All Mondo X-Men Animated Figure Thread

[Raymond F.]

I’ve got most of these. They messed me around on rogue sent me the regular when I got times on PO and did nothing for me said I was SOL… it was almost enough for me to boycott them. but I got the uncanny version as I wanted the winking head but not sure how I feel about mixing and matching with the cell shading. Having said that I got omega red uncanny because I hate the cell shading on the original (why is it a completely different style than the rest of them?) and now I need to decide what one to sell,


All of this just points to me thinking of selling them all one day. A few things:

1) I really don’t like cell shading. I’ve never seen it actually work on an action figure. It’s a cute idea but it just doesn’t work IMO. I think these would be better if none of them had cell shading. The rogue proves that to me as the sculpts are good

2) they are too clunky. Like the stiff capes and coats and such are really annoying

3) the articulation kind of sucks, you can’t do much with it

4) they take up a lot of space , honestly for a big team like x men it makes it really hard to collect them,

5) they are marked or get marked up pretty easy with scratches and paint flaws

6) they are overpriced

7) they are just not that much fun. I find myself getting bored with them almost immediately after opening them, even characters I adore like Gambit, I’m almost never compelled to look at them and even when I get a new one I’m too lazy to get out the others.

I have to say Hasbro Marvel Legends was one of the worst line in history. So these were welcome to me as X-Men especially 90s X-Men may be my favorite all time thing.

But something changed with Marvel legends. Their sculpting improved their plastic quality improved and their body proportions improved. I have to say that marvel legends is now the best quality and best looking line on the market by a long long mile.

The figures feel so much more collectible and so much more enjoyable to me than these and since we also have amazing mafex figures and I can collect many x-men, I think I may just abandon all the Mondos

I find myself not wanting to look at the stuff clunky oversized version of my favorite character gambit. But genuinely am excited to fawn over and pose a wonderful figure of a character I don’t care about like Marrow. That says a lot to me.

 

[jtwong27]

I’ve got most of these. They messed me around on rogue sent me the regular when I got times on PO and did nothing for me said I was SOL… it was almost enough for me to boycott them. but I got the uncanny version as I wanted the winking head but not sure how I feel about mixing and matching with the cell shading. Having said that I got omega red uncanny because I hate the cell shading on the original (why is it a completely different style than the rest of them?) and now I need to decide what one to sell,


All of this just points to me thinking of selling them all one day. A few things:

1) I really don’t like cell shading. I’ve never seen it actually work on an action figure. It’s a cute idea but it just doesn’t work IMO. I think these would be better if none of them had cell shading. The rogue proves that to me as the sculpts are good

2) they are too clunky. Like the stiff capes and coats and such are really annoying

3) the articulation kind of sucks, you can’t do much with it

4) they take up a lot of space , honestly for a big team like x men it makes it really hard to collect them,

5) they are marked or get marked up pretty easy with scratches and paint flaws

6) they are overpriced

7) they are just not that much fun. I find myself getting bored with them almost immediately after opening them, even characters I adore like Gambit, I’m almost never compelled to look at them and even when I get a new one I’m too lazy to get out the others.

I have to say Hasbro Marvel Legends was one of the worst line in history. So these were welcome to me as X-Men especially 90s X-Men may be my favorite all time thing.

But something changed with Marvel legends. Their sculpting improved their plastic quality improved and their body proportions improved. I have to say that marvel legends is now the best quality and best looking line on the market by a long long mile.

The figures feel so much more collectible and so much more enjoyable to me than these and since we also have amazing mafex figures and I can collect many x-men, I think I may just abandon all the Mondos

I find myself not wanting to look at the stuff clunky oversized version of my favorite character gambit. But genuinely am excited to fawn over and pose a wonderful figure of a character I don’t care about like Marrow. That says a lot to me.

Oh if you ordered the limited edition rogue, you could have asked mondo to fix it..they would have for sure and sent you the limited edition. There was no timed edition for rogue.

1/6 figure are just big, do definitely have to limit the lines collected...applies to any company's 1/6 scale figures.

For me, I am just limiting myself to the following X-Men for the line: Cyclops, gambit, wolverine, beast, storm, Jean, rogue, jubilee, Psylocke, phoenix, prof x(depends price due to wheelchair).

I like the animated look and I don't think there will be anything else that will come out that will look better than this for the animated line. That said I don't play around with my figures much, I like to pose, put it on the shelf and rarely will change the pose. So for me , estetique and how close it looks to the animation is most important.

Definitely take your time on deciding what to do with the figures. All the best.

 

[Raymond F.]

That’s the thing I ordered the LE and they sent me the regular. I asked them to rectify it they said sorry too bad you are out of luck here is 10 dollars credit to make up for it. I said no way I don’t want it at all refund me and they still said no! They only refunded me when I threatened to call my credit card company. It was a not so great experience TBh.

 

[batsheva]

I know this will be miles better than v01, but do I need another Wolvie or save the budget to finally complete my Blitzway Ghostbusters?! AAaaaah!

 

[jtwong27]

That’s the thing I ordered the LE and they sent me the regular. I asked them to rectify it they said sorry too bad you are out of luck here is 10 dollars credit to make up for it. I said no way I don’t want it at all refund me and they still said no! They only refunded me when I threatened to call my credit card company. It was a not so great experience TBh.

Wow that is surprising...they generally are really good. I guess they didn't have anymore limited editions available but should have offered u the full refund since it was their mistake. I had my spiderman and symbiote spiderman shipped but been 2 months since and no updates. They offered me to refund or send replacements. I chose refund on Spidey and replacement for symbiote Spidey.