Long LONG review of the
Marvel Legends Red Hulk Wave!
Originally posted at http://slangards.multiply.com/reviews/item/97 on Feb 3, ‘09
I’ve been wanting this wave since I heard about it. Mostly because of the Build-A-Figure was a Hulk figure, but also because the line up has some really great characters that haven’t had any plastic love from previous Marvel Legends waves. The main problem with trying to secure one though is that it’s an “exclusive”. Hasbro decided to make this set of figures exclusively available to Target stores. Whenever a toy company decides to do this, it’s notoriously hard to secure a set unless you do so online. When I got mine, prices were already skyrocketing… left orbit even. People on PinoyToyKolekotors were already selling it for P10,500, which is actually a fair price considering the rarity of the set now.
Luckily, I scored mine at P8,700 at V Toys in Greenhills. If you’re looking, I also saw one set of 6 at Great Toys Greenhills for P8,500, but it only has one Wolverine. The set I bought came with both and the variant Spiral (initially I preferred the normal silver Spiral, but the gold is growing on me). P8,700 works out to P1,243 per, which is less than what you’d see singles being offered for. The lineup is as follows.
Adam Warlock, Black Costume Spiderman, Black Costume Wolverine, Yellow Costume Wolverine, Union Jack, Silver Savage, and Spiral (gold variant)
Unlike the Fin Fang Foom wave, the Red Hulk wave doesn’t have a lot of related characters. Though Silver Savage and the Red Hulk come from the same comic title, the characters aren’t in the same arc and never interact. None of the others have anything in common. I’m barely familiar with some of them, but others fill holes in my collection. All in all it’s a nice rounded line up with some good figures.
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