A short version of the review would be: he’s a badass!
I really need to get a display cabinet to keep the dust off my figures…it really shows up on his dark blues, even though he’s always in motion, being taken room to room because I like him so much.
His purchase was one of the usual situations where I had to trawl around Ebay for an acceptable price and condition (and the dark blue variant that I wanted), all the while thinking negative thoughts about younger me who didn’t get him when he was on the pegs at Farmers (New Zealand’s equivalent of a Target)! Stupid teenagers.
I think I actually got him MOC for a decent price.
Anyway, as I said, this is the variant, with dark blue costuming. I thought it was the cooler figure at the time, but looking online, the regular one seems to have an amazing wash on the rocky skin sections that this one doesn’t have. His skin has moulded craquelure, but no paint. Unfortunate, but the lack of paint also means he’ll maybe last longer. Consoling myself.
He comes with the motherbox, pictured at top, and a whole lot of badass. Or no ass, but lots of back! Nice moulded musculature on a solid, solid frame – he’s nicely imposing, without looking like too much of a brute. I love the moulding on the arms.
The legs are great too, unlike most of my DCUC figures who have this weird form of rickets. I love the cut of the hinges, and the joints move great. Moulding on the boots is very nice, and each boot is unique in the bends and folds. The black trimmings are perfect.
Party Darkseid has ball-joints under there. That was somehow a crucial factor for me when checking out reviews online and deciding how much I wanted the figure. It gives him as much movement as you could get with the soft skirt on, and that was just good design by Mattel. You can see some of the nice sparkle on the belt section, which again has perfectly clean black lines going through it.
I think the scale is good. The image was taken before I had my DC Collectible Icons to join in the JLA fun, but they would only balance out the scale for the better, IMO, putting regular sized guys like Hal and Flash more at the mercy of Darkseid.
I hated the DCAU Justice League: War, just by the way. Hated it. A lot of that would be directed at the New 52 changes though, and Darkseid was one of them. I guess his size has been variable, and in the Batman/Superman Supergirl comic, he was huge. But it’s just not necessary. I read one good take on him by Dan Jurgens, in an interview, where his might is more from his despotic, warlording, ruler of Apokolips bit, than from brutish power. I mean he’s not Despero and he’s not some dumb tool like Doomsday.
But he can still handle Superman.
If there’s one complaint about the figure (apart from the lack of paint wash) it would possibly be that he looks a bit pea-headed sometimes. Like the ML Arnim Zola figure. He doesn’t have much up and down movement up there either.
He does have a waist swivel (another deciding factor), as well as bicep and wrist swivels. Getting his waist going needs some force every time. The ball shoulders are nice, but don’t get much lateral movement up, due to the moulding on both his muscles and his sleeveless Kirby toga. I forgot to photograph it, but he also has some great Kirby designy stuff on the soles of his boots, different on each foot.
Just good toymaking. Makes me happy.
DARKSEIDDDDDD
Badass time
Universal remote
Nice, but not as nice as the Thing’s skin
The death of Forager
The death of Darkseid/Batman
NOOOOOOOOO
Tell yor sistah, yoo were right
Not sure which one’s better
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