That would have been a good inclusion. Total missed opportunity. That being said, I don't use that effect with Hulk so at least you have me the idea to use it with Avalanche
For an Instagram post, here’s an ideal Brotherhood line-up: *Magneto *Scarlet Witch *Quicksilver *Mystique *Toad *Pyro *Avalanche *Mastermind *Sabretooth *Blob *Black Tom *Juggernaut
Solid video with one correction: Toy Biz Avalanche came out in 2006 and does not pre-date the original Marvel Legends line. Anyways, keep up the great work!
I agree that he needed some kind of “A” on his costume. He and Apocalypse are both known for that haha. While I do wish he was slightly larger, I’m excited for this figure. I still have my old X-Men classics figure and I’ve been hanging onto that version for a long time hoping we’d see a more classic upgrade, and now we’re finally there. Great review!
The Toybiz Avalanche didn't predate Marvel Legends. It was released in the X-Men line in 2006 but they went with an original concept that no one really wanted.
i plan to put Avalanche with my current evil mutants which are currently the recent Sabretooth, retro card Scarlet Witch, pyro from the 2 pack ($17 on clearance) & currently waiting for Toad to go on clearance . All i need is a Green suited quicksilver, a new Magneto ,and the Blob. Im debating on wether I should get the VHS mystique , your legs were looking pretty bent . and i need a juggernaut :/
This looks okay, but he's not as cool as Spiral, which Hasbro nailed. This Avalanche figure is a little small in terms of body. If his shoulder armor was a little bulkier, that would help. His eyes are okay, but he sure has a pretty mouth! lol. Seriously speaking, Hasbro needs to tone down the lip coloring on the male figures. It's getting a bit crazy. I don't mind some color on men's lips, but much like with Scorpion and the 20th Anniversary Hulk, this lip color is just too dark and saturated. It is bordering on lipstick. Clearly Hasbro doesn't have it quite dialed-in with the print technology they're using. The blue elements of the costume here is a bit on the purple side. I've always seen him done up with a truer blue color in the comic books, so this seems a little off. I'm not sure why Hasbro doesn't just pick one costume of the other? I mean, happy medium really isn't accurate to any known design. Right? It's neither here nor there, isn't it? I'd prefer Hasbro to just pick one design (preferably the classic "A" version). This is at least a better offering than the "retro" Falcon, which was not at all the classic Falcon design that I know of. That one was baffling. I guess that this, the first Avalanche that we get in 6" isn't horrible. It's far from that. It's just a weaker effort when you compare it with figures like the new Spiral, which Hasbro absolutely knocked out the park. Hasbo's consistency in terms of quality and execution seems all over the place. If they're going to cut corners on the figure design (paint apps, body reuse, etc), they should at least try to do something more on-model to the comics. I don't think that is too much to ask.
The X-men Big 3 or Trinity are not Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean. It’s Cyclops, Wolverine, and Storm! Some people for some odd reason don’t like to admit and again idk why but Storm was a way more prominent member of the X-men than Jean was! Storm actually led the team for a good while when Cyclops was away. She led the Morlocks, she just recently beat Vulcan in a fight which is freaking amazing! But if you ask people who really know X-men who’re the Big 3 or Trinity for the X-men and majority of people will say Cyke, Logan, and Storm. Storm was even the leader of Arakko for a time! And for those that don’t know Arakko is in another dimension I can’t remember where at exactly though. But I believe that Arakko returned to earth because Arakko was the other half of Krakoa. But Storm was the leader of Arakko but to live on Arakko you could only be an Omega level mutant. And it was about 1,000,000 mutants living there and at one point Storm was the ruler the Queen of one million Omega level mutants, so just think about that. And again she beat Vulcan who’s almost beyond Omega level! I can’t remember if she killed him or someone else did but he was killed. But the mutants can be resurrected due to the Five. But still though. Lol
Looking forward to this guy! Gonna put him with my personal shelf Brotherhood composed of my favorites who have been part of the team: Magneto, Mystique, Juggernaut, Sabertooth, Pyro, Toad, and hopefully Blob if the leaks we've seen are true
I'm happy to have a version of Avalanche as the Brother Hood is a team I'm eager to add to. My experience with xmen is mostly the 90s cartoon and the arcade game so this is a must for me. I can't wait for Blob. I wasn't collecting when the BaF version came out, but it's too grotesque for my taste anyway. The new one looks like it will be good.
