I get why you are buying these because you're a reviewer, but I don't think anyone who isn't a reviewer should be buying these things or be supporting Hasbro for these sloppy, unfinished releases. I've been watching your channel for a long time, plus some other review channels, and the image I've gotten of the action figure world is very unflattering to say the least, and for good reason. Criticism is like a lost art, and I enjoy that you're so harsh on many of the figures you review, simply because they deserve it. I might not agree with absolutely everything you say about everything you review, but I like that you're calling things crap when they deserve it. Your harsher criticism of many figures is totally justified. In fact I believe you're being too lenient a lot of the time. I don't own a ton of action figures myself, I'm more of a statue guy, but I still love the idea of posable figures. And regardless of whether it's a statue or an action figure, there needs to be higher standards set for me to wanna buy these stupid toys I don't really need. So many of these figures don't even look like the source material, and if you add in terrible articulation design and sloppy QC, then what am I even paying for?, just a poor man's botched fan art? I understand that designing an action figure can be a difficult process, but I'm not paying for a poor attempt here, I'm paying for results, and the results simply don't impress a lot of the time. All I know is that most people have terrible standards for quality and I wish things were different.
Preach!!! I slowly stopped buying Hasbro figures unless they actually release a decent figure from time to time. My last hurrah will be the Galactus haslab but even that I'm cautiously optimistic and will sell if I'm not content. A lot of other brands I've dived into have also had flaws and for the price points they always ticked me off. How does one not do the bare minimum of articulation being the essential instead of half assing it and having a useless figure where it doesn't do the character justice 🤔
The thing is Hasbro CAN do good, quality figures. Look at their Snake Eyes; super nice sculpt with so much articulation, he can double wield his sword like no figure in my collection. Or their recent Darth Vaders, which finally look like the guy. Or even the new retro Spidermen. They can do good figures which are fun to play with and pose around, but they also do a lot of bad figures for no apparent reason.
I’ve always held off on buying ML just because a good majority of the time they just look unappealing. Sloppy or very little paint detail, boring sculpts, and even at $20 I thought they were too much. They just don’t look like collectibles and they don’t fit the source material. The Target Exclusive Retro Rouge was the first 6 inch figure I was throughly impressed with and it encouraged me to pick the more appealing releases like classic Dr. Strange and 20th Cap. But then we get to the Fantastic 4 figures and I’m just overall unpleased with the retro line. But it’s the only recent version of these out so there’s not much of a choice if thought want a somewhat decent F4 set. Fortunately most of the ML I want are older releases, but after I do that, I’m definitely not going to get many more ML unless it’s a character that I REALLY like or NEED to complete a group.
@@SP8inc I think some people at Hasbro care more about their job than others, and some are just incompetent. I also bet they're rushed to hell and back sometimes, leading to poor decision making. Either way you're right, Hasbro has done some good stuff, even great on occasion, but it happens so rarely these days that it's straight up embarrassing. The fact that almost all of their figures are just reused molds with almost no paint is just inexcusable for such a prominent manufacturer.
I really wish Hasbro would make up their mind as to whether these are toys or collectibles. They're fun to play with and the materials they are made with feels like these are rated for 4 year-olds, but they're priced like high collectibles. So they're too expensive to be kids toys, but too low quality to be collectibles, so which is it? If they really want to charge a premium for these, my suggestion would be to bump the rating up to 8+ or 14+ or whatever a sensible interval is to where they can get away with using better materials and smaller parts. That would make them feel substantially higher quality, and it doesn't really sacrifice anything because no 4 year old is playing with these. They can't afford it and no parent is going to buy it for them. Plus, my 4 year old would shatter this in 3 minutes, tops. All I know is, I'm getting tired of buying all these $30 Gumbis and so I've cut way back until they fix either the price or the quality.
Agreed 100%. Plus the character choices seem geared towards the adult collector. Don’t tell me that kids 10 and under know who D’Spayre and Sleepwalker are.
I like the cell shading look if it's done well. Yours looks significantly worse than mine does. Not sure if I got lucky or you got unlucky, but that's a huge problem with this type of figure being online-only.
Online only and soon - this is what retail figures in boxes that we can not see will bring, blindness to the quality control of what your buying for...almost $30 a pop now.....
What I find weird about the gripping hands is that they didn’t bother to add the slots for his claws to come out of. They already have hand molds for Wolverine hands without the claws out so they could’ve easily used one of those or modified it into a gripping position. This just shows that they didn’t even try with the accessories or the figure in general. It’s amazing how they take something that should’ve been an easily good release and make it worse than it should be.
I actually really like this figure, my main issue is the price. There is absolutely no way this Wolverine who has been reissued numerous times and just simply a repaint should cost almost $30. That and with the minimal packaging this should cost no more then $20.
I think Hasbro said to themselves well they're buying it for the retro Packaging so they're not going to take the figure out anyways so let's not put that much work into it.
But I actually play with mine I'm 33 n I wanted alot of these characters when I watched x men animated show like I was fighting vindicator n wolverine other day lol 😆
I think the one from Mondo does a better job of capturing the animated feel. Granted it's $200 more expensive but they're certainly putting the effort in.
Thank you for being so harsh! I just watched another review who pretty much had no problems with this guy, all the while i'm finding the paint to be sloppy in his review. You, Fwoosh, Jobby, and Steven (for my kaiju needs) are my favorite toy reviewers.
