Hasbro Marvel Legends Xmen '97 Storm Figure
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00:00 Well, if you go outside and see thunder and lightning, don't go blaming the weatherman.
00:04 Here's a look at the brand new Hasbro Marvel Legends X-Men 97 Storm.
00:22 Bring the excitement and wonder of the Marvel Universe to your collection with the Hasbro
00:26 Marvel Legends Storm and other X-Men action figures.
00:29 This collectible 6-inch scale action figure is detailed to look like Storm from the Marvel
00:33 Studios X-Men 97.
00:35 Storm Marvel Legends figures fully articulate with premium design and poseable head, arms,
00:39 and legs.
00:40 This Marvel action figure comes with two accessories.
00:42 Hasbro's Marvel action figure 6-inch scale makes them great for posing and displaying
00:46 in fans' collections.
00:49 Now just before we get a closer look at...
00:50 Oh, I heard thunder outside.
00:53 One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand.
00:56 Storm's getting pretty close.
00:59 Before we get a closer look at this Storm, we're going to go ahead and grab the tape
01:04 measure and see how tall the figure stands.
01:05 And of course, I'll bring in a couple of figures in a moment for comparison's sake.
01:09 Storm stands with Mohawk as high as she has.
01:11 The figure's only about six inches in height.
01:13 Well, the figure's going to be about 16 centimeters tall.
01:17 Storm does have work colleagues, after all.
01:18 Let's bring those in right now.
01:19 Here's what the figure looks like along with Gambit.
01:22 Here's what the figure as well looks like with Rogue, who has a harder time.
01:25 In fact, all the figures I've looked at here, both Gambit and Rogue on either side of Storm
01:29 are the hardest ones to stand.
01:31 A figure that has no tough time standing is, in fact, Wolverine.
01:34 It might have something to do with just the fact he's so close to the ground like that.
01:37 And a figure that doesn't have any issues with standing but has bigger issues, much
01:41 far greater issues than just the standing.
01:43 There's also what she looks like with Magneto.
01:45 Now, I was always grown up, brought up to believe that you always find something nice
01:49 to say about the person that you're talking to.
01:51 Well, I will say, in the credit of Magneto, while his head sculpt is a dog's breakfast,
01:55 I will say at least I like the color scheme of his body.
01:58 The purples and the reds are really rich in the figure.
02:00 It's just a shame that the head is in such shambles.
02:04 Speaking of shambles, I want to draw your attention to the fact that Storm, with all
02:08 the things that the figure could have technically possessed, maybe like storm effects, for example,
02:12 only gets relegated to swappable hands.
02:15 And they just happen to be the swapped out alternate versions of the ones that are in
02:19 either sides of her forearms.
02:21 Isn't really the best that we're going to be getting when it comes to these X-Men figures?
02:23 I mean, Gambit sure was thrown with accessories and same could be said for Wolverine.
02:28 But then all the figures that we've looked at afterwards have all come with basically
02:31 just swapped out hands.
02:32 It happened the same already with Magneto and it happened also as well for Rogue.
02:36 Storm seems to follow that trade as well.
02:38 Like I said, she only comes included with swappable hands.
02:40 So if you grew attached to this side of her body, liking the look of those hands, you
02:44 could basically repeat that on a mirror flip.
02:46 She comes with the alternate hand to that.
02:48 That's going to go, of course, on this side.
02:49 And of course, she also comes with a gripping hand too, or I guess more of a closed fisted
02:54 hand.
02:55 I mean, it's fine and good, but I would have liked something else above and beyond that.
02:58 The figure really does need more than just hands.
03:00 Speaking of hands, though, while I can already see myself already changing out the hands,
03:04 I'm just going to do it already.
03:05 So I'm just going to pop the hand that's already there.
03:08 This also draws one thing I did want to bring to your attention is the fact that the cape
03:12 that she has, I really not like the way it's attached on the back of her body.
03:15 And it only really just slides onto her forearm by these tiny little thread, these tiny little
03:20 thread threadings, these ropings.
03:22 They're roped around and basically just drip it around her, her forearm like this, and
03:25 then just put the hand back in place.
03:27 I guess there really isn't any other functional, reasonable way that they could have attached
03:31 the cape.
