The best thing about that Ghost Rider is that the bike was wall mountable, like most Toy Biz bases, so you could have him riding up the wall. I still have mine.
I think what you’re seeing in the old toy biz sculpting is the fact that it was hand sculpted in wax, most more than toys nowadays are done on computer so there is a new cleaner more precise look to them, there’s merits to both but I do think the new stuff appeals to me more, never thought I’d say that
I remember thinking that Ghost Rider was the coolest action figure ever when I first got it. The jaw articulates and he came with a real chain. I have him hanging on my wall by the chain. Haven't had the heart to put him away.
Appreciate these videos, as I wasn't collecting during the Toybiz/early Hasbro Marvel Legends days. Obviously, improvements have been made, but there's some charm to some of these. Really dig the wash and sculpted detail on some of these.
7:07 I believe that Mac Gargan venom was a new mold in the Hasbro Spider-man classics line. They did reuse one of the older venom molds with the Mac Gargan symbol tho as a seperate figure
I love these, I store my extra figures the same way and sometimes when I dive in looking for an accessory or a figure for figure photography I end up spending more time that I should just looking at stuff and remembering
The great thing about having the toybiz figures is there's still a ton that Hasbro hasn't released that toybiz did. Like the variant versions of the beetle. I would love to add them to my collection. I have my favorite version but I would really dig having all of them.
Aww yeah, perfect time for an upload, Robo! I need something on while building gunpla! Toybiz Ghost Rider might move like he ate too much, but man the texture on him is great! Really works for him. Same with Mac Gargan Venom, we really need a new figure for him. But that Sandman look like he still holds up. Genuinely looks better than the recent ones.
I know exactly what you mean. I still have most of my og toybiz marvel legends from when I was a kid. In a tub lol. The best articulated figures at the time. There is a memory attached to each of those figures. Whether it's when I found it in the wild, or the joy of playing with them. Toybiz marvel legends is to me what he-man or transformers is to kids from the 80s. There's a lot of nostalgia. They weren't perfect, but they were unlike anything at the time. My first marvel legend was the classic iron man from the first wave back in 2002. I remember finding it on the pegs of toysrus, and I was just in awe. I had never seen anything like it before. I didn't have an iron man figure, and had always wanted one. It was the coolest figure my 7yr old eyes had seen. I remember they had the whole first wave with classic cap (which was also very enticing), hulk, and toad. I begged my parents to buy it for me. I still have it, with one arm missing. Still one of my favorite figures out of my now ridiculously massive collection. I will never get rid of it. Anyway, that toybiz sandman figure still holds up. It still stands as the sandman in my spiderman collection. I love that figure. The newer ones are cool, and I have them, but the toybiz one is still my sandman. There's still a few toybiz figures still standing proudly on display in my collection. Some I can immediately recall is the vs 2pk classic hulk, sandman, the sinister six boxset vulture, the vs 2pk kingpin, and the johnny blaze skinny ghost rider from wave 7 I believe. They are still great figures imo.
Growing up I had the Mac Gargon Venom figure and I remember how kick ass it was and one day it just vanished only to be found a couple weeks later snapped in half at the torso by my younger brother 😭😂
Thats what im practicing right now. Detachment to too much material stuff, especially modern toys. Being free and at peace. But i still kept my 80s childhood toys🙏
The Gargan Venom was a reuse of the Brock Venom with the rubber face and the mouth movement action feature that never worked as well as it should have. The tail actually plugs into the hole where the plunger was to move the face.
I also have figures "rotting away" and I will likely get rid of them one day--but I agree the nostalgia that comes from coming across/finding something you had on display or forgot about is very pleasant. Also I remember that Shocker being a display mainstay for the longest time! No mention of the wind up on his back to make him shock/vibrate, though? 😅
The "90s versions of action figures" is the perfect way to put that era of figures, that's how I'm describing it from now on LOL Also I fully understand keeping old action figures, I do the same thing with all types of merch. When I'm ready to let it go, I'll let it go. Another great video!
