I preferred the latest She-Hulk figures in Marvel Legends fairly a bit, however I’m a sucker for a extra traditional look and ordered this model as quickly as I may once I noticed the Iron Man retro carded line. Let’s check out the most recent She-Hulk!
I wasn’t shopping for toys or watching the Iron Man cartoon on the time so I’m unfamiliar with the origins of those retro playing cards, however wanting this up on-line it’s a reasonably trustworthy recreation of one of many Iron Man line card backs. The illustration is kind of placing and the cardboard is good and hard. I virtually really feel unhealthy recycling it.
She-Hulk comes with few equipment together with two units of palms and a bent gun. The bent gun is enjoyable and looks like a traditional super-hero transfer when some dickhead will get of their face foolishly brandishing a firearm. The palms swap simply, although a humorous factor about the way in which she’s constructed is the little white arm bands are separate items that may come off. The fists are properly sculpted, however the wrist isn’t fairly as straight as I’d like for punching poses.
The sculpting on Jen is fairly unbelievable with an particularly lovely face portrait that captures the enjoyment of the character completely. She’s additionally appropriately enormous and impressively muscular. The hair additionally captures the epic mane as drawn by Byrne again within the day.
The costume selection appeals to me as a result of it takes me again to how she regarded once I was most studying comics within the ’80s. The articulation is fairly good with good vary on the double elbows and knees, however it’s missing a bit with the ball and socket mid-torso wobble.
I really like that joint in concept, however it by no means will get near the vary of movement you get from a hinge. The hair is kind of beautiful, however it does severely hinder head motion with little aspect to aspect, however not a lot wanting up or down. It’s a commerce off for all that wonderful ’80s hair I suppose. She-Hulk has:
- Swivel/hinge shoulders, wrists, hips, and ankles
- Double hinged knees and elbows
- Ball and socket head and mid-torso
- Swivel biceps, thighs and boots
The opposite subject I’ve is the ankles are a little bit unfastened and the plastic gentle, in order that they weren’t very supportive balancing the determine in battle poses. The paint is basically stable, largely solid within the acceptable colours, however the face print is basically spectacular as per common with this line recently. I really feel like there’s a little bit of blush on the cheeks and the eyes are shiny and glossy. The inexperienced pores and skin is sort of radioactively inexperienced, which feels a bit on the brilliant aspect, however I’m assuming they’re referencing the present or the toy right here. It’s not too off from what I would favor. I didn’t discover it enjoying with the determine, however you possibly can choose up a little bit of a distinction between the elbow and knee colours than the remainder of the inexperienced legs and arms.
Total, even with a number of nitpicks about articulation and vary of motion, that is nonetheless a shocking determine. I can not wait to get a repaint in FF colours. I hope in the event that they get there they’ll embrace an alternate head with both an indignant or impartial face for selection. A flowing hair sculpt that will get out of the way in which when posing her punching could be nice too. At any price, she’s head and shoulders higher than the earlier legends efforts and considered one of my favourite figures this yr. The shelf presence is unbelievable.
