[ScottyHawkeye]

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

How is this even a question? Hasbro by a mile.

Now, I did get annoyed at times when Toy Biz had done a character and people were saying it had never been done before, like it didn't exist. In cases like those, yes, they stand out badly from the Hasbro figures, but to just act as if they didn't exist at all was a bit irksome.

I think part of this is that Toybiz was owned by Avi Arad and Chairman at Marvel Entertainment and the eventual CEO of Marvel Studios before his departure in 2021. So given that, Arad probably wanted figures of some of the most obscure characters Marvel had to offer in order to sell the Marvel brand and promote lesser-known Marvel characters. That's also why their name was changed to Marvel Toys shortly before going out of business.

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

There are a few figures that TB has done that are real quality, like the BAF Sentinel and BAF Apocalypse, and Toy Biz got the Abomination down perfectly in one go while Hasbro still has fallen short every time they'd done him. A few figures are pretty much on par with Hasbro. But over all the quality was bad, we just didn't know better because there was nothing to compare it to, and even with that there were a handful we knew were crap but it was either that or not have the character at all (TB Lady Deathstrike I'm looking squarely at you on this one)

Yeah, some Toybiz figures were alright. The Punisher figure with the run-down alleyway stand and came with the first issue of the Punisher War Zone comic was good. Some of their Iron Man figures are good. Like this one. Even then paired with a Hasbro figure, the Toybiz one looks lesser.



I will say this is amusing.





Yeah, even the early Hasbro Legends Iron Man looks better by comparison. Maybe, Iron Man is flipping Avi Arad and Marvel Toys/Toybiz off for giving him a lesser figure than Hasbro in the last picture.