Robo, you’re so fun. I do still like aspects of the Toy Biz Psylocke figure. Probably one of the best Toy Biz female molds. I also still really appreciate the series IV Punisher. But he does have those hinged hands. Thanks for sharing!
last year i started putting my figures in 4x6 photo cases in cases, that michaels sells for shorter legends/Black series/GIJOE that fit because the tubs dont really hold up physically when stacked.
Mannn that Danny Ketch Toybiz figure… turns out that was actually my very FIRST Marvel Legend and I had no idea. Had it as a kid and remembered it fondly and vividly. Got into the line well after Hasbro had taken it over and it was until just a few years ago that I realized my favorite Ghost Rider figure as a kid was Toybiz all along lol.
I feel I have a very similar perspective on the figures I own. They are toys and I have created many memories with these toys. So I’m not Gung Ho for selling my memories. Granted as I age the memories get more spotty. I also realize when I’m gone the memories also go. I have discussed my wife that when I go, allow my children and grand kids to have the toys they want. Sell whatever you want to sell. Give action figures away to the guests at my funeral. Give the toys to the local children’s homes or centers that help single parents. Pass them on so they create new memories. That Spider-Man classics Sandman is how I judge all subsequent renditions of that character. It is to me as premium as the imports and expensive collectibles. Yes it has flaws. The improvement articulation/sculpt/proportions to fit in a certain aesthetic I can appreciate. Nevertheless I have in that figure sculpt and paint and very good articulation. It is a 3D piece that makes my memories of the 2D character alive. Every time I look at that Black Panther I see $6.47 each and part of the multiple versions I bought to obtain pieces of the six Sentinels I have. I will always remember Toybiz as the company who delivered kick ass affordable Sentinels which are very much the gritty 90s. Those Sentinels are bad machines and would swarm the more stoic looking Hasbro one and just thrash it. Anyway, fun taking the ride with you in these Tales from the Tubs.
I collected and still have all my 5" Toybiz figures. I stopped as soon as I started to see those awful ball joints and super odd proportions. All the new and over done articulation points that warped the figures look even more just made me groan. I was a teen at that time and was like, nope. These look horrid. Also they were getting bigger and didn't go with my 5" figs. I am so happy I got out of collecting back then. Started again about 5 years ago. Now of course all my stuff is 6" and look way better than everything previous. My 5" collection is put away but like you, they give me such good memories. So Happy I skipped on all the mess after until modern Hasbro. Are they perfect? No, but for me they are much better.
For me what toybiz succeeded on was all the sculpted details and paint. Hasbro figures all feel really flat and lifelessly smooth. But the playability i think is higher. Im less concerned with something breaking. Really the happy combination would be Jada or some recent Diamond selects.
Nick Fury, Sandman, Leader. I think those all still hold up, especially with the faces. Honestly I really like the body proportions on Fury. They just look more comicbooky and heroic.
I have the Sentjnel BAF X 3 , Doombots X 4, concept FF movie Doombot Vulture, McFarlane Spidey still on display but the Hilk classics Mecha Hulk is my personal grail I got from KB toys. What’s your Legends Grail Figure?
Hasbro has much better proportions than toybiz for sure but they also lack a lot of soul and style imo. Toybiz went way too over the top but at least they tried to do something interesting with their exaggerated and hyper stylized sculpts. It's supposed to be a comic book toy line after all.
They are pretty rough looking back on some of the ole toy biz figures. I recently just did a legends toy biz galactus wave. That bullseye head sculpt 🙄 lol. The doctor strange still looked pretty good though. I see you’re a fellow Arkansan. I lived there up until 2016
Despite the wonky articulation, i still have that Ghost Rider and Mac Gargan on display. Ghost Rider has the excuse that he's not technically human, and I do remember him being drawn lanky and mis proportioned. Similarly, Mac is an overgrown beats, and that figure captures that. Now, if Hasbro does a Scorpion Venom on the Monster Venom buck, i will replace the old one
I'll say that the combination of all the sculped texture, plus sculpted wrinkles and all the wash Toybiz used on their figures always makes me think those figures are in dire need of a bath and furious scrubbing, as they look super dirty. I see that your stance on action figures, Mr. Robo, is similar to Scrooge McDuck's stance on his money, as written by Carl Barks and Don Rosa. The value of his money doesn't come from the intrinsic value of the coins and bills themselves, but from Scrooge memories of how he made that money.
