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Originally Posted by Parademon1

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.

The torso of the new Man-Thing figure is covered with a soft plastic shell that has the sculpted vines and moss. There is a hard plastic torso underneath the soft shell, meaning the shell could be swapped for a new sculpt. The whole figure feels softer than normal and I suspect that some of the limbs are made the same way. Also, we had the scale discussion the other week. Hasbro will never get scale right since it usually changes from artist to artist so there isn't much point in try to recreate it when it will probably be different before the figure is released. Being in the "ball park" is what they need to shoot for.

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Originally Posted by Parademon1

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.

There is nothing wrong with kids being introduced to comic characters through media. It might even be the stepping stone for them to start reading comics. That's how it was for me. And kids don't need to have wealthy parents to read comics. Most TPBs come down in price on Amazon if you wait a few months and Comixology runs weekly sales that offer single issues for $1 and TPBs for $4-5. Marvel also has an online subscription service that lets you read as much as you want. There are other, cheaper options to traditional comic shops which are few and far between these days.