Ok. To start let's take on faith that Mego, in a "1978 re-imagined" sense, would never have taken on a property like This Island Earth. The license wouldn't have had enough recognition in it (leaving aside the Sid & Marty Kroft and Lost In Space vs the why the hell Our Gang topics) ... I digress. There can be differing schools of thought on whether they might have started a Fearsome Film type offshoot - but I think they'd be more likely to go the no name route and do a Metaluna homage rather than pay licensing fees. Whether it had glow hands and eyes is a whole other thing...
Anyway here's the short form -
IF they had produced a figure based directly on the design of the mut-ant, (and I have always had a pretty solidly formed outfit construction and design idea in my head) would they make standard hands or elongated arms for the claws?
Which is to say - Presuming that the character had a printed sleeve ala spidey for whatever length the arm became, AND they didn't Cher-Disco-Monkey out the design like half the trek figures, do you think MEGO would have made:
A) a specialized hand in normal hand scale (IE T2 Lizard, apes etc) that was a claw... or do you think they would have designed
B) a longer construct for the claw hand part that began at the wrist, essentially giving the figure a "second elbow" so the arms were the right length ... or do you think they would have gone with
C) a static, wrist-free longer forearm-claw combo like the T1 Lizard?
Anyway here's the short form -
IF they had produced a figure based directly on the design of the mut-ant, (and I have always had a pretty solidly formed outfit construction and design idea in my head) would they make standard hands or elongated arms for the claws?
Which is to say - Presuming that the character had a printed sleeve ala spidey for whatever length the arm became, AND they didn't Cher-Disco-Monkey out the design like half the trek figures, do you think MEGO would have made:
A) a specialized hand in normal hand scale (IE T2 Lizard, apes etc) that was a claw... or do you think they would have designed
B) a longer construct for the claw hand part that began at the wrist, essentially giving the figure a "second elbow" so the arms were the right length ... or do you think they would have gone with
C) a static, wrist-free longer forearm-claw combo like the T1 Lizard?
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