I've thought about Toybiz being the 90s of action figures for a while. The exaggerated anatomy, the sometimes overly detailed style, the griminess, it screams 90s. The one thing that makes it not the 90s is the way their female characters looked sometimes. There's no era where their Rogue and Emma would be normal!
As a newer/younger collector, Robo talking about how he could drop his kids off at school and then go toy hunting waves just hurts. Nowadays, distribution is so awful that if you don't pre-order, you're probably not going to see figures at retail (at least in my neck of the country).
Yeah, but you have to remember that online wasn't near the thing it is now. Ordering online was fancy and new and unheard of. If we wanted things we HAD to go hunting. And it definitely wasn't shooting fish in a barrel. It was way more miss than hits, many times you walk in through garden center, walk right back out 2 minutes later. But you had to go daily or every other day for fear of missing something and you had no clue when things were going to show up. Plus, as you mention, the whole neck of the woods. You'd see people finding things in their area and never see it in yours. If it didn't hit you were either trading online or going to ebay. Definitely not what you're imagining, haha.
@@RoboDontKnow Yeah. I'm not saying it's not better nowadays with the options, but it's super frustrating how bad distribution is for figures nowadays. Pretty much every location I go to has had nothing new coming in for about a year 😅 Just a part of collecting I've never gotten to experience since nowadays there's never a guarantee anything will ship to your local stores
I say this as a huge fan of silver and early bronze age marvel comics... I kinda dont like washes and texture on my figures. Most costumes werent drawn with lots of texture. I want a detailed head sculpt like were getting these days, but lets keep the costume smooth like in the comics. 😢 Shading will happen naturally due to sculpt and daylight and lighting. I also get grouchy over calf cuts when they dont have boots. We cant move there naturally and it makes figures look...like figures? Breaks the look imo. Same with those waist cuts. I really like the new version of that style BP. The toybiz one was too textured and a pea head 😊
I am different from most collectors. I only have about six thousand figures. Do not a huge collection but good for me. I must display all of my figures. So between my office where 85 % of my figures live and my garage where I have turned all of the studded recessed walls areas into action figures displays all have a plexiglass barrier to keep everything in place. But yes I display all of my figures, old, new to very old. I can not not display them.
Why are the shoulders coming out of the ribcage on modern legends? It's not as bad as it used to be on these guys but it's still really bad. Tiny low shoulders on almost every modern hasbro mold. Always cool to revisit where we came from to recontextualize how good we have it now and to see what still needs to improve
I love being a Toy Biz Hater Hipster, becasue it means I didn't spend my money on most of these - except that Sandman, I want that Sandman - I loathed the look of these figures at the time and was kind angry at them because I'm a big Marvel fan and the people doing the figures were doing such a crap job, the really big ball joints, the terrible proportions, the over-detailing with too much muscle defintion or 100 folds on everything, weird texturing, they look all twisted and wrong, like what i image Todd McFarlane's version of the Creature From the Black Lagoon would look like, only somehow with even worse articulation. Yes. I have just used Robo's video to vent about toys from decades ago - again? I'm sure I've done it before on here. And I don't feel bad. But I do totally get what you're saying Robo, i have older, crappier, figures i've upgraded that I just can't get rid of because they're memories. Luckily most of mine dont look like Toy Biz Black Panthers but some of them are nearly as bad, and the Toy Biz (well Marvel Toys) Savage Dragon is far, far worse.
The best thing about that Ghost Rider is that the bike was wall mountable, like most Toy Biz bases, so you could have him riding up the wall. I still have mine.
To this day i'm upset that I lost mine... That bike was hella cool
@@theonlymatthew.l Yeah, it won't hold up to the new release, but it's still great.
I loved how their bases had wall pegs. I still have that church stain glass window base from Daredevil hanging up!
@@ragingtothemax Me too!
