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Who were those two blobs supposed to be?

I didn't really enjoy that story in the comics either, so yea, wasn't a fan on-screen either. Hated how Storm blames Forge for "working for the government" at one point. How did she think he got that hand and leg blown off in a war--something he started himself?

WAY too much story compression of the Madelyne Pryor and Inferno stories. Her proclaiming "I shall be Madelyne Pryor!" at the end was goofy and made no sense, plus we got no indication for why she became so enamored with and closely tied to demons. Liked it, just not as much as the trial of Magneto because it felt overly-compressed.

It's not real. You have to be careful about who's publishing a trailer--if it's not the studio making the film then just assume it's fake, or as Screen Culture likes to call them "concept trailers."

Loved it. They better have had a good reason for firing the guy behind this.

Medicom re-released the 2020 Mafex Venom recently that's styled after his original look by McFarlane in Amazing Spider-Man from the early 1990s, and I went ahead and picked it up this time. I skipped it originally because it's a bit short, but I love Thor which is the same size but even smaller than he should be since Thor is supposed to be 6' 6" and Eddie Brock is 6' 3". Brock was also supposed to be 260 pounds, and he definitely looks it in the second pic below, whereas the Mafex looks more around 200 or so. Later artists just kept making Venom bigger and bigger with the symbiote adding a ton of extra height and bulk to its host, so this Mafex version is much smaller than the character is now. The head in the pic below is probably modelled after the cover to ASM #316 shown below. LOVE this guy, very glad I finally got him. This one is better than the 2020 version simply because Medicom has changed their plastic since then and EVERY joint is far tighter than Mafex joints were up until around 2022.

Yea, not sure, I only think about sixth scale stuff every 3 to 6 months, sometimes I ignore that market for a year or more. But 2-3 years ago I looked at the available forums and thought collectorfreaks.com was the one with the most people who discuss Hot Toys and comparable sixth scale figures. Over the last year I seriously considered the Hot Toys Ahsoka figures, but reading through the collectorfreaks threads on them I found that both the Clone Wars and Mandalorian versions have those latex-covered elbow joints that look awesome but are highly prone to tearing if you leave them in bent positions. I really don't want to deal with that kind of headache so I abandoned the idea of buying either. The idea of being forced to leave my figures in vanilla poses to preserve them offends me.

I actually thought Sideshow Freaks WAS Sideshow's forum, but now I'm seeing that's wrong since you go to one but hadn't seen the other.

Linking to other forums is totally fine, never heard any mod complain about it. Have you used the Sideshow forums? I'm guessing those might have more traffic than OneSixthFigures, but I'll definitely check that one out over the upcoming months. OneSixthFigures sounds better for discussing multiple lines though, although Sideshow seems to end up selling most or possibly all sixth scale figure brands anyway so people discuss more than just Hot Toys and Sideshow figures there. https://www.collectorfreaks.com/

Err, I said "HoTo", but I guess it's "Hono". Wonder why they didn't go with Hoto? It's like Hot Toys abbreviated, which is particularly apt for a budget Hot Toys line.

Here's that forthcoming HoTo comic Wolverine. @Dave2739 -- any idea if these HoTo figures will eventually get a more deluxe release? I've got no FOMO with Hot Toys, so I can easily wait years if they've indicated they will release two versions of each figure, or if it seems likely that they will eventually. My guess is they've already said they will release both entry level and deluxe versions or that they'll say it within the next year or so if they haven't already.

Yep, I've got my eye on him as well--he releases a few months before Magneto. But all I intend to do is watch reviews because I'm already happy with my 12-inch Marvel Legends Wolverine, whereas I lean towards picking up Magneto because he's my one exception as my favorite villain. The Legends Wolverine is a top 5 of all time action figure across all scales, and there is no possible way the Hot Toys version could ever eclipse him all things considered for an action figure. Aesthetically Hot Toys will win by quite a bit, but articulation-wise the Legends one will kill it, EASILY, without any real contest. It's pretty much the same as the 6-inch Legends figure just scaled up with quite a bit more detailing as the pic below illustrates (the twelfth scale figure is the Love Triangle Wolverine from the 3-pack with Cyclops and Jean Grey). My main issue with Hot Toys remains the same eight years after I first started looking at them--I can pose the guy below however I want for whatever length of time I want, but you can't leave Hot Toys figures in any pose close to the one below because it will degrade the costume and/or joints (depending upon the figure's design) too quickly.

Entry level? What does that mean? Does it imply a higher-end figure comes later? And what exactly is entry level about this guy? Aside from lacking quite as many accessories as many Hot Toys figures come with I wonder what's "entry level" about this release? The detailing looks as good as any Hot Toys figure I ever see...

I'm considering this guy too since Magneto is my absolute favorite villain. I also am bummed there are no extra heads. Those magnetic effects are the best ones I've ever seen. I have the Mondo sixth scale Magneto figure from the animated series and those are fun because his hands are magnetic and the effects cling to the hands, but the design of these is a big aesthetic improvement on any I've seen before. But I'm skeptical The Mondo Magneto is the only sixth scale articulated figure I have aside from all dozen or so that Marvel Legends released from around 2014 to 2019, and I'm HUGELY skeptical of how fragile the components are on the Sideshow brands like Hot Toys, Sideshow itself, and now this company which is called Hono that I know zero about. Definitely waiting for reviews before I jump. I'm not buying any more Mondo figures because I really don't like the articulation and engineering. And I look at EVERY one they release from the X-Men animated series because they look spectacular, but the articulation is just not good at all by the standards the 1:12 scale has made me come to expect. Every Hot Toys and Sideshow figure I've seen reviews for also have MUCH less articulation than almost all 6-inch figures these days, and Mondo has multiple engineering issues. My Magneto's ankles aren't tight enough for him to stand in any kind of dynamic pose at all for more than a few hours at best, so I can only really pose him in vanilla-legged poses. I don't want figures that take up as much space as sixth scale figures do if I can't pose them however I want. The Legends 12-inch figures are mostly just as poseable as their 6-inch figures are--although certainly their later ones released around 2017 to 2019 are far more poseable than the first batch from 2014 to 2016. But even the early Legends 12-inch figures from Hasbro (Toy Biz made a bunch as well in the 2000s that are nowhere near as good as Hasbro's) have MUCH better articulation than any Hot Toys, Sideshow, or any other 12-inch figure I've seen to date. Can't wait to learn more about this Hono Magneto! I highly doubt I'll end up liking him enough to eclipse the Mafex Magneto which is absolute perfection, but I sure do hope I'm wrong about that. Certainly the potential is there since the sixth scale is so much more detailed than the twelfth scale, but so few of the companies focus on articulation in that scale that I'm just not a fan of it for now.

Interesting history, thanks for sharing. The McCarthy era laws make complete sense. The Hollywood Reporter article explicitly stated she was looking for reinstatement, at least $75K, and punitive damages. Their article also has a PDF of the complete suit filing but I didn't read through it: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/gina-carano-sues-disney-mandalorian-firing-lawsuit-elon-musk-1235817466/ So now we wait to see if DeMayo ever talks publicly about his own firing or files his own suit.