A Marvel Legends rant

This rant is not my average Wishlist rant like say: Spit would be a nice ML to have and point out how could he be made. It's  a bit like that, but it will have a bit more commentary than just posting what I want.

Alteregos/secret identities:
I know that theoretically speaking these normally wouldn't sell as well as their costumed versions. But somehow we got more than one "civilian outfit Logan". We've also got in a couple of Tony Starks. So far all of them have been Robert Downey Jr. Starks but it's still Tony Stark. Hell there's even a Mark Ruffalo Bruce Banner figure. And we are getting a Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy.

Where am I going with this?
That it would be nice to get some key characters in their secret identities. For example the recent Super skrull wave (it'll come out of the toy chest soon.) Has grey She-Hulk. It would be cool to have a Jennifer Walters figure before the transformation. All that Hasbro needs to do is take the Mary Jane figure they made for the Toys R Us Spider-Man 2 pack but with a new head in and repaint the body in the gray shirt blue jeans look that She-Hulk has. I've mentioned how easy would be to make a Bruce Banner. Then there are characters like Norman Osborn, Matt Murdock, Steve Rogers, Eddie Brock, etc. that would be cool to have. Also I want an excuse for a trench coat Ben Grimm.

While some of these people can actually make them on their own light using the Walgreens Daredevil Matt Murdock head and a Tony Stark body to make a Matt Murdock, the problem lies on the skin tones. One would have to either Bank the head or the hands to match colors  and that can be a bit complicated to some collectors.


Also having civilian versions of superhero characters can make some interesting displays. For example you have Sentinels attacking New York hunting mutants. You have to display with the X-Men fighting the Sentinels add normal people running away. Among these people you can see Peter Parker taking Pics, Ben Grimm holding some debris from falling on a civilian.

Or an Avengers vs AIM display and among the cicilians, there's a short angry and stabby Canadian. Spider-Man is swinging in civilian cloyhs with only his mask and gloves.

Basically they would be cool Nifty Easter eggs for some displays.

This brings me to my next point which would be supporting characters. We've had various teams of Avengers but we don't have Edwin Jarvis. We don't have an official J Jonah Jameson, Aunt May, Norman Osborn just to name a few characters that can be useful in a Spider-Man display.

Speaking of Displays, We need "playsets". I have lightly touched this when I suggested Arcade with a Murderworld. I suggested murderworld originally because it's small enough and Modular to be a first attempt experiment. Also murderworld can be expanded if Hasbro would release expansion sets which would be smaller play things to add to the original display.

The danger room would be another small place at that could work.  not only that but you can release two or three versions of it with different gimmicks. Like say: Savage Land/Mojoworld Danger Room, Outer Space/Marine simulation Danger Room, Dystopian future/ Genosha war zone Danger Room  all three playsets would come with a "third theme" which is Standard/no holo Danger Room mode. Theoretically speaking all three sets should combine into a deluxe danger room.

So far The X-Men are the only ones who can get away with a playset. Characters like Spider-Man Daredevil or Punisher can get away with third-party generic street, rooftop, and sewer dioramas. Well in Spider-Man's case you can also add high-tech secret lab dioramas.

While you COULD make a Daily Bugle, an Oscorp, or a Fisk Tower playset, they would be limited on the play part of a playset.

Now that I think of it the Fantastic Four could get away with a castle Doom playset. I'm not going to go into the details of a theoretical Castle Doom playset because my brain wants to rip off the hell out of Castle Grayskull.

A Wakanda playset would be kind of cool, so would a Savage Land,  maybe a Hydra headquarters... but sadly many of these would be too obscure for little Timmy and his mom.

Then there's the whole this isn't the 80s were Figures were like $3 and playsets for 20 now figures are 20 and play sets are like $100...

I don't think we'll ever see Vehicles because those can never be made to scale.  for example the Blackbird, it would be roughly nine ft long and almost 5ft wide due to the wingspan. If Unicron barely made it out of the Hasbro pulse lab I don't think this one would.
I think the only vehicle that could officially make it would be the fantasticar and that would be if they stick to the Mark 1 bathtub design. Maybe the villain known as Big Wheel but it's a big freaking wheel.

 I don't think they can come up with any more Wolverine figures right?
Astonishing X-Men, new X-Men,bone claws feral Wolverine, oh dammit!