I think what you’re seeing in the old toy biz sculpting is the fact that it was hand sculpted in wax, most more than toys nowadays are done on computer so there is a new cleaner more precise look to them, there’s merits to both but I do think the new stuff appeals to me more, never thought I’d say that
I remember thinking that Ghost Rider was the coolest action figure ever when I first got it. The jaw articulates and he came with a real chain. I have him hanging on my wall by the chain. Haven't had the heart to put him away.
The Walmart exclusive comic book Loki, that was running around in that bin, is still the best Loki that's been made.
That Wolverine still looks good.
Appreciate these videos, as I wasn't collecting during the Toybiz/early Hasbro Marvel Legends days. Obviously, improvements have been made, but there's some charm to some of these. Really dig the wash and sculpted detail on some of these.
7:07 I believe that Mac Gargan venom was a new mold in the Hasbro Spider-man classics line. They did reuse one of the older venom molds with the Mac Gargan symbol tho as a seperate figure
I love these, I store my extra figures the same way and sometimes when I dive in looking for an accessory or a figure for figure photography I end up spending more time that I should just looking at stuff and remembering
Lenny from GIJOE team sculpted the Scorpion Venom
Honestly, I’d love an hour long video of this😂
The great thing about having the toybiz figures is there's still a ton that Hasbro hasn't released that toybiz did. Like the variant versions of the beetle. I would love to add them to my collection. I have my favorite version but I would really dig having all of them.
I literally just bought that Toybiz Ghostrider off of Mercari because I thought Hasbro wouldn’t touch Ghost Rider for a while, boy was I wrong!
Haha, we all have you to thank for the new Ghost Rider!
Aww yeah, perfect time for an upload, Robo! I need something on while building gunpla!
Toybiz Ghost Rider might move like he ate too much, but man the texture on him is great! Really works for him. Same with Mac Gargan Venom, we really need a new figure for him. But that Sandman look like he still holds up. Genuinely looks better than the recent ones.
I know exactly what you mean. I still have most of my og toybiz marvel legends from when I was a kid. In a tub lol. The best articulated figures at the time. There is a memory attached to each of those figures. Whether it's when I found it in the wild, or the joy of playing with them. Toybiz marvel legends is to me what he-man or transformers is to kids from the 80s. There's a lot of nostalgia. They weren't perfect, but they were unlike anything at the time. My first marvel legend was the classic iron man from the first wave back in 2002. I remember finding it on the pegs of toysrus, and I was just in awe. I had never seen anything like it before. I didn't have an iron man figure, and had always wanted one. It was the coolest figure my 7yr old eyes had seen. I remember they had the whole first wave with classic cap (which was also very enticing), hulk, and toad. I begged my parents to buy it for me. I still have it, with one arm missing. Still one of my favorite figures out of my now ridiculously massive collection. I will never get rid of it.
Anyway, that toybiz sandman figure still holds up. It still stands as the sandman in my spiderman collection. I love that figure. The newer ones are cool, and I have them, but the toybiz one is still my sandman. There's still a few toybiz figures still standing proudly on display in my collection. Some I can immediately recall is the vs 2pk classic hulk, sandman, the sinister six boxset vulture, the vs 2pk kingpin, and the johnny blaze skinny ghost rider from wave 7 I believe. They are still great figures imo.
I'm tackling my toy tub today... Thanks for the Robovation!
That Mac Gargan used to be my main venom when I was little. I remember I never put the tail on and I used white out on the red eyes 💀
Growing up I had the Mac Gargon Venom figure and I remember how kick ass it was and one day it just vanished only to be found a couple weeks later snapped in half at the torso by my younger brother 😭😂
Thats what im practicing right now. Detachment to too much material stuff, especially modern toys. Being free and at peace. But i still kept my 80s childhood toys🙏
The conclusion of this video is very wholesome.
That Black Panther was my first Marvel Legends shout out my nana!!! ❤
So happy to see this series back robo. 🎉
These are fun. Not to derail, but that Mafex 4-LOM dropped out of nowhere eh? 😳
They showed a prototype last year but still, crazy choice.
@@RoboDontKnow And shipping in November? Not holding my breath.
Orangutan Ghost Rider, with those long arms. "Oranghost Rider?"
