{"id":19022,"date":"2015-04-27T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=19022"},"modified":"2016-06-15T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T19:40:17","slug":"avengers-2-movie-series-captain-america-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/avengers-2-movie-series-captain-america-review\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Avengers 2\" Movie Series: Captain America review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/av2m_cap1.jpg\" title=\"Captain America\" width=\"280\" height=\"475\" class=\"alignright\"><i>Steve Rogers is a soldier with superhuman strength and an indestructible shield!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yes... \"in\"destructible. Pay no attention to all the promotional materials showing the shield <a href=\"http:\/\/x.annihil.us\/u\/prod\/marvel\/i\/mg\/a\/03\/53d9279641b41.jpg\" target=marv>broken into multiple chunks<\/a>. Never happened. Nope.<\/p>\n<p>Captain America's suit in <i>Avengers 2: The Prequel (aka Avengers 1)<\/i> was pretty crummy. How bad was it? Hasbro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=13390\">made a figure of it<\/a>, but I never bothered getting one. The <i>A2<\/i> suit is better, though for this toy, most of the pieces are the same used for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ca2m_cap.php\">the <i>Winter Soldier<\/i> Stealth Cap<\/a>, just repainted - not only the arms and legs, but both heads (masked and unmasked), all four hands (a set of fists, a saluting right hand, and a pointing left hand) and even his shield are all the same molds seen before. The only new pieces are the upper and lower torso, and even those have very similar shapes to the stealth suit, so the only way you'll know is to compare them side by side.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/av2m_cap2.jpg\" title=\"visible ears FTW\" width=\"80\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft\">The colors are not as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/130829b.jpg\">Crayola-vibrant<\/a> on this costume as they were on the first movie's toy (which was one of the things that made that one so unappealing). We do lose the red gloves and boots, which is mildly disappointing, but it makes him look more like Ultimate Captain America. If they weren't going to remold the shield to give it cracks, it really would have been nice if they'd given it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfp_ripcj.php\">a \"damaged\" paint app<\/a>. If I were a better painter, I might do it myself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/av2m_cap3.jpg\" title=\"leg\" width=\"150\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignright\">He comes with the right leg of BAF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/av2c_tha.php\">Thanos<\/a>, a big and chunky piece with a lot more detail than you might expect. It moves at the ankle, shin, and double-hinged knee, and is painted a dark blue with gold and silver accents.<\/p>\n<p>This figure is decent, but getting it <b>really<\/b> makes me glad the first movie didn't have a BAF to force us into buying that Cap.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Marvel Legends: dat (tall) body\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/marvel-legends-dat-flat-body\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Marvel Legends: dat (tall) body<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #1 - Captain America &#038; Absorbing Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/minimate-mini-review-1-captain-america-absorbing-man\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #1 - Captain America &#038; Absorbing Man<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Target assembles the Avengers from everyday items\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/target-assembles-the-avengers-from-everyday-items\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Target assembles the Avengers from everyday items<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Need, want, have\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/need-want-have\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Need, want, have<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #60\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-60\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #60<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Why I'm not excited about Hasbro's SDCC sale Marvel Universe Goliath addendum The Bigger Kraglin Theory The complex history of Mantis \"Avengers 2\" Movie Series: Iron Man Mark 43 review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,25],"tags":[131,87,88],"class_list":["post-19022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-hasbro","category-marvel","tag-avengers","tag-captain-america","tag-marvel-legends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22651,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19022\/revisions\/22651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}