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Originally Posted by StuartGreen2019

Okay, I love the original 'X-Men'. It's actually my favorite of the X-Men films. But seeing these 20th anniversary figures makes me cringe. These just look bad. I get not everyone loves Marvel's figures by Toy Biz and they they look dated, ugly, or whatever. But what Toy Biz did with their X-Men movie figures look light-years better than these figures. How did Hasbro make new figures look inferior to the original 20 year old toys? Then again, this might be the Toy Biz fanboy in me, since I loved a majority of their Marvel figures and bought quite a lot of it before most of my collection ended up being ruined and had to be thrown away due to a bad move to a new home in 2017.

Mystique looks the most tolerable, but why give her a normal arm instead of two different Raven Darkholme heads? Her "Grace" disguise in 'X2' and her normal head with black hair in 'The Last Stand' would've made more sense. Even her Caucasian head from 'First Class' would've been all right.

Magneto seems to be the worst offender. They gave him multiple heads, but put what appears to be the First Class helmet on an Ian McKellen likeness head instead of his original trilogy helmet. And WOW, those Ian McKellen likeness heads sure look terrible compared to the old prototype. Why did Hasbro change it? If Professor X was sold separately, I would've bought him. He looks pretty good and the body would be great for alternate heads of previous figures, like the J. Jonah Jameson head from the old Chameleon figure or the new Norman Osborn head from the retro Green Goblin. But being paired with Magneto? I'm afraid I'll have to pass.

I'm on the fence about Logan. He's not as bad as he could've been. But he's not exactly getting me excited, either.

Also, why are these boxes so plain? You'd think they would've at least slapped on a "X-Men: The Movie Series - 20th anniversary" or whatever title to raise more excitement for these figures. They didn't even use the retro packaging of the "X-Men: The Movie" figures that Toy Biz did, which would've been great for old-time collectors.

I was hoping this would be a reveal of more X-Men: The Movie 20th anniversary stuff, not showing us photos of the same old figures but now with pre-order links. This feels like a cheat to me. Showing one or two new figures wouldn't be so bad, like Storm, Nightcrawler or Lady Deathstrike. If they had, say, even a two-pack, like 'X-Men: The Movie' figures for X-Men uniform Wolverine and Sabretooth or 'X2' versions of Jean Grey and Cyclops, then that'd be fine. That would've been a new, exciting reveal for collectors and they could've included links to pre-order the Mystique, Logan and Xavier/Magneto figures as well. Heck, a Bobby Drake and Rogue from 'X-Men' with a foosball table accessory would've been more interesting to me than this. Unfortunately, this is 0 for 3 to me from Hasbro. The toyline is also repeating the same mistake that the 20th Century Fox film series did - they focused on Logan, Mystique, Xavier and Magneto and the other X-Men are ignored.

I sincerely hope that we'll get some new Marvel Legends figures reveals from the Comic Con at Home that live up to the hype. At this point, they'd just show me someone new and it'd be an automatic win in my book. And seeing any requested figure from Firestar to Banshee would just be icing on the cake.

Anyway, that's just my two cents -- though that's two cents more than my opinions are actually worth. Thanks for reading my nonsense and I hope you all have a great day. Stay safe, everyone.

Good points all around. I really hate the weird separate hair on the unmasked McKellen head too, it looks like he's wearing a plastic hair helmet! Makes me worried for any potential 20th Anniversary Spidey figures we may get...