Review: Marvel Legends Thor from Avengers: Doomsday, Wave 1
“I swear, you will beg for Hell long before I grant it!”
Avengers: Doomsday hits cinemas in the UK on the 16th of December 2026, and ahead of the launch, excitement began to build for the new movie through the release of a first wave of Marvel Legends action figures from Hasbro.
Alongside the exclusive Magneto figure, Wave 1 was made up of six figures split across several factions that we know are part of the movie. Thor arrives in the standard Legends box with a dark stonework backing scheme with green hues on the main Doomsday logo and on selected elements of the text. The character name of Thor is positioned down the right-hand side of the main window.
The right-hand spine carries a full image of Thor, with matching but not linked images on all the other releases for anyone who wants to display them that way. The left-hand spine includes a wrap-around of the window and a smaller headshot of Hemsworth’s Thor. The back of the box features another cut of the Thor image, some background text which is quite generic and does stay away from spoilers compared to a couple of the other figures. Under this is the checklist of all six figures from this first wave.
Thor is secured inside the box in the standard tray with his cloak tucked back through the packaging and secured in a secondary tray. Mjolnir and Stormbreaker are set to either side of the figure, and an alternative head in the top left corner of the tray. Behind this tray is a card insert - identical in all the releases - with more Laterverian-inspired patterns in green and a glowing magical effect.
Thor, as seen predominantly in the trailers so far, is wearing the same armour as seen in Avengers: Infinity War, with much of the main body cast in a black plastic. The upper torso is a duller black, with a hint of bronze while more bronze is painted across the six circular armour panels, and as a trim at the bottom. Thor’s cape flows directly out of the Torso armour, first through a gun metal shoulder section then down into a plastic-shaped cape with red outer colouring and black inner lining. It is the red that is painted over the black so there are some edging issues at the bottom where the red has finished a bit too early, and on close inspection, the red finish is patchy in places.
Thor’s legs are a deeper, marginally glossy black and sculpted as a quilted pattern with natural folds and creases. These work down into armoured shin guards in gunmetal silver and a pair of simple black boots behind them.
Thor’s arms are unarmoured, a change from how we see him in Infinity War and at the end of Endgame, and these are skin-toned, muscular, and with a wrapped bracer in black on either arm. The full body of the figure is identical to the sculpt used on the 2019 Infinity War release, with some adjusted decor, while most of the arms are taken from the Ravager Thor from Love and Thunder, albeit with the lower arm updated to a new piece to include those bracers.
Thor comes with two heads in the pack, but there are actually three in circulation. He should come with both a neutral head and a roaring head aligned to his Doomsday look. In these two iterations, his scar is straight down over his right eye and the eyes themselves are the same colour. These newer sculpts do show the level of sculpting we are now getting in the MCU, and the roaring head has a clear level of decor to bring out not only the facial features but all the details in the open mouth.
Infinity War head with diagonal scar
Some sets, like the one we received, have gone out with the neutral head simply a re-decor version of the Infinity War head. In this version, the scar is diagonal across the eye, and the eyes are different colours. This head is still an improvement on the original through advances in decor application in the last 5-6 years, and both heads are a good likeness of Chris Hemsworth.
Thor comes with both Mjolnir and Stormbreaker, as he will wield in Doomsday. Mjolnir looks to be the same one included with Jane Foster Thor from Love and Thunder, and within the sculpt you can see the fracture marks from where it has been reassembled. The upper head is a gunmetal grey with a touch of darker wash across it. The handle is silver with the brown wound leather strap and this flows down to the silver pommel, and then a soft plastic looped strap that sits out to one side. Thor can hold Mjolnir in either hand, and by that strap.
Stormbreaker is the existing sculpt as seen in Infinity War, Endgame, and Love and Thunder. It features the large axe/hammer head in gunmetal grey, with a sculpted ‘Groot-branch’ handle including a natural tree-like shape and texture. Like Mjolnir, this sits in either hand and is large enough for two-handed battle poses. Unlike prior releases, there are no lightning effects in the set, but you can repurpose older ones if you wish.
Thor has 18 points of articulation. The torso includes a ball joint between the upper chest and lower midsection, while the head above is a ball joint and it can be rotated and pivoted, with no longer hair to restrict that movement. The body and the legs are, of course, from the older figure 2019, so the legs are pinned but still include ball joint hips, thigh swivel, ball joint knees, and ankle rockers. The cloak does sadly make much of the leg articulation difficult to use and pose. Once you go beyond a wide stance, the cloak simply starts to impede the posing.
The cape also has a bearing on stability, with its very nature adding a lot of weight to the back of the figure and making him very prone to dragging him backwards. The ankle rockers do not bend far enough forward to compensate, so often the only solution is a much wider stance than you may desire, sometimes going as far as making sure the cape base is touching the floor as a third point of stability.
The arms are from a newer figure, and include ball-jointed shoulders followed by a bicep swivel. The swivel then allows the elbows to be pinless double-jointed, and we end with pivot wrist joints.These all combine to give Thor plenty of swinging options with his weapons.
Thor, as a major part of the Doomsday storyline, was always a given for the Doomsday line and I have no considerable issue with the re-use on this figure, considering his armour is very close to prior releases. The new heads are great, but the mess up on the packing will leave many collectors like myself missing out on the newer neutral head.
Including both weapons presents some impressive posing, as does Thor’s increased height vs the other ‘Avengers’ from the wave, allowing him to headline any display.
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