{"id":21873,"date":"2012-11-15T08:11:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21873"},"modified":"2012-11-15T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T03:11:18","slug":"marvel-legends-series-three-doctor-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21873","title":{"rendered":"“Return of” Marvel Legends
Series Three: Doctor Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m not sure what to think about Hasbro\u2019s ML reboot.\u00a0 I like the majority of the figures so far, but it seems like an afterthought in the toy aisle.\u00a0 Only one nearby Walmart carries it.\u00a0Target & TRU still have their pegs, but they\u2019re only getting in refresh cases of series two.<\/p>\n

Series three is just barely starting to hit the stores now.\u00a0 Instead of a build-a-figure, these figures come with those cool hexagon stands.\u00a0 I really do like these stands and how they interact with each other, but they\u2019re not a great substitute for an extra figure.\u00a0 They also don\u2019t encourage me to buy the rest of the wave, so the only figures I had to have were Doctor Doom and his white Future Foundation variant.<\/p>\n

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If you were collecting during Hasbro\u2019s first go at Marvel Legends then you\u2019ll probably recognize this Doctor Doom.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Sculpt wise, this is the exact same figure that originally popped up in the Fantastic Four wave a few years ago.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing.\u00a0 Doom\u2019s last Marvel Legends incarnation had a really terrific design, and I think he\u2019s one of the best Doom figures ever made.<\/p>\n

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Doom hasn\u2019t changed much over the years, and this figure does a great job of showing off that iconic look.\u00a0 The sculpting on the armor is particularly impressive to me.\u00a0 They did a great job of making them look like actual armor plates, and not just arms and legs painted silver.\u00a0 There are even seams and connector\u00a0 bolts where the pieces would fit together.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes Doom is left with an unfortunate miniskirt look because of the design of his tunic.\u00a0 But again the sculptors did a great job here by making the piece look like normal fabric and not giving it any billowy or wind-swept looks.\u00a0 Doom\u2019s cape is a separate plastic piece with its own great folded fabric design.\u00a0 It\u2019s also hiding the two jetpack ports on his back, which is a great little addition.<\/p>\n

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Doom\u2019s mask and face are probably the most detailed areas on the whole figure.\u00a0 The mask itself has a very iconic, almost Kirby-esque feel to it.\u00a0 The different levels to his face are all sculpted like separate plates being held together by tons of rivets.\u00a0 There\u2019s even that metal thing in his mouth.<\/p>\n

Underneath the mask, Doom has a bald and scared up face.\u00a0 But even with this melted look, Doom has a fantastic cocky and sinister smirk that fits the character perfectly.\u00a0 Continue to page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Even if you have Hasbro\u2019s first ML Doom, you may want to hunt down this figure too.\u00a0 The sculpt may be the same, but the paint is entirely different.\u00a0 Even though I like the first Doom, he suffered from a lack of detail in the paint area because most of his body was molded the color it needed to be.\u00a0 Series three Doom has great looking silver armor, and his tunic has been given a bit of air brushing.\u00a0 These extra apps really add a nice amount of depth to the sculpt, and give the figure a more realistic and less plastic look.<\/p>\n

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Like most Marvel Legends, Doom has some great articulation.\u00a0 His head, shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, and ankles are all swivel hinge joints.\u00a0 His upper chest seems to be on a ball joint, while his wrists and waist are swivels.\u00a0 Another nice thing about this figure is that the armor plates over his elbows and knees are also articulated so that they don\u2019t limit his posing potential.<\/p>\n

Aside from his stand, Doom only comes with one accessory, his gun.\u00a0 This piece fits nicely in its holster or in his hand with the trigger finger.<\/p>\n

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I wasn\u2019t originally going to buy this figure because he was just a remold.\u00a0 But after I saw how extensive his paint job was, I knew I was going to be picking him up.\u00a0 He\u2019s the same fun figure from the last ML incarnation, but now with a more realistic look.<\/p>\n

-Vault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not sure what to think about Hasbro\u2019s ML reboot.\u00a0 I like the majority of the figures so far, but it seems like an afterthought in the toy aisle.\u00a0 Only one nearby Walmart carries it.\u00a0Target & TRU still have their pegs, but they\u2019re only getting in refresh cases of series two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[122,34,10],"tags":[1796,727,24,2575,1659],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.itsalltrue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mlddTN.jpg?fit=50%2C50","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pObc6-5GN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19665,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=19665","url_meta":{"origin":21873,"position":0},"title":"SDCC 2012 Armchair Coverage Marvel, Transformers, & More!","date":"July 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, Noisy and I are going to take a closer look at some of our favorite non-Mattel lines featured at San Diego Comic-Con. 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Ghost Rider\u2019s review is on the books, so it\u2019s time to take a look at the final figure in the Terrax Wave (though, ironically, it was one of the first I purchased):\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marvel Legends"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26597,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=26597","url_meta":{"origin":21873,"position":4},"title":"Marvel Legends Captain America 2 Baron Zemo Review","date":"January 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In "Marvel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21928,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21928","url_meta":{"origin":21873,"position":5},"title":"“Return of” Marvel Legends U.S. Agent Review","date":"November 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On Monday, I got to review a long-awaited DC Classics figure: Elasti-Girl. Today is a review of a figure I\u2019ve waited even longer for: a Marvel Legends U.S. Agent. I can\u2019t believe it took two companies, hundreds of figures, and ten years to get this guy. This is easy repaint\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marvel Legends"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21873"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21892,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873\/revisions\/21892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}