I think I said a similar thing in another of your reviews, I feel like Hasbro is rising prices with the excuse of selling us pretty boxes, and that's it. The figures are still as meh as always and the paint job is just... I don't want to say bad because it looks nice in certain poses but it's just not what it should be. Also, the headsculpts they are using for the rest of the figures are just SO BAD. It's supposed to be a line inspired by the cartoon and the headsculpts are still looking like "real people". Have you seen their Morph figure? It doesn't have a cartoonish look. I don't really mind these releases because they are actually helping me decide to finally stop buying Marvel Legends. I am at that point where getting a "new" figure from Hasbro feels like they will make a "better" version later and I just feel scammed.
I had canceled all my pre-orders for these animated X-Men figures. I still would like to get a Wolverine, only because I missed the previous opportunities to get me a yellow suit Wolverine figure, but at that price, I might be able to find one on the secondary market. I love Hasbro's products, but I think they're getting a little too cocky with more recent offerings. Only figures worth their price points is G.I.Classified.
I’m all for the cel shaded/stylized paint jobs, I know Hasbro attempting something that ambitious would be a disaster considering they can’t even paint basic costume or belt details right 90% of the time lol The prices are outrageous for these things. Every Hasbro ML quality/practical value wise is worth about 15 bucks at best and that was about what they charged for the black Hand Ninja, that should be for every figure lol
So weird how far off this is considering how almost good it is. They've been killing the head sculpts recently and a neutral and grimacing head is a rare perfect choice for Wolverine, and the cowl looks a bit like Anthony's custom!... and they still look soft and outdated. The new claws look good!... but they're plugged into the Cowboy Logan hand set, so no claw openings, and yes fingernails on the sword, sorry, picture gripping hands. Premium paint apps!... that nobody wanted, and aren't well executed, and are worse than usual on the face. Obscure Easter Egg accessories for the fans!... and no other accessories for anyone at all.
I can only assume that the melancholy face is to recreate that one scene of him holding the photo, since he has the rest of the parts needed for that. I've also heard from a friend that all-cardboard packaging costs a good bit more than boxes with clear plastic, so this may be why we get no improvement with figures but rising prices. I'm not sure.
I love cel shading in video games and 3D animation, but I absolutely hate it on action figures and models. It doesn't actually make it look like it's cel shaded, because there are still real life soft shadows on the figure, which obviously you can't make go away. It just looks like the character has shadows painted on them - because they do. I feel similarly about plastic fire and blast effects. They don't look like the thing they're supposed to be. They just look like a hunk of translucent plastic.
I am not a huge fan of the cel shading look honestly. If I were to get these theyd stay in the cool looking box. Im pretty happy with the xmen team I have on display already. I had a feeling these figures were going to be horrible. I would bet money the rest are going to be equally bad. The Morph already looks meh and it was just announced.
Hasbro didn't want to over do the cel shading so people who don't like it would buy it who missed out on the other X-men releases. Hasbro tried to please every one, and ended up pleasing no one.
@@AlphaProto "Hasbro tried to please every one" you silly goose, you think Hasbro really tried to please everyone!? lmao they just put tiny paint on it and call it a day to save money, lets be real here
Man I was actually looking forward to this one, I loved the X-Men cartoon and to see them screw the pooch, I hope it's just a dud on your end. I think part of it is in fact the packaging, the VHS sleeve gimmick is a clever way to introduce windowless boxes and for someone like me who collects loose, I can display both. Generally I love the cel-shaded aesthetic and NECA are the kings of nailing the look not just with their TMNT cartoon line but remember when they did video game appearance versions of certain characters and they had that pixelated cel-shaded look? Master System Rocky and the Contra guys come to mind. This could've been much better for the price, I just don't see the value, but I guess if someone missed any of the previous Logans it'll suffice.
I got a good paint job on my figure. It was clean, I wish I could the same about the Jubilee figure. My figure had paint bleed and some sloppy paint on the shades. This is what we get from a window less packaging. I could look past the claws. I got enough hands with claws. I have so many Wolverines.
To answer your question, yes, I did get one with a better paint job and the claws weren't warped. And yes, I LOVE stylized paint applications like cel-shading, I think it's great. This though isn't cel-shading done particularly well. I think the shade of yellow is wrong, he was never spicy brown mustard in the show, and it's not applied as well as it could be. I know the Mondo one is way more expensive, but man, did they do a way better job of painting it and it really isn't a cost issue aside from maybe the fact that Mondo used a third shade of all of the primary colors on their version. And Hasbro has proven it can do better as the cel-shaded Pink Ranger looks terrific! I don't know why that figure exists and it's not something I've ever wanted, but the paint job did turn out well. This whole animated line though was something I've wanted for years and Hasbro just isn't really doing it justice which is a shame. The sad part is, Wolverine looks like the clear best of the reveals so far too. Those gripping hands are embarrassing and they look so tiny and goofy on this figure. I don't buy many Legends, but do they seriously not have some gripping hands from a past Wolverine figure? Just an all around poor value for a figure that, at the end of the day, I do like because of the source material, but could have easily been so much better.
I really like the figure and I think the cell shade is cool but I hope they re release him as a standard version. I think the color and sculpt is everything people wanted from the mafex release without the price tag. Hopefully if they do re-release him they make the right alterations because they really are so close to giving us a perfect 90’s era tiger stripe Wolverine. All they need is to give a few more shits
I'm the guy sweating trying to push either button meme when trying to purchase a Wolverine fig between Mafex and ML, but Anthony said they were both butts.
Retail toys are pretty much the bottom of the barrel at this point. If you're not buying imports or stuff from small companies like FourHorseman, Valaverse, Joytoy, Storm Collectibles, etc., you're really missing out. If Hasbro, McFarlane and Mattel were all I had to choose from, I'd stop collecting. The toy aisles are literally full of disposable junk now.
