Magic Box: SDCC 2018 Exclusive Playmates Hyper-Phase Voltron

Magic Box: SDCC 2018 Exclusive Playmates Hyper-Phase Voltron

Magic Box: SDCC 2018 Exclusive Playmates Hyper-Phase Voltron

We’ve got Netflix Dreamworks Voltron.  We’ve got 84 Classic Voltron. We’ve got a mini die-cast Netflix Dreamworks Voltron.  What’s next?  The Hyper-Phase Voltron of course!  Playmates is bringing out its most ornate, and certainly fanciest looking Voltron to show off and purchase at SDCC 2018!  This amazing exclusive will run about $130 and is available exclusively at a few different booths at SDCC 2018.  But, what is Hyper-Phase Voltron?  All things being equal, by the time we had gotten and opened this set, we still were not caught up with the current season (7) of Voltron.  So last night when we sat down to wrap it up, I had hoped for an answer.  And while in the final episodes of the show you do see the Black Lions wings go all amazing and long like HP Voltron, they didn’t yet present a full Hyper-Phased Voltron.  Did they? …I was also editing this video while we watched…very irresponsible of me.  Either way, Voltron returns with new episodes in early August, so just a few weeks for season 8!  Either way, I want to see more of this amazingly decorated Voltron set!  

The set comes in a beautiful, and massive gift box.  Each Lion features a different color scheme as well as different weapons.  So far from what I have heard, the phrases stored on Voltron are the same, including the form Voltron sequence, no complaints there!  Let’s dig into this beautiful box set.  Playmates, thank you so much for sending this to us for free to share with everyone!

Black Lion | Blue Lion | Yellow Lion | Red LionGreen Lion | Voltron | The Rest | Availability | Group Photos

Black Lion

  • Apart from an enhanced Hyper-Phase paint application featuring quintessence blue, and black, the Black Lion features incredible new wings…just beautiful!

Blue Lion

  • Blue Lion sports a new coat of paint, and also new, menacing weapon that clips over his sides and fires a single spring loaded rocket.

Yellow Lion

  • Yellow had one of the coolest weapons the first go round.  Now, he gets a new paint job, and another set of cool, beefy spring-loaded weapons!

Red Lion

  • Red features the blue and black that is prevalent throughout the set, but also has, definitely the most unique weapon of the bunch.  A disc shooter, where you squeeze either side to launch a disc!

Green Lion

  • Green gets a color upgrade and features two shoulder fired spring-loaded missiles!

Hyper-Phase Voltron 

  • This remarkable bad boy looks amazing in his new blue and black base coat.
  • The new wings on the Black Lion come out in full force when standing up Voltron, he looks like he’s about to take flight!

The rest

If you don’t have Voltron, is this the one to get?  There are some really good options out there that aren’t limited to only 3000 pieces.  You can still find the standard Dreamworks Voltron on shelves and it’s incredible.  The classic 84 will always be the closest to my heart of the Playmates Voltron figures.  This is a beautiful set though.  It features Voltron in a never before seen paint application, with some fun new weapons.  This really makes it a perfect convention exclusive.  It’s different enough to warrant really wanting it, but same enough to warrant not being terribly upset if you aren’t one of the lucky 3000.  If you have a shot at it though, it’s gorgeous, get it!

Availability

This set is limited to 3000 pieces, and will only be available on the show floor of SDCC. This is an EXCLUSIVE! Item!

  •  $129.99 for the 5-piece box set
  • Available from the following Comic Con vendors:
  • ThinkGeek/Gamestop – Booth 3349
  • Toynk Toys – Booth 815/4437
  • Entertainment Earth – Booth 2343
  • Trendsetters/Sure Thing Toys – Booth 4730

 

Group Photos

This video and post is for entertainment purposes only. | Toys in this post are recommended for ages 4 and up. | The litlgeeks and MUReview received this set for free.

