



Remember when everybody thought that the X-Men rights being with Fox was keeping Hasbro from making more mutants into Legends figures, and there weren't any X-Men being made for a while? It seems like Hasbro has been making up for lost time as of late.

The seemingly endless parade of new X-Men legends rages on, with today's look at the new black costume Wolverine and Silver Samurai.





Packaging:





The boxes, as noted before, are based on the 90's Marvel toys Toybiz made. This includes the card design, shape, color, and even the design on the back. It's very well done, and though they aren't as easy to open as the standard packages, they're still amazing. Plus, that same difficulty in opening them makes them almost impossible for swappers to reseal the box and return them, so that's a big bonus.





Sculpting:





Wolverine has a pretty interesting sculpt. He's on the standard body we've seen since the Juggernaut wave, but streamlined to reflect the simple black spandex costume. No shoulder pads, no boot cuffs, just gloves and a belt.





The head sculpt is great! I think it's a retooled version of the yelling head that came with Weapon-X, but they gave him a domino mask, and the overall effect looks pretty cool, and like comic art translated to 3d.









Silver Samurai has been a long, often requested figure to get a Legends treatment, since the Toybiz days. After multiple fan polls, a switch in company manufacturing, and hundreds of customs, he's finally here, and definitely worth it.





I think most of him is brand new, and he looks excellent! Hasbro went all out to give Samurai a beautiful sculpt. His armor is packed with detail, from rivets, armor plates, and it all looks amazing and realistic.





The left hip even has two sheaths for his swords, and they work great, no risk of the blades bending or warping. Great job on this guy, all around.





Articulation:





Logan has most of the same joints as his sculpt brethren, with one or two differences. Including: A ball jointed head, ball/butterfly shoulders, bicep cuts, double pin elbows, cut/pin wrists, ab crunch, cut waist, ball hips, thigh swivel, double pin knees, and rocker ankles.

All of his joints are secure and tight, and I had no problem posing him. Despite the figure having a visible line across the calf were a boot cut would be, there isn't one. I'm not sure why the other figures with this sculpt have that, but this one doesn't.









Silver Samurai, to go along with his incredible detail, has plenty of joints. He has: A ball jointed head, ball shoulders, bicep swivel, double pin elbows, cut/pin wrists, an ab crunch, waist cut, ball hips, thigh cuts, double pin knees, boot cuts, and rocker ankles. He's tons of fun to put in battle poses, and he feels tight and steady.





Accessories:





Wolverine comes with three accessories. The first two are alternate hands, with retracted claws, in a gripping pose. It's actually nice to get hands for wolverine that aren't just fists with no claws, so I appreciate them.





He also comes with a Japanese sword, which the package calls a "Muramasa".

It's just a repaint of the swords that came with Deadpool and even Silver Samurai, but the black paint job does make it stand out nicely. Plus, you couldn't recreate Wolverine in Japan if he didn't have a sword.





Silver Samurai, naturally comes with two Japanese swords. According to the box, the longer sword is a katana, which I've heard of in many other works, and the shorter "Wakizashi". The main difference between the two is just in the length of the blade and the handle, but the fact that they're distinct at all is a nice touch.

They do have the same issue that many swords and knives in the line have; the black paint on the handle chips off very easily. If there's too much friction between the grip and his hand when you put them in, the paint will rub off. That's not great.





Paint:









Wolverine's simple costume means that his paint is simple, but pretty good nonetheless. The best paint is on his head, with the two tone hair, mask and especially his mouth having great detail.





Plus, unlike some other Logan figures, they painted in his arm hair. I never thought I'd be this concerned over action figure arm hair, but here we are.









On top of everything else, Samurai has an excellent paint job. The red sun is neat and very striking. There's no paint slop between his face and helmet. Best of all the armored sections are painted a bright chrome, and the material on the arms and legs is a darker silver. It shows that his suit of armor is made of multiple layers, and it really looks great.





Overall:

There should be plenty of fans excited to get these two, to recreate the famous sword duel they had. Taken individually, Wolverine is a pretty solid figure, but his art specific look limits his potential, at least to me. He's not bad at all, but he can only ever be posed with the Samurai. He'd look off in a standard X-Men display.

Samurai, on the other hand, is amazing! He was totally worth the wait, and it's great to have more characters to fill out the Mutant villains. His sculpt, paint, and articulation are all top notch, and his base figure would make a great generic samurai figure, for customizers. I fully recommend

picking him up, no qualms at all.





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