Hasbro made a Orangutan magneto too, the 97 purple cape one 🤦🏼♂️
I have the black panther you showed and I love that figure, yes I have newer panthers but that one has a special place in my heart
Crazy how much and how little has changed in 20 years in terms of engineering
Good to see this series back. Really enjoyed the epilogue at the end, hopefully the new installments have that more freeform moment at the end.
The Gargan Venom was a reuse of the Brock Venom with the rubber face and the mouth movement action feature that never worked as well as it should have. The tail actually plugs into the hole where the plunger was to move the face.
I also have figures "rotting away" and I will likely get rid of them one day--but I agree the nostalgia that comes from coming across/finding something you had on display or forgot about is very pleasant. Also I remember that Shocker being a display mainstay for the longest time! No mention of the wind up on his back to make him shock/vibrate, though? 😅
That sandman is still the best... Headsculpt looks very much like his first appearance... I understand the texture on him...
The "90s versions of action figures" is the perfect way to put that era of figures, that's how I'm describing it from now on LOL
Also I fully understand keeping old action figures, I do the same thing with all types of merch. When I'm ready to let it go, I'll let it go.
Another great video!
You collect like I do. It's great. The memories
4Horseman Toybiz Sculpts ftw
Great video Robo! Also, really like the wall decorations.
Now we're talkin'! Thanks for the quality content, Robo.
ROBO! TIME TO TRIM THE WHISKERS!
Love your vids, Robo! It’s like chatting about our shared geeky interests with an old friend.
I just got that new AoA Sabertooth to pose with Blink, she was my first Marvel Legends when I started collecting in 2019.
Robo, you’re so fun.
I do still like aspects of the Toy Biz Psylocke figure. Probably one of the best Toy Biz female molds.
I also still really appreciate the series IV Punisher. But he does have those hinged hands.
Thanks for sharing!
Yes he finally did it! 😂
I love this series
Man I remember having that Sandman and messing with the spring loaded claw arm outside of a walmart, I didn't even have a spiderman for him to fight!
Tub surfing!!!
Kind words, peppered with inspiration!
one of my fav toy biz figures was omega red. also when robo said "fodder figure" I thought he said "father figure" lol
Toybiz=90’s comics makes total sense.
last year i started putting my figures in 4x6 photo cases in cases, that michaels sells for shorter legends/Black series/GIJOE that fit because the tubs dont really hold up physically when stacked.
Toybiz s jlptdetail and paint was insane. It would be crazy how amazing they would be if they still exist, updated articulation and proportions.
Toybiz just has a charm about it. I don't know what it is.
This is a great series.
Love the Darth Leppard shirt!
feel like i could easily watch these even if they were an hour long👍
My first thought when looking at that Leader was that his head looked like Broccoli... Now I can't unsee Robo's interpretation.
oh, my sweet summer child....he was called that in the comics before Legends even existed....
Mannn that Danny Ketch Toybiz figure… turns out that was actually my very FIRST Marvel Legend and I had no idea. Had it as a kid and remembered it fondly and vividly. Got into the line well after Hasbro had taken it over and it was until just a few years ago that I realized my favorite Ghost Rider figure as a kid was Toybiz all along lol.
I feel I have a very similar perspective on the figures I own. They are toys and I have created many memories with these toys. So I’m not Gung Ho for selling my memories. Granted as I age the memories get more spotty. I also realize when I’m gone the memories also go. I have discussed my wife that when I go, allow my children and grand kids to have the toys they want. Sell whatever you want to sell. Give action figures away to the guests at my funeral. Give the toys to the local children’s homes or centers that help single parents. Pass them on so they create new memories. That Spider-Man classics Sandman is how I judge all subsequent renditions of that character. It is to me as premium as the imports and expensive collectibles. Yes it has flaws. The improvement articulation/sculpt/proportions to fit in a certain aesthetic I can appreciate. Nevertheless I have in that figure sculpt and paint and very good articulation. It is a 3D piece that makes my memories of the 2D character alive. Every time I look at that Black Panther I see $6.47 each and part of the multiple versions I bought to obtain pieces of the six Sentinels I have. I will always remember Toybiz as the company who delivered kick ass affordable Sentinels which are very much the gritty 90s. Those Sentinels are bad machines and would swarm the more stoic looking Hasbro one and just thrash it. Anyway, fun taking the ride with you in these Tales from the Tubs.