03:32 I was trying to think to myself, like, what other way could they have done it where it
03:34 doesn't just draw to the attention of fact, it clearly is just a rope that they taped
03:39 or sewn around the actual cape.
03:41 But I mean, the only problem with that is say they had put a hole just right there for
03:45 all intents and purposes.
03:46 And that was the hole that would then fit onto her arm.
03:48 Sooner or later, that would get frayed.
03:50 Sooner or later, that hole would widen.
03:51 And sooner or later, I'm sure that hole would rip.
03:53 It's a bit messy, I have to admit, the way they've actually sewn it in place.
03:57 But it gets the job done.
03:59 And I can't really think of any other way it could have gotten the job done, other than
04:02 maybe if they had adhered a ringlet, like a little plastic ringlet on the end of it
04:06 probably still would have looked like a sore thumb, but probably would have not had at
04:09 least the stitching on the end of it because I think that's a little ugly.
04:12 Speaking of a little ugly, I have to say like the way that this is also attached on the
04:16 back of her body is a bit on the ugly side.
04:19 You can see like what they've done essentially is they've attached the cape onto a plastic
04:23 piece you can see right there.
04:24 If you see this in the packaging, by the way, don't think that that's something that has
04:28 to be removed because the cape is actually sewn onto that.
04:31 And then this plastic piece is actually attached onto either side.
04:34 What's actually not even attached on either side, it was to say flip this up, it's basically
04:38 just a clear kind of like clear strapping that's underneath the shoulder pads.
04:43 When I first actually took it out of the packaging, I thought that the shoulder pads were the
04:47 thing that was keeping the cape in place, but the shoulder pads are actually a separate
04:50 piece and it's literally just this thin, you see right there, that little thin strip of
04:55 plastic.
04:56 So essentially what it is, it's just wrapping around the front of her body.
04:59 Luckily though, you don't see it anywhere from the front.
05:01 It's only basically just relegated to the back, but the cape I will say is really poorly
05:05 executed.
05:07 But again, do I have better ideas in mind?
05:08 No, I don't design toys for a living.
05:10 Maybe I should, but I don't.
05:12 The cape itself for what it is, sort of more like a parachute material.
05:15 You can see it does have the yellow striping on the outside of it at least.
05:19 And I think the material is pretty good.
05:20 I just don't think it's well handled the way they actually attached it around her forearms.
05:24 Closer look though at the head sculpt is one thing I actually do really like about the
05:27 head.
05:28 I do really like about the figure.
05:30 The head sculpt for me at least bears some resemblance, maybe you can see it or not,
05:33 to Vivica A. Fox.
05:36 Am I the only one that sees that?
05:37 I see a little bit of Vivica A maybe in the head sculpt of Storm.
05:40 And I do like the way they've actually decided to sculpt this time around a mohawk.
05:44 In the original 90s series, the Storm actually character would have had a full head of hair.
05:49 So I really like the departure from that and giving her a mohawk instead.
05:52 Now she's had also a mohawk in the comics as well.
05:55 I think it's a look that works quite well for the character.
05:57 She does also have like little lightning bolts there for her earrings.
06:00 I think that's a nice touch as well.
06:02 I can't help but also notice, and I'm doing my best not to draw all the negative points
06:05 out, but if you look at the figure's neck, on the one side it seems to be fine.
06:09 On the other side there's a little bit of a marring.
06:11 You can see like there's a little bit of deformed plastic, at least on the side of
06:15 my neck.
06:16 I can't imagine it's going to be across the board.
06:18 Maybe it is going to be across the board if it's all coming from the same mold after all.
06:21 But you can probably see it.
06:22 There's this like little ring light right there.
06:24 Maybe she got herself a flu shot back in the 80s.
06:26 And then of course she does have the long hair there on the back as well.
06:29 This is all basically molded in white plastic.
06:31 By the way, it looks like it's attached onto her head.
06:33 It doesn't look like it's actually been painted rather than molded in white plastic instead.
06:37 But the head sculpt for what it is, I think it's actually good.
06:39 It's probably one of the better ones we've gotten from this line so far.
06:42 As for the rest of the figure's body, she has more of the standard white rogue, white
06:47 storm body, which has still the matching yellow stripe down the sides.
