MARVEL LEGENDS BLADE BIG DISAPOINTMENT!

[SolidSnakeInMyPants]

I was sooooo excited about Blade until I saw it sporting the winter soldier mold. I don't mind the trench coat, but please change that body!!! Fantomex was a good mixture. That damn torso can't move for crap and is horrible for ACBA. Please take a vote.

 

Body Change

 

Keep same

[tarot]

I think it's perfect for Blade. He doesn't need changing.

[RickCoronel]

I agree, the body is fine. Just give him a different chest overlay piece.

[MisterGarbage]

All this complaining...

 

It's probably still a frigg'n prototype. Relax and give it time. That head sculpt is A+ work - even if that body sucked hard it'd be worth it just to get that head to swap onto a different body.

[damprime]

I agree also. Looks great. Like a combo of movie and comic. The face especially. They're trying hard to get it together there and they have my support.

[belmont13]

I gotta go with Solid on this one, yes we already knew there was some body reuse involved but I for one didn't expect so obvious as it to be Winter Blade. I think the worst part is the chest piece that's what really throws it off for me. For me this looks too much like the movie Blade, which kind of bothers me since I didn't get the previous Blade figure precisely for this reason, because I wanted a more comic accurate one and this one looks like Blade 3 with a spectacular head sculpt. Of course this could be all for naught since this could be a prototype to be changed later but for now I'm going with body change but keep that awesome head sculpt.

[shokker]

yeah i hoped for a better blade to. headsculpt is just perfect but the body armor is just lame. this constant reuse of everything will kill it one more time if you ask me. where are the new characters anyway??? its all like old news to me. when is wave 3 coming anyway? october, november? they didnt even showed the complete wave. so sdcc will show the complete wave and the release will be by the end of the year i bet. us agent is awesome but blade could be way better then this.

[JMLG]

its alright.. could be better, but oh well - at least USAgent is really done as good as it could :)

[MikeC123]

I really do not like to make a finale assesment until I have the actual finished figure in my hands. I like the Head Sculpt, Weapons, and black on red Coat. On the Flip Side I dont like the Huge Coller on this coat for Blade, and the Chest piece should have been Different than another Figure. I do agree that is a Stupid choice. I guess I would have to say I am on the Fence with this one. Will I buy this figure due to a chest piece? Hell Yes, I want the build a figure.

[Comacaz]

I gotta agree with Solid, I would rather them use something else than the Winter Solider mold. But if they could find a way to tweak the chest so it actually had a legit ab movement, then i wouldn't mind it. But that mold is just such a board... please change it!

[RickCoronel]

I don't like the Silver Surfer mold more than the Punisher mold. I rather they stop using SS's body.

[Riddick]

Didn't Hasbro say they were done with the balljointed hips and were going to use something different? I recall reading that in a Q&A or them saying that at Comic Con.

 

If they did say that then what gives?

[RickCoronel]

They didn't say that, they said they were going to phase in some new hips like Bucky Cap and Thunderball but not get rid of ball jointed hips.

[vernisgood]

Change it to what?

[Comacaz]

I'm with Riddick. I recall a Q&A sometime last year, maybe SDCC, and they said that they were done with those hip joints because it wasn't kid friendly and no body liked them basically. They then said that they were going to basically convert the molds so that they all had them. That, and add in ankle rockers to all of them too. It applied to all the waved excluding the first one, at least, that's what they said.

[Clam]

meh.. I don't really care because I don't like Blade very much... but the figure is alright I guess

[shokker]

you guys still dont know that hasbro talks a lot to keep us down but in the end we know how this turns out. what about the fact they say that the relaunch will be with all new sculpts?? no reuse of older molds. at least not toybiz molds.

[bman]

I agree, we should wait till they release it as most companies make changes before the final product is released.

[fadersdream]

Bought the Wesley Snipes version this weekend, debating whether to open it or not.

[ThatClixGuy]

I'm not a huge fan of the look, but I'll save my judgment until we see the final product. If just the chest is changed, I'd be okay with the overall sculpt.

[gruntcast]

I think it's perfect for Blade. He doesn't need changing.

 

I agree, he looks great regard less of reusing old parts.

 

Look here are the facts all toy companies reuse parts it's just makes sense if they did not they would have to charge a lot more and or go out of business. Also the new marvel legends feel like they use a diluted plastic, they are lighter and they have clunkier joints when compared to the old MLs, but they look great and so far have not broke from posing.

 

We probably will never get back to the time when MLs were big, solid hard plastic, smooth joints, large scale , and multiple accessories. One improvement that has gone up instead of down is the paint quality, and face sculpts. Good example is the old toy biz black widow was made of a strong hard plastic but the sculpt and paint was crap, the new hasbro two pack is perfect with the only down side is being the plastic and less joints.

[nieman257]

I like Wesley Snipes Blade. Looks like I'm one of the few that does. It was a pretty good sculpt and I like the removable jacket.

[edots4]

Personally I don't like the mold of the nick fury either

[IronShatnar]

I do like the head sculpt. Looks like Hasbro's made a real effort to improve on them, especially the women, if anyone noticed the awesome job they did on Hope. Anyway hopefully they catch up with the heads by getting better on the body sculpts as well, and hopefully that's just the prototype. If Hasbro's shown us anything in the past the final product is usually a little better than the prototype. C'mon Hasbro, the least you can do is a new chest plate.

[A_Spidey_Fan]

I don't mind the Blade mold, even if they did reuse stuff, especially from Winter Soilder's chest armour. This verison of Blade by the the way is based on his current comic book look, which was inspired by both the movies and maybe the Spike T.V. Series, for those who don't know.