Hasbro’s Comic-Con 2015 Marvel Exclusives Reviewed

As they do every year, Hasbro brought several exclusives to Comic-Con International: San Diego 2015. Two collections of figures featuring Marvel comics characters focused this year on Marvel’s soon-to-be newest movie stars: Ant-Man and Doctor Strange.

Revealed the month before the convention itself, the two packages come in boxes made just as much for display as the figures themselves. The Ant-Man pack comes in a giant Ant-Man head, complete with extendable antennae. It’s hard not to marvel over that much detail being put into just a packaging, but after last year’s Thunderbolts box, it’s not too surprising. Doctor Strange and his mystical allies and enemies, meanwhile, comes within none other than the Book of Vishanti. The mystical manual that the Sorcerer Supreme pulls many of his spells from makes a cool (and large) case for the five figures inside.

Once you get to the actual figures, you’ll find the quality, for the most part, didn’t stop at the packaging.

That Ant-Man box includes a very large Giant Man, an oversized but smaller Goliath, Hank Pym in lab coat (with Ant-Man helmeted variant head included), then a shrunken Ant-Man (Scott Lang) and an even smaller shrunken Ant-Man (Hank Pym once more). The three larger figures all have extensive articulation, from a multi-axis neck to legs and feet that turn and extend about as much as you could want them to. If you ever wanted to make Goliath dance with full leg extensions, you are in luck, my friends.

The smaller figures forego articulation naturally, for their minuscule size. They all maintain a high-level of quality, and all but the smallest stand easily on their own, stable and posable.

The Doctor Strange figures are all a standard size, aside from the Dread Dormammu, who towers slightly over the others. The same articulation is present, but the quality varies a bit more in this case. Brother Voodoo has incredibly detailed accessories and a look of the highest-end toys. Magik however, is so unbalanced that unless you use one of her soul swords as a crutch, you’re not likely to get her to stand on her own.

Aside from that one complaint, the figures all look great, with accessories, expressions, and highly-detailed painting that make them look like they leaped from a comic book page. The Book itself has several pages with descriptions of each character, and a human-sized Eye of Agamotto to throw on a necklace or use as the clasp for your classy red cape. It’s a little cheap, just a basic piece of plastic, but as an extra throw-in, it’s fun none-the-less.

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