Action Figure #33: Marvel Legends Iron Man(Midnight Suns)

  This one comes with Iron deficiency.

 Well, the MCU made Iron Man very popular, so if Hasbro loves to make as many figures as they do Spider-man with another character.... it's with him. I haven't played Midnight Suns, but I found the original black and gold designs to look really good, and I actually wanted figures from those costumes... but not like this.

 Hasbro gets a lot of flak from reusing parts and molds between releases. Honestly, I don't care, as long as it makes sense. You don't need to sculpt 5 different gloves if they look the same between 5 different characters, so reusing and refitting parts is smart. Well, this Iron Man figure is the laziest figure I've ever seen them release. First of all, this figure reuses an early Iron Man Gamerverse release. And I'd be cool with that, except that Midnight Suns Iron Man looks almost NOTHING like this. This is just an old Iron Man figure repainted in gold and black, with a few symbols sculpted on the mask and around the arc reactor, that's it. It's so baffling they couldn't even be bothered to add some cool fire effects to his pauldrons, or at least try to match how the paint looks, in-game he has a lot more gold details on his legs, even on his feet. I'm adding a photo of how he should look like:

 I mean, c'mon, if you are gonna be so lazy so as to reuse a previous mold, might at least get the paint right. Bare minimum. C'mon, the energy circles on the side of his legs are a pretty big part of the design, and they could even paint some lazy gold circles on them.

 But do you know what makes it even worse? The articulation sucks. He can barely lift his arms to the sides, the picture below shows just how little he can lift it. And his legs don't go as high as I would've liked. Oh, and his torso seems a tad too large for the length of his legs.

 About the only good thing I can say about this figure is that it hasn't broken. But it's just lazy.

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