Marvel’s Destroyer
Now that the X-Men mania has died down and Jon Favreau’s Iron Man are done, we’ve got other Marvel franchises to keep us up to our ears in comic book geekiness. First up is Kenneth Branagh’s Thor, starring Chris Hemsworth coming up in May.
To whet our appetites, Playkit, Hasbro, and Toy Kingdom decided to launch the Thor movie toy line a bit early. These babies have been out in the States for a few weeks, but I’m glad to see them on shelves here. Unfortunately, there’s quite a lot more miss than hit for me, and looking at how many Thors were clogging the pegs at Megamall last Saturday, I’m not the only one.
There isn’t anything wrong with the design of the movie, which from what I can tell from the trailers is really great. It’s more of an issue of porting those ideas into plastic form. The new figures just look kind of… dull.
There are several subsets in the new line, from roleplay toys (probably the best bet if you have a kid) to a 3.75” line of figures which seems to be plagued with issues (more on that in a later review). Until the 6” figures arrive, the only one I was gunning for was the 8” Rotocast figures.
There were 3 figures from this line at the event last weekend; two Thors whose only real difference was one lit up and the other didn’t, and Destroyer.
Destroyer was the one I was really looking forward to. At 8”, he’s a nice height to pit against my 6” Marvel Legends Asgardian.
He comes in a pretty nice package that displays him well, but since it’s an open box, he’ll take a lot of abuse on shelves. It’s probably a good thing these kinds of toys don’t stay too long there. Remember the 8” Rotocast War Machine that dissappeared from shelves in the span of one morning? I’ve got a feeling that these will be the first to run out, especially since Playkit doesn’t stock many of them.
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