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Thanks for sharing that Barry. People can be really shitty, you deserved better than that. This brand, this hobby, whatever we choose to call it has inspired and continues to inspire a pretty unique devotion. Maybe it never caught the full fire it deserved, but those of us who "get it" got it, and saw the limitless potential. That you were designing the whole fn' line across every license is staggering, and that you were doing it all while toiling away in relative isolation is bonkers. I can gab on in a blabberingly effusive manner but that probably wouldn't land as well as this: I have two kids, now 7 and 5. And when I felt they were old enough for me to drop some of these sweet toys into their hands, they instantly "got it" and started ripping them apart and putting them back together again, asking whether or not their favorite characters existed in this format, and populating their elaborate Lego and Magna-Tile fortresses with them. There's your 5-star review. Everything else is dumb, pedantic and sometimes cruel noise from peacocking bloviators.

I apologize, haha. You are a prince among men. You're just en fuego right now with these inspiring creations.

WOW!! I'm also in the market for one of these if you're printing a few! A very close friend of mine is obsessed with this movie. I only recently saw it for the first time and I loved it.

+1 to printing on paper to test, but they should be sized to print appropriately on a standard 8.5 x 11 inch sheet. What I like to do is to go to a FedEx/Kinko's copy center. You can load up the image ahead of time, show up at the shop and use the color printers there. You just need to bring your own sticker paper. I think it might cost three bucks or something to print. Pro-tip: their floor printers often are not properly colored calibrated. If I get a bad result, I'll bring it to the front and ask them to run it on their special production printer in the back. Then comes the fun part! Lots of X-acto knife precision slicing. I recommend using Black ink on the sliced sides, so white doesn't show around the edges.

Those are so cool to see up close! Thanks for sharing Barry!

I will add that if you are interested in attempting any of these, I'm happy to help with recipes, parts suggestions, etc.

Luke has generously agreed to host PDFs of all of the designs I created for my Heroes for Hire and Shang-Chi MiniMate customs. Here's the link! Note that some of the H4H stickers are missing -- I wasn't able to find/recover those, but I think most are still present. I recognize that it has taken A MINUTE for me to make these available, so thanks to everyone for your patience with the process.

I always appreciate your very creative use of parts -- keep 'em coming!

I'm partial to XMFC, because if you remove the hairpiece A) he's smiling, which is more Bobby Drake's character, and B ) there aren't any x-belts or other costume bits underneath the ice, it's a "pure ice version." I'd go for one of the earlier translucent versions, but the grimace isn't aligned with my idea of Bobby. All that said, I use all of them in my team displays for various purposes.

I feel like I'm slowly aging out of Marvel Legends, not out of an unwillingness to make more purchases but due to an organic shift from my particular age of nostalgia. So maybe "being aged out" is more accurate. But at the same time, I'm pretty content with my collection as it stands. (I think about this stuff a lot after SDCC or Toy Fair reveals) My post a little ways back here was a quick stab at an AI-assisted "last wave" concept, but I think I'd modify the list if pressed today. Dracula - Gene Colan style She-Hulk - first appearance Attuma Mimic - classic orange jumpsuit Zaran Valkyrie - classic do-over Adam Warlock - classic BAF: Dreadnought

Scarlet witch and Dr strange?

Warlock and Magus? That's probably a stretch...

Nico Minoru and Alex? (or Abigail?)

Are these the ones? They are pretty cool.

Golden Tiger vs Actual Tiger for scale. Spoiler alert: Tiger wins.