Lizard's Rant

A few days after stroking Todd McFarlane’s ego, I’m going to knock him back down a peg. Back in May I wrote about how McFarlane’s NINTH Wayne Gretzky figure, a figure with him in a Blues uniform, was overkill. Well Todd is back at it again. In McFarlane’s newly unveiled NHL Legends Series 6 (keep that number 6 in mind), we find ourselves presented with Gretzky’s TENTH figure:

After 1,487 NHL games, “The Great One” called it a career on April 18th, 1999 and played his final game with the New York Rangers against the Pittsburgh Penguins. After the game ended, Gretzky circled on the ice, removing one glove and waving farewell to the appreciative crowd. Gretzky remains the leading scorer in NHL history, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1999.

Don’t get me wrong - I like the pose. And I know that the “Great One” is the most popular hockey player of all-time, but this is analogous to McFarlane producing a Joe Montana figure every single time they did a NFL Legends series. It just gets old after a while…particularly if you’re a Gretzky fan and are trying to collect all of these figures.

With McFarlane located in Arizona, and Gretzky being the coach of the Coyotes, I’m sure there’s some added bias to making “Great One” figures (kind of like how Todd makes a ton of Edmonton Oilers figures because he grew up there). Then again, If I was Todd McFarlane I would make any freaking figure I wanted to and I wouldn’t listen to a blogger like myself