Marvel Legends Kenner Retro 3.75" Magneto And Iceman Figures Video Review And Images

This whole 'retro' phase the toy companies are going through is not doing it for me. At least with the He-Man stuff they had more articulation while keeping the classic look. In these days of the modern articulated action figure, a 5 POA figure shouldn't be $10. It should be hanging on the pegs at Dollar Tree. If I want to trigger my nostalgia, I'll go look at pics online of the original stuff. If I'm buying something now, in this day and age, I want to get my money's worth. I want articulation. I want accessories. I want realistic looking sculpts. It boggles my mind the amount of money that was probably put into this just to cash in on the nostalgia retro craze.

15 hours ago, McHogan said:

The garbage comment is because I was a huge supporter of the 4 MU line and Hasbro came about as close to these new retro figures in the dying days of that once great line.

So in comparing the old MU line to these new retro figures I feel they are not for me. But calling them garbage is an opinion. And hardly an irrational one.

I'm still not calling it garbage, but I will second these remarks regarding the 4" line and theway Hasbro first cheaped out on articulation and paint and materials and then completelyabandoned it altogether after so many people got behind it. I'm glad the 6" line was back in swing, but the fans deserved better than that. Maybe scale back the waves per year, or maybe do them in multipacks rather than singles or even make them a pre-order type thing. This is the culmination of all the scaling back they intended to do and they're disguising and progressingit asa retro line. Again, there's a market for it, but I don't really think it's gonna get the mass appeal support they're going for.

Hey I think this was nice to see a new channel with some professional work being put in, of course it could have been a more detailed review but I liked everything else, admirable effort, I thought it had a good execution the young lady had a nice confident and pro voice, certainly beats those dudes who sound like someone pinched their nose while they filmed and droned on for 50 minutes in a dark room that looks like leatherface hangs out in, either way, way to go Tr4k_Alliance, keep reviewing, keep progressing, I appreciate the professional effort here.

On 3/5/2021 at 8:41 PM, RyanDaly said:

These are garbage? These are worse than Happy Meal toys?

What's wrong with you guys?

If peopleare going to bring that degree of irrational negativity to a line which is obviously not meant to compare to larger, more detailed, more expensive figures with 20+ points of articulation, then I'll be the lone contrarian holdout who says, "Dear Hasbro, please cancel your six-inch Marvel Legends line and devote all your resources to the 3 3/4 inch Retro line instead!"

Irrational negativity is a little strong as a counter point. Ill give you the negativity but whatexactly makes not liking the line irrational?

In this day and age with so many options to spend hard earned money on, not everyline will be everyones cup of tea. And tiny inarticulate figures with no accessories at $10+ a pop arent for me.

Ive seen the publicity pics. Ive seen the reviews. For the amount of money ( any amount really) I do not like these enough to spend my cash on them. Dont like the 12 figures with the same limited articulation either.

The garbage comment is because I was a huge supporter of the 4 MU line and Hasbro came about as close to these new retro figures in the dying days of that once great line.

So in comparing the old MU line to these new retro figures I feel they are not for me. But calling them garbage is an opinion. And hardly an irrational one.

Im not gonna call them garbage, but this is certainly a step backwards as far as evolution of action figures. Not my cup of tea, but I can see the market they are trying to key into. There's two groups these are gonna appeal to. One is the agingnostalgia crew who are being reminded of Secret Wars toys. The second is the parents who wanna buy their kids that superhero figure but don't want to pay the $20+ price tag knowing that toy will be destroyed or lost. Just cuz I don't like 'em doesn't mean it's a fail. These are intentionally "bad". This is a true retro wave that not only looks the part, but plays the part.

20 hours ago, MonsterChris said:

Well that review certainly was...

It's a prettynew channel, by a clearly inexperienced crew, covering a couple figures that I don't think anybody else is. Don't be too harsh on aspiring talents, man, instead try pointing what they could do better. These are just people that are sharing what they like on the internet, if you don't enjoy their content no one forces you to watch it.

These are garbage? These are worse than Happy Meal toys?

What's wrong with you guys?

If peopleare going to bring that degree of irrational negativity to a line which is obviously not meant to compare to larger, more detailed, more expensive figures with 20+ points of articulation, then I'll be the lone contrarian holdout who says, "Dear Hasbro, please cancel your six-inch Marvel Legends line and devote all your resources to the 3 3/4 inch Retro line instead!"

20 hours ago, McHogan said:

These are garbage

I love the 80s but not 80s toys with their limited POA. I've seen fast food happy meals toys look better than these.

14 hours ago, McHogan said:

These are garbage

I think visually they're stunning. Like works of art. Like keeping comics books bagged and covered and mounted to your wall. It was kind of heartbreaking to pry them open.

17 hours ago, RoddyDrama said:

Look at Iceman's legs. It looks like the boots have a swivel too.

We noticed that while shooting the review and did try. Perhaps after heating or boiling but out of the box they were pretty stiff on both figures despite seeing the cut.