1/6 NEXT Hot Toys MCU Figure...?

[matticus]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaUsPbUquKV/tom just went ahead and posted this image, hopefully its greenlight for more spidey announcements now.. looking at you hot toys!

Was thinking the same thing when I seen this today.

 

[Zurdo95D]

Scarjo thinks Hot Toys nails actors likeness:



All of you critics are wrong.

It's pretty cool she knows about these figures and owns some of them! Though, I kept wanting her to say the proper terms, like "head sculpt", "likeness", etc.

P.S. She has no idea what I do to my Black Widow figures

 

[Zurdo95D]

 

[matticus]

While I would like a Sandman and Lizard, at this point I just want to see that Hoody Goblin to finally decide which one I will get. I'm out on Electbro.

Feels like Hot Toys is either going to skip some decent figures or they will be behind the entire time this year. I think it is best to expect the same playbook when it comes to DS: MoM.

 

[Victοr]

Well, I just hope I'm not getting a bullet to the head by the time of the next PO...

Just to clarify, it's a WW3 joke, not a suicide one. I've got problems, but not to that extent.

 

[ZE_501]

Honestly, I don't have much faith in the MCU's art department re: superhero costumes. They've done well a few times, but with their recent track record I expect the FF to be wearing denim overalls and the X-People in jeans and bomber jackets with maybe a t-shirt made out of basketball material, or maybe generic sci-fi CGI geometric shapes if they want to get crazy.

It's a combination of inexplicable design choices and trying to make the costumes 'real world'.

I was hoping that with years of brand exposure and development they'd have the nerve to make superheroes look more the part, but that's my nostalgia talking. I guess they finally gave Holland a proper Spidey suit, so there's that.

 

[Garlador]

Honestly, I don't have much faith in the MCU's art department re: superhero costumes. They've done well a few times, but with their recent track record I expect the FF to be wearing denim overalls and the X-People in jeans and bomber jackets with maybe a t-shirt made out of basketball material, or maybe generic sci-fi CGI geometric shapes if they want to get crazy.

It's a combination of inexplicable design choices and trying to make the costumes 'real world'.

I was hoping that with years of brand exposure and development they'd have the nerve to make superheroes look more the part, but that's my nostalgia talking. I guess they finally gave Holland a proper Spidey suit, so there's that.

I mean, recently we got full on comic-accurate Sam Captain America, Scarlet Witch, and we’ve seen Jane Thor, all while Moon Knight has multiple comic-authentic looks and Doctor Strange even has his Defenders look.

This fear seems misplaced. The last X-men series mocked yellow outfits and stuck them in squeaky black leather on their first outing. I expect Marvel will do better.

 

[ZE_501]

I mean, recently we got full on comic-accurate Sam Captain America, Scarlet Witch, and we’ve seen Jane Thor, all while Moon Knight has multiple comic-authentic looks and Doctor Strange even has his Defenders look.

This fear seems misplaced. The last X-men series mocked yellow outfits and stick them in squeaky black leather on their first outing. I expect Marvel will do better.

I hope so. Some good examples above.

 

[Victοr]

Honestly, I don't have much faith in the MCU's art department re: superhero costumes. They've done well a few times, but with their recent track record I expect the FF to be wearing denim overalls and the X-People in jeans and bomber jackets with maybe a t-shirt made out of basketball material, or maybe generic sci-fi CGI geometric shapes if they want to get crazy.

It's a combination of inexplicable design choices and trying to make the costumes 'real world'.

I was hoping that with years of brand exposure and development they'd have the nerve to make superheroes look more the part, but that's my nostalgia talking. I guess they finally gave Holland a proper Spidey suit, so there's that.

Usually I'd agree, but like @Garlador said, they've been getting better. Someone could point to something like Thor 4, where Jane looks needlessly MCUfied (LINESLINESLINES) and Thor looks downright gaudy, but that's on Waititi. MK and Doctor Strange are getting costumes that, while adapted for realism, are pretty close to their comic ones. Hell, Strange is straight up getting his comic version (with some extra details) in that statue from the trailer:

It's pretty close to the Del'otto look:

I'm optimistic. If they nailed the F4 costumes back in 2005, I see no reason why they'd ruin them now. I feel that they're slowly drifting away from the basketball texture and trying some new things. The X-Men could either debut with a uniformal look, or break away from that and have individual costumes. It depends where they take it. I expect some tacticoolness, at least in their first outing, but not to the extent of, say, Hawkeye. I don't think they'd be stupid enough to give us something like this:

But instead something more akin to this:

I think the FF will be good, it's hard to screw them up. I think they'll go for the classic blue first, so that they can keep the whites for the Future Foundation movie they'll probably get to down the line. Slott/Pichelli's suits look tailor made for the MCU.