So true. I think the last time I bought a toy in retail was back in 2016 when Jakks Pacific made Nintendo figures that weren't just Mario. But obviously, that's a thing of the past. Now the only figures I buy in-store are funko pops, but even those I'm starting to buy online since most of the in-store selections aren't that appealing
I think the neutral head sculpt is for possing him holding the picture of scott & jean, that's whybhas that strange looking. I will receive mime soon and jubilee as well hope they have a good paint job.
I hate these. This is not cel shading, it’s just crap. They need to hire some Borderlands cosplayers who make themselves look like animated characters that hopped off of the page. The Neca Turtles look great and I really like them. With this series, they break up the paint job terribly with that muddy “highlight” when you do any thigh articulation at all. I am squarely in the target market particularly because I have a huge action figure collection and I was holding out for the quintessential animated Wolverine figure, and when I saw this release and then the Jean Grey I just bit the bullet and shelled out the extra money for a customized love triangle set because these are awful. If I saw them on clearance for $5 I wouldn’t buy them. Mondo’s 12” SDCC exclusive Cel Shaded Wolverine is a really good example of what Wolverine could look like stylized. This ain’t it, 1/10 stars. They ruined a perfectly good release with this half-assed brown paint concept.
Tbh, the claws don’t really bother me that much. For the most part, I think they’re acceptable (but only by the fact that a lot of the other Wolverine claws have been terrible on other figures). What does bother me is the fingernails on the gripping hands. Seriously, that makes absolutely no sense. I don’t understand how that keeps happening. I mean at least tweet them a little bit to not have them showing. What would that’ve cost them, like 3 cents?
It looks like they finally got the "wings" on his mask to stick out the way the should, as opposed to the previous release's wings being "scrunched" up, causing people to try to heat them up with a hair dryer, only to have them scrunch back down. Too bad I already have a zillion Wolverines, and am not buying one more just to get the head we should have had already!
I can't stand the fact the the "Tiger stripes" aren't even matching. on the right side of the figure, it's higher than the left side. I started typing this while listening to the video so I have no clue if you brought it up. I may have missed it. But once I noticed it, I couldn't unsee it and it bothers me so much.
This guy looks WAY better in your video then he does in my hands. Also super disappointed in this figure, only thing I really like is the wings on the mask.
I love the cell shaded look and looking forward to the rest. Had to put some heat on the claws. Also, didn't the class look like that on the show though? Will definitely hit them with metallic paint. Disappointed they didn't do pinless. Your figures paint looks awful mine does not look like that lol. Crap luck dude.
@@AnthonysCustoms I wonder if white would of just looked like bone if they tried it. Not even the Mafex one is white right? Def could of been sharper like the previous Wolverine claws.
Hasbro was really trying to show up Mondo toys and they failed horribly. The cost is shameful considering NECA is two bucks away from the same price in their category of figures. Shame on you Hasbro. STOP HOSING YOUR FANS!
The cell shading doesn’t bother me much. Seems like it’ll be fun experimenting different lighting techniques for photography. Whoa! 😂 Just saw the blue hands. WTF were they thinking with that? SMH Never was a fan of them using that neck mold. I loved that you stated with a squint it looks good, simply because I saw a photo where the light hit it just right, and it looked amazing. However upon looking at it more afterwards and then seeing the review I’m starting to feel like we’ll never get that definitively great Tiger Striped Wolverine. Thanks for the review and awesome as always!
You nailed it... why not that iconic slashing effect from the opening. Why gripping hands that are clearly bare hands just cast in blue. Why not go hard on the repaint instead of the minimum? Best part is the photo frame with the swapping gimmick. I was really excited about these 90's TV figures but I cancelled all my preorders, they're just not worth it.
No pin less joints and the paint imperfections were just unfortunate on my wolverine. I do. like the cartoon styled shading. Necas Alien 40th Anniversary figures are amazing and 26.99 for the human figures.
I usually dislike animated shading but this one I think came out decent. The black on mine looks horrible tho. My only other nitpick is that the blue on the gloves doesn't match but at least I finally have a good Wolverine. Missed my chance with the other ones
$28 dollars eh? To get this bub shipped to Canada it would have cost me close to $60 Canadian after exchange shipping and taxes. Rest assured I did not invest. 6" Hasbro retail for $35.99 now which is ridiculous. So these blunt reviews do help in making decisions on which figures to bother with.
was underwhelmed with the figure. had really bad bent claws, smeared paint in a couple of places, and the box itself while nice should have been a bit smaller in my opinion...i had a figma with more stuff and a stand that fit in a box as small as an actual vcr tape. gonna repaint and add metal claws make it look like a battle damaged one.
Got 2 of him swap the parts that has better paint job to get the prefect Wolverine and as for the claws both came in prefect condition not warped... But I think the bonebreaker Wolverine is still better which modern look of him (from astonishing and return of Wolverine)
With Hasbro having gotten rid of free shipping over certain prices. These figures start to be $35+ depending on taxes. They are all Pulse exclusives but with Disney involved, they make their way to the Disney Store. So far I think Hasbro's attempts at cell shading just isn't well executed. I feel the shading is adding nothing to the figure. I certainly don't think I'm looking at an animated design given life. Mondo's 1/6 scale Wolverine for example executes the cell shaded idea almost perfectly. Actually it feels like Hasbro's attempt is a knockoff version of Mondo's offering(and it includes the animated slash). Maybe the more "successful" attempt was Pink Ranger Lightning Collection but that was even more a "Nobody actually wants this and you aren't changing my mind" type of situation. As for the figure itself. Pinless limbs, double ball joint torso's, dumbbell neck joints. It's time for the Wolverine figures to get an update. Honestly Hasbro gotten into this bad habit that a fancy box(which doesn't show the figure with a window) justifies a price increase in place of better paint apps and accessories. At this point they could have made this like the definitive Wolverine with previous heads/accessories.
