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The last of the Super Hero Squad Mega Packs takes one of Marvel’s biggest alien dragons and turns him into an adorable piece of plastic. Fin Fang Foom rarely gets his own figure in toy lines, but between his Marvel Legends’ BAF and now this one, it’s clear that someone at Hasbro likes the winged, green alien.

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Of all the Super Hero Squad mega figures, one of them made the most sense from the start: the Sentinel! The massive robots that seemed to crash as often as a Windows operating system, the sentinels have always been a plague to the X-Men. But in the last few years the Sentinels have gone from mindless killing machines to giant protectors.

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One of my favorite X-Men villains has always been Apocalypse. Sure, he can be a walking Deus Ex Machina at times with a near unlimited power set that changes depending on what the story needs, but the idea of a several thousand year old mutant that believes in survival of the fittest as the only way to live is kind of cool. Throw in the fact that he’s a shape and mass shifter; it made a lot of sense to make him one of the mega Super Hero Squad figures.

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It seems like someone at Hasbro is a big fan of the Ultimate Universe, because in the course of a year a whole bunch of Ultimate characters got released. The Fantastic Four all wore their Ultimate uniforms, even Captain America and Nick Fury joined in. So with the second wave of mega packs, it followed the same theme by adding two more members of the Ultimates to the mix!

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A benefit of the Mega figures in the Super Hero Squad is it allows for fluctuations in scale without devouring your wallet. The last time I bought Galactus, I had to shell out $50 for the set of Marvel Legends to get all 7 pieces. Man, remember when Marvel Legends were only $7 each? But these larger figures open up a whole new realm of possibilities of characters that can be done right!

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