Could The Haslab Galactus Become Celestial Ziran???

This week the Hasbro Marvel Legends brand team has begun doing interviews with their normal group of influencers in order to try and drum up support and build hype for the Haslab crowdsourcing Galactus figure project that has seemingly stalled out a bit since it launched back on July 16. The project requires a minimum of 14k backers by August 30. A hefty goal considering the 32" tall figure has a price tag of $399.99. With just under 2 weeks to go the project has 11,878 backers. Last Monday morning before Hasbro's most recent live-stream it broke 11k, but in over a week has yet to hit 12k. Still if you are hoping this goes forward I wouldn't panic to much at this point. These types of things often get significant boosts in backers going into the final days which I would also expect to see with Galactus.

While the backing of Galactus himself seems more likely than not in my opinion, the slow pace this project has been moving does make the likely hood many if any of the additional unlockable tiers getting added will happen.

Hasbro recently announced if the project were to surpass 16k backers they would throw in a 6" Marvel Legends Frankie Raye Nova figure with fire base. They've also teased some kind of Silver Surfer figure as another unlockable item. Surprisingly neither thing has moved the backer count up a significant amount.

At the time I report this, I have only seen a couple of these Hasbro interviews go live and only one had a possible tid-bit of info I thought was worth bringing to your attention. I will compile them all together here for you once they have all gone live so you dont have to go searching for them, but the interview I wanted to highlight today comes from Boog_ACBA.



In the interview Hasbro gives their reasons for why Galactus costs more than last years Sentinel and why the backer count is so much higher. Long answer short they blame rising costs in plastics and shipping primarily due to the pandemic, which to be fair I would say has some validity to it.

That however isn't the part I really found that interesting and for those who think it's to expensive, I doubt they care much why it's so expensive. No the part I found interesting is where they give a possible clue to one of the potential unlockable items they had planned for this one.

In the interview they talk about how when the project was first announced they teased a troop builder aspect that one of the unlockable tiers might add to the figure. They still wouldn't go into specifics but Dwight Stall mentioned how a giant body like Galactus could be used for other things such as Celestials. He then went on to say they have one option that would allow folks to get more use out of the Galactus body.

This leads me to believe perhaps one of the unlockable items is an alternate Celestial head and/or other parts that you could swap out to make a Celestial figure of some kind from Galactus. If so the most likely choice would be the Celestial known as Ziran who has similar colors and design to Galactus. I have created some mock up images of how this might look.

Like we saw last year with the Master Mold head for the Sentinel, I doubt it would give us a 100% accurate representation of the character, but I could see it being close.

Now granted since the the chances the project will reach the backer count needed to unlock something like this are not looking great, I get its probably a moot point anyway. Still I am curious to know what they had planned and honestly if they were smart would just go on an tell us what all the goals are. It may not make much of a difference either way, but it certainly couldn't hurt to show us at this point.