Maybe this is petty... but what prevented me from collecting much of marvel legends and mafex for that fact is that I've never seen an appealing wolverine ( Jim Lee OG version )... its actually irritating...
The cell shading looks bad to me. Not much effort, just a weird darker yellow that looks out of place. If it weren't for that, I'd be picking up all of this animation-style figures. Really like the cartoon from childhood.
This figure is supoosed to be the decent one because the rest are just repaints of old figures that it's a joke just to use the 90s cartoon as a weapon for nostalgia. Neca may re-use parts but at least they try to put some effort and if Hasbro stop being lazy A-holes and give a crap when it comes to making this stuff
I'm not a fan of the cell shaded comic book look on figures at all. when they announced these I was like, these are probably going to look bad because Hasbro doesn't know how to paint figures. comic shading like this on a figure to me always looks awkward. The shading on the inside of his leg looks like he peed on himself. You'll have to check out the "cell shaded comic style" power ranger lightning collection pink ranger if you get a chance. It's an abomination. I laughed in gamestop the first time I saw the figure in person.
I think you are overly critical in my opinion .Both face sculpts look amazing and paint work in my opinion is good enough .The two younger looking wolverine heads makes this figure stand out in my opinion .
My job is to be critical. Your job is to decide which pieces of information are important to you. It's impossible to provide the viewer of a review with too much information.
Yeah, kind of disappointing. But makes me think of the other two figures I dream about getting, 'Horseman of death' Wolverine and the other old Wolverine from 'Wolverine The End' (wearing his futuristic x-men suit) who knows when or if we're getting them though. Thank's for the review!
This line is plain cashgrab from hasbro just repaints in a fancy box, no pinless, poor to none accesories and quetionable paintjob not for me. I quit ML before start collecting them. I'll go for definitives representations from mafex just one figure per character is all I need 😉
Mines finally came in! 2 months waiting on pre-order and finally came in during memorial weekend. Best wolverine of all time, the cell shading is kinda harsh though.
The variance in these figures is what frustrates me. The paint on mine is overall a lot better than yours, where basically everything is perfect except some yellow shows through the black side striping on one of the side panels. but if they’re going to raise the prices, they need to be raising quality at least to a consistent good… Not some being great and some being blah.
@@AnthonysCustoms That's beyond annoying. I thought this was going to be the ultimate Wolverine figure, and instead he needs a lot of help to get him there.
I get why you are buying these because you're a reviewer, but I don't think anyone who isn't a reviewer should be buying these things or be supporting Hasbro for these sloppy, unfinished releases. I've been watching your channel for a long time, plus some other review channels, and the image I've gotten of the action figure world is very unflattering to say the least, and for good reason. Criticism is like a lost art, and I enjoy that you're so harsh on many of the figures you review, simply because they deserve it. I might not agree with absolutely everything you say about everything you review, but I like that you're calling things crap when they deserve it. Your harsher criticism of many figures is totally justified. In fact I believe you're being too lenient a lot of the time.
I don't own a ton of action figures myself, I'm more of a statue guy, but I still love the idea of posable figures. And regardless of whether it's a statue or an action figure, there needs to be higher standards set for me to wanna buy these stupid toys I don't really need. So many of these figures don't even look like the source material, and if you add in terrible articulation design and sloppy QC, then what am I even paying for?, just a poor man's botched fan art? I understand that designing an action figure can be a difficult process, but I'm not paying for a poor attempt here, I'm paying for results, and the results simply don't impress a lot of the time. All I know is that most people have terrible standards for quality and I wish things were different.
Preach!!! I slowly stopped buying Hasbro figures unless they actually release a decent figure from time to time. My last hurrah will be the Galactus haslab but even that I'm cautiously optimistic and will sell if I'm not content. A lot of other brands I've dived into have also had flaws and for the price points they always ticked me off. How does one not do the bare minimum of articulation being the essential instead of half assing it and having a useless figure where it doesn't do the character justice 🤔
The thing is Hasbro CAN do good, quality figures. Look at their Snake Eyes; super nice sculpt with so much articulation, he can double wield his sword like no figure in my collection. Or their recent Darth Vaders, which finally look like the guy. Or even the new retro Spidermen. They can do good figures which are fun to play with and pose around, but they also do a lot of bad figures for no apparent reason.
I’ve always held off on buying ML just because a good majority of the time they just look unappealing. Sloppy or very little paint detail, boring sculpts, and even at $20 I thought they were too much. They just don’t look like collectibles and they don’t fit the source material. The Target Exclusive Retro Rouge was the first 6 inch figure I was throughly impressed with and it encouraged me to pick the more appealing releases like classic Dr. Strange and 20th Cap. But then we get to the Fantastic 4 figures and I’m just overall unpleased with the retro line. But it’s the only recent version of these out so there’s not much of a choice if thought want a somewhat decent F4 set. Fortunately most of the ML I want are older releases, but after I do that, I’m definitely not going to get many more ML unless it’s a character that I REALLY like or NEED to complete a group.
@@SP8inc I think some people at Hasbro care more about their job than others, and some are just incompetent. I also bet they're rushed to hell and back sometimes, leading to poor decision making. Either way you're right, Hasbro has done some good stuff, even great on occasion, but it happens so rarely these days that it's straight up embarrassing. The fact that almost all of their figures are just reused molds with almost no paint is just inexcusable for such a prominent manufacturer.
