Comic Packs: A slap to the face of collectors

A lot of people talk about how the Comic Packs were Hasbro's way of reaching out to collectors, but were they really? 90% of them were terrible. Is being 100% accurate to the comics in certain areas all that good an idea? No it's not.

Tiny Heads: So you finally get a chance at an awesome version of Hawk and Stalker, after all the horrible versions since 2000 for Hawk, and 1997 for Stalker, and you get figures who look like jerks because of their tiny heads. I guess the original heads might be a little large, but the comic pack heads were so small you look like an asshole when you put them near any decent figures (01 Sure Fire, 83 Rock N Roll, Mr Fuji Roadblock)

So you think well maybe after they get their kinks out we'll get some awesome figures with good proportions and all that, then you see all the way up to issue #9 and it's all small heads, but hey Zap with the pedo 'stache looks decent compared to Hawk but still it's a little small. And hell they're going to some good issues next, They don't seem to fuck up Roadblock with the new releases he'll turn out fine.

And then you see them, and realize "They really don't care about proportions" this went on till the end, killing some really good figures like Buzzer, Ripper and stupid cowl Zartan (They should have just made the pointed forehead go down to his nose and complete the Zartan to Glenn Danzig allusions I made up with Doctor Miller last week)

Re-molds and part choices: They sure remolded some useless shit (85 Lady Jaye mold for example) and made some dumb part decisions, "Hay this 91 Hawk waist and legs look bad with the 82 torso, should we release it 4-5 times? Of course!.

Colors and appearances: You know what, the yellow wasn't too bad, a bit bright but subdued enough on Zap to be make him the only decent non-snake eyes original 13 figure, but some color schemes were bad, OrangishBrown Zartan with Batman facepaint was terrible, and what the hell was up with Grunt and his purple suit, they should have just made 2 Zap bodies for issue #4 mismatched parted figures are better than whack ass Strike First losers being impersonated by the lamest Joe from 82 not named Grand Slam

So if someone tries to give you that "Hasbro has attempted to cater to collectors" talking point, they're just goons who don't realize that Hasbro was faking that to get them to give them more money (corporations do that. They don't try hard to make things the kids and collectors can both enjoy! they don't care about there products, they care about your dollars)