Day 256

Day 256 September 13^th

Age of Apocalypse Sabretooth

             This is arguably my most favourite character to come out of the Age of Apocalypse storyline.  The way he was written was amazing and I really enjoyed the character development, which is something lacking in most stories with Sabretooth in the regular Marvel universe.  Given how much I enjoyed this character in the comics I was pretty much through the roof excited when they announced him as a minimate.  The wait from the announcement till the release seemed like forever and then even longer till I got one of my own.  On a whole I am happy to have him but there are parts that make it less then the high level of excitement I had while waiting for it.  The first most glaring thing is the feet, which I know my picture doesn’t show but they are just plain feet, not even the paint of a boot going up the shin or anything.  He had boots in the comic so I had expected something with the minimate, but they seemed to drop the ball at that point.  The other piece that kind of bugs me is the oversized chest cap.  While I do see the point of it and yes Sabretooth is a bigger character, especially in this universe, it seems almost too big and bulky on the minimate.  A good friend of mine has done some modifications to his Sabretooth which include adding some boots and it seems to add some balance to the chest piece size, I might have to get some parts together and see if he is interested in repeating that work!