Nick Fury is the final figure from the ToysRUs exclusive Agents of Shield 3-Pack featuring Maria Hill, Phil Coulson and Nick Fury. All three characters feature their Marvel Cinematic looks, meaning they take after the actors and not the comic character. In other words, you are getting a sweet Samuel L. Jackson head sculpt in Marvel Legends.
This isn’t Jackson’s first foray into action figure immortality, he was released in the earlier Avengers Marvel Legends series and he’s been released as a McToys Shaft.
There is still some controversy over Jackson being Nick Fury. Its one of those weird comic changes come to life in movie come to life in comics. In the Ultimate Universe comics, Bryan Hitch and Mark Millar based their Nick Fury off Jackson, that is to say in this new parallel universe the Nick Fury we all know from the “main”, “616” Marvel Comics timeline never existed. But the use of “Jackson” caught on like wildfire and was used in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And it worked! It worked so well that the Jackson Fury was also brought into the 616 universe. And that’s where the controversy exists, in the the “this isn’t the Nick Fury I grew up with” argument. IBentMyManThing covered this in his own special way eons ago and you can read more about here.
The figure isn’t new, RoboKillah already covered the base in the Captain America Marvel Legends Infinite Heavy Hitters article and I took some pics a long time ago of Winter Soldier which used the same base. At one time I loved this base when it was released on Punisher in the Nemesis Series and IBentMyManThing spoke of it in the Epic Heroes Series. It’s a fine base figure but it’s showing it’s age, it no longer holds a candle to the new younger Marvel Legends sculpts.
The articulation is excellent, but the jacket inhibits movement at the armpits and the ball hips are tucked into the hips and the thighs so tightly that they really don’t allow for much movement. Also this figure has no rocker ankles, which should be a crime against toy collectors at this point and time in history. Here’s the breakdown:
Hinged ankles
Swivel ankles
Double hinged knees
Swivel thighs
Ball hips
Ball abdomen
Ball shoulders
Swivel biceps
Double hinged elbows
Swivel wrists
Hinged wrists
Hinged neck
Ball head.
I love the head sculpt and was super excited for this figure as I wanted to make the 616 Nick Fury Jr, however the ball joint on the Stealth Suit Captain America was smaller than the neck ball joint on Fury which means Fury’s head doesn’t really fit on Cap without some modification. I was bummed as I wanted a quick switch.
Fury comes with 2 guns. He can only hold one at a time as the left hand is Red Skull’s Cosmic Cube holding hand.
I really don’t recommend this figure, it has a great head sculpt and that’s about it. For those of you wanting a cinematic Nick Fury or a Nick Fury Jr. this this figure comes with perfect head. Otherwise its another one for the fodder bin.
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