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Originally Posted by 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)



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.

That first tiger stripe wolverine broke for me too at the elbow.

Those first couple of waves were single elbows. It wasn't until later they started doing the triple elbows that are standard today. So a lot of people had their early figures break whether they were hard on them or not. They just weren't durable at all or quality at all. (The very first wave that wasn't TAS connected was durable, the TAS line wasn't at all until a much later wave, about the second or third year).

Heck, that first Iceman's "Freeze" color change caused the glue that held the figure together to breakdown. Early toybiz was a ton of trial and error, mostly error. Gotta give them props though, Mattel's secret wars had no knees or elbows, and everyone came with the same shield and gun just about.

Their Marvel Universe line at the time was fun if albeit hit or miss at times. Some figures rocked, others were weird. Loved the ironman figure though that had removable armor to reveal tony stark underneath. Just wish it had more paint on the armor. And they really did manage to get a lot of figures out that were neat, including US Agent, Safety Armor Daredevil, and many others. The spraying venom was a badass toy for that day and age too.