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Originally Posted by Nitelife

See manthing be reused for a sasquatch baf in an alpha flight wave. Snowbird, vindicator guardian, aurora, north star with baf pieces and shaman with puck and bird form snowbird and maybe some magical dohickey thingamabobbers.

Sasquatch & Man thing look nothing alike at all. One's covered in swamp moss, dead tree limbs, gunk & other swamp shit while the other is covered in fur from head to toe & is at least 2-3 ft bigger & wider than Manthing. No, Sasquatch would require a fully brand new sculpt depicting body hair & be 10 inches tall. Hasbro went and did an entirely new buck for that awesome Deathlok figure so they should have no problem doing the same for Sasquatch. I don't know how big that oversized outta scale Blaastar was in the SDCC wave from a couple of yrs ago, but maybe the buck would work for Champion if it's in the 9 inch range. The upper torso & upper arms look feasible with just the lower body/lower arms & head needing a new sculpt and of course paint job. Come to think of it, had they made Champion the big fig in that wave I woulda got it in a heartbeat! As it is, I just got Gladiator a couple of yrs ago & then like an idiot sold it off last yr cuz $$ was tight & now it goes for like $75+ on ebay which I refuse to fork over that much for a single figure. I'm in the middle of working on my own classic Gladiator & will post it when done.

As for the Star Wars /Marvel comp, no go. Star Wars started as a movie series so it makes complete sense that the figures represent the actors. Not so with Marvel where from 1963 till Ironman premiered in 2008 , no 6' scale figures were made in actors images but in their comic's image. And for whomever is assuming I hate the MCU, you couldn't be more wrong, I have every MCU movie done and can't wait to add GOTG vol 2 later this month! I love em. I just don't care for figures of actors, hence I call em cosplayers. I hear people saying " I can't wait for that Cris Evans Cap figure". I'm like wow, it's because it's "Chris Evans" , not that it's just "Captain America". But what can you expect in a time where hardly any kids under 16 read comics anymore or just plain read period! As a kid in the 80s, I read every Stephen King Novel I could get my hands on! They just know of these characters via the movies. I feel sad for the new generation, I really do. They'll never experience the joy of going to a comic shop & buying a stack of Marvel/DC/Image/Dark Horse comics and laying on the bed reading them for hrs.

And don't anyone come on here with some BS that "kids still buy & read comics" Must be a kid with very wealthy parents who gives him a very handsome allowance to spend on $4-$5 comics, cuz that's like the avg cost of comics now. No, kids only know of characters like Cap, BP, and War Machine due to the movies & toons based on the movie characters. I bet if you ask the avg MCU fan under 21, who's Namor? They'll be totally clueless cuz he hasn't made his MCU debut yet. I bet until CW, not many of them had ever heard of the Black Panther. And before Cap 2 "TWS" none of them knew who the hell he was. I know of all of them cuz I actually read about them as a kid. I really feel for kids today. It's no wonder the avg kid today has a low reading level. Many don't have good comprehension skills nor a great grasp on the English language. Too busy making up BS slang terms cuz the real words are just too much for them.

Anyways, I want army builder "classic" 10' Sentinels as the next BAF for the 2018 X-men wave Hasbro! Make it happen!