Comic Statues & Busts: Marvel Legends Loose from Marvel Legends

From the Sentinel Series, (or Series 10), is the Cyclops action figure. He is a pretty nice figure. It's the same body sculpt as the Spiderman Classics Kraven the Hunter and Nick Fury from Marvel Legends 5, so the articulation is good. The joints were tight and nicely concealed on this figure. The paint job is very good, but I think they went a little too far on the yellow areas of his costume. They put so much dark paint on the recessed, shadowy areas that his gloves, trunks, and boots look just plain dirty. As if he just got done changing the oil on the Blackbird or something. I was real excited to see this figure, but was disappointed to find out that the picture ON the package has the figure looking better than what you actually get IN the package. More specifically, his legs from the shin on down to his feet. They are just too short and stubby looking. The top folds of his boot almost reach down to the top of his foot. His feet seem really big, too. He comes with a...

Good 'ol Cyclops. Sturdy, dependable and tough but not too exciting. That sums up his character and sums up the action figure too. The figure is very sturdy and they've given him a stout body. He is very well articulated with which I am pleased. All the standard Marvel Legends joints can be found and they are sturdy and some are hidden well, such as cut ankels and and wrists. The standard version is a basic blue and yellow. Accurate but, lets face it not a real fun costume design. Not really the figure's fault but there it is. He does suffer from a bit of black wash making him look grimy but if you wore birght yellow boots and gloves into battle they probably would get dirty. He does come with a piece of the giant mutant hunting 16" Sentinel. Since Cyke is probably the most basic figure in this series he does make a good one for the Sentinel to grapple in its tentacles while he holds a hand to his visor to blast the purple menace. So,...

Cyclops is the X-Men's Leader, so it is nice to finally have a Legends Version of him. Past X-Men in the Legends line include Colossus, Beast, Gambit, Rogue, Cable, Pheonix, Several Wolverines, Ice Man, Storm, Nightcrawler, Professor X, and Angel. So now they finally get a combat leader. Professor X is obviously their overall leader. The figure is a little boring, but that's due to costume design, although, God knows why, Cyclops did wear this yellow and blue ensemble for years and years in the comic books. The variant figure, which is the one I bought, has his X-Factor, blue and white ensemble, which I much prefer. But seeing as your X-Men, and your Sentinel won't be complete without Cyclops, he is still well worth adding to the collection.