Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 69 Most Wanted Group Shots

Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 69 Most Wanted Group Shots

Black Knight and Enchantress  | Tigra and Falcon | Blizzard (Gill) & Mandroid | Blizzard (Shapanka) & Mandroid  | MM S69 Most Wanted Group Shots

Diamond Select Toys Minimates: Series 69 Most Wanted Group Shots

I gotta be honest. I didn’t think I’d ever love a Minimate as much as I love my Richard Rider Nova figure…but that Black Knight is the reason for the season.  I’m so happy to have Series 69 for a bunch of reasons, but he’s runaway the top of the list.  A fantastic Minimate in every way.  That doesn’t diminish the rest of the wave at all though, you have some killer figures here, a classic Falcon, Tigra, Enchantress, Mandroids Mandroids Mandroids, and two versions of Blizzard, two beautiful, very eye catching versions of Blizzard.  The blue on modern blizzard might be my favorite paint on an action figure ever!  This series is fantastic, and you should go out hunting for it today!

We love the wave, you’ll love the wave, go pick it up at your local comic shop!

Thank you again Diamond Select Toys!

 

 

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Marvel Legends 3.75 2017 Wave 5: Gold Ultron

Marvel Legends 3.75 2017 Wave 5: Gold Ultron

Gold Ultron | Jewel | Hydra Captain America | Age of Apocalypse Magneto | Spider-Man 2099 | Group Shots

Marvel Legends 3.75 2017 Wave 5: Gold Ultron

Long Live Marvel Legends 3.75!  Let’s celebrate another wave of Marvel Legends 3.75″ figures by kicking it off with some solid gold! …painted plastic.  Let’s also celebrate that today, 9/8/17 is the first day of the first ever HASCON in Rhode Island, and MUReview will be on hand to bring you all the Marvel Legends info you need to know….now, on with the show.  The last time we got a full wave of Marvel Legends 3.75″ figures was round about December of 2016 with the Moon Knight, Maestro, All New All Different Iron Man, Wolverine, Lady Deadpool and Spider-UK figures.  Since then we’ve gotten a slew of “non-wave” style releases.  We’ve gotten movie 2-packs of Spider-Man and Vulture, Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange,  Yondu and Star-Lord, as well as a non-movie 2-pack of Shocker and Spider-Man.  We got a Toys R Us exclusive Guardians of the Galaxy Box Set.   We got an Amazon exclusive Spider-Man Sinister 6 Box Set.  Even more recently, we got the finally released gem of Executioner and Enchantress, along side the movie 2-pack of Thor and Hulk.  Blurring the lines pretty heavily, we did actually get a 3.75″ SDCC exclusive too, it wasn’t necessarily pure Marvel, but there were hints in that absolutely astonishing IDW Revolution Box Set.  By now you are thinking, what is the doofus plodding on about?  Sure, that’s a lot of fancy blue linked text, but what’s the point.  That fancy blue linked text, each piece represents a 3.75″ figure we got for 2017.  Between December 2016 and now, it hasn’t been a barren wasteland of no 3.75″ figures, there has really been quite a lot of releases out of Hasbro Marvel in the scale.  These aren’t necessarily the type of releases we are used to, but they are a lot of releases, and I hope seeing them all in one place is enough to quiet the trumpeters that have screamed for so long that this line is dying and or dead.  It’s still here.  It’s different than it was in 2010, but as with all things, time changes, time evolves things.  I have been pretty happy with the releases this year, if you click the links, you’ll see that and why in each case.  I’m not gonna lie though, I’ve been waiting for this Wave since it’s announcement at SDCC 2016 very impatiently.  I’m glad it’s finally here….happier still that I get to share it with you today!

The Good | The Bad The Rest | Availability Photos

The Good

  • This Ultron figure came out a really long time ago (in two different colors, silver with black line detail and red head highlights with Reed Richards in a two-pack, then Silver with green line detail and green head highlights on a single card), and it was fantastic figure back then.  It’s still a fantastic figure.
  • The gold coloring is beautiful.
  • Retained are the nicely sculpted out detail lines throughout his body, this time though, they are not filled in with contrasting color, he’s one solid gold through and through.
  • His face is as menacing as ever, deep, mean evil red highlights his eyes and the inside of his mouth.  The evil red is highlighted with splotches of black making him that much more mean looking.
  • His shoulder pads still look awesome, as do his knee pads.
  • Folks love the older more articulated bodies for 3.75.  Here ya go!

The Bad

  • While this figure has aged very, very well, it would have been neat to see some updates here beyond the color.

The Rest

I’m really psyched to finally get my hands on this Ultron. He was teased in 2015 as part of wave 3 2015 and pulled back.  It was Ultron and Scarlet Spider that got teased, but didn’t make the wave because Juggo-lossus and North Star got pulled into the wave.  Certainly no complaints at the time because we had waited so long for those two figures anyway.  Scarlet Spider did eventually make it out, and now, finally, Hasbro has caught us up to all the things they at one point teased but didn’t release (Executioner, Scarlet Spider, Gold Ultron, Juggo-lossus, Emma Frost, North Star).  Gold Ultron is an awesome figure, a check mark in the positive column for any 3.75″ collector.  Besides, you can never have enough Ultron figures really.  Why not make a Golden Company of Ultrons?  ….See what I did there, Game of Thrones fans?  One more thing…(my Steve Jobs moment).  Look in the gallery.  Look at the back of package shot. This is a 5 figure wave.  But on the back, 6 figure pictures!! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN.  Marvel’s Falcon also pictured…I wonder if we will hear more about him at HASCON tonight at the Marvel Legends panel at 5:30.

Availability

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