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 Infinte Series Allfather Build a Figure Wave Scarlet Witch

Firstly I have to say how annoying I find the "Maidens of Might" banner that Hasbro has put Scarlet Witch and Captain Marvel under. It's annoying enough that they don't get their own names on the box (similar to the "Avenging Allies" banner that Sentry and Machine Man have been placed under in this same wave), but there's something a little patronising and condescending about calling these characters "maidens". It's probably just me, and it's not the end of the world, but having their names on the box would make so much more sense.

Scarlet Witch comes with quite a few of the pieces needed to complete Odin: She comes with his head

Which I really like but I wish his beard and the horns on his helmet had a little more detailing painted on it.

His cloak

This is the same cloak that Thor is wearing in this wave but in blue.

And his staff is the last build a figure piece included

This is cast in a solid gold plastic, and sadly doesn't have much in the way of paint detail.

The Witch herself comes with 2 accessories for use with her

Pink, almost translucent, plastic Hex magic pieces that fasten around Wanda's wrists. These are sculpted really nicely and look fantastic when in place.

Scarlet Witch is a really nice figure. She comes in her classic X-Men suit; her red head dress, red cloak, long red gloves, red body suit and thigh high red boots. She also has pink tights covering her upper thighs. Her face sculpt is really pretty though and has some nice detailing with full red lips and neatly painted blue eyes.

My favourite details in Scarlet Witch's painted details are the shading and sculpt in her cloak, and the colour highlights through her hair.

Sadly a tiny touch of that paint used in her hair has hit her chin

As I mentioned, the Hex bolts clip around Wanda's wrists so it looks as though she's casting the magic straight from her hands.

As you can see, there are larger holes with small gaps for a bigger character - these will be re-used and cast in yellow for the new Doctor Strange figure that's coming in a future wave!

Wanda can look left and right but because of her hair and cloak she can't really look up or down. Her cloak also stops both her shoulders from coming up as much as they can or turning out and upwards fully. She has elbows that bend 90 degrees and her wrists swivel and hinge.

She has an ab crunch which is kind of useless as the cloak makes her so top heavy, her hips are on a ball joint, she has thigh cuts, double jointed knees, ankle pivots, swivel and rotation.

A real issue I have with this figure is her heels and heavy cloak combo. You can get Scarlet Witch standing without leaning her on her cloak, but really, it's just easier to lean her on it and from the front you can't really tell. From the side though...

I'm a big fan of this figure overall, I love that we got Scarlet Witch in her classic suit and those Hex bolts work incredibly well. If you're a fan of the character, X-Men, or are building your classic Avengers team, I'd thoroughly recommend this figure.

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Revoltech Iron Man MK VII

I ordered this online a couple of months ago, but since I decided to look at horror stuff through the month of October I've got some catching up to do!!

So Revoltech do highly detailed and articulated figures and if you want one in the UK, you'll probably need to look at ordering online as these are mostly imports.

Iron Man comes with several accessories, including a stand and a name plaque, that mentions what movie this armour was used in. I really wish the stand was better though. All this does is keep Iron Man standing. That's it. No flight poses, and you can't really get any running stances.

Two kinds of repulsor blasts, one with a longer blast and one shorter, made in a nice partially transparent orange plastic

As well as closed fists he also comes with one set of open hands, and another set of flat hands with holes for the repulsor blasts

And finally a small orange box to keep all of the accessories in

Taking Iron Man out of the packaging he was covered in plastic over and in between his joints. I had to take him apart just to get the plastic off.

That was frustrating, but at least it kept the figure in nice condition and made sure that the metallic paint didn't scuff. It also meant that I got a pretty hands on look at the Revoltech joints.

This is a great looking figure and I'm glad I could add him to my collection and my growing Avengers team. Though honestly, I kind of wish I'd held off and picked up the Figma version, or maybe even the upcoming Figuarts version. Throughout this write up it will probably become apparent why. But like I said, this is a pretty great figure.

The great metallic shiny paint really makes this figure look like Iron Man armour, though I wish the arc reactor in his chest was more than just a white circle. I would have thought that it would be as well, considering the rest of the figure is so nicely painted and detailed. Iron Man is mostly a brilliant metallic red, with metallic gold and silver highlights.

The articulation on Iron Man is really very good, but for me, it's lacking a few very important points.

His head is on a peg so moves up and down and left and right nicely. His shoulder pads are articulated so that when moving his shoulders up there's no hindrance. His shoulders move up, forward and back, his elbows swivel and bend right in and his wrists swivel and bend. He's got a diaphragm crunch, his hips move his legs forward and back a little and for me, this is where the articulation falls down. I really do wish that the hips moved outwards so that we could get him in crouched poses.

The knees bend right in and his ankles move back and forth with the aid of small flaps that are also articulated around his feet, meaning the feet can move more and still sit nicely in the armour.

Iron Man also has two flaps on his back that open for air brakes. Sadly, no flight stand like I mentioned earlier, so they don't really have any fun posing possibilities.

So because of some of the limitations in the hips and because of the lack of flight stand, this figure is pretty limited in his poses. But the poses that you can get him in are classic Iron Man and the metallic paint make this guy look brilliant.

Like I said the main falling down points are a couple of missed points of articulation and the lack of a much needed flight stand. But over all, I like this guy a lot. I wanted to pick up a good looking Iron Man for a while, for the simple reason that Iron Man is such a great looking design I didn't want to go for one of the Marvel Select or Legends figures, even though some of those do look really nice. I really wanted one I could pose more and had that really nice metallic shine to it.

Also, the arc reactor has to be circular. None of this triangular nonsense.

I would recommend this figure. It's an excellent representation of the Mark VII suit from The Avengers and it is a nice looking piece to have on your toy shelf. It's also a more palatable price point than the Figma version - about half of that price - and it'll probably end up being cheaper than the Figuarts version that is due for release.

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