Probably the best comment I’ve seen on his channel. 💯
I love your quote saying, "For $28, this is a slap in the face. This is trash." I knew you wouldn't hold back. I'm glad someone said it.
I really wish Hasbro would make up their mind as to whether these are toys or collectibles.
They're fun to play with and the materials they are made with feels like these are rated for 4 year-olds, but they're priced like high collectibles. So they're too expensive to be kids toys, but too low quality to be collectibles, so which is it?
If they really want to charge a premium for these, my suggestion would be to bump the rating up to 8+ or 14+ or whatever a sensible interval is to where they can get away with using better materials and smaller parts. That would make them feel substantially higher quality, and it doesn't really sacrifice anything because no 4 year old is playing with these. They can't afford it and no parent is going to buy it for them. Plus, my 4 year old would shatter this in 3 minutes, tops.
All I know is, I'm getting tired of buying all these $30 Gumbis and so I've cut way back until they fix either the price or the quality.
Agreed 100%. Plus the character choices seem geared towards the adult collector. Don’t tell me that kids 10 and under know who D’Spayre and Sleepwalker are.
I like the cell shading look if it's done well. Yours looks significantly worse than mine does. Not sure if I got lucky or you got unlucky, but that's a huge problem with this type of figure being online-only.
For sure cell shading is a great innovation in my opinion as well. It really helps to nail the animated look. 💯🤘🤘🤘
Online only and soon - this is what retail figures in boxes that we can not see will bring, blindness to the quality control of what your buying for...almost $30 a pop now.....
@@RendersFX. if I bought this at a B&M and it had as many issues as his when I got it home, I'd return it. Lot harder to return it to Hasbro Pulse
Yeah your paint looks worse than mine and also my face is Matte not glossy. I dunno whats up with that.
@@Macjones69 no. They are one piece
What I find weird about the gripping hands is that they didn’t bother to add the slots for his claws to come out of. They already have hand molds for Wolverine hands without the claws out so they could’ve easily used one of those or modified it into a gripping position. This just shows that they didn’t even try with the accessories or the figure in general. It’s amazing how they take something that should’ve been an easily good release and make it worse than it should be.
I like how old toy biz looked comic yet had stitching and made it look real too
Do you have an update on any of your rival collectibles line?
I actually really like this figure, my main issue is the price. There is absolutely no way this Wolverine who has been reissued numerous times and just simply a repaint should cost almost $30. That and with the minimal packaging this should cost no more then $20.
I think Hasbro said to themselves well they're buying it for the retro Packaging so they're not going to take the figure out anyways so let's not put that much work into it.
Ha Ha those VHS boxes are so easy to open and reseal for the box folks.
I think u right
But I actually play with mine I'm 33 n I wanted alot of these characters when I watched x men animated show like I was fighting vindicator n wolverine other day lol 😆
I think the one from Mondo does a better job of capturing the animated feel. Granted it's $200 more expensive but they're certainly putting the effort in.
Thank you for being so harsh! I just watched another review who pretty much had no problems with this guy, all the while i'm finding the paint to be sloppy in his review. You, Fwoosh, Jobby, and Steven (for my kaiju needs) are my favorite toy reviewers.
I think I said a similar thing in another of your reviews, I feel like Hasbro is rising prices with the excuse of selling us pretty boxes, and that's it.
The figures are still as meh as always and the paint job is just... I don't want to say bad because it looks nice in certain poses but it's just not what it should be.
Also, the headsculpts they are using for the rest of the figures are just SO BAD.
It's supposed to be a line inspired by the cartoon and the headsculpts are still looking like "real people". Have you seen their Morph figure? It doesn't have a cartoonish look.
I don't really mind these releases because they are actually helping me decide to finally stop buying Marvel Legends.
I am at that point where getting a "new" figure from Hasbro feels like they will make a "better" version later and I just feel scammed.
I have seen Morph.
I had canceled all my pre-orders for these animated X-Men figures.
I still would like to get a Wolverine, only because I missed the previous opportunities to get me a yellow suit Wolverine figure, but at that price, I might be able to find one on the secondary market.
I love Hasbro's products, but I think they're getting a little too cocky with more recent offerings. Only figures worth their price points is G.I.Classified.
I’m all for the cel shaded/stylized paint jobs, I know Hasbro attempting something that ambitious would be a disaster considering they can’t even paint basic costume or belt details right 90% of the time lol
The prices are outrageous for these things. Every Hasbro ML quality/practical value wise is worth about 15 bucks at best and that was about what they charged for the black Hand Ninja, that should be for every figure lol
*knew
So weird how far off this is considering how almost good it is.
They've been killing the head sculpts recently and a neutral and grimacing head is a rare perfect choice for Wolverine, and the cowl looks a bit like Anthony's custom!... and they still look soft and outdated.
The new claws look good!... but they're plugged into the Cowboy Logan hand set, so no claw openings, and yes fingernails on the sword, sorry, picture gripping hands.
Premium paint apps!... that nobody wanted, and aren't well executed, and are worse than usual on the face.
Obscure Easter Egg accessories for the fans!... and no other accessories for anyone at all.
I'm not a fan of cell shading because it's trying to replicate a 2-D shadow in 3-D,which looks fine in few angles since the shadows are static.
it could work on statue but not in action figure
I can only assume that the melancholy face is to recreate that one scene of him holding the photo, since he has the rest of the parts needed for that.
I've also heard from a friend that all-cardboard packaging costs a good bit more than boxes with clear plastic, so this may be why we get no improvement with figures but rising prices. I'm not sure.
