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I love how when her powers return her mohawk turns into a full head of hair.

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.

Many states have laws that make it pretty easy to fire commercial sector employees for virtually any reason as long as it doesn't violate Constitutional rights protections like race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. From what I can tell Carano's lawyers filed the suit in California which doesn't have as many of those laws as other states do, so I have no idea what they'll be able to do there. Florida does have some of those laws and that's where Disney is based out of, but certainly Carano did most or all of her work in Los Angeles so maybe that's the right venue. I dunno how venue is determined for jobs that involve frequent travel, but you've got to pay state tax somewhere for states that have income tax so if she paid California tax on her Disney income then I doubt Disney can argue they brought it to the wrong court.

Given that it's Elon Musk backing her she may not settle. One of her demands is that Disney immediately re-hire her and cast her in their content, and it's easy to see Musk continuing to back her until he's made his point about free speech in a way that inflicts maximum pain and public exposure to Disney.

The difference there is there's not much way to let justice proceed with Gunn and Carano--they didn't break laws, so the court of public opinion was the only place they were ever going to get tried, so Disney had no arbiter to help them determine guilt or innocence in most people's minds. With Majors they had a state investigating him, so it was easier to let them work it out first. If you fire him before he's even tried and then he turns out to be innocent then there would have been instant and immediate backlash as soon as the trial ended for presuming him guilty instead of innocent.

Wow, he was there for Roseanne too, so yep, I guess he may have done it to DeMayo as well. I tried to figure that one out but never could make sense of it--including after hearing her air her side to Marc Maron on his "WTF" podcast. I'm five times more interested in the DeMayo firing now that it looks like X-Men '97 is better than expected.

Wow, absolutely GLOWING reviews. Was looking forward to it...now I can't wait!

The Gunn and Carano firings were under Chapak. I don't recall any controversies like this under Iger, but I may be forgetting or missed some. If DeMayo was indeed fired for nude pics buried deep behind a pay wall them I guess this will be an example of Iger doing it. All three firings are fairly prudish, but I can definitely see the angle of "we're a family values company" so I'm not shocked by any of them, just disappointed. The worst behavior of the three was probably Carano. I don't even disagree with what she was trying to say, but wow did she choose incredibly crass ways to make her points. I doubt she wins her lawsuit, but I guess we'll see. Supposedly Elon Musk is paying for her lawyers so that certainly improves her chances of he's willing to blow enough money on it.

That's what I'm seeing people speculate on in other forums, and the Hollywood Reporter article mentions it as well. I haven't seen enough details to have an opinion though. The article isn't clear about what he posted there aside from describing it as non-explicit, but supposedly he did post full frontal nude shots on it--just no sex pics with other people. But the article also notes that his Only Fans account isn't there anymore, but I have no idea how long ago he shut it down. If it was within the last week then that's a red flag that maybe Disney did fire him over it. I'm mostly interested in it over the idea of what sort of personal behavior should employers care about. James Gunn's firing by Disney seemed far too overly harsh. I don't think I saw enough Gina Carano tweets to have an opinion about her firing, but it's interesting that she just filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against them last month. If DeMayo did get fired over full frontal nudes then that seems about as questionable as Gunn's firing.

The Black Knight/Sersi 2-pack that's exclusive to Amazon is on sale today. https://www.amazon.com/Avengers-AVN-Legends-ANV-Brown/dp/B0BDJ6F4ZN

Ah, crud, I just noticed today that Nolan did this movie with Universal and not Warner Brothers like all of his other movies. I just assumed it was WB, but nope, he was pissed about them releasing Tenet straight to streaming and jumped studios. I've been waiting for Oppenheimer's Max release for no reason. I've already seen it, but my significant other hasn't and wants to. Looks like it might just be this one film though since WB replaced their studio head right before Tenet released, but then replaced him in 2022. But who knows, he was reportedly also pissed that the new WB execs chose to release Barbie the same weekend as Oppenheimer knowing that Nolan's films have almost always released on the same mid-July weekend.