Marvel Legends January 2025 Fanstream Coverage - No Way Home Electro, X-Factor Jean, Maximum Series Spider-Man And Mini-Comic Wave

On 5/7/2025 at 2:47 PM, AndyL said:

Off the subject but since Hasbro and Marvel are into the sharing phase why can't Hasbro share in the closely guarded secret on how to use reverse ball joints with ab crunch at the same time as they do with G.I. Joe? And of course I know all the usual suspects are ready to come out and tell me about how Hasbro owns GIJ versus leasing Marvel but it still doesn't track. The money for the license is spent. Might as well make good use of it to make the best product possible. Trying to cut as may corners as you can to try and save money to recover some of the capital spent procuring the license is ridiculous. Move on. Make the best product you can so people will have the incentive to buy it and it works. I'm more than certain the fact that G.I. Joe is so well made and have a decent yet not excessive amount of accessories is the reason it does so well. It is for me. I'm not the biggest Joe fan but they are just so darn good I get as many as I can. They are always sold out. Always. And while ML still sells well I've never seen them sold out. True that maybe it's just a regional thing but I do travel to many regions in the country and it still more or less holds true.

Because all the different Toy divisions work separately to avoid any potential leaks; which clearly doesn't work

On 5/7/2025 at 7:47 AM, AndyL said:

Off the subject but since Hasbro and Marvel are into the sharing phase why can't Hasbro share in the closely guarded secret on how to use reverse ball joints with ab crunch at the same time as they do with G.I. Joe? And of course I know all the usual suspects are ready to come out and tell me about how Hasbro owns GIJ versus leasing Marvel but it still doesn't track. The money for the license is spent. Might as well make good use of it to make the best product possible. Trying to cut as may corners as you can to try and save money to recover some of the capital spent procuring the license is ridiculous.

It could be something as simple as the licensing agreement stipulates that ML figure design is limited to certain technologies, or patterns. This could have been something written in the agreement some time ago and just never gotten changed or updated. This kind of thing does happen because the licensor often wants consistency in their product, and making a mechanical change to basic tooling costs money. It's probably why the Sunfire and Vulcan tooling saw so much use.Now, why would the Maximum line suddenly be allowed to use it??Maximum would be considered to be a sub-line ML, essentially another brand within the brand, and allowing it to use new technology from the word go. ML may not get that upgrade change.At least that is what i think.

On 5/6/2025 at 3:13 PM, TheArrow said:

ROM is actually owned by Hasbro- a REVESRE-license situation to Disney/Marvel. Stems from the acquisition of Parker bros to Hasbro many years ago. What Marvel actually own of ROM is pretty much all the backstory to the character.So I think Hasbro dumped some 'passion' into this one because it's one of their own--like GI Joe, in a sense.

Off the subject but since Hasbro and Marvel are into the sharing phase why can't Hasbro share in the closely guarded secret on how to use reverse ball joints with ab crunch at the same time as they do with G.I. Joe? And of course I know all the usual suspects are ready to come out and tell me about how Hasbro owns GIJ versus leasing Marvel but it still doesn't track. The money for the license is spent. Might as well make good use of it to make the best product possible. Trying to cut as may corners as you can to try and save money to recover some of the capital spent procuring the license is ridiculous. Move on. Make the best product you can so people will have the incentive to buy it and it works. I'm more than certain the fact that G.I. Joe is so well made and have a decent yet not excessive amount of accessories is the reason it does so well. It is for me. I'm not the biggest Joe fan but they are just so darn good I get as many as I can. They are always sold out. Always. And while ML still sells well I've never seen them sold out. True that maybe it's just a regional thing but I do travel to many regions in the country and it still more or less holds true.

On 5/6/2025 at 4:13 PM, TheArrow said:

ROM is actually owned by Hasbro- a REVESRE-license situation to Disney/Marvel. Stems from the acquisition of Parker bros to Hasbro many years ago. What Marvel actually own of ROM is pretty much all the backstory to the character.So I think Hasbro dumped some 'passion' into this one because it's one of their own--like GI Joe, in a sense.

Yep, I considered that scenario because it is plausible, I was hoping Hasbro would make a line from its property from its shared comic book universe through all of itsacquisitions ie. like Micronauts, ROM (maybe even Flex Armstrong, inhumaniods, etc). I thought at least ROM and some micronauts might do decent enough to warrant a short-lived line. Still hoping Hasbro makes some characters around those ethos at least w/in the Marvel license if they're not going to do so within their properties. JUST GIVE ME A BARON KARZA!

On 5/6/2025 at 1:44 PM, SUPREME007 said:

This is 100% factual. ROM is what the team can do ON EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER. This had to have been some passion project, so why would they put a lot of budget on all new tooling, stellar paint, and a larger build for a D-list character? The articulation/build/paint stellar, accurate to just lovely. And my favorite part is the scaling. I am a big proponent of accurate scaling, the ML rarely does it right due to the reuse of like 3 male bodies. And not one example pisses me off more that silver surfer, on a spidey esque buck, wtf? Like, if they can do ROM like this at a regular price, what would even be the point of the "maximum" line? I just want an accurate taller and slender built silver surfer with a good ass paint job and yes I would pony up maximum price just to get this done even though as we all can see that is unnecessary considering the work they did with this mini comic wave.

ROM is actually owned by Hasbro- a REVESRE-license situation to Disney/Marvel. Stems from the acquisition of Parker bros to Hasbro many years ago. What Marvel actually own of ROM is pretty much all the backstory to the character.So I think Hasbro dumped some 'passion' into this one because it's one of their own--like GI Joe, in a sense.

