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Frankly, I'd prefer to have loose elbows than the strangely twisted, scrawny body Mattel gave us. Was looking at Mattel's Wonder Woman the other day; lordy, those legs are hideously deformed. The Mego female body has faults, but at least it looks healthy and...somewhat human.Comment
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Frankly, I'd prefer to have loose elbows than the strangely twisted, scrawny body Mattel gave us. Was looking at Mattel's Wonder Woman the other day; lordy, those legs are hideously deformed. The Mego female body has faults, but at least it looks healthy and...somewhat human.Comment
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Frankly, I'd prefer to have loose elbows than the strangely twisted, scrawny body Mattel gave us. Was looking at Mattel's Wonder Woman the other day; lordy, those legs are hideously deformed. The Mego female body has faults, but at least it looks healthy and...somewhat human.
It has already been proven the body swap makes the female proportions much better and a more natural lookingComment
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Hands that can be replaced
nothing "scrawny" about the Mattel body vs the Mego itty-bitty child breasts and un-natural oversized hips and a mid section that flops over because of the rubber band
It has already been proven the body swap makes the female proportions much better and a more natural looking
In the end, it's all a matter of personal taste and opinion, not a provable fact, which looks better. As for Mattel's proportions: Knock knees. Wide shoulders. Boy hips. Oddly bulging forearms (I yam what i yam!). Truncated torso. Elongated Man's neck. Big hands in perpetual claw-your-eye-out position. It's like drug induced Rob Leifeld Image comic come to life. Ick.Comment
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Proven to you. maybe. There's nothing natural about the Mattel body's bony, anorexic torso or those gnarled legs. And it's actually the Mattel figures that have the worst waists; most are incapable of standing straight no matter what you do, male or female. If FTC moved to bodies like Mattel's, that'd be the last figures I'd buy from them.
In the end, it's all a matter of personal taste and opinion, not a provable fact, which looks better. As for Mattel's proportions: Knock knees. Wide shoulders. Boy hips. Oddly bulging forearms (I yam what i yam!). Truncated torso. Elongated Man's neck. Big hands in perpetual claw-your-eye-out position. It's like drug induced Rob Leifeld Image comic come to life. Ick.
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Proven to you. maybe. There's nothing natural about the Mattel body's bony, anorexic torso or those gnarled legs. And it's actually the Mattel figures that have the worst waists; most are incapable of standing straight no matter what you do, male or female. If FTC moved to bodies like Mattel's, that'd be the last figures I'd buy from them.
In the end, it's all a matter of personal taste and opinion, not a provable fact, which looks better. As for Mattel's proportions: Knock knees. Wide shoulders. Boy hips. Oddly bulging forearms (I yam what i yam!). Truncated torso. Elongated Man's neck. Big hands in perpetual claw-your-eye-out position. It's like drug induced Rob Leifeld Image comic come to life. Ick.Comment
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The main issue seems to be that we need a new option. We need a female body that is compatible with the mego female heads, clothes and accessories that is a little more reliable and better fitting, that is a little more busty and realistic.
Actually, most people would probably be happy if FTC just recast a couple of the pre-existing parts to fix these issues. Or if someone else out there would recast a more realist bustline and a better set of hips, the arms and legs would probably be fine. Many have already shown that they would pay the $20 plus shipping to get a good body. I'm one of them. If we could just get those 2 parts redone, how much money could someone make??? Actually, a thin plastic clip-on set of boobs and hips that are easy to add over top of a current body would probably work. If done right, they could even even out the posture problems people complain about.
JeffBearCOLast edited by jeffbearco; Apr 21, '17, 3:55 PM.Comment
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Couldn't agree more, Scott. If FTC ever started using the same type of body, I'd be done. I'm just glad that Cheetah's costume covers that funky Mattel body. As much as I love WW, I still have a hard time looking at the Mattel WW and not cringing. My preference? Original Mego bodies. That is all I really use for the most part and it goes back to personal taste. I would rather pay a few extra dollars for old Dinah Mite and Waltons figures and re-purpose the bodies. Are they perfect? No. But they have held up very well over the years and still hold great poses.
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Thanks for proving my point. Knock knees, Elongated Man's neck, short torso, no discernible hips...
Seriously, though, the FTC body does have some issues the original Mego females didn't; there really isn't a body out there outside maybe the Yvonne figure that actually works as well as the old Megos. Even Doc Mego's female body with the hips you can push in is significantly short in the torso. Thing is, a modified body with a little more detail wouldn't be bad (a clavicle on the chest would be nice, as long is it isn't horribly bony like Mattel's), but I don't really want something too far afield from the original Mego look; what I'm looking for is something that complements the original figures. If I want to leave them as is, I'd like the retro inspired figures to fit in with the old Megos. If I want them for custom fodder, I definitely need them to be as much like the old figures as possible (no desire to switch a few hundred figures to new bodies to match, and that's not even really possible in some cases; I don't even know how I put my Lightning Lad together after all these years, much less how to take him apart ). I'm a life-long Mego fan, and that's pretty much the main market they are catering to here; the original 8" Megos still look really good in a properly made costume. and capture the 70's Neal Adams/Jim Aparo/Irv Novick/etc super hero look dead on. I just want to be able to say the same about the FTC figures, which I often can't, sadly.Last edited by scott metzger; Apr 24, '17, 8:46 AM.Comment
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^^^ I do agree that the mattel body has knee issues, but the neck is a lot better than the frightened turtle look of the FTC bodied Batgirl that Teemu posted. the Mattel body also solves some of the bigheadedness of the FTC figure too.You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. -Ernie BanksComment
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Thanks for proving my point. Knock knees, Elongated Man's neck, short torso, no discernible hips...
Seriously, though, the FTC body does have some issues the original Mego females didn't; there really isn't a body out there outside maybe the Yvonne figure that actually works as well as the old Megos. Even Doc Mego's female body with the hips you can push in is significantly short in the torso. Thing is, a modified body with a little more detail wouldn't be bad (a clavicle on the chest would be nice, as long is it isn't horribly bony like Mattel's), but I don't really want something too far afield from the original Mego look; what I'm looking for is something that complements the original figures. If I want to leave them as is, I'd like the retro inspired figures to fit in with the old Megos. If I want them for custom fodder, I definitely need them to be as much like the old figures as possible (no desire to switch a few hundred figures to new bodies to match, and that's not even really possible in some cases; I don't even know how I put my Lightning Lad together after all these years, much less how to take him apart ). I'm a life-long Mego fan, and that's pretty much the main market they are catering to here; the original 8" Megos still look really good in a properly made costume. and capture the 70's Neal Adams/Jim Aparo/Irv Novick/etc super hero look dead on. I just want to be able to say the same about the FTC figures, which I often can't, sadly.
If you never did the body swap then,how can you even conclude what looks better when you never have transferred it yourself to compare.
The "Knock knees" as you call them, you can't even see when clothed
At least the Mattel torso doesn't stay flopped over from an over-tightened rubber band and then always having to re-position it probably why most people won't open these figures
The body swaps (also onto S-types) clearly have shown to help the FTC head size issues too
As far as the hips? While the Mattel hips may have a more "teenish hips", it's a far cry from the unproportioned over-sized hips that FTC uses
I know a lot of the reason why most don't want to change the bodies out because it costs more money,I get that...but the swaps have proven over and over to be a success and look much better for these figures. My 66 Batman Collection has been a testament to that fact.Comment
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