Hasblow Reviews

[Saint553]

Ok gents, I figured we should take an oppurtunity to review all the new hasbro product. So, I'm going to set some criteria so we can do it and have an archive of our reviews. Here's the criteria, and it's pretty basic, and each one is scored out of 10.

Packaging
Sculpt
Paint
Articulation
Accessories
Overall score (give your own personal score).
It's all out of 60!

 

[Saint553]

Saint's HML Review:

Hasbro Marvel Legends Ultimate Iron Man and Hercules

Packaging:
Some reviewers actually review the packaging. Well, I'll try, but I think it's pointless because most packaging gets ripped up and thrown out anyways. So, for packaging, I give them both a 4 out of 10. It's a lot easier to mangle and bend, easy to open, and hard to stack. I like that they're custom to each figure now, but it feels more like a little kid's line now.

Paint: As far as I can tell, neither figure has much of a paint job. Just colored plastic. I'd have to give a 5 out of 10 on the paint job because I guess some little kid in a foreign country had to quite literally slave to get these painted within the lines. No paint errors on either, so that's why they got a 5 and not a 3. Iron Man could have used *something* rather than nothing.

Sculpt-
Iron Man looks stellar but the lack of a paint job doesn't make the sculpt "pop". Herc looks pretty decent I hate those weird leggings. He's got an awful grin on his face. My biggest complaint on Iron Man, though, is his tiny head. Helmet on, he looks great, fantastic. But take it off, and it doesn't look like a human can fit within the armor. They should have raised the shoulders up a lot so it doesn't look like he's got a neck that's a foot long sticking out from the armor. Final sculpt: 7 out of 10.

Articulation:
Here's the theme for Hasbro: Less for more. We get less articulation and paint for more money. I paid $13 for each of these at a online retailer's outlet store. The owner said if Hasbro didn't jack the price up by $3 a figure just at cost, then they would all be $10. But Their lack of hand articulation sucks. Iron Man looks like he's ready to forever cup some boobies and Herc has partial fists that will never hold his weird looking stupid weapon thing. But, they are both fully poseable otherwise and all the joints are tight and moveable. No loose joints right out of the package, not stuck joints, and no breakable joints thus far. Score: 8 out of 10.

Accessories: A pink and green part of that bug looking guy. I can go on and on about anyone but women wearing pink, but I'll save that rant for another time. Let me say this, Annihilus is just a popped color and stupid haircut away from being a *****e bag frat boy. Oh, and Herc comes with a stupid mace thing that he can't hold. Iron man has some shin pads that are removeable for whatever reason. I get a feeling I'll loose them. Score: 1 out of 10.

Overall: The increased price that gives us less is pathetic. A little over a year ago we were paying less for figures that has BAF pieces to make sentinels and galactus. Now we get some intergalatic frat guy *****e bag in pink and green and a lot less articulation. Not only that, but they look so goddamn bland. I'll give an overall disappointing score of 4 out of 10.

Total score: 29 out of 60, a big fat F

 

[Saint553]

Iron Spider-Man (Spider-Man Origins)

Packaging
I do like this packaging quite a bit. I find it funny that Hasbro actually tapes a lot of their packages shut with packing tape. My girlfriend went to get me a symbiote Spider-Man from the same line and thinking it was opened then resealed, she went back to get me another one. She noticed they were all like that, but she had thought that the one she got me was resealed. I do like these though a great deal, it reminds me of the first Spider-Man movie packaging which I thought was terrific. I give it a generous 7 out of 10. Would have been 8, but I thought the tape was stupid.

Sculpt
I had been waiting for this figure for some time. I had called it the "Last Marvel figure I'll ever buy". It was true in some sense because I thought I'd end up getting it a lot later than I actually did. Technically, my Hasbro ML are the last marvel figures I'll ever buy, at least for now. But This one looked fantastic, a lot like it did in the comics. So the first one I got was shipped to me from Canada. I loved it! With the exceptions you'll see later on, however. Then I noticed he had two left feet. Great! First Hasbro figure I get and it's screwed up! On Fwoosh I mocked those annoying ebay sellers who sell factory errors as if they're the next coming of the dark Phoenix by saying "LOOK! Rare HTF Factory Error Spider-Man that can't dance! He's got two left feet!". The sculpt is pretty solid, however. My only complaint is the overly pointy chin. I love how the yellow spider emblem and yellow parts stick out a bit, also. Very nice touch. I'll give it a 8/10 on sculpting.

Paint
Not much to say about the paint because it's pretty damn good. Nice yellow color, and the red is a nice shiney metallic red. I would have liked it to be a bit more brick red, I guess, but it's good as it is. 9/10!

Articulation
Ok, here's where things get bad. Spider-Man should only lack articulation when he has an action figure or some weird suit that he never wears in the comics, right? We've seen it plenty of times. It's acceptable that way. But this is a different suit that he does wear in the comics, and it's lacking some of the most fundamentally required articulation a figure could possibly have. For instance, way back when the original Spider-Man Classics came out (prior to marvel legends), while those figured lacked a bicep swivel and a few other POAs, they did not lack wrist or ankle articulation. In fact, I think they also didn't lack waist articulation. They are the ancestors of all the Marvel Legends-ish figures that have been produced and had some POA that rivals this Iron Spidey. Iron Spidey has some sweet articulation, but lacking wrist, ankle, and waist movement, that's just sad. It completely limits the coolness of this figure as he can't really strike the dynamic poses that make spidey, well, spidey. I'm not sure if he lost out on articulation because of the weird extra arm things he's got going on his back, but if he did, that's pathetic. Those arms things are hard to pose and really seem to be more of a nuisance than anything valuable. If I were to find out that the plastic that could have been used for the missing articulation was used for those arm thingies, I'll never buy another action figure again. I hope I don't find out. Ariticulation: 3 out of 10.

Accessories
He comes with a basic base. And I guess those stupid arm things are considered accessories. Nothing great, but he doesn't need much. I would have liked an actual base like previous ML had, maybe even something Civil War related. I consider that a missed opportunity and that's why this figure gets a 5 out of 10 on accessories.

Overall score (give your own personal score).
"The last marvel figure I'll ever buy" turned out to be a disappointing one when it came to articulation. While it's still a solid figure, the amount of work it needs to make it a decent spidey figure nearly kills the value of it. I'm going to have to give it a 5 out of 10, because I expect so much more and was so disappointed.

Total score and grade: 37 out of 60. D-. Easily could have been a much better figure.

To see what Iron Spidey should be more like, check the following:
http://www.fwooshnet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=583551#583551
http://www.fwooshnet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=687856#687856