The only thing that got me interested about is that cloth! It's hard to come by such material on an action figure like Marvel Legends. Storm's signature fashion has always been the cape with two pointy tips attached to her arms so resorting to cloth (instead of a pliable plastic) is a good choice to support poseability. However, there's a drawback to it- cloths get wrinkled and turn ugly overtime... not unless you have a miniature flat iron to keep it neat. And even if we have one, it's not gonna be easy to fix her cape the fact that it is fastened between her diaphragm with the two branching ends attached to those bangles around her arms. It's irremovable.
Also, giving her the Medusa body mold is another good choice. The hands appears to be the same with the Marvel Legends Medusa! Furthermore, that mohawk is a head-turner because of the way it's sculpted. With all that nice detail on her hair- looking realistic, it's hard to believe this is a Marvel Legends figure. And like Medusa and Emma Frost, she wears high heels which results to being unstable at standing.
Paint-wise, again- it's her mohawk that is showing a lot of details. Marvel Legends being not that really good at paint jobs, this figure made me liked to beg Hasbro to keep doing it. The dry brushing of gray colours on her hair is well executed. Looking at the rest of the paint job, I see no issues. No sort of seepages between the colours. Overall, it's clean and well painted.
When you have a figure that can't stand, it is hard to pull some dynamic poses even with hinges and rockers in her ankles. Like the Medusa action figure, her head is on a ball-peg that moves and rotates and angle but slightly hindered by her hair. No bicep rotation but Storm has rotation at the elbows and wrists, plus hinges on the shoulders, elbows and wrists. She got diaphragm swivel which I believe is ball-pegged because how it allows her to lean side to side. She got this T-jointed hips, rotation at the upper thigh and double-jointed knees which I truly love.
What really matters when you purchase this version of a Marvel Legends Storm is your fondness to the Marvel Now characters and/or the modern looks. She may not appease your taste for those classy generic superhero features but the quality of the action figure may satisfy you. That being said, she is a must-have figure. And of course if you want to complete your Jubilee Build-A-Figure, you need to grab Storm because she holds Jubilee's torso and feet.
When I think of STORM the character, I think lightning, frost, and anything mother nature like will be coming out of her hands. While this is my favorite out of the lackluster wave, she falters with the lack of some kind of special affects! It makes some of her 'signature' pose rather dull without something coming out of her hands... though I think the Odin Wave might rectify some of that debacle since Scarlet Witch comes with some magic affects. Here's to hoping that Hasbro improves(they have been... just... very VERY slowly).
ReplyDeleteHasbro Marvel Legends hasn't always been consistent with developing and improving its creations. We don't seem to understand why the quality of their action figures can't just stay high. Sometimes they're good and at times they're bad figures. It's like you're in a relationship with girl with mood swing issues.
DeleteNever liked that hair cut of hers.
ReplyDeleteit's horrendous.
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