Marvel in the 1990’s was the best decade for the brand in my personal opinion, with some unique and very compelling X-Men storylines such as Days of Future Past, Age of Apocalypse, and of course Jim Lee breaking boundary’s in 1991 when he launched X-Men #1. Let’s not forget that X-Men 1992 animated series that many of us reading this right now grew up watching. It was a great time to be a fan and these stories remain timeless in the hearts and souls of the fanbase.
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse has had some figures in the past from Toybiz in the 1990’s, Toybiz Marvel Legends, and even Hasbro offered AOA Sunfire as a HTS exclusive. Jumping ahead, this storyline is finally getting the recognition it deserves and we have a full wave of figures to check out, including a Sugar Man Build-A-Figure joining the line. It’s a good time to be a fan again and 90’s Marvel lives on again in toy form!
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Thank you to Zavvi for providing Hasbro’s Marvel Legends X-Men: Age Of Apocalypse Sunfire Figure for review.
Availability: June 2020
Sunfire is packaged in the standard single carded packaging with artwork and logo’s on the front, sides, and on the back is an image of the figure, a brief bio, and images of the rest of the wave, including Sugar Man.
Sunfire includes a translucent orange sculpt to create his mutant powers, and the quality of the figure is truly superb. Sunfire uses some shared parts with other figures in this line such as the legs, torso and upper arms, and given some new tools such as the head, upper chest and forearms that have the flame effects. The translucent plastic works well for Sunfire as you see the flame effects glow under light, which looks great. He has some black deco across his body that is mostly in shapes like squares and stripes as seen in the comics, and the flames have some bright orange plastic. His head sculpt includes a white face plate, with a red circle on his forehead, and holes through the eyes so that the plastic can be seen through them as well.
Sunfire includes two arms for Sugar Man and we highlighted his articulation in the video.
Overall, Sunfire is a great figure that fans will absolutely will be happy with. The attention to detail and character likeness is great to the source material, so make sure to grab him and others in the wave and build that Sugar Man figure!
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