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 – Abomination Wave – Scarlet Witch
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Review – Marvel Legends – Abomination Wave – Scarlet Witch

As much as I like that Hasbro keeps putting out these C and D tier characters in their line ups, sometimes it feels like they go a little overboard and overlook some of the more obvious and popular characters, especially when it comes to their MCU line up.  I am sure the die hard comic fans hate to accept it sometimes, but the movies really feel like they are driving Marvel these days. Thankfully, they didn't wait too long to fill in the Scarlet Witch hole in the current Avengers line up.  Not like they did for, you know, Falcon,…
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…