Review: Marvel Legends Blade from Deadpool & Wolverine
- Mephitsu
- 10 minutes ago
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“There's only been one Blade. There's only going to be one Blade.”
When Deadpool & Wolverine hit our screens in 2024, it was clear that there was a large raft of characters who took part in the movie who we as collectors might want to join our Marvel Legends display. The first wave for the movie was relatively modest, with figures of Deadpool, Wolverine, and a pack featuring Headpool and a civilian Logan from the early bar scenes. We’ve had to wait until Spring of 2026 for the next batch of Deadpool & Wolverine MCU movie figures with a full six-figure wave released and headed up by a 7th Deluxe release of Dogpool and Deadpool. From the single boxed wave, our review here looks at Wesley Snipe’s Blade.
Blade is packed in the standard Legends box, black in tone, with the Marvel Legends logo at the top left and the movie logo across the bottom, underneath the window. The character name is shown via a side callout, printed to look like a rip in the box. He is listed on the box as Marvel’s Blade with Marvel unable to copyright the name Blade on its own.
To the right-hand side of the box is an image of the snarling Blade, wearing his shades and looking into the camera. This image is used again, but smaller, on the opposite spine and on the back of the box. The box reverse has a short piece of text that covers Blade’s role as a “Formidable founding member of the Resistance”. Underneath this, and in another ‘torn out’ panel, is a checklist for the accompanying single-figure wave with headshots of each of the figures included.
Blade is packed into the usual inner plastic tray, and that is then sat into a folded cardback sleeve. This sleeve is the same as is being used across the entirety of the 2026 wave, a white/grey finish and covered in Deadpool doodles. While the use of the same backing cards gives the wave consistency, I’d have liked to have seen Deadpool’s doodles cover Blade, with pictures of teeth, stakes, and sunglasses.
Blade is a full, newly developed figure and based on the older variant of Blade as seen in Deadpool & Wolverine and part of the Resistance within The Void. The outfit, based on that of his original movies, is cast almost entirely in black with sculpted armoured panels and straps across the vest which are then detailed in red and with silver on the buckles and clasps and on the larger buckle of his belt.
The legs are sculpted in a plain trouser with a material texture, sculpted seams and folds, with a pair of simple black shoes/boots to finish off the figure. A side holster, also in black, is attached from the belt to the upper left thigh, with a strap sculpted around the leg to match. Around the back of the figure is a shaped sheath for his other weapon, a short, stubby knife/sword.
You get two headsculpts of the older Wesley Snipes, both featuring facial print tech to enhance the likeness and to pick out other details such as the tattoo on Blade’s neck. The beard is painted in black with a grey patch on the chin, while the hair piece is cast in the same black finish with a painted flash of grey to the left-hand side.
One head is a neutral-looking Snipes, while the second option shows some teeth and replicates that half-snarl, half-smile we see Blade use in the movies. Both heads have something not quite right in their proportions, and they look a tad too thin, as though the head has been squashed every so slightly. The wider neck doesn’t help this, nor do the pronounced cheekbones and puffy eyes, but there is also a level of preconceptions here where we are all potentially expecting to see Blade as we remember him from the first three movies between 1998 and 2004. Each head is easy enough to swap in and out.
The other ‘problem’ with Blade in terms of how we expect him to look is that he is more often than not wearing his trade mark sunglasses. Hasbro has included these in the set; in fact, there are two pairs, one for each head. These are tiny pieces in a glossy black plastic with visible lenses sitting in the frames, with the arms extended backwards.
X-23 from the same wave had similar glasses, but she had a ‘socket’ built into the hair to guide the arms into position and hold them in place. Blade’s head doesn’t allow this, so the glasses have to sit on the face using gravity only, propping on his nose and gripping the side of his head above his ears. This works well enough, but is less than stable, and the glasses are easily dislodged when handling or moving Blade around. Once in place, the likeness is much improved.
Blade comes with two pairs of hands, allowing you to choose between a pair of gripping hands for the included weapons - more on these shortly - as well as a single clenched right fist, and a single outstretched fingers for a left hand. The preference would have been to have a matching pair of fists for close combat poses. The outstretched hand is also very specific in how it's used, either hovering over his gun before it's drawn or fully extended via the arm and facing an opponent before unleashing his martial arts moves.
Blade has two included weapons, the first of which is the aforementioned futuristic gun, which is cast in black, with dull red details around the barrel. It is designed to clip onto the holster by way of the trigger that slots over a protruding peg on the thigh. It can then be held in the left hand where a trigger finger lines up with the gun. The right gripping hand is tighter and has no split trigger finger.
The second weapon is the machete-type blade, which is cast in a gunmetal silver with a dark grey grip and includes some level of sculpted text or pattern on the blade itself, although nothing instantly legible. This fits in the holster on Blade’s back, accessed at the bottom to draw out and down, ready for combat. This fits in the right hand snugly, but can shift to the left for a slightly looser grip.
Articulation is all pinless, and Blade has 22 points in total. These provide Blade with a wide range of posing options, with the legs able to bend, kneel or crouch with a robust ankle rocker to keep him stable. The arms start with butterfly joints at the shoulders, and with the bicep swivel, dual elbow, and wrist pivot, most weapon poses are covered.
The neck is jointed top and bottom, giving a broader range of head positions and gestures. But the waist is a simple rotation, and the chest is a basic ball joint. This means torso movement is limited, particularly forward ab-crunch compared to what we got on the Deadpool and Wolverine figures from the same movie with their abdominal T-joints.
Blade does look better in hand than some of the promo images, and is certainly a better likeness from certain angles and with the sunglasses enabled. The body is a good recreation of the suit from the film, even if it is missing a coat and the trousers look a bit out of place with the armoured torso. I think the accessories are ok, but considering the scenes in the film, packing him with Punisher's missile launcher would have been an amazing addition. No real concerns in the articulation other than the range of that torso movement.
Like X-23, the key thing now for collectors is trusting Hasbro to complete the Resistance as a group, so hopefully we won’t have to wait too long for Elektra, Gambit and possibly a Johnny Storm, even though he wasn’t seen with the group on screen.
Coated Blade 'Hack'
For those wanting a coated Blade look, there are options out there, including aftermarket soft goods leather-look coats. However, I wanted to share this cheap and cheerful hack using the soft rubberised coat from the Star Wars Black Series General Hux figure.
The coat comes off over Hux’s arms and is a good fit on Blade. While it does cover up the back holster, you can see that the colour and length are spot on, and even some of the lines on the coat match the trim and lining on the main outfit. For me, even the arms look like they are part of the coat.
It is a workable solution for now until Hasbro (hopefully) go back into the Cinematic back catalogue and brings us a 1998 Blade at the height of his powers.
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