I collected and still have all my 5" Toybiz figures. I stopped as soon as I started to see those awful ball joints and super odd proportions. All the new and over done articulation points that warped the figures look even more just made me groan. I was a teen at that time and was like, nope. These look horrid. Also they were getting bigger and didn't go with my 5" figs. I am so happy I got out of collecting back then.
Started again about 5 years ago. Now of course all my stuff is 6" and look way better than everything previous. My 5" collection is put away but like you, they give me such good memories. So Happy I skipped on all the mess after until modern Hasbro. Are they perfect? No, but for me they are much better.
For me what toybiz succeeded on was all the sculpted details and paint. Hasbro figures all feel really flat and lifelessly smooth. But the playability i think is higher. Im less concerned with something breaking. Really the happy combination would be Jada or some recent Diamond selects.
Nick Fury, Sandman, Leader. I think those all still hold up, especially with the faces. Honestly I really like the body proportions on Fury. They just look more comicbooky and heroic.
I didn't know Robo was a Udon Taskmaster fan!
Cool mask!
I have them thrown into boxes too, But some have their colors melted/dyed onto other figures. Living in a humid country doesn't help too.
I have the Sentjnel BAF X 3 , Doombots X 4, concept FF movie Doombot Vulture, McFarlane Spidey still on display but the Hilk classics Mecha Hulk is my personal grail I got from KB toys. What’s your Legends Grail Figure?
Hasbro has much better proportions than toybiz for sure but they also lack a lot of soul and style imo. Toybiz went way too over the top but at least they tried to do something interesting with their exaggerated and hyper stylized sculpts. It's supposed to be a comic book toy line after all.
They are pretty rough looking back on some of the ole toy biz figures. I recently just did a legends toy biz galactus wave. That bullseye head sculpt 🙄 lol. The doctor strange still looked pretty good though.
I see you’re a fellow Arkansan. I lived there up until 2016
Love these videos 😍😍
Love the tales, Robo! Are we going to get a giant Man wasp review?
i gotta sort my tubs..
Hi Robo,
Have any of your tub figures been damaged by storing them without bags?
Thanks
Despite the wonky articulation, i still have that Ghost Rider and Mac Gargan on display. Ghost Rider has the excuse that he's not technically human, and I do remember him being drawn lanky and mis proportioned. Similarly, Mac is an overgrown beats, and that figure captures that. Now, if Hasbro does a Scorpion Venom on the Monster Venom buck, i will replace the old one
I had forgotten avocado leader exists
Awesome! Love this concept for videos. Keep em coming. Lord knows what lurks in my tubs. =-D
Spotted the early hasbro Loki,still one of the best looking Loki’s imo even if the articulation is really bad lol
Adhesive X
i like that new vids are at 12fps
Anytime I sell something, i always regret it later. It's better to hold on to it unless you absolutely have to.
Was that big figure an X men Sentinal?
Yes!!! More tales form the tub, love this series
I was waiting for the "pouches" to describe 90s comics 😅
I'll say that the combination of all the sculped texture, plus sculpted wrinkles and all the wash Toybiz used on their figures always makes me think those figures are in dire need of a bath and furious scrubbing, as they look super dirty.
I see that your stance on action figures, Mr. Robo, is similar to Scrooge McDuck's stance on his money, as written by Carl Barks and Don Rosa. The value of his money doesn't come from the intrinsic value of the coins and bills themselves, but from Scrooge memories of how he made that money.
This my favorite content 🥹
Some of those were perfect custom fodder for the times.
then a new model of stock body would come out and you threw the old ones in the tub/box....
Don't listen to the haters, you do you boo boo
I've thought about Toybiz being the 90s of action figures for a while. The exaggerated anatomy, the sometimes overly detailed style, the griminess, it screams 90s. The one thing that makes it not the 90s is the way their female characters looked sometimes. There's no era where their Rogue and Emma would be normal!
