Ball Hinge Shoulders with Butterfly Swivel.The heavy cape is a major imposition to the articulation, but the usual super-articulation scheme is still present–it’s just hard to get X-Men Legends Morph into dynamic poses because of the heavy rigid cape. On the bright side, the designs on the costume are correct (albeit in colors I don’t agree with), and I think the yellow boots and gloves chosen work really well. Some shape-shifting heads or a comedic/joke head or handheld accessory would have gone a long way to making this figure more amusing. For a shapeshifter to get no alternate heads or transforming parts of any kind really sucks–particularly when I don’t think the interpretation of the one head we did get is correct to the storyline. The painted circles look great, but the cape itself can be a real pain the butt to attach firmly and pose in spite of.Īs far as accessories go–there’s bupkis besides the removable cape (which I would love far more if it was not removable) and the Sugar Man Build-A-Figure right leg. What I can’t live with is how cheap and gummy the peg on the cape is–it’s constantly falling out immediately, and the cape is so heavy that it often makes the figure back-heavy enough to just crumble backwards. It should be more magenta than dark purple for an AOA version, IMO, although I can live with the color chosen. The cape is wonderfully sculpted, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see it recycled for an Age of Apocalypse Magneto Legends figure sooner than later–but it also has problems. The portrait just doesn’t say “Age of Apocalypse” to me the way it should, which isn’t acceptable to me in an actual Age of Apocalypse figures series. In addition, Hasbro opted to go with with the heavily-shadowed eyes look for Morph, which– similar to the Blink figure I previously complained about–is much more closely associated with the Exiles version of the character than the AOA one. Consequently, the costume here looks totally off to my eye, despite the sculpting itself being mostly accurately done (although Morph’s yellow kneepads are also totally absent). In the Age of Apocalypse, Morph wears a bright blue costume with a navy design in the middle, but Hasbro chose a super dark blue as the primary color for this figure with black in the middle. There are some issues that really drag this Marvel Legends Morph figure down for me, which is a real bummer since I was looking forward to him so much.įirst off–and perhaps most damning to me–this figure just is not quite accurate color-wise. Well, unfortunately… I would have to say “Not exactly”. While there was a bizarre Toybiz Toyfare Exclusive AOA Morph figure decades back, Hasbro is finally delivering an official 6″ version of the character to fans as part of the Sugar Man wave! Was he worth waiting all these years for?
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So the X-Men animated series was my first exposure to Morph (Changeling), a shapeshifting funny man who quickly captured my heart.Įvidently, Morph’s appearance there caught the attention of the X-Men writers at Marvel as well, as the character was a surprise major inclusion in the X-Men Age of Apocalypse roster, and then went on to be one of the mainstays of the Exiles soon after. When the 1992 X-Men cartoon started aired when I was a kiddo, I wasn’t the hardcore X-Men fan then that I am today.
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