Mafex WOLVERINE X-Men Comic Action Figure Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2020
- Their Spider-Man figure impressed everyone even at a considerably high price point. Can they maintain the same level of quality for a character who has far too few good figures especially when Hasbro has made some pretty solid releases recently for much less?
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When you lean the head back it looks like he's gonna spit out an egg with a Wolverine Jr in it.
🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Piccolo
You've done it. *THIS* is the best comment of 2020 so far
The egg cracked and the yoke spilled all over him. Get two little slices of bread and you can call this guy an idiot egg sandwich.
Me: Hey that looks pretty goo-
AnthonysCustoms: It's terrible
Me: It's terrible
Anthony is the Gordon Ramsey of action figures.
Now I can't unsee this
Bloody dreadful
This figure is RAW!!
allconsuminghat lmfao
AlphaProto
Raw is the word lol. This figure looks like raw cookie dough - put him back in the oven!
"It looks like they were painted by somebody that works on the dc multiverse line" this might be my favorite Anthony's quote and it still hold up
Mafex is out there doing figures full Adam Sandler style: One Good then Ten Bad.
Lmfao🤣🤣🤣
Appreciate the honest review Anthony. Really wanted this but at the price it seems not good enough thanks for saving me £90. Imma wait for the batman
Agreed. I'm looking forward to the Batman as well.
I've got all those on preorder but now I'm a little iffy... this preorder culture makes it difficult to wait and see if they're any good before buying, as they may not be available by then (At least from Japan, buying local (£) is too expensive).
@@tattoodrdoke just out of curiosity, why??
I really hope the mafex hush batman and superman dont end up like this
@@SteakSauceBoss same here!
I truly appreciate your honesty with these figures... Thank you for being so honest and telling it like it is... ✊🏽
Happy New Year, sir. Thanks for the honest review. The X-Men TAS Wolverine is my favorite version of the character (and I've read hundreds of Marvel Comics), and I was looking forward to a figure closest to that look. Since such a huge character had so many problems, it will help deter me from investing in the line. I appreciate it because it helps me plan out my collection.
As an artist, you're theory is correct! The blue black issue is basically light against black. The blue spots represents the light bouncing off of a black image. Great review BTW. I wanted this fig but mafex is too expensive imo. Their toys like most companies are hit or miss. With prices within the $100 range, I don't expect trial and error experiences that's similar to bigger companies like hasbro. Thanks again!
It's amazing how quality of all these high end figures are going down.
And then you have things like the Hasbro Power Ranger line and Marvel Legends which has slowly been getting better and better lol
They’ve gotten greedy
4 years later, and this is one of mafex most popular figures of all time.
Subbed, the realness of the reviews are off the charts lol
"They MAFEX-ed the crap out of it." 😆
If I ever get super rich (don’t hold your breath), I’m going to send you a cheque for the amount of money you’ve saved me over the last few years. That is not $80 more figure than the Marvel Legends Jim Lee figure. Thanks as always for being the most honest reviewer out there.
In Spiderman the animated series, when Spidey meets the X Men, Wolverine stripes are blue. Also in the cover art of X Men the animated series . i think in X Men vs. Street Fighter . So my guess they pick that color scheme .
They still choose to put an image on the box where the stripes are black. I feel it's reasonable that a figure should attempt to copy the look from the artwork on the package for said figure.
Thank you for always taking one for the team. I appreciate you saving me the time and money.
Wow. Thanks for the review Anthony! Guess MAFEX got their dates mixed up? It’s New Years, not April fool’s.
😬 Not a great start to the New Years. Now I’m a lil concerned about the Hush (Jim Lee) Batman I preordered ... MAFEX is now on my watchlist.
Happy New Year btw!!
Yet another superb review with a fun gallery at the end. 2020 is starting off on a high note no TH-cam implosion!
Compared to the other Wolverines out there, for the price....
"MEDIOCRE!"
Thanks Anthony, hope you someday review Mafex Venom. I want to see what you think of the terrible scale compared to Spider-Man.
I don't mind the scale between Spidey and Venom. It pretty well matches some of the art from Absolute Carnage.
@@KingInBlack24 your call man. But Eddie Brock's height is listed at 6'3, Spider-Man's at 5'10. Even in his first appearance when we see Eddie he looks as big as Thor and starts pressing like 500lbs. The symbiote if anything should only make him bigger.
