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 – Transformers – Titans Return – Highbrow
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Review – Transformers – Titans Return – Highbrow

Like most of the original Headmasters, Highbrow hasn't gotten a proper update in a while.  There was a pretty neat Highbrow back in the Hunt for the Decepticons sub-line of Revenge of the Fallen, though his alt mode for that line was a Lockheed P38-Bomber style plane, and he was mostly green instead of his original blue and white.  It's a neat toy mostly for using a cool alt mode, but it's not very Highbrow and it wasn't a headmaster. Like most of Titans Return, Highbrow is a much more faithful remake of his G1 iteration.  He has the same…
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,…