It took a bit to get the whole Hasbro Marvel Legends Zabu wave, Cable wanted to be fashionably late, but now that I have them all in my grubby mitts let’s take a look at all of them in one go!
00:00 Intro
01:33 Black Winter
04:28 Articulation
05:19 Accessories
05:58 Red Widow
08:45 Articulation
09:32 Accessories
10:05 Ka-Zar
12:02 Articulation
12:59 Accessories
14:09 Ikaris
16:25 Articulation
17:17 Accessories
17:24 Wolfsbane
19:46 Articulation
20:39 Accessories
20:53 Cable
24:29 Articulation
25:32 Accessories
26:02 Zabu Build-A-Figure
28:05 Articulation
29:06 Size and Comparisons
31:24 Swap-A-Rama!
34:03 Can I Have More?
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2 amazing Sabretooths in 1 year by Hasbro.
Had been thinking of getting Ka-Zar to make a He-Man and was really wanting to see Ikaris' head on his body after I saw someone suggest it online. Thank you so much for not only showing that but also with the sword and on Battle Cat too! Just need to see what fits over the chest since I sold my Origins one, so I can't check if that works on a legends body, and figure out what to do about the belt.
hey Robo , how do you feel about Wolfsbane not being able to crunch forward at the waste?? when you did the swivel at the waste it made it look like she has a good forward crunch but mine has ZERO forward crunch only a back tilt but it duz swivel quite well. the zero forward crunch and the fact the legs don't really go strait forward much at the hips mean very limited posability. i was very disappointed with her figure. also i actually like the face on the "original" better but the hair on the new one is way better.
Robo how do you keep pulling me back into this hobby?! Which dang Mezco Kong did you size compare Ka-zar with, I wanna hunt for one you son of a goat. Stop enabling me!
This is for the people who don’t know. The cable gun that keep getting reused over and over are sculpts from real NERF guns.
Would have liked a more Larry Stroman Wolfsbane for that period of X-Factor, with his wilder design 😁
Black Winter is the mythological Norse Fimbulwinter – the final super winter that heralds Ragnarok and leads to the end of he world.
The Marvel version is something the Asgardians have as a myth – the Fimbulwinter – but they didn't really understand what it was.
Turns out, The Black Winter is the apocalyptic entity that destroys universes, the same way Galactus destroys planets.
Galactus is the Herald Of The Black Winter, the same way Silver Surfer is the Herald Of Galactus.
Where Galactus wanders the universe eating planets, the Black Winter wanders the multiverse eating universes.
Normally the Black Winter is just the massive unfathomable apocalyptic space storm, but it eventually took on the form of Herald Of Galactus Thor.
En route to battling Galactus and Thor, The Black Winter casually annihilated the DC Universe. lol
And then Thor destroyed The Black Winter by stealing all of Galactus' power and turning Galactus' corpse into a bomb.
So, Herald Of Thunder Thor, after he steals Galactus' power, is seemingly canonically more powerful than the entire combined might of the DC Universe. 🤷♂
I wonder how the Red Widow figure would look in a Star Wars display if you lightly customized it into a female Royal Guard for Palpatine?
Thanks Robo! Hopefully the Wolfsbane will lead to finally getting Feral sooner than later. My Xforce team has been waiting too long.
The recent Thor designs make good fodder for a Sandman custom 🤔
I know that he’s not a member, but I put Ikarus in my Illuminati display
I'm wondering if my cats would react to Zabu lol
Ikaris just looks like HE-MAN
You had me at nipples… I'm glad I stayed until Metron
Love you, love your show, can't stand the way you pronounce ka ( K, A) Zar ( hard R). Care, hare, Karl. See the difference? No e at the end. xoxo
I'll take a hinge at the head over dumbbell any day of the week.
I m considering any heads for my shield agency, thank God for head swaps! ouh bro the nice concepts! T – rex – Kong! mmm awesome!
This is a typical Legends Wave for me – One I must have, some I might get, some I won't, and the BAF would be nice.
I have Wolfsbane on pre-order, but after watching this video, I think I'll be getting Ikaris and Ka-Zar too (Zabu reminds of an Aurora model kit I put together many, many decades ago, so maybe I'll look for parts for him in a few months' time…😃).
