Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Wolverine
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Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Wolverine

Wolverine is arguably the most popular Marvel comics character.  Spider-man is pretty up there and Deadpool seems to be doing pretty well, but Wolverine is, or at least was at one point, pretty up there.  It’s a shame he doesn’t' get more Marvel Legends figures really.  I mean I know I complain about all of the dozens of Captain Americas, but Wolverine is way more popular then Cap.  Maybe we just already hit Wolverine Saturation years ago and don't need more Wolverines?  Who knows. While wolverine has had a few looks over the years, and some slight redesigns, mostly in…
Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Deadpool
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Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Deadpool

I'm a little torn on Deadpool here.  He's a pretty great figure.  Not the perfect Deadpool necessarily due to a few minor design issue but he's solid.  He also comes with a ton of accessories and no Build-a-Figure piece for Juggernaut.  Which is why I'm torn.  What Deadpool represents is essentially what I wish we got from Marvel Legends as a line.  Dump the dumb BAF aspects, load up more accessories, alternate heads, weapons, effect parts, alternate hands. Yeah, it's a dumb reason to dislike a figure, it's more that I dislike the concept he is presenting, because it's what…
Review – Marvel Legends – Walgreen’s Punisher
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Review – Marvel Legends – Walgreen’s Punisher

Walgreen's has quickly become a pretty hot spot for toy collecting.  They have continually been getting some really good exclusives for Star Wars and Marvel Legends and more recently Transformers.  These often, though not always, aren't just mild repaints or useless variants of other characters from a mass release, especially on the Marvel Legends side.   They also have started having a good track record of getting waves earlier than other retail outlets such as Wal-Mart and Target.  The Punisher here is one of those exclusive figures. This Punisher is such a mixed bag of hit and miss.  He's mostly good,…
Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Phoenix (Jean Grey)
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Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Phoenix (Jean Grey)

This may be a bit of a short one on the text.  I honestly have very little to really say about Marvel Legends Phoenix.  In fact, the main thing I have to say is something I really don't say too often about anything.  I think I legitimately hate almost everything about this figure. I'm not even sure it's an upgrade from my old Toybiz Phoenix figure.  Sure that old Phoenix has some issues, and is far from perfect but this update just has so much that I don't particularly like that makes for the perfect storm of dislike. For starters,…
Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Havok
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Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Havok

Someone working on this wave seems to have a hard on for Cyclops' family, we've got his wife, Jean Grey (Phoenix), his son from the future, Cable, and his brother, Havok.  There isn't a Cyclops, but we got one in the first wave of X-men with Jubilee and there is one in the next wave coming in 2017.  He's Cyclops' younger brother in the comics but older brother in the movies, though this is a decidedly comic book design. He definitely doesn't have the most amazing design for a super hero.  There's nothing complicated going on here, he's a dude…
Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Rogue
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Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Rogue

I've always really liked Rogue as a character.  She's generally fun, she has an interesting power with interesting positives and negatives, her overall design is nice as well.  It probably helps that in the old cartoon series she was always paired with Gambit, whom I also really like as far as X-men go.  The point is, I am kind of biased towards Rogue, especially this particular design, which in general is one of her more popular designs. Unfortunately, there has only been one other figure of this design in this size, back in the Toybiz line, and it is god…
Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Cable
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Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Cable

It's not every day we get a mother/son combo in a wave of Marvel Legends but here we are with Cable and Jean Grey.  Ok, technically Cable's mother is a clone of Jean Grey but that's just the way the kooky storylines of the X-men work.  I mean Cable really looks like he's probably older than jean anyway, which he probably is since he comes from the future.  The reality is, Cable likely exists in this wave to accompany Deadpool, since Cable and Deadpool are partners from time to time. It's kind of a shame he's not a better Cable,…