In a story that is practically as old at the time as in the internet standards, there is a feeling of inevitable that every big new new new one thing-Movie, TV show, game or other-in a lack of a small plastic army of large, occasional funko pop! Vinyls. Marvel -RivalAnd his list of heroism that Marvel fans have conquered in a storm is no exception. On the one hand, it is no surprise that some of the first collectibles will come from the Funko goal. On the other hand, they may still not be what everyone really wanted after more of these designs than they said.
Today Funko announced that it would start a line of starting Rival Funkos with a quartet of character designs from the Hero shooter – a colorful mix of two playable characters in the form of Iron Man and Magneto and two NPCs. Rival“Turn the malignant doctor's doom and match commentator/daughter of the Dederer himself, Galacta. In a cute allusion to your cosmic origins, Galacta is even a two big” super “pop, so that you can do the rest of the inevitable squad in Can tower on your shelf.
It's a lot of fun and what works about it Rival“The broad approach to the Marvel design means good enough to shape Funko form. But Pops himself obviously have their own design language to stick to it, and flattener elements of the starting material to ensure that people can indicate characters from a crowd of brands in a somewhat coherent way. This is part of the appeal! But here it only means that not everything fans had, for Gaga Gaga Rival'The vision of the Marvel universe in the past few months will be over, and that's a bit crap.
What did it do Rival'Character design, which is immediately fascinating, is the ability to merge references to costumes from decades of work and new ideas in a highly stylized, “Comic Booky” style. There are exaggerations, large, strong colors and blocked highlight lines that feel like inks from a comic. There is enough familiar that everyone who loves comics or only follows the films can recognize these characters, and at the same time push them into new directions and celebrate the aesthetic diversity and boldness of this swelling material. These are the type of stylistic decisions that do not really work with Funko Funko.
Thumbs crossed that this only means that this will be the first in a long row of Rival Collectors, from Funko or in any other way. I would kill Hasbro to make an lower series for Marvel legends that give us loyal and more potential takeovers Rival'Squad or hell, LEGO may be exposed to the same minimalization problems Fungko, but small sets in the Marvel superhero line, which around a number of minifigures and the payload vehicles, against which they are fighting, could be great! Hell, maybe we could get some international companies such as Goodsmile or Kaiyodo to make a few buck wild, super -stylized numbers.
At the moment, however, we only have the pops – Iron Man, Magneto, Doom and Galacta will soon start to get on the shelves.
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