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Another series of the excellent McFarlane hockey figures have been revealed on spawn.com. The nine figure set - again made up of two netminders and seven skaters - is due for release (in the States at least!) in January 2004. The bias towards the Avs and Red Wings shown in Series 6 continues with two from each team included here - Dominik Hasek and Chris Chelios from Detroit and Peter Forsberg and Milan Hejduk from Colorado. Joining them this time are three of the stories of last season in the NHL : Todd Bertuzzi (Canucks), JS Giguere (Ducks) and Marian Gaborik (Wild) as well as the long-awaited appearance of Toronto power forward Owen Nolan. (Nolan was originally scheduled to be included in an earlier series when he was with the Sharks but was replaced by Evgeni Nabokov instead.) The only slight disappointment I have with this range at the moment is the tendency to re-use body sculpts from earlier series - Bertuzzi here shares a pose with Ron Francis and Joe Thornton, Gaborik with Joe Sakic and Hejduk with Jeremy Roenick. This isn’t limited to this series and as I say is a minor price to pay for such high quality hockey figures! PD - 14/12/03 |
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