SDCC 2018 Exclusive Hasbro Marvel Legends Red Skull and Tesseract

SDCC 2018 Exclusive Hasbro Marvel Legends Red Skull and Tesseract

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SDCC 2018 Exclusive Marvel Legends Red Skull and Tesseract
Year in and year out, Hasbro manages to bring something fun and interesting to SDCC.  Last year was the the Thor Battle For Asgard set. They also brought a 12 inch amazing Daredevil!  And, while not Marvel, one of the coolest sets I’ve ever seen, that inspired a collection of Transformers, the IDW set. This year, Hasbro has decided it was probably best not to slow down on the amazing exclusive train, and they are bringing another two epic sets to SDCC!  This little piece right here is to talk about the first one, the Red Skull and Tesseract set! 

Paying homage to the 10 year anniversary of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this set features a 6 inch Marvel Legends scale Red Skull with his own tiny Tesseract, as well as a full scale Tesseract, that lights up!  Now, as usual, the packaging is outstanding, cardboard sleeve over a bi-fold display case that features a ton of great art and easter eggy type information referencing the events of Captain America, the First avenger.  Red Skull is neatly secured with a few tie downs, and the Tesseract is nestled in a sleeve inside a case.  That’s the packaging, it’s gorgeous.  

As always, a very special thank you to Hasbro for sending this to us for free to review for you!

Red Skull | Tesseract | The Rest | Availability | Family Photos

Red Skull

  • The face sculpt is movie evil insane.  It’s just so amazing.
  • The red of the skull is not just red, it’s that same blood and singed flesh red in the movie. 
  • His outfit is obviously made of plastic, but between paint and sculpt detail, it looks like leather, the stitching lines, the riveting all help sell the effect.
  • Further to the effect, the not just painted, but sculpted Hydra patch on his left arm.  Amazing!
  • Selling the movie look even more, that incredible belt buckle, and the collar area!
  • Red Skull’s right hand is sculpted perfectly to ably hold his included Tesseract.  It fits well, doesn’t fall out easily!
  • Red Skull’s eyes are beautifully detailed and multi-colored!
  • Skull’s coat sash is not removable and may inhibit some acrobatic poses.
  • Here is my greed ask…what if…hear me out.  What if?  The little tiny Tesseract lit up the way it’s big brother does?  

Tesseract

  • If the word “cool” was crafted into a toy, this would be it.  The Tesseract is amazing!!
  • This is NOT the Tesseract previously included in the MCU movie boxed set.  This is a brand new, sculpted, highly detailed Tesseract just for this set…though to be honest, if this doesn’t find wide market release at some point it is an actual crime.
  • Tesseract splits into two pieces to give you access to the inside which is sculpted and detailed to the nines with crags and crystaline structure that is used to echo and reflect the light emitted from the…
  • Inside the cube is a light emitting orb that requires 3 triple A batteries.  You remove a screw panel, plug in the batteries, screw the panel back in, and press a button.
  • One button press will turn on the Tesseract glow effect for a few seconds, press and hold for a persisted light effect that you can turn off by pressing the button again.  
  • The two pieces of the cube are held together by a few little nubs, and it does stay together very well, should not come apart without direct intention.  
  • When the orb is lit and the cube is sealed around it, the effect is brilliant.  

The Rest

The Tesseract is worth the price of admission alone.  The fact that you get an incredible Red Skull figure with it should make this a no brainer for MCU collectors.  For non-MCU collectors…well I’m sorry, you will in fact need the Tesseract.

Availability

$59.99, available at the Hasbro booth at SDCC 2018.  Available after SDCC online at HasbroToyShop.com in limited quantities, word on the street is 8/13.  This will also be a roaming convention exclusive for Hasbro, so keep your eyes out at other marquee conventions through the country.  

Family and Packaging Photos!

MUReview received this boxed set for free for review purposes.

