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Post by shaxper on Sept 8, 2015 15:51:43 GMT -5
Mego 8" scale, Mego 12" scale, Mego Pocket Heroes, Kenner Super Powers, Mattel Secret Wars, Toy Biz, McFarlane, DC Direct, Justice League Unlimited, Marvel Legends, Marvel 3.5" scale, DC Infinite Crisis, etc. etc. etc.
With so many action figure lines adapting comic book properties, which is your absolute favorite of all time (and why)?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2015 15:58:02 GMT -5
Mine is the Mego 8'' scale. Those were so much fun to collect and play with. If only I had asked my parents for multiple figures (one to play with, one to put up and keep!). Despite Mego cutting corners with body types, arms, legs, etc, the costumes and head sculpts were pretty much spot on. The cards the figures came on were bright, colorful, and had pictures of your favorite heroes on them. It was fun to go the local Big K and see the Mego display. The playsets that went with the figure line were fun too. If you were a child in the 70s and were into super heroes, the Mego line was a dream come true.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 8, 2015 16:02:16 GMT -5
The playsets that went with the figure line were fun too. If you were a child in the 70s and were into super heroes, the Mego line was a dream come true. I've always wanted the Wayne Foundation playset.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2015 16:04:19 GMT -5
Shaxper, do you remember the Heroes World catalogs from the 70s? I remember begging for the Wayne Foundation playset and all the others, haha! I had the Batcave and an Incredible Hulk Mego playset that was a Sears exclusive I think. Always wanted the Justice League of America playset too!
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Post by shaxper on Sept 8, 2015 16:09:05 GMT -5
Shaxper, do you remember the Heroes World catalogs from the 70s? I remember begging for the Wayne Foundation playset and all the others, haha! I had the Batcave and an Incredible Hulk Mego playset that was a Sears exclusive I think. Always wanted the Justice League of America playset too! I actually grew up in the '80s, but I was still jealous of my cousins' and friends' older brothers' Mego collections. I've acquired a few as an adult, but no playsets. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 8, 2015 16:14:57 GMT -5
Mego 8". The only ones I ever actually had.
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Post by batlaw on Sept 8, 2015 20:11:00 GMT -5
All time / all around?: Justice league / Justice league unlimited.
As a kid: gi Joe 3inxh (though tech the toys came before the comics no?).
Second place as kid / all around: super powers.
Honorable mention: megos. Just a tad too young for them? And or just never got any of em myself. But have fond memories of seeing them and wanting them all the time. Similar to the larger gi joes. Just a hair before my time.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 9, 2015 3:27:29 GMT -5
All time / all around?: Justice league / Justice league unlimited. Definitely the most impressive figure series of all time in terms of scope. They made just about EVERYONE in the DCU. I'm still not sure what my answer is. I grew up on Super Powers and generally consider those toys very high quality, but it was such a limited toyline. JLU had the variety, but that soft plastic always felt a little cheap to me. I think the current Marvel 3.75" line has a good compromise of being made of high quality material and having a large assortment of characters (and I love that I can finally have Reed Richards pilot a TIE fighter thanks to the scale  ), but those figures are SO hit or miss. Some of them look absolutely horrendous, and there are many figures in the line that make me go "they actually made that one?" while there still aren't figures of some other classic obvious choices. It's an odd series that seems to have no particular filter on quality control nor selection process. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2015 3:42:36 GMT -5
For me it is likely the Marvel Famous Covers figure line of the 90s. Inspired by the Mego line, but offering more variety and depth of the classic MU.  EFIpjO9cn3BSeMncWcRw~~60_35.JPG) I finally got a Vision figure! And Hawkeye. And Scarlet Witch. And Black Widow. Plus Cap, Thor and Shellhead to make a great Avengers display. They even did an Aunt May figure. There were special figs down as famous couples, a few civilian identity ones, etc. And some great X-Men too, Phoenix and Dark Phoenix in particular I liked. Plus villains like Doom pictured above.Each homaged a classic Marvel cover as well. I grew up playing with Megos, and for me this was basically Megos for the grown-up me. -M |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 9, 2015 3:49:24 GMT -5
For me it is likely the Marvel Famous Covers figure line of the 90s. Inspired by the Mego line, but offering more variety and depth of the classic MU. I finally got a Vision figure! And Hawkeye. And Scarlet Witch. And Black Widow. Plus Cap, Thor and Shellhead to make a great Avengers display. They even did an Aunt May figure. There were special figs down as famous couples, a few civilian identity ones, etc. And some great X-Men too, Phoenix and Dark Phoenix in particular I liked. Plus villains like Doom pictured above.Each homaged a classic Marvel cover as well. I buy these for my daughters at conventions. Very high quality, though the plastic has deteriorated badly on some of them over the years. Might have been how they were stored for the two decades prior to us finding them at said conventions. |
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Post by Jesse on Sept 9, 2015 4:57:59 GMT -5
For nostalgia reasons the ones I grew up with in the '80s; Marvel's Secret Wars, DC Comics Super Powers Collection and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 10, 2015 15:39:53 GMT -5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. As many times as they resurrect that toy series, I don't think they'll ever get it better than they did the first time. Such an expansive, imaginative, and utterly fun line of figures that also got royalties to some super small-time indy comic creators. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2015 17:15:08 GMT -5
Mine would be DC Direct - Almost Perfection!  |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 10, 2015 18:20:09 GMT -5
MEGO 8 inch for me.
I really only got three lines of action figures in my lifetime, with Star Wars and the 1980s G.I. JOE as the other two.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 10, 2015 18:47:59 GMT -5
Star Wars and the 1980s G.I. JOE as the other two. Exactly why I like the current Marvel 3.75" line. I spent my entire childhood wishing for superheroes small enough to ride along in the Millennium Falcon, pilot a Cobra HISS tank, and get trapped in the Death Star's trash compactor |
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), but those figures are SO hit or miss. Some of them look absolutely horrendous, and there are many figures in the line that make me go "they actually made that one?" while there still aren't figures of some other classic obvious choices. It's an odd series that seems to have no particular filter on quality control nor selection process.
