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[phantomeye]

I hope they do not make any civilians. Because once that starts happening, we'll all be complaining about them not dedicating enough resources to superheroes!!! A J. Jonah Jameson fig??!! UGGHHH.....

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

You mean the poll was up on their site around Wave 3's release? What kind of crap? I was checking the marvel sites pretty often then. I'm very upset I missed it. Hopefully they do one or more a year from now on.


Edit*** And found the poll chart pic I was referring to. Looks like I was off on a few character versions, and most notably the Vindicator.

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Edited by Universal Ruler Supreme, 16 November 2009 - 06:56 PM.

[mrjayberry]

I'm real suprised we don't have a furry Beast yet. He fits in with the X-Men, Avengers, and Defenders thats a wide cross section of the MU.

I probably would have voted for Cloak, Dagger, Madam Hydra, Beast, and Havok.

Also I would love a White Tiger figure but the orginal not the new much hotter version (although I still might buy her too)

[dankingery]

is that a colonel america from marvel zombies in the top left corner? if so, i'd much like to see all of the marvel zombies in marvel universe form.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

is that a colonel america from marvel zombies in the top left corner? if so, i'd much like to see all of the marvel zombies in marvel universe form.

It's Vance Astro from Guardians of the Galaxy.


And, here is another shot of the poster.

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Edited by Universal Ruler Supreme, 17 November 2009 - 02:19 AM.

[mrjayberry]

So whats the idea of having 1/14 of the choices being members of Alpha Flight?

I'm rather assuming that this is a type of Market research and as such it's looking bad for the cosmic characters although it's kinda of stacked. Like Alpha Flight there is a lot of choices and they probably ended up splitting votes. So even if people would like to see more of the cosmic side I might want Firelord the next guy might want Drax the Destroyer. Also it seems like a rather poor selection of villians to vote for. A couple I like but not enough to garner a top five vote from me, except for Madam
Hydra.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Yeah, I noticed that two, I think they added Alpha Flight Characters cause they actually intend to make more. Just to prove how much I'm not a fan of Alpha Flight, I added the picture of the first Vindicator (now Guardian) to the image groups above. I'm an idiot.

I'm very unsure about the poll in general though. I'm uncertain if they intended that the exact pictured versions of each characters were going to be made. But I am pretty confident that within the next few years we will see a good portion of these characters in plastic form. I just think this poll method was severely unconfined. Maybe next time they will do what they did for the Legends this year and actually have some prototypes to vote for.

As for the top 5 chosen, Hit and miss with me. Archangel, Havok, and Mystique are a must! In fact I'm such a fan of these 3 characters I wouldn't mind having multiple variations, and costume changes.
Especially Mystique cause she looked great in every outfit she was ever drawn in. Archangel in a couple color variations, with and without hood, and in his Angel uniform. I also was a huge fan of the X-Factor team in the 90's, so I'd love to get Havok in his jacketed uniform.
I don't care for MJ unless they make her look great, and I don't really know alot about Winter Soldier. Though he looks like he would be a sick figure.
Do they deserve their spots? I think Archangel and Mystique have always been stand out characters, and for sure these two make the most sense. I didn't realize Havok had that many fans though.

Who do you think the 6th and 7th figures will be?

Sadly the 6th and 7th figures will probably be Paper Bag Spidey and Gwen Stacey. I hope I'm wrong, but that's how I'm calling it. If it wasn't for those 2, I'd say Beast and Storm. I'd rather more diverse characters to be made myself, as the core characters will definitely get figures.

So who would I have voted for? I dunno, it would have been really hard for me to just pick 5. I know who I wouldn't have picked for sure. My choices would have been narrowed down to these characters first. Vance Astro, Archangel, Lilandra, Gladiator, Domino, Mystique, Dazzler, Polaris, Captain Britain, Storm, Psylocke, and Jocasta. Next time maybe it should be a pick 10 or more Poll. Jocasta would be a simple choice for me. Followed by Lilandra and Gladiator. I may have chosen Vance Astro as well, I like the Guardians so would love a full team. And 5 would have to be Ploaris. I really wish it was a pick 70 poll.

And who would I buy out of these 70? Well probably all of them if I can. Me and my brother used to have all the Marvel Universe Handbooks when we were kids, so I became a fan of tons of characters, even those I never read about in comics before. Of course there are many out of this pick I'd have been less thrilled with, but it still would have been cool.

