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Robert White
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Posted: 08 May 2009 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Wow. That's a lot to think about.

I can see myself getting addicted to these. Maybe if I stick to the A list characters I'll be safe? Perhaps...
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Stick to the A list characters .......

Yeah, right!

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It becomes a Seven degrees of Kevin Bacon type collecting.

I'll get Captain America... the Avengers... their villains... villains... well I have Doom so I'll get the FF... isn't Spidey Johnny Storm's friend... DD knows him... Marvel Knights...

Doesn't DC have a collection? lol
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Deciding to get just the A list characters? 

Yeah, good luck with that!

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you'll end up buying them ALL and putting the "less favourable" ones at the back of the shelf.......in the third cabinet....in your new bespoke display room....

 

LOL

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My figures are already split into two locations, work and home.  Not enough space in either spot.
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That's your excuse Ryan, same one I use to hide my out-goings from Mrs Reaper   LOL

 

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Midtown Comics has these on sale for 35% off through June 11!  No code word needed.

Steve:  Shhhhh...

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Robert White
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Aren't most of these figures more or less to scale with each other? I've been wondering if the sculps were modeled by using the old Handbook height statistics. Probably not.

Quick, someone do the math and figure out how big a scale Celestial would be! ;)
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Not really to scale with each other.  A few are really off.  Dr. Strange is a glaring example of a figurine sculpted way too big.  Put him in the Defenders as a group and he's the height of the Hulk and taller than Namor! The Super Skrull is smaller than I would imagine him to be.  Ditto Captain Britain. Most, though, look just fine next to each other.
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Scale is really tough to do right at this size. Even if the sculptors manage to
get the scale consistent in their original sculpts, there's always a good
chance of error creeping in during the scale-down process. Personally, I
think Eaglemoss has done an admirable job at keeping things consistent,
but there are definite hiccups here and there.
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James Woodcock
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Hey, they did better with the scale of Wolverine than the current comics do.
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