SDCC 2018 Exclusive Marvel Legends Defenders Rail Authority Subway Car Box Set

SDCC 2018 Exclusive Marvel Legends Defenders Rail Authority Subway Car Box Set

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It’s time to have a look at SDCC 2018 Hasbro Marvel Legends Exclusive number two!  The Defenders Rail Authority Subway Car Box Set!  This set, available exclusively (at first) to SDCC 2018 attendees at the Hasbro booth features the core characters from the Netflix Marvel’s Defenders series, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Colleen Wing.  After checking out the fantastic Red Skull and Tesseract set, I’m eager to show you how this set holds up!  5 figures, $124.99, is it worth the asking price?

Let’s start with the packaging.  It’s a subway car!! The car comes with a sleeve which hides the window showing each defender int he box.  The sleeve is nicely detailed, very shiney.  Removing the sleeve, each Defender is depicted in an iconic pose, and the car is just full of show Easter eggs!  There are newspapers, subway cards, advertisements, the attention to detail is fun and almost endless.  What’s also neat, if you remove each character carefully, you can mostly get them right back into their plastic molds if you choose to display the set in box!

Colleen Wing | Daredevil | Luke Cage | Jessica Jones | Iron Fist The Rest | Availability | Family Photos

Colleen Wing

  • I thought it while taking pictures of the figure, and last night I watched the episode of Luke Cage where Colleen cameos.  Man, Hasbro absolutely crushes the character likeness here.  The facial details are perfect.
  • The eyes, you are going to hear me gush about the eyes on every figure here, they are just beautifully detailed.
  • Body type used is perfect for the character, features very good articulation as well!
  • The hair, man, Hasbro has found a way to capture real life looking hair in plastic for the past few years now, and it’s a knock out here.
  • Wing comes with her trusty sheathed katana.  Unfortunately no strap or way to attach it to her back. 

Daredevil

Luke Cage

The Good

  • Remember when the Marvel Knights wave came out in 2017, just like with the above Daredevil, and we were all kinda mad we didn’t get Luke Cage? 
  • Well! We got Luke Cage.
  • The face sculpt is once again astonishing.  The likeness to Mike Colter is Uncanny (I hope you all see what (I’m doing here).
  • Simple outfit, jeans and a t-shirt, perfectly captured.  It’s probably the best 6 inch plastic Luke you could hope for!
  • The only real downside is that we don’t also get a Claire Temple figure.

Jessica Jones

The Good

  • When JJ was released in 2017, she is presented here, similar, but different.
  • The previous release had a jacket.
  • This release, from what my eyes can see appears to have an improved face sculpt / facial detail.  Maybe it’s just softer paint.
  • Eyes…the eyes are amazing once again.

Iron Fist

  • The last figure in the box, the last new figure in the box, Danny Rand, the Iron First, comes with his signature glowing right hand!
  • Flat left palm allows for his zen like pose of fist to open palm.
  • This suit body is fantastic and it makes me hopeful that other suited characters will be addressed in the near future (cough Professor X cough).  
  • Eyes, once again incredible.  
  • Iron Fist seems to suffer from a similar beard / hair combination that Avengers Wave 1 2018 cap did.  It looks just a little off.
  • It may be that I’m looking at this and I’m projecting all of the things about the character on the figure.  The figure is really quite nice, but I’d like to punch the character…a conundrum for me.

The rest

Do you need this set?  Do you like the Netflix Avengers series?  Then yes, this is the only way to get Luke, Danny, and Colleen, at least to this point.  Each figure on their own, I think is good enough to warrant a single carded figure.  Will we ever get one though?  TBD obviously.  There is also the bonus of the Charlie Cox head for Daredevil.  If you count every figure as $19.99 store price, you are talking a minimal premium here for the beautiful packaging that can be re-used, and for the right to say you have an exclusive.  I dub this pretty well worthy!  

Availability

$124.99, available at the Hasbro booth at SDCC 2018.  Available on HasbroToyShop.com on 8/13 in highly limited quantities for $124.99 .  This will also be a roaming convention exclusive for Hasbro, so keep your eyes out at other marquee conventions through the country.  

Family and Packaging Photos!

MUReview received this boxed set for free for review purposes.