Hasbro listens. The fans complained that the line was lacking in females and villains so every wave of Marvel Legends figures gets at least two villains and two females. Mattel and DC Collectibles have yet to get the memo. Maybe it was the untimely demise of Club Infinite Earths. Maybe it is the idea that females and C-list villains don't sell. Who knows but the DC Universe figure collection is lacking in villains. Fortunately TitanTrap Customs has a thing for Golden & Silver Age heroes and villains. Something that hasn't been a focus since the days of DC Direct.
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Bruce is a custom that you don't see very often. He's perfectly rendered in his look from the first Bruce Timm animated series. He appears to use the Lex Luthor body from the DC Super Heroes line from Toy Biz.
Pretty Boy comes with a ton of display options. He's an extremely well thought out custom that I purchased on eBay to start building up the Reavers.
These ITW Super Powers figures are a mess. I love that they are mass produced customs but the early releases are so crudely put together that they fall apart. I'm sharing Supergirl so late because I haven't wanted to play engineer to reassemble her. She's a crude Wonder Woman sculpt that was assembled with rubber bands to attempt to give her an action feature. The rubber band snapped so I had to do surgery to get her back to one piece. Her cape doesn't fit around her neck. She was rendered with the cape and without because the manufacturer seemingly couldn't figure out how to give her a cape that would fasten around her neck and compensate for her long hair.
S'ym was a rather easy custom that I've overthought for months. My friend Rafaelo shared a S'ym that used the perfect recipe, a DC Direct Despero with a vest from a random Street Fighter figure. He still needs a tail but for now he's done enough to display.
A Custom A Day.... 365 days of custom figures Day 352 - Marvel Legends Morlocks Tunnel playset12/19/2015 i simply used the bottom half of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sewer playset. I need to paint it so that it doesn't look so cartoony but for now it's a great way to display my Marauders figures.
I love the sculpt on this statue but I hated the fact that they stylized it by giving her bug eyes. I decided to give her normal eyes and just deal with the stylized proportions of the rest of the figure. You can never have enough Yvonne Craig Batgirl merchandise!
A Custom A Day.... 365 days of custom figures Day 350 - Marvel Universe Devil Dinosaur by 4:F12/18/2015 A big foam rubber dinosaur I picked up at Walmart for $10. Painted red with drybrushing to maintain the shadows from underneath. Manicure & pedicure and brightened up his eyes and boom, Devil Dinosaur. He's large enough that I could use him with my Marvel Legends but I prefer him with the Marvel Universe.
i don't like to do Marvel Universe scaled customs. Between San Diego Comic Con exclusives and the fact that tHasbro keeps reinventing the line AND the fact that I have a pretty comprehensive Marvel Universe in 5 inch scale I'm always worried that there will be an official release of any character I attempt but with Hasbro showing a custom of Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur I needed to make a set of my own.
A Custom A Day.... 365 days of custom figures Day 348 - Batman: The Animated Series Baby Doll12/14/2015 I have yet to see another custom of Baby Doll from Batman the Animated Series. This one is larger than she should be but she captures the look of the character perfectly. She looks like Elmyra from Tiny Toons. I love her.
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A Custom A Day....
Since
I began toy collecting as a hobby back in 1990 I have always had a
need for custom figures. Toy companies begin action figure lines, begin
to release individual characters to create teams and, more often than
not leave them incomplete. Many collectors find that custom figures
pollute their collection's authenticity by not being mass produced
creations from the toy companies that created the preexisting toy lines.
I disagree. I feel a quality custom action figure enhances a
collection and help create a complete picture. Archives
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