{"id":27613,"date":"2018-11-26T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=27613"},"modified":"2019-07-25T04:44:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T08:44:45","slug":"x-men-marvel-legends-sabretooth-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/x-men-marvel-legends-sabretooth-review\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men Marvel Legends: Sabretooth review"},"content":{"rendered":"

A skilled assassin armed with sharp, beast-like fangs and claws, Sabretooth is a paid mercenary of evil.<\/i><\/p>\n

A paid<\/b> mercenary, is he? Not one of those freelance pro bono mercenaries you're always hearing about? How fancy! This Sabretooth is built on the big body<\/a>, same as the Wolverine Legends<\/i> figure<\/a>, but he's wearing the superior Jim Lee costume. It's hard to drastically redesign a comic character's costume and have people embrace it, but Lee managed. The suit is brown and orangey-yellow, with a big stripe down the center and tiger slashes on the biceps and thighs. Like his original costume<\/a>, he's got a thick pad of fur on his shoulders, but the sides no longer meet in the middle. The toy gets new forearms, so he can have his traditional 1990s elbow-spikes.<\/p>\n

The head is new, as well. While the unpopular and short-lived costume the last toy was in also had one of those '90s-style head-socks, that Sabretooth had a full beard and longish hair - this one just has the fuzzy burnsides muttonchops and the short hair (though this costume was also drawn with long, Tyler Mane<\/a>-inspired hair), and his mouth is open in a great lopsided growl.<\/p>\n

Though the fur collar is a separate piece that plugs into the toy's backhole, we wouldn't really count that as an accessory; thus, the only pack-in Sabretooth comes with is the left arm of Apocalypse<\/a>, this series' Build-A-Figure.<\/p>\n

While Victor Creed has had about half a dozen different costumes since this one, he keeps defaulting back to it (or small variations on it) any time he goes without appearing for a while, so this figure is a welcome new release! However, if you prefer a unique sculpt (and a larger size), you're better off with the Marvel Legends 5<\/i> figure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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