Marvel Legends Head Scratching Head Choices

With the pre-order for the Marvel Legends Dark Avengers Warbird, I look at yet another missed opportunity to release a very easy collector-friendly additional accessory that could have cost Hasbro some sales.

I also look at the ML team's challenges with other obvious head portrait choices that really need to be resolved.

[RidiculousThoughts]

100% agree with your take on the extra options for Dark Avengers Ms. Marvel. If you know a customizer, you can actually create the looks easily. The Warlock wave Disco Dazzler has the feathered 70s hair, and the Molten Man Wave Spiderwoman figure has the longer hair you can use for Karla version.

[johnreeder]

The Sentry was shot in the face by his wife, that's why you have the other head looking like that.

[Spongemonkey]

I agree, would have been an easy win for Hasbro if they included a 70's style Carol Danvers head with that Moonstone...

[lostonwallace]

Missing the boat is one of the things that Marvel Legends does far too often for my taste. I love Legends, but I'm not brand loyal to anyone. Being an artist and an old guard comic book collector, I have strong opinions, and I'm not one to shy from them, as you know. It wouldn't have killed Legends to have given us either a non-masked head sculpt or even a classic Moonstone with her classic helmet--the one with the fin and the oval bug eyes. Just something different. A standard repaint without anything different is a bit disappointing. I still bought it, and two of them, but I have plans to customize one.

Rogue was great for me, but like you, I wanted another head with the white temples, and a younger faced version that looks like the Paul Smith version that joined the X-Men in issue #181. That two pack was extremely light on accessories, and it needed an extra head to make it really worth the $$. A missed opportunity, Legends team, and a disappointment!

Siryn with a second head was 100% needed! Not having it is a HUGE blackeye with Legends collectors! It was a DUMB Legends decision not to do it. If they couldn't do it because of budget concerns, they just shouldn't have done it at all! Black Bolt and Banshee are screaming characters that came with a calm and with screaming head sculpts. The Legends team set that precedent so it's 100% on them that they upset their fanbase with this BONEHEAD decision. This gave the Legends line a lot of bad press. Stuff like this is why a lot of collectors no longer collect Legends figures. They've lost a lot of fan support because of poor decisions like this. Better to not have done a Siryn until they could have afforded to give us the extra head. Thumbs down to Legends on this one.

Black Knight and Sersi pack was a disappointing set. Old bucks, and the most minimum effort from Legends.

I personally think that the Marvel Legends need to stop doing GIMMICKS. They are NOT good at them! Giant Man's gimmicky fingers with individual joints that are too weak & fragile to use without fear of breaking them. Seriously? What kind of extra play value is that?? For me, the 20th Captain America's shield was a TERRIBLE decision to do. Do the gimmick shield as an extra, but give us a complete shield. Now I can't have Cap on my shelf without buying an older shield with inappropriate colors and design to work with this figure. Not happy about that one at all! Again though, Legends learned NOTHING from the blowback over the 20th Cap shield. They doubled down once again on the SECRET WARS Cap figure. They chose to give him ONLY a broken shield! This was a blown opportunity to have given collectors a nice default shield that we could use with that 20th Cap. I would have bought two figures to have gotten just the shield! But alas, it's Hasbro decision making again. Once again by giving an incomplete, gimmick shield!! AAARRRGH! We get a broken shield. lol It sometimes feels like Legends is going out of their way to not give us what we want. Other collectors may dig this new broken shield gimmick. They may in fact LOVE it. I frikkin' see it as another particularly bad decision on their part. It's a poor choice. That Cap should have been a DELUXE figure that gave us a complete shield AND the broken shield and those two heads. That would have been a $10-$15 price hike that would be justified. I just don't get Hasbro sometimes.

[BladeStar-uqxe]

They did give us a Noh Varr too. I did order 2. One to use as Moonstone the other to complete my Carol Danvers 4 some of Ms Marvel, Warbird, Binary, and Captain Marvel.