Someone like Doom I expect will have ornate armour to differentiate him from Stark and his smooth parts. I think they'll remove the skirt-like tunic, maybe go for a longer sort of "gown" look.

Namor, I don't see him getting his abs out. If Hemsworth's always dressed, Huerta (the actor they got) isn't walking around buck naked. So we should wave the classic/Ultimate/current looks bye-bye. Though as I've said before, the Ultimate look is pretty easy to assemble in theory, so I may try my hand at it. I think they'll go for an older, coldly arrogant look, so maybe something akin to his "Old Man Namor" look.

And I have to be honest, the guy can grow a mean mustache.

I've said it before, I'll say it again; my opinion on the guy changes with every picture. It'll heavily depend on his performance and costume. But if they give him the beard, and a costume akin to the one on top, plus make him grow his hair and have them in that curly/wavy style I've seen him sport (please not that ridiculous Narcos look; he looked like Vegeta's pothead cousin), then I can see myself buying that figure. I'll still try to kitbash an Ultimate Namor to be more accurate, but still. Aquaman got his classic costume, I don't see them going too overboard with Mayan influences beyond surface level stuff like some engravings, necklaces and the such. I still do wish we'd have gotten a tall, buff, young, handsome, cocky guy though...

You know how some posts back I said Namor's an arrogant **** and I no longer liked him? It's panels like this that make it hard to "stay angry" at him. He gets on my nerves and in theory I should hate him, but he's genuinely one of the few honest people in all of capes, nay, pop culture in general, and that counts for a lot in my book. I'm not going to escape having to buy that dolly now, am I? Maybe someone like SooSoo will also put out a comic-based knockoff as well, and I'll be able to both have the official MCU version for completionism, and the knockoff for my personal satisfaction.

Anyway, I'm optimistic enough about the costumes. Maybe it's because now's when all my favourites show up so I went them to be done good. Still, I'm willing to play the waiting game. You know they'll get tons of costumes, the big stars at least. So until they give me the ones I want, I'll wait. I'm not going to jump in and get the first Cyclops they put out if it's not one of my favourite costumes. I myself am rooting for the Utopia look. ******* was it sexy.

 

[Garlador]

My make-or-break is whether Wolverine will ever wear the classic suit or mask… We were SO close.

 

[ZE_501]

My make-or-break is whether Wolverine will ever wear the classic suit or mask… We were SO close.

Admittedly I was never a Wolverine fan, but I just don't understand his costume. That mask ... (sure it looks cool in a comic book way and I guess that's what matters).

 

[Garlador]

Admittedly I was never a Wolverine fan, but I just don't understand his costume. That mask ... (sure it looks cool in a comic book way and I guess that's what matters).

Yes, yes, admittedly masks are for hiding your secret identity in comics, and Logan never bothered to hide his face (though his real identity was so secret even he didn’t know it…)

It’s like how characters like Cap, Black Panther, and even Zemo wore masks, despite being public figures. Sometimes it’s just “rule of cool”.

One initial explanation was Logan wore the mask while doing missions for Alpha Flight and it just stuck.

 

[ZE_501]

Yes, yes, admittedly masks are for hiding your secret identity in comics, and Logan never bothered to hide his face (though his real identity was so secret even he didn’t know it…)

It’s like how characters like Cap, Black Panther, and even Zemo wore masks, despite being public figures. Sometimes it’s just “rule of cool”.

One initial explanation was Logan wore the mask while doing missions for Alpha Flight and it just stuck.

It's more the design of the ears/wings but as a kid I never even questioned it, so that's clearly adult me looking at it all too closely.

 

[Victοr]

My make-or-break is whether Wolverine will ever wear the classic suit or mask… We were SO close.

Unless they bring Jackman back, I'll be passing on a Wolverine dolly. Not because he was the perfect Wolverine or whatever, it's just that I have nostalgia for him, whereas I dislike Wolverine as a character. Though I can't deny that he's had some top tier designs. I'll say this however; Brown >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yellow. Still, the current Krakoa threesome stuff just turned me off the character completely, and I wasn't the biggest fan before. This is an area I can agree with Ennis (and I hate Ennis).

