That’s interesting news. I think that’s why When Hasbro tried their Unit-E continuity they had to drop Inhumanoids and call them Primordials or something. I feel like S7 could do a really good job with the figures if given the chance but part of me wishes they did highly articulated figures in the reaction scale. I think this would work better for Earth Corp and then 6in scale for Mutores and then Large scale for Inhumanoids. Although I’ll take pretty much anything they throw out there.
Huh, wonder what the hold-up with the IP is? Doesn't Hasbro own it outright or does someone else also have rights to it? Well, if they make the Earth Corp 7" in their Ultimates line... that would make the Mutores like 9" to 12" depending on the character? And... well... you'll never get the Inhumanoids "in-scale" so probably around 24" max. Assuming they go that route.
Technically not a post about the toys per se, but this is the closest thing there is to an existing thread to put this in. A surprise development tonight for the Sunbow and Marvel Script/Storyboard Archive. The full storyboard sets for The Evil Eye and Primal Passions are now available for viewing. It should be noted that The Evil Eye contains scenes deleted in Post-production as they were clearly considered to be going too far, even for this show. Sunbow and Marvel Productions Script/Storyboard Archive: MP 5206 Inhumanoids 1986 (Sunbow Productions/Marvel Productions)
At this point anything Inhumanoids related is welcome. I’ll never understand why this property isn’t more popular.
Among the parts cut in The Evil Eye: When they are surrounded by the native Borneo tribe, Blackthorne and Andresen are repeatedly firing off real firearms. Which of course was a Hasbro no-no. In the finished episode, we cut straight to Blackthorne's rifle jamming, then... We get the full POV shot of the blowdart coming at Blackthorne Shore's eye and the screen fades to black. Whereas in the finished episode, there is an abrupt cut before the blowdart is fired. When Nightcrawler brings Gagoyle to the gates of Infernac and the Roman statue warriors fight the monster. One of them slits the Gagoyle's throat with a swipe from its sword. Only for the wound to reseal and the Gagoyle starts biting the statues' heads off.
According to the Griffin-Bacal briefing binders that Flint auctioned, the toys came very late, in Q3 1986. As for the cartoon, it was only ever on Sunday mornings as even the main series never broke out of the Super Sunday timeslots.
I saved the photos from the ebay auction: I don't know which is more laughable. That Hasbro thought Inhumanoids was for the younger end of the "Boy Toys" audience or that they thought it could replace the waning MOTU. Speaking of laughter. Anyone who knows anything about Auger is probably howling when they read this bio.
I would assume we will probably see reaction figures at a minimum fairly soon right? I feel like super7 is good at pumping out those figures quickly. I’ll definitely buy them all.
Wait has that been confirmed besides having the trademark? I saw that there are like little MUSCLE-like COPS figures coming out so there has to be something for Inhumanoids soon, right?
Hmm, something interesting is going on when it comes to the show on youtube. Within the last month, Hasbro have apparently lifted their worldwide copyright block, with uploads being monetized to Hasbro Studios. Since then, there has a been a glut of uploads of the entire series by various users. Curious. Edit to add - I've checked around, it seems the floodgates have opened for uploads of both Inhumanoids and Visionaries.
Some of you may have seen the gallery of former Hasbro designer David McDonald. Showing off his Inhumanoids concept sketches from the earliest development in late 1984, to abandoned initial concepts for 1988 On the concept sketches for Earth Corps, he mentions that Liquidator was initially going to be a woman. I asked him about it and he said that no bio was ever written. But he did post the design with her head-under-helmet sketch retained (clearly ripped off in the original post) Facebook
What is interesting to me is Redlen in all the toy catalogue images actually looks more like the cartoon, and then the toy turned out super different? I'm sure there is a story there because the toy promo shot would have had to have come first.
Stumbled across the online portfolio of Lynn Wendel, who previously worked for XAM Productions in Utah. They were Marvel Productions preferred choice for outsourcing animation layouts, but during the busy periods in 1985 and '86 did some storyboards too. The portfolio contains her work on Cypheroid, along with other sample boards from Jem and Defenders Of The Earth http://lynnwendel.com/storyboard_samples.pdf
