Famous Covers Aunt May Therapy Thread(And general Famous Cover talk. )

[TrueDave]

Yep she was in the top of a Toyfare or one of the action figure mags right there with Kenner Alien as one of the most frightening figures ever made.

What we had to do to get this mail order exclusive was I think the first time I felt like I dropped the soap in a prison shower while dealing with a brand new toy.

I think it was a test. How far could they push collectors and for how little.



Cut out proofs of purchase ( forget mint boxes) of all four of the first figures.25 bucks ( which was more than Famous covers cost in the store) Store reciept ( good way to discourage buying from scalpers) and you got a character you just hated Petes ball and chain SCREAMING, wearing little old lady slippers.
Why not JJ Jameson? Why not ANYONE else?

It was a TEST!

If we would "Collect them all" Kinda like paying your brother to eat dirt. How far can we push him? An old lady doll!



on a brighter note I think The Hulk is the best Hulk toy ever made. He is a good solid fun T-O-Y. Falcon had nice wings. other than his big chest Iron man was awesome. Dr Dooms full body condom was a nice attempt. Thor was really great. Peter Parker looks like Bruce Cambell. Even had a smarmy expression. They made a classic Toad!
Any other Famous cover stuff is welcome

[MIB41]

She converts into an excellent Jeepers Creepers custom...

[TrueDave]

I forgive you Toy Biz. Thanks for the Hulk.

and Yes I did collect them all. . . . . .

[jwyblejr]

For some reason,she remind me of Mrs. Vorhees from the original Friday the 13th films.

[huedell]

If I remember right FC AUNT MAY was one of the few 9 to 8 inch converts
that looked half-decent. I still wouldn't mind adding 1 of those to my
custom Mego collection.

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

famously covered

I think you nailed it! The question isn't "why her", but rather "why not ANYONE else?" Mary Jane Watson or Gwen Stacy? The black&White Spider-woman didn't make that much sense to me either. I mean, how about a Jessica Drew Spider-woman if you HAVE to make a spider-woman or maybe a Black Cat if you want to run that black&white theme.

I wonder why they chose to make the two LEAST visually interesting Fantastic Four members. The Thing and the Human Torch would have looked sweet. If you liked the Hulk, I'm sure the Thing would be cool. I think anyone who does FC customs does the "standard" Daredevil to Torch conversion.

I really liked FC's and they solved a lot of problems that I had with megos.

[Cosmicman]

Yes indeed. When I was hot collecting Famous Covers I did snag one of those Aunt Mays.
I later converted her to "Mego size" and broke her down to fit a smaller body when Transferred the majority of my Famous Covers over to Mego and sold the rest.
The head is so horrible. She looks like an evil witch. Thought about using it for an Agatha Harnkness custom. Even replaced it with a Alice Brady head but changed it back......

[samurainoir]

The black&White Spider-woman didn't make that much sense to me either. I mean, how about a Jessica Drew Spider-woman if you HAVE to make a spider-woman or maybe a Black Cat if you want to run that black&white theme.

To be fair to Toy Biz, Jessica Drew had been inactive for about a decade and a half at that point and the Secret Wars Spiderwoman was still fairly prominant in the nineties thanks to West Coast Avengers/Force Works and the Iron Man animated series and action figures.

You can see why they did Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman first from a cost stand-point... they used the standard bodies. I can only imagine the tooling costs for the Thing given his rocky hide if they wanted to do it right. Although I guess they could have just painted the rocky pattern on a Hulk body, but I don't think it would have looked right. I'm not sure how they would have handled the Torch's flame look without an original sculpted body as well. They flame and rocky body suit might have worked for the seventies, but Nineties kids and collector's were used to a bit more given how high MacFarlane was setting the bar. I guess they could have simply scaled up one of the Toy Biz 6" FF figures, but look how crappy the 10" line looked!

[samurainoir]

For the most part thought, Famous Covers did respark my Mego interest and gave us dozens of wish-list figures beyond the Mego line-up. Who would have ever thought we'd get Mego-esque Vision or Scarlet Witch for example. or Dark Phoenix? or even Hawkeye!

With the benefit of hindsight, there are some head-scratchers... Carnage, but no Venom. (understandable given the huge Carnage cross-promotion at the time in toys, video games and comics, but Venom's absence is notable).

For the most part, you have to give credit to Toy Biz for going with mostly classic choices like Electro or Red Skull. With the exception of X-Men like Mr Sinister, Psylocke and Gambit, we could have just as easily had a line-up filled with the trendier nineties figures like Cable, Danny Ketch Ghost Rider, Punisher, War Machine etc. instead of Thor or Nightcrawler.

[samurainoir]

Huge props for the seventies style Iron Man!


You know they could have just as easily gone for one of the nineties armors, or more likely, the animated series look.

[david_b]

Despite the issues (like the bad facial-reaction sculpts and large hands..), they were nice attempts. As for the costume shortcomings (LARGE BOOTS, that nasty velcro strip down the back..), they're easily fixed by customizers..

I still love my YellowJacket FC custom, it's the only FC-scaled figure I still have. I should pick up another Ironman or Spiderman one of these days.

david_b

[Cosmicman]

Despite the issues (like the bad facial-reaction sculpts and large hands..), they were nice attempts. As for the costume shortcomings (LARGE BOOTS, that nasty velcro strip down the back..), they're easily fixed by customizers..

I still love my YellowJacket FC custom, it's the only FC-scaled figure I still have. I should pick up another Ironman or Spiderman one of these days.

david_b

Hey neighbor. I have an Ironman and Spiderman down here in Janesville. I believe I sacrificed the Ironman vinyl head inside the helmet for a Tony Stark Mego custom but if you want them, they are yours.

[shellhead]

That Aunt May is creepy as hell ! She looks like she's having a stroke in the box, and with that face , Uncle Ben probably jumped in front of that bullet so he didn't have to go home to her.
I took the Twisted Toyfair approach and used Granny Walton.

[wayne foundation 07]

Huge props for the seventies style Iron Man!

http://www.figurerealm.com/Galleries/marvelfamouscovers/IronMan2-Avengers-Front.jpg

You know they could have just as easily gone for one of the nineties armors, or more likely, the animated series look.

Call me dumb,but it took me a while before I knew Iron Mans mask came off

[kingdom warrior]

Huge props for the seventies style Iron Man!

http://www.figurerealm.com/Galleries/marvelfamouscovers/IronMan2-Avengers-Front.jpg

You know they could have just as easily gone for one of the nineties armors, or more likely, the animated series look.

That is probably one of the best figures they Put out. Hawkeye,The Vision and the Falcon are the others