{"id":20571,"date":"2012-08-29T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T05:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=20571"},"modified":"2012-08-29T03:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T08:49:17","slug":"marvel-legends-studio-series-6-avengers-captain-america-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=20571","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Legends \/ Studio Series 6″
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<\/a>Since I didn\u2019t buy the battle-damaged Iron Man, this will be my last Avengers review for the foreseeable future. It feels wrong. No Black Widow. No unmasked Cap. No Maria Hill. No Coulson. I could go on; this line shouldn\u2019t be over. Anyway, let\u2019s wrap things up, hopefully for now. <\/p>\n

Initially, I wasn\u2019t planning on buying any Avengers figures, but two things happened. One, the movie was insanely more awesome than I was expecting. Two, the figures came out much nicer than I was expecting. Well, most of ’em; as I mentioned I didn\u2019t buy Iron Man because Hasbro decided against giving us a Mark VII update and opted for a battle-damaged version. The other figures though – most of the rest get by on their own merits. I bought Loki, Hawkeye, and Hulk because they\u2019re great figures. I bought Thor because he seemed like a good update to last year\u2019s figure that I unfortunately had to pass on. And then there’s Cap. <\/p>\n

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Honestly, it seems harsh to set this tone for Captain America. There’s a lot of things I like about the figure. And I’m happy to have an Avengers Cap. The comic character is one of my Marvel favorites and Chris Evans did a spectacular job in both movies to ensure the film version lived up to my expectations. And while I found myself enjoying this figure, it just doesn\u2019t quite impress me like the others. I’m having a hard time separating if it the awesomeness of the others though, because the figure doesn’t seem lacking. <\/p>\n

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I think some of it may be from the film itself. Iron Man has the benefit of armor. Thor & Loki look regal & appropriately otherworldly. Widow, and Hawkeye to a lesser extent, are in stealthy “special ops” jumpsuits. But Cap doesn’t really have a workaround to being in a superhero costume. I’m not against superhero costumes in films, I wish more of these great movies could feature classic superhero costumes, but they just don’t always translate well. It\u2019s basically the first obstacle to translate a comic into film, and for Cap it was no different. <\/p>\n

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I think the costume featured in the solo Captain America movie was fantastic. I liked the makeshift costume he makes using parts of his stage costume and regular gear (and, frankly, that stage costume showcased the problem on the nose) and I also really enjoyed the costume that the film wraps up with. I still kick myself for never getting around to buying that hard-to-find figure. <\/p>\n

Anyway, the Cap costume seemingly took a few steps back in Avengers. I’ve only seen it once (don’t take my nerd card, please!), so I can’t really go back and get specific. It’d sound silly anyway. Was it the fabric? The layers? The bright colors (though I do love bright colors…). It could’ve been anything, the only I specifically remember liking was when he wasn’t wearing the cowl\/helmet, so maybe it was even just that. Either way, I just don’t feel the costume upgraded well in the \u201cseventy\u201d years between films. <\/p>\n

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And then the figure, being in this awesome line, recreates that design pretty faithfully. No, that can\u2019t be used as a knock against the figure. For the most part, we have a great 6″ Avengers Cap presented here, but I do think it falls short in one area. Namely, the head sculpt. It’s also in this weird grey area where I want to criticize it, but I do find a bit of Chris Evans in there. <\/p>\n

But, whether it be a soft sculpt of thick gloopy skintone paint, it just doesn’t look sharp enough when I put him next to a Hawkeye that looks like Jeremy Renner, a Hulked-up version of Mark Ruffalo, a Tom Hiddleston Loki, and even the decent likeness of Chris Hemsworth as Thor. In that regard, this figure is outclassed by nearly every other head sculpt in the line. It\u2019s just not up to par through that lens and it makes me that much more adamant that an unmasked Cap get released, particularly when we know that Hasbro’s did one for the first film and never released it. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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The sculpt of the figure below the neck is great. The layers and the texture throughout really sell the look and help him fit with the 5\/6ths of the Avengers Hasbro has sought to release. The boots and gloves are crisp and technical while the cloth of the costume is detailed from neck to boot. And there\u2019s boot treads on the bottom of his feet! That’s always fun. For more depth, the belt is a separate piece too. It does annoy me that it moves around a bit, but I’ll take the trade off. And, yes, the head does get in on the action with some nice detail -the wings and “A” are raised parts of the sculpt instead being relegated to paint details. <\/p>\n

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The articulation present is very nice. There are two-piece ball-joints at the neck, shoulders, hips, and ankles, swivels in the biceps, forearms, and thighs, double-hinges in the elbows and knees, and the ab crunch. The ab crunch has some great range and the ankles make posing him a ton of fun, but I\u2019d still like to see waist joints in all my figures and some type of joints in the wrists would\u2019ve come in handy here too. Basically, he can get into some fantastic poses, but he’ll still trip you up on occasion, particularly with the one-piece gloves. <\/p>\n

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Paint is probably the only area where Cap does falter a bit, particularly on the face and silver painted areas. Cap should\u2019ve been the first figure I purchased once I decided to buy. Both him and Iron Man are double packed and finding them as leftovers to the one-per-case figures was pretty common the last few months. The problem I had was finding one with nice symbols and a sharp line on the cowl. Ultimately, I opted for a Cap that\u2019s not quite as nice as I would like. Initially, I had hoped I could scour the edges and clean up the cowl line a bit, but his head is molded red<\/em>. Doh. <\/p>\n

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In addition to the groovy \u201cheroscape\u201d base, Cap includes his trusty shield. This is a new sculpt to match the movie details and it\u2019s a good fit for him, but I wish it\u2019d been done a little differently. I applaud the concept here, the use of actual \u201cstraps\u201d so that he could wear it across his back is cool. I had a little trouble getting the connections through the first time, but it worked find once I had a method in place. The downside though is that getting him to hold the shield requires a bit of weird \u201crope\u201d tying skills so that it can hang from his arm firmly without having the straps run everywhere. <\/p>\n

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Overall, Cap is a solid figure. I would like to have seen a nicer head sculpt, possibly even an unmasked one for how he appears throughout most of the film though. The all-new body sculpt are articulation help overcome the shortcomings of the head sculpt though. If you watch out for the paint when you’re picking him up, then I think you’re bound to end up with a figure you’ll enjoy, particularly if you can gather up the whole set now that these are showing up more prominently at new Walmarts. <\/p>\n

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And since they’re showing up more at new Walmarts, since they’re getting designated space in more stores gives me some hope that this isn’t the end, but it seems unlikely. We know everything so far in advance, that even these new pegs don’t seem like they’ll fill with any new figures besides the running changes now showing up (which does included a more darkly colored Cap). As I’ve said before, Hasbro not doing Black Widow here is a colossal mistake. It’s unfathomable that we’re still at a point where toy companies still get the one woman on the roster. I know they had to hit a number for the case assortment, but one less Iron Man surely wouldn’t have hurt (not that they could’ve know that when they decided it) But my disbelief doesn’t end with Widow. I want an unmasked Steve. I want Mark VII Iron Man. Maria Hill. Updated Nick Fury. Agent Coulson! C’mon! <\/p>\n

It’s not all bleak though. I’m not opposed to sneaking those guys into Marvel Legends as Toy Biz once did. And there is, of course, a bright future for the Avengers on film and that will undoubtedly lead to more figures too. Hopefully we can get a Black Widow by Avengers 4. Hopefully. <\/p>\n

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