Marvel Legends Tigra

I finally lucked out and found the elusive Marvel Legend Tigra. I have been looking for this figure high and low since it came out and that has been awhile now. I was stunned and pleasantly surprised to find her waiting on the pegs for me when I got to the toy aisle. As with all find like this one I quickly grabbed her and held close to me as if they we come stray mountain lion about to pounce on ahead me. I happily went to check with my purchase and when the check asked me how I was doing I replied with a resounding “Great” like I was Tony the tiger. Okay enough with the cat references and lets take a look at this figure.

While I was happy to get her to finish my West Coast Avengers display and I will be content having her I cannot say she is a great figure. She suffers from the same problem as the Marvel Legends have since Hasbro ruined.... I mean took over the line. She is just not a very good figure. My first problem with her is likeness, although there are some beautiful drawings of her on the side panel of the Hasbro Legends line that is one of the things I like about their packaging compared to Toybiz. Hasbro’s product is way easier to open than Toybiz, everyone remember getting out the hacksaw to get into Toybiz’s plastic nightmare. If you review the pictures on the artist panel you will see that none of them look like the figure presented. In fact it look like to me they almost took the head from the X3 movie Jean Grey Dark Phoenix and put it on this body and re-colored it orange. The probably didn’t but it is close enough to make you wonder.

My next problem is Hasbro has given us another figure that will not stand; it took me five minutes to finally get her to stand by herself only to find her toppled over this morning. I guess she will be a wallflower is this display. Hasbro uses the same crappy inferior plastic that they chose to use for their entire product that looks cheap and dull next to ToyBiz efforts. These two thing are what I believe killed the line for collector but Hasbro wants us to buy their GI Joe sized version of the Marvel Universe so they don’t really care about the six inch line anymore. Speaking as a person who own over 500 action figure maybe more with customs I’ve made, I can tell you I’ve spent probably upwards towards $5000 dollars total on DCDirect, Marvel legends and custom I’ve made. I have not intention of starting over in a new scale, sorry Hasbro but that’s they way it is. I will still buy a few choice figures in six inch that strike my fancy but I’m pretty much done with my Marvel collection due to this.

There is not much else to say about poor Tigra, the body is not too bad and has the general articulation that Hasbro went with. Although most of this review has been negative, I will say finding her gave me momentary happiness and that all we can ask of these little pieces of plastic in the end. Overall I give her a C in grade and she makes the West Coast Avengers original member’s display look complete with the help of my customized Mockingbird that is. So that makes me a bit happier with her. I’m going to see if I can get her to stand up again.