We only have humongous Venom figures, ugly ones that don't look like either Eddie or Venom (*cough, Hasbro, *cough*), and the only one we got that is as close to perfect as a Venom can get, is 100+ dollars and isn't even the right scale with his other very expensive counterparts. We don't ask much, especially if we're paying 100 bucks for a 6 inch, it's a 3rd of the price for Hot Toys...
Wolverine from the ML 2-pack with the Hulk looks better. I actually display him in my xmen animated lineup with one of the heads from the love triangle pack.
From a distance, it looks great but the small details he pointed out really blows. The colors are so off it makes it look kinda cheap smh
Yeah mafex venom could have been a bit bigger ... but I’m not gonna gripe about the scaling issues between the two because at least the mafex venom figure turned out great I absolutely love it ! And owning the pair of them makes it even better especially for taking photos
Two days into 2020, and do we already have a contender for your year-end "worst of" list?
Thanks for another great review, as always. I was actually on the fence with this one, so your review did just save me quite a bit of money.
I've watched this review so many times that its is just pure entertainment at this point. Angry Antony is best Antony hahaha
Damn it, i knew i should have waited for reviews before buying ... oh well, mine has been shipped and is in transit. Kind of worried for that Cyclops now ... They're Spider-Man was so good though!
Hey @AnthonysCustoms great review as always. I kept waiting for you to pull out the 90s ToyBiz Wolverine to show how even they got the colors right. Loved this review. Thanks for being honest as always. I pity the suckers on eBay that will end up with this thing but glad you can hopefully get your money back bro.
I saw another review of this figure where the unmasked head didn't even fit on the peg. The hole was too big in the head. I also noticed the stripes being sloppily painted even though they're sculpted in.
Thank you for being honest!!
thank you for your honesty🙏🏻 you have saved me alot of money in the past because I always wait until your review is up before I get something (works easily because I’m in europe and if I don’t buy from japan, we’re last, that means we release a month after america so by that time your review is up😃 I’ve done it for years now since shf android 18 is when I dropped in, never left.
haha and with this one I didn’t want to wait because it is wolverine and spiderman was so good I thought we’d be golden🤭 should’ve waited for you😅
Excellent review. I was considering buying this and would have been so freakin disappointed if I hadn’t watched this vid first
great review. That shoulder stripe cutoff point you mentioned really bothers me as well
Man, I can't wait for the bootleg version of this one (hopefully a good one) so I can repaint it with his proper colors.. Happy New Year Anthony! XD
Thanks for keeping it real! Most other reviewers are making excuses for the terrible choices Mafex made! Shiny blue stripes?!?! 🤦♂️
I like that you said all the bad things about the figure and gave it a low rating. Many would ignore the flaws because "CHILDHOOD" but you, the most honest reviewer, did not. We really need more reviewers like you that talk about issues instead of saying only good things and ignoring the rest.
Why do we need more if we already have this legend
@@boulderingguy3761 so more people aren’t blind to objectively bad products
Well I wanted this figure.. I thought during this review “well I’ll just paint it”. Then I heard Anthony’s voice in my head “but do you really want to paint a $100 figure?” Or “Should you have to paint a $100 figure?” 😥. At least your honest. Now I know. Other reviewers say it’s amazing. But your pointing out too many issues for $100. I dont know what to do.
Finally some real talks for the figure!
Anthony is so mad (and understandably so). "HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?" LOL. I feel ya.
Thanks for this review man. Good job, you have me trust.
After seeing other reviews, I was still on the fence on this. After your video I decided to just cancel my pre-order. Thank you for this. Maybe they'll make a version 2.0 in the future who knows. The Cyclops I'm not sure either. When we got Spider Man, I think we all thought this would be a great figure.
I'm glad you gave this a objective opinion instead of how some of the other reviewers have been praising this figure saying that this is a good figure. I think they had some ok figures, but most of their figures have had some major issues. Almost every reviewer loved their iron spider and hated the SHF version. I get if people don't like the SHF version, but it came out during the time of the movie and the MF came out almost a year later and the spider legs broke on nearly everyone and they still loved it. The hulk had the same falling apart issue but for some reason people loved it. I not saying that there is a perfect toy company, but call it how you review it. Thumbs up.
