Kidnapped by the Weapon X program, mutant Wolverine barely survives 
the brutal experiments that bond Adamantium to his skeleton and the mind control meant to turn him into a feral killer.
Okay, so this Retro Collection figure is just the Series 5 figure with a few minor changes. So for all the finer details, we direct you to that review. The skintone is slightly lighter, the computer equipment he's wearing is a brighter silver. The paint apps on all that tech stuff is different (some different colors, some different placement) and the tubes are blue this time, rather than red. Instead of little black underwear, he's wearing brown - which blends in better with the battery belt, if you want to pretend he's accurately naked. The straps around the shoulders are different, with no buckle across the chest. There's more hair painted on the chest, arms, legs, and feet than before, but the fact it's darker makes the total lack of matching apps on the sides and back of the figure even more blatant.
While the last figure only had fists with claws, this new one gets a pair of open hands that also has the claws (big chunky ones, not little thin ones), as well as an open right hand and a left fist without any claws at all. Both heads are new: the radio control helmet probably could have been the same mold, though it isn't. And the face peeking out from beneath it has the lips open, rather than looking calm.
The other new head is, like before, bare. But while the 2019 toy had that mouth open, 
this one is fully calm and passive, just awaiting remote instructions. The sculpt is far superior, perfectly capturing Barry Windsor-Smith's "Weapon X" art, both in the structure of the face and the shape of the hair, and it has some of the medical ports on his forehead (and bare spots in the sideburns on his cheeks). The set also includes a new accessory, the big... filters(?) that hung over his cheeks before he got put in the helmet. That's done as a clever little ring that fits into a slot under that head's hair, so they just look like they're hanging in place by magic.
The previous Weapon X figure had some flaws, but was still good - and you needed it to build the Caliban Build-A-Figure. But this one is better in nearly every way, which is good news for us and great news for anyone who didn't get the older one.
