Marvel Fan First Monday 2/21/22 – Controller BAF, What If? Ultron, Galactus Update and More

Kicking off soon, discuss...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmWFAsY7SrQ

That Donny Cates Herald of Galactus Thor figure looks great

I am not up on Marvel comics but that Thor is pretty boss. May grab just for a one off.

Rhino will be the only thing I'll be preordering for sure tomorrow.

I want Madame Hydra, but I'll wait for her to drop in price on Amazon before I bother since $25 is too much.

Besides those two, I might pick up that Storm just to put the head on the other 90s Storm body since that head rocks.

Loved hearing Dwight crank those Galactus joints.

I will be getting the controller wave and getting rid of speedball, not getting that crappy iron man, but keeping the rest as viper and us agent are perfect and i like that weird thor and controller.

Herald Thor is instabuy. They phoned in US Agent. His face sculpt makes him look constipated. And smooth body? WTH?! That SUCKS.

To be fair us agent always kinda had that face when he first started out.

Surprised no Love and Thunder stuff. As Marvel's Twitter has an article showing off some of the basic figures and Lego sets

That is fair. I had unrealistic expectations. I really want a Steve Rodger likeness head so that I can create a Captain. But that smooth body SUCKS. It's so 2008.

There will be so many people buying up the Quake/Hill pack, army building female SHIELD agents with every female heads they have in their spare parts bin, that might as well be an army builder pack.

Wasnt daniels early suit smooth? He did t have the scaled look until way later and even that didnt last too love. I do agrees an alt steve rogers the captain head would be nice.

When did Black Lightning join Marvel?

I wouldn't be surprised if they make use of that body and do a female army builder set later on in the year.

controller wave....probably gonna pass.

Any thoughts on the teaser? Ignoring the flask accessory, the background art of the box appears to represent columns and there's a statue of a chariot with four horses near the top of the box. Any ideas?

EDIT: Nvm, it's just Captain Carter's background art.

Let's hope so! That would totally make sense. But Hasbro has not been known to do things that make sense...so this new female SHIELD army builder set will probably be a Walgreens exclusive that's limited to 1 per person.

Yeah most of the Controller wave is an easy pass for me too, so I'm glad I have no interest in the Controller BAF. The only things that got me excited with these reveals was the What If Ultron and Rhino (since I missed his original BAF). Very underwhelming reveals for the most part. Hopefully their big hyped up 40th anniversary kickoff GI Joe livestream later this week is much better.

The Captain didn't have a scale mail shirt. I just would have liked to have gotten some texture or sculpted details. Hell, they have damn near all the parts. Reuse the new Cap mold and give us a new torso. I am not a fan of them returning to naked bucks for figures like this. It looks cheap.

I'm digging the Hill/Quake figure. I might have to get two so I can have both characters.

And *sigh* still no Death's Head.

Why didn't they reuse Sunspot's back bubbles on Speedball?

With the final teaser I'm guessing that the flask and the box-backer might be two separate teases. Allegedly some of the Greek gods will join the MCU in Love and Thunder so maybe the backdrop has something to do with that.

Apparently the backdrop shown was from the Disney+ wave's Captain Carter. After looking it up, it's a perfect match to the Brandenburg Gate which was used for her figure's backdrop.

I assume the flask is just for the upcoming retro carded Lizard.

That live action actor Sandman and Rhino tease tweet finally came true! I bet there are a bunch of people with unfinished Rhinos because of how expensive Ghost Rider became pretty early on and then he just kept skyrocketing in price to an absurd degree IMO.

You know what is kinda weird... the Retro Kingpin never went up in price for the longest time on the secondary market... until finally recently it went up. But it felt like forever you could always find one for 40 bucks... feels like almost everyone bought one to keep MOC too.

One of these days they will reveal the classic Daredevil that they teased a while back.

Ah, I see that now. On first look I was just thinking about the columns and went straight to Greece with it.

I actually got that Ghost Rider very easily since I was at my Walmart when they had just put them on the pegs and the only one already taken was the superior Venom, that was the only time I ever saw him though. I've bitched about it before but I only ever got the Ghost Rider and Scarlet Spider and not enough of that wave stuck around to go on clearance, plus then some of them were ludicrous on the aftermarket, so this deluxe Rhino is satisfying but also feels long overdue.