Tuesday, January 03, 2024

Master of the Mystic Arts

Doctor StrangeMarvel Universe is one of those toy lines that I desperately want to like very much, but I constantly find reasons to be disappointed with it. There are often terrible paint problems, and I frequently have doubts about the build quality, which is why I've taken a pass on the vast majority of the line.

Every so often I do find myself willing to take a gamble with something though, and this time around it was Doctor Strange.

I've been a fan of the character since I was a kid--as a matter of fact, he might actually be my favorite Marvel hero--so I had to pick this one up, and thankfully it's actually pretty cool.

Doctor Strange

In short: the sculpt is good, the paint is really decent, and the overall build quality is acceptable, so I'm very pleased with this figure.

The articulation is extremely nice with this version of Doctor Strange. Infact, I'd say this is one of the best uses of ball joints and cut joints that I've seen with a Marvel Universe figure, which gives this one a huge amount of play value.

Doctor Strange

It'll take a few more like this to totally win me over to this line, but more importantly, seeing that Hasbro can actually pull off a winner from time to time makes me a little more excited about their return to doing larger scale Marvel Legends figures.

1 comments:

jboypacman said...

Yeah this one turned out very well am very pleased with mine too.