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First thing's first- this Hulk has very expressive rocker joints in the ankles, only seen on Collossus among the Marvel Select line up to this point. This mean he cand stand flat footed in many more positions than before, helping look more natural and hold his pose more securely. We've been seeing more of this from Hasbro lately, but I was surprised to see Marvel Select do it so soon after. After years of fanboy complaints about articulation, Diamond Toys added some more points, which is useful on this thick figure.
There's a lot of great stuff going on here, particularly in the paint department. The shading around the muscles give his dark green skin some good depth. His pants look a little more brown in the pictures, but have more of an ashen plum color in person. His whole tone has a unified intensity throughout the figure, and wouldn't be surprised if the same grey used to shade the skin was used in the blend for the basecoat on his pants. There's a little slop around the waist, and his left ankle was scratched, but his coloring is so good. They painted his toes and fingernails, People.
The face looks ugly and great! Hulk,s mouth is amazingly detailed, as are his eyes, and the hairline was carefully detailed. His head is limited in the back, but it's on a ball joint that is otherwise expressive.
Hulk has no waist joint, which could have been an easy addition, but he does have a torso swivel which is fine. The real surprise was his DCUC laterally hinged T hips, another completely new joint for a Marvel Select that usually have a ball-hinge combo. He even has a cut swivel in the thighs like a DCUC. The hips are harder to move, locking into four positions as moved out from the body so far he could do the splits. Seriously. Be careful moving them- they are somewhat clunky to operate, like Marvel Select joints can be.
Hulk has cut hoints at the wrists like the previous Select Hulk which is fine. The Wal-Mart exclusive Avengers Hulk by Hasbro enjoys a hinge here as well, and has a left grabbing/open hand which is different from the more typical two-fisted Hulks we've seen. The Hasbro also has double-jointed knees and elbows, which breaks up more of the sculpt- this is fine, but as I've said before, Marvel Selects go for sculpt over articulation.
Aside from wondering how this Marvel Select Avengers Hulk measures up to the predictably smaller Hasbro version, I was more curious about him next to my other Marvel Select Hulk- a favorite in many ways...
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...Oh c'mon- you knew I would do this.... :D
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AAaarrgh!! Make It FUN!
Grest score bro..I saw this actual figure..Very good head sculpt with great paint job..Worth for collection :)
ReplyDeleteGreat looking figure Colin i like this rendering of the "Green Machine".
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comparison pics with the comics Select Hulk--I couldn't get past those fishball thighs so I passed on him. that and how ugly he is! That 1ast pic of both of them looking at each other just cracked my monitor and a coupld\e of the windows in my house...Lol. ;P
ReplyDeleteWow! I'm not a Hulk fan but I gotta say thats a real good looking figure!
ReplyDeleteGreat review as always, my daughter is a huge Hulk fan, so this one may have to get purchased.
ReplyDeleteThese Hulk figures that have been released as of late have all been pretty awesome IMO.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to get this figure for myself! I've been completely disappointed by every one of the Avengers Hulks. When I finally saw this one, I couldn't believe someone had finally gotten it together to give us something worthy of the movie.
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