Spider-Man Retro 2026 Wave with Cardiac, Owl & Hypno Hustler

[Resilient]

Finally got around to picking up some figures from this wave and just want to say Hypno-Hustler is an all time Legend. I think he's in my top 10 all time.

 

[robw]

Do tell! What parts you got lined up?

Classicked him up, without any new parts in the end.

The outer coat became his cape - cut the top edge and glued it under the shoulder section. Then pulled the under coat round so it met in the middle and shortened it a bit. Cut his scarf into smaller sections and dremelled it thinner, then glued it into loops to make his necktie. Used a few offcuts of coat to give him a bigger collar.

The only tiny bit of sculpting I did was to fill the hole in his chin that the beard pegged into. I could have sculpted other bits, but part of the challenge was ‘I just spent £23 on this, and I’m damned if I have to resculpt it all.’ But even with painting, it took a few hours all in.



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[hmmberto]

Picked up Cardiac and I think he came out beautifully. I'm surprised how much I like the deep blue color on him. I like that they kept the EKG lines unbroken throughout the sculpt as much as possible. In the legs especially - we've seen plenty of figures in the past with obvious places to hide articulation breaks that got overlooked, but here they correctly hid the thigh twists inside the leg bandoliers instead of cutting right through the design. Likewise it seems like butterflies or a waist cut would have broken up the design in an ugly way, so I don't mind the tradeoff there. But, they love using that inverted ab crunch so much everywhere else instead of ball joints, and here it seems like it would have been perfect - my only complaint about a figure I'm otherwise happy with.

 

[KAILRYU]

Picked up Cardiac and I think he came out beautifully. I'm surprised how much I like the deep blue color on him. I like that they kept the EKG lines unbroken throughout the sculpt as much as possible. In the legs especially - we've seen plenty of figures in the past with obvious places to hide articulation breaks that got overlooked, but here they correctly hid the thigh twists inside the leg bandoliers instead of cutting right through the design. Likewise it seems like butterflies or a waist cut would have broken up the design in an ugly way, so I don't mind the tradeoff there. But, they love using that inverted ab crunch so much everywhere else instead of ball joints, and here it seems like it would have been perfect - my only complaint about a figure I'm otherwise happy with.

The lack of inverted ab crunch or pelvic ball joint is basically why I’m waiting to get this guy if I see him hit discount rather than pay full price. The nose issue is one I can disregard as it’s a mild difference, but a bespoke body with purposely omitted articulation has to be dealt with appropriately.


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[hmmberto]

The lack of inverted ab crunch or pelvic ball joint is basically why I’m waiting to get this guy if I see him hit discount rather than pay full price. The nose issue is one I can disregard as it’s a mild difference, but a bespoke body with purposely omitted articulation has to be dealt with appropriately.


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A balljoint waist would have been great, but of course we know they're currently deploying those at a pace of about a single figure per year. I can imagine a scenario where they tried the reverse ab crunch and it was too wide to not futz with the design, so they made the choice to ditch it - I can live with that, because the figure overall is still great.

The upcoming Colossus is one that I'm preemptively very grumpy about and have no such charity as I do towards Cardiac. He doesn't appear to have any lower waist articulation at all which is just absolutely 100% unacceptable on that design.

 

[Misfit]

I would guess it was most of a cost choice than anything. Cardiac is an expensive figure by Legends standards because of the unique sculpt for basically everything. Cutting out another assembly point in the waist helps to lessen it, even if it's only a few cents per figure. Not breaking up the sculpt gives them a convenient out in this case.

 

[hmmberto]

I would guess it was most of a cost choice than anything. Cardiac is an expensive figure by Legends standards because of the unique sculpt for basically everything. Cutting out another assembly point in the waist helps to lessen it, even if it's only a few cents per figure. Not breaking up the sculpt gives them a convenient out in this case.

Hasbro cheaps out on so many things so often it's hard to credit the more charitable explanation with things like this. Regardless, he's a great figure!

Also - I was wrong about Astonishing Colossus and he does have a waist swivel to go with the upper ball joint. Glad to be wrong about that.