MAFEX No. 179 Magneto (Original Comic Version) Review and Images

It's Wednesday and you know what that means... ToyFarce review!

This week, we're having a look at the latest Magneto figure from MAFEX. The previous one, based on Age of Apocalypse, was a great figure, but if they're gonna go with the Jim Lee design like they do with the Batman: Hush line, that one will definitely be a winner. Best Magneto figure ever?





The Master of Magnetism comes with 3 different heads (2 with helmet and an unmasked one), 3 extra pairs of hands, his helmet, and 6 'magnetic' effects (3 pairs). The effects attach to the hands and stay put without a fight, but a couple of them (the 'longer' ones) tend to keep the hand stuck inside of them when removed, and it's a bit annoying to get out (you may need pliers!).















This figure looks uncanny, even astonishing (pun intended)! It's the perfect Jim Lee Magneto, with MAFEX level of articulations (aka everything you dream of, minus the thigh swivel). The cape is great too, with wires on the side, but also folded on the bottom, to have a 'smaller' cape, that you can unfold and have a gigantic one. It scales very nicely with Marvel Legends figures and could be the perfect action figure version of Magneto for your collection (even if Hasbro did announce a very nice one last week at SDCC for the X-Men 97 wave).









More news at 11:00... Magneto was right.