Marvel Legends Blob figure review

Blob has been a long time coming for an update from Hasbro. He was the BAF for one of their first waves of Marvel Legends figures. As far as early Hasbro Marvel Legends go, Blob wasn’t awful just strangely over-detailed and grotesque. This was odd since most of Hasbro’s early run Marvel Legends were too simplistic with the sculpting and didn’t measure up to their Toy Biz counterparts.

It’s taken years, but Hasbro finally decided they were ready for the challenge of getting Blob right this time. The cool thing about adding Blob now is Hasbro has made some significant strides in building out the ranks of his team, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants ver. 2/Freedom Force.

Let’s see if the team’s heavy hitter (literally) helps tips the scales as one of Hasbro’s best deluxe figures of 2023 or if he buckles under the weight of my expectations.

Packaging:  Blob gets the modern deluxe packaging treatment with a picture of the figure and comic art background in the background. I do like the inclusion of comic art and a prominent X-Men logo in the front so you know his affiliation/rival.

The side art has more comic art and a picture of the figure with the alternate head sculpt.

My major gripe with this packaging is the lack of a bio or any kind of writeup. Instead, we just get another image of the figure and a smaller box of the accessories.

Likeness: Blob is probably going to be the only example of a figure that has less detail than the original being considered an improvement.

Sculptors on Hasbro’s first Blob had good intentions but went too excessive with Blob’s weight tripling up on the fat ripples and cellulite.

This time, the sculptor reeled it in big time. There’s still a little extra skin around the thighs and knees and he’s got a bit of a double neck, but it’s not done so overboard that he just looks weird.

In the comics, Blob was often drawn like a big, chubby baby and this fits that style much better.

The big challenge for Blob is getting his girth right. He’s somewhat egg shaped with a wider midsection.

Hasbro put in the extra work with the sculpt though actually sculpting the triangle points around his shoulders and giving the yellow bands around his wrists and waist an almost elastic like impression.

His default head sculpt is solid with a serious expression like he’s come onto an all you can eat buffet with a time limit on how long he can stay. The double(triple?) chins look great giving him a super thick appearance instead of a cartoonish one.

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Paint:  Blob has a simplistic paint job, but Hasbro incorporated some commendable extra details like the freckling throughout his skin. Hasbro did that with the previous version as well, but it’s not lost in fat rolls and gives the figure a more nuanced paint job.

The gold lining is sharp without much overspray from the midnight blue.

Scale:  Blob was more than just big. He was also fairly tall, towering over his teammates and standing just about eye to eye with Colossus.

Articulation:  Blob is not jumping around and doing cartwheels. He’s an immovable object type who doesn’t fight with speed.

Blob’s more content letting his opponents come at him and then shrugging them off with his near invulnerable body.

Blob has:

• neck
• ball-jointed shoulders
• elbow (with swivel)
• wrist
• wrist hinge
• torso
• waist
• hip
• thigh
• knee (double-jointed)
• ankle

Accessories:  Blob comes with an additional head — this time featuring a yelling mad sculpt. Hasbro keeps doing this weird thing with alternate head sculpts having different hair sculpts. I don’t have a preference, but consistency would be nice.

Additionally, he has a clutching right hand and a left-hand fist. That’s not a ton with this kind of deluxe figure.

Worth it?  I got him for $55.99. Considering the last figure was a Build-A-Figure where Hasbro spread him out over a ton of questionable figures this is a better deal although not nearly as a good as the Drax the Destroyer/Moondragon set with two figures for cheaper.

Rating: 9 out of 10

The value isn’t great for the figure, who would be a better deal $10 or $15 cheaper, but he’s a great addition to the X-Men villain ranks.

Where to get it?  You can still grab Blob from Entertainment Earth.

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