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After reading the "Universal Appeal" in Toy Fare 138 I kind of feel a little let down by the designs and the character selection. I understand they are stepping into new uncharted waters with a 3 3/4 line but it looks like there is going to me a massive learning curve.

There are figures that I think look perfect like "The Thing" and others, both versions of "The Punisher" that hurt my eyes when I look at them.

This is just my break-down of this new information.

Union Jack - Nothing against the character but the Images shown in Toy Fair are awful. They could have used the FireFly 25th mold, kept almost all of the web gear and weapons and did the same paint job and it would have looked 100x better. No new tool cost and much better on the eyes. I hope this body mold goes into retirement real fast. It was already played out in Wave 1.

Nick Fury FTW! This may over take Silver Surfer as my favorite figure from the line. Web gear and Weapons look on-point.

Moon Knight - Uses the X-Force Wolverine Mold with a new head that looks great. But then they went ahead and used a molded cape! The first thing that came to mind is the cape they used for the Storm Shadow Comic 2-PK that is 100% identical and is made of cloth that will not hamper the articulation of the figure. Fans of 3 3/4 are going to want way better construction then what the 6 inch stuff got. Molded capes are lame in 3 3/4 scale.

The Thing - Pretty much nailed it and a good example of just how detailed this scale can be. Also a fan favorite figure.

Bolted Facemask Iron Man - From what I could see it looks on-point. I'm a fan of Iron-Man so I can handle as many as they throw at us. Lets hope they do an interchangeable armor series.

Both Punishers - Epic Fail. Same weapons that don't fit the scale and he has clown hands. One of them looks like it belongs to an alien toy (Over Sized Long Fingers). Both head sculpts are ulgy, I guess he looked this way in the comics at one point but I have no connection to these at all.

Hand Ninja - Don't even know what the hell a Hand Ninja is but from the small pic they showed he looks ok. Again no connection to this character at all.

Ms. Marvel - The figure looks nice from what you can see in the pics....However I have never read anything with Ms. Marvel in it that I can remember. Don't care about this character and have no connection with it. We also get 2 of these, with that said I will buy both of them for 1 reason, I want more female characters in this line and if they sit on the pegs we won't get them. There are 30-40 other female characters that should have been done first. Why Ms. Marvel?

I will update my fanboy rant as i go..................