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Originally Posted by Weapon X

The wash on the hasbro one is decent, but decent isn't good. It's decent. Okay.

I think it's a matter of opinion, but the wash on the Toybiz one does look a bit dirty, like he's been in a fight. Hasbro figures look like toys a lot of the time (at least with the comic book figures). They're always so crisp and clean. Sometimes that look works and sometimes it doesn't, same with the dirty one.

I've never heard of a Toybiz figure breaking due to paint.

First of all: by decent, I meant "enough to emphasize the lighting effect on the shaping of the body, but not so much as to create a permanent shading effect that overrides that of any actual lights".

Yeah, they're relatively crisp and clean. Same as how they're drawn the majority of the time in the comics. In my opinion, Hasbro Marvel Legends tend to look more like they're "pulled right out of the page" compared to ToyBiz figures, both in terms of sculpt that's closer to both real life and comic books anatomy, and paint that consistently doesn't look overly dirty. Now, of course, there are plenty of ToyBiz figures that aren't that dirtily painted, and there are some figures for whom that kind of paint detail work in their favor. However, I feel there are too many ToyBiz figures who are intended to represent a character whose costume is in a state where they didn't just get out of a tough scrape of some description, but whose paint jobs make them look like they just did Tough Mudder.

Again, this is largely just my opinion. You can prefer ToyBiz's paint jobs if you want to. Hell, I don't even dislike them, I just don't prefer them.

Also, there are many cases of joints on ToyBiz figures being locked due to the paint in a way that makes it difficult to free the joints without damaging the figure. That's something I've heard from almost everybody I've come across who's had any extensive experience with the ToyBiz figures, except for the (relatively small number of) ones who have their heads firmly up their asses.