[BarbaraGordon]

This is an upcoming animated series on Amazon Prime (starts tomorrow, January 28, 2022).

Vex'ahlia: https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Vexa...dp/B09F85C7QH/







Percy: https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Camp...dp/B09F8PD6H2/

[Cyclopswc]

So I've accepted that the side looking eye thing is permanent now for all of Todd's toys. Okay, in THIS case, it actually could have worked because Vex'ahlia is an archer, and it would have been cool for her to be able to aim her bow to the left and looking left, EXCEPT, her bow holding hand is on her right hand, and the arrow holding hand is on her left hand. So no matter how you pose her, she'll always be looking at where she's not aiming. Funny thing is, according to the cartoon trailer, Vex'ahlia holds her bow on her LEFT hand. Had he only given her bow gripping hand to her LEFT hand, it would have been perfect.

Todd, oh Todd. So close...yet so far.

[BarbaraGordon]

I've seen promo art with her being left or right handed. Not sure what's supposed to be accurate at this point, lol. It's nice to have a female figure, but I can't think of a female archer in the DC universe who resembles her.

[Cyclopswc]

Even if the character's ambidextrous, the toy's bow gripping hand is still on the right and her eyes are still looking left.

Had her eyes look right, it could have worked.

Had her bow gripping hand's on the left hand, it would have worked.

[BarbaraGordon]

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Even if the character's ambidextrous, the toy's bow gripping hand is still on the right and her eyes are still looking left.

Had her eyes look right, it could have worked.

Had her bow gripping hand's on the left hand, it would have worked.

Oh, agreed.

[ghostbogey]

Vex'ahlia is so cool....

Wish they would do a 1/6 ;^)

[RodimusZX]

Watching this show now, never heard of it, but it's not bad. I'm just very impressed with this figure as a heroic female toy, so I'll be buying it lol

I wish f***ing Hasbro could learn from McFarlane about how to make a natural looking female toy. If any Marvel Legend looked even half as good as this...

[MeLikeJinx]

^ Not me... I'll take Legends/Black Series/Classified all day before McFarlane sculpts.

[BarbaraGordon]

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^ Not me... I'll take Legends/Black Series/Classified all day before McFarlane sculpts.

So you're here to threadcrap?

[Atomsmasher]

Ah fantasy action figures. I'm interested

[Harbinger]

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So you're here to threadcrap?

As long as he uses tp and flushes.

[RodimusZX]

Sorry, but I’m genuinely curious: what do you possibly like about the Hasbro sculpts?? All their women figures have big head syndrome, large gaps between the thighs and crotch piece because they can’t think outside the box for articulation, and chest parts that are squeezed into what I presume are fixed L/W/H dimensions and as a result also look disproportionate with the rest of the body. Not to mention the arms are also usually too thin, and the elbow joints are often forced into place so it warps the upper and lower arm pieces out to the sides.

I have a feeling that size and parts count alone, Hasbro probably only allocates maybe 2/3 of the budget they give their male figures to their female figures, since they still view action figures as exclusively masculine I guess??…

[MeLikeJinx]

^ For me the most important thing will be variety... since Hasbro reuses parts it allows them to do more lower tier and obscure characters... which allows them to actually complete teams instead of just doing hundred different versions of the same character. Right now completing teams is the most important thing to me. And IMO imperfections in the sculpt tend to fade away once everyone is doing action poses in a nice group display on the shelf.

If I wanted perfect headsculpts or better constructed articulation I would go the higher end route like Mafex, or Figuarts or Figma or Hot Toys or whatever. But at the 20-ish dollar pricepoint... IMO you can't be the variety of characters that Hasbro keeps putting out. Of course you still have to cross the "good-enough" threshold... and IMO Hasbro crossed the "good-enough" threshold somewhere around 2016-ish... before that their 6" figures were not up to par IMO.

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So you're here to threadcrap?

To quote Thanos... I don't even know who you are.

[Cyclopswc]

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Sorry, but I’m genuinely curious: what do you possibly like about the Hasbro sculpts?? …

When you say “Hasbro”, are you saying Marvel, Star Wars, GIJoe, Disney Princess or My Little Pony? Or all of the above? I will say that Mcfarlane do some great female figures, that’s always been their specialities. Compare to Hasbro Marvel comic figures, the females have always had more of a comic proportions, and that’s intentional because they’re making figures according to the Marvel comics. MCU females have nice real people body proportions. GIJOE and Star Wars, females in those lines also have screen appropriate proportions. Disney Princess and My Little Pony wise, I can’t say because I don’t collect those lines.

[RodimusZX]

^conscious of going too far off topic here, and yeah, I know Hasbro has some difference in their lines... I would say that their GI Joe and Star Wars lines do the best job of capturing realistic human proportions. Their MARVEL Legends have just gotten really sloppy these days. The MCU stuff is pretty good--probably because Marvel won't let them take shortcuts, like Captain Carter and Nebula from What If..? were pretty great, almost spot-on to the show. Tigra too was an OK recent release. But that new Invisible Woman is one of the worst figures I've ever seen. And the Meggan and Shadowcat from the Excalibur pack were also pretty lame IMO--both were just paint over some of their older body sculpts, with just heads really to give an indication of what they're supposed to be.

I get the idea of wanting teams completed and quantity over quality, but I would rather get sculpts like what Todd's doing with folds in clothes and whatnot, and wait a little longer to complete the teams.

[MeLikeJinx]

^ Yah some Legends headsculpts are indeed bad... like the 3 pack X-Force Domino head is bad... but then you look at Legends What if Captain Carter... such a gorgeous headsculpt IMO. Very hit or miss... but more hits than misses IMO... that will always be the case though when you put out so many different figures and are doing so on a budget.

And don't get me wrong... those Vox Machina figs look awesome... I would have loved for McFarlane to have made Netflix's Arcane figures instead of whomever is making the League of Legends stuff right now... if he did I would bought them all.

[RodimusZX]

I tell you what though, something about Vex's face and the proportions/long drape in front... makes me wish Todd would make a Batman Beyond female Inque... after 20-something years, we finally get Shriek, need Inque to really make the set feel "whole".

[jscott991]

I wonder if that bizarre tuft of fur on Vex's shoulder can be removed somehow. It just throws the whole figure off.

If she didn't have it, I might see how she looked next to Mythic Legions figures.

[BarbaraGordon]

She's besties with Endless Winter Wonder Woman.

[jscott991]

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She's besties with Endless Winter Wonder Woman.

Ha.

In that photo, at least on Wonder Woman, it looks like you might be able to apply heat to that fur and peel it off. But it's hard to know unless you have the figure in hand.

Vex's fur looks more closely attached -- there might not be anything under there.

[T0ySick]

I love the show..I'll be picking all of these up.

[webz]

The show is great, these toys look ok.will be interesting to see accessories for Scanlan. Lol

Plus side to McFarlane doing these figures is if any enemy creatures or dragons get made, mcfarlane is the king of grotesque toys. The cartoon’s shadow wraiths would be impressive toys.

[BarbaraGordon]

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I love the show..I'll be picking all of these up.

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The show is great, these toys look ok.will be interesting to see accessories for Scanlan. Lol

Plus side to McFarlane doing these figures is if any enemy creatures or dragons get made, mcfarlane is the king of grotesque toys. The cartoon’s shadow wraiths would be impressive toys.

You guys are awfully enthusiastic about a line of ... two figures.

[RedisPower]

More side-eyed figures, Todd? Knock that shyt off already.

[BarbaraGordon]

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More side-eyed figures, Todd? Knock that shyt off already.

He's already addressed this.