Quicksilver (Blue)
Marvel Legends (Hasbro) - Blob Series
Rated 3.50 stars by Henchmen4Hire
I really hate that there isn't more to say about these new ML figures, but they're just so bland. :( And while I'm complaining, the pictures on the package show a DARK BLUE suit, the actual figure is LIGHT BLUE. What the hell, Hasbro? Pietro stands about 6 inches tall and the head looks pretty good! It resembles a young Magneto, evily handsome. He has an intense look in the eyes and has two hair "flares" (almost like wolverine) but smaller and rounded-off so kids don't poke an eye out. As Hasbro has decreed, this fig has minimal paint. Only the eyes and brows, hair, and white lightning bolts are painted. The lightning is sharp and crisp, but I'm sure someone had to have botched a job somewhere, inspect before you buy. The basic body is a Captain Marvel with different hands; they are,...[See More]

Yellow Jacket (Yellow)
Marvel Legends (Hasbro) - Blob Series
Rated 3.50 stars by Henchmen4Hire
I don't know why Hasbro doesn't have all their figures painted entirely, I see awesome paint-jobs based on the small areas they decide to loosen the purse-strings on. The Bald Hornet stands 6 inches tall, and most of it is head, hah. It's probably just an illusion from having a smooth head, but his head looks too big. YJ has the same basic body of Captain Marvel (or Moon Knight, same thing) with different hands, right clenched, left open (like it's reaching out to something). The head is black with the Superman-chin, eyes, and yellow ear-things painted. The black on the chest, the yellow belt with gold buckle, and the chest-wasp (it's a little blurry) are also painted. The big black neck-things are stiff but flexible (lol). This figure (and the Quicksilver) looks pretty generic, I wanted...[See More]

Ghost Rider (Fire Blast)
Ghost Rider - Movie (Hasbro) - Series 1
Rated 5.00 stars by Henchmen4Hire
Having trouble finding the original Marvel Legends Ghost Rider? Look no further! Get one of the GRs from the new movie figures instead. The ML GR was supposedly too small anyway, but these movie figures are 6 inches and look great! They're 9-10 dollars each though, so you might want to wait for a sale... Nick stands about 6.12 inches to the top of his cranium and 7 inches to the top of the translucent orange flame on his head. It transitions pretty well onto the skull and there is a smaller 2-tone flame on the front of the jacket's collar. The skull itself is highly-detailed, a pale bone-color, with black eye-sockets and red/yellow eyes, and a moveable jaw! (although the jaw is a bit limited by the...[See More]

Darkseid
DC Super Heroes (Mattel) - Series 4
Rated 4.50 stars by Henchmen4Hire
After thinking a better Darkseid than the Total Justice version couldn't be made, I was proven horribly worng. The DCSH version is a tremendous improvement. Best of all, no useless action features! The omnipotent ruler of Apokalips towers over his subjects at 7 inches tall. This is a large imposing figure, as it should be. Like all the DCSH figures, paint is minimal since most of the plastic is cast in the correct color to begin with (like the grey skin and blue suit) and it looks great. If you're going to give this figure to a kid to beat on, the chance of paint chipping is almost nil! The only parts painted are the face + red eyes, the thin black line-detail on the suit, and MAYBE the belt because I suspect the plastic was cast like that. It's silvery-blue (like blue paint with some...[See More]

Parasite
DC Super Heroes (Mattel) - Series 5
Rated 4.50 stars by Henchmen4Hire
All I know about the Parasite is what I saw in the "Superman: TAS" cartoons, which isn't much now that I think about it. So I was surprised to see this Parasite figure on the store-pegs, looking like a big purple deep-sea monster or like Caliban from the X-Men. Parasite is 6.5 inches of ugly. He's built with hulking muscle and held together with thin white straps, assuming those are actually straps on his body and not just very painful tattoos. He's about 6.25 inches when he's hunched-over, which is how you're supposed to pose him because his head doesn't move up and down, it only turns side-to-side and tilts around ever-so-slightly. It's not that the designers got lazy and didn't articulate his head, it's just...[See More]