I think Hasbro needs to overhaul the entire ML from aesthetics to articulation.
I love cel shading in video games and 3D animation, but I absolutely hate it on action figures and models. It doesn't actually make it look like it's cel shaded, because there are still real life soft shadows on the figure, which obviously you can't make go away. It just looks like the character has shadows painted on them - because they do. I feel similarly about plastic fire and blast effects. They don't look like the thing they're supposed to be. They just look like a hunk of translucent plastic.
Also seems like they sculpted in arm hair but didn’t paint it. Unless those are scars, either way no arm hairs
I am not a huge fan of the cel shading look honestly. If I were to get these theyd stay in the cool looking box. Im pretty happy with the xmen team I have on display already.
I had a feeling these figures were going to be horrible. I would bet money the rest are going to be equally bad. The Morph already looks meh and it was just announced.
doesn't even look like Morph
Hasbro didn't want to over do the cel shading so people who don't like it would buy it who missed out on the other X-men releases.
Hasbro tried to please every one, and ended up pleasing no one.
@@keonscinist2333 right. Lol. I mean, I’ll probably buy it anyway because Ive wanted that Morph but its not good. 😂
@@AlphaProtoYep! neca does a much better job committing to it. Still not my favorite thing.
@@AlphaProto "Hasbro tried to please every one" you silly goose, you think Hasbro really tried to please everyone!? lmao
they just put tiny paint on it and call it a day to save money, lets be real here
I honestly feel like the cell shading was alright with this one. Though... I'd preferably like it more if wasn't cell shaded lol.
A good figure but I'm not sure if I should get this figure or the new heat claws one. One is classic, one is modern
Damn I remember those antenna that's a really accurate comparison.
I’ve waited years for a figure like this, I love everything about it. My only complaint is I wish the claws were a bit more sturdy.
I feel like if they used the claws that came on the Tri-Sentinel Wolverine, they'd be just fine. I wouldn't be mad myself
I think that neutral face was for that memes.
Man I was actually looking forward to this one, I loved the X-Men cartoon and to see them screw the pooch, I hope it's just a dud on your end.
I think part of it is in fact the packaging, the VHS sleeve gimmick is a clever way to introduce windowless boxes and for someone like me who collects loose, I can display both. Generally I love the cel-shaded aesthetic and NECA are the kings of nailing the look not just with their TMNT cartoon line but remember when they did video game appearance versions of certain characters and they had that pixelated cel-shaded look? Master System Rocky and the Contra guys come to mind.
This could've been much better for the price, I just don't see the value, but I guess if someone missed any of the previous Logans it'll suffice.
All due respect to Anthony his probably is a dud.
I got a good paint job on my figure. It was clean, I wish I could the same about the Jubilee figure. My figure had paint bleed and some sloppy paint on the shades. This is what we get from a window less packaging. I could look past the claws. I got enough hands with claws. I have so many Wolverines.
I got mine last week! Mine came out great‼️
To answer your question, yes, I did get one with a better paint job and the claws weren't warped. And yes, I LOVE stylized paint applications like cel-shading, I think it's great. This though isn't cel-shading done particularly well. I think the shade of yellow is wrong, he was never spicy brown mustard in the show, and it's not applied as well as it could be. I know the Mondo one is way more expensive, but man, did they do a way better job of painting it and it really isn't a cost issue aside from maybe the fact that Mondo used a third shade of all of the primary colors on their version. And Hasbro has proven it can do better as the cel-shaded Pink Ranger looks terrific! I don't know why that figure exists and it's not something I've ever wanted, but the paint job did turn out well. This whole animated line though was something I've wanted for years and Hasbro just isn't really doing it justice which is a shame. The sad part is, Wolverine looks like the clear best of the reveals so far too. Those gripping hands are embarrassing and they look so tiny and goofy on this figure. I don't buy many Legends, but do they seriously not have some gripping hands from a past Wolverine figure? Just an all around poor value for a figure that, at the end of the day, I do like because of the source material, but could have easily been so much better.
I really like the figure and I think the cell shade is cool but I hope they re release him as a standard version. I think the color and sculpt is everything people wanted from the mafex release without the price tag. Hopefully if they do re-release him they make the right alterations because they really are so close to giving us a perfect 90’s era tiger stripe Wolverine. All they need is to give a few more shits
I'm the guy sweating trying to push either button meme when trying to purchase a Wolverine fig between Mafex and ML, but Anthony said they were both butts.
I would hold off for now or just get the cheapest version of the modern ml wolverine with shoulder pads
Retail toys are pretty much the bottom of the barrel at this point. If you're not buying imports or stuff from small companies like FourHorseman, Valaverse, Joytoy, Storm Collectibles, etc., you're really missing out. If Hasbro, McFarlane and Mattel were all I had to choose from, I'd stop collecting. The toy aisles are literally full of disposable junk now.
So true. I think the last time I bought a toy in retail was back in 2016 when Jakks Pacific made Nintendo figures that weren't just Mario. But obviously, that's a thing of the past. Now the only figures I buy in-store are funko pops, but even those I'm starting to buy online since most of the in-store selections aren't that appealing
You should customize it. It’s yours, and you can make it better
Not a fan of Animated Style paint jobs. I can do that my self with lighting. Cool to have more options though.
It's a cool idea with lazy execution
I think the neutral head sculpt is for possing him holding the picture of scott & jean, that's whybhas that strange looking. I will receive mime soon and jubilee as well hope they have a good paint job.
These were an easy pass for me. I’m not a fan of cell shading.