Hi. I liked watching your review, but I think you might have been a bit too lenient or generous.. Also, an A somewhere would have been preferable. Just two extra hands and no power effects (even if it had been the ubiquitous swirly effects) was cheap from Hasbro.
Looks like a rush job to fill in a long missing spot in the team. Luckily, he’s generic enough to army build as a thug or something. I did find A XMC Avalanche in 2006, but never opened him. He’s buried in a box in the store room. 🤷♂️
I am glad that he had the pins so he does not make the rest of the team look outdated! Lol I can't wait to add him to my collection and Blob! We need Blob asap!
I may not collect all the whole Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to go with Magneto, But to me, It's great to get Avalanche because he was way overdue and since I don't have him in hand, I will try to get Bonebreaker wave FA Sabretooth, 20th anniversary Toad, and Avalanche for my X-MEN villains shelf, Awesome review Dan.
Shame it's on the Grim reaper mould. The hips are hindered in legs spread poses. I'd prefer if the helmet had smaller eye holes and he really ought to have some new effect pieces. Colour looks good and the extra hands are welcome. I agree with Dan that he could be bulkier.
Also, Since my birthday is next month, I will try to pre-order the Orb figure so the retro carded Ghost Rider can go great with him to fight him in my collection.
Hi thank you for your Service. Do you know some online toy stores from the uk? I am from germany. It seems, that the Releases here are taken much longer than in the uk. Thank you
@Ali J a lot of people swapout someone for Juggernaut. I'd have them work together. But Juggernaut was never apart of the Brotherhood. I based my version on the animated series but Toad wasn't apart of it during the series. In X-Men Evolution that was the team.
Someone said in the comments of another video is because it takes Hasbro so long to complete a team that it'll have been 6 years between the first member and the last so they don't even look like they belong next to each other cause they've not the jelly legs or melted face. Mystique looks paltry next to Pyro and Avalanche and worse the VHS isn't even an update cause it still has the jelly legs. How do you give figures meant for action and poses weak LEGS!
Looks like you've got QC with the shoulders being the same part used. 4:01 Right shoulder sculpt is the same as the left shoulder sculpt 5:30. They're so inconsistent with these Grim Reaper shoulders. Product images show this figure's shoulders are backward like Sentry's, but Gorr uses the same shoulders and they were assembled correctly on that figure.
Wait bro please don’t tell me new sentry’s shoulders are backwards because the thigh connector joints are already improperly assembled across almost every figure I’ve seen of it and if they fucked that up too that’s absurd
@Ali J I could see that. The depiction of Jones Juggernaut being the size of a normal man and the style of his open helmet made it hard for me to buy in to him being the Juggernaut. Ryan Reynolds Juggernaut is how he should of been.
This effort is weaker than I’d like. But as you say, he’s a gap filler. I too missed the X-Men Classics Avalanche. He never showed up in my area. So I’m definitely getting this version. But I’m a little worried that an Avalanche with an “A” is going to be included in some sort of boxset with a pinless/double-jointed Mystique and all-new Destiny… 😬
Dan it comes off like you get these figures early from Hasbro, the reason being is you never really critique these figures properly. Because that helmet is trash and he is not the right color at all. The package shows the right color of his costume. And the buck he is on is way to small for him. Plus they have the pins in his arms and legs when by now he should have pinless joints. We the viewers prefer you give a honest review.
Reviews are subjective, Dan is just sharing his opinion and he likes the figure. I don't have too much to complain about it as well and think it actually looks better in this review than in the images.
This character has always looked pretty meh but this is a terrible figure even by Avalanche standards. Got his lip gloss on and ready for some kissing tho.
