Hasbro - IN HAND images for the Hasbro Pulse Exclusive Marvel Legends Animated Spider-man Carnage VHS 2-Pack

This light blue goes really well with the black on the suit.

On 3/24/2023 at 1:04 PM, McHogan said:

Yeah I wasn't clear which was the animated and which was from the standard Legends line at first.

"Animated" figures like these were why it took me a while to resolve my inner turmoil about collecting them. Since some could fit into the regular waves and let's be honest, a bad paint job didn't really make then "animated". But the recent MCU stuff is much more... well cartoony.. (obviously) so thats where I drew the line. The into the Spiderverse stuff is waaaay worse so easy conflict resolution to not collect. These Spidervwrse stuff almost doesn't look like it even fits in with the first wave they put put a while back.

All animated stuff, to me, might as well be a different line moving forward.

Yeah I think in the cases of this Carnage or say VHS Cyclops, they actually toned down the animated elements on purpose, because they know that many collectors want certain characters in their collections that may have been harder to obtain, mostly for those just getting into the line, but they wanted there to be a reason behind re-releasing them so they fitted them into the whole animated thing, but others just look off with the cell shading, I myself instantly decided I wouldn't collect the animated stuff, I just don't need it all and it's a good reason to not buy stuff, as for the new ITSV stuff yes it's a totally different animal, those figures only look good among each other.

I agree Animated/MCU etc everything would be better off in their own sub-lines, but over the last few years they almost have been delegated to that, for instance GOTGV3 wave, Thor L&T, Endgame Wave 3, Eternals, D+, they are all solely MCU waves, sure there are a few waves IE like Quantumania that mix comic and Movie, but those are getting far and between, we rarely see mixed waves anymore, The mixing seems like it's based on lack of actual movie figures to make and they need filler, but we are seeing Hasbro distancing themselves from mixing waves, they seem to not mix if they don't have to, I'm cool with that, I get the necessity of still having mixed waves.

On 3/24/2023 at 12:40 PM, Lord_Scareglow said:

Despite the fact that Carnage is supposed to be an Animated version it really doesn't look much like it fits, it doesn't really have cell shading, which is cool, it looks really good, and will be a fine addition to anyone's comic display if they missed out on one of the Carnages over the years, I have no interest in the animated stuff, also I really don't need another standard Cletus Carnage, I have enough all ready.

Yeah I wasn't clear which was the animated and which was from the standard Legends line at first.

"Animated" figures like these were why it took me a while to resolve my inner turmoil about collecting them. Since some could fit into the regular waves and let's be honest, a bad paint job didn't really make then "animated". But the recent MCU stuff is much more... well cartoony.. (obviously) so thats where I drew the line. The into the Spiderverse stuff is waaaay worse so easy conflict resolution to not collect. These Spidervwrse stuff almost doesn't look like it even fits in with the first wave they put put a while back.

All animated stuff, to me, might as well be a different line moving forward.

So for once the cell shading looks pretty good on Symbiote Spidey.

Despite the fact that Carnage is supposed to be an Animated version it really doesn't look much like it fits, it doesn't really have cell shading, which is cool, it looks really good, and will be a fine addition to anyone's comic display if they missed out on one of the Carnages over the years, I have no interest in the animated stuff, also I really don't need another standard Cletus Carnage, I have enough all ready.

Show below via secondheartbat is an in-hand look at the new Hasbro Pulse Exclusive Marvel Legends Animated Spider-man Carnage VHS 2-Pack from Hasbro.

On 11/11/2022 at 6:28 AM, MODADDYDODOK said:

Despite the zipper, Id say the jacket overlayis still the best part of him. Its really the limbs that bug me most because they just make him look so average. Those legs will work great for guys like the The Collector, Mad Thinker, Heinrich Zemo, Red Ghost and classic Hydra henchmen. But Simon? Maybe if they gave him [other/new] parts under the knee that have less baggy pants and more boot. And maybe the arms from X-Factor Havok with new forearms? Those are bigger jacket arms arent they?

That's really been my issue, the limbs. His arms should be bigger than Red Skull's arms. I can't think of any arms that would have done it justice; as you mention, the closest candidate would be Havok's. They made new "sleeved" arms for the Lizard, so why not here. Using the Punisher buck, just put the jacket overlay on, tool on the turtleneck, keep the Punisher's legs (obviously recolor the boots and all), so that part would be solved. Maybe include an alt head that isn't smiling.

Again.....this isnt a bad figure. It just could be better.

Despite the zipper, Id say the jacket overlayis still the best part of him. Its really the limbs that bug me most because they just make him look so average. Those legs will work great for guys like the The Collector, Mad Thinker, Heinrich Zemo, Red Ghost and classic Hydra henchmen. But Simon? Maybe if they gave him [other/new] parts under the knee that have less baggy pants and more boot. And maybe the arms from X-Factor Havok with new forearms? Those are bigger jacket arms arent they?

On 11/10/2022 at 8:47 AM, MODADDYDODOK said:

Looking at all the classic comic images, his jacket didnt have a zipper and was still opened up at the bottom, so from that I dont see why they needed to include a zipper in the first place unless they were just going off that one drawing you can find where he is posing with Beast. If it really bugs me enough, Im just gonna shave it off and hope it looks good lol. As for the legs, Im very interested in finding a set to swap out with the Red Skull pants without taking away his height. As for the arms, yea I guess that was their only option if they wanted to add those gold/yellow wrist cuffs. I dunno.. for as much and as long as Ive wanted safari jacket Wonder Man, Im just not all that impressed with the results.

Aaaahh, now I see it. I was never a fan of West Coast Avengers or Wonder Man in particular so I had no real memory of it. Clearly this is the art the figure is based on, right down to that stupid grin. Good ol' Google, but they added the zipper for some unnecessary reason. Typical Hasbro, go overboard on some things, under perform on others, and be wrong both times. There was no need for the zipper at all. They just did it to make it an issue. Then they wanna whine when people have complaints.

On 11/10/2022 at 5:47 AM, MODADDYDODOK said:

"Looking at all the classic comic images, his jacket didnt have a zipper and was still opened up at the bottom, so from that I dont see why they needed to include a zipper in the first place unless they were just going off that one drawing you can find where he is posing with Beast...."

The first drawings of the jacket had a zipper but it was an "O" ring type, and frankly was depicted less and less, hit and miss, so if they were going for the zipper they still missed it. I can see why some people dont care for it. The bottom of the jacket was almost always shown with it opened. I maintain that they should have just made an all new mold, or used the Punisher buck; add on some bigger "civilain" arms/sleeves to go with the jacket, and you're done.