***** Big Wheel (Jackson Weele) *****

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  • TheEyeDoctorsWife
    TheEyeDoctorsWife Posts: 832 Critical Contributor
    A. I love any non Disney character even if I never heard of them .
    B. I love how the devs give it to the whales just to read the plethora of complaints here.  Encore !  With the last 4 5* being allegedly trash , we can now look to 2022 for our annual 2 meta per year . 
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,494 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ha ha ha seriously, Big Wheel and he is a 5*! 
  • Bad
    Bad Posts: 3,146 Chairperson of the Boards
    Theghouse said:
    While it's true that this is a ridiculously obscure character, is everybody forgetting that there is a spider man movie coming out this week?!  Could we be seeing this character in 3 days?!  Maybe... 
    The timing on this release of Big Wheel in MPQ - who otherwise would have no business being picked to be a 5* - gives a lot of validity to that theory that Big Wheel will make some sort of appearance in the movie, maybe the villain that Spidey fights early in the film before the multiversal sinister six appear, or a way to reintroduce the Tinkerer and who he is working with since Vulture and Scorpion got locked up.
    I love that twisted theory although it has some flaws:
    -Devs historically don't seem to have seen the whole film as a lot of tie-in characters use some powers but fail to use others which are more important on that film, so it sounds pretty impossible they are going to release a character based on a so complicated eastern egg.

    -spiderman belongs to sony so tie-ins are pretty rare. The last spider film brought just mysterio as a 4* and a alliance event with the fire and water elemental.
    The way it's scheduled now it seems new spider movie will have a 4* tie-in too and perfectly that could be all.
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,494 Chairperson of the Boards
    So his green removes *any* Special tiles - wonder if that includes coundown, repeater and invisibility ones? His red is more specific and removes only Strike, Protect & Attack tiles.
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,494 Chairperson of the Boards
    Bad said:
    Theghouse said:
    While it's true that this is a ridiculously obscure character, is everybody forgetting that there is a spider man movie coming out this week?!  Could we be seeing this character in 3 days?!  Maybe... 
    The timing on this release of Big Wheel in MPQ - who otherwise would have no business being picked to be a 5* - gives a lot of validity to that theory that Big Wheel will make some sort of appearance in the movie, maybe the villain that Spidey fights early in the film before the multiversal sinister six appear, or a way to reintroduce the Tinkerer and who he is working with since Vulture and Scorpion got locked up.
    I love that twisted theory although it has some flaws:
    -Devs historically don't seem to have seen the whole film as a lot of tie-in characters use some powers but fail to use others which are more important on that film, so it sounds pretty impossible they are going to release a character based on a so complicated eastern egg.

    -spiderman belongs to sony so tie-ins are pretty rare. The last spider film brought just mysterio as a 4* and a alliance event with the fire and water elemental.
    The way it's scheduled now it seems new spider movie will have a 4* tie-in too and perfectly that could be all.

    I think more likely what happens is that Marvel's marketing/licensing department get together with the Devs and say "We have this MCU film/project coming out and would like you to do a tie-in". They then give the Devs information about what sort of marketing they are putting out and that allows the Devs to plan accordingly on what character or event they will have as a tie in. Mysterio is a pretty good example - all the trailers/marketing for Spider-Man: Far From Home show him as a hero and so that was the version we got to avoid spoilers (not really spoilers to any Spider-Man fan or anybody with Google but hey ho)
    Spider-Man does not belong to Sony! We should get that cleared up right here. Sony owns the right to make live action movies featuring Spider-Man and currently has a shared content licensing deal with Marvel Studio's - under that agreement Sony needs to make a Spider-Man or Spider-Man related movie every five years. However the Devs could still base Spider-Man characters on comic book or other versions, as we have seen with Carnage for example.
  • Sekilicious
    Sekilicious Posts: 1,766 Chairperson of the Boards
    Seph1roth5 said:
    His green looks like what gamora's power should have been, and his passive looks like how shang chi's should've worked.  So they're learning?
    Shang-Chi does not need a buff. Even as is his combo points are difficult to lose in the hands of the user.
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,494 Chairperson of the Boards
    Hellblazer666 said:

    D3/MPQ Devs: hey we need to put a spider-man villain in for the No Way Home Tie in.

    Fans: cool we still don't have Rhino Alistair Smythe Chameleon Hobgoblin Tombstone Hammerhead Max Dillon Electro .

    D3/MPQ Devs: I know lets go with Big Wheel .


