[Crazy Jetty]

Never saw this thread until now. Was not impressed with the first offerings Toybiz had, but by the second wave of X-Men, they really started to pick up. And I think they were in their golden age around when they started the Marvel Legends. My favorite lines come at the tail end before they switched over. Sculpting was fantastic, and the only drawback were when they tried to go McFarlane and prepose them (Robot Fighters had some of the best sculpting, but practically ruined with preposes)

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Originally Posted by Nexodusrex

heres what I remember from the toybiz marvel figures
I remember being a kid, getting Tiger Striped Wolverine. This was wave 2 of the x-men line. Super rare figure at the time because he was wolverine.
I was so happy cause ever since my dad and cousin introduced me to x-men, I wanted this figure
I get it, I open it up, I play with it for a day, and he breaks. His arm tore off at the elbow joint.
I was heartbroken, and it was then that I learned that Toybiz toys were pieces of crap. same thing happened later when I collected Marvel Legends and nearly every ML I opened had atleast 1 glued joint which easily broke 1 out of 5 times.

Toybiz was not the makers of fine quality products

sounds like either you were *really* hard on your toys, or just had absolutely rotten luck. aside from ML Mystique, I've never had a single toybiz figure break on me.
I started collecting them around the same time as you, as that wolverine was one of my first figures, too.

I have the same kinda luck when it comes to new electronics. My first DVD didn't work properly (Fortunately it was the dvd and not the player). My first CD player didn't work properly. My first gamecube didn't work properly. My first DS didn't work properly (dead pixels). My first 3DS didn't work properly (dead pixels). There have been a few others that I can't recall ATM.