Speaking of the Hellfire Club goons, they will be included in next year's Marvel Legends line:

There will also be an AIM scientist (in the classic yellow outfit) -- great idea to increase sales, because I can see a lot of X-Men and Iron Man action figure collectors purchasing multiples of these figures just to make for proper "crowd scene" dioramas.

"About the Helfire Club and their being racists, it's true one could easily make this assumption during the Byrne days, Chris didn't portray them as such, later on. Saw had no problem with Emma being in Ororo's body, Sunspot's father was part of the inner circle and even Sunspot himself became a member (I don't recall if Chris did this, but he used it in his recent stories)."

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The Hellfire Club were total racists ... unless you had money.  Like how Dubya pals around with his rich Arab oil buddies even though, as Kanye West puts it, "George Bush hates black people".

Oh, great. Another black costume that's turned blue. Don't people ever learn?

I don't fight it at all. If something looks off to me, I fix it. I usually try to stay within the silhouette of the original figures, tho.

I apologize continuing the thread drift up front, here. 

I buy very few action figures these days, but this figure will definetly be stalking my display shelves.  After a proper repaint, of course!

As for this being a good sales choice, I disagree.  The fanboys in my area of the country seem to snap up the variants and that's it.  Judging by the amount of Sentry, Nick Fury, Maestro and Wonder Man figures still on the pegs around here, it seems to me that the bulk of the figures (meaning the popular and well-known characters) are being bought by this small niche demographic that the comic industry also has abandoned.  Namely, children. 

Don't get me wrong, I love my Iron Fist, Vision, Hawkeye and Black Widow figures, but the reason we get rainbow colored Batmen and skate-boarding Spider-Men is because those are just variations of the same characters that the kids know and see on TV.  And don't even get me started on how many times I've seen little girls searching through the FF figures on the shelf looking for the Invisible Woman and sighing loudly when they come up empty-handed.  Of course the LCS has plenty of them priced at $25 each........