HELL YES LET'S GO!
9:01 Puriffaree
As a newer/younger collector, Robo talking about how he could drop his kids off at school and then go toy hunting waves just hurts. Nowadays, distribution is so awful that if you don't pre-order, you're probably not going to see figures at retail (at least in my neck of the country).
Yeah, but you have to remember that online wasn't near the thing it is now. Ordering online was fancy and new and unheard of. If we wanted things we HAD to go hunting. And it definitely wasn't shooting fish in a barrel. It was way more miss than hits, many times you walk in through garden center, walk right back out 2 minutes later. But you had to go daily or every other day for fear of missing something and you had no clue when things were going to show up. Plus, as you mention, the whole neck of the woods. You'd see people finding things in their area and never see it in yours. If it didn't hit you were either trading online or going to ebay. Definitely not what you're imagining, haha.
@@RoboDontKnow Yeah. I'm not saying it's not better nowadays with the options, but it's super frustrating how bad distribution is for figures nowadays. Pretty much every location I go to has had nothing new coming in for about a year 😅
Just a part of collecting I've never gotten to experience since nowadays there's never a guarantee anything will ship to your local stores
I say this as a huge fan of silver and early bronze age marvel comics... I kinda dont like washes and texture on my figures. Most costumes werent drawn with lots of texture. I want a detailed head sculpt like were getting these days, but lets keep the costume smooth like in the comics. 😢 Shading will happen naturally due to sculpt and daylight and lighting. I also get grouchy over calf cuts when they dont have boots. We cant move there naturally and it makes figures look...like figures? Breaks the look imo. Same with those waist cuts.
I really like the new version of that style BP. The toybiz one was too textured and a pea head 😊
I am different from most collectors.
I only have about six thousand figures. Do not a huge collection but good for me. I must display all of my figures. So between my office where 85 % of my figures live and my garage where I have turned all of the studded recessed walls areas into action figures displays all have a plexiglass barrier to keep everything in place. But yes I display all of my figures, old, new to very old. I can not not display them.
Tubthwiping
Why are the shoulders coming out of the ribcage on modern legends? It's not as bad as it used to be on these guys but it's still really bad. Tiny low shoulders on almost every modern hasbro mold. Always cool to revisit where we came from to recontextualize how good we have it now and to see what still needs to improve
Gratuitous generic comment! 🎉 ❤
12 👍
Fuggitabout it.
Robo, I love ya but leaving that Sentinel BAF in a bin is downright criminal.
It's actually my spare, the other is standing in the old studio.
I love being a Toy Biz Hater Hipster, becasue it means I didn't spend my money on most of these - except that Sandman, I want that Sandman - I loathed the look of these figures at the time and was kind angry at them because I'm a big Marvel fan and the people doing the figures were doing such a crap job, the really big ball joints, the terrible proportions, the over-detailing with too much muscle defintion or 100 folds on everything, weird texturing, they look all twisted and wrong, like what i image Todd McFarlane's version of the Creature From the Black Lagoon would look like, only somehow with even worse articulation. Yes. I have just used Robo's video to vent about toys from decades ago - again? I'm sure I've done it before on here. And I don't feel bad. But I do totally get what you're saying Robo, i have older, crappier, figures i've upgraded that I just can't get rid of because they're memories. Luckily most of mine dont look like Toy Biz Black Panthers but some of them are nearly as bad, and the Toy Biz (well Marvel Toys) Savage Dragon is far, far worse.
The Toybiz Black Panther is the best Black Panther.
Tales of getting robbed
Don't sell their your memory's if I had some of my old figures I'd be a happier dad😫
Dang, that Black Panther is so beautiful and menacing! 😧😍
Don't sell these! You are just gonna go "man why did i sell that?" right afterwards!
That Sandman is pure Trypophobia
Toybiz had the superhero proportions, but outdated lengthy limbs,
Hasbro has "cosplay" proportions 🤦🏼♂️ but not as crazy length as toybiz
Playmates using that same hip articulation just kills my desire for their turtles. It will probably be how they do Power Rangers, too.