Up Close: Wolverine

[The Bat]

Ya know after much debate with myself, I just cancelled my Wolverine set at BBTS. The more I looked at it and the price I figured why do I need this? When I have Black Knight's custom WOLVERINE! I'll be content with that.

[wise guy]

Wow that custom Wolverine is way better than the Diamond version ! Maybe Black Knight should be making these for Marvel in place of Diamond /Emce.

[The Bat]

Wow that custom Wolverine is way better than the Diamond version ! Maybe Black Knight should be making these for Marvel in place of Diamond /Emce.

BINGO!! If only somebody was smart enough to hire him as their Prototype designer.

[Teemu]

Eh,I'd rather see John Farley to be the prototype designer for these.His suits are machine sewn and goes beyond with the details.He understands that folks want high end detailed Mego's while replicating the classic comic book look

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[wise guy]

Both of these customs look professional and highly detailed with good faces and suits and the 80.00 set looks like a bad custom

[wise guy]

The brown and orange Wolverine, and Logan, look pretty good( in most of the pics) but the yellow one not so much.
If they would have put Wolverine( brown and orange) in the collector box and made RC yellow the extra suit, it would
looked a lot better at retail

[The Bat]

Eh,I'd rather see John Farley to be the prototype designer for these.His suits are machine sewn and goes beyond with the details.He understands that folks want high end detailed Mego's while replicating the classic comic book look

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Sorry, no offence to John(I consider him a good friend)but BK's is better. Also, John's is to tall and I'm not to fond of the head sculpt.

[boss]

I'd vote for Capt Mego as having the best Wolverine custom.

[The Bat]

I'd vote for Capt Mego as having the best Wolverine custom.

Haven't see it...got a picture?

[Teemu]

I'd vote for Capt Mego as having the best Wolverine custom.

yeah,Captain Mego mostly doesn't sculpt his own heads though.Most customizer's boosts (steals from) other people's work it seems

Farley sculpts his own heads,makes everything from scratch (bodies,suits machine sewn,etc)

[Gorn Captain]

Yellow Wolverine doesn't look well, a pity. The cowl isn't working at all.
The brown one looks better, but he does have a weird line on his chin from casting.

Oddly enough, none of their healing powers seem to be working properly, I'd say...

[kresge1]

I'd vote for Capt Mego as having the best Wolverine custom.

Do you own one, can you post a pic? Make sure you let us know whose head he boosted

[thunderbolt]

Do you own one, can you post a pic? Make sure you let us know whose head he boosted

seems like Teemu could tell us that.

[huedell]

I'm not a fan of Diamond/EMCE's RM Wolvie---but, then again, I'm not a fan of Mego's RM Batman either!

I'm gonna have to challenge the naysayers, and say "What the jehosaphat's goin' on here with the extreme negative design commentary?"

ALL three look as Mego as you can get. There's that.

But what I find truly odd, is that people are posting and championing customs, praising their designs over Diamond/EMCE's when Diamond/EMCE's actually LOOK LIKE MEGOS.

Why don't we just start posting Flatt's and begin THAT debate for the umpteenth time in this thread? After reading a lot of these posts, it seems just as well to do so.

Sometimes I think that people who make these posts with don't understand the goals of Diamond/EMCE, or I think, maybe they never really liked Mego WGSH figures to begin with.

[MIB41]

^^^ There's a glut of product out there for the Mego scale figure right now, which suggests an expansion within the marketplace that goes beyond the standard 45 to 50 year old that grew up with them. I think it's time to drop the illusion that only one style fits all. Neca is making a eight inch figure that is a hybrid between Mego and McFarlane styles that has found a great response on many licenses they've used it on thus far. FTC is replicating the original Mego look from the early 70's, but also moving forward with more detailed figures with better designs than Mego ever envisioned. And then you have BBP who is taking all of those ideas and going after a very wide range of age groups with licensing from the 70's, 80's, and present day. Blend in EMCE and Diamond Direct then add the customizers who privately sell their goods and you have this vast array of styles that plug the Mego scale but also bring their own inventiveness to the table in some very pleasing ways that one can't duplicate in a factory without an enormous impact to cost. So I don't feel there is any conspiracy to demean lines so much as point out matters that involve either personal taste or indeed issues of actual quality that need to be talked about. Forums would cease to exist if everyone shared the same herd mentality that only those making these products 'know better' and we're to 'be grateful' and follow their lead.

This is the free market at work and anyone who steps into this arena had best have a thick skin because the consumer speaks loudly regarding this particular product. What's deemed valid in that conversation is ultimately whether those viewpoints encourage or discourage wallets to open or close on the matter, because no one does this without some measure of risk involved. There's almost no product I can think of in recent memory that has received overwhelming support across the board. People have their point of view and I think they should be heard. It's when you start labeling opinions that a smell of censorship comes into the fold and I'm not for that. No one should have to be in lock step with a popular opinion anymore than someone should keep harping on a point to make everyone miserable who likes something. Hopefully everyone can share their likes and dislikes without someone attacking them for that privilege and asking them to validate that opinion just to be argumentative.