Marvel Select Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Review

Diamond Select Toys only releases around a dozen total Marvel Select activity figures per year, so commonly they put their all-time foot frontwards and seldom disappoint. But to my dismay, one of the first releases of 2018 looked similar it was going to be a rare misfire based off of the final packaged photos. My Marvel Select Drax and Baby Groot Figures I ordered online finally arrived this week—were my fears for naught, or is the DST Drax ultimately a letdown?

The Correct:

The biggest "correct" about the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Marvel Select Drax figure is the sheer fact that Diamond Select Toys has released information technology at all. Many toy companies like Bandai and Hot Toys skipped out on releasing figures of Gamora and Drax for the new movie at all.

So any else I may say virtually the Drax figure in this review: thanks for making him, DST. Just let's start with what I like best about this figure: the Marvel Select Baby Groot pack-in effigy!

As he's been created to-scale, this little guy is TINY. That's really a good matter, though, as his size feels authentic and makes Drax experience larger and more formidable (as he should).

Remarkably, this picayune Groot figure has seven (!) points of articulation congenital in—more than than standard 3.75" Star Wars figures Hasbro releases these days!

Marvel Select Baby Groot has articulation in his cervix, shoulders, hips and even itty fragmentary anxiety. Information technology'south a flake rubbery and information technology tin be a challenge to become him to stand, but by default the articulation on this dude crushes the Hasbro Marvel Legends version.

The sculpting on this tiny figure is good, in that location's some nice pigment deco (specially on top of his head), and he's got a cute face. This is a win for Diamond Select Toys!

The actual Drax Curiosity Select effigy itself… is less and then. I call back that DST did their usual impressive job with the sculpting on Drax the Destroyer, with the raised bumps for his tattoos being a very solid bear upon.

But unfortunately, the figure is otherwise riddled with problems. And so let's become right to them in…

The Wrong:

Drax is one of the most expressive members of the Guardians of the Galaxy, with his mutual facial expressions including hysterical laughs, brutal war cries and brutal sneers.

Unfortunately, DST opted for a facial expression where Drax is… staring blankly at you lot. He might as well be an emotionless Vulcan like Spock given the lack of life in this portrait. This was a weird choice that just doesn't work for the character.

And speaking of weird choices: when I waned to popular in Drax'due south fists and went to slide his knives into the sheaths on his boots, I was shocked to see that the sheaths are totally non-functional and filled in with plastic. Wha?! This makes piddling sense to me and leaves no mode of storing the knives. Disappointing.

Besides, information technology's foreign that we go i open hand with Drax that has nothing to hold at all (the grip is as well wide for ane of the knives). Mayhap this is a remnant from an earlier thought to requite Drax a gun of some sort?

In general, DST does some of the best paint applications around on 6"-7" activity figures—but Drax is a bad example of this.

The figure I got has numerous paint defects, with lite pink colored scuffs on his face, paint bleeding off his belt onto the buttons, the paint for his tattoos misaligned and running off the raised parts of his back… this is just not up to the usual Diamond Select Toys standard. And there's ane part of the paint deco that's and so bad, it needs a section of its own in a bit…

The Ridiculous:

The kickoff time I saw finished photos of the Drax Select figure, my jaw just about hit the floor when I saw his dark, humongous lips. I hoped maybe it was a bad photo or a one-off defect or something, merely alas… Drax's lips really await that horrendous.

The lips look straight-up horrid on this figure. Information technology doesn't look like this was the intent of the paint apps based off the photos on the dorsum of the package, but this is what we concluded up with. Strong painters and customizers might be able to fix this up, but directly from the box, this is terrible.

But expect… there'southward more! I never await Curiosity Legends-level super-joint from Marvel Select Figures, just I also expect at least basic articulation. The unmarried-swivel elbows on this Drax Select figure are a nightmare, equally the joints can literally only curve a couple degrees. What y'all see in that photo upwardly in a higher place, where Drax's arm looks totally direct? Yep–that's the maximum bend. Oy.

You lot can meet the maximum bend from another bending below. As you lot might look, this has a hugely negative impact on posing this figure, and it'south the primary reason why there's not much in the style of "fun" poses in my photos of DST Drax.

Overall: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is my favorite Curiosity movie, so I dearly wanted to exist in love with this Drax and Infant Groot two-pack. Well… one out of ii ain't bad, I guess. The little Groot figure is a please with surprising articulation and item for the size, only DST Drax is a bust. The pigment deco on him is terrible—particularly the awful lips—and I'm baffled past choices such as elbows that might every bit well not curve at all, an inexpressive bored face sculpt, and filled in sheaths for his knives. Information technology doesn't happen often, but this is an overall below average release from Diamond Select Toys.

Class: D+

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