Tuesday, November 04, 2008

All Hail Galactus!

I can clearly remember a time (as a kid), when I would sit around with all of my comic book nerd friends, and wonder what it would be like to have some really great action figures of Marvel characters. Oh sure, these days it almost sounds funny to wish for something like that, but in the late '70s or early '80s, there wasn't much to choose from.

Fast forward to today, and we're seeing even the most obscure Marvel characters released in plastic form. They come in a variety of sizes, and they all feature detail and articulation that we'd never have imagined thirty years ago.

Probably the largest, most amazing figure that I've had the pleasure to collect in the last few years, is the 2005 "build-a-figure" of Galactus, from the Toy Biz Marvel Legends line.

Galactus

Galactus

Both Toy Biz, and now Hasbro, have done some extremely fun things with this line, but this 14-inch monster is my very favorite. I love any figure made of something Jack Kirby designed, and given all of the choices, Galactus is simply as good as it gets.

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