It’s going to be classic X-Men belt for me from now on.Ĭonversely, I think I like the modern “hairy” head more than the classic “bald” one. I’m not likely to ever display this figure with the 80s-feeling oversized buckle belt after taking these review photos, but Champions and original X-Factor fans may prefer it. The belts have a snap in the middle and fit remarkably well. That’s an exceedingly generous spread of extras that clearly sets this figure apart value-wise from a $25 Marvel Legends. We get one huge accessory in the much-hyped Ice Slide, as well as 5 total interchangeable hands, 2 heads, 2 belts and 2 support stands for the ice sled effects. Where this figure does excel, though, is the accessories loadout. Transparent parts look incredible on an iceman statue, but on a toy they pose real challenges that I don’t think this Iceman Select overcomes. The clear plastic let’s you see the inner workings of the toy, including the very obvious elbow and shoulder joints, and it’s simply not a good look.

I think it ideally really needed to be one or the other if DST was going to use see-through materials here. There have been many previous translucent Iceman figures from various companies over the years, but the combination of blue and fully clear parts used here looks really, really bizarre to me. The Iceman action figure itself is made of a mixture of clear and translucent tinted blue plastic, with white frost deco applied on some of the clear areas. You can put him a bit further back to fudge it, but naturally I don’t think it works. And as is usually the case with non-oversized Select characters, the answer is “probably not”.Īs a 7” figure, Iceman towers over 6” Legends. The first question I know a lot of fans will ask is if this Iceman will look good displayed with 6” Marvel Legends Hasbro figures. The big photo of the figure close-up just doesn’t have the same flair. I do miss the days of comic book artwork on the spines of the packaging, though. The cardback gives a bio for Marvel fans who somehow don’t know who Iceman is, as well as crediting the artists who worked on the figure. The large bubble shows off the 7” figure and its multitude of accessories well, clearly illustrating why this toy is a fair deal at its $29.99 MSRP. Marvel Select Iceman comes in the traditional MS packaging that DST has been using for close to two decades now.

Iceman has had numerous toys from Toybiz and Hasbro since his debut figure in Mattel’s 80s Secret Wars line, but more often than not I feel like they’ve missed the mark. Diamond Select Toys (DST) has been giving X-Men fans a lot of love in the Marvel Select series over the last half decade, including Select Beast, Rogue, Psylocke and Apocalypse-and now one of the founding members is joining the lineup for the first time!

Miss incredible figure