[Dr Kain]

I opened my 2 packs up and while I'll go over my initial thoughts on each figure individually, something seems weird about the plastic. It just feels different to me and I'm not sure if it is a good thing or bad thing.

Cyclops - Damn awesome, but I do wish his yellow was darker. It's just a very very very light yellow. The blue is perfect and outside of his upper left leg, his joints are nice and tight. I love the alternate head and the blast effects. He looks fantastic fighting Magneto with the effect on my shelf. The belt is a bit loose. On the other... hand... I really like the new hand for pressing down onto his visor as it looks more natural compared to the way the old one was positioned. Now we need a new classic Havok on this body.

Jean Grey - I like her a lot more than I thought I would. Obviously she won't be getting displayed on my battle shelves since I've got Phoenix on them, but she will be cool to include in photos as a downtime Jean figure. Her legs have a lot more range in them than I expected them to have due to her skirt, so that was nice. So glad I never got the Krakoa version.

Storm - Love the double jointed arms, the action based head is even better than the one the previous Storm came with, but the lack of open hands sucks. While I will end up just using the ones from the other version the skin tones are totally different, so it will probably look off. I do think it would have been neat if they had given the relaxed head normal eyes instead of weather summoning ones. I would say maybe they could do that in another set, but they'll just change the skin tone again since they have never once made a Storm figure with the exact same shade of brown. I just don't get why this is a hard task to accomplish. The relaxed head sadly still bobbles around like it did on the previous release. I love the new lightning effects, I'm must not sure how I'm supposed to attach them to anything. Oh, and they still couldn't paint in the lines of her capes properly. The yellows are still messy as hell.

Wolverine - Not bad and if I didn't have the Mafex one, this would probably have gone on my Outback shelf. I really like the headsculpt with the screaming mouth. The brown is too light though as even in the comics he had a tad darker of a brown. This one is more like a deep red brown. Of the four figures I would say he is easily the weakest. Not because I have the Mafex, rather, he's boring. He's the only one of the four without any effect accessories and comes with the same old stuff, an unmasked head, and fists without claws. Why not give him open hands? They could have packed those Gameverse slash effects in with him. Hell, he doesn't even come with a mask for his neck.