I hate these. This is not cel shading, it’s just crap. They need to hire some Borderlands cosplayers who make themselves look like animated characters that hopped off of the page. The Neca Turtles look great and I really like them. With this series, they break up the paint job terribly with that muddy “highlight” when you do any thigh articulation at all.
I am squarely in the target market particularly because I have a huge action figure collection and I was holding out for the quintessential animated Wolverine figure, and when I saw this release and then the Jean Grey I just bit the bullet and shelled out the extra money for a customized love triangle set because these are awful. If I saw them on clearance for $5 I wouldn’t buy them. Mondo’s 12” SDCC exclusive Cel Shaded Wolverine is a really good example of what Wolverine could look like stylized. This ain’t it, 1/10 stars. They ruined a perfectly good release with this half-assed brown paint concept.
Why they have to ruin this line with the cell shading?
Tbh, the claws don’t really bother me that much. For the most part, I think they’re acceptable (but only by the fact that a lot of the other Wolverine claws have been terrible on other figures). What does bother me is the fingernails on the gripping hands. Seriously, that makes absolutely no sense. I don’t understand how that keeps happening. I mean at least tweet them a little bit to not have them showing. What would that’ve cost them, like 3 cents?
The animation paint jobs work for some figures more than others but as long as it’s done right I’m all with it.
It looks like they finally got the "wings" on his mask to stick out the way the should, as opposed to the previous release's wings being "scrunched" up, causing people to try to heat them up with a hair dryer, only to have them scrunch back down. Too bad I already have a zillion Wolverines, and am not buying one more just to get the head we should have had already!
I can't stand the fact the the "Tiger stripes" aren't even matching. on the right side of the figure, it's higher than the left side. I started typing this while listening to the video so I have no clue if you brought it up. I may have missed it. But once I noticed it, I couldn't unsee it and it bothers me so much.
I figured it was just mine so i didn't bring it up
Turtles look cool I dont collect them but if I did turtles I would do those I like these enough only have 2 so far
The face sculpt looks good but I can't help but see 2 batman side profiles facing each other
This guy looks WAY better in your video then he does in my hands.
Also super disappointed in this figure, only thing I really like is the wings on the mask.
I love the cell shaded look and looking forward to the rest. Had to put some heat on the claws. Also, didn't the class look like that on the show though? Will definitely hit them with metallic paint. Disappointed they didn't do pinless. Your figures paint looks awful mine does not look like that lol. Crap luck dude.
The claws were at least pointy in the show and they were basically white. A lot of the time they even looked like blades.
@@AnthonysCustoms I wonder if white would of just looked like bone if they tried it. Not even the Mafex one is white right? Def could of been sharper like the previous Wolverine claws.
Hasbro was really trying to show up Mondo toys and they failed horribly. The cost is shameful considering NECA is two bucks away from the same price in their category of figures. Shame on you Hasbro. STOP HOSING YOUR FANS!
The cell shading doesn’t bother me much. Seems like it’ll be fun experimenting different lighting techniques for photography.
Whoa! 😂 Just saw the blue hands. WTF were they thinking with that?
SMH
Never was a fan of them using that neck mold. I loved that you stated with a squint it looks good, simply because I saw a photo where the light hit it just right, and it looked amazing. However upon looking at it more afterwards and then seeing the review I’m starting to feel like we’ll never get that definitively great Tiger Striped Wolverine.
Thanks for the review and awesome as always!
You nailed it... why not that iconic slashing effect from the opening. Why gripping hands that are clearly bare hands just cast in blue. Why not go hard on the repaint instead of the minimum? Best part is the photo frame with the swapping gimmick. I was really excited about these 90's TV figures but I cancelled all my preorders, they're just not worth it.
Now I see why in Latinoamérica they called him "Dynamic Needle"
I love stylized painting and it’s a shame they didn’t get it right with this one. Thanks for the excellent content Ant❣️💯💗
I like the cell shading on the tmnt figures more than I'm liking it on the x men ones so far
No pin less joints and the paint imperfections were just unfortunate on my wolverine. I do. like the cartoon styled shading.
Necas Alien 40th Anniversary figures are amazing and 26.99 for the human figures.
I usually dislike animated shading but this one I think came out decent. The black on mine looks horrible tho. My only other nitpick is that the blue on the gloves doesn't match but at least I finally have a good Wolverine. Missed my chance with the other ones
I absolutely hate the shading. Prefer a lighter shade of Toy Biz style shading
$28 dollars eh? To get this bub shipped to Canada it would have cost me close to $60 Canadian after exchange shipping and taxes. Rest assured I did not invest.
6" Hasbro retail for $35.99 now which is ridiculous. So these blunt reviews do help in making decisions on which figures to bother with.
The Play Arts Kai Wolverine is Awesome Hands Down
but I like this one too
Honest answer bro I'm impressed with the paint job
NIce. After the review. I don't think I'll be going with this Wolverine. Great heads up.
was underwhelmed with the figure. had really bad bent claws, smeared paint in a couple of places, and the box itself while nice should have been a bit smaller in my opinion...i had a figma with more stuff and a stand that fit in a box as small as an actual vcr tape. gonna repaint and add metal claws make it look like a battle damaged one.
love this figure that resembles the comic
Got 2 of him swap the parts that has better paint job to get the prefect Wolverine and as for the claws both came in prefect condition not warped... But I think the bonebreaker Wolverine is still better which modern look of him (from astonishing and return of Wolverine)
With Hasbro having gotten rid of free shipping over certain prices. These figures start to be $35+ depending on taxes. They are all Pulse exclusives but with Disney involved, they make their way to the Disney Store.
