Hasbro’s second wave of their popular Marvel Legends series is available now and introduces Warlock to the line as a build-a-figure. This new wave includes Cyclops, Colossus, Sunfire, Dazzler, Polaris, Logan, and Shatterstar, with each figure (excluding Logan) including a piece to build Warlock.
Growing up on his parents’ farm, Piotr Rasputin saw his older brother Mikhail become a Cosmonaut. Mikhail was later discovered to be a latent mutant with energy warping powers, and to keep him secret the government faked his death. In later years, Piotr learned that he too was a mutant, and could transform his flesh into steel, but he was content to use his powers to help his fellow farmers. When a transformed Piotr rescued his sisterIllyana from a runaway tractor, he was approached by Professor Charles Xavier, who was recruiting mutants for a new team of X-Men to help save his original students from the sentient island Krakoa. Dubbed Colossus by Xavier, Piotr reluctantly joined this new team, which freed the original X-Men and helped defeat Krakoa. After the battle, Piotr remained with the X-Men in America, though he found it difficult to adjust to living in a different culture.
Availability: March 2017 limited availability; April 2017
Colossus is based on the modern look as seen in Marvel Comics Extraordinary X-Men. It’s unclear to us as to why Hasbro and Marvel went with a modern costume, over a more classic 90’s Jim Lee design much like other characters in this wave (except for Old Man Logan as he is also a modern design). He is no stranger to Marvel Legends, but this also the first time that Hasbro is offering a comic version of the character, as the previous was X-Men 3 film, along with Toybiz’s two comic based figures in the early days of the line.
Colossus stands at just over 7-1/2″ tall and features a bulky figure sculpt. The sculpt is a great use for the character, and includes a muscular tone while deploying his steel mutant powers of strength. The costume is painted in a light orange, black and dark red, with an X logo on the upper left side of his chest. There is also metallic orange on the boots and wrist guards. The steel is a dark grey with a black wash over it, and it came out very nicely. The head sculpt does not have this wash, and the bearded head sculpt that is included just looks out of place. This may be how the character looks in the comics, but it just doesn’t look like it goes too well with him. Included with Colossus is the head of Warlock, as well as an attachment for Warlock.
Overall, this is a nice looking figure, and every fan will want to own one.
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