Hasbro ticked a lot of boxes for me with their panel Friday at SDCC, finishing off Excalibur with Rachel Summers, X-Force with Feral, continuing Crystar with Warbow, and finally doing Mephisto. Unfortunately for me, my favorite reveals (Warbow and Rachel) were not in the booth, but there was plenty of cool stuff to look at.

I was so charmed by X-Men ’97 that I am all-in for whatever they do with the line. They also are producing some of the most aesthetically pleasing figures Legends has ever done, so that’s part of it too. The Cyke and Jean set hits that perfect Phoenix Must Die issue look that I would get it anyway. I also really like that Jubilee is finally getting a new blast effect that better represents her sparkle power. Now I usually prefer the functionality of an ab crunch to ball and socket joints, but that ab crunch on Gambit is not doing him any favors and really does not help my argument at all. Still, it’s kind of a charming way to re-do these two.

I don’t know from Magic The Gathering, but these figures look pretty slick. Hopefully the price doesn’t get too jacked up by a card game I’m never going to learn, but I think that stuff is currently more popular than toys, so it might help get more people into our hobby which cannot hurt. The Man-Wolf I’m familiar with is the yellow suit, but this one looks really slick and quite an upgrade from the old Legend. That’s the kind of bronze-age weirdo shit that I love, so he’s my priority here. The other two I could take or leave.

Mephisto looks dope. I’m getting him. That’s all I have to say about that!