I’m tired. After one of the most exhausting TRX workouts — scratch that — workouts I’ve had in a while, I can feel every muscle screaming as it begins to tighten. I can barely type, which is good since I don’t have anything good to say about Iron Lad.
Iron Lad is another figure from the ToyBiz Marvel Legends Young Avengers Box set. Nate Richards, aka Kang, aka Immortus, aka oh you get it. If you don’t, I’ll do my best to beg Benty or VeeBee or Hagop to write a full blown Kang article and to try to explain this complex character. Short end is, teenage Kang goes back in time for the Avengers’ help, finds them disassembled, finds new heroes, and forms the Young Avengers. Eventually the team finds out who he is and leaves. When he leaves he turns the armor into a new Vision, which eventually splits off into Vision and Iron Lad. Yeah …
That said, you get, like, three characters for the price of one. I just wish it was a better figure. I’m not certain what happened with this figure, but it is the worst of the boxset. While the sculpt does have all the characteristics of the character, it fails to live up to the comic book look: too skinny, looks like a marionette, and proportions are all over the place. It’s rather disappointing.
The articulation is almost all there, except someone forgot to put in thigh swivels, and with 45-degree pinned hips it makes any leg articulation useless. Otherwise all the great ToyBiz articulation is there, some of it only slightly but it is there. The shoulders can’t really extend, the sculpt of the shoulder armor prevents the wide spread. The ab joint moves, but only barely. Everything else is great. But the hips and shoulders really prohibit good posing.
The figure comes with a base just like the rest that shows off Jimmy Chueng’s art. Good, solid base. The figure stands well on it.
As you can tell, this isn’t my favorite figure, the missing articulation and sculpt don’t really do it for me. As a character, he’s kind of a blip, never really went anywhere. I suggest you skip this one. Unless you are a die-hard Young Avengers collector, then, yeah, you need him for the character. You can get this figure here:
