Man, the least they could have done is make Baby Wolverine articulated in some fashion. Calling this a 4-pack is just insulting.
Yep. It would be like calling the Excalibur set a 4 pack because they included Lockheed. You can almost hear the executives thinking. Executive 1: I really want to charge $120 for this 3 pack, but I'm not sure the fans would go for it, it's a lot of money for 3 figures. Executive 2: Throw in a tiny Wolverine that can't move and call it a 4 pack. Executive 1: But that will raise our costs by 35 cents. Executive 2: Raise the price of the set to $132. Executive 1: Brilliant!
If anything, it would have made better sense if they had included a number of Mojo Babies. Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Storm...just more than ONE would have felt a little better in justification.
Just got an email that my animated Wolverine and Jubilee have arrived early and will be shipping soon
I'm stunned that any Mojo set doesn't include an updated Spiral. I have the old version, but it's really long in the tooth.
With the inflation of production costs since the original Spiral figure, I imagine a modern version would probably warrant a deluxe pack of some sort as a default. Might not be too bad a deal if it means an assortment of extra hands and swords, maybe a few heads. I'd gladly pay about $40 for a souped-up Spiral with accessories galore and still keep all the articulation for her arms. Besides, in more recent stories, Marvel writers seem to have been distancing Spiral away from Mojo more in a similar fashion to how Harley's been distanced from Joker in the comics.
I don't know what logistics there are about children in dangerous situations or whatever from a brand standpoint but having Wolverine look like a proper baby would have been better.
My favorite iteration of Spiral was in the Freedom Force/Fall of the Mutants days. She was free of Mojo even then (1988), so it's not exactly like that's a new thing.
missed opportunity to include a spare Johnny head...could have thrown in the extra boots too and it would have sold out immediately
I'm not sure on that. It's taken 20 years to get a Morph, and even that needed to be in a specific X-Men cartoon themed line. I wouldn't say the chance of another any time soon is a guarantee.
Yes, but now they have all the tooling they need. It's literally just a repaint now. Plus they are running out of characters they haven't done.
True, there just seems to be more of an ongoing thing over the past handful of years between her in "Uncanny X-Force", and the developments of recovering her lost pieces of her Rita soul-self in Gambit and Rogue's "Mr. and Mrs. X" series.
I read those, but I didn't really view them as character development but rather writers that didn't really know what to do with Spiral. I never felt like they "got" the character and were trying to redeem her or make her more sympathetic in some way. Typical modern comics, as they can't accept that some people are just villains.
I wonder why Hasbro hasn't released a figure of Venom 2099, are there any legal stuff going on with the character? Or it's just Hasbro's disinterest? We already have a few representations of Spiderman 2099 in Marvel Legends but no Venom 2099.....weird tbh.
