“Tell me I don’t make your old gear look brand new”
The following review has been written ahead of the release of Captain America: Brave New World. While there are no details within this review that have not been seen in the trailer or promotional merchandise, there may be content in here that is considered a spoiler.
Ahead of the 14th of February 2025 release of the fourth Captain America movie, Brave New World, Hasbro released a trio of Marvel Legends Deluxe releases including Cap, Falcon, and Red Hulk. The figures have been in development & production for some time and were pushed back when the movie itself was delayed. They finally hit store shelves at the very back end of 2024 with the bulk of orders and stocks fulfilled in early January 2025.
Due to the delay in release, all three of the Brave New World releases are packed in the older Marvel Legends packaging with Falcon in a slimmer deluxe box complete with character artwork on the scooped sides. The front of the box includes a large curved window under which sits the Brave New World movie logo. The rear of the box carries a wider image of the new Falcon and the briefest of background of Joaquin Torres who has taken up the mantle of Falcon. Once unpacked the internal cardback of the box is revealed in blue and white with a large Captain America Star logo.
The Torres Falcon is a brand new figure developed for the movie, and recreating the green and brown theme we see the new Falcon suit incorporate. The suit is complex in its design with what appears to be a black flight suit with beige panels overlaid with green and silver armoured elements including a full chest piece, shoulder armour, elbow and wrist sections, and armour boots. A belt piece is separate to the body, cast in a silver plastic and left loose around the waist so it slides up partially as the legs are raised. Each of the suit colours are cleanly applied and the overall look retains a good likeness to the new Falcon suit while also differing itself from the original Falcon wingsuit.
The figure features a slot in backpack that can be used with or without the included wings. There are two of these included, one for use flush to the figure and without the wings, and a second set that connects to the wings. Both use the black, green, and silver colouring of the suit but with a red introverted ‘V’ down the central panel. They slot into the rear of the figure by way of a single hexagon slot.
Falcon has two head sculpts included, both feature a sculpted likeness to actor Danny Ramirez. Both heads feature an integrated flight helmet in the same black green and silver as seen on the suit. The eyes are enclosed in a transparent visor with a subtle yellow hue. On the ‘open’ helmet head, the mouth is exposed down the chin strap. The second ‘closed’ helmet head features the mouth and nose fully enclosed and meeting the visor. The heads swap in and out OK, but on our review copy I did find the enclosed head was a tighter fit and harder to slot into place.
Falcon features two pairs of hands for use in display, allowing you to choose from a pair of clenched fists and a pair of open hands that are part-way between a grip pose and a clawed hand. You also get a Redwing accessory for use with Falcon and this does appear to be a re-use of the Redwing that was included way back in 2016 with the first release of Falcon from Civil War. Like that 2016 release, this new iteration of Redwing does not interact with the Falcon figure or wingsuit so is relatively redundant as a display accessory other than propping it into the open hands as though it were launching or landing.
The original EXO-7 wingsuit, as used by Sam during his time as Falcon, is the reason this is a Deluxe release. The wings are packed into the set in two halves that connect by way of a socket onto a split peg in the rear of the larger of Falcon’s backpacks. The wings use a dull matt green for the top sections, this then translates to a black central section and ends with a bright silver base piece where the ‘feathers’ would sit on real wings. The orientation of the wings is determined only by two slim plastic handles about ⅓ of the way down the wing which need to be forward facing.
Starting with articulation on the wings first, and these can be ratcheted up or down on the split peg allowing them to be posed orientated down towards the ground or raised upward to an almost vertical position.
Alongside this, each wing can be articulated on a hinge joint in two places with each joint pivoting backward or forward a fair way past 90 degrees. This allows a variety of posing with the wings either extended fully in flight or folded in as a defense mechanism.
The Falcon figure is entirely pinless and comes with 19 points of articulation. Everything works as it should - and works with the Wingsuit for flight posing including extending the arms to line up with the grips on the wings. Sadly the grips themselves are very soft and thin, and the hands included with Falcon are not gripping hands - that leaves the posing down to a propped position rather than a true grip on the wings. The head will look up in a taking-off position, with the torso joint allowing the chest to bend up and forward as though flying. All of the joints work well with no issues and no obvious loose joints.
Flight posing is of course only available via a stand - and Hasbro has chosen not to include one, even though they had a reasonably good - albeit small - version available from the Falcon & The Winter Soldier wingsuit which could have been adapted. That will leave you needing an aftermarket option to have Falcon in any of the flight positions.
The new Brave New World Falcon is a very visual figure that breaks with the norm of the blue, white, and red we quite often see with the MCU key characters and adds a complex and well-executed green, black, and silver suit to the collection. The wingsuit is impressive, bigger than any included with Sam Wilson’s Falcon, and these work with the figure articulation for some neat flying poses. It is a shame Hasbro couldn’t have included a flight stand which would make this an almost perfect package, even with the relatively redundant Redwing piece from 9 years past. Falcon very much holds his own with the associated Sam Wilson Captain America, making a very visual pair for display - albeit needing some extensive shelf real estate thanks to their wings.
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