Strange Tales Marvel Legends: Brother Voodoo review

Like your parents always say, we're not mad, we're just disappointed. We want to understand.

Jericho Drumm carries on his family legacy Brother Voodoowhen he embraces his destiny to become a master of mystical powers, Brother Voodoo.

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 - TWO! - Brother Voodoo Marvel Legends 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. The first version was only available as an SDCC exclusive, sure, but the second was in the Doctor Strange 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 energy swirls is not enough to make this worthwhile.

BAF legYou'll need to get this figure if you want to complete the Blackheart Build-A-Figure, though, because he includes the right leg.

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 silly 1970s costume, do anything other 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.

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2 Responses to Strange Tales Marvel Legends: Brother Voodoo review

  1. FriendlyMirror says:

    At least you can remove the Eye from the cloak. So that's neat.

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