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![]() Sabretooth/Blink
Minimates |
I love it when the hypothetical toys we talk about become reality! In the Age of Apocalypse Minimates review, we closed by laying out a couple potential two-packs we'd like to see, and now they've both come to store shelves! We're going to review them both at once, since we did the same thing with the original AoA sets.
Sabretooth is the main muscle from the X-Men team.
Just like in the "real" universe, Sabretooth started out as a villain. He was one of Apocalypse's lackies in the early days, but then something happened that never could have in the original timeline: he saw enough death and killing that he lost his taste for it. So he gave up on murder entirely and joined Magneto's resistance fighters.
Blink is the resident teleporter of the Astonishing X-Men team, whose primary mission was to halt the mutant cullings ordered
Blink was a popular character as soon as she was introduced, but she was slated for the chopping block from the beginning. Thus, the Age of Apocalypse was a good opportunity for the writers to bring her back to life, and they even allowed her to outlive her native timeline: while everyone else died as the bombs fell or was erased when time was righted, she was plucked out and allowed to carry on in the Exiles book. And for a while, she was the only one who had that honor (Sabretooth later joined her).
She gets the studded collar, of course, but hers is a new mold: it has a peg behind the shoulder to attach her quiver. She's wearing
See, she includes the same teleporting base as Magik, just as predicted, and while it's a great accessory, molded in translucent pink to match Blink's trademark color, the fact that the pegs are inset so far (cleverly making her look like she's stepping out of it) means that it doesn't really work with her super-long loincloth. So you have the choice of either stripping her to the waist - hubba hubba! - or bending it out of the way and hoping it goes back to its normal shape after. Pick your poison. She also includes one trans pink javelin with energy rising off the tip.
Nemesis was sent to destroy as many of Magneto's
Ah, "Nemesis." We've told you before who this character is and why he should properly be called Holocaust, and also why a toy would never, ever do so. He was described as Apocalypse's son, but it was never clear whether that was biological or metaphorical. For one thing, Nemesis was a blonde white guy, and Apocalypse is Egyptian.
Holocaust is wearing his protective armor,
Morph joined Rogue's team of X-Men in Chicago
In the original timeline, Kevin Sidney was known as "Changeling," not "Morph," and was an enemy of the X-Men. When he contracted cancer, he went to Professor Xavier, looking to atone for his sins. Chuck had Changling lead the X-Men in his place for a while, and while disguised as Xavier, Changeling died. In the revised timeline obviously none of that happened, and his powers continued to grow.
The Age of Apocalypse Minimate box sets were decent offerings of figures, make no mistake: these TRU exclusives just add to what was already there. All four figures are good, and it's amusing that they're the exact four figures we asked for - just in different combinations than we expected.
-- 06/20/11
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