Madman (aka Frank Einstein) is not your average hero. So to help bring everyone up to speed on who is who in this line, below you will find a brief summary about each character that is being released in the first two assortments. Some characters are well known while others are not. Now these aren't your Marvel Superheroes, these are characters spawned by independent comic book companies and creators. He’s actually a really fun figure, and between him and Madman, I’m really tempted to track down more of this line.īlack Action Figure Tags 00s 80s 90s Aliens All Time Toys A New Hope Autobots Avengers Avengers: Age of Ultron Bandai Batman Batman: The Animated Series Build a Figure Captain America Christmas Reviews Classified Series Clone Trooper Clone Wars Cyclops DC DC Collectibles DC Direct DC Universe Classics Diamond Select Toys Excised Fantastic Four Funko G.I.Marvel Toys, the company formerly known as Toy Biz, brings us a new line of 6" highly-detailed and highly-articulated action figures called Legendary Comic Book Heroes. I still have only a marginal knowledge of Savage Dragon, but I’ve become more appreciative of obscure figures, so when I found him at a flea market, I felt urged to pick him up (it helped that he was $5). I mean, I saw them everywhere at the time, but I just never bought any of them (mostly because I pretty much knew none of the characters at the time). Savage Dragon was originally packed with a leg of the first series Build-A-Figure Pitt, which was not included with my figure, as I bought him after the fact.Īs I noted when I reviewed Madman, I missed LCBH in its initial run. The only part that I’m slightly letdown by is the shoes, which are clean overall, but just lack some of the finesse of the rest of the figure. The jeans have a nice wash on them, which suggests the proper texturing quite effectively. All of the hair on his chest and arms is painted, and it does a decent enough job of capturing his rather hairy look from the comics. TB could be hit and miss, but this was one of their better ones. The articulation is worked in alright (better than many of TB’s Marvel Legends figures), but the hands definitely look a little like someone stepped on them in certain poses, but they look fine in a number of poses. They’re still very exaggerated, of course, with the arms being roughly twice the size of the legs. It’s not a bad sculpt, though it’s worth noting that he’s a fair bit more conservative in his proportions than Dragon is frequently depicted. Many of the figures in this line made use of Marvel Legends tooling, but Savage Dragon got his own unique sculpt. 18 of those points come from his fingers alone, which is quite impressive. ![]() I think that might have been a record for a Toy Biz/Marvel Toys figure. The figure stands about 6 3/4 inches tall (not counting the 1-inch head fin) and he has a whopping 50 points of articulation. I’ll be looking at the shirtless figure, the more common of the two. Also, there were two versions of Dragon available: with or without shirt. This wasn’t actually his first figure (he got his own line from McFarlane back in the ‘90s) matter of fact, I believe it’s the last of his figures. As one of the earliest creations from Image, his presence in this line made a lot of sense. Savage Dragon was part of the first series of Legendary Comic Book Heroes, and was kind of one of the flagship characters featured therein (alongside Judge Dredd and Witchblade). Ultimately, the line was not the success they had hoped, as most general audiences who shopped at the likes of Walmart and Target weren’t really looking to buy figures of Ripclaw or SuperPatriot, leading to quite a few unsold figures and the eventual closing down of Marvel Toys. Toy Biz reformatted as Marvel Toys, and tried to capture the success of some of their Marvel lines (namely Marvel Legends) by applying the same style to a number of independent comics characters, such as the previously reviewed Madman, and today’s focus, Savage Dragon. They had quite a successful run, but it was eventually decided that licensing out the Marvel properties was more profitable than handling them in-house, and production of Marvel toys was moved to Hasbro. ![]() ![]() The two companies became one larger entity, and Toy Biz itself was reformed as an in-house company at Marvel. During that time, Marvel had filed for bankruptcy, and ultimately been bailed out by their partners at Toy Biz (who would have been in a bit of trouble had their main licensor gone under). ![]() Their main claim to fame was handling all the Marvel-based figures (at retail, anyway) from 1990 to 2006.
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