“Wolverine and the X-Men” action figures - wave 4

The Wolverine hype finally over after its movie and its animated series ended their screenings and telecast here in May and early June.  The movie toys and other related X-Men toys are still found in the departmental stores, where some of them are having a sale on this toyline now. 

Recently, I managed to find wave 4 of the “Wolverine and the X-Men” animated series toys in the departmental stores.  Logan in white shirt doesn’t look much of a major difference from his earlier version with grey shirt.  Iceman in uniform looks like some sort of surfer dude in ice!

Nevertheless, I’m glad to note that this latest batch of Colossus action figures have much better paint jobs on them, compared to the earlier waves that were released during the hype of the Wolverine movie and animated series.  Overall, I think interest in this toyline has waned, seeing that so many of this new wave have been left almost untouched in the stores. 

Over the past 2 months, I do occasionally check the stores to see if any of the later waves of Wolverine toys have reached us.  I realised that we seemed to have missed out on wave 2 and wave 3 of the Wolverine animated toys, and possibly on wave 3 of the Wolverine movie toys.

Anyway, these 3.75-inch X-Men and related Marvel action figure toylines are for the hardcore fans and collectors.  Most kids and casual collectors probably ignore them, partly due to the high price tags (SGD 18.90 each), and partly due to overall poor quality paint jobs on most of these toys. 

If you collect these 3.75-inch action figures, you know you usually have to go through at least 20 pieces of the same character before you can select a decent piece with reasonable quality paint job to purchase.  I think a lot of people gave up collecting them from sheer frustration on the quality and price.  Now that the Great Singapore Sale is here, you can perhaps pick up a couple of them for novelty’s sake!