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Benn Roe · 07-18-2020, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Nimrod

Nope, he was still around 5'10ish in the 80s. This is from Avengers annual #10 which came out in the early 80s. Blob is no towering 8ft giant here. His mutation had nothing to do with him all of a sudden having a growth spurt after 30yrs of being 5'10. Some artist took artistic license & drew him as a giant & that's what Hasbro went with. Same as for the Hulk/Juggernaut,Kingpin & Thanos. For decades their respective hgts were 7' 6'10 & 6'8, then they all "mutated" to the magical 8-9 ft status? None of em is a mutant, only got "mutated" by the artists that decided to gigantisize them for whatever BS reason or another.

Hasbro should do Blob at the scale depicted in these pics, not 8' scale. Blob is not an acrobat so the POA on the arms/legs can be single jointed, give him mid torso articulation instead of waist swivel. Alternate heads grasping hands & fists hands. On a figure of his stature, double jointed arms/legs would make him look gangly.

I'm not debating the reason he got bigger. Yeah, it was artistic license, and the fact that he's a mutant gave them a convenient (dare I say, lazy) way of explaining it, but it was nevertheless explained, and he is officially 8' tall. As for the pictures you posted, where Blob is towering over the Vision (whose height I don't know, but you mentioned it in your previous post, and it was well over 6'), and standing a head or more taller than the 6'2" Avalanche and 5'10" Pyro, no, he doesn't appear to be 5'10". Is he 8' in those pictures? Probably not, but he's easily 7', which--if anything--supports the idea that he has continued to grow taller as a side effect of his mutation.

07-18-2020, 04:03 PM	#63775
Benn Roe X-Man Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 371	Quote: Originally Posted by Nimrod Nope, he was still around 5'10ish in the 80s. This is from Avengers annual #10 which came out in the early 80s. Blob is no towering 8ft giant here. His mutation had nothing to do with him all of a sudden having a growth spurt after 30yrs of being 5'10. Some artist took artistic license & drew him as a giant & that's what Hasbro went with. Same as for the Hulk/Juggernaut,Kingpin & Thanos. For decades their respective hgts were 7' 6'10 & 6'8, then they all "mutated" to the magical 8-9 ft status? None of em is a mutant, only got "mutated" by the artists that decided to gigantisize them for whatever BS reason or another. Hasbro should do Blob at the scale depicted in these pics, not 8' scale. Blob is not an acrobat so the POA on the arms/legs can be single jointed, give him mid torso articulation instead of waist swivel. Alternate heads grasping hands & fists hands. On a figure of his stature, double jointed arms/legs would make him look gangly. I'm not debating the reason he got bigger. Yeah, it was artistic license, and the fact that he's a mutant gave them a convenient (dare I say, lazy) way of explaining it, but it was nevertheless explained, and he is officially 8' tall. As for the pictures you posted, where Blob is towering over the Vision (whose height I don't know, but you mentioned it in your previous post, and it was well over 6'), and standing a head or more taller than the 6'2" Avalanche and 5'10" Pyro, no, he doesn't appear to be 5'10". Is he 8' in those pictures? Probably not, but he's easily 7', which--if anything--supports the idea that he has continued to grow taller as a side effect of his mutation. __________________ My Tradelist \| My Shop (now shipping Marvel Legends and Black Series)