I was breaking into the Mafex line with Wolverine. Wolverine was going to be my first one, but after seeing your review I'm skeptical for the line. Wolverine is my favorite X-Men and I jumped quick on thinking the same that this one was going to blow all the others out of the water, sad to see this wont be the case unfortunately. Thanks Anthony for an awesome review, I always come and check out your vids everytime I hunt down a figure. always helps!
Rewatching this video because Mafex revealed their Gambit and I needed to remind me the reason why I cancelled Cyclops and Wolverine, lol.
Their Gambit looks really good in the promo pics as usual, but then the real figure arrives and it is like this one...
Can't wait until you review the Mcfarlane toys DC figures. Judging from the pics I've seen, it's going to be open season on those toys. I have a feeling the reviews are going to be quite epic!!! I'm excited just to see those reviews alone. LOL
my mafex spiderman's hands had really small holes so i had to resize all of them with a screwdriver just so they could fit on the pegs. mafex needs to up their game!
Anthony keeping it real with the review. One question: do you have any sponsor with how real you are?
No.
Agreed, thats why only marvel legends i collect is the jim lee animated series figures.
Old comic artist would use blue to shade black because it would print on the thin paper better. It's why batman's Cape is black and blue.
Yeah. It's not a new concept but people still don't get it. It's always just, "you must not read comics if you think they aren't blue." No... I just understand shading.
Anthonyscustoms, has there ever been times where you review some of your figures and then return them after you finish reviewing them?
No. No place but Amazon would allow that even if i wanted to do it.
im still going to pick up one of these just really wished the stripes were black though
I'm so disappointed. I was so looking forward to this figure because the Jim Lee design is my all time favorite design for Wolverine and Mafex screwed it up so bad. Thanks Anthony for saving me and alot of other people trouble of having to deal with a crap figure.
Noah Mint - Heads up, John Romita designed the first appearance tiger stripe uniform. Gil Kane changed his mask and what we see today was largely refined between Dave Cockrum and John Byrne. While it is the uniform Logan wore in some Jim Lee issues it is not a Jim Lee design.
@@wolfprime oh okay thanks for that bit of info dude.
Noah Mint Atleast marvel legends
I actually didn’t think it was bad, but what do I know? I’m happy with it 🤷🏻♂️
It's blue because the base drawn that they use is the vs charging image which appears in marvel super heroes vs street fighter. But if they based his wolverine in that is sopouse to be ultra buff
I have the brown costume variant on preorder.
I watched another review where the peg hole on the unmasked head was too big for the neck peg. Did yours have the same issue?
No
That pic of wolverines arms at the end 🤣
The only figure reviewer I trust. It’s like everyone is getting paid by these companies.
they get review samples, that's how companies make them be sellouts.
Paid. What the fuck is payed?
I agree!
Huh? All the big reviewers pay for their own figures. They would have to make a disclaimer if the companies paid for them to keep the figures cuz otherwise it'd be a conflict of interest. Maybe you mean companies loan them the figures. I do wonder how reviewerz get the figs months ahead of urrbody else
@@leyenda6149 lol you think people play by the rules? You think the world is full of ethical honest people? I have ocean front property in oklahoma to sell to you😆
I admire the fact that you have the balls to say what you think about the figure. It is a exellent review! Even if I dont agree with everything you say :) Good job!!
Just looking at the promotion shots i was thinking this would be the best figure. I still waited for reviews to see how it comes out. Although the head sculpt looks great and i like the proportions of the torso your review helped me a lot. I was already sceptical from other reviews because of the arm poping. But now i m gonna save these 100$. Lets hope cyclops will be better.
I'm watching this video 4 years later, and I think this Mafex Wolverine is still one of the best looking tiger stripe Wolverine figures, despite its shortcomings. So I do get why this Wolverine is still so desirable. I would just recommend painting the tiger stripes black if that bothers you. I don't enjoy the Marvel Legends versions since they look way too much like "kid's toys".
Nice head sculpt and that's just about it. I like the head sculpt over the Hasbro version where the fins are uneven and look narrow.
Thank god we can repaint him though.
I think they did the measurementof his foot long claws wrong.
Anthony, someone on reddit made a good point about the joint. They may be trying to recycle it and use different bicep sleeves for different releases. That would explain the arm length. Still 100% ridiculous for a $100 figure. I expect zero forced reuse at that price. Really hope the other characters they have planned this year don’t bomb this hard.
