Marvel Legends Thor and Hulk 2-Pack

Marvel Legends Thor and Hulk 2-Pack

Thor & Hulk | Executioner & Enchantress

Marvel Legends Thor and Hulk 2-Pack

Well, it’s Saturday and I bet you thought that MUReview was gonna take a little break from posting all things Hasbro… well, nope!  Today, thanks to local Toys R Us love, we get a crack at the Marvel Legends Thor and Hulk 2-pack!  And ya know what?  Because I like ya, I’m gonna take a look at the Enchantress and Executioner 2-pack tomorrow!  It’s madness!  We are going on two solid weeks of Hasbro Marvel reviews and we can’t get enough!  But I digress, let’s talk about Thor and Hulk.  This 2-pack features the unlikely duo in their movie decos from the upcoming Ragnarok film.  I can’t wait for the movie, so Hasbro dropping all of this Thor Ragnarok product on August 1, perfect timing, but are the figures perfect?  Let us discuss….

Thor | Hulk The Rest | Availability Family Photos

Thor

The Good

  • All of the war paint on his armor, face, everywhere, it looks really well done, intentionally placed, and from the trailer, movie accurate.
  • Clever connection points for his half cape, it stays on very well.
  • His helmet looks great.
  • His face looks movie accurate, really nice for this scale.
  • Articulation is good overall here, not outstanding, but good.  The absence of ab-crunch is felt, but the figures without it have much better looking torso decos #sorrynotsorry.
  • The paint here, really well done overall with limited exception.  I know I mentioned specifically the warpaint, but throughout the deco, it’s solid, really good re-creation of what we’ve seen in trailers.
  • Why does he have Mjolnir? Hmmmm….

The Bad

  • It’d of been really cool if the wings on his helmet were articulated like int he trailer.
  • The inside of the front of his helmet is painted flesh color.  Oh well.

Hulk

The Good

  • Probably my favorite movie Hulk figure to date.  They all look too much like Mark Ruffalo.  It looks like Marvel, and in this case Hasbro by way of Marvel are taking steps to Make Hulk Hulk look less like Mark Hulk and I like it.  
  • That said, this looks like the guy I’ve seen in the trailers and we should all be happy about that.
  • Again, the attention to detail in the warpaint, fantastic!
  • Included hammer and helmet look great and movie-like.  
  • The feathering on the top of the helmet, amazing, very well done!
  • The sculpt detail on his metallic parts is astonishing, the shoulder pad, the gauntlets.  The design on the leather pieces underneath, there is so much detail here.  
  • My clever kid stuffed Hulks war hammer in the back of his leather straps, it looks awesome.

The Bad

  • I really love this figure, but no ab-crunch for articulation fans.  I have to put something in this section..so that’s all I’m saying. 

 

The Rest

Hasbro is continuing their 3.75″ movie love with this Thor Ragnarok 2-pack and I have 0 complaints.  They did a great job with both characters, movie accurate (at least from what I can see in the trailers), and the figures feel good.  They are a little limited in articulation, but these are two of the behemoths of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they shouldn’t really be all that acrobatic in the first place.  If you love 3.75″, and you can’t wait for Thor Ragnarok (in theaters November 2017), you can’t go wrong with this set.  Another fine job by the Marvel 3.75″ figure designers at Hasbro, you know who you are!

Availability

Thor and Hulk are available now from Amazon for $32.  If you buy them from that link, I get some money, so that’d be nice, but that’s way too expensive.  Go to Toys R Us or hit up our friends at BigBadToyStore.com.  It’s retail at those other places.

Family Photos!

 

Mezco One:12 Summer Exclusive Ultimate Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

Mezco One:12 Summer Exclusive Ultimate Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

Ultimate Spider-Man | Deadpool

Mezco One:12 Summer Exclusive Ultimate Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

Mezco has been knocking every character they touch out of the park, Green Arrow, Punisher, Flash, Captain America, Batmans out the wazoo…  This year, as a “Summer Exclusive”, they offer us not one, but two epic new figures in Ultimate Spider-Man (Miles Morales) and Deadpool in his X-Men outfit.  These summer exclusives were initially available by pre-order directly from Mezco, and then on the show floor at San Diego Comic-con 2017.  It is anticipated that stock of these figures will make appearances at a few more conventions than just SDCC, but for now, they sold out at SDCC and the online pre-orders sold out well in advance of SDCC.  Add to the exclusivity and soldoutedness of these figures, the fact that they are both awesome, and you have wallet trouble my friends.  Talking about just Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales here, we find, right out of the package, a lot to love, very cool and innovative accessories and pose-mechanics, this is a figure you are going to wish you had pre-ordered.  I’m so, so sorry if you didn’t.

The Good

  • Rich, deep black costume is highlighted with bright red, well designed and placed spider and webbing.
  • Miles is highly articulated and capable of a ton of spider-poses.
  • This is one of the first non-booted figures from One:12 that I own, the execution of extending the cloth costume to cover feet is really well executed here.  The outfit remains tight over the feet and ankles while allowing for plenty of movement, almost as if by magic.  
  • The mechanic used to make webbing appear as if shooting from the wrists is very clever, there is a ridge in the web sling hands that webbing fits into and it is mounted between  hand and wrist to complete the look and hold.
  • Wall crawling magnetic figure clip is included and really works well, very cool way to toss Spidey up on the fridge.
  • Spider-Head webbing is very well done, looks great.
  • Included magnetic webbing allows for further deep, rich posing options.

The Bad

  • I am not upset about it, but the general Internet grumble is that there are no web holding hands so that Ultimate Spidey can look like he’s mid grab swing.  
  • The other Internet grumble is the height of the figure, he is generally as tall as any other One:12 figure, and consensus is that Miles is a kid and should be shorter.  I go on further down below about how I’m not really mad at that, because I’m not. But it’s worth a mention.
  • Peter Parker Spider-Man isn’t available yet.

The rest

Mezco has done another excellent job of creating a highly coveted, well designed, beautiful figure as a “summer” / “convention” exclusive.  Miles Morales / Ultimate Spider-Man features great accessories and a true to comic look.  Folks are already complaining about the figures height, and yes, Miles is definitely shorter than Peter in the comic-verse, but be educated about manufacturing and figure design if you are a collector.  By changing the outfit, Mezco has an easy and cost effective variant figure that was brought to the “niche” market of SDCC with minimal effort.  If they changed the height of the figure it would have equated to a significant change in design soup to nuts, we simply wouldn’t have gotten this figure at SDCC of this year.  I’m far happier to have Miles Morales Ultimate Spider-Man than I’d ever be annoyed that he was the same height as Peter Parker.  Granted, I’m not picky over things like that anyway, I just love access to more characters in one of my favorite figure lines of this decade!

Availability

If you didn’t get Miles at SDCC, and you didn’t pre-order him from Mezco, your options are limited to the aftermarket, and the aftermarket is brutal.  Amazon has the figure listed for $159.99.  You may have better luck camping an auction on eBay.  Either way, if you want the figure, don’t wait too long the prices only go up!

The Pictures