06:51 Not maybe as quite the brightness, obviously, is what we get here for the cape, but the
06:55 color of the yellow is pretty close.
06:57 She has it down the side of her body.
06:58 She has it across the front of her belt as well.
07:00 The yellow doesn't seem in places to be matching.
07:03 You can kind of see like the belt's a little bit brighter.
07:05 Actually, in fact, the belt looks a little bit more closer, I would say, to the cape.
07:08 But the striping is still pretty close to that.
07:10 Of course, she's got the X-Men symbols on either sides of her shoulder pads.
07:13 And as for the lower half of her body, basically no paint.
07:15 It looks to be just the case that they molded it all in white plastic.
07:19 Peg holes are still treated to you at the bottom of the figure's feet.
07:21 So even though the figure doesn't come included with display stands, aww.
07:25 Figure at least has the means to use the same diameter sized pegs as other display stand
07:29 companies that are, well, other companies out there that are providing display stands
07:32 for their figures.
07:33 So you can easily use that for this one as well.
07:36 For the articulation here for Storm, let's go back to her head sculpt here.
07:39 For obvious reasons, the long ponytail on the back of her head is going to cause a little
07:43 more problems, a little more corruption when it comes to trying to rotate the head all
07:46 the way around, just because the ponytail is going to get a little bit more in the way
07:49 of things.
07:50 The head can look down that far and look up as well.
07:53 In between, you can rock it back and forth as well.
07:56 The upper torso is going to be on a ball joint and quite the generous ball joint too.
07:59 I mean, obviously if you move it too far back, you can notice a little bit of gapage, but
08:03 who really is going to be posing their Storm or any one of the Marvel Legends figures looking
08:06 like this?
08:07 That looks ridiculous.
08:08 So you're going to want to bring it a little bit further forward.
08:10 And of course it does also rock back and forth as well.
08:13 Now for the arms, the arms hinge out, but I found my arms, not my arms, but Storm's
08:17 arms were a little on the more tighter side.
08:19 This arm is actually the tighter of the two.
08:22 Once you loosen things up though, she actually can have the means to swivel her arms or hinge
08:25 her arms at 90 degrees.
08:27 You can take those arms and move them forward, but you can only go so far of course, even
08:31 though she has plastic shoulder pads and they're actually attached.
08:34 Let me just get the arm out of the way here.
08:36 They're actually attached here on the front.
08:38 And if you can see it or not, and that's actually kind of the way as well that the
08:41 cape is attached in place.
08:42 That little strap of plastic that we looked at earlier, essentially is plugged onto a
08:46 black peg and then basically then the shoulder pad is attached over top of it.
08:50 It looks like there is the means to detach this basically just like a snap, but I don't
08:54 know why I would really want to do that.
08:55 I mean, obviously you could do that, I suppose, if you want to take the cape off altogether,
08:58 but I think like the cape is one thing that certainly adds to the character of Storm.
09:02 The lower half of her body is all attached to her mid area, so you're not going to
09:06 be able to have any swiveling there.
09:07 However, though, the figure does have a hinge.
09:09 You can split the legs quite far with a ball joint provided in the inside cavity of her
09:13 thighs.
09:14 You can take the legs and move forward.
09:15 No problems there.
09:16 You can also move them back about that far.
09:19 Swivel in the legs about three quarters of the way up the thigh.
09:21 You can double hinge the knee.
09:22 And of course she has the same standard articulation back and forth on her ankle and back and forth
09:27 this way as well.
09:28 It also is to note as well that the figure, if I can just get her to stand here for a
09:32 second, is a slight bit different than the one we get here for Rogue.
09:36 I'm just going to bring Rogue in here for a second.
09:38 Rogue seems to have slightly thicker thighs.
09:41 It also looks as well that she has a different torso.
09:43 I mean, maybe it's just more my eyes playing tricks on me, but like the sculpting that
09:46 they did put to this section of Rogue isn't present here at all when we're looking at
09:50 Storm.
09:51 It does look like possibly they are using a different body.
09:53 I don't know why.
09:54 Again, I can't get Rogue to stand properly.
09:58 But yeah, of the two figures, it does look like they are using different types of bodies.
