X-Men Marvel Legends Age Of Apocalypse Gambit Figure Video Review And Images

Re: AoA Gambit

Surprisingly this thing looks pretty darn good. The new lower legs actually gave this Sunfire body model just enough height to make it look properly in scale with not only other Gambit figures but other figures in general. Wait........! Are you telling me creating arms and legs of varying shapes, sizes and lengths could theoretically be designed to be interchangeable with standard body models in order to create body models accurate to a character that might not otherwise be achievable by the previous standard model? Wow! Who knew it was that easy? I mean certainly not just anyone with any amount of common sense. Right? It's not like any other companies like perhaps Mattel have been using that strategy within lines like WWE, MOTU and Monster High for like almost 15 years now or anything. Right? The possibilities are absolutely mind blowing are they not? Somebody should clue the entire industry in on this ASAP.

But seriously. This is an awesome looking figure that uses parts of a terrible model yet manages to look fresh and new with way less effort. How is this not a thing with these guys? Oh my mistake. They do it with the G.I. Joe Classified line all the time. Oh my mistake again. Hasbro owns the rights to GIJC so they can do things like that more cost effectively. Oh my mistake again. That's just a cheap cop out cookie cutter excuse that everyone uses and makes no sense because the biggest reason Hasbro even retains the Marvel license is for the movie rights which technically should make the ML line more profitable and thus should already be under consideration when purchasing those rights and thus the extra expenditures should be justified. Oh my mistake again. Let's just forget about all that. The Marvel license is expensive so lets keep doing stuff like ugly hip joints on the new Miles Morales figure and ill advised silly single ball waist joints on the much awaited and anticipated Classic Power Man figure and ruin what were otherwise good efforts in order to keep a few extra coins to rub together. What are they gonna do? The ML license is expensive. They'll keep coming back. And we do. My mistake again. Hail Hasbro!

On 2/16/2025 at 2:53 PM, Faust said:

One day, Hasbro might give us a Gambit (and cyclops) billed closer to their actual height instead of these damn shorties they keep giving us

wait, how are any of the Cyclopses we've gotten on the Vulcan body "shorties"? the majority of the uses of that body have been 6'2" - 6'3" guys (including the several Cyclopses who've used it); there are a couple 6'1" and 6'-even outliers, but also a couple up to 6'5". seems perfectly fine height for 6'3" Scott to me, even accounting for the slight scale creep the past couple years that body's been a part of

One day, Hasbro might give us a Gambit (and cyclops) billed closer to their actual height instead of these damn shorties they keep giving us

On 2/12/2025 at 2:49 AM, leokearon said:

They said it is compatible with early blast effects

Dream big, Burn bright. It'll fit.

On 2/11/2025 at 11:49 PM, leokearon said:

They said it is compatible with early blast effects

I sure hope so. I watched MCU Collector's review and it seems like he had a difficult time with swapping the effects. Hopefully it was just his copy of the figure.

On 2/11/2025 at 11:18 PM, stormcloud said:

I wasn't interested in original X-Factor suits, but this Cyclops looks so good in plastic form that I had to preorder. The colors are perfectly bright. And that optic blast looks so cool. Is it interchangeable with the older optic blast effect?

They said it is compatible with early blast effects

The new blast effect is gold! I'll get this figure for this alone!

I wasn't interested in original X-Factor suits, but this Cyclops looks so good in plastic form that I had to preorder. The colors are perfectly bright. And that optic blast looks so cool. Is it interchangeable with the older optic blast effect?

I was then on board for Jean, until I saw that the yellow boots are missing.

On 2/11/2025 at 8:52 AM, AndyL said:

Re: X-Force Nightcrawler

Good figure though I was never really a fan of the whole Strikeforce Subteam. Not that there was particularly anything wrong with it it just never appealed to me so I never really felt compelled to read the book. That being said I kind of feel the same. Love Nightcrawler. Love the face sculpt and the upgrade on the body mold. Just don't like the color and uniform. I just want a classic version using this mold. The '97 Nightcrawler with the Sasquatch wave head sculpt is in my display. And that's okay. But something about it just strikes me as kitbashy. I know it looks fine but I just want an updated complete one rather than having to put multiple figures together. I guess it's just an OCD-y thing of mine. I like to keep all my figures together and complete. So if I do this thing where I combine 2 or more figures together I'll keep a copy of each figure complete and then buy a 2nd copy of each figure to combine and keep together. Maybe it's just me but sometimes it gets pretty expensive for me with the amount of repeat figures I purchase. Anyway it's a cool figure. Not really my thing but it is good enough that I have to have. Plus I need to have the BAF piece.

I really want a Dave Cockrum style Nightcrawler. I feel the '97 version is the closest we've got so far, with perfect face shadowing.

On 2/11/2025 at 10:50 AM, leokearon said:

I wish they did a proper AOA Nightcrawler not this version

The original long-haired AoA Nightcrawler is one of my top most-wanted figures.

That's a great looking cyclops! It's unfortunate that the head on reviewer's version was caved in a bit.

Absolutely Love the new effect for Cyke!

Now we need an MTO or Max line of Iceman with a huge modular Ice Slide that we could reconfigure or bend to several poses. And a "snowman" Bobby with snowballs and the boots on!