I'm sorry, but 20 years of wanking and being a creepy manlet that somehow gets all the women just pisses me off. The Krakoa threesome and Ben Percy stuff were the last straw. I'm not putting him anywhere near my CHADclops and Jean. My ideal X-Team doesn't include him. I'll find someone else to fill the role of the resident brawler/killing machine. I'm more likely to display Clown Kang as is, with no head swap, next to my Thanos, than put Wolvermanlet anywhere.

Spoiler

I had to post it, don't judge me...

I never got the appeal for Wolveirne anyhow. He wasn't as cool as other mutants powers-wise, and he was too OP to fit with the operators like Punisher/Fury, so he was always just "meh" to me.

Admittedly I was never a Wolverine fan, but I just don't understand his costume. That mask ... (sure it looks cool in a comic book way and I guess that's what matters).

Logan's a canon weeaboo so he has a mask that makes him look like an Oni.

At least that's how I justify it beyond "it looks hella kewl". The other justification is that it makes him look kinda wolf-like. But it is an illogical costume. Cyclops' visor makes sense. Magneto's helmet has an in-universe justification and looks like a magnet. Wolverine's is just a random cool design.

 

[Garlador]

At least that's how I justify it beyond "it looks hella kewl". The other justification is that it makes him look kinda wolf-like. But it is an illogical costume. Cyclops' visor makes sense. Magneto's helmet has an in-universe justification and looks like a magnet. Wolverine's is just a random cool design.

I mean, Jean and Scott are the other 2/3rds of that threesome. It’s not like Wolvie’s doing it on his own…

But the original X-men ALL wore masks. It wasn’t just for “practical” reasons, but traditional superhero reasons.

At least Wolverine’s was explained in part that he concealed his face working with Department H on espionage and sabotage missions as an agent before joining the X-men.

I will admit Wolverine was more interesting decades ago, with a past shrouded in mystery, a healing factor that wasn’t OP, and writers who didn’t self-insert so he got with EVERY hot chick. It’s the same issues I have with God-mode Batman; that bores me.

But those late 80s, early 90s stories with him were great. Frank Miller did some of his best work with Claremont on Wolverine. Hama and Silvestri did great. “Weapon X” was horrifying and complex. And I still re-read Logan’s one-man takedown of the Hellfire Club scenes from time to time.

He suffered from over-exposure, power-creep, and too much author-fantasy-insert… but that doesn’t detract from the stories I grew up loving. He was popular for a reason, even if it got out of control.

Same thing happened with Venom and all the Symbiotes.

 

[Jaycepticon]

Damn, might be time for me to give up hope for a John Walker, huh? Guy was the most interesting character on the show and I'm always up for Captain America variants

 

[Johnny Utah]

I really wanted a figure if him too. But no we gotta get Boba Fat and Yelena.

 

[Zurdo95D]

Honestly, I don't have much faith in the MCU's art department re: superhero costumes. They've done well a few times, but with their recent track record I expect the FF to be wearing denim overalls and the X-People in jeans and bomber jackets with maybe a t-shirt made out of basketball material, or maybe generic sci-fi CGI geometric shapes if they want to get crazy.

It's a combination of inexplicable design choices and trying to make the costumes 'real world'.

I was hoping that with years of brand exposure and development they'd have the nerve to make superheroes look more the part, but that's my nostalgia talking. I guess they finally gave Holland a proper Spidey suit, so there's that.

Yeah I can see why some aren't fond of the MCU styled super suits. I think this vid summaries the major qualms:



Though for me I don't feel too bothered by it.

 

[ZE_501]

Yeah I can see why some aren't fond of the MCU styled super suits. I think this vid summaries the major qualms:



Though for me I don't feel too bothered by it.

Yeah ... I pretty much agree with everything he said; he nicely articulated how the suits all look like they came from the same line-and-panel-happy store to a large extent, and are just too busy.

 

[matticus]

My make-or-break is whether Wolverine will ever wear the classic suit or mask… We were SO close.

What an insulting tease that was. It was Mangold that didn't want any costumes. Clearly he doesn't know what people want. F that guy as you can make a costume but never put it on. Really, how dumb and self-serving.

I hope we get Hoody Goblin tonight. Who knows if the backlash from Doc Ock will delay it. Would be good timing to release Andrew/Tobey with the bluray announcement yesterday.