![]() ![]() Captain Britain is packed with an alternate bearded head, two sets of hands in fists and gripping, and the actual sword Excalibur. My figure has a touch of missing red on the front of each bicep, but it’s again pretty minor. There’s a touch of fuzz on some of the white lines, but nothing too terrible. Captain Britain’s color work is decently handled, with some nice and sharp application. This one’s more a mask than a helmet I did like the other one a fair bit, but this one fits the classic costume design nicely. The new meshes well with the old, and I appreciate how the head sculpt here is distinctly different from the prior Captain Britain. He also gets a new head, forearm, and knee pieces, to showcase the more unique pieces of his costume. It lacks the weird torso shelf that the standard Hyperion torso had strangely, this torso’s been unused since its introduction in 2017. Our last Legends Captain Britain was built on the Hyperion base body this one is Hyperion adjacent, as he’s actually making use of the upgraded torso from the Unworthy Thor figure. Some day, it might eventually get made, right? The figure stands 7 inches tall and he has 32 points of articulation. That said, it’s somewhat humorous, given that the trading card image on the back of the box has him in his *other* Davis look, which still is without Legends treatment, despite it also being the look present on all of the images for the Toy Biz release. It’s honestly his best look, so I’m all for that. Since Hasbro had previously done a more modern costume for Brian, this time they went back and did the same one that Toy Biz did for theirs, namely his second, Alan Davis-designed costume. “ Using his super strength, flying ability and courage, Captain Britain fights for justice throughout the world and in other dimensions as well.”Ĭaptain Britain’s graced the Legends line twice before, once with Toy Biz and once with Hasbro. They eventually worked their way back around, though, and are now going through Entertainment Earth and their various wholesalers, making them more of a Fan Channel-exclusive at the end of it all. They were definitely on Hasbro Pulse, and I believe meant to go on Shop Disney, though I don’t know that they ever did. Individual members have done okay with toy coverage for the most part, but last year Hasbro jumpstarted their presence in Legends a bit, with a whole boxed set dedicated to them! THE FIGURES THEMSELVESĬaptain Britain, Meggan, and Shadowcat were an exclusive Marvel Legends three-pack. While it never quite hit the highs of the main book, it’s always had something of a cult following, and the team’s been bouncing around ever since. The result was Excalibur, a rather off-beat addition to the X-line-up. And, finally, in 1987, a small handful of X-Men characters were borrowed from the main book, and moved overseas to meet up with the UK line’s Captain Britain, whose solo series had just been cancelled, meaning he needed a new home. ![]() In 1986, the original five members of the X-Men reunited under the X-Factor title. The first was The New Mutants in 1982, which introduced a largely new cast of characters, as the name suggested. In the 1980s, the X-Men had become such a popular book for Marvel that they were in need of more than one monthly book to contain all there success, so the solution was spin-offs. CAPTAIN BRITAIN, MEGGAN, & SHADOWCAT MARVEL LEGENDS (HASBRO) ![]()
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