Or Andrew was very late on his review this Friday.

So because I was late with the review I did an extra big one for what I missed. Today I review Legendary Heroes Series 1 with Pitt Build A Figure. Click below the pic to see the review.

Legendary Heroes Series 1 is a line of toys made up of Image and Dark Horse characters like Super Patriot, Ripclaw, Madman, Savage Dragon, Witchblade and Judge Dredd. The company Marvel Toys, formally Toybiz, was the originators of the Marvel Legends line and has continued it here with characters, that can be argued of a lesser scale, but still notable characters that are not from the big two companies.

To quickly sum up, the first Legendary Heroes line is good. Its obvious Marvel Toys learned and remembers everything they have experienced over the last few years with the Marvel Legends line and has applied all the same rules here. So lets get to the first figure.

 

Images number 1 hero, who definitely isn’t Spawn, The Savage Dragon. The Dragon is a good figure whose articulation for a semi first wave figure is exceptional. No resting on their laurels here.

The Dragon has joints up the wazoo.

• Neck

• Shoulder

• Forearm, Wrist, Individual Finger Movement and Knuckle movement

• He can bend and turn at the waist.

• He’s got ball joints in his legs for full movement, knee joints so he can bend there and toe joints, although he is wearing sneakers so the front of the sneaker can be bent forward.

Needless to say the man can move. The paint job is done very well, with the Dragon having his t-shirt and jeans look with this figure. An alternative figure can be found sans shirt with a different facial expression I believe. He’s also got all the little lines for his body hair that is constantly evident in the comics and his trademark fin is made from a hard plastic that holds shape but isn’t a hard unmovable piece of plastic that will jab you in the hand or the eye at the touch.

Next we have another character who has also appeared in the Savage Dragon and the book Freak Force put out by Image years ago, Super Patriot. Patriot is supposed to be something of a Captain America type character who during WWII was captured by Nazis and subject to numerous experiments that turned him into something more then a normal man. He escaped, destroying the factory so no more like him could be made, and donned an American flag-styled costume to become the Super Patriot. Years later in the 90s, Superpatriot was savagely attacked by his foes, with the shark-man Mako biting off his limbs and much of his face. Left for dead, Superpatriot’s body was taken by Cyberdata, a corporation of subversive scientists, and transformed into a powerful cyborg. Sheesh, that’s a mouthful. This is the Super Patriot we have been given.

Super Patriot also has quite the number of joints.

• Neck

• Shoulder
• Forearm, Wrist, All for One Finger Movement
• He can bend and turn at the waist.
• He’s got ball joints in his legs for full movement, knee joints so he can bend there and toe/shoe front joints.

I like the fact that his arms are removable and that he comes with extra arms so that you can have him morphed and unmorphed the problem I always find with some figures that come with extra arms is that they are either very tight and work well or are very loose and fall out easy. For this figure his right arm seems to fall out when placed in certain positions or moved, its an easy 2 second process to put it back on, but it is slightly disappointing and worrying when you think how easy it might be to lose.

I like the fact that his shoulder pads are a different plastic then the rest of the figure. I kinda wish it was a harder plastic but instead its a very soft one, which makes sense seeing as though a hard plastic would probably impede proper arm movement and rotation. The rivets in the legs and arms and ammo pouches are also a nice touch since, well, that’s what the character looks like most of the time, and they are sculpted in well to keep it looking naturally apart and not just a slapped on addition.

The paint is good too, I’d say better then the Dragon as the character has a nice metallic sheen to him and the places where he does have those primary colors really seem to pop and stand out. The one place the paint sucked was the eye goggles, they were two different sizes and not quite perfectly round. But its a very small spot so its a bit understandable.

And finally last on our list is Sara Pezzini, the Witchblade.

Marvel Toys may have finally gotten female figures right. The sculpt is probably one of the best female sculpts by them or Hasbro by far, but I still have a few complaints off the bat.

First her face is good, but not great. An example of a horrible face would be the Rogue figure that came in a Marvel Legends Boxed set. The face was unnatural and fairly ugly which actually ruined an ok figure. This face isn’t ugly but Sara seems to have a possessed look on her face here. Her eyes have a very unnatural shape to them and the dark lines around them and sharp arching eyebrows make her look fairly demonic. Not ugly but not a natural determined face.

My other complaint is figure hair. I dislike female hair on figures. I don’t think going the Barbie route and having hair made from synthetic threads is the right choice but the hard plastic seems wrong too. It gets in the way around the head and is an immovable object when things are sometimes needed to be done or places a certain way. Perhaps a softer more malleable plastic would be the solution but then I am sure their would be people who ripped the hair off and then complained to the company about it, so what can you do?

But this figures sculpt is good. And also quite pose-able.

• Slight Neck joint, from lowering the head and turning left to right.

• Ball joint in the Shoulder
• Elbow and Wrist joints. Figures arms can’t be turned 360 from anywhere but the shoulder though.
• Very weird waist. Can turn the upper torso slightly not a full 180, about 90 degrees in either direction, but can also turn the stomach slightly too and then the hips as well can be turned. So technically you can turn her waist three ways at once. Not a lot but it is possible.
• The rest of the leg joints remain the same as well. Knees, Ankles, Foot and Toes/Boots.

For any of the faults I may mention about the Witchblade figure, it is still possibly one of the best of the female figures this style and one of the bigger characters from the Image Universe.

This ends part 1 of this review. Whew. That took awhile and I apologize. Part 2 will be this Friday, finishing up with Judge Dredd, Ripclaw, and Madman. And Pitt and Timmy too!

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