Like you, I don’t know the character at all, but I think the ‘P’ on Thor’s chest is supposed to be a thorn rune (thurisaz): ᚦ
It represents the Th sound in Germanic runes. I guess it’s Th for Thor; just in case he forgets his name, right?
I want a marvel legends figure but I don’t have any particular attachment to marvel so which marvel legends figure is objectively the best without character bias?
I’m always happy watching robos reviews 🔥🔥🔥🔥
love that metron cameo hahaha
Nice wave. I’m still kicking myself in the Savage Land for not getting them all.
Definitely painting those nipples…never thought I’d say that
Towards the end of Cable and Deadpool, Cable had a subdued version of this outfit that was black, brown, and silver, no trunks.
And in the Loeb/Churchill run, well… Churchill changed the design nearly every issue. But around issues 30-35, Cable had a busier version of this. And X-Men 97 had a slight variation on this suit that was essentially the Mezco figure design.
He's worn enough SIMILAR costumes with a few color changes that Hasbro's gonna get their money's worth.
I'm a fan in general of the game stuff like this and modular War Machine and the big one they have yet to do is a Rogue variation.
The characters in those games always had like six color schemes but, for Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Rogue's primary look in the game and cutscenes was the Jim Lee costume in green and white, no yellow. It's kind of neat because it makes the Jim Lee suit look more like, well… most of her non-Jim Lee costumes.
Beyond that, there's an orange Hulk that was a hidden character, a hidden U.S. Agent that's Captain America in gray/white/blue, and a hidden Mephisto that's Blackheart in red. I don't necessarily see those getting done as hidden characters and kind of weird, although maybe Blackheart would need a second use the next time we get him. We need a Blackheart. And Hasbro never passes up a Hulk recolor.
But, essentially, the white and green Jim Lee Rogue is the only sprite based main color scheme variant left. Although Marrow, Blackheart, and a Sentinel slightly bigger than Colossus are also remaining Capcom oddballs Hasbro hasn't done. And they might want to rerelease Onslaught, who was playable and who gaming collectors might have missed. They like to reissue BAFs as deluxes and in two packs.
That's essentially your roadmap of Capcom homages Hasbro might do if that's a collector they're courting.
Oh! And Shuma Gorath. But I've heard the Howard estate might have claimed the character outright for Conan due a contract thing. (Not unlike how DC is claiming Machine Man now.)
My Cable is missing the yellow bracelet thingy from his metal arm. I didn't notice it until I had it for a few days, but I didn't realize what was wrong with it. I just thought the wrist of the metal arm looked off. So I stuck the bullet bracelet/leather bullet cuff thing from my extra Rock N' Roll on it, and I like it better than how it was supposed to look.
That Ka-Zar head makes me think of Kurt Cobain…
Zabu might be one of, if not the, best figures Hasbro have made. The wave itself was mostly trash, or a good figure lacking options.
Another Wave review by Robo? Hell yeah! I really enjoyed this wave. Superior Iron-Man and Cable are easily my favorites. They all look excellent on my shelf!
Winter Thor – now I’m wanting the Infinity War(?) Ebil!clones. Or this guy could work in as Shadow Thor for a Dark Avengers team?
Someone else mentioned Mephisto and now I need TWO to custom Mephisto with this head!
Red Widow – I’m clueless on her, too, but I’m seeing many Lady Deadpool or even Alpha Flight’s Nemesis customs coming. 98% same outfit. Nemesis just needs her cutlass.
(And I never did make that pirate ghost guy that possessed Snowbird’s kid! I even bought extra Pirate Deadpool for him!)
Wolfsbane – this body with the NM head/hands works great. I still have the old ToyBiz NM mutating version who is still in my display.
Repaint Timber brown and we have her shape shifting taken care of!
Cable – I’ve seen several bare armed customs using Hercules’, Thunderstrike’s, or AoA Creed’s right arm.
Ikaris – I still with the movie line was two waves with same names, just mixed between comic and MCU. I’d bet good money this guy has been sitting on a shelf, and when they realized the strikes last year meant no MCU in 24, they started scrambling for figures.
