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Marvel Legends Avengers Series 6-Inch Taskmaster Review
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Aug 15, 2024
Henchmen booster Russ "Dog" Dobler finally has the newest, best Taskmaster figure there is, and he's almost speechless! But is that a good thing? Find more reviews and news for toys, comic books, cosplay and more on our website at http://www.aiptcomics.com Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AiPTcomics/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AiPTcomics/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/AiPTcomics/
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Hey everyone, it's Dog for AIPT and what have we got here
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Well that's some Hydra guys, the Hydra 2 pack from Toys R Us, rest in peace
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You've already seen me unbox that. What's this over here? Oh my goodness, it's the poor AIM guy on his knees begging for his life
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You saw me unbox that too. But here's a little AIM guy and oh look at that, a little Shadow Council soldier
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We're into some hero clicks now. And a guy from Ultimatum, all hail the Flag Smasher
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And a henchman from the original Secret Empire. Is it a sex thing
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I don't know. And look at this, a little Hammer guy from, you know, a Norman Osborn henchman
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I like henchmen in case you didn't know. But you know, somebody's got to teach all these henchmen
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They don't just drop out of the sky and that's what Taskmaster is for
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But we really like this Taskmaster, he's got some kind of laser sword. He's got the, I don't know, it just doesn't look right to me
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So thank goodness for the real Taskmaster. That's right, the Marvel Legends Avengers series classic Taskmaster. Finally
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Now that looks like something I'd want to put on my shelf
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Finally got it. I can't wait to tear this open and see how he handles
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Alright here he is, Tony Masters, the Taskmaster himself. And hey, I didn't realize this when he was in the box
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He's got a cape! Good! He should have a cape, a big flowing white cape for no good reason
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I'll tell you one thing, the cape made him a little hard to get out of the box
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The figure was where you would expect it to be, on the top side of the plastic, but the
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cape actually came through the back side. And you really had to tear into the plastic to get the cape out
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I'm very glad he has the cape, but he can kind of rest back on it like a rocking chair
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I don't know if that's good or bad, but it kind of makes him kind of lurch forward a
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little bit when he's standing. Not always. There is, you can see this, I'm going to turn him over, come on, is a hole in the back there
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where you can put that peg to get the cape to stay in one place
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The problem is, it doesn't really work that well. You can put it in, I have to take my word for it, you can put it in and you see the
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stiffness of the cape again, how that kind of detracts a little bit
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So we'll just rest him on it. There. Weapons, he's got the shield of course, the sword, my sword has a little bit of a, let's
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see on the other side, where is it now, a little bit of a ding there
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You can barely see it, so not so bad. The gun I think is pretty obviously a repaint from something else, but it looks good, it
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matches everything, so that's cool. Is that damn cape getting in the way again
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The face, I kind of have a problem with, I'm not sure why, it's obviously better than the
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Udon mask, but I don't know, something about it, it looks more skeletal than Taskmaster
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to me for some reason. And there you see the grip on the sword is maybe a little unnatural, all the standard
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posability that you'd expect from Marvel Legends. So yeah, that's what he looks like
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What do I really think about this? You know, I hate to say this, but I am fairly disappointed in this Taskmaster figure
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This might be the instance where if you're one of those people who keeps your toys mint
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in box, like our toy editor David Hildebrand does, you'd probably like this one a lot more
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because you saw the box, it looks great in the box, it looks nearly perfect except for
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some undetermined issues with the face there. But man, you take it out and things just don't really go the way you want them to
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We saw the cape issues before, there's also this flappy part here, which I mean I guess
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is good, it's authentic, but the cape can kind of wriggle all over and it's just strange
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that it's this thick. I mean I'd rather have this than the felt stuff that you get from Vesco necessarily
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but it just, I don't know, it just seems way too loose
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And of course it has the, move this out of the way, has the floppy utility belt
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Although this isn't as floppy as some of the other ones. It has a floppy gun holster, didn't show you that before
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And look there, you know, the sword in the hand looks kind of cool, but I don't know
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I guess there's a lot of undefined malaise I have about this figure
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Lots of good ideas, looks good in the packaging. Not so good once you take it out and play with it like you're supposed to do with a toy
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I don't regret buying it, there isn't a better Taskmaster out there, but I think this still
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isn't the one that we were waiting for. So if you like what you see, go ahead and add it to your collection
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You're probably never going to get another one better than this. So baby Taskmaster fans, we take what we can get
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Thanks for taking a look, this is Dog for AIPT
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