{"id":37833,"date":"2020-12-27T12:27:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T17:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=37833"},"modified":"2022-09-18T00:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T04:49:35","slug":"soon-forget-toybiz-husk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/soon-forget-toybiz-husk\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: ToyBiz Husk"},"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 Husk.<\/p>\n

Paige Guthrie, Cannonball's<\/a> little sister, would have been part of the Generation X<\/i> line, though how they planned to portray her powers in action figure form is a real head-scratcher: she can pull her own skin off to reveal new forms beneath. Not exactly the easiest thing to accomplish in plastic. This two-up just shows her in her Generation X team uniform, with no accessories to hint at what ToyBiz might have done for her (other than hopefully doing something about that receding hairline).<\/p>\n

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Husk would have been part of Series 3, along with several villains, but the line was cancelled after Series 2<\/a>, leaving the team forever incomplete. Honestly, it's not surprising, because the generation X<\/i> figures were rarely as good as the X-Men<\/i> figures released at the same time, with less detailed sculpts and fewer points of articulation. The sculpt of the two-up definitely doesn't live up to Ron Garney's control art.<\/p>\n

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We're posting this today to draw attention: the artwork belongs to a collector named Tommy Garvey, and was stolen from his home in Orlando a month ago, along with many other items<\/a>. So if you ever see any of them for sale anywhere, spread the word.<\/p>\n

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