So far I think Hasbro's attempts at cell shading just isn't well executed. I feel the shading is adding nothing to the figure. I certainly don't think I'm looking at an animated design given life.
Mondo's 1/6 scale Wolverine for example executes the cell shaded idea almost perfectly. Actually it feels like Hasbro's attempt is a knockoff version of Mondo's offering(and it includes the animated slash).
Maybe the more "successful" attempt was Pink Ranger Lightning Collection but that was even more a "Nobody actually wants this and you aren't changing my mind" type of situation.
As for the figure itself. Pinless limbs, double ball joint torso's, dumbbell neck joints. It's time for the Wolverine figures to get an update.
Honestly Hasbro gotten into this bad habit that a fancy box(which doesn't show the figure with a window) justifies a price increase in place of better paint apps and accessories.
At this point they could have made this like the definitive Wolverine with previous heads/accessories.
If only it was good , if only
Animated Cyclops please
Maybe this is petty... but what prevented me from collecting much of marvel legends and mafex for that fact is that I've never seen an appealing wolverine ( Jim Lee OG version )... its actually irritating...
Any chance we could get more of the custom cartoon style wolverine headsculpts for this body again? Want one for the apocalypse wave wolverine.
Possibly. I made a new better version. Not sure about selling it though
Cool, bc I'd Def appreciate it and pick some up. Know that your busy tho
The cell shading looks bad to me. Not much effort, just a weird darker yellow that looks out of place. If it weren't for that, I'd be picking up all of this animation-style figures. Really like the cartoon from childhood.
Im def going to pass on this figure, im pretty happy with my wolverine from the love triangle pack.
This figure is supoosed to be the decent one because the rest are just repaints of old figures that it's a joke just to use the 90s cartoon as a weapon for nostalgia.
Neca may re-use parts but at least they try to put some effort and if Hasbro stop being lazy A-holes and give a crap when it comes to making this stuff
Even the hair on the arms aren’t painted either
Is there such a thing as the perfect action figure line ?
Course not.
no tissue roll, no bottle from a lousy year, no turkey leg , crappy windowless "VHS" box. bad release at this price point.
Depends on the fig and the execution of the paint @ animated. No hard yes or no for me personally.
I’m a big fan of cell shading. $28 is quickly becoming the standard. 😬
I'm not a fan of the cell shaded comic book look on figures at all. when they announced these I was like, these are probably going to look bad because Hasbro doesn't know how to paint figures. comic shading like this on a figure to me always looks awkward. The shading on the inside of his leg looks like he peed on himself. You'll have to check out the "cell shaded comic style" power ranger lightning collection pink ranger if you get a chance. It's an abomination. I laughed in gamestop the first time I saw the figure in person.
The black stripes on each side of his waist are really asymmetrical, and you can’t unsee them that way, sorry.
i cant unsee anything in action figures. it's my curse
I think you are overly critical in my opinion .Both face sculpts look amazing and paint work in my opinion is good enough .The two younger looking wolverine heads makes this figure stand out in my opinion .
My job is to be critical. Your job is to decide which pieces of information are important to you. It's impossible to provide the viewer of a review with too much information.
Wolverine, jubilee, and Jean are exclusive
Love your honest review, so bad for 28$
I got mine earlier than some people the body paint is fine but head paint is trash
I really hate the animated paint jobs!!, Im hoping they release it without and the animated Spiderman. Just my preference
That angry face is lighter then the arms
I started buying these animation versions but I stopped, I never watched the animation and I don't like it.
Thanks for the review Anthony.
respond of the day, i hate cell shading on toys
For my first ML Wolverine it’s okay I have nothing to compare it with. And I get it for $10.
Yeah, kind of disappointing. But makes me think of the other two figures I dream about getting, 'Horseman of death' Wolverine and the other old Wolverine from 'Wolverine The End' (wearing his futuristic x-men suit) who knows when or if we're getting them though. Thank's for the review!
This line is plain cashgrab from hasbro just repaints in a fancy box, no pinless, poor to none accesories and quetionable paintjob not for me. I quit ML before start collecting them. I'll go for definitives representations from mafex just one figure per character is all I need 😉
All we need is a SPIDER-MAN the animated Series Figures
I don't agree! A bit underrated! Just looking at the build of the figure, it deserves a higher score...
It's already been released like a dozen times...
@@AnthonysCustoms May. This is my first Wolverine variant! And this looks really good... I look at it this way.
This figure is 35 pound here in UK it's a joke
Ngl the gripping hands having fingernails is so blatantly lazy that it made me reflexively snicker a bit.
Multimillion dollar toy line, $10 paint job
I will admit that I do enjoy the animated style paint job for the neck turtles but I think the way it looks on a lot of the legends just feels off
Mines finally came in! 2 months waiting on pre-order and finally came in during memorial weekend. Best wolverine of all time, the cell shading is kinda harsh though.
The variance in these figures is what frustrates me. The paint on mine is overall a lot better than yours, where basically everything is perfect except some yellow shows through the black side striping on one of the side panels. but if they’re going to raise the prices, they need to be raising quality at least to a consistent good… Not some being great and some being blah.
Mhm. I opened my second one and the paint is worse and the head is totally borked. He only has one eye and the mask isn't glued on properly
@@AnthonysCustoms That's beyond annoying. I thought this was going to be the ultimate Wolverine figure, and instead he needs a lot of help to get him there.
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Claws look accurate to the show.
Wrong color and not pointy.
@@AnthonysCustoms fair criticisms. Color is off, but safety regulations probably prevented an accurate shape. Maybe I'm a shill.