“In my timeline, everything proceeded correctly, my entire life, until Thanos attacked our ship”.
Richard E. Grant’s Classic Loki, as seen in the first season of Loki on Disney+, was released in the Marvel Legends series in 2022. He was part of a Disney+ wave featuring a Khonshu BAF from Moon Knight. The wave also featured He Who Remains from Loki as well as Agent Jimmy Woo from WandaVision and a batch of What If? Releases included Howard the Duck, Red Skull, and a couple of Zombies. The Khonshu BAF wave was one of the first to see a switch to plastic-free packaging so there is no figure window instead the contents are illustrated on the box.
Classic Loki on screen was exactly that, a direct homage to Loki’s comic book costume complete with green tights and a yellow cloak. Regardless of how you feel about that look, the all-new Classic Loki figure recreates it perfectly with the deep green of the base outfit contrasted by bright yellow boots, trunks, and cloak. And not too bright as the figure is then weathered to give it a dirty and worn finish as befits his place trapped in The Void.
Classic Loki is fortunate to be given two head sculpts, a rarity for Disney+ releases. These are both packed with cardboard protective covers to keep the horns on Loki’s helmet as straight as possible. These are quite soft plastic and will warp if mishandled. The face is surrounded by a yellow hood that connects to the main outfit, and we have two fantastic likenesses to Richard E. Grant with one a neutral look and the other grinning. Both are among some of the best we’ve seen in the Legends line with facial printing enhancing what is a very strong sculpt. The eyes are particularly impressive as is the painted mouth and teeth of the grinning version.
Loki’s other accessories are magic effects with a repurposed pair of forearm wraps quite often seen on Scarlet Witch figures, but now in a translucent green. These are quite soft but hold their shape sufficiently to encircle the arms as needed. The second set is a pair of hands that have the magic effect built into the palms as a mass of green magical energy, these are perhaps less impactful for display as they lack definition and it can appear as though Loki is simply holding some weird green plant.
Articulation is pinless and 19 points in total with Loki missing out on butterfly shoulders, although he doesn’t really need them. The cloak is a fairly substantial softer plastic piece that will stop Loki from sitting or kneeling, but other than that his options are extensive, particularly with a focus on either magic casting or expressive gestures the latter usually coupled best with the grinning head.
Loki as a recreation of the onscreen character and costume is near perfect, and benefits from extras that can be considered rarities nowadays in Marvel Cinematic releases - an additional head sculpt, and a layer of paint weathering. Both head options are spectacular and the only particularly minor letdown is the magic effect hands which don’t quite work as perhaps they could. Loki’s downfall as a figure is a combination of the plastic-free packaging, an over-saturation of Hasbro figures in 2022, and a costume that perhaps sat too far into the comics to sit comfortably with the more realistic MCU styling.
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