Marvel Select Hulk

Greetings heroes/citizens, today I have a new toys and I got some time to play with it. But this is going to be really short as I’ll need to finish my work first. This is the latest action figure from Diamond Select in Marvel Select line. Retail price for this is around $19.99 it was release a few weeks ago. This action figure was sculpted by Gabriel Marquez. This is the normal green version, Diamond Select will also make a Red Hulk, but it is not released yet.

Packaging; Not very “back in the box