I preordered this Marvel Legends Stan Lee from Target in February, the perfect addition to any Marvel Legends collection. Hasbro originally planned him as a BAF that could be assembled by purchasing some of the 2-packs offered a couple years ago, but decided to release him alone in his own deluxe box, a tribute more fitting of a man of Stan Lee stature. Excelsior!
Stan was packed with a portable chess board that I wish opened, a prop from his cameo in The Avengers (2012), but made up for it with a signed Capt. America shield that looks fantastic! I've heard some comments regarding his loafers, that tennis shoes would have been better, but I don't mind them. The Members Only jacket and trademark glasses are great, unique pieces, and the portrait with slicked back hair is spot on. I really looks like Stan!
Though a more realistic rendering inspired by the MCU cameos he starred in, Stan Lee can be paired or grouped with any of your Marvel Legends collection, movie or comic based. His singular look just works with anyone. Hands from other Marvel Legends like Spider-Man or Iron Man can be pegged onto Stan's arms, taking on the powers of Marvel heroes Stan co-created or wrote adventures for during his decades long career. Below, Stan Lee battles Doctor Doom and Thanos and leads a few of his Mighty Avengers- Capt. America, Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor and Iron Man...
The profundity of Stan lee's influence on me had become more apparent to me in the last ten years of writing this blog, captured by my love for comics again as an adult by some of the lore I Marveled in as a child, so many years ago. I absolutely love having Stan in action figure form, a figure that will appear more in future posts of Marvel Legends figures on the blog. Sure, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, and John Romita, among countless others, had as much and more to do with the creativity born out of the bullpen, but there was no greater "character" from Marvel than Stan Lee, the World's Ambassador of Comics forever immortalized by this spectacular offering from Hasbro.
R.I.P. Stan Lee 1922-2018
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Really cool figure. He deserves on and it looks like they did a good job. Great look at this figure. Thanks.
ReplyDelete...definitely one to pick up, Bulldog- thanx 4 reading!
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