As is a usual practice just ahead of an MCU movie release, Hasbro brought us a new wave of Marvel Legends figures containing both figures from the film, and a selection of other figures from the Marvel Universe. Morlun is a relatively new foe of Spider-Man, making his debut in 2001. He was included in the new wave alongside Shriek and like Shriek, this is Morlun's debut in the Marvel Legends line.
Each packaging design within the new Spider-Man wave was styled depending on its source material, with the two comic book inclusions using the modern Spider-Man logo, and red detailing, unlike Shriek the artwork on Morlun does away with the red hue and is a very dark and imposing piece on either side of the box and across the rear. The back of the packaging also included the Build-a-Figure checklist for Armadillo - and a short text piece about Morlun.
"From the darkness, the vampire Morlun hunts Spider-Man in an effort to slay the super hero and feed on his powers."
Morlun utilises some of the newer suited body that was first used on the Captain Marvel Nick Fury figure. The legs, cast in grey, are a direct re-use from this set as are the feet. The upper body is a rubberised sleeve for the coat and waistcoat added over a general body with the shirt and its red jewel sculpted parts onto the torso piece. The arms of the jacket look to be from the Nick Fury suit with the large grey cuffs added as rubberised plastic pieces over the top. Most of the parts are cast in their base colour while the waistcoat is painted silver with black buttons and the red jewel on the shirt painted over the blue leaving a few unpainted edges.
Morlun's hands are monstrous new pieces cast in a sickly skin tone that reflects his Vampiric roots, and include painted red sores on each palm.
Morlun features two new head sculpts for the character cast in the same sickly skin tone. The first head includes Morlun with a partial smile, while the second has more of a grimace. On both heads, the teeth are painted in white, the eyes in red and the thick eyebrows in a very dark grey. The hair is an extra piece cast in the same dark grey and added over the head and left to flow down the back of his neck and onto his shoulders.
The two heads swap in and out well enough.
Morlun features 18 points of articulation and is particularly expressive with his arms and those giant monstrous hands. The legs suffer out of the box with stuck ankles and Morlun is not easy to stand, this is easily sorted by applying a little heat to free them up and once they can pivot forward every so slightly then Morlun stands on his own.
The hair is flexible enough for the head to be turned to either side with the long hair coming over the shoulder as you do this. The tails of the coat however do have some impact on the range of the legs.
Morlun is a relatively obscure Spider-Man villain brought into the line cleverly adding him to a MCU-led Spider-Man wave and including a strong build-a-figure in the shape of the comic book Armadillo. Morlun is well designed, using generic parts where they work and creating new ones to recreate his costume.
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