The litlgeeks are some seriously lucky litlkids! This weekend they got to see Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, which they LOVED! And when they got home, sitting on their table, a brand new Magic Box, sent to us for free from their great friends at Hasbro! What was in the box?….
Dancing Groot
Dancing Groot is so much fun! He will say I am Groot, he will dance to music he plays from the movie soundtrack, and for the most fun, if you leave him on and don’t touch his button for 15 seconds, he goes into listen mode. In this mode, if he hears any music / sound, he’ll light up and dance!
Dancing Groot includes demo batteries and is intended for ages 4 and up.
Music Mix Star-Lord
Music Mix Star-Lord is a great way to take more of the songs out of the movie and into your living room! By pressing Star-Lords button without the cassette inserted, he will say up to 25 phrases. With the cassette, pressing the button will play tunes from the sound track! Pair him up with Dancing Groot for a disco dancing good time!
Music Mix Star-Lord includes demo batteries and is intended for ages 4 and up.
Groot bop it
The classic and awesome fun of bop it with a twist! A Groot twist! Twist Groots head, bop his head, pull his legs, play alone or pass it to a friend! Groot is voiced by Rocket Raccoon, so he says more than just “I Am Groot” to instruct you.
bop it Groot is for ages 8 and up and includes demo batteries.
The whole gang!
The toys in this post / video were given to us for free for review.
Recommended ages for the toys in the video / post are listed in this post.
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It’s 2017 and we are still getting amazing Marvel 3.75 inch figures. In fact, some of the most amazing to grace the line. Not only that, but they are actually on retail shelves! I went to a Target this weekend, and found what I am about to share with you. New comers to this and many lines of plastic may not realize, but …to find something like this at Target, especially without going to 15 Targets first, it’s special. As part of Hasbro’s 2017 Marvel Legends 3.75″ line, they are releasing several 2-packs, four in fact, 3 movie based, one comic based. As you will see below, the Spider-Man / Shocker combo is comic based. The others on shelves, movie versions of Doctor Strange and Astral Doctor Strange, Spider-man and Vulture, and Star-Lord and Yondu. I’ve yet to encounter the others in real life outside of conventions, but my radar is up and I’m looking so I can bring them to you! For now, let’s check out what is likely to be the go to, de-facto Spider-Man in your collection for years to come, and a massive upgrade to the only other 3.75″ Shocker.
Spider-Man
The Good
Articulation warriors, you will want for pretty much nothing! This Spider-Man is super pose-able, endlessly flexible and features pretty much every point of articulation imagined on a 3.75 Hasbro action figure.
Torso swivel
Waist twist
Thigh cut
Double jointed knees and elbows
Bicep twist
Hinge jointed shoulders.
Ball / socket hip
Calf twist
Ankle rockers
This Spider-Man features very sharp and solid line work. I think there is even more web detail here than the beautiful, but less articulated single card 2016 Spider-Man.
Deep rich blue, bright popping red, the coloring is gorgeous.
Good, solid body for this Spider-Man, you can see the contrast in both body and color against the very early Marvel Universe Spidey release. This body holds the character far better and is in line with the current maturity of Peter Parker. It is confirmed that the body used her is the same as Negative Zone Spidey, Daredevil, Cyclops. This is a great thing, it’s the best ever!
The Bad
While the web sling pose hand is iconic and appreciated, inclusion of an alternate closed fist or open standard hand would have put this further over the top for me.
Make no mistake, this is the best 3.75″ Spidey that you will own to this point in history. It’s a little bit of a bitter pill to swallow that you have to buy him with another figure. Most will want Shocker, but for those that don’t… This definitely deserves a single card release.
My particular Spider-Man has a slightly bowed right leg, this is likely a QC issue and hopefully not prevalent against all releases. Where I found my Spidey, he was the only one.
Shocker
The Good
The mesh lines on Shocker’s costume are solid, clean, well painted, and standing next to Spider-Man he looks consistent in art detail.
Shocker has his bolt belt logo that all the Legends scale kids are going crazy over!
Shocker’s gauntlets look fantastic.
Standing next to the previous 3.75 inch Shocker (previously available as part of a Spider-Man line of years past), this one just buries that figure. Looks amazing in his more modern costume, features so much more detail.
You can easily get Shocker into most of his iconic poses with the articulation featured.
The delination between Shocker’s uniform mesh and his eyes on his face is really well executed. Great attention to detail here!
Even though I prefer the vested boot cuffed Shocker costume, this figure is so fantastic looking I really don’t care that it isn’t my favorite costume for the character.
The Bad
Shocker is on a more recent ‘buck’ which features less articulation than figures in years passed, specifically on the torso. Shocker does a good job of getting into any position you are likely to need, this only falls under “the bad” because standing next to the hyper-articulated Spidey in this set, the differences are glaring.
The greedy in me wants an electrical effect piece.
The Rest
Fans of 3.75 should be very happy with this set. It gives us the best classic Spidey we have ever gotten and addresses a gaping hole in Spider-Man villains in the 3.75 inch line. The price clocks in at about 10 bucks a figure and that is a solid value! The only real ding is that if you don’t want Shocker (maybe you just don’t like Shocker) , or another Spider-Man (this is the best, but anyone collecting in this scale probably has a few), you have to buy the two and both of these figures could have easily supported a single card demand on their own.