The Fantastic Four Join The Avengers In A Customized Victorian Era

Superheroes are constantly getting reinvented either by the companies themselves or by fans, but I've got to say, custom toymaker Sillof's Victorian spin on the Marvel Universe is easily one of my favorite visual twists of them all.

We've already seen The Victorian Avengers, but now Sillof has applied the same thematic idea to the Fantastic Four. Renamed The Phantastical IV - a name that instantly brings "Phantasy Star IV" to mind, but there's clearly no real relation except inside of my diseased brain - the group consists of a freakishly elongated Doctor Reed Richards, a hollowed out wig-wearing Madam Susan Richards, a hideously scarred Jonathan Storm, Esq., and a rock golem version of The Thing.

There isn't quite the same level of rich background detail for these characters - Sillof provided extensive biographies for the Victorian takes on Iron Man, Captain America and Thor - but the very idea of a Victorian Marvel Universe toy line is fantastically cool nonetheless. With any luck, we'll get to see Sillof's take on the X-Men, Spider-Man and others before too much longer.

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