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Recently, Marvel Select released its latest piece, which is Gambit. I first bought the variant one because I think that modern look is the one that I'm really used to and I kind of think that the darker ambiance or feel of Gambit is cooler.
ToyBiz made a Gambit figure before and it has a cape made out of cloth and a really bendy cane. It also comes with a Sentinel Base which was a trending thing for X-Men figures that's released through the Marvel Legends line. The ToyBiz version is a bit slimmer than the other 6" X-Men figures and also shorter.
Anyway, going back to the Marvel Select Gambit.
Recently, Marvel Select has been releasing X-Men figures which is a bit of a trend already for the line. It started out with Cyclops, Deadpool, Magneto and Juggernaut. The line is starting to give collectors amazing figures and trying to go themed with every release given that they somehow go random at times.
The variant one sports the modern look which is the one with the longer hair that is dropped and not spiked, darker set of paint apps and a different look on the torso part.
The figure has 2 Extra set of hands.
A clutched hand for the cane.
Open palmed (This one can be attached to the 3-card accessory which sports an embossed portion for that hand)
CANE
Gambit won't be the same without his cane, eh?
The variant has the gold rendition of the cane but the same issue goes for the two. The canes are a bit short for action. I know that gambit can make it short and keep it in his coat -- but having this as the "extended one" -- well, It's a bit short, to be honest.
Dr. Strange has been a long-time favorite of mine. When I started collecting the 6" line, I really just wanted a few core figures - Iron Fist, Daredevil, Black Widow, Bullseye, Kingpin, Luke Cage (but the modern one never came out), and Dr. Strange. That's it. How my collection grew to its proportions today boggles my mind. Besides Strange being one of the most powerful beings in Marvel U, he's also one of the more interesting ones. Something about the character really got me hooked. I'm extremely glad that not only did he get the Marvel Universe treatment, he got it in style!
Sculpt
I find it amazing how detailed sculpt can be on figures this small. Some 6" figures from Hasbro don't even come close to the quality of the really good 3.75" ones. Ah, but then again, Hasbro's specialization really has been this scale even since G.I. Joe hit it big. Still, I appreciate how good the small figures have gotten despite the rocky start.
And by the Vishanti! Dr. Strange's sculpt is nothing short of amazing. The facial expression is full of all kinds of win, the detail on his cape is simply treat to behold. The sculpted hands may look like Spidey's, but they're still pretty nice; and, the creases on the clothes are very well made. All the tiny details you'd expect are there. I'm very happy with this figure's mold.
Check out his ear; even that's molded in nicely.
Maybe a few years ago, they would've drawn all the cape detail on instead of actually putting it in. That goes double for the Eye of Agamotto. Nice to see everything textured and in 3D!
A few months back I embarked on a quest to find a pair of kick ass gaming headsets. I was going through reviews of the Tritton AX5 and the Turtlebeach Ear Force. They all seemed to be perfect for the job, except for the fact that I was actually on a ridiculously tight budget. I would never be able to justify 5.1 or 7.1 headsets to myself given the moolah I had to work with.
I then went on a search to find kick ass stereo headsets under Php 2,000. Lo and behold, I was led to the Thermaltake eSports Shock Spin gaming headset!
Here is a video of the unboxing and my first impressions:
Ghost Rider has been getting some love lately - Marvel Universe figure, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 inclusion and a new seemingly more bad ass movie. Here's the trailer, folks.
Who knows when it'll be taken down or if it will be, because Taylor did say the trailer was exclusive to iTunes. That ain't on iTunes. Nicolas Cage is still a little too old to play Johnny Blaze, but goddamn that bike looks leagues better than the uber stylized one in Ghost Rider.
Pre-order your Modern Warfare 3 from Steam now and get absolutely nothing extra. So, I guess this really is just buying something way in advance. Because, you know, you really have to reserve digital copies because they run out of... disk space.
I was one of the millions of people who jumped into the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise because I got tired of the World War II FPS theme. I was immediately hooked. I spent hours upon hours of getting my ass handed to me by screaming 13 year old kids.
Fear Itself has been rolling along at full steam, and quite honestly, we like what we're seeing so far. The fights are epic in magnitude, the surprises have been unexpected (sort of), and the fallout from this event will be very interesting. However, the thing with the comic book industry is that it tends to spoil their own stories because of solicits. In exchange for truly not knowing the outcome of an event, we get some teasers to get us excited about what comes after. I guess if we really don't want to be spoiled, we should avoid solicits altogether, but sometimes they're just too damn tempting.
Marvel has released their post-Fear Itself Avengers lineup. I guess we know who lives and who dies (or goes missing).
From left to right, top to bottom: Vision, Spider-Man, Protector, Black Panther, Spider-Woman, Captain America, Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, Wolverine and Hawkeye