Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Brown)

3-3/4" is the new 6". At least, according to Hasbro, a company that's already cornered the 3-3/4" market with their long standing Star Wars line and the newly revived G.I. Joe line. With the economy as it is, what better way to help cut costs than to create their new Marvel toy lines in the smaller 3-3/4" scale. And when I mean their new lines, I'm talking about the general Marvel Universe line and the specific X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie line.



For the first wave, all of the Wolverine figures are inspired by classic comic book counterparts instead of the upcoming movie. This may be to help warm up fans and collectors to the new line before unveiling the actual movie figures. The figure I'm reviewing tonight is Wolverine in his classic brown/orange costume. This is (or not) a variant of the Wolverine figure in the usual yellow and blue. (They share the same body type except for the head and boot sculps.)

The nice thing about the figure is that he has the same amount of articulation and detailing as some of his larger counterparts. This is something Hasbro's been really excelling at with their Star Wars figures. Good ol' Wolvie here has double jointed knees, ball hinged head, shoulders, elbows, and ankles. The one thing I'm not a fan of is the ball hinged hips. Didn't like 'em in the larger scale, still not a fan now.

I don't have any real complaints about the figure. It's nicely done, faithfully to the comic book costume. (It's actually brown and orange, not brown and yellow as it's mistakenly done in the past.) The paint ops stays inside the lines, though the brown on his chest doesn't quite match the rest of the figure. Two things I'd like to point out are his head and his claws.

I wasn't really thrilled when I first saw his face. I'm still not liking the tiny white dots for eyes, but the feral grin makes up for it. His claws, this time around, are a single piece of plastic with black stripes to give the illusion that they're separate. What's nice about this is no more bent or deformed claws. Unfortunately, it also come off a little cheap that they couldn't make them separately.



In a perfect world, the figure would come with alternate non-claw hands and an alternate head with no mask. Unfortunately, all Wolverine comes with is a samurai sword (the one from Wolverine Origins, of course) and that seems a bit redundant, considering that he's already got claws.

Overall, it's a solid figure for a costume that doesn't get the attention it deserves. I wonder what the movie figures will look like? B