On 5/6/2025 at 1:35 PM, Atlantis said:

You're going to be pleased, even if you're not a ROM fan. They got his silver paint right, NOT dull and bland but it really pops. The key points are however are the Articulation and Height. This toaster head mofo looks all the way up and down. Limbs have full movement, the big hip boots have swivel at the top which I love. They didn't just make it a solid fixed thing. Hey they can probably re-use those for Raza, if they ever finish out the Starjammers. Most amazing is that his big clunky torso also has movement AND he has an ab crunch! Now I was never expecting a ROM figure, and wouldn't whine if they never did him. But I thought if they ever did, he wouldn't have a lot of movement in that torso, given the robotic design he has. So....WOW. Jet pack is comic accurate too. They also got his height correct! ROM is supposed to be 7' and way too often they get these heights wrong (Silver Surfer, Falcon, Vision, Luke Cage, etc) but here he's just about right.

OK I'm not a figure reviewer and probably went too long on this, but this is just an example of what the team CAN do. ROM isn't some A lister, never was, never will be. There's no movie or tv show coming out about him, so there's no media "push" for them to do him. Just good solid outstanding work for a character a lot of people liked back in the 80s.

This is 100% factual. ROM is what the team can do ON EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER. This had to have been some passion project, so why would they put a lot of budget on all new tooling, stellar paint, and a larger build for a D-list character? The articulation/build/paint stellar, accurate to just lovely. And my favorite part is the scaling. I am a big proponent of accurate scaling, the ML rarely does it right due to the reuse of like 3 male bodies. And not one example pisses me off more that silver surfer, on a spidey esque buck, wtf? Like, if they can do ROM like this at a regular price, what would even be the point of the "maximum" line? I just want an accurate taller and slender built silver surfer with a good ass paint job and yes I would pony up maximum price just to get this done even though as we all can see that is unnecessary considering the work they did with this mini comic wave.

On 5/6/2025 at 8:56 AM, leokearon said:

Good to know ROM is great. Can't wait to get one myself

You're going to be pleased, even if you're not a ROM fan. They got his silver paint right, NOT dull and bland but it really pops. The key points are however are the Articulation and Height. This toaster head mofo looks all the way up and down. Limbs have full movement, the big hip boots have swivel at the top which I love. They didn't just make it a solid fixed thing. Hey they can probably re-use those for Raza, if they ever finish out the Starjammers. Most amazing is that his big clunky torso also has movement AND he has an ab crunch! Now I was never expecting a ROM figure, and wouldn't whine if they never did him. But I thought if they ever did, he wouldn't have a lot of movement in that torso, given the robotic design he has. So....WOW. Jet pack is comic accurate too. They also got his height correct! ROM is supposed to be 7' and way too often they get these heights wrong (Silver Surfer, Falcon, Vision, Luke Cage, etc) but here he's just about right.

OK I'm not a figure reviewer and probably went too long on this, but this is just an example of what the team CAN do. ROM isn't some A lister, never was, never will be. There's no movie or tv show coming out about him, so there's no media "push" for them to do him. Just good solid outstanding work for a character a lot of people liked back in the 80s.

On 5/5/2025 at 11:11 PM, Atlantis said:

These, and other reasons, are why I practically stopped buying hasbo's stuff. Half the figures they make, its either deliberate sabotage for this figure, or sloppy incompetence on that one. The one constant, is that the finished product won't be what its supposed to be, and that its overpriced for what you get.

And then out of the madness you get something like a Spiral or a ROM. Near-absolute perfection. Which takes me over the moon with them....and then RIGHT BACK DOWN 'cause it proves they can do good work when they want to.

I bought that ROM, just to see what it would be like; I don't know if its been reviewed yet by any of the usual toadiessuspects, but let me tell you.....OUTSTANDING.

Good to know ROM is great. Can't wait to get one myself

On 3/26/2025 at 4:00 AM, RandomRaccoon said:

"....You're 100% right about the small omissions/missed opportunities=cutting corners thing. I believe one more thing is going in, and it's what keeps us buying....Hasbro's continuous rollout of Spider-Man figures--- and let's be honest, this goes for EVERY figure they make, in EVERY line---will never result in the end-all, 100% complete ultimate base Spider-Man figure, because if that happened, a lot of us would stop buying them....Instead, they put out one Spider-Man figure after another that's always missing SOMETHING.....etc. We'll never reach that line....Look at what they just did with X-factor Jean and her boots error! "

These, and other reasons, are why I practically stopped buying hasbo's stuff. Half the figures they make, its either deliberate sabotage for this figure, or sloppy incompetence on that one. The one constant, is that the finished product won't be what its supposed to be, and that its overpriced for what you get.

And then out of the madness you get something like a Spiral or a ROM. Near-absolute perfection. Which takes me over the moon with them....and then RIGHT BACK DOWN 'cause it proves they can do good work when they want to.

I bought that ROM, just to see what it would be like; I don't know if its been reviewed yet by any of the usual toadiessuspects, but let me tell you.....OUTSTANDING.

Re: NWH Electro price reduced to $29.99

Not quite there yet Amazon. Get that thing down to the $24.99 point where it should have been to begin with. With no Jamie Foxx head sculpt it's not worth anymore than that. I've seen all the videos where people pried off that little plastic on the face and convinced themselves it kind of looks like Jamie enough for their liking but that ain't me. To me it was basically the same value as the Retro Card Francine Fry Electro. One figure, two hands and the exact same electric effects. The fact that it came in an oversized box didn't make it Deluxe.