Marvel Legends Infinite Series Allfather Build a Figure Wave Odin BAF

We're finally getting around to looking at the completed Odin BAF from this Allfather wave. Over the course of five figures we've picked up Odin's arms, legs, torso, cape, head, and staff.

Honestly, putting Odin together? Not fun. I had to heat up the holes in both of his legs to soften them so that the pegs would go in, getting his head on was a little difficult and I didn't want to squeeze it too hard because of the soft plastic used. But my biggest gripe is probably his cape. It just pegs into his back, but it doesn't stay in well and it doesn't look great on his shoulders.

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Once he's altogether though, he really does look pretty cool. Odin's quite imposing and his staff adds to his regal and strong look.

The paint on the armour is the standout paint job on this figure for me. The worn, weathered effect of the armour is the only paint detailing on this figure, the rest is unfortunately very flat.

Even the blue cape of Odin's isn't shaded - this exact same cape came with Thor from this wave, was not pegged into his back, sits better on his shoulders and had a little shaded detail.

Articulation is sadly not perfect on my figure. It might be a one off with mine, and it's mostly in the torso. His torso doesn't feel like it wants to move and I'm worried that if I try to force it something in there is going to break.

The rest of the articulation isn't too terrible though. Odin's head is on a ball joint, his shoulders move up and outward and the shoulder armour is hinged so it moves with the arm and doesn't hinder it too much. The cape does hinder it though, and the cape will fall off. A lot.

There are single jointed elbows, wrists are on a hinge and ball, and I've already mentioned the torso - which also kills the waist movement.

The hips are on ball and peg joints so the swivel and turn upwards, there are double jointed knees and the ankles hinge and pivot.

Another issue: getting Odin to stand is a bit of a pain in the ass, but the look of his is pretty cool, and I liked so many of these figures before I even bought them, that getting a nice big Odin figure as well was a nice bonus especially as I'll only be using him for display.

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Marvel Legends Infinite Series Build a Figure Allfather Wave Thor

Recently I've picked up the new Allfather BAF wave from Hasbro, well the figures I've wanted*, so I thought I'd get round to reviewing them!

In this wave you can get:

Iron Fist
Machine Man (not picking up this guy...)
Thor
Sentry
Hawkeye
Captain Marvel (*I actually don't have Captain Marvel, though I do want to pick her up)
Scarlet Witch

Once collected, if you pick them all up, you can build Odin or King Thor. As a fan of the Allfather I've picked up who I need to build Odin and I won't be looking to put King Thor together.

I thought I'd start off by looking at the Odinson himself, Thor.

He comes with the right leg of Odin

A big bad ass He-Man looking sword - which is moulded in a solid light grey with brown handle. A little paint variation and weathering on this sword would have been appreciated

And, of course, Mjolnir

The weathering effects and moulding of Mjolnir is excellent, though I do wish there was a little paint variation on her handle.

Thor himself is a beast of a figure standing over 7" tall

The paint on Thor is really clean with some nice details in parts. His helmet is a nice silver with a piece of cloth coming down the back, he has some of his dirty blonde hair coming down at the sides - his blue eyes are painted nicely under the rim of his helmet.

is torso is a dark black colour with a neat brown strap running over is front with a small painted silver buckle. There is lighter blue piping running around the edges of his suit - again very neatly painted. His belt is the same brown as the strap and also has some silver detailing. This same look carries over to his boots. The silver armour down Thor's legs look brilliant - nicely sculpted and done in a really shiny silver.

The dirty worn silver buckles holding his cape on are a cool detail, especially that the cape also has some lovely shading effects.

Articulation on this figure is pretty good, but hindered in quite a few places.

Firstly, Thor can only look side to side a little due to the hair and helmet. He can't look up or down at all. His shoulders are on a ball and hinge joint but because of his cape he can only move them up until it stops them, and they can't really rotate back because of this too. He has a bicep swivel, elbow joint, and wrist swivel and bend.

Thor has an ab crunch (he can't crunch backwards due to the cape) which also swivels. Hips are on a ball and hinge but are pretty restricted due to his tunic. Double jointed knees, ankle swivel and pivot. Well, his ankles would pivot if it weren't for the small armour discs right on his ankles rendering the pivot completely un-useable.

thankfully Thor is capable of holding both of his weapons well, although I'm not at all sure why he came with a sword. It does slip nicely into his belt under his cape though, which, I think, gives quite a cool look.

Overall, despite the flaws in this figures articulation, I really like Thor. I think he looks great, he's big, you get a lot for your money, the Mjolnir is a great looking piece and is in good scale with Thor himself, and he looks great beside other Legends.

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