[NPUTsReviewsandStopmotion]

That new Dark Ms Marvel looks really good. Not much excites me anymore about ML figs. But that suit is one of my favs of the Marvel Universe. I can see Hasbro doing some kind of Dark Avengers boxset with all the alt heads slight costume difference. Similar to how they did the West Coast Avengers slot set

[sidgivens]

My very thought, where's Carol Danvers head.Buuuut im gonna custom Dazzler head.The reason i think we'll get a retro card with a Dazzler head, its perfect

[ndawgaic]

I think Siege/Dark Reign is my favorite era of my (adult) life. I'm usually only nostalgic of my childhood stuff but this was great!

[retrorobo]

Definitely a missed opportunity with the Ms. Marvel figure. I thought that was a no brainer for them. I would've definitely purchased two. Oh well, I'm guessing there will be the inevitable re-release with the classic head; maybe in a 2-pack with a new classic Kree Sentry or Captain Marvel figure.

[scottroxford]

It would have been nice to have Carol with her short hair look to have two different characters like how they did with Quake and Maria Hill. Honestly it doesn't bother me that much, I plan on turning her into classic Ms. Marvel with a hair swap, some flesh paint on the mid section and a soft goods scarf. Super easy custom.

[ryandaly]

I've mentioned before how annoyed I am that they didn't give the Excalibur Shadowcat curly hair, and how they went with the Ed McGuinness modern Nightcrawler spiky hair instead of his traditional wavy hair (and they didn't even correct it for the '97 figure!)

But of all the Marvel Legends head sculpts that make me shake my head, I think the top is the Serpent Society member Copperhead. His schtick is unhinging his jaw and opening his mouth to an absurdly large maw to eat people. Not only did the Hasbro Marvel Legends not attempt that power, they made him with his mouth closed. It felt like the design team's attitude was nobody's gonna care about this guy, they'll be happy just to get a Copperhead at all.

[tomfin-wovc]

I was genuinely surprised when I saw the promo pics for the Dark Avengers Warbird. That seemed like a layup, but I guess you can’t sell a fan channel exclusive, retro-carded 70s Ms. Marvel with the shorter hair if you pack-in a 70s Ms. Marvel head with the shorter hair with the Dark Avengers release.

I completely agree on your other choices, especially AoA Iceman, Siryn, and Black Night. The Avengers 60th version of Black Knight should have come with an unmasked head.

The biggest one for me is Beast not coming with a Perez/Byrne head. Yes, the Jim Lee Beast is too big, but it would have been an acceptable placeholder.

[davidthanos]

Loved the al snow on the thumbnail. Even though it gets me upset with some of the choices they chose for heads and none of them make sense. I feel like mattel with their ultimates is as bad for doing that. But that might be a topic for another video

[glennmiller]

I just got Beyonder and Titania in the mail today, The Titania figure is cool, but her arms are a little skinny, I was surprised they didn’t use the same arms as She-Hulk for Titania

[erikjestrada]

I would have loved to see more vintage head sculpt of Carol Danvers as Ms Marvel with the hair sculpt similar to the classic Dazzler figure. Hasbro: we need a Carol Danvers Classic look please 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[mardastar]

Glad you pointed this out . Was thinking the same thing. I like to use all 1st appearance figures as Skrulls . Hasbro dropped the ball once again.

[johnmorrissey]

Absolutely correct, Jeffrey! I absolutely would have pre-rdered TWO of these IF they included a classic head from the 1970s. Swing and a miss, Hasbro. Fumble at the goal line, Dwight.

[aaronwiley]

Whats disappointing is Hasbro has spiderman, Wolverine, the X men and iron man on the brain instead of fulfilling the customers needs

[robertfalcone]

Before i picked up X Men 97 Magneto..i was planning on picking up AOA Magneto & trimming off the hair with a razor blade

[robertfalcone]

I believe that its the 6 armed SPIDER GOD in that Daken 2 Pack not Mac Gargan