I went to Target yesterday with my friends. Getting there early meant I browsing the aisle all by my lonesome. I thought I found a good deal when I found this for $9.08. I thought this find was awesome for that price because I thought these would be two marvel universe-type figures. To cut the review short so I do not bore you. DO NOT BUY THESE FIGURES!!!
Concept series... w00t. In box these figures look really decent and I thought they would fit well with my small Marvel Universe collection . I should have left these guys in the box with the other Captain America toys.
Here is Captain America and Red Skull out of box. They look OK as display figures. The bodies are made of some kind of cheap rubbery plastics. The limbs however are made of a cheap solid plastic that feels like those cheap green army men. Or I could be swapping the plastics. I don't remember. I only had these guys long enough to take pictures play with them for like ten minutes.
Articulation for captain America. Ball jointed head. Shoulder joints allow for a lot of rotation. THE ELBOW JOINTS SUCK. They're on some kinda hybrid joint that allows for elbow movement as well as twisting. I prefer toys to have a shoulder rotation over this crappy joint. THE JOINTS CONNECTING HIS LEG TO HIS HIP SUCK AS WELL. For some reason they decided it was a good idea to use the Ironman 2 toy joints on this guy. You have to decide if you want Cap in a running pose or a side kick pose. He has mid-thigh rotation and some rotating ankles. I had to crack all the joints when I opened this guy up. Kind of scary because of the it felt like the toy was breaking in my hand.
Articulation for Red Skull. Head joint. Shoulder joints. Crappy hybrid elbow joints. Thigh joints are hindered by his uniform. Lastly knee joints. NO ANKLE JOINTS DUE TO HIS COSTUME. They could have given him ankle joints. I guess they didn't want to to because it might have made his Nazi boots look weird but at least it would have given him more possibility.
Size comparison. Marvel Universe Iron Spider-Man and deluxe Revenge of the Fallen Bumble. These guys are standard 3.75 inch figures. Captain America fits in well with any Marvel Universe collection but Red Skull stands out because he doesn't have a cartoonish look.
Close up of Captain America. I didn't want to take great photos. I didn't feel like they needed it. :(
Looks like a zombie
Besides the lousy shield (no picture, I apologize) Captain America and Red Skull come with these accessories. Captain America's shield is a cheap rubber plastic and it bends easily. It also attaches to his arm via stretched out plastic holders. Cap also comes with a handgun which isn't anything special and a helmet... yes a helmet. Cap already is wearing a helmet and someone else decided he should also be wearing another white helmet on top. Red Skull comes with a weird gun, I haven't seen the movie so I'm not sure what it is. He also comes with a flaming cube which I think is neat. The one thing about thhe set I like and it's the flaming cube which Skull cannot hold in his hand. Skull comes packed pseudo holding the flame cube via clear bands.
I really, really do not like these two toys. I'm going to give them to my friend Barry in hopes that he can customize them into something cool. I regret not saving the nine dollars for something cool and if anything I'm going to review a toy line before I impulsively pick them up. I've watched some Youtube reviews on other toys from this line and they all seem to sport the same weird joints so I probably won't be picking up any other figures from this line.
COLLECTORS: Stay far away from this one if you can. Unless you really need a Red Skull 3.75in figure then try to pick this up on clearance like I did. The weird joints I mentioned really bug me and overall they feel like really cheap toys.
PARENTS: Do not buy you children these toys. They will cry. I will cry. You will cry from your children crying at why you bought them such crappy toys.
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