Marvel Legends Iceman figure review (2025) – Secret Wars
Iceman has had several Marvel Legends figures in the past, but they’ve all had problems. Whether the hair sculpt was wrong (Age of Apocalypse version based on his pre-Uncanny X-Force look), a weird looking head sculpt (X-Men Retro wave), too modern to stand in as a classic version (BAF Juggernaut version) or had a weird iced-up paint job along with a bad head sculpt (Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends set).
That’s to say most Marvel Legends collectors are still searching for a good Iceman figure.
Iceman gets an unlikely inclusion in the Marvel Legends Secret Wars wave thanks to his inclusion in the very limited European only wave back in the 80s. That was ironic since Iceman wasn’t even a participant in the massive 1980s crossover event. Let’s see if this take on ‘ol Frosty is actually pretty chill or can’t take the heat once again.
Packaging: As with the first wave of Secret Wars figures, Iceman has the fully vintage presentation with a colorful card back and a prominent Secret Wars logo. Iceman’s name is barely noticeable. The wide window shows off the figure and the various accessories.
Over on the back, Iceman gets a tiny bio that actually mentions his lack of participation in the event. There’s no cross sell hinting at a second Secret Wars wave or just a reminder of the initial wave.
A decent part of the back explains how the shield works.
Likeness: For another Iceman, the ML team ironically used the Sunfire body again. This is fine since Bobby Drake doesn’t need the Vulcan mold and the Sunfire one fits him fine.
His default head sculpt features a smile, which is the best choice for him since he’s one of the more playful and less intense X-Men. While I still prefer more of the blockhead look for his head, the sculpt has the more rounded cube version, which looks fine.
This time, the ML team got the belt right as it’s just a basic strip around his waist instead of having a circle buckle. In the comics, the way his clothes were portrayed was always inconsistent, but the belt is always prominent, so folks weren’t thinking he was running around without something covering his icy bits.
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Scale: Iceman is shorter than most of the classic X-Men, so he’ll be looking up to Angel and Cyclops as well as Banshee and Havok. With the Vulcan mold being the default for most male characters, Bobby looks appropriately shorter.
Paint: This has been tricky for Hasbro as there’s no one correct way to convey his ice. In the 80s, he was colored white with light blue accents and gradually shifted to a mostly light blue with white accents in the late 90s/early 2000s.
For this version, the ML team opted to make him largely translucent. The problem of course is Bobby Drake is Iceman and not Glassman so his limbs or in this case, joints, are visible when they should be opaque. I’ve seen a few fixes to cloud up his body so it’s a matter of figuring out which one works best. I’ll need to try something though because see-through Iceman isn’t working.
Articulation: The Sunfire mold has nice range on the butterfly shoulders, which is ideal since Iceman is definitely more of a projectile/energy fighter. Unlike the Retro figure, he does have some semblance of ice-spraying hands for generating his ice constructs.
Iceman has:
- neck
- ball-jointed shoulders
- bicep
- elbow
- wrist
- wrist hinge
- torso
- waist
- hip
- thigh
- knee (double-jointed)
- ankle
Accessories: Iceman comes with a mini ice-slide that’s repurposed from the Retro figure and again the paintwork on the slide is a better representation of how Iceman’s figure should have turned out with frosting accentuating the translucent parts.
He also has an alternate, teeth-gritting sculpt. The expression is hard to make out in a translucent figure. I appreciate a second portrait, but Bobby isn’t normally that angry in fights so a basic neutral one would have worked better here.
Next, he’s got a set of open hands that work for either of his next two accessories.
He’s got a snowball, which is a fun inclusion as it’s Bobby’s main taunting attack of choice.
The other is a set of ice blasts that attach to his wrists. Ideally, these would clamp around his fists or open hands to really convey the whole projecting ice deal. Thankfully he gets a new accessory.
Finally, he gets an orange lenticular shield.
Worth it? Iceman was $27.99. That’s a huge jump from the $20 Retro figure. He has more accessories, but he still would benefit from a deluxe presentation with more ice options specifically a larger scale ice slide. At nearly $30 a figure, Marvel Legends can’t justify the price point in most cases.
Rating: 9 out of 10
Iceman is an improvement over the previous versions, which was a small hill to climb. With better execution of the paint job, this could have been much closer to the definitive take on the character yet.
Where to get it? I got Iceman from RetroRoboToys, but you can also order him from Entertainment Earth or Amazon.com