[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

I'd pump the brakes on some of the aforementioned sentiment regarding the Antman/Ultron wave in its entirety.

While I was dismayed to learn that I would have to continue to wait for a proper comic version of Ultron, I did build the movie fig and found its articulation and faithfulness to the character's film design noteworthy. If you want to complain about the plastic used for the fig, or the paint application, then I can appreciate where you are coming from. However, when the hater-ade spills over into the line as a whole, I certainly cannot cosign on that broader condemnation.

Most of that line was wanted by many fans. Tiger Shark, Bulldozer (on the strength of completing the wrecking crew alone), and the Grim Reaper were all considerable wants in my book and looked forward to by loads of collectors when pics were first released. Even the modern Wasp update, replacing the sub-par M.O.D.O.K. series modern Wasp (*talk about under-achieving?* while better than the Spider-Woman on the same buck, the fig was still quite fugly), was greatly needed to create a decent Mighty Avengers line-up.

Everyone's entitled to be enthusiastic (or less than so) about whatever they choose, but I would caution against disparaging an entire wave based on the strength (or lack there of) of a BAF. I'm not a movie fig guy, nor am I that impressed by AoU the flick in general, but I can still see some of the positive things they pulled off with the BAF...enough to merit my keeping it...hey, it was better than that Groot non-sense see how subjective 'kneejerk' commentary works? lol

All that said, I was only into that wave for (in ranking order): 1) Tiger Shark, 2) Bulldozer, 3) Grim Reaper, 4) Wasp....and even the human sized Giant-Man was ok. It was the movie based BAF and the movie based Antman that were 'throw-ins' for me...

Additionally, for those that only want the BAF of a wave and not the other figs, the current crop of legends aren't holding their value as they did in the past (the exception being some exclusive stuff from sdcc and hard to find stuff Storm/Frost etc...), just wait six to ten months and grab it for $20 to $30....delay the gratification and save yourself the aggravation...

While I can appreciate where you stand on that particular wave, I won't apologize nor backtrack on what I said about it. That wave, at least IMO, was not my favorite wave to come out this year, and I thought was one of the weakest waves of Legends released yet. I honestly had no clue who Tiger Shark or Bulldozer were outside of being bosses on Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and I couldn't have told you anything about Grim Reaper other than he is Wonder Man's brother, and was an annoying boss character on the Avenger's arcade game back in the late 80's.

While I'm glad that many others who are avid comic book readers and fans finally got the characters that they wanted, we also must take into account that not everyone is well versed on every character in the Marvel Universe. I like to consider myself as someone who has a slightly better knowledge of characters and goings in the Marvel Universe than the average casual fan out there, but I know that I can't hold a candle to your knowledge Blue Marvel, and some of the characters that I see people better versed than me in comics here suggesting for figures leave even me scratching my head sometimes, because I have no clue who they are. And if I'm struggling with it, I can only imagine what goes through the mind of the average person as they are prowling the Marvel Legends aisle when they see the likes of Tiger Shark (which was actually a figure that surprised me, thanks to the awesome head sculpt) and Grim Reaper. Those figures are clogging shelves like crazy here, with only some of the recent and more obscure characters from the Hulkbuster wave (Blizzard, Thundra, and the oversaturated Iron Man) keeping pace.

That's not to say that I'm against getting obscure characters for a wave of figures. I actually like that. It was one of the things that I most appreciated about the DCU line when that was up and running strong, and the last thing that I want is yet another Wolverine or Iron Man. However, I also cannot deny the fact that the Ant Man wave was one of the only BAF waves that I resorted to actually buying loose parts off of Ebay to complete the figure as opposed to buying each individual character.