Marvel 500 series 3 blind bag! Is luck on our side?

Today we have a Marvel 500 series 3 blind bag! We have opened a few of the Marvel 500 series 2 blind bags so and so far I have been less than impressed (SPOILER ALERT: that doesn’t change today!). My expectations for these figures are unusually high for some reason, maybe that’s why they always disappoint me.. anyway today we have Marvel 500 series 3 Blizzard (Marvel’s Blizzard as he is known in this collection).

Marvel 500 series 3 Blizzard

Marvel 500 series 3 Blizzard
Marvel’s Blizzard

Blizzard is not a character that I am familiar with. He does quite good as a character but this figure could have been better. The white paint application is a bit hit and miss but the translucent blue body of the figure looks nice.

Marvel 500 series 3 Blizzard
Freeze!

Where Blizzard falls down is in the head sculpt. It is obvious that Blizzard is a respray and that this sculpt was not designed for him. After doing a bit of research on Blizzard as a character he actually looks really cool. Unfortunately this figure does not do him any justice!

Marvel 500 series 3 Blizzard
Marvel 500 series 3 Blizzard

These Marvel 500 figures are very hit and miss (in my opinion). On one side, it is good that there is so many to collect in a single series. On the bad side though, it means that 50% of the characters have sculpts that aren’t intended for them.

I guess the characters who have specific sculpts are going to look better as a general rule. Personally I would like to see more paint application on these figures. If Hasbro decided to go down the route of using no paint at all then I would be cool with that. However, because they decide to use paint I just feel like it adds a cheapness to the figures as its not applied very well.

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