Vision was originally released as a 6-inch Marvel Legends figure in 2018 as part of the Infinity War line of figures - he was packed in a 2-pack with Scarlet Witch. In 2019 the figure was tweaked and repacked into the 3rd wave of Avengers Endgame figures. He was badged as a Captain America Civil War release. Other figures in the wave included Heimdall, Valkyrie, Iron-Man, Captain America and Iron Patriot. The wave build-a-figure was an Endgame Thor.
Packaging 3/5
Civil War Vision arrives in the standard scooped packaging. The predominant highlight across he black is a blue hue, used on the card back, the background of the side art and across the front as a name bar - where the figure is named as Marvel's Vision. The match to the original Civil War releases is not 100% as there was a much paler backing car used on the 2016/7 figures and the Civil War logo was more squat on the front of the box.
The side art is OK, showing Vision's head and torso. As usual it is mirrored on either side. A wider shot of the image is shown across the back of the box along with a brief piece of text that actually (to me anyway) is more aligned to Infinity War rather than Civil War in terms of Vision's role.
"The physics-defying android, Vision, fights as an Avenger to protect the Infinity Stone that helped to create him"
Paint & Sculpt 2/5
This is the exact same sculpt as the Vision released in 2018 in the Infinity War set with Scarlet Witch. That particular sculpt is a very clean and accurate representation of Vision with texture built in across the outfit and good detailing around the head to give a decent likeness to Paul Bettany.
To differentiate this and the Infinity War release, Hasbro have put this one in a translucent finish to try and capture him phasing. This effect is not bad, but it is not brilliant. The head turns out lighter than the original version - but it is still too shiny and the sculpt does get lost behind the bright pink face.
The body is cast in a translucent green plastic with purple lines added. The problem with this is that being translucent you can see the internal joints within.
The cape is a cast plastic piece and is not particularly flexible. It is very difficult to remove from the box in the first instance, and when it does it is misshapen and that means either the rear cape sticks out - or the front part where it wraps the chest sits away from the body.
When you compare the two Visions side-by-side the new version looks far inferior and I say that even when the 2018 version had faults. I would personally have preferred Hasbro to simply re-release the original version.
Accessories N/A
Vision comes with no accessories or pack-ins at all. The original 2018 figure had two sets of hands included - fists and open palmed - but even that has been dropped for this release, leaving Vision with a single pair of open palmed hands.
Articulation 3/5
Vision has 19 points of articulation. And thanks to the translucent body, you can see a number of them within the body.
Head : ball joint pivot neck
Body : T-joint ratchet torso, waist swivel
Arms : Ball joint shoulder, bicep swivel, double joint elbow, wrist pivot
Legs : Ball joint hips, thigh swivel, double joint knees, ankle rocker
The top half of Vision is very mobile with plenty of posing options with the head, torso and arms. The cape impedes the lower legs from anything other than a standing pose, but you will be glad of the cape as the legs themselves are very loose at the hips and the left ankle rocker in particular. Vision is really hard to stand and stay standing - an issue that the first release suffered with too - and in a lot of neutral poses the cape, which can cause overbalancing if the legs are too straight, acts as a third point of support where it meets the floor.
Vision does come alive if you stick him onto an aftermarket flying stand, and this is how I have chosen to display him. This posing option has the added benefit of negating the leg issues as the stand does all the work holding Vision in place.
Summary
I have no issue with Hasbro re-using and re-releasing figures. But in the case of Vision, the figure wasn't great to start with and this do-over actually takes the figure backward a few more steps. The translucent finish does not work, the leg joints are loose, the cloak arrives misshapen and the figure is hard to stand. We even lose the 2nd pair of hands that were originally packed with the figure.
Sadly the Civil War Vision does not deliver on most fronts and to that end I score him a below average 2 out of 5.