Spider-Woman
Marvel Legends (Toy Biz) - Series 15 - Modok Series
Rated 4.00 stars by Henchmen4Hire
Great hair, a rockin' body, and bio-electric blasts, what's not to love about Jessica Drew? Her hands! Those awful hideous hands! Aaaaahhhh!!! Spider-Woman stands 6 inches tall (a little taller if you count the hair), a huge improvement over the first short Psylocke body. And it's a good thing they didn't just re-use the Psylocke head with different hair because this new head is a nice sculpt. The black lines are sculpted on, not just painted (on the mask, the ones on the body are just painted). The black hair is flexible, and mercifully, doesn't have any ugly blue highlights. The body is cast in red plastic with all the flat-yellow and black painted-on. The paint is pretty good, it chips at the joints though...[See More]

Juggernaut
X-Men - 2006 Series (Toy Biz) - Series 2
Rated 5.00 stars by Henchmen4Hire
I haven't seen a Juggernaut made that I like yet, the ML one was out of proportion and older Jugg figs were just awful. This XMC version looks pretty cool, but it's not the "standard" brown suit, it's more like a "what if instead of a magically enhanced dude, Juggernaut was a guy in a high-powered armored suit?" kind of design. He kinda looks like Onslaught...or a cockroach...a really ugly one... Jugger stands a bit over 7 inches to the top of his head (without helmet) and 7.5 with the helmet on. Ugly. That sums up his face. Just take a look at the picture attached to this review, you won't be sleeping tonight. The helmet is flexible and removable and "locks on" to prevent it from flying off when he gets hit with a...[See More]

Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
Marvel Legends (Toy Biz) - Series 15 - Modok Series
Rated 4.50 stars by Henchmen4Hire
I know nothing about Captain Marvel, if you don't either then get one anyway; this figure is great for custom fodder! Mer-Vell is 6 inches tall with a great set of blonde hair. It could be even better if the paint-job were less blotchy and the hair-tips were sharper (Longshot's sweet golden mane has the same problem! Arrrg!) but it looks decent as is. He has a great head-sculpt too, strong dimpled chin. You could use this head for a custom Booster Gold or Hal Jordan! The skin that shows from the mask is finely painted and shaded (if only Hasblow would do the same...). The body is a basic sculpt, like Moon Knight's body, so it's great as a base figure for your customs. The only parts that aren't "standard" are the golden sculpted "Nega-Bands" on the wrists and maybe the feet are slightly...[See More]

Mr. Freeze
Batman - EXP Extreme Power (Mattel) - Bonus DVD
Rated 5.00 stars by Henchmen4Hire
Although I'm not too impressed with how Fries was portrayed in the "The Batman" cartoon, I love how all the figures from that line look EXACTLY like they're supposed to. There are no creative liberties here, what you see on the show is what you get in plastic! Freeze stands about 5.25 inches to the top of his head and 5.75 to the top of his jagged ice-helmet. The helm is made of flaxtic (flexible plastic, that's right, it's my new word) so the jaggies won't poke kids' eyes out. It looks great and is very clear so you can see his head inside. The head is pale white with two evil red eyes. I heard somewhere that there is a variant to this figure; instead of having this ninja-esque type face he has a human-looking face, but I haven't seen any pictures to confirm this. The contraption the...[See More]

Supergirl (Blue Shirt)
DC Super Heroes (Mattel) - Series 3
Rated 3.50 stars by Henchmen4Hire
Have any of the people sculpting the DCSH figures ever even SEEN Supergirl? Are they sculpting blind? Did the boss's son sculpt her head and everyone is too afraid to tell them "It sucks"? That's the only plausible scenario I see for the face on this figure. It's the same head as the previous Supergirl in this line but with different hair. Supergirl does not look 40 years old. Supergirl does not wear so much makeup. Supergirl does not have ashy-tan skin. Someone get this message to the proper parties. Although, if this Supergirl was based on the new scantily-clad anorexic one appearing in the comics, then okay, I can see the resemblance, good job guys! :) Enough about the face and skin, on to the rest!...[See More]