[Dr Kain]

Pulse shipped out my preorder for Dazzler, but still not Storm or Mr Sinister despite me preordering those before her. I was thinking maybe they were shipping them out in the order I ordered them in, but nope, that is clearly not the case. If I come across a Storm in stores, I might just grab her and then return the Pulse one to that store when she comes in since I'm impatient when it comes to Storm.

Anyway, so I really like the Hulk, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler.

I do have some sloppy paint on the red of Nightcrawler's boots, which seems to be commonplace as every reviewer has had the same issue. It's kind of a shame Hasbro's painters seem quite inept at doing his boot lines properly. I'm not a fan of the neutral head with the mouth closed as it looks more like Lotor than Nightcrawler to me, but the other two are fantastic. I think the face with the shadow is my favorite of the three as it looks great in person compared to how it looked in Hasbro's initial images. My only nitpick is that his pointy shoulder pad things prevent the butterfly joints from being used, defying the whole point of them existing in the first place.

Hulk is by far the best toy of Hulk I have ever owned. I just don't like how loose the butterfly joints are as just leaning him upward causes his arms to slide into his back. It'a also weird that they only slide backwards and not forwards. Regardless, the paint is incredible and I love that he comes with two sets of hands so I don't always have to have him displayed with fists. The torn short bit is cool too. At this point, I don't see there ever being a better Hulk toy made. This is without a doubt the definitive Hulk.

We alredy know what to expect from Wolverine. The first appearance mask is cool and all, but definitely not my preferred look. His eyes are also wonky as the left eye is the corner looking to the left while the right eye is centered and looking straight on. There's also some blue paint/unpainted plastic (not sure which it is) on the right bicep. Regardless, the colors are fantastic, though, it is a shame Hasbro didn't pack him with an extra masked head painted with that shade of yellow. I do have one of the brown Wolverine heads on him currently despite the different shades, but it works well thanks to the black that breaks up the yellow. Since at the time Wolverine's mask was a seperate piece, there's nothing to say it has to be the same color. On the other hand, I may at some point try to find the right shade of yellow and paint it if they don't end up doing a standard masked head in that yellow.