Pros: great likenesses, good playability.
Cons: too soft plastic, "snarl" faces not as dynamic as claimed
The bottom line: An Admirable Effort Worth the Support
Eventually, someone has to use the phrase "tooth and claw" to review this, so I'll just get it out of the way.
Logan, the man code-named Wolverine, is haunted by his unknown past. The feral mutant with the fast healing factor and the superhuman senses of smell, sight, and hearing has no idea how he mysteriously acquired a skeleton and claws made from an unbreakable metal alloy known as Adamantium. As he wanders the country soul searching and looking for answers, a gigantic, ferocious mutant brawler named Sabretooth stalks him. The savage hunter with nearly identical powers to Logan is obsessed with defeating his enemy in a no-hold barred fight to the finish. It will take all of Logan's will and courage to defeat his monstrous opponent when these two feral fighters finally come face to face as Professor Xavier's X-Men battle Magneto's Brotherhood.
First off, I just want to say how cool the packaging for this line of figures is: the "block and X" design of the card really allows the figures to stand out, and the giant red X at the top of each card detaches to become a display base for the figures. The second item of note is that while these figures are both made from the same mold as the single-packed figures, they have been changed. For instance, Sabretooth wears a torn and stitched coat, his arms are different, and where the single version wears a set of dog-tags around his neck, this version does not (a nice little detail for those who've seen the movie already). Even his action feature is different: the original figure turns at the waist for a side-to-side swipe, and this one moves at the shoulders for an up-and-down attack.
Wolverine stands 6" tall and has 13 points of articulation. When you turn his waist, he slashes the air in a whirlwind motion. Sabretooth is 7", with 12 points of articulation. Squeeze his legs, and he swipes his claws. Both figures have a lever on their back that controls the changing expressions; press the switch, and a tab inside the head moves the soft rubber of the faces, dropping the chin and bunching the eyebrows a bit. While the change isn't as drastic as the pictures on the back would lead you to believe, this is a pretty good result for the first time this action feature has been attempted.
One problem with this set is that the plastic used to create the expressions is rather soft, and can dry out easily, leading to cracks, tears, and the face simply ripping apart. I got my set at the beginning of the run, though, so it's possible this has been changed as shipments continued
