Absorbing Man Week!
Marvel Legends BAF Absorbing Man Review

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If you bought the entire wave, you do get some fun alternate parts too, crucial for any good Absorbing Man figure. In his basic configuration you have the normal head, normal left arm, and I figure the steel right arm. Extra figures net you a wood right arm and a stony left arm. The stone arm has an extra layer of thought put into it as the stone creeps all the way up to his shoulder and matches up with the alternate screaming head which features a full-on stone visage on the left have of his face. All these are plenty cool and actually serve as a reminder that I’d probably buy a completely stone, metal, or whatever version of this same figure. That would rock.

With of the parts being older, the articulation is a little different, but a lot of familiar areas: ball-joints at the neck, shoulders, wrists, hips, and inverted ankles; swivels at the biceps, waist, & thighs, double-hinge knees, single-hinge elbows, and the ab crunch. Everything works pretty well, but some areas could be better. The double barbell in the neck is a little limiting and the feet, despite having the awesome inverted joint, are partially blocked by the pants. If only Crusher tucked his pants leg into his boots.

The one miss here? The accessory. It’s that same damn wrecking ball. Again. We already got this a couple times with the wrecking crew – and actually painted, no less. It’s just in cast grey plastic here and is probably the worst we’ve seen it. I don’t mind him having it – he needs it’s incorporated in his powers since he was holding it when he drank the potion and gained his powers, but Hasbro just needed to make a better one than slapping this one in there. I’ve decided to thrown in Thunderball’s for him on the shelf though because it matches his arm better than his own unpainted version.

Overall, Absorbing Man is a great BAF right out of the gate for this year and he’ll be tough to beat. There are a few things I’d like better – different hips and the belt glued down, but the visual is there with quality articulation and as I always say that’s what makes a toy. He looks great on the shelf, he’s fun to play with, and he’s easily worth snapping up the whole wave (with plenty of great figures on its own) to get. The more classic Thor villains Hasbro does, and does this well, the happier I’ll be.

Alright! Looks like we made it! Absorbing Man Week is on the books! Now since Hasbro shows outright disdain for my wallet, it’s already time for Red Onslaught Week! We won’t do that next week, we’ve got something else planned, but check back after Toy Fair for that theme week! Thank you for being patient with the outages and checking out all the reviews. I’m off to take a bunch of Star Wars pictures!

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9 thoughts on “Absorbing Man Week!
Marvel Legends BAF Absorbing Man Review”

  2. Creel’s head almost looks like Michael Berryman? (FYI: Who’s father was an actual brain surgeon and one of the few qualified to perform a necessary operation on his young son…the rest is cinematic horror history.)

    I’m not sure about the upper arms being reused, but the torso is definitely mostly Terrax. I just compared the two and only the right hip ball connector is slightly different, like it’s a knockoff repro? looking closer at the left connector, there is also a slight difference, but comparing two random pieces, it may just be coincidental. (also, the right connector is on the ball, while the left is the joint inside the ball?? #phrasing)
    btw, my Terrax arms have the shoulder ball attached to the torso, not sure if they just popped off that way, or they originally came that way? I don’t have any of the Creel arms, yet.

    For his wrecking ball, many have already traded off the plain grey one for the painted Wrecking Crew, but most say they finally found a use for the extra ball that came with Piledriver, as Thunderball actually uses his. (#phrasing??)

    I never have seen a proper Creel figure, and always wanted the orange pants version especially, because of the “secret code” on him by Ed Wires. I recall teasing him he missed mine by one. Anyway, I hear they aren’t that outrageously expensive, these days? and may drop even more now that this figure is available and people want to “update” their collections?
    Meanwhile, I think I still have that “construction worker Goldberg” from ToyBiz’ WWF line filling in that spot? LOL

    also, those cartoons. not sure which is my favorite: Hulk or the faces. LMAO

  3. I think it’s time to embrace that you’re a Marvel Legends Collector and make a full ML checklist on this site. It’s LONG overdue!

  7. The paper towel joke. Man made me flashback to Deadpool.Merc with a Mouth tale where Wade’s in the Zombie verse and fights a Zombie version of this guy and tosses a roll of TP at him. Wish that joke that was left blank actually made it it in as he sliced his paper body to shreds.

    On the hunt and enjoyed this whole set of reviews and as always great comics/jokes.

  8. Great review.

    Question when I click the review index link it appears the most recent is a two face review from 2014… Is the link broken or is it just me?

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