Klaw’s articulation is pretty standard for Marvel Legends. His head, shoulders, wrist, hips, and ankles are all swivel hinges. His chest is a single hinge, while his elbows and knees are double hinges. He’s also got swivel joints on his biceps, waist, and thighs. The claw itself is actually sculpted to his forearm and doesn’t move at all. I’m still not a big fan of those ML hips, but at least they’re a lot easier to move around.
Klaw comes with no accessories of his own. He doesn’t really need any, but it would have been nice if his sonic hand were removable. Buying too many Japanese figures has also given me the taste for special effects parts. A little beam of energy that could attach to his claw would have also been cool to have. Unfortunately it probably would have pushed his cost too high.
Klaw does come with Terrax’s left leg though. Just a couple more pieces!
Considering I have no love for the character, I’m actually pretty happy with the figure. He’s got a fantastic bright red and purple Kirby deco. His face has a sculpt that could be various emotional states. But the really impressive part is his sonic hand, which fittingly draws your eye to his most dangerous point with all its detail. All around Klaw’s a pretty nice figure to pick up, especially if you just bought him to pick up the Terrax leg.
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I believe this sculpt was first used with the Silver Surfer in the Ronan wave of ML.
Im in agreement…this body was used before. I think it’s an original Hasbro ML body. I wouldn’t exactly call it a “perfect super hero body”. I think it’s a little scrawny and lean…and I absolutely hate the feet and the ankle articulation.
Good review though. Makes me want to open my Klaw now.
poor klaw… like you guys on the swamp thing front, i’ve lobbied for years for klaw, and apparently, should have been more specific. this is not bad, but he’s far from great. i don’t like the diminutive buck, this might be fine for a sidekick character (i’d take a rick jones on this buck and not have a moment of gripe), but it doesn’t suit a full-on supervillain. and as you point out, a power construct would have been great here. the thing is, if they’d planned ahead, and devised a universal plug point for constructs, we could have re-released constructs for guys like living laser, deathurge, klaw, quasar, etc… in different color schemes in future weapons packs and resold the fanbase those same molds again and again… but that’s not what happened here.
for example, we equip klaw w/ a blast and a hammerhead, quasar gets a vise-type gripper and a flyswatter, dethurge gets skis and a polearm, and living laser gets a bear trap and a giant fist… then later on, we release an accessories pack w/ quasar’s bits in klaw’s colors, deathurge’s bits in LL’s colors, etc… and include one of two new pieces to really drive home the pack. the following year, we rotate color schemes again, and add in two more new pieces, and etc… they’re improving on the buck sales model to expand both their sales and our shelves w/ cool shiz.
if they really wanted to be tools about it, the point of attachment could be designed to be compatible w/ the lantern attachments from last year’s lanternpalooza and they could do a mail away gimmick that if you buy all the figs in a set and enter the code on the boxes, you get a set of marvel constructs in emerald… that’d be dirty… but a buttload of fun.
There’s some sort of “sonic blast” that comes with (at least) one of the multitude of IM variants and a couple MU’s that could have worked with Klaw. (and Wendell is in my Top Ten, hoping they give him his costume from the end of his own series, not the Annihilation War spiky thing.)
That said, Klaw’s a Z-lister and his simplicity works in his favor. Altho I keep thinking his sonic cannon is on his LEFT hand? Maybe this is because I was wondering what to do with a spare AoA Logan with his left stump and Klaw was the first thing to come to mind. Of course, now I’m wondering if they hadn’t had Klaw “screaming”, would his head been a great double for Classic Machine Man? hmm….
Always liked Klaw. The MU version had a lot of paint issues and I hope this isn’t the case again. He’s a simple character in terms of design, so you either dig him or you don’t. Nice to see him getting two figures in different scales within just a couple of years.
Him and Constrictor seem to be the peg warmers of this wave where ever I go, but I think he came out pretty cool. It is only the first series, so I am hoping that as the series goes on, we will see more accessories added like Sonic Blasts, etc. Even if it mean recycling guns like the did with Hope who uses Forge’s guns I think. I am sure Hasbro is seeing how these sell before going all out or at least adding more accessories later on (like the Punisher we have seen pics of with about 6 guns).
I remember playing with the Secret Wars figure as a kid before I had really ever read any comics, so I’ve always had an affinity towards ol’ Klaw. 🙂
But yeah, a little less-spindly body (and not so plasticky looking red) would’ve gone a long way.
Yeah, the body was also used for the Ben Reilly Spiderman figure from the Walmart exclusive Ares wave near the end of the initial demise of ML.
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I’m going to be blunt… I hate this buck and the only reason that I have the Scarlet Spider is because it was the only way I would have had that Scarlet Spider design in my Spidey collection. I think that the solid molded red makes this figure look very cheap and the painted hulk style shorts just cheapen it further. Thank you for reviewing it, as you did bring up a few good points, but I still don’t like it. On a brighter note, I love your reviews, and IAT is one of my favorite websites 🙂
I went ahead and decided to complete Terrax, and Klaw was the figure that I absolutely had no interest in owning. Ghost Rider ended up being a bit of a disappointment for me, but Klaw is a nice surprise.
I was never a fan of this body, I have the Silver Surfer and it just doesn’t look good. Since I have no affections for Klaw as a character; though, I don’t mind him being super skinny. It adds to his creepiness. Plus his crazy face, fun sonic blast, and great pose-ability add up to make a pretty decent figure.
Hasbro got Klaw down pretty well in the Marvel Universe 3.75 inch line, but for me, failed in the Marvel Legends version. First, the Sonic Blaster is WAY too big for the figure. Second, the build of the body is just to slim everywhere. Look at the art on the ML figure’s card; the body is buff and the Blaster is just perfect in relation to the villain’s physique. Put the art up with the MU and ML and LOOK! The MU Klaw is in the best proportion to the art. This ML Klaw is a major disappointment for me and I wanted him to be made.