[Joelston]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Different reviewers. Destro handles most if not all Hasbro stuff and Joe does all of the NECA stuff. In defense of Destro approaching his reviews from a more minimal writing standard most Legends are just repaints of existing figures with some new pieces and articulation is pretty standard across the board.

Yeah I understand, like I said I wasn't complaining and didn't mean to come across as ungrateful. I know all the guys at Toyark are constantly working hard to provide excellent reviews and news updates around the clock, and we get to consume it all for free on a daily basis. And yeah, I know there are other places and YouTube channels that provide more in-depth looks at Marvel Legends. I guess just being such a big Legends fan, and Toyark always being my first port of call when surfing for current news and recent reviews, I was just taken aback by, like you said, the minimalist nature of the review.

Being built on the "library" approach where most characters are assembled on a base of parts already pre-existing in Hasbros vast Legends library, I know that for the most part, articulation and several other factors are consistent across the board, and have been covered many times before. I didn't mean to be critical of Destro specifically. I know that his Legends coverage is always extensive, and the shots he takes are amongst the best on the web.

I guess as well because it really does seem like we are living in a new golden-age of action-figure production, with unprecedented, never-before-seen levels of choice, range and quality when it comes to specific brands and licenses, that my expectations are set so high now that my craving for detail in reviews has risen to match the levels of detail and quality that I expect from my action figures. A symptom of such high-quality collector output I suppose!