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31 minutes ago, NerdyTrev said:

Ha! Nice call.

 Considering his adult face in Children's Crusade looks like this:

 And in IIM #6 he looked like this (college era):

 With some extra parts (mainly a different hairpiece), you can make both a young Victor and probably a young Reed. And with the lack of F4 figs, I'll get what I can, really.

 I just want a comic Guardians Wave. Or a Supernatural one. Anything other than Avengers or X-Men (well, I'd take an "All-Stat Modern X-Verse" Wave with the rest of the Bondage-Men, Legacy Rogue, Modern Storm, Cat-Beast, Modern Mystique & Trenchcoat Rachel)... I mean, we have 2 MCU GotG waves and not a single comic book version? Hell, we have Angela, Godkiller IM & Space Venom, plus Captain Carol, but not the rest of the ANAD GotG. It's just... weird...

 Henry = Young Victor Von Doom QC

 The figs look much better "in-hand" as well.

 I haven't bought a Lego set in... 4 years I think. Hell, I haven't bought a minimate set for at least a year. But this does look damn cool. I always liked the bigger Lego sets (Modulars, Architect, etc), so this is right up my alley. I was thinking of buying some Covenant Figs to make the pre transformation F4, so this'd go along nicely. No room to put it in though, so...

 Seriously, great work! 

 Iron Fist was in Fraction's Defenders team, which retconned itself from existence with the final issue, so technically...

 Yeah, seems we're gonna get the Street-Level wave. Bullseye semi-confirmed, Chuck alluding to it in response to one of my AskDST question's a couple months back, Alonso saying Marvel wants to push them. It all checks out. Question is, what's the line-up gonna be?

 I've been reading this one over at Instagram and it's great! Keep up the good work! 

 Welcome back, and I really hope you stand back on your feet again. Best of luck!

1 hour ago, buttheadsmate said:

Tastes differ & Kostis' like of the Man-Thing is his choice [...]

1 hour ago, buttheadsmate said:

[...] but out of all of the ani'mates Man-Thing falls way short of what I've yearned for . Tastes differ.

 I'd have preffered sculpted vines and whatnot on his hands and feet, plus a bigger body, but the main sculpt is good enough for me to ignore that, really. if it wasn't so hard to find, I'd have add the sculpted parts, but I'd rather leave it as is.

1 hour ago, buttheadsmate said:

BTW Kostis ......I'm off to Greece today. "Yassoo" 

 That's great! Is it a business thing or vacation-related? It's not really summer season, but the weather's mostly nice (the temperature hovers around 27-24 Celcius). What cities are you visiting?

2 hours ago, DSTZach said:

I am not aware of an Iron Doom planned, [...]

H-Hope di-dies l-last... sniff...

2 hours ago, DSTZach said:

[...] but definitely some re-done and never done villains, in TRU 24, TRU 25, 74, 75, etc.

 I'd love a High Evolutionary, but he's probably way too obscure. A new Bullseye would be great as well.

2 hours ago, DSTZach said:

I'd talk about the great villains we have planned for Animated, but I know not everyone considers those to be acceptable.

 I find the faces a bit simplistic for my tastes, but I can stomach 'em. I mean, sure, I'd prefer a hyper detailed comic version, but it's not that big of a deal breaker for me. So I probably won't buy the Animated Black Widows, but Man-Thing is rather perfect, really. I'm always up for villains anyway.

27 minutes ago, DSTZach said:

Not really privy to anything others are not. Except future character offerings.

I just think anyone who's anti-Hydra is making a mountain out of a fictional mountain. 

There are bigger issues in the national conversation on diversity than comic book characters. 

 I remember you saying that 2017 would see more villains made. Any chance any of them (say, a certain Big Name Bad-Guy turned quasi Good-Guy of A-List status) are included in these comic related assortments? Or any clues, really. That'd be cool.

PS: HYDRA!Cap is the Most Based of Based comic book characters. He's actually getting stuff done.

3 minutes ago, TheKrisLyons said:

Thanks for the props, dude! I'd welcome an updated new "new" X-Men wave with open arms!

5 hours ago, TheKrisLyons said:

E is for Extinction

 Ace pic! We really need a New X-Men Wave.

Jean/Logan

Scott/Emma

Xavier/Cassandra Nova

Beast/Xorn

 Add some extra parts (arms for Logan to go jacketless, a coat for Emma, an undershirt for Xavier, etc) and you're set.

6 hours ago, DSTZach said:

And we're making Kamala, Riri, and others, so we have no concerns there.

 But the costume is too similar to ANAD IM, and Bendis' OC sucks... Oh hell, we all knew that she was gonna get made... You better be making Iron Doom as well though! Otherwise I'll get very cross. Very, very cross indeed!

19 minutes ago, stack32 said:

Does HYDRA Cap mean this?

Is that even a thing other than on variant covers? Or are we talking about the red, white, and blue version? Because while I hate the story (and I'm pretty sure I have enough comics cred to count as a real fan) I might actually buy the full HYDRA version of the costume.

When people say HYDRA!Cap, they generally mean this costume:

 And like I said, when I say nucomers, I'm not referring to the ones not liking the story. I'm talking about the ones who scream "MARVEL R NAZHIS", send death threats to the writer, wear shirts with "fuck Spencer" concards, etc, etc. Those are the MCU nucomers who somehow think they "own" the character. Liking the story, disliking the story, both opinions are valid. But the moment you write a piece on how Marvel just destroyed THE "Symbol of Freedom and Democracy", well...

1 minute ago, thereasonsy said:

It's an interesting position to have that it is the worst thing to happen to comics but I'm more of the spectator boom of the 90's being the worst thing that happened to comics.

 It's a retread of that. Studios are putting out about 2 CBMs each on average, every year. At this point, we have blockbusters every month or so. This cannot be sustained for long, especially since the MCU is churning out meme-tier flicks, the DCEU is producing shit, and the FoxVerse is inconsistent. Add the sci-fi flicks, the video-game and pop culture adaptations, etc, etc, and you have film slates filled to the brim with identical movies.

 Just like the 90s lead to the comics collapse, sooner or later, the movies will stop making the billions they are used to, and hopefully Marvel and DC will go back to producing comics first, and movies second. And movies that are actually different, and aren't there just to take money from old-school fans and the kiddies. As for the comics front, well, Marvel is publishing this, and the Tumblrinas are loving it, so honestly, I'd rather go back to the 90s:

 So, yeah. Marvel's in the gutter, and their response is to do a half-assed REBIRTH (which is being given way too much credit by /co/). 

3 minutes ago, thereasonsy said:

It's not just nucomers. I'm a very much wait and see the end of the story before judging it as either good or bad but it will be interesting to see how this is handled.

 Eh, only nucomers are screaming at the top of their lungs for something as trivial as this. When a person throws phrases like "Captain America's the symbol of Freedom and Democracy", I'm 99.9% sure they're rather slow. 

 I'm not talking about the ones who dislike the story. It's nothing special, and it's just Spencer using leftovers frm Hickman's work. But HYDRA!Cap is enjoyable, so I'm rding along. What irks me are the folks who never picked up a book, who haven't done their research, and are just going by the MCU and have now somehow claimed these characters as their own.

 I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Nerd Culture becoming mainstream was the worst thing to happen for comics.

38 minutes ago, BuffaloDelorean said:

That wave would be pretty good, although I'd have no interest in "Janet van Dyne isn't the Wasp in the movies" Wasp if we weren't also completing Mark Waid's Avengers roster. My ideal current Marvel wave would be:

Spider-Man & Hercules

Vision & Wasp

Kate Bishop & Quicksilver

Spectrum & Blue Marvel

Or something a little more reasonable:

Spider-Man & Hercules

Vision & Wasp

Infamous Iron Man & Unworthy Thor

Hydra Cap & Chulk

I like Magneto's costume (both of them), but the others look a little overdesigned (Scott, Emma) or just odd (Magik).

 I just want the Infamous IM suit before the book ends. MK's gonna get that NF show, so we're gonna see plenty of him. But if they don't make an Iron Doom now, they never will. And I NEED an Iron Doom...

16 minutes ago, NerdyTrev said:

I'd love to see a Hydra Cap. Maybe with some other characters in a wave to fill out the ANAD Avengers. Spider-Man, Hercules, Wasp, and maybe a Vision redo. I think a Secret Empire wave is in our midst like with Axis, AvX, etc. 

 If it were up to me, an ANAD Wave would look like this:

HYDRA!Cap || Hercules || Infamous Iron Man || Chulk || NuWasp || Unworthy Thor || Mr. Knight || Black Panther

10 minutes ago, Zylek said:

Modern GotG?

 I'd pay good cash for that.

Just now, BuffaloDelorean said:

Sorry, I just meant you wanted to see more modern costumes. 

90's Ghost Rider is a major character badly in need of an update, so I agree with you there. The NOW! Uncanny costumes aren't bad, but I don't particularly like that run, so I wouldn't have too much interest in them.

There are plenty of Cap and IM villains and main character variants that I'd like to see, and it has been a while.

 I dislike that X-Run as well, but I loved the costumes.

25 minutes ago, thereasonsy said:

I'm with you on this. Speculation has led to rampant disappointment for me. However, given the clap back Hydra Cap has been getting in the news I doubt we will see him until the end of the story if ever.

 Yeah, I think that when I don't hype things too much, I tend to be more satisfied with the end result. As for HYDRA!Cap, well... I don't really give a rat's ass what a couple of normie MCU nucomers who posts "YAAAAS QUEEEN" on Twitter think about it. It's not like they're the ones buying the toys. Or the comics, for that matter. HYDRA!Cap is a perfect candidate for a new fig.

3 minutes ago, DSTZach said:

If by "news" you mean fanboy grumbling, I'm not sure why that would discourage us from making the newest Cap costume, which happens to be at the center of the latest event and one of the most talked-about iterations of Cap in a while. 

 Is that a confirmation? Yes, that is a confirmation. It's been confirmed. It's a fact now. We're getting HYDRA!Cap. #FACT

 ...Seriously though, I'd love a HYDRA!Cap.

2 hours ago, BuffaloDelorean said:

The Watchmen figures look great, but I was hoping DST would try to stretch out the the line a bit more for a few if the Minutemen, Bubastis, and maybe even snowsuit Nite Owl. That doesn't seem very likely if we're getting the main cast in the first two assortments.

I definitely agree that it's good to know that we have upcoming comic assortments even if we don't know what they'll be yet.

I know you've said that you're tired of classic characters, but I'm drawing a blank on "highly requested stuff" that isn't from the 60's-90's.

 I'm not tired of classic characters, I'm just not a fan of the rather ridiculous tights. I mean, I'd love a Blazing Skull or Speedo Namor, but I'd rather get the NOW! (Bondage) X-Men. Or a new 90s Ghost Rider or something. Just more variety, you know? Otherwise, just give us some character waves. A new Cap Wave would be killer for example. Another Iron Man Wave is long overdue.

 As for all the clues, I'm trying to not speculate, so I'm just gonna sit and wait. I'm hoping for a HYDRA!Cap and a Mr. Knight, alongside the Infamous Iron Man armor though.

Toynewsi had some pics, so here are the Watchmen figs (which are pure figurekino):

 Well, even if we didn't get to see them, I'm glad we have two expect 2 LCS Waves, 2 TRU Waves and a box-set full of comic stuff. I've been feeling the MCU burnout for a while now. I hope we get some new costumes, and some highly requested stuff (kneels and prays for no more 70s figs...).

 Man, I'm super bummed we didn't get to see the comic Marvel stuff. I need a HYDRA!Cap mate now...

Just now, BuffaloDelorean said:

Yeah, that's fair. I guess I'm just being impatient. Fingers crossed.

 Same here, 

 Well, there was a panel, and more often than not, we get concept art before samples, so maybe something was shown there, it's just that nobody has really found the time to drop in (if anybody was at the panel that is).

 Oh and, from the Marvel Panel:

"From there, the Marvel Legacy initiative spreads out across the Marvel Universe, showcasing epic storylines hearkening back to the glory days of Marvel starring Odinson, Squirrel Girl, Spider-Man, the Avengers, America Chavez, Iron Man, Moon Knight, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, Luke Cage, the X-Men, Captain America, Ms. Marvel, Deadpool, the Champions, Wolverine, Ironheart, Hulk, The Punisher and so many more!"

 Where's my Moon Knight huh? Where's my MOO- Ah, sorry... I don't... I think I've lost my mojo. I can't really complain as I used to... I'd still like a Moon Knight though...