{"id":37769,"date":"2017-10-10T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=37769"},"modified":"2025-06-16T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T04:00:29","slug":"soon-forget-marvels-dire-wraith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/soon-forget-marvels-dire-wraith\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Marvel's Dire Wraith"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is ToyBiz's Dire Wraith.<\/p>\n

Today's Revolution box set<\/a> featured IDW's version of the Dire Wraiths, but ToyBiz almost made one back in the late '90s. This large adult son was intended for a planned subset of 6\" Silver Surfer<\/i> figures tentatively dubbed \"Marvel's Weirdest Aliens.\" The figure was sculpted by Clayburn Moore - the only work he ever did for ToyBiz. The prototype was lost until Marvel was moving offices, at which point Jesse Falcon had Eddie Wires give it a fancy paint job:<\/p>\n

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Despite being offshoots of the Skrulls<\/a>, the Dire Wraiths were never shown as green in the comics, only red. So while that paint job looked great, this second one is more accurate:<\/p>\n

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The Dire Wraiths weren't limited to just being Rom enemies: they became a pretty big ongoing threat to the X-Men, Avengers, and the Marvel universe at large; considering that, it's a shame this figure was never made.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>