{"id":43807,"date":"2025-03-11T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=43807"},"modified":"2025-03-15T00:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:53:28","slug":"strange-tales-marvel-legends-brother-voodoo-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/strange-tales-marvel-legends-brother-voodoo-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Tales Marvel Legends: Brother Voodoo review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like your parents always say, we're not mad, we're just disappointed. We want to understand.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><i>Jericho Drumm carries on his family legacy <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/stml1_bv1.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"575\" alt=\"Brother Voodoo\" align=right style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 15px\">when he embraces his destiny to become a master of mystical powers, Brother Voodoo.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Why? Why is this figure a thing? Is the world's biggest Brother Voodoo fan holding Hasbro's family members hostage? What possible excuse is there for releasing this today? This figure is functionally identical to the two - <b>TWO!<\/b> - Brother Voodoo <i>Marvel Legends<\/i> released before. The cape is different, the wristbands are different, the facepaint is more subtle, the chest is the one that has a few cloth \"wrinkles\" on the pecs and abs instead of pure muscles, but this is 100%, unequivocally, without question a figure that was not needed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/hmlx_bov.php\">The first version<\/a> was only available as an SDCC exclusive, sure, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=23279\">the second<\/a> was in the <i>Doctor Strange<\/i> movie line, and was so plentiful that it ended up at discount stores like Five Below. Casting his staff from translucent purple and including some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/xm972_gq.php\">energy swirls<\/a> is not enough to make this worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/stml1_bv2.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"95\" alt=\"BAF leg\" align=left style=\"margin:0px 10px 0px 0px\">You'll need to get this figure if you want to complete the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/stml1_bh.php\">Blackheart<\/a> Build-A-Figure, though, because he includes the right leg.<\/p>\n<p>Making a new toy of Brother Voodoo is fine: the problem is making him in the same goddamn costume everybody already had two shots at getting before. Even if you keep the head and the stick, do his Uncanny Avengers costume, do his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/hmlx_bov08.jpg\">silly 1970s costume<\/a>, do anything <b>other<\/b> than the same version of an exceedingly minor character for the third straight time, or take him out of the line and swap somebody else in. Because (until somebody corrects me because I missed some huge secondary market demand that cropped up in the intervening years for a figure that could have been had, new, for $5) this is junk.<\/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=\"Squadciety Goals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/squadciety-goals\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Squadciety Goals<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #136\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-136\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #136<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Vitruvian HACKS 2020 Deluxe Advent Calendar review - Day 16\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/vitruvian-hacks-2020-deluxe-advent-calendar-review-day-16\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vitruvian HACKS 2020 Deluxe Advent Calendar review - Day 16<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Gareth (In Memorium) review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/walking-dead-mystery-minis-gareth-in-memorium-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Gareth (In Memorium) review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Hershel Greene review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/walking-dead-mystery-minis-hershel-greene-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Walking Dead Mystery Minis: Hershel Greene review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like your parents always say, we're not mad, we're just disappointed. We want to understand. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;X-Men Marvel Legends: Henry Peter Gyrich review Rustin's Spoils of the Week #177 Flippin' through Previews - February '12 X-Men Marvel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/strange-tales-marvel-legends-brother-voodoo-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[131,318,88,153],"class_list":["post-43807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-hasbro","category-marvel","tag-avengers","tag-dr-strange","tag-marvel-legends","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43807","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=43807"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44173,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43807\/revisions\/44173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}