[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by SymbiSpidey

I was just scrolling through eBay to see if there were any good customs on there....what's with people charging crazy prices for extremely lazy "customs".

We're talking simple head swaps on easy to find figures with maybe an added accessory for $70.....c'mon....

The worst ones are the Deadpool ones. Take any figure body, toss on a Deadpool head...and walla..."X-variant Deadpool."

Speaking of characters currently owned by Fox, don't go expecting the X-Men to show up in the MCU just yet. I'm not sure if anyone has been following the Disney/Fox acquisition lately, but it looks like Comcast is about to start a bidding war for them, and possibly wrestle away the networks and their licenses from Disney (including the possible characters that Marvel was looking to re-acquire.) with a 60 billion dollar deal...all cash (ouch.) That's 8 billion dollars more than what Disney offered, and I'm sure Disney probably was using some plastic there for that intended purchase.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/comc...-approved.html

How much do you think the X-Men, Fantastic Four and others are worth to Disney and Marvel now? It's about to get interesting.

Anyways....back to figures...

For a little while now, I have been trying to find the perfect head for my un-flamed Johnny Storm, when I came across this custom head sculpt for Johnny from Beyond Thunderdome Painted Heads (AKA camarodude1967 on eBay.) Let's just say, being pleased with it is not a strong enough emotion for me to convey about it. I normally don't care much for custom sculpted pieces like this one, but this is what I want in a Johnny headsculpt, as you can just feel the brash and cocky personality oozing from it. I highly recommend!







The Thing simply can't come soon enough!

He was even able to commission me a new Sabine Wren head featuring her white and purple do from season 3...



Pardon the shitty lighting in my pics, but they cannot convey how good these look in hand.

It's been a while since we've had a car dashboard pic...so here's one for you....



My Infinity War Black Widow arrived today, and good God, this figure makes the old MCU Black Widow look like a knockoff starring Jennifer Lawrence. As you can see, the green vest is indeed a separate piece, and lone behold, Hasbro gave us an ENTIRELY new body sculpt for this BW. The articulation is amazing on this one, as she is capable of nearly a full split (like Mockingbird) and has elbows that bend more than 90 degrees, giving her articulation in the arms damn near close to a lot of figures featuring double jointed arms. Her boots feature heels, but Hasbro gave her a wider platform, allowing the figure to actually stand on it's own, and although you can't really tell, she does have trigger fingers on both hands, as well as a pair of swappable fists. Unlike the previous MCU Widows though, she can actually pivot at the wrist this time around.

And then, there's the headsculpt. Mine was nearly perfect, and this head for me has become the standard now for all of Hasbro's digitally printed figures going forward. It bears a VERY strong resemblance to Scar Jo, and honestly, I think it blows a lot of the stuff from Figuarts lately right out of the water. The only gripe about the figure that I can honestly find, is that she has that same nasty seam running down the front of her neck down to her torso that the Rider's Widow had. However, even with that imperfection, I'm so damn impressed with how this came out, I'm completely willing to overlook it.

Just need to get my hands on a second one. I really want to see how the red hairpieces from the previous MCU Widow figures might fit onto this head.