5/31/2023 0 Comments Boomerang marvelThe arms have rotating hinges in the wrists and shoulders, the elbows are double hinged, and there are swivels in the biceps. I don’t know what happened here, but it looks like they just didn’t care.īoomerang’s articulation is standard stuff. This line has had some truly spectacular head sculpts and Hasbro usually injects a lot of effort and personality into the villains especially. Hell, it’s like I attempted a custom job… and I’ve got no skills whatsoever. Seriously, it’s like someone’s first attempt at a custom job. It looks like it was fashioned out of sculpting putty and the paintwork is an atrocity. I hardly ever say this about a Marvel Legends figure, but the portrait on this figure is a mess. Boomerang is wearing the exact expression I had when I first saw this head up close. It’s hard for me to believe Hasbro didn’t have a better right hand lying around to use with this figure. The smaller boomerangs won’t stay in there at all and even the bigger ones have issues falling out. At first, I thought they tried to make it different so that it could hold the bigger ones better, but upon closer inspection, it’s clearly a gun hand. Boomerang’s left hand is perfectly suited to holding either the large or small boomerangs. It’s also removable if you decide you don’t want it. Yeah, it looks kind of ridiculous, like he’s wearing an old TV antenna on his back, but it suits him. It holds the four boomerangs that he comes with, one large pair and one smaller pair. I really dig the piece Hasbro provided for his back. It’s a real shame, because the contrast between the white and black plastic otherwise looks great, and even the paint used for his belt isn’t too bad. ![]() The black bleeds through, particularly on the stripe across his chest. ![]() Boomerang is built on a black buck with white plastic used for the buccaneer boots and and the gauntlets, but the rest of the white details of his costume are painted on and they look pretty shabby. There’s so much I want to like about this figure and yet so much that I don’t like about this figure. As I stressed last Monday, I’m not a big fan of tossing a bunch of Legends figures into one review, but I’ve got waves of these goddamn things piling up, so I can’t afford to go back and do this trio individually. Much like the recent Guardians of the Galaxy waves, this one was a mix of comic and movie-based figures. These fellas were all part of a wave that was tied to Amazing Spider-Man 2, a film which I’d be more than happy to never be reminded about again. Got a Green Goblin head? I have a new waffle maker! Mail me the Gobby Head and I’ll mail you a waffle! And no, I won’t be looking at the Build-A-Figure yet, because I’m still missing one figure from this wave. ![]() It’s Marvel Monday, folks, and I’m turning back the clock and digging up three figures from 2014’s Marvel Legends Ultimate Green Goblin Wave, which have been buried at the bottom of my Toy Closet for a while.
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