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Marvel Legends series 10 contains the superb value and detail that have made the brand so popular. Kids and collectors continue to clamor for these highly poseable replicas of their favorite Marvel Legends. Each will include a full-page comic or poster book. As a bonus, this series will also include a build-a-figure bonus! Fans will rush to collect all 5 figures to form a 16? Sentinel, one of the X-Men?s toughest foes! WARNING: contains small parts not for children under 3 years.
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Like many people when I saw that Spider-man was getting the Legends treatment, I inwardly groaned. With the Spiderman Classics line doing so well, and the articulation greatly increasing, I thought we’d be getting something like we already had several of. I was very pleasantly supprised to find a wonderful figure. Not only is the Head piece crucial to build the Sentinel, but the figure is great. The clear display base is perfect and he can almost perfectly mimic his now famous Amazing Fantasy #15 Cover pose.Like I said the articulation is great and the Sentinel piece alone is worth money.
Product Information and Prices Stored: Jan 08, 2010 16:53:06
Marvel Legends Fantastic Four Action Figure Asia Exclusive Gift Set.Meet the first family of Marvel, available in one boxset! The malleable Mr. Fantastic! The incredible Invisible Woman! The hotheaded Human Torch! The terrible Thing! And their arch-nemesis, the dastardly Doctor Doom! All figures are super-articulated, and come with Franklin Richards and HERBIE the robot, unavailable anywhere else! Exclusive Franklin Richars&H.E.R.B.I.E. The Robot!!! WARNING: contains small parts not for children under 3 years.
The new boxed set of the FF is very good. It gives you all the members of the team and their #1 villian–Dr. Doom. The nice features of this set include the exclusive Invisible Woman, the Dr. Doom with his scarred face, and a slightly updated Thing figure. H.E.R.B.I.E. the robot and Franklin Richards are exclusive to this set, but are nothing to talk about. You could live with out them. Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) has a new paint scheme and a goofy, new head sculpt that looks….not so good. The Marvel Legends Series 5 figure of him alone is much better than this one. You can easily swap heads from the one to the other by letting their heads sit in boiling water for about 45 seconds. Then, pop them off and switch them around. In addition to Mr. Fantastic being previously released before this set, so was the Thing, the Human Torch, and Dr. Doom. The Thing has a new paint job, new head sculpt, and better hands. The Thing from Marvel Legends Series 2 had “bendy” fingers and you couldn’t get him to make a fist very well. This version of the Thing can do that. So, when “it’s clobberin’ time”, this Thing is ready. Although he could’ve been updated a little more–in my opinion–ToyBiz didn’t changed him any further. The Human Torch is the same as the Series 2 version, but with a “flame off” head. I wish they could have given him the same body sculpt as Mr. Fantastic. It’s so much better than the one Torch has–way better articulation. I never really liked the Series 2 Human Torch, so I hoped that this one had been updated. It wasn’t. Dr. Doom is also identical to the Series 2 Dr. Doom only he has a slightly different paint scheme and a different face sculpt. The face is scarred from the infamous lab accident in his past that turned him into the character he is now. This is how ToyBiz should have released Dr. Doom in the first place. Don’t know why they waited so long, but it’s worth the wait. Each figure comes with his/her own display base and a poster book of the characters. I would have given the set 5 stars if they had improved the Human Torch a little more and included some other characters besides Franklin Richards and H.E.R.B.I.E. the robot. Otherwise, this set is a great buy for new and old fans–especially with the upcoming Fantastic Four movie to be released in theaters.
Product Information and Prices Stored: Dec 27, 2009 15:39:06
The tradition of quality and variety of action figures continues with yet another breathtaking line-up for both kids and collectors. This Apocalypse Series Maestro Hulk figure is super-articulated and poseable. He includes a comic book, too, so you can read and then recreate your favorite super hero scenes. Maestro Hulk includes the left arm of the Apocalypse figure.As an added bonus, a piece of the “Build a Figure” character is included. Collect all the action figures in the series to build your own deluxe 14″ Apocalypse. Other figures sold separately. Maestro Hulk measures 6″ tall.
Maestro Hulk is a good figure. I like the character and am glad he was done in the Marvel Legends style. However, he’s too short. The character is 7 feet tall, but doesn’t seem like it when you stand him up next Bishop, Iron Fist, or anyone else from past series. He’s the same body sculpt that was used for Smart Hulk back in the short-lived Hulk Classics series. So, if you stand him up with other Hulks, he will look just fine. In my opinion, if you’re going to make a Hulk-or anyone else-make him the right size. The figure does have great articulation and an excellent paint job. The joints are not too tight and are well concealed on the figure. The details are nice, too. His crown fits his head nicely, but will fall off during play. You could secure it with one of those clear rubber bands that come with action figures these days. Since he is a possible future Hulk, he has plenty of little warts and wrinkles all over his body to show the effects of the radiation and battle his body has endured over the years. He comes with a copy of the last chapter of a 4-part Captain Marvel story. It’s a real recent storyline for older kids, so it has a few, inappropriate 4-letter words in it-which I do not approve of. It’s a sad testament to comics these days that they have to resort to things like that in order to make their characters and plots seem real. They’ll do whatever it takes to get them to sell, I guess. I threw the comic away to keep my kids from reading it. The comic shows very little of Maestro Hulk anyway. And, it’s kind of confusing to just pick it up and start reading the last chapter. You really need the preceding 3 comics to get the benefit of the story. I think they could have picked a better comic. This series is called the Apocalypse Series because, as in past series, the 6 figures have a piece of the 7th, larger figure-Apocalypse. Apocalypse is a 5,000-year-old mutant and an arch nemesis of the X-Men. He turns out to be 14 inches tall and he looks really, really good when he is all assembled. He IS the best one in the series. Most people probably won’t consider the character selection in this series to be the best, so it was a good idea for ToyBiz to release these figures this way. Personally, I love the character selection AND the idea of building another, larger figure. They should continue it in future releases. Everyone will want to put together their own Apocalypse since he was very hard to get when he made his 6-inch appearance in Marvel Legends 7. Maestro is well stocked, so if you want him for the Apocalypse piece or not, you’re still getting a great action figure who plays and displays nicely. But, I only give it 4 stars because he’s too short and the inappropriate words in the comic. They forgot that this toy was recommended for kids as young as 5. I don’t think most people will want their 5 year old reading these kinds of words yet.
Product Information and Prices Stored: Dec 26, 2009 15:35:19
