Marvel Toys: Hasbro vs. Toy Biz

[Lord_Zed]

Then there's the design. The double jointed knees are really nice, but otherwise I find the articulation design to be... limited. He can't look up, and in fact is sculpted so that he's looking down, it's like Universe Ironhide/Ratchet and Silverbolt all over again. So it means that Iron Man can't look up when he's flying! There's no wrist articulation which means that his hands can't flip up to aim his palm mounted repulsor blasters... arguably Iron Man's most iconic weapons. So it's tricky to pose him to make him 'shoot.' Oh, the toy also comes with rather lame accessories. There's the "blast off" flame column which only clips into one foot. The back of the card has a photo which shows both legs together, but I can't seem to pose mine with both feet together. The end result is that it looks like the flames are shooting out of _one_ foot. There's another column that is supposed to fit over Iron Man's hand as a repulsor blast... I can't make it fit. Then there's the stand... it comes with three cards that assemble to form a picture of Iron Man. The cards are meant to clip into three slots on the stand. The slots are too big so the cards don't align properly. It's an incredibly lame gimmick.

Suddenly Animated Prowl's traffic light weapon doesn't look so bad.

I wish Hasbro would've skipped these lame accessories and spent more money on giving this toy better articulation. We know that Hasbro _can_ engineer decent articulation into 10cm action figures, 'cos a lot of their Star Wars Clone Troopers have absolutely fantastic articulation. Why wouldn't you give this same level of articulation to an action super hero like Iron Man?? Heck, they don't even do it for the Jedi... I hate how the Jedi are bricks compared to Clone Troopers - it should be the other way around. But instead toys like Jedi come with rather pointless gimmicks (like missile launchers... cos ya know, Jedi use those).

Can we have a pic? I picked up Warmachine from the same series and found him to be pretty good. Ok he can't look up either, but aside from that he has the standard amount of articulation for a modern Hasbro 10cm figure. Also he's tall and chunky. His shoulder pads are oddly articulated though but he's far above the previous Marvel Universe 10cm Iron Man figure.

The cards are lame, but the stand is appreciated, considering the lack of stands with previous releases. I may get Crimson Dynamo and one or two other figures, I was impressed by the paint job on the Movie Iron Man MK1 as well as the way they actually painted a lighting effect on the Aqua suit Ironman, even if it is a silly concept I give them a point for that. I will probably avoid the Iron Man figure your speaking about now though.

Anyway Hasbro is all about giving us less for more these days, just look at Voyager, Ultra and Leader class.

Anyway I'm not sure what to vote, From what I've seen Toybiz probably did a better job, but on the other hand they didn't appeal to me, as they were more space consumptive and I prefer collecting (some) smaller figures.