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Originally Posted by Lionheart

It's snarky, I grant you. Not really angry though.

I can tell you're a more positive person. But as a 4 inch collector there has been an undoubted drop in quality since Dwight took over, and criticising that isn't really a bad thing. I mean, if you really believe they read these threads and what we say might sway them, then saying 'everything's great' would be a mistake wouldn't it?

It's more than Snarky, it's name calling. And there were worse remarks in there than that too including admittance of wanting to actively harass Hasbro with obscene things.

I haven't been saying everything's great, I've been saying I see that Hasbro is trying new things, and yes, cutting corners to balance budgets for bigger pushes later. Pushes we seem to be seeing now in the planned upcoming releases. What you call 'quality drops' I call expanding on the roster of sculpts and cost balancing. I see none of this "quality drop" though on figures like the Jane Foster Thor. Other than no wrist articulation, she has more articulation than what's normal for figures of women in the line. So it's been a fluctuating thing on trying to figure out which characters need the extra articulation, and which can slide with minimal. Compare modern 3.75'' to the first wave Punisher figure or Black Panther figure, or even Ironman.

Would you call that a decline or would you call that an improvement? I'd say improvement. Sculpting detail has gone up. Variety is better. Durability is top-notch, though QC is still an occasional issue. And they're finding ways to balance the articulation for more dynamic poses.

Compare the first Ms. Marvel figures to the Captain Marvel figure. Outside of wrist articulation, which power effects from that first one will cover up anyway, the new one is better detailed and has a more vibrant pose capability. Granted at least one form of waist articulation would have been nice, though the original figure had too much articulation in the waist. The original's arms couldn't really do much in the way of vibrant poses either with how limited her arms were.

Also have to say, this showing off of Monica Rambeau is a welcome sign if it means they're going to do more Ultimates characters. It could mean America Chavez isn't that far away either.

Heck, even comparing the two vision figures. The newer one seems superior to me.

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Originally Posted by Kamatayan

I totally think Hasbro deserves some love for SDCC this year in terms of what they've done for this line. I'm extremely happy with all of these figures. They've been on fire with choosing all of my favorite characters so far.

I really hope they finally stick with the old bucks. They've already made the perfect one's, so there's no point in making new one's that are mediocre at best. I especially love seeing the Herc buck.

The one buck I hope they never use again is the new Spider-Man buck. It's absolutely terrible.

I agree that Hasbro should get some praise for this year. A lot of welcome surprises that suggest some great figures coming up later.

Tend to agree on that Spider-man buck too, but it's also a figure by figure thing. Some characters need the extra articulation, some don't. Spider-man though is one of those that does. I'm skipping the modern scarlet spider figures for now because of the fact he's not quite at where's needed.

I do like this newer trend though of mixing the standards they've been using for figures. We're getting the detailing of the new molds like Jewel and others, but also still getting the older wider articulation. This cost cutting method seems to be balancing well overall to give us some great full new sculpt figures still too like Hydra Cap and the new Ironman. AOA Magneto looks like a mostly new sculpt entirely too.

Even if All-New Wolverine looks like they used the original X-23 mold, they gave it a new head and new lower legs. It's done so outstandingly well you barely even notice it's 90% the same figure they released before but painted differently.

It looks like whatever the hiccup was that was holding the line back, finally got worked out and they're not petrified of making good figures that will sell.

But I still don't get how hard it is to say:
"Hey hasbro, please bring back wrist articulation, and ab-crunch or waist swivel and thank you for giving more women characters swivel arms finally."

As opposed to saying "Hey hasbro, you're ruining and deliberately killing this line because you hate us! Your employees are smurfs and I'm going to send you obscene and nasty messages until you cave into my demands."

Do you see the difference? Which one will actually get you what you want to buy as a consumer and which one will get you blatantly ignored?

One points out the problems, and helps them along, the other shows you as a spoiled child throwing a tantrum and trying to harass them or rile up harassment by others to throw insults at them too.

What has Hasbro genuinely done to deserve treatment like that except try to give us figures of characters we love in the scale we love? Even Mattel doesn't get this kind of vitriol and the way they did figures was so 90s it hurt. V-Cut female figures for their legs. No elbows at all for Harley Quinn, and worse.