Legends Marvel NOW! Capt. America

I was excited to see we'd be getting a new Captain America from Hasbro- yes, we were given an Ultimate Cap in the Hit Monkey Series recently, but he was missing the stars on his shoulders, and although the omission of wings on his head was correct, I was never comfortable with that aspect of the design. The Marvel NOW! Captain has a lot of similarities to Ultimate Cap and the movie Avengers Cap, as well as the classic Cap we all know and love. I sincerely loved the Marvel NOW! Captain America title this past year, wherein our star-spangled hero must fight his way through Dimension Z, protecting a child from Arnim Zola and the savage underlings of his world. Great stuff! The packaging on these new Marvel Legends is fantastic looking, and the figures can be easily removed and returned to their packaging, not bound by ties or rubber bands to the plastic insert tray. While I'll likely recycle this, it's a nice tough for collectors...

Inside the packaging is a nicely sculpted, well articulated, 6" action figure. Hasbro is hit or miss with their shading as far as paint apps go, more often the latter unfortunately, but they did paint the belt buckle. There are some quality control issues with the striped abdomen on these, this particular specimen suffering on his dorsal side. The first Cap I picked up was scuffed on the abdomen, so I returned it for this one, whose imperfections could not be detected until opened.

We get some excellent range in articulation throughout the figure, particularly in the ball-hinge neck and abdominal hinge. Cap has double jointed elbows and knees, swivels at the biceps, wrists, waist, upper thighs, and boot tops, and a generous rocker joints on his hinged ankles. I love how smooth the ball hinge hips work- very nice. Mine has some seriously tight shoulder hinges, but more unfortunately, some very loose pins in the knees- luckily, the ratchet style joints keep him from slipping under his own weight for the most part. 

Marvel NOW! Cap came with a shield very similar to those we received with the some of the others, which can be pegged into the hole on his back, or clipped onto his wrist. I prefer this to the plastic straps like we got with the Avengers Cap.  He's a neat action figure that suffers from the same joint and paint app issues a lot of mass produced figures do- it's par for the course, so to speak, especially from Hasbro. He can still take Loki hand-to-hand...   :D

Marvel Legends NOW! Capt. America with Commander Steve Rogers (still my favorite), and Avengers Capt. America...

Marvel Legends NOW! Capt. America with First Appearance Spider-Man, Avengers Hulk, Mark 42 Iron Man, Hope Summers, and Modern Thor...

More Later- Make It FUN!