[dankingery]

slightly related, noticed gladiator on there, how about a slug fest between gladiator and mohawk storm! that'd be awesome.

[mrjayberry]

And who would I buy out of these 70? Well probably all of them if I can. Me and my brother used to have all the Marvel Universe Handbooks when we were kids, so I became a fan of tons of characters, even those I never read about in comics before. Of course there are many out of this pick I'd have been less thrilled with, but it still would have been cool.

So how about we also give our bottom five.

For me
Spot, Starlord, Binary, Beyonder, and Paper Bag Spider-Man

[Scumdogg]

I hope they do not make any civilians. Because once that starts happening, we'll all be complaining about them not dedicating enough resources to superheroes!!! A J. Jonah Jameson fig??!! UGGHHH.....

You bite your tongue sir. Jameson has had several excellent figures over the years and they had better not stop making them here.

Seriously, i believe i actually own three different Jamesons. Sometimes, like in the case of the movie line, they're the only figure i'll even buy from a series. I don't see the hatred for civilian figs, as in a well-written comic they are often just as good character-wise as the heroes/villains. If i were to name a...well, probably not a top 10, but a top 20 for sure, for my favorite comic book characters of all time, Jameson would definitely make the list, as would Alfred. Hands-down. Extend it to a top 25 and you'd probably get Commissioner Gordon in there too.

So yeah in the poll MJ would've definitely had my vote. My other four would've been Dazzler, Dormammu (one of the only reasons i'm still clinging to the 90's collection), Luke Cage, and Archangel.

[phantomeye]

Nope. That figure would simply suck. Crew cut, outrageous countenance, cigar and all! Gimme superheroes in a hero line.

[mrjayberry]

I think civilian characters are great......as promotional items. Even maybe as included in a playset (Gwen Stacy w/ bridge, oops too soon). I don't think I want to pay the nine dollars for the majority of non hero/villian figures. How long before they try to get me to buy a Willie Lumpkin figure.

[Scumdogg]

I think civilian characters are great......as promotional items. Even maybe as included in a playset (Gwen Stacy w/ bridge, oops too soon). I don't think I want to pay the nine dollars for the majority of non hero/villian figures. How long before they try to get me to buy a Willie Lumpkin figure.

I think i may just be way more of a gigantic marvel geek than other people in here...cause i'd be tempted to buy that.

Right now my Thing figure isn't getting his fan mail.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

I think I'd be up for a Ben Grim figure...maybe with a flying steed or anti-gravity cycle. I was big fan of his hiatus from the FF after the Secret Wars.

On another note.. I got super bored, and decided to do a huge image search on the net to try and piece together an exact replica of the 70th ann poll chart. Sadly I am still missing 15 images, which I can't find at all. So if anyone can find them, has them, or can scan em for me that would be awesome! I'd like to get the exact images. .BMP preferred if possible. And they need to be larger than a thumbnail image. In fact the bigger the better, but I won't complain. I'm still gonna be trying to find them as well. You would think with all the comic fans out there, that there would be way more scans of second and third tier characters.

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Crystal
Fantomex
Luke Cage
Hellcat
Beast
Hyperion
Quasar
Captain Britain
Red Guardian
The Hood
Psylocke
Beyonder
Speed Demon
Madame Hydra
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[dankingery]

opened up all of my new marvel universe and secret wars today. the biggest surprise, most of my secret wars figures are much better than wave one. with only one problem out of the six figures, i think that's a pretty good ratio for secret wars. what's the problem, you ask? well, it would seem that my magneto figure has two right-calves. not the end of the world, but still kind of annoying when trying to pose him in a way that makes him look like the leader of the the brotherhood and not and prosthetic leg user. my wave one wolverine has this exact same condition. however, it is much more noticeable on wolverine than it is on mags. case in point, since my wave one wolverine had a screwed up leg, i made an extra effort to check on this before i bought. well, the way it was packaged and the subtlety of the difference made it virtually impossible to spot in the packaging. is it the end of the world? no. and i'll tell you why. my initial impressions of magneto were a little less than positive. after seeing urs' shots in his wave 2 preview, i was under the impression that his face was too big for his helmet. once in hand though, i could see that it must have just been the way the camera picked up the image or some gypsy curse. while, i'm sure his face is bigger than it should be, it's hardly noticeable in 3d.

out of the wave 5 figures i was able to pick up, i think electro is my favorite. dammit, there's just something about him that i love. my least favorite is now silver centurion iron man. don't get me wrong, i love iron man. but i realized something today when i was setting up my figures. i've got six effing iron mans. i'm always bee-eye-itching about how many stupid spider man figures there are. why not start bee-eye-itching about iron man? worst part is, there's still one more iron man i will end up getting because he's packed with a giant battler. dammit! seven iron man figures! and more to come i'm sure! damn you hasbro. may you perish in flames. these sneaky effers have kept us worried about their waves of spider man crap for so long we didn't even see them pulling money out of our wallets and replacing it with pallet swapped iron man sculpts. it's time we started getting some fresh stuph. no more hulks, no more iron mans, no more spider-mans, no more wolverines, no more captain americas. give us something new!

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

That double calf problem has been rampant with the SW Magnetos. One person reported that every pack he has seen at the store had the same problem. So I can't imagine what's going on. There are probably so many out there that it could possibly be considered a packaged variation.

[mrjayberry]

Don't you have at least five diffrent Iron Mans though? Spider-Man I've got three identical figures with a slight color variance.
Im has Extremis, Extremis Stealth (radical color swap), classic, classic Ditko (diffrent helmet), and Silver Centurian who is my
fave. Iron Man so far. I can't remember which version came with the 70th anniversary pack. Plus I found somebody to
trade my regular classic Iron Man so when I get SW I don't have a double.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

4 with the Classic Iron Man Body Type (Classic Wave 3, Stealth 70th ann 3 pack TRU ex, Dikto Giant battles, and Secret Wars Classic.)

3 with the Modern Iron Man Body Type (Modern Wave 1, Stealth Wave 1, and Centurion Wave 5.

New Extremis body coming out early next year or so.

So we have 7 now, and 8 by next year, followed by many color variations and running changes I'm sure in the same year.

[dankingery]

in case you missed it the first time i said it:

these sneaky effers have kept us worried about their waves of spider man crap for so long we didn't even see them pulling money out of our wallets and replacing it with pallet swapped iron man sculpts. it's time we started getting some fresh stuph. no more hulks, no more iron mans, no more spider-mans, no more wolverines, no more captain americas. give us something new!

in the new toy fare they were talking to the guys at hasbro or something about iron man 2 and the huge amount of figures they've got planned. from that article, i would feel confident in telling you to dedicate an entire shelf for iron man. spider man is going to be the least of our problems early next year.

[Scumdogg]

I for one will happily take as many Iron Man figures as i can get. At least with him you can justify it by setting up a sweet "hall of armor" display.

I already do have a whole shelf for nothing but Iron Man figures. Well...i did. I still have the figures though, and one day that shelf shall return!!

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Packaged samples of 2010 Wave 2. I'm a little disappointed in all of them except Thor.

http://www.actionfig..._articleid=3683

Bucky looks pretty cruddy to me... and may be out of scale with Cap. Cap reuses the Cap body, where as I think he should have had an all new one. Widow looks okay, but I don't see her wigs in the pack. I wonder if Hasbro is gonna try to pull that chase figure crap with her instead. I don't really like the shiny paint washes. Luke is alright, but his pants don't look right.

Thor looks pretty rad though, all new sculpt with new articulation points.

[dankingery]

yikes. other than thor, i'm thinking this wave will be a dead point in my collecting. i had high hopes for luke cage when i saw shots from sdcc. now, i'm going to have to find a really great one to even consider buying it. the rest are terrible besides black widow. but i've really got no interest in her.

[Scumdogg]

Man you are crazy that Luke Cage is awesome. As long as the hat is removeable.

Which i guess it might not be.

[dankingery]

the hat is the worst part. if it's not removable, it will soon be.

EDIT: never mind. just looked at the carded figure. seems it is removable.

Edited by dankingery, 03 December 2009 - 08:56 PM.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Yep, I reckon we will be getting these around January. If they don't start pouring in by late December. The only thing I don't like about Thor is the Thigh Swivel. I'm sure it will be useful, but the main attraction of this line for me was the less chopped up appearance the figures had, as apposed to say Legends. Bucky looks like he is shorter than cap, after looking closer.

Right now I am still really wanting to find those Wave 6 variants, and eagerly waiting to find me a Secret Wars Thor, Ultron, and Hawkeye.

You guys think the Fury figure will be re-offered? I just think offering a super popular character like Nick Fury only through a Mail away/Subscription is a bit odd. I have a feeling we will at least get a repackaged variant sometime soon. I bet they will try that again this year with Norman Osbourne...who personally I can live without.