I’m gonna be totally honest with you. My sole interest in this figure was too see if the figure could hold up as a first appearance or ’70s-era Beast. The old blue fuzzball was drawn smaller back then, not as tall or bulky as he’d later be depicted in the ’90s and beyond.
Yeah, I bought this classic Spider-Man villain with the sole intent of learning if he’d be good custom fodder for someone else. Miles Warren, aka the Jackal, never really struck me as a great villain. Sure, back in his first appearance, when he cloned Parker for the first time, he was interesting. But after that it got boring. Especially with the Clone Saga, although that did have its merits. We did get Ben Reilly, the Scarlett Spider (almost since he’s gone nuts and taken over the role of Jackal) …
The figure is great. It’s a beautiful piece of plastic that has a detailed sculpt and pops on the shelf. He has some of the most wonderful colors on this earth: green and purple. Yeah, he’s a furry Green Goblin ripoff, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t look awesome. There’s a ton of fur in the sculpt, and that means a ton of detail.
The articulation is great, blah blah blah Marvel Legends blah blah. It’s challenging to find anything new to say about the articulation. It’s super, it’s posable, and does everything you want it to do.
As for my original reason for wanting this figure … eehhh … I’m on the fence. I think he’d make a great first appearance grey Beast, and maybe a great first appearance blue Beast, but I’d need some more bulk on him to be my ’70s Avengers Beast or ’80s X-Men Beast. I know sculpts are done on computers these days, but he needs to be a little bit taller and little bit wider. Then he’d fit the bill.
The verdict: get this figure. It’s a great-looking figure of a classic Spider-Man villain. Even if you don’t use it for your Spidey shelf, you can probably outfit it with some 200x MOTU armor and make a killer goblin or orc.
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