[Trivial Psychic]

And now...Crossbones...



Not gonna lie...this is a very cool MCU figure that we SHOULD have gotten way back with the Abomination wave, but I'm glad we finally got him now, as I can imagine he wouldn't have been done justice then. The amount of sculpting and paintwork on this guy is really impressive, and the likenesses on both heads are really, really good. The gauntlets are removable, as is the vest, and feature some really good washes and dry brushing throughout...

But, now the elephant in the room...I really wish Hasbro would stop sculpting guns that cannot be removed from a figure. Dammit, if you were able to do it with your 3.75 inch Pursuit of Cobra figures, you can sure as hell do it with a figure twice their size. Crossbones also has no trigger fingers...which I can understand why (since his primary weapon is the gauntlets,) but I wish that Hasbro would have been a bit more forward thinking on this one, because someone should have realized that there will be some of us out there what will want this guy posed with an assault or sniper rifle of some sort. I immediately modded mine (which is visible in the pictures) but the point is...I shouldn't have had to.



That said, despite my gripes, I'm VERY pleased to finally have Crossbones with my MCU grouping, and while the Cap figure overall was a let down due to it being a reused figure, I'm very happy with how the two head sculpts came out, especially since they work with the Winter Soldier Cap, giving him the movie accurate look that I've wanted for years.