Titanium Man, Crimson Dynamo, Whiplash and Iron Monger as well as a huge lot of generic army builders in the form of the Assault Drones and let's not forget the highly underrated Guardsmen. Let's not forget that they also gave us a perfect comic accurate Warmachine. I'd guess that no Marvel movie line was more successful or sold more figures and almost every villain, Warmachine and Comic Ironman figure was cleaned off the shelves.

I think that should tell Hasbro something. That people want more villains and comic accurate hero figures. There's only a small market for people who want Ryan Reynolds and Chris Hemsworth's mugs on their toys. Especially grown men. No offense to those that like this sort of thing but my friends came over and I had these two Green Lantern movie figures with Ryan Reynold's heads kicking around that I got for free with some DCIH lots I bought and that was the first thing and ONLY that they picked out as LAME.

I guess to each his own but there's already enough of a stigma that comes with collecting toys, I can only imagine if I started collecting dolls of teen girl heartthrobs. LOL. And if that isn't enough of a fair point, I rarely like the movie adaption of a character more than their comic book likeness and as such, I prefer comic accurate figures.