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I would love to see the special powers for the Breadmaker, El Seed, and the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight!
"I am the Mad Bomber, that bombs at midnight!!"
It would probably be like the Pariah event dial that says, "How Many Worlds Must Die?" where you roll 1d6 and whoever is that many squares or less from Pariah but, not adjacent to takes 1 click of damage. If the result is 1 or 2 then damage is penetrating.
Superman: "One of these days, Lois....POW!!! Right to the Marvel Universe!"
I wouldn't say I am a supe huge fan of the X-babies but I do enjoy a mindless read once and a while. And for the record the Superhero Squad line of figures are fantastic. My 3 year old daughter has them and now recognizes them all in either Hero Squad form or Comic Book.
It's possibly a good thing that I looked at the piece here first, rather than over at the larger list on your site, because much as Soul indicated, the ill-informed, borderline moronic comments on Watchmen (film and source work) would have been enough to get me to stop there and cut short the waste of time. Of course, there are proven (beyond the point of hackneyed) writer's rules for composing Top 10, 20 or whatever lists, and among them is to put in some outrageous statements to get people to react, and I'm sure that's at least in part behind some of this. It's a large part of the reason I generally skip such lists and avoid creating any of my own.
However, to borrow from the piece and rearrange suitably:
I'll be happy as long as we don't get a boxed set based on the crapfests known as:
The Powers of Matthew Star
The Secret World of Alex Mack
Jake 2.0
Automan
The Greatest American Hero
X-Babies (this must appeal to the same deviant impulses that find people collecting those ghastly Super Hero Squad deformities)
Amalgam
Mostly agreed, but Amalgam might have some interesting sculpts and dials. I can't believe I agreed until the last WORD before criticizing!! Just a bit, and with the best of intentions, of course!! Also have to second the puzzlement about the Watchmen comments. Loved the book and the movie.
Based on this Top Ten, I didn't bother to check out the Bottom Twelve.
Most of this stuff ran the range between mildly boring to embarassingly bad. The few things listed that held any interest for me at all would (and sometimes has) have fit better as fill in characters in regular sets (DKR; Elseworlds), or needed a full set - or two! - to do properly (Blackest Night). Seriously, 6-8 figures in a boxed set wouldn't even give a reasonable complement of Black Lanterns, much less represent all of the various corps.
Actually, there is the germ of one good idea in there, the "generic" sets. However, I wouldn't do licensed generics. I'd be much happier with non-universe specific cops, soldiers, etc.
Who wouldn't like American WWII GIs to fight alongside Cap or the JSA? Who wouldn't want Nazi soldiers for them to fight against? (Yeah, I know. Probably couldn't sell those in Germany...)
On the other hand, how many variations on moloids or OMACs do we need, or want? Commons in a normal set would be all that's needed. To make sets of these figures at all interesting, you'd need a Mole Man or a Max Lord to lead them, and then we're back to unique (if not Unique) figures in the "generic" sets.
As far as Zombies are concerned, I don't want to see any other Zombies until we get the best one: Simon Garth with a sculpt based on Boris Vallejo's excellent cover paintings from Tales Of The Zombie. Put him in an action pack with The Monster of Frankenstein (Mike Ploog sculpt and pasty white, not green skin), Werewolf By Night (also with a Mike Ploog based sculpt), Dracula (with a Gene Colan sculpt), Living Mummy (They need to remember he LIVING Mummy, so no signs of physical decay),
Brother Voodoo (original look, I'm not interested in Dr. Voodoo), round it out with Baron Samedhi (a Brother Voodoo villain).
Since Horrorclix was brought up, I'd like to see the Universal Monsters clixed. Here's where we get the green skinned Boris Karloff based Monster of Frankenstein, a Bela Lugosi Dracula, a Lon Chaney Jr. Wolf Man, and A Creature Of The Black Lagoon figure (or two since he had a different look in later movies), a Mummy, a Phantom of the Opera, maybe even an Invisible Man.
As far as Pulp heroes go, movie versions are fine if necessary but I'd rather not.
I'd like action packs for these:
Doc Savage (with a Larry Bama sculpt, gotta have the widow's peak),
The Shadow
Tarzan
Fu Manchu
The Phantom
The Green Hornet and Kato
The Lone Ranger and Tonto
The Spirit ( No Frank Miller nonsense, thank you)
Conan
King Kull
Solomon Kane
Zorro
Flash Gordon
Buck Rogers
James Bond
Last edited by Captain Beyond; 10/09/2009 at 14:02..
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
As far as Watchmen go, odds are DC will probably never allow them to be clixed as they consider the Watchmen as too adult for a kids game.
What they need to do is work a deal with the estate that owns the rights to Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt and sell him as a mailaway. Then DC needs to give us original versions of Peacemaker and Judomaster.
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
As far as Watchmen go, odds are DC will probably never allow them to be clixed as they consider the Watchmen as too adult for a kids game.
"Kids' game"? What? I don't actually play the game, or any other RPG, but I have sat in at a few games and the median age of the players was somewhere around 35.
"Kids' game"? What? I don't actually play the game, or any other RPG, but I have sat in at a few games and the median age of the players was somewhere around 35.
I'm talking from DC's pov not ours.
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
If DC does have any qualms about "kids' games", they should be more concerned about their DC Beyond website with online games where their characters punch each other until one of them drops, than about HeroClix.
If DC does have any qualms about "kids' games", they should be more concerned about their DC Beyond website with online games where their characters punch each other until one of them drops, than about HeroClix.
I didn't say they were logical.
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.