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I was so hopeful for these figures and probably desperate since there hadn't been anything else like them in years. The Famous Cover Series promised to be the new Megos, but it was a hard pill to swallow once you saw them. Looking back, these really aren't very good figures for a few reasons. First of all, the bodies are SO completely out of proportion that it's clear Marvel took a lead from popular comic book artists of the time like Rob Liefeld thinking this would strike a chord with fans. The waist is so small as compared to the shoulders & lats which are insanely wide. The arms are just too long for an average human and this is exaggerated even further by the removable gloves.

All of this carries over to the uniform where Captain America's star emblem is MASSIVE (both on his chest and his back). As far as the head is concerned, it's another angry looking hero from Toybiz and the "A" on his head is also oversized like the stars. The wings on either side of the head sit way too high. For proper placement, they should be much lower and closer to the ears and not extend above the top of the skull so much.

Tweaking the frame of the figure towards more normal anatomy would have been a vast improvement in these Famous Cover Series figures from Toybiz.