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Originally Posted by jwyss234

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.


No matter how you slice it, it's still not gonna work for a Sasquatch figure as he isn't 7ft tall. I guess you'll be happy with a Sasquatch figure that is smaller than the Hulk. The Juggernaut fig is 9 inches tall, at the very least Hasbro has to make Sasquatch that hgt if not the properly scaled 10' hgt. A BAF 10' Sasquatch would be their best seller BAF ever. If people are buying up an entire wave for man thing, Vulture wings and others for Mantis, regardless if they are selling off some of the figures in those waves, then the Same would happen with Sasquatch. Make it an EE Alpha Flight boxset exclusive ala the comic based GOTG boxset, that includes never before done members of Alpha Flight such as Aurora, Shaman, Northstar & Snowbird, a re-done Vindicator on the newer bucks & re-release the VHTF & expensive Puck figure and that set is selling! There are a ton of AF fans, myself included, that have been waiting 25+ yrs for the entire original AF team to be done in 6' plastic. TB did them in 5' scale back in the 90s and that Sasquatch was a thing of beauty, looked just like a John Byrne drawing come to life! Hasbro has to use that figure as the model to do a 10' version exactly as that figure looked.



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.

"Nothing wrong" you say? Have you read the latest statistics that have been printed on the reading levels of kids in America today? Most teens are reading at a 3rd-4th grade reading level. Kids today prefer to spend their time playing Xbox/PlayStation, texting, hanging out rather than order an online subscription of Marvel comics & spend their valuable time "reading".

If all those options are available and "cheaper" options than traditional comic shops, then how are comic stores still even able to stay in business? Because of people like me that grew up as kids reading Marvel/DC/Image/DH/Indies and still continue to do so as adults because they have the disposable income to splurge on $4-$5 comics that today's teens don't have. I go to my local CBS to check out figures and I watch & observe who is around the comic book racks & guess what? It isn't a ton of teens, it's mostly adult men & a few adult females that are still buying & collecting comics, not teens! So even though those other venues are available to them, that doesn't mean they care to take advantage of that & read actual comic books, they just prefer to go to the movies and see them on the big screen.

Another thing, unless the marvel female character is on the movie screen, these kids ain't buying the female comic based figures either. I just hit TRU/Target & Walmart today & the pegs are saturated with tons of White Tigers, Misty Knights, Hellcats, Angelas & I'm even starting to see a bunch of Phoenix figs on the pegs. Why is that, cuz these kids don't read the comics so have no idea who they are. It also doesn't help that those stores don't put these figures on clearance & still have them up for $14.99-$19.99. Otherwise, maybe customizers would buy em up. That A-force boxset? Had they released that as singles, I'd say that half would be collecting dust on the pegs. She-Hulk, Sif and possibly Photon or whatever she's known as nowadays, would sell. What kid knows who's Elsa Bloodstone? That sparkly female, Singularity? Even I don't know who she is due to the fact that I stopped collecting after WW Hulk. But even if I knew who she was , I still wouldn't buy her due to the fact that how exactly would you display her power as a figure? It's like Photon, she can turn into different spectrums of energy/light, unless Hasbro made some clear "energy" looking variant of her, she is pretty much useless as an "action" figure.

That's why I hate that Cyclops doesn't come with an "optic" blast accessory! That's his sole mutant power, but yet, TB & now Hasbro still can't make that simple but very vital "optic" blast effect for Cyke, But they could make 3 heads for Jean?