    It is pretty shocking that they have added Big Wheel to the game but not Rocket Racer.
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,494 Chairperson of the Boards
    heybub said:
    mdreyer93 said:
    Wow. I mean, I'm a huge Spidey fan and this is still WAY out of left field, lol. Literally no one is off the table now.  Bring on The Orb, Shuma-Gorath, Stegron, and Hellcow.
    Wait... there's a hellcow???!!!!!  How is Hellcow not in this game.  I don't care about any details, but I want Hellcow!!!!!  

    Word of warning...Bessie is a Vampire Cow, be very afraid!
  • Bad
    Bad Posts: 3,146 Chairperson of the Boards
    Acording to the news Disney is desperately trying to buy spider-man but sony only gives them separate rights, for to appear on the next MCU ark, or for to be on their channel. 
    Possibly they know in this way they will milk up the money they want until Disney gets tired.
    If it was so easy to tie-in spider-man, we already would had a 5* with Tom Hardy's face, or a new spider with the likes of Holland.
    Devs can dig up spider comics, like they did with this big wheel, but the look seems so 70's retro comics, in any way the look the character could have in a MCU new movie.
    So in a way we end up big losing with the rights war.
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,494 Chairperson of the Boards
    Bad said:
    Acording to the news Disney is desperately trying to buy spider-man but sony only gives them separate rights, for to appear on the next MCU ark, or for to be on their channel. 
    Possibly they know in this way they will milk up the money they want until Disney gets tired.
    If it was so easy to tie-in spider-man, we already would had a 5* with Tom Hardy's face, or a new spider with the likes of Holland.
    Devs can dig up spider comics, like they did with this big wheel, but the look seems so 70's retro comics, in any way the look the character could have in a MCU new movie.
    So in a way we end up big losing with the rights war.

    Disney owns Spider-Man for everything apart from movies and from 2022, Disney & Sony have struck  a deal that will see future Sony Spider-Man related releases brought to Disney+ but sadly only for the US Market. Sony originally had merchandising rights also but sold those back to Marvel in 2011. Marvel even has the rights to make Marvel branded toys based upon Sony films - for example:

    Infinity War Spidey has a Tom Holland likeness and we have had a ton of Spider-Man characters over the last few years suggesting MPQ has no problem accessing Spider-Man based material.
    The main problem with Spider-Man: No Way Home is that of all the characters we know are in it, all of them are already represented in-game. Sure they could maybe throw us a 4* Dr. Strange but they have a Dr. Strange movie coming out next year which is probably a more likely tie-in.

  • Kevin61
    Kevin61 Posts: 256 Mover and Shaker
    Really?

    Yummy Mummies Face Palm GIF by Channel 7
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,494 Chairperson of the Boards
    Kevin61 said:
    Really?

    Yummy Mummies Face Palm GIF by Channel 7

    Hey, Razorback was on holiday. What are they gonna do?
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,494 Chairperson of the Boards
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    I am unironically super into this. I love this design, love the deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep dive into the quarter bins to find this guy. chef's kiss all the way around. 

    It was 20 years or so between his first appearance and the next one! 20 years! Yet here we are!
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    This art looks like he could have been a Masters of the Universe character; I would guess this was the same artist who did Monica Rambeau
  • DaSal
    DaSal Posts: 76 Match Maker
    When 5*’s were introduced most of the releases could be considered as Marvel’s flagship characters. Having this little known character in the game is bad enough but as a 5*? That’s a travesty.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    For me this fits right in with classic Dr Octopus as a 5*. This hard to reach tier is where I was kind of hoping the "real" marvel comics nonsense would live, and the more easily attainable MCU/NCU characters would be down in the 3/4* level where casuals could have their fun. But I get it that this is a ferris wheel with a driver's seat, and that isn't for everyone. Mechanically I'm interested in this bucket of powers regardless of what .PNG shows up on my screen when I fire it off too.
  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,003 Chairperson of the Boards
    Except all of the 5* versions of Marvel's flagship characters are old, useless 5* that nobody wants.

    In a game dominated by Okoye and Beta Ray Bill, is it really that weird to have Big Wheel as a 5*?
  • TheEyeDoctorsWife
    TheEyeDoctorsWife Posts: 832 Critical Contributor
    entrailbucket said:
    Except all of the 5* versions of Marvel's flagship characters are old, useless 5* that nobody wants.

    In a game dominated by Okoye and Beta Ray Bill, is it really that weird to have Big Wheel as a 5*?
    99% of players could care less who the character is so I don’t understand why all the feedback . ONE thing drives a character popularity, it’s power kit.  They could make Omega Red the next 5* but if they give him a power kit less than Jubilee the fanboys will turn on him in an instant and put him in the trash pile . Personally to me the character is 1% of the game although I would prefer 50 years of comic book characters to about 20 of movie characters.

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