Newsflash: Toy Collector Goes Rogue!

After months of nerdy anticipation, this toy collector finally got the newly released  Marvel Legends Rogue figure! For those not in the know, Rogue is a very popular X-Men character, who was played by Anna Paquin in the X-movies. 

In the early 90's I was just beginning to get really into superheroes (as opposed to GIJoes & Ninja Turtles), and the Saturday morning X-Men show on Fox is where I got most of my early X-knowledge. So any figures based on that era of the team are especially awesome to me. This figure features Rogue just how she looked in that cartoon; 90's leather jacket, headband, and everything.

Enough of the jibba jabba, here's the pics!

Good articulation, excellent paint applications, and a great sculpt make for a fantastic action figure. My hats off to Hasbro, who is at the top of their game. This one is worth the $.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Nova

This is one of the figures I was most looking forward to in the Marvel Legends Guardians of the Galaxy series.  He's got a cool uniform, a great sculpt, and a super-shiny paint job!

As cool as he is, there's not much to this figure, so I didn't take too many pics.  Check him out!

 

This Nova figure blows away the previous ML Nova produced by Hasbro.  I passed on that one even when it was on the clearance aisle!  The only downside to this figure is that mine has very loose joints. I was able to make him stand up, but I'm not going to push it with any crazy poses.

Check my other posts for other GotG figure pix leading up to the BAF Groot!

Monochrome Spidey

For those not in the "know", the Fantastic Four recently lost a member to a temporary death (as it turned out) and changed their name to the Future Foundation.  The new FF sported slick new black & white duds and invited Spider-Man to join in the fun.  I bought the first issue of FF just for the sweet Spider-Man suit.  Now Hasbro has released an awesome new FF Spidey in the latest Marvel Legends series!  Let's check him out!

First off, this is probably the best Spider-Man action figure sculpt yet.  Yes, his hands are frozen in fist/web shooting poses, but considering how bad the more articulated Spider-man hands have been in the past, I'd rather just have one that looks nice for once.  This Spidey is very solid-looking, features great posability, and the paint apps are almost perfect.  I'll compare this new Spidey to my previously displayed one and you can see the difference. The older Spidey features nice details, but he's creepy skinny and while they made him very posable, he just looks odd.  I love this new sculpt and would buy more Spideys from Hasbor if they would repaint this sculpt in the classic red/blue and black suits.

Is this suit design and figure followthrough not incredible?  Love it!

Check out these poses!

Here's the comparison  of the new Spidey to the now-demoted Spidey.  The old Spidey can almost match the pose, but look how awkward and fragile he looks.  Plus, look at those weird hands!  No contest.

I'm not usually a huge Hasbro fan (I haven't forgotten you ToyBiz), but they did Spider-Man right, which goes a long way in my book.  Nice job!