The problem is the bicep being too long.
@Anthony I just got my MAFEX Wolverine delivered from BBTS and I gotta say, mine doesn’t have any issues. Paint looks squared away, arms haven’t fallen off, the blue stripes don’t bother me as much as he did have them in the X-Men Vs Street Fighter series. But as for the other issues, mine is pretty solid. Maybe a 2nd run? Got him and Cyclops both and they’re both great. No issues. Maybe MAFEX is seeing these QC issues and making changes?
It's possible
I hope that the incoming Batman wont be like...this
Considering since day one it was shown to have blue stripes idk that can be a valid "knock" against it. Don't get me wrong I passed because of that very thing but I won't hold it against the final product. Same goes for the claws. That said there are a lot of issues. For me it comes down to the paint aps. No reason they shouldn't have been applied with some better care. I'm hoping that they'll do a release with black stripes and up the paint quality. Considering Spider-man got a second release with "comic" detailing it seems pretty likely. I'd also like to see an extension to the bicep peg to alleviate the issue with the arms falling off. Past that I find the rest to be design choices that I'm ok with. I know it won't be for everyone but for me fix the paint colors/applications and the bicep and you have a solid release.
Yeah, we did know it was shown to be that way but it's still not supposed to be that way and products usually change from the proto images to the final release. They chose to leave the problems. People need to know that before buying.
@@AnthonysCustoms If it wasn't an open window product and images on the back showed the stripes as black I'd agree but thats not the case. Any site you order it from shows it as blue. If you buy it seeing it's clearly blue and expect black... That's on the purchaser not the company. Its actually one of my concerns related to the upcoming "no/reduced plastics in packaging" idea that's been circulated by toy companies going forward. Promo pics on the back with disclaimers "colors may vary" and the consumer being left to roll the dice that there wasn't some change made that they may not like since they have no way of seeing the final product until purchase. Here though that's simply not the case.
Thanks Anthony. I got a bad figure of the Apocalypse wave Wolverine from Marvel Legends, so I was hoping this would be good. Had it in my cart on BBTS. Thanks so much for saving me $100. I appreciate your brutal honesty.
There have been times where the stripes were blue on comic covers. But generally they were black more often.
Then the face was blue too.
This might be the most hilarious review I've ever seen! How did they get it SO wrong!? (By they I mean Mafex, the review is spot on.)
would spinning the bent beg backwards fix the issue with him looking up?
No. It'll just keep him from doing it at all
That's very disappointing. I was also looking forward to this figure. The 2 hasbro ML versions are far superior in my opinion and even the red hulk series is much better. At least this is maybe better than the toybiz series 3....maybe. Thanks for saving me $100
Man! you saved me a fortune there! Hope you review the Marvel Legends' love triangle pack. Really tempted to buy that.
Check today's upload
THANK YOU for the review! Had this on preorder since it looked awesome in pics but cancelled after I saw your review.
Great review as always
Man... for his price you can get 5 of the Legends Wolverine, or get the love triangle 3 pack and still have 30 dollars left. His price point is insane for what it is! Shold've been a USD 50 figure at max
Like the videos keep it going. But I just got my wolverine and ironically no problems with the paint and joints. Could be just a bad batch.
Anthony- any thoughts on the brown wolverine that Mafex will be releasing next year? Paint in promotional shots look better.
Do u think the head would fit on a marvel legends wolverine to have a different body sculpt?? Thx
Does that head sculpt fit on a marvel legends figure
Anthony, do you think the Cyclops figure will be much better than this? Cant decide which one I should get first
Could go either way. No way to say.
I custom painted my stripes black and it couldn’t look better. Best thing I’ve done to this figure. The blue stripes bothered me
Problems with the shoulder pads breaking I had mine replaced with wolverine love triangle shoulder pads.
Third party screaming head sculpt
Third party curved claws
i wish i kept one of these to paint. i sold it and got the brown. maybe theyll reissue it
@@AnthonysCustoms I was lucky enough to even get my hands on one for resell price. Also hoping they reissue soon because I’d like to get another one
In my opinion, this looks like a good Wolverine. The yellow, from what I've seen in all pictures, is fine. The blue stripes is iffy, I'll give you that. I just keep hearing you say it looks terrible, when I can barely tell it has a problem when you point it out.
