>>9650899This is a fair and measured critique of Toybiz's offerings. They did often really try to reach for lofty goals, which is admirable, but they just as often fucked it all up. And even in cases where they did a good job for the time, a lot of that hasn't aged particularly well and has been overtaken by other, more modern toylines.
That said, sometimes you just gotta admire some things about old Toybiz figures. One of my go-tos is Deathlok. He's a virtual nobody, but they gave him a drop-dead gorgeous candy apple red paintjob and some surprisingly decent weathered metal limbs. His corpse-face is appropriately ghastly, and there are a lot of great details in the sculpt like his cloven feet and the fabric pulled taut across his pecs. You just have to appreciate this phenomenal amount of effort, even if it's kind of a nightmare to pose those hips and the chest hose is cumbersome to deal with. I've also owned this figure twice and both times it was incredibly floppy.