Ka-Zar – why does He-Man get all the attention when Thundarr only had ONE figure in the 90s at SunCoast?
Or even just the OG Lord Greystoke, himself? Throw a long-haired Bucky head on him!
ZABU – I just hope I see this wave! Well, besides the sole Ikaris I saw at GameStop last week.
Otherwise, I’ve got extra Battle Cats that are gonna get a blonde/tawny makeover!
At least he’ll make a better ZABU than that one-and-done dino-fighters line from Lanard a few years back. I grabbed the Sabretooth set from that ONLY to have a mini-Zabu! Maybe he can be Zabu Jr, now?
Iron Man – so apparently his backstory comes from the good is bad is good is bad switch from AXIS, a decade back? Tony’s armor protected him at the end, so he stayed evil? I’ve seen more complaints about the color, as many thought it was silver with BRIGHT WHITE highlights?
Someone even made a Tom Cruise face for theirs, his backstory he was off planet when MoM happened and he now hunts the multiverse for MCU Strange for revenge? Ok then!
I mostly use the minifig size scale, but I may just have to pick up Black Winter. I’ll find someone interested in buying the Zabu piece, because I already have an old Imaginext Smilodon that I’m using as him.
I'd go with the earlier Wolfsbane figure for sure, mainly because I like her as a New Mutant. But also because I just like the expression and color better. I don't like that it's just a Wolfsbane head on a generic female New Mutants body, but it still wins out over that silly looking 90's X-force look with crazy hair and almost orange color. 90's style contributed a lot to me giving up as a comic book collector. It hasn't gotten easier to look at over time. Capturing it in plastic does nothing for me. 🙂
29:07 Judging by those heights, these figures are more "7-inch scale" than 6-inch. Even Wolfsbane is over 6 inches (6 feet tall).
How long until Robo crumbles and buys that Iron Man I wonder
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Oh Robo……..very nice…..very don't know……..great review.
Robo – Think of the military knife Kabar (Kay Bar) and pronounce it Kazar (Kay Czar). Consistent pronunciation (even if wrong) helps with continuity.
I like Robo doing every Legends wave like was pre pandemic. It's fun to see you go over all of them at once. I think I skip so many waves cause all my fav YouTubers cherry pick now (And for good reason)
Hey, Robo, why not swap out that right Hercules arm onto the Cable? Add the yellow cuff and you're good! Custom done.
What really bothered me about that Dani moonstar body mold is it shouldn't have came with a wolsbane head especially with that costume. Wolfsbane wasn't apart of that version of new mutants because she was too busy going in between x-force & x-factor. I am realty ticked off that Hasbro seems to have given up on a full new mutants team. At this point they should just start from scratch with the new mutants & do the classic clarmont era costumes instead of the utopia era. I'm happy we finally got a wolfsbane but that's not the version I pictured they would use which I believe is a Jim lee version. I pictured the Larry stroman version with a in between human & wolf form head with darker fur. Cable had a spear during the apocalypse the 12 storyline & if I remember right it had something to do with stopping apocalypse or enhancing his powers or maybe both. It's been so long since I read apocalypse the 12 & it's one of my least favorite X-MEN era's & events.
i’d love to see that translucent blue hammer with the black smoke
hammer gripping hand for my black winter thor wouldn't stay in
A baf wave is intentionally designed to not be 100% satisfactory, that is it's entire point. They produce 5-7 figures, of which any collector decides they want 3-5 or will pay anything for the baf, this allows them to create a few less popular figures and satisfy the OHOTMU crowd, which, to be honest, is probably the ones that have funded most of the legends line.
This wave satisfies my OHOTMU, and also my theoretical 'new' OHOTMU. The only figure that I have no interest in, is this boring ass Cable figure. (I have like 5 of him already, and none are as boring as this one—although I do like the head) This is exactly what a baf wave is supposed to do… give me dumb X characters, give me characters that a comic fan cares about, give me something I know nothing about etc and give me a baf that I want.
If you need a spear for Cable, the Attuma wave spear that came with Okoye is thin but looks great with him!