[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by redfox

Nice, thanks for posting this!

Regarding character selection for most of the recent waves, it kinda seems like Hasbro has been playing the Marvel Edition of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon...

Really looking forward to Typhoid Mary. It'll probably be based off of the more recent design used in the fan-poll, which could be easily re-purposed from the upcoming Punk Storm figure.

Never been a big fan of the symbiotes, but Scream has piqued my interest. Interested to see how Hasbro manages her hair/tendrils. The character is usually depicted with a wild, crazy mane that could really cool in figure form.

I'm still trying to figure out how exactly Typhoid Mary fits into a Venom wave. I honestly can't recall the two of them ever sharing an issue together, outside the "Venomized" cover that they did for Daredevil.

I wonder which version of TM will they give us? Will it be her 80's hair metal look with the huge shoulder pads? Will it be her more contemporary sexed up bondage/fetish punk with her cut out leather bra and half pant/shorts? Will be that awful Mutant X look? Something more in line with the original ToyBiz Vault figure? I'm stoked for it though, that's for sure.

I imagine Scream's hair will probably be a slightly retooled Medusa piece, although, if they just take the one from the original ToyBiz figure and shrink that one down, I would be just fine with that. The wild look on the new Carnage hands though does have me excited though at the possibilities, especially if Hasbro is able to put a little bit of creativity into it.

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Originally Posted by Tomax

yeah i saw that post on facebook around 3pm when i was at the laundromat. spider-ham is part of the spider universe so it goes with venom

I suppose, but it's a weaker connection than the Black Bolt/Iron Man/Sub-Mariner link that everyone was so disappointed in with the BP wave. I imagine Spider-Ham would be a smaller figure, so hopefully they'll include the Venom counterpart (Pork Rind I think?) Otherwise, to eBay with you!

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Originally Posted by Parademon1

So Marvel & DC should just discard the listed hgts/wgts that they gave to each character that they have ever created &...blah blah blah...

Jesus...this came up again?

Fun Fact...Michelangelo was one of the most renown artists that ever lived, and is largely considered a forefather of the Italian Renaissance, yet even he couldn't sculpt or paint things in scale. Ever see the size of the genitalia on David? Just saying.

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Originally Posted by Riddler87

Hi so I've been collecting Transformers for most of my life but I find the Power of the Primes to be very disappointing and I have just reached a natural stopping point with that collection.

I have decided that since I already have a small collection of Marvel Legends that I am going to start focusing more on that and hopefully it can be a line that I can just casually collect.

Before I really jump in though I know that this line has a very long history and I was just wondering what I should know before hand. Like what figures or eras of figures I should pick up and what to avoid and if there are any good web sites out there that are good resources for collecting this line.

I hear you with Transformers. I've slowly cut back since the Generations line, and now I'm at the point that unless it's a really outstanding Seeker (as in Scream/Warp/Cracker or their Rainmaker cousins) I won't bite (although finally getting updated Stunticons did bring me back in during CW for a bit.)

As for resources, there's several. There's the bible known as MarvelLegends.net, which hasn't updated in quite a while, but they're slowly starting to come back. Marvelous News has an EXCELLENT (but somewhat cumbersome to navigate) Database index as well which features both Marvel Legends and Marvel Universe as well as all things Hasbro going back to 2000. Fwoosh is another decent site as well with good reviews and photos, although their forum community is quite toxic in comparison to us ladies & gents here at the Toyark. We are slowly getting to those salt levels, but are still mostly civil. In the end, we can all agree we're passionate about this hobby of ours.

Eras of figures to pick up? That largely depends on you. Like Nitelife said, collect what you like. Do some research. MCU, Comic Style, Hasbro, Toybiz, Universe, Funko Pops...there's a ton out there. Characters? Same thing. Grab what interests you. Focus on a singular character, or go for a theme. Some people like mutants. Others, prefer power cosmic. We used to have a regular here who was gaga over Star-Lord. (I wonder what happened to her?) Me? I'm a Spider-Man fan who favors other street level heroes and villains over their galactic and world spanning counterparts.

Don't take my word (or anyone else's for that matter.) Find your niche, and explore it, and enjoy. And if someone doesn't like it, swallow that salt, roll your eyes, mutter something unkind under your breath and don't take it personal because truthfully, it ain't worth spending hours of your day arguing over (this has been a recurring theme here lately.) Remember it's your money being spent and not theirs. As long as you do you and are happy with the results, that's all that matters.