X-Men '97

[altcunningham]

The retro costumes arrived. Haven't opened and might go straight to a break even resale.

Do not enjoy Jean's portraits. Eyes look like a kicked animal. Also scaled up and differently styled rom the 97 Jean face, which while I can see this being more accurate to the animation, I prefer.

Wolverine looks cool and I love the portraits, but not sure he's worth keeping in the wake of Gamer Wolvie. Storm has too many color and finish differences going on, and the portraits also miss for me.

Bummer coming off Wave 3 being enjoyable.

 

[Schizm]

Difference between adult Jean and Marvel Girl. But I really like this head on the old body.

I do kinda hate the gold on the new figure - it doesn't feel right in this aesthetic and it doesn't match Cyclops. Her green is also too olive. But a big improvement - literally.

This looks so much better, color-wise.

 

[RichardSimmonsRobot]

Got the Cyclops/Jean & Storm/Wolverine packs. Hasbro really is taking the p!ss with the Wolverine pack. After unboxing I realize that there are what looks like 3 DIFFERENT COLORS OF BROWN on the suit. The legs that have part of the underoos painted on them are dark brown, the underoos themself are light brown. So basically they can't even match the colors on the external underwear this late in the game! The torso browns are their own tone, the boots are another. The plus side is you can stick the Secret Wars masked head on this figure and it doesn't look too out of place. The yellows don't match, but what else does on this figure.

Storm is superfluous if you've got the Thunderbird pack but I ended up liking this one better depite her having an excessively dark skin tone to the point where many features are lost in the sculpt due to it (more noticeable in lower lighting of course). Dunno why we don't get a portrait with pupils, as she's clearly got them in the show!

Cyclops and Jean is fine, nothing revolutionary just boxes checked off. Hasbro recently tacked on another 8 bucks for these packs but honestly if I can convey anything to fellow collectors it'd be to WAIT FOR A SALE on the Logan/Storm pack. The mishmash of brown on Wolverine really is reprehensible to put out and then ASK FOR MORE MONEY later on.

I'm more ticked off that they botched Wolverine so badly color-wise than I am about the already known crap torso articulation on basketball Gambit! Is Hasbro really this averse to giving us a proper brown/tan Wolverine that now they're going to mix and match paint/plastic so the suit doesn't even match with itself?!?!

Jean/Cyclops is probably the only one I should have preordered.