[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by usernamedustin

There was the original Guardsman that turned on Stark and was accidentally killed. Stark also fought the original set of Guardsmen to take back the armor, but later built new Guardsmen armor for the Vault.

The ML team is definitely the best on camera and seem to know a LOT more about their line then the rest of the Hasbro teams. It's strange when they can't remember what they've put out. I'm not dedicated to Marvel and it certainly isn't my full-time job, but I do know pretty much every figure put out in the ML line. It just looks awkward on camera when they stumble over what they've done in the last few years.

I only collect Marvel Legends and have no ability to compare and contrast their performance with other marketing teams, nor do I really care to having little interest in SW/TF and zero interest in PR/Fortnite. In fact, normally I don't even bother with pressers like this, but figured I'd watch given the constant Pulse invites and...lol...ironically, your complaints about Taboo's participation from a day earlier. Apparently I missed the best shit!

While you might be right that they know more about the Marvel license than other marketing teams know about their respective lines, I still find their familiarity with Marvel to be slightly superficial and a bit of a put on/affectation (IMHO).

Kevin O'Brien, the Guardsman from the 70's, did turn evil before pivoting back, then dying. However, these figs are obviously not designed to be the original Guardsman and billed specifically as the 'Vault Guardsman' (or "Volt Guard" on Dorkside LULZ!) who were not villains as The Big Three (also something new to me, not knowing their names) indicated. While the Guardsman of the Vault were swept up in the Armor Wars story line, Stark says himself that they are not evil and he was simply concerned that the tech might fall into the wrong hands - hence sending in Rhodey in disguise and making moves against them.

Look, if you are going pander to me as a Marvel Comic fan, at least do the homework. That's just marketing 101. And when you inaccurately call the Guardsm(e)n villains and give them guns they don't need (do they even know they can fly and have super-strength?) it makes me wonder if you think the fanbase is stupid - which we likely are in all honesty if we look at that sort of flub in targeted sales-tactics and resoundingly give it a thumbs up. All this without also splitting hairs about inserting members of the Soviet Super Soldiers into an Iron Man wave when the assembled team in question appeared first as foils for the Hulk and an equal measure of the core line-up (Ursa Major and Gremlin) were also birthed in Hulk books - but, again, whutevs...I'm happier for them than more X-Stuff, which is undoubtedly coming and I'll be happy for that too, just not as much as many others.

I know these guys are just doing their jobs and they seem like pretty good dudes. I just have an intense aversion to being "sold to", especially when head scratching things are said, you put on a full-court press to get me to watch and then come off seeming a bit like a smarmy shill. But, yeah, capitalism....I get it.