Random minifig of the day: sh839

I think this is as close to monofig as you can get without actually being a monofig.

@mrzeon said:
" @Miyakan said:
" @R1_Drift said:
"why do most marvel minifigs lack leg printing nowadays?"

Because their pants aren't usually interesting enough. Jeans, Slacks, mono-colour stuff. Not really worth printing if it is just pockets."

Is this was true, a bunch of collectible minifigs shouldn’t have leg prints.
"

That's why they usually go for more interesting costume designs with CMF. Out of the Marvel wave there were two with just plain legs, and Loki with very slight printing. But in sets, they often use their budget elsewhere. Over half of this years Marvel figs have plain legs.
For non movie stuff this makes more sense, as the comics are more likely to have solid colour legs (Or solid colour boots, which can be done with dual molding.) Even with movies, if the costume detail on the pants isn't that noticable, why print it.

After two DC figs I was wondering when Marvel was going to show up

I always wanted the sets that came with Black Panther to include an alternate head and hair for when he is unmasked, but of course that's asking too much.

Wonder how long we’ll have to wait for a Ninjago RMotD.

@BobaFettfan said:
"I always wanted the sets that came with Black Panther to include an alternate head and hair for when he is unmasked, but of course that's asking too much."

Asking too much? We don't do that here.

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=colmar-11

@KoolKreeper489 said:
" @BobaFettfan said:
"I always wanted the sets that came with Black Panther to include an alternate head and hair for when he is unmasked, but of course that's asking too much."

76204: Black Panther Mech Armor comes with exactly that."

Oh yeah I forgot oops

@PurpleDave said:
"And Image’s Spawn beat DC by two weeks, to be the first adaptation of an existing character."

Spawn isn't owned by Image, but by Todd McFarlane directly. "Image" is just a publising house for creator-owned content and they really operate more as a co-op. If they're an IP holder of anything, it isn't Spawn. (Image also published/s The Walking Dead and Invincible, but those are owned by Robert Kirkman via his Skybound imprint.)

@PurpleDave said:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we are gathered here today in solemn remembrance of all the black superheroes who Disney so callously shoved to the side in their rush to cash in on this one, when they claimed he was the first black superhero to headline a movie.

Some may argue that he’s not technically a superhero, but if Bo from Sleight is not, then neither is that guy in the red armor.

And before him we had Hancock, which previously held the box office record.

Before him was Blade, a character who Disney actually owns.

Let us not forget Catwoman…though we might like to.

Prior to that was Blade again…and one more time, marking the first black Marvel superhero to headline a movie (and the first black superhero to get a sequel).

Steel may not have been a hit, but DC did technically beat Marvel by a year.

And Image’s Spawn beat DC by two weeks, to be the first adaptation of an existing character.

Blankman may not have been the most conventional superhero on this list…but he also wasn’t first.

Meteor Man is considered by some to be the true first, because he’s the first of the comic book style, costumed superheroes, but even he wasn’t first to the line.

No, Abar: The First Black Superman (alternately titled “Abar: Black Superman”, or “In Your Face” for the VHS release) was also the first black superhero to headline a movie, back in the same year a little film called “Star Wars: Just Star Wars” hit theaters.

If I missed any, well, I still did a lot better than Disney’s marketing department."

Look, we've been over this before in the "DISNEY MADE THE FIRST ANIMATIONS EVAR!!!!1"-threads - they empirically didn't, and Disney's hyperbole should be taken with a mine of salt.

I will be honest, I care more for Black Panther than any of the examples (that I recognize) from your list. The fact that I don't recognize some of them is both indicative of how much more I appreciate BP, and also of my own ignorance. These are just facts. Another fact is that Boseman was kind of amazing, and yeah, his tragic death partially colours my perspective. But even apart from that, dang, BP in the comics was pretty instrumental in bringing persons of colour into the public eye in heroic roles in the sixties and seventies. For Marvel, it was basically him, Storm, Falcon, Luke Cage and Blade (although Cage, Blade and Wilson were each afro-wearing, jive-talking blaxploitation thugs, Falcon literally having been a pimp. It would take literal decades for each of them to come into their own).

Soooooo, basically just T'Challa and Storm, who endures, despite Halle Berry's worst efforts.

We saw the same thing with Shang-Chi. "The MCU's first Asian hero!". Oh, really? Wong and Jimmy Woo don't count? Seriously?

I've defended Disney's retelling and reselling of tales as old as time in a different thread, and I will probably do so again. It's necessary to keep stories going. It doesn't mean I agree with all of their decisions, because some of those decisions are just plain stupid.

Still own 0 / 6 featured thus far. I have quite a few Black Panthers, but not this particular one.

Oh, there's also Rhodey as War Machine.

Rhodey actually served as Iron Man in the comics in the 1984-1986 time frame or so, during a period when Tony Stark was drunk and then recovering. The "War Machine" as a separate identity came several years later.

Weird that he's overlooked. He first appeared in the films as War Machine in 2010, five years before Chadwick Boseman showed up in 2015's Civil War. (He was also in the 1990s Iron Man cartoon, but sure, I imagine most of you didn't know that.)

@Huw Why does the random minifig of the day only get the minifig number in the title, like 'sh839' today, while random set and random part get their name?

Six for six on the "will we get a yellow-toned fig or a fig I own first" sweepstakes--but it was close. I do have *a* Black Panther fig and had to double-check this wasn't the same.

I do sort of wonder about the head-extender they use for cat-ears here or the similar one for Darth Maul's head spikes. They LOOK good, but I have not found them to be at all secure. The alternative is new head moulds, so I suppose I prefer the versatility... but I dunno.