I just hated how long the claws are other than that I like this better than the marvel legends and Mezco
This is rough, such a shame because his head looks great. Your custom wolverine head looks awesome though!
Wow, teacher Anthony's putting Mafex in detention after this.
I was waiting for you review, honesty all the way as usual, some other reviews i saw where happy but the arms problem is a no go, that shouldn't happen in a expensive figure like this
So glad i didnt get this one. I wanted it as well- but definitely passing. I have carnage and superman on preorder. Definitely canceling those orders now. Hopefully mafex sees these reviews, and fixes these issues
Lol well this is why I order from BigBad. Gives me time for reviews to come out and cancel my pre-orders. Not happy about not getting a good Wolverine, but at least I'm going to save $100. Thanks Papa Ant
Edvin Carpio real blessing in disguise. Love that you can cancel orders with no hassle.
im glad that you can accept that a bad figure is a bad figure even if its $95 dollars.
This figure is sold at relatively low prices by Japanese retailers. For example, my order of it from Amiami - with the cost of shipping included - cost only $78.03.
Mafex back to their old antics
Maaan I'm so torn on this release, honestly I like the claws and we knew that they were long(MvC style) when we pre-ordered so I don't get that complaint. However I am noticing they make his hands look kinda small.
I could have lived with the arms...but there seems to be a lot of paint QC going around, and now I have to look out for weird knees?
Shoot...was really looking forward to this figure, I think the unmasked face is amazing and frankly he DID have blue stripes in SOME art(thinking trading cards) but I dunno. I can't believe the torso joint also has issues >.
I can live with the arms but that sloppy ass paint... Idk man, hopefully future batches aren’t as bad
I'll admit, the paint qc doesn't bug me all that much, and I was still sold on the figure up until the arm popping off issue. I've seen that happen in another review but wasn't sure if it was widespread. Definitely gonna pass with such a major design flaw. It's a shame because this was looking to be the Wolverine figure I always wanted as a kid.
Interested in seeing what Anthony will think of those upcoming Mafex Batman and Superman figures.
I can tell you right now, if they're good, I'll let you know. If they're like this, I'll let you know that too.
I thought it looked okay,until I saw the comparisons with the other figures😂
Wait for Amazon to drop prices if anyone wants this guy, I recommend 😳👍
I've watched you make you own figure in the past. Well, kinda. I think you were using some sort of thing on the computer making something. Don't hate me I know I probably sound dumb at this point because I probably have no clue as to what I'm talking about. But if you haven't done it yet, maybe you should try to make your own custom Wolverine and make it right. Make it look like how it should. The right scale, sculpt, paint, everything. Wolverine is one of my favorite Marvel comic book heroes out there and I trust that you could do it right. Just a suggestion of course. You obviously don't have to. I just think that it would be really cool.
I was really looking forward to it but now most likely I'll cancel my preorder. Let's hope that Miles, Peter Parker and Batman are a tonne better!!
Would you sell any of the parts for swapping or are you just gonna keep it..I understand your frustrations aswell
i sold this thing off that day after i filmed this.
@@AnthonysCustoms lol,thanks for the info
Yeah after I got the mafex venom figure I knew I was done buying from mafex. They are soooooo expensive and everytime I try to swap hands or accessories for my spidey or venom im scared to death that im going to break something. Very glad I decided to skip this one lol hopefully they learn and maybe drop the price for their stuff! 94.99 is wayyy to expensive smh
Great review. I heard a bunch of things about the figure and was tempted about canceling it until I saw this video where I knew I NEED TO CANCEL IT 👏👏 thank you
Paint quality is same as marvel legends! Wow
Or marvel legends is better? Hit or miss
I like the wolverine that comes in the 3 pack with Jean and cyclops...especially for 40 buck I got the set for. I wish the one I got came with a cigar holding hand. Was on the fence on this one glad to dodge this bullet.
And that leaves me wondering whether its a good idea to keep the batman hush preorder.
I've seen comics of wolverine with blue strips
Share pics. But even still, how many blue compared to how many black?
@@AnthonysCustoms The art around "Fatal Attractions" i.e. X-Men #25 etc shows his stripes being the same color as his shoulders and gloves as far as I can tell. Personally black or blue doesn't really phase me, but black stripes are more iconic so I can understand the frustration.