Marvel Legends Retro Quicksilver review
Quicksilver was one of the most important members of the Avengers. He, Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye were tasked with keeping the title afloat after founders Iron Man, Thor, Giant Man & The Wasp left. If readers didn’t take to them the Avengers could have been a fun concept that didn’t make it past the 70s.
Fortunately, Cap’s Kooky Quartet had tremendous staying power creating the new Avengers foundation from issues 16-50. That’s part of the reason Quicksilver in his original green costume has been on Marvel Legends’ wishlist for a while. And there’s that whole stint as an original member of The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Quicksilver might have had the fastest order window. He was up at 10 am to kick off Walmart Collector Con and I got my shipping notification that he was arriving the next day. Didn’t see that coming.
Let’s see if this version of the fleet feet mutant proves to be another contender for my Marvel Legends Top 10 list for 2024.
Packaging: The package is the standard setup for the Retro packaging. We’ve seen this lately with…Retro Scarlet Witch and Tigra. I can’t place the artist this time, but it’s a nice, classic portrayal of Pietro Maximoff.
The bio is solid explaining that the twins joined the Avengers after leaving Magneto’s Brotherhood. It’s simple, but effective and that’s all that was needed here.
Likeness: Hasbro wisely didn’t switch up too much from the Family Matters three pack Quicksilver. The biggest is Pietro has a new head sculpt.
I mostly liked the previous one even though it was a tad oversized and lacked the hair wisps that’s common for him. This Retro version fixes those issues with a head that’s scaled better, has his distinguishable hair wisps and even has better face printing, which provides a more expressive portrait that shows off his cocky personality better.
Quicksilver doesn’t have as many distinguishing features save his two points atop his hair. Hasbro opted for a running hairstyle with the hair points not prominent at all. The head is also larger than I’d like by a fraction. It’s got a slight hint of arrogance with a smirk showing his supreme confidence in his abilities.
He’s using the Sunfire mold, which is a smart choice for him especially as more average sized characters get the larger Vulcan buck. Early on, Quicksilver’s costume had slightly flared shoulder pads and pixie boots with wings on them.
Like many early costume designs, the flared shoulder pads didn’t stick around, but the pixie boots endured for a much longer time. Their omission isn’t awful, but it would have added to the initial appearance vibe associated with this costume.
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Paint: Quicksilver’s outfit didn’t change from his original colors to his signature sky blue. But the Family Matters figure had some mistakes namely carrying the outfit up around his neck. The Retro figure fixes that by having the appropriate circle collar appearance. The hue of green seems accurate though again it seems like the Marvel Legends team doesn’t have access to old issues otherwise they would have caught the glaring mistake.
His costume should have yellow green gloves, shorts and boots. is darker than it is in the comics, but the blue is consistent with a bold white lightning bolt across the right shoulder to merge with the belt. Instead, the figure is painted as a color shift of the blue attire with white gloves and boots with black tights. It’s weird when Hasbro’s ML team misses these big issues.
Scale: Thanks to the scale fixes with the head, Quicksilver fits in better alongside Hawkeye, Captain America, Scarlet Witch.
He lines up just fine with other Avengers like Iron Man and Thor as well as his proud pappa, Magneto.
Articulation: The Sunfire mold allows Quicksilver to hit all the necessary running stances and poses.
His neck range is impaired by Hasbro’s updated neck peg. This can be fixed with a Dremel to provide more clearance, but it’s an unnecessary extra step that Hasbro could have addressed right away.
He is able to hit some very easy action racing shots. And he’s got no problem hitting punching and other offensive running moves either.
Quicksilver has:
- neck
- ball-jointed shoulders
- elbow (double-jointed)
- bicep
- wrist
- wrist hinge
- torso
- waist
- hip
- thigh
- knee (double-jointed)
- ankle
Accessories: Quicksilver comes with an alternate set of fists. Despite the card art showing them, he does not come with flat palm/running hands.
Ordinarily that wouldn’t be a big deal since the previous Quicksilver did come with those flat palm hands. Only problem is they were done in a pearlescent white so it’s not an exact match for the stark white with the retro figure.
That’s it in terms of accessories for him, which is one of the weaker accessory rollouts since the ML Ant-Man exclusive figure.
You can swap out this head on the FM Quicksilver.
Worth it? Pietro is $24.97 right now. It’s a nice figure and an upgrade in a number of ways compared to the original figure, but it really needed more accessories to feel like a fair price for this repaint with a new head sculpt.
Rating: 9.7 out of 10
The ML team was the proper lime/yellow-green paint apps away from this being essentially a perfect Quicksilver figure. He’s still pretty good, but the outfit colors being off does dinge this great figure down a little.
Where to get it? Quicksilver is a Walmart exclusive, He’s still available now on Walmart.com.