>>11535801>So my two cents, when Mcfarlane was in his prime, he was making the staction figures with high quality paint and sculpts. What made them stand out from other figures was their affordability and their iconic, larger than life presence. As a young boy, I didn't give two shits that his figures barely moved, I loved that they were dynamic physical homages to their illustrated counter-partsBro, McFarlane was still making well sculpted, highly detailed, highly articulated figures with lots of paint even back early on. They weren't the hyper-articulation we're used to today, but look at the first 10-15 or so waves of the original Spawn line. Look how detailed those figures were, and how much paint they had.
The bar for domestic figures at that time was probably things like Playmates' TMNT figures, and Kenner's stuff, especially like their mid-late 90's lines like Alien, Predator, and Terminator. McFarlane's stuff blew them out of the water. They had better detail, sculpt, paint, and probably twice as much articulation, and they were bigger, but cost about the same price. THAT was what catapulted McFarlane ahead of everyone else.
The staction figures didn't come until later, after he had already established his name in the figure field.
He is capable of making really good figures still, but just refuses to. His MK11 Spawn figure is like 10x better than any figure in his ACTUAL Spawn line that started a year or two later. Even the first two or three waves in that line were still pretty decent, but all his shit in the last 3-4 years look like shit. He is capable of so much more. He's just an eccentric weirdo who does whatever the fuck he wants because he has the money to and doesn't give a shit what anyone else says.
