Review: Hasbro Ultimate Wolverine

This used to be Unified Wolverine, when X-Men Evolution, Marvel Universe Wolverine, and Ultimate Wolverine all wore the same clothes one week. But that lasted just the week, and now only the Ultimate version wears it. Anyway, I like the costume, and might want to make the Ultimate team one day.

OBQ (Out-of-the-Box Quality): 2 out of 5

This figure has the Sigma Six elbows instead of the Toy Biz articulation. The shoulder swivel is in the elbow, and the elbow only has 90 degrees of freedom. I was completely okay with these arms on Thor, but Wolverine doesn’t have that beef, and I find myself missing the double elbows. But its fine.

The face is horrible. Customizers have shown that there’s a good sculpt under there, but it’s got a horrible paint job.

CP (Customizing Potential): 4 out of 5

This will be great for doing the Ultimate customs… hell, I always find a use of black medium build figures. Also, where the weird arms detract from the figure, they give me another tool in the customizing box. If I had had this figure two months ago, he’d be a Cyclops right now. Moving the arm swivel down allows for shoulder pads to work here and not on traditional ML arms.

Ultimate Wolverine gives me the following customizing ideas:

• Ultimate Cyclops
• X-Men Evolution Cyclops (he has these little X shoulder pads that will glue right on)
• MACH-II, who’s black and grey, with shoulder pads