[En Sabah Nerd]

So after a few days I've finally gotten around to forming final thoughts on the Legends I got for Chrimbus.

The Alpha Flight set is great. Its individual figures are not all without their flaws but these were all minor for me and getting such a near-complete team at once is excellent. As others had cautioned Aurora's elbows were tight out of the box but it took me probably a minute with a hairdryer to get both moving without fear of breaking. Paint on all of them are pretty clean with only some minor blurring on Vindicator. I do like that Shaman's belt can be turned around easily enough by pushing it up around his abdomen so you can have his pouch on his right side, where I'm more used to seeing it. All of the heads appear to be new to this set and the hair on all of them (except Puck obviously) is really well done, particularly on Snowbird. I'm having some difficulty deciding who is my favorite of this set but I might call it a tie between Aurora and Snowbird. With the simple addition of Sasquatch (who I finished back in June) I have a full team ready to go since I never cared much for Mac, and his long-running absence from the series after dying pretty early makes him an easy omission for me.


I got Punisher and Logan at Gamestop during their bag sale and I'm pretty glad that I did. I had to look through all of their Logans to find one with decent eyes on the angry head but other than that he's a cool toy. Speaking of, I really like seeing this head painted without the pantyhose stocking mask thing on the Madripoor version, it's a nice and fitting battle-face. The cowboy hat head is also well done but without a bottle of beer to fill his hand I don't have much use for a jovial faced Logan, also considering Logan's stature I'm pretty sure this is a child-sized hat. The rest of his body is well done and this time they also painted him on some chest-hair which the rider release didn't have. I also dig the inclusion of the Muramasa blade. This Punisher is just a cool repaint of mixed parts that all work together for a good figure. The weapons included are a decent variety and aren't painted in ridiculous toy colors either, although he needs both hands to really hold the sniper rifle since one hand doesn't hold the handle solidly enough on its own. I like both heads but the skull paint based on the 2004 video game just stands out way more to me and distinguishes him from the other figures we've already gotten.


I nabbed the family matters pack during one of the multiple recent times Amazon dropped it down to $40. At this price it feels much easier to glaze over Quicksilver's weak paint since he was always the one I cared least about, although seriously Hasbro got his eyebrows the right color but not the rest of his hair. Magneto in his classic costume is highly appreciated but notably flawed as his cape is cumbersome. Is the cape a reuse from an older figure? The cape's upper peg is fit for the hole in his back but the extra bit beneath the peg prevents it from actually securing in. In hand I like the neutral expression head a bit more than I did from seeing it online but the angry white-eyes head is still my preference. There's a little bit of shoddy paint around his gauntlets and boots and while mine is better off than others I've seen it's still disappointing given he's only the two colors. I agree with the many who've said that Wanda is the definite winner of the set, her face is alarmingly better than most other comic-based women in the line. Beyond that I like the different suit coloring to separate this figure from the Allfather wave one and of course changing the high heels for flat feet allows Wanda to stand so much easier.