[Panther]

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Originally Posted by Nimrod

Totally concur. In other words, he's not a kiss ass. If a figure sucks, he'll say so. Just like him, I don't collect 6' figures of cosplaying Hollywood actors, just comic based ones. Where you see Thor, I see Chris Hemsworth in a movie Thor costume. I see Scarlet in a tight Leather outfit, not BW.

I would like to refer back to his DC Multiverse Justice League reviews from 2017. Watch his reviews for those figures, which by his own admission was sent to him directly from Mattel, and tell me he’s not a “kiss ass”. The way he reviewed those figures was completely inconsistent with how he reviewed other multiverse figures, with the same issues. All his reviews are not negative, and I’ll never claim them to be, but I’ve seen enough of his reviews to understand where others are coming from.

As far as the “cosplaying Hollywood actors”, that’s played out. These characters have been around for decades, drawn by hundreds of different artist, hundreds of different ways, and are now represented on the silver screen. Not millions, but billions of people see the characters on screen as their definitive version of these characters (hence why Marvel Studios is the biggest film franchise of all time, grossing over $23 billion). Thor is not real, Black Widow is not real. They are a different medium of fictional characters created decades ago. Aliens aren’t coming down from the sky anytime soon, and if they did there wouldn’t be a demigod, super soldier, “wakandan” king, “enhanced “witch”, radioactive spider bitten teenager, “sorcerer”, or a talking tree and raccoon as our first line of defense. The “Hollywood actors” who play these fictional characters are on the same level as the different men and women who created or told stories about them over the years. There shouldn’t be any passive aggressiveness against collectors who’ve decided to collect them. If that’s the case, let’s do the same energy for Star Wars, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Power Rangers, Aliens, Predator, Ninja Turtles, and countless other toys I see when I’m walking in stores. All have “Hollywood actors” running around in fake costumes. If we’re being consistent.