William Baker was born in a rough neighborhood in New York. He soon became very successful in the New York criminal underworld, but was arrested, convicted, and forced to spend many years in solitary confinement. After a prison break while running from the FBI, he hid near an experimental reactor’s steam system, it exploded, bombarding him with a massive dose of radiation and apparently bonding his body with the sand. Awakening after a brief period of unconsciousness, he discovered his newly acquired ability to transform into a sand-like substance he could manipulate and reshape at will. Now easily able to elude authorities, the Sandman was born.
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Marvel Infinite Series Sandman
Pros
Good articulation
Cons
Limited poses
Overall
The Sandman figure is a really well put together figure. It has solid articulation and nice transforming sand hands and arms. The figure looks very accurate and should be a welcome addition into any Marvel Universe collection.
We kick things of with Beast! It's a great figure, that could have been the best Beast ever made. All they needed to add is ab crunch and the ability for the head to tilt back.
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Great pics! I agree, diaphragm/ torso articulation and a ball hinge on the neck would have went a long way on beast.
wrist articulation...for the love of pete. as it stands, pete is lonely.
regardless, those are some bad-tacular photos. you guys have really come into your own.
A torso swivel would have done wonders! I am sticking with my SuperHeroShowdown version.
Almost complete my x men 3.75 line just need white storm beast looks great but needs movable neck looks great next to proffesser x
Such an awesome costume but the figure needed the extra articulation!
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Under articulated and over priced. Mi has officially become crap.
Wow... they took away the wrist articulation on Spidey AND molded his hand in the same direction as his elbow bend? Super fail. Thwip handshakes are not the bizness, Hasbro.
i might consider getting this spidey, while i absolutely hate the 3.75 inch toy size, i do however like that this looks better then the big time spidey legends version.... If i do buy it, this will definitely be another one to stay in the package.
Jesus christ, it's 2015 and they're still releasing MU/MI figures with no ankle pivot? I can stand the removal of torso articulation, but not including ankle pivot is a crime against humanity at this point. This is almost as bad as 5 POA Marvel figures, but twice the cost.
I think almost all of the 2015 MI figures has rocker ankles; looks like whoever shot the Spidey photos didn't bother to use them though.
The Sandman is now up.
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Seeing names like William Baker make me cringe. What possessed Marvel writers to at some point say "Oh that "real name" you've known for decades isn't his real name, it's something else"? Sandman's not even the only victim. Off the top of my head I can also think of Rhino, Punisher, and Magneto.
Wait when did his name stop being Flint Marko?
Wow that seems so unnecessary.
retconns suck... can anyone say "clone saga" or Cyclops's forgotten brother... or the first, second team of X-men. Lazy writing that's all it is. Who the hell goes to prison without proper ID? Did they just believe Sandman when he said his name was Flint Marko? seriously I need three forms of ID to get a bank account, but Sandman gets into a SHEILD supermax with a fake ID?
These days. It wasnt too long ago that all you needed to make a fake identity was a guy good at arts and crafts. Think about all the Nazi's that lived their lives as different people and we never knew. Even today I suppose it's possible. Even just a legal name change could be something. That said, i dont see the point of renaming unless the original name was extremely lame or on the nose like calling a bank robber Jack Robber or something.
In defense of the whole Punisher name deal, he legally changed his name to reenter the war so I get that. It was just an Americanization of his original last name, Castiglione (real Italian name) to Castle makes some sense.
Punisher and Rhino make sense to me - Bill Baker does not.
Anyway I have this figure on the way, hope he arrives soon along with Black cat! My Spidey-verse is ALMOST complete (just need that new Doc Ock and Vulture :P)
Maybe I was a young idiot back when I read older Spidey but I don't remember Rhino being Russian until after the retcon.
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