10:02 At the end of the day though, I do really like...
10:03 I'm just going to move this one away.
10:05 I just know she's ultimately going to be falling.
10:06 At the end of the day though, I do really like the look of Storm.
10:09 I didn't think I was going to like the idea necessarily that she was going to have herself
10:12 a mohawk just because, again, growing up and watching the original series of X-Men, I was
10:16 like the idea that Storm, for example, had a full lock of hair.
10:20 Instead what they decided to do instead was to shave the head, shave the sides of the
10:23 hair.
10:24 And actually I think the look looks quite good to her.
10:26 Modernizers are in such a way that at least she looks different from her original 90s
10:30 counterpart.
10:31 But also as well, it still sticks to the basics of what Storm always was in the original cartoon.
10:36 Even though I don't like the cape and the way it's attached onto the figure, I do like
10:39 at least the figure that the cape's attached to.
10:42 The rope I think could have been handled a little bit better on Hasbro part by simply
10:45 not just sewing on a rope on the end of this plastic cape and then attach that onto the
10:50 ends of her forearms.
10:51 It looks fine on the other side, but if you have the arms up, for example, you can see
10:54 right away the way that it's sewn in place.
10:57 And I think, again, it looks a little on the sloppier side.
10:59 I would love if there was a way to swap the cape or flip the cape around.
11:03 In other words, take the cape off, obviously, from the forearms, take the back of the cape
11:07 and flip it around.
11:08 Now, obviously you'd be then seeing a plastic piece instead of the cape, but I wonder if
11:12 it would attach the same way because obviously it fits around the snaps on the front via
11:17 holes.
11:18 So I think that the holes are going to be all the way through, obviously, on those plastic
11:21 strips.
11:22 I wonder if there was a way, in fact, to flip the cape around.
11:24 Now, obviously it will mean that the cape's going to then look ugly from the back, but
11:28 you're not going to be looking at the cape, not likely going to be looking at the figure
11:30 as well from the back.
11:31 You're going to be displaying her from the front.
11:33 I'm going to try that.
11:34 I don't think I'm going to be all that successful, but I definitely would like to try it and
11:38 at least see if there's a better way to display the cape than what we're looking at right
11:41 now.
11:42 The rest of Storm, though, looks fantastic.
11:44 I didn't think, again, I was going to like the idea of her with a mohawk.
11:47 I always really liked the more fuller hair on Storm, but I got to say it does work quite
11:51 well for the figure.
11:52 And even though she does, I feel a resemblance, a little more than a slight resemblance as
11:56 well to Vivica A. Fox.
11:57 You got to wonder where they get their ideas from when they're sculpting these figures
12:00 initially.
12:01 If they were looking at that and they thought to themselves, "Hey, I need to sculpt a face.
12:05 What can I work with?"
12:06 And then they just happened to be watching an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm or maybe
12:09 they were watching Independence Day and thought, "Hey, Vivica A. would be ideal for Storm."
12:14 You got to wonder what their mindset is when it comes to certainly sculpting these figures.
12:17 And some may even say she bears no resemblance at all to Vivica A. Fox.
12:21 I happen to think the opposite.
12:22 Head sculpt, though, is pretty.
12:24 And I like the way they've painted the face, both the eyes, and of course, adding the little
12:27 lightning bolt earrings on the sides.
12:28 Those are a nice little touch.
12:29 Yeah, all in all, it's a good looking Storm, even though I just don't like the cape.
12:33 What do you guys think of the figure?
12:34 Let me know down below in the comments section.
12:36 And of the figures we've looked at so far, granted, yes, we still have to look at Bishop,
12:40 but of the figures that we've looked at so far, what would you say is your favorite?
12:43 I'm still sticking, I think, with Gambit #1, Wolverine #2, Storm #3.
12:48 Maybe I'll go Storm #3.
12:49 I was going to say Rogue #3, but I don't know.
12:51 Storm's growing on me.
12:52 I might go Storm, Rogue, and of course, as to be expected, Magneto is still the distant
12:58 last.
12:59 That's, I don't think, going to be changing anytime soon, because of course, we are still
13:01 going to be looking at Bishop.
13:02 Bishop, his review will be coming shortly.
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