Originally Posted by scarrviper (Post 933483)

So the marvel legends hip ball/sockets are bigger? Sounds like it would be a loose fit unless I fill the socket or build up the ball joint? As long as the leg itself is roughly the same size as the one it is replacing that shouldn't be too hard to modify to fit.

The reason I ask is because the local Ollie's finally got some classified series in that wasn't just the movie wave and I grabbed a couple of $5 Zaranas as extras to customize and fool around with. I'm going back there this week to see if I can pick out a Dusty since I never got him back when he came out, and I'm going to look through the marvel legends to see if they have one that would work with one of the Zaranas I bought. I have one in mind that might be perfect, but I'll have to see it in hand to know for sure if the scale is right.

Originally Posted by Harbinger (Post 933484)

For the most part they are useable its just hasbro uses different sizes on various figures. Luckily joe legs can be heated and popped off. Marvel legends legs are sometimes hard plastic where the hips are and sometimes its not. Its weird.

Originally Posted by flansered (Post 934136)

The Haslab one will be slightly different, with the Mickey Mouse Cobra logo. I wouldn't be surprised if the standard release is a different shade of blue and comes with less or different accessories.

Originally Posted by Sean C (Post 934216)

Storm Shadow looks like someone over thought a basic design. He's needs more junk around his waist! Head looks smallish compared to Alpine, too, maybe.

The Iron Grenadier reminds me of the Collectors Con versions for 25th/Modern. They rejected the sci-fi 80's look, except the head, and went European early 20th century.

Originally Posted by flansered (Post 934232)

I don't like that the retro carded Cobra Commander has a vac metal faceplate. Mainly because that should have been included on the Haslab version which was a premium product.

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 934236)

...Vac metal's cool, but not enough to spend $25 on a new toy.

Originally Posted by firmpulse (Post 934238)

It would have been $25 regardless.

I love the Retro Cobra Commander. Looks fantastic.

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 934239)

I know it's $25, and that is too much for me for just a head.

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 935451)

Hasbro pisses me the hell off. Without warning, these two arrived today:

https://i.imgur.com/0R8Qt7w.jpg

And OF COURSE I end up with a defective Torch. I'm going to have to have Amaon ship me a replacement.

His right leg is so loose that he can barely stand up and it keeps sliding off the ball.

https://i.imgur.com/W2NLhOU.jpg

He is also quite annoying because this is the one time they should have given him the left/right wrist hinge instead of the up/down one because I can't get him to hold his blowtorch gun for shit.

https://i.imgur.com/dF0lELO.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/e5BUuSi.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Ec2Vwrv.jpg

Originally Posted by Harbinger (Post 935456)

Do his glasses come off?

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 935466)

Thankfully not.

They're sculpted on. I wish they had done the same on Ripper and Buzzer.

Originally Posted by flansered (Post 935510)

My Torch (along with Jinx and Gnawgahyde) arrived today, and my Torch had his left arm unattached at the shoulder peg. So I pushed it back in and it seems good and tight. But I do agree that the glasses being sculpted on is an improvement over the last two Dreadnoks.

About the wrist articulation, I think that one of Hasbro's biggest problems with this line (and I guess with the Marvel Legends too) is that they have a "one size fits all" mentality when it comes to articulation, and don't think to possibly revise joints when a character may need something different for either holding a weapon or how it would be used. So you end up with archer characters that can't hold their bows properly or characters with larger weapons that require two hands to hold that are unable to weld them correctly.