I think AVALANCHE needed some ground type power effects. Hasbro should've gave him the rock effects from Hulk.
Yup complete missed opportunity to reuse the ground effect from the 20th anniversary Hulk.
That would have been a good inclusion. Total missed opportunity. That being said, I don't use that effect with Hulk so at least you have me the idea to use it with Avalanche
Yeah would've been great but Hasbro doing anything for customers with Legends, but the bare minimum is nil.
Agree too bad Hasbro miss it. And also the face is not fit with Avalanche. He should looks angry
For an Instagram post, here’s an ideal Brotherhood line-up:
*Magneto
*Scarlet Witch
*Quicksilver
*Mystique
*Toad
*Pyro
*Avalanche
*Mastermind
*Sabretooth
*Blob
*Black Tom
*Juggernaut
X-Men Classics line came out after Toybiz ML started. He was one of the last villains of that line.
I agree he needs an "A" on his belt at least. You'd have thought they'd have given him the same power effects as Rictor at least, no?
Solid video with one correction: Toy Biz Avalanche came out in 2006 and does not pre-date the original Marvel Legends line. Anyways, keep up the great work!
I agree that he needed some kind of “A” on his costume. He and Apocalypse are both known for that haha. While I do wish he was slightly larger, I’m excited for this figure. I still have my old X-Men classics figure and I’ve been hanging onto that version for a long time hoping we’d see a more classic upgrade, and now we’re finally there. Great review!
Avalanche is one of those character that I don't have a set image for. The figure looks good enough to hit the spot on my shelf.
The Toybiz Avalanche didn't predate Marvel Legends. It was released in the X-Men line in 2006 but they went with an original concept that no one really wanted.
i plan to put Avalanche with my current evil mutants which are currently the recent Sabretooth, retro card Scarlet Witch, pyro from the 2 pack ($17 on clearance) & currently waiting for Toad to go on clearance . All i need is a Green suited quicksilver, a new Magneto ,and the Blob. Im debating on wether I should get the VHS mystique , your legs were looking pretty bent . and i need a juggernaut :/
Seems short and should of came with special effects some kind of waves and a screaming face
This looks okay, but he's not as cool as Spiral, which Hasbro nailed. This Avalanche figure is a little small in terms of body. If his shoulder armor was a little bulkier, that would help. His eyes are okay, but he sure has a pretty mouth! lol. Seriously speaking, Hasbro needs to tone down the lip coloring on the male figures. It's getting a bit crazy. I don't mind some color on men's lips, but much like with Scorpion and the 20th Anniversary Hulk, this lip color is just too dark and saturated. It is bordering on lipstick. Clearly Hasbro doesn't have it quite dialed-in with the print technology they're using. The blue elements of the costume here is a bit on the purple side. I've always seen him done up with a truer blue color in the comic books, so this seems a little off. I'm not sure why Hasbro doesn't just pick one costume of the other? I mean, happy medium really isn't accurate to any known design. Right? It's neither here nor there, isn't it? I'd prefer Hasbro to just pick one design (preferably the classic "A" version). This is at least a better offering than the "retro" Falcon, which was not at all the classic Falcon design that I know of. That one was baffling.
I guess that this, the first Avalanche that we get in 6" isn't horrible. It's far from that. It's just a weaker effort when you compare it with figures like the new Spiral, which Hasbro absolutely knocked out the park. Hasbo's consistency in terms of quality and execution seems all over the place. If they're going to cut corners on the figure design (paint apps, body reuse, etc), they should at least try to do something more on-model to the comics. I don't think that is too much to ask.
Blob is definitely coming, a picture of the box leaked
Everyone is talking Brotherhood, but no one is talking Freedom Force. Gonna need a Destiny, Stonewall, Super Sabre and Crimson Commando.
The X-men Big 3 or Trinity are not Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean. It’s Cyclops, Wolverine, and Storm! Some people for some odd reason don’t like to admit and again idk why but Storm was a way more prominent member of the X-men than Jean was! Storm actually led the team for a good while when Cyclops was away. She led the Morlocks, she just recently beat Vulcan in a fight which is freaking amazing! But if you ask people who really know X-men who’re the Big 3 or Trinity for the X-men and majority of people will say Cyke, Logan, and Storm. Storm was even the leader of Arakko for a time! And for those that don’t know Arakko is in another dimension I can’t remember where at exactly though. But I believe that Arakko returned to earth because Arakko was the other half of Krakoa. But Storm was the leader of Arakko but to live on Arakko you could only be an Omega level mutant. And it was about 1,000,000 mutants living there and at one point Storm was the ruler the Queen of one million Omega level mutants, so just think about that. And again she beat Vulcan who’s almost beyond Omega level! I can’t remember if she killed him or someone else did but he was killed. But the mutants can be resurrected due to the Five. But still though. Lol
Dan who loves.
Finally A for Avalanche...
Smile or no smile nice addition indeed.
👍👍👍
Yea … there’s no a dude
Looking forward to this guy! Gonna put him with my personal shelf Brotherhood composed of my favorites who have been part of the team: Magneto, Mystique, Juggernaut, Sabertooth, Pyro, Toad, and hopefully Blob if the leaks we've seen are true
They should have included the ground effect from the 20th Hulk.
I'm happy to have a version of Avalanche as the Brother Hood is a team I'm eager to add to. My experience with xmen is mostly the 90s cartoon and the arcade game so this is a must for me.
I can't wait for Blob. I wasn't collecting when the BaF version came out, but it's too grotesque for my taste anyway. The new one looks like it will be good.
Hi. I liked watching your review, but I think you might have been a bit too lenient or generous.. Also, an A somewhere would have been preferable. Just two extra hands and no power effects (even if it had been the ubiquitous swirly effects) was cheap from Hasbro.
Hoping we also get 1980s versions of Rogue and Psylocke (British body).
Looks like a rush job to fill in a long missing spot in the team.
Luckily, he’s generic enough to army build as a thug or something.
I did find A XMC Avalanche in 2006, but never opened him. He’s buried in a box in the store room. 🤷♂️
I am glad that he had the pins so he does not make the rest of the team look outdated! Lol I can't wait to add him to my collection and Blob! We need Blob asap!
That is some cope if I’ve ever seen it dude lmao
Read your comment again you sound so stupid dude lol I’m glad the figure is outdated and shitty now it matches all my other outdated shitty figures!
It doesn't predate TOYBIZ marvel legends it ran along side of it.
I may not collect all the whole Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to go with Magneto, But to me, It's great to get Avalanche because he was way overdue and since I don't have him in hand, I will try to get Bonebreaker wave FA Sabretooth, 20th anniversary Toad, and Avalanche for my X-MEN villains shelf, Awesome review Dan.
Shame it's on the Grim reaper mould. The hips are hindered in legs spread poses. I'd prefer if the helmet had smaller eye holes and he really ought to have some new effect pieces. Colour looks good and the extra hands are welcome.
I agree with Dan that he could be bulkier.
Exciting times, DW!!!
Also, Since my birthday is next month, I will try to pre-order the Orb figure so the retro carded Ghost Rider can go great with him to fight him in my collection.
Hi thank you for your Service. Do you know some online toy stores from the uk? I am from germany. It seems, that the Releases here are taken much longer than in the uk. Thank you
My dream Brotherhood would be: Magneto, Mystique, Sabretooth, Pyro, Avalanche, Blob, and Toad.
@Ali J a lot of people swapout someone for Juggernaut. I'd have them work together. But Juggernaut was never apart of the Brotherhood. I based my version on the animated series but Toad wasn't apart of it during the series. In X-Men Evolution that was the team.
@Ali J absolutely
Looked up his height and it ranges from 5' 7" to 6' 2". I always thought he was in the 6' 2" range.
Its a horrible looking fig but you're not allowed to say that. Not even an energy effect.
I always thought his power was to decay things (thereby causing things to crumble and avalanche) they must’ve retconed him to having Riktors powers
Wow that’s a way cooler power
Dan Bring back Hellfire Hank!!
Someone said in the comments of another video is because it takes Hasbro so long to complete a team that it'll have been 6 years between the first member and the last so they don't even look like they belong next to each other cause they've not the jelly legs or melted face. Mystique looks paltry next to Pyro and Avalanche and worse the VHS isn't even an update cause it still has the jelly legs. How do you give figures meant for action and poses weak LEGS!
Looks like you've got QC with the shoulders being the same part used. 4:01 Right shoulder sculpt is the same as the left shoulder sculpt 5:30. They're so inconsistent with these Grim Reaper shoulders. Product images show this figure's shoulders are backward like Sentry's, but Gorr uses the same shoulders and they were assembled correctly on that figure.
Wait bro please don’t tell me new sentry’s shoulders are backwards because the thigh connector joints are already improperly assembled across almost every figure I’ve seen of it and if they fucked that up too that’s absurd
I need to get that Pyro, but I’m not interested in Rogue from that 2-pack.
I need this, and will get it, but he looks like a dude who gets shot out of a cannon...
I believe Vinnie Jones Juggernaut look for X3 was in inspired by Avalanche. Almost a mash up of the 2 characters.
@Ali J I could see that. The depiction of Jones Juggernaut being the size of a normal man and the style of his open helmet made it hard for me to buy in to him being the Juggernaut. Ryan Reynolds Juggernaut is how he should of been.
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He should've been on the Hercules buck
I'll put Avalanche with Quake.
I dare anybody in the custom community to make a Shaquille O'Neal DC Steel out of this figure the head sculpt alone screams Shaq's movie Steel😂🤣😂🤣
I'm disappointed, he is way too small
Funny he is blue and steel colored considering his facial expression looks like Zoolander's blue steel look.
This effort is weaker than I’d like. But as you say, he’s a gap filler.
I too missed the X-Men Classics Avalanche. He never showed up in my area. So I’m definitely getting this version. But I’m a little worried that an Avalanche with an “A” is going to be included in some sort of boxset with a pinless/double-jointed Mystique and all-new Destiny… 😬
Cope
Hasbro too lazy to put an “A” to avoid cost💰
Damn he shoulda been pinless too
Thank god…… this boy
It lacked a face with a threatening expression.
One of the laziest figure crapped out by hasbro. He's a pass even when he goes on clearance
Dan it comes off like you get these figures early from Hasbro, the reason being is you never really critique these figures properly. Because that helmet is trash and he is not the right color at all. The package shows the right color of his costume. And the buck he is on is way to small for him. Plus they have the pins in his arms and legs when by now he should have pinless joints. We the viewers prefer you give a honest review.
Reviews are subjective, Dan is just sharing his opinion and he likes the figure. I don't have too much to complain about it as well and think it actually looks better in this review than in the images.
I hate his head sculpt. It's so plain and boring. I want the head on the packaging on the figure. It's more menacing and fits the character.
His eyes are so squinty
Don’t be happy with mediocrity
To not include any rock/ ground effects shows how cheap Hasbro is .
Yikes cancelling my preorder. This one is bad. I don’t even care that I need him for the team. It’s just not a good figure and looks dated already
@Ali Jomega red body would have worked. Head sculpt is boring
@Ali J bishop is the weird chest but I guess the shoulder pads would have hide that.
Dissapointing figure to say the least. It should have been much beefier and with effects for the 25 usd price tag.
This character has always looked pretty meh but this is a terrible figure even by Avalanche standards. Got his lip gloss on and ready for some kissing tho.
If his helmet was removable, it would reveal how freakishly high up his eyes are. And why is he wearing lipstick? Hard pass. Try again hasjbro
Too bad it looks nothing like him
Compared to the Figure that was released 29 years ago.. this figure is trash
Waste of money.
They need to mix the lip paint 50/50 with flesh tone on all these new ones. It's too much