What happened to our beloved Marvel Legends?

What happened to our beloved Marvel Legends?
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Action Figure ChatterCan you beleive what Hasbro has done to our beloved Marvel Legends line? No comic, crappy packaging and sub-standard figures, all for more money. Here in the midwest it's $9.99 + 7% tax a figure. Before Hasbro, Toybiz had a very economical product at $7.84 + 7% tax with comic and a good package. Am I the only one who can't beleive this? the figures, honestly I've only been doing custom figures for 2 years, but still how a can a good, okay decent customizer hope to sell anything on E-Bay if the price goes up a couple bucks? I realize that it is a new company but I still have the feeling that they, (Hasbro), are giving us the shaft. I mean they bought an outstanding line of figures and then decide to up the cost without guving us the collectors and buyers anything extra. Am I the only who is outraged about this? I have already contacted Hasbro about this but have not been contacted back yet although it has been 2 weeks. Rise up my fellow collectors and let your voice be heard. For what Hasbro is giving us now they might as well ask for a pint a of blood too. Please contact Hasbro and tell them of your concerns. If we all stand together then assurdedly they can't ignore us. Thank you for letting me rant, I feel much better. Any feedback will be taken as received without recrimination. Thank you


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Custom J on Thursday, January 18, 2007
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It's true aboutt eh plastic pricess going up becasue of oil. I heard on the news radio station a month or so ago about the pice of Barbies going up because of it.
I'll just say that so far I am not impressed, except with what I mentioned. I could care less about the quality of the plastic if the figure looks like crap. Bottom line is if you don't like how it looks you aint gonna buy it. Face it's still a beauty contest beacause out side of posibility there is little else that matters when when you set it on the shelf. I fear that the figs I like, Hercules, Annhilus, and the upcoming Thor, maybe really unrelesased Toy Biz molds, which would explain the better quality of these sculpts...
I think the best things about the current series are the Hulk and the Annihilus.
I don't think the price is all that bad. Hasbros are $9.99 here. ToyBiz was $8.99.
And Doc, that Emma Frost has a bad face and looks like she's wearing a diaper.
That sounds like you do mean it's about the money. Might want to rephrase a few things? :]
And all I'm saying is that for every person that doesn't like the new figures, there are a thousand more who DO like them, and vice-versa. You and a million more can send them huge complaint letters, but millions of others are sending them praise about how great they are. There's no such thing as a "sucky" figure, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you wanted to say that the figures are off-model or are falling apart as soon as you open the package, then I can agree with ya, send them complaints until they change! But they're not off-model or falling apart, they're like the other ML figures, they're okay. I still don't understand what you don't like about the new ML figures, Ratboy says they even have sturdier, more durable joints, that sounds like an improvement to me, how 'bout you?
Again, what's the problem with the figures? What is "it"? They look like every other ML. If you mean that you don't appreciate having to pay more for less bases, comics, extras then good, send them letters, hopefully they'll do something about the price-hike, but don't say all the figures "suck" just because they cost 2 bucks more.
I only like the Herc and Beast, but that doesn't mean the rest "suck". Emma's face doesn't "suck", it's just off-model and not very femenine at all. Someone could still use it for a custom and have that be the perfect head for it. Nothing "sucks", people just have different opinions on art and vanity.
And I'm not 100 percent sure about this but I heard toys are more expensive because the manufacturing of plastic is tied to the price of oil. Oil prices are up right now so toy companies have to charge more for their plastic or include less of it in toys to make enough profits.
-I think the packaging looks much less bland than the old one, it's okay. I like the Spideman Origins packages too. I just open up all my figures anyway so I couldn't care less even if the card was all bright pink with orange polka-dots, just as long as I got a figure I like and maybe a BAF part and a gun or something.
-The female figures look so damn ugly to me now. I thought Elektra was bad but these new ones are short and have fat hips with tiny waists. The male figures look the same to me, so I don't know what you mean by "sub-standard" figures, some pictures would help a lot.
And ML figures are 9 to 12 bucks here in Los Angeles.
I seriously doubt 2 dollars more for figures has a major impact on customizers if they sell customs regularly. You get like an average of 20 - 50 bucks for a custom on Ebay, so now you get like 2 bucks less, big deal.
~Gj
The one thing I can say is that the Legands line is notorious for releasing a sub-par line then a good decent line of figs. The line prior to this one was a good one, MoonKnight, Betta Ray Bill, not great but good. So there is a chance this is just following the trend the Toybiz started from the beginning. The next line looks cool, so I 'm not going to pass judgement just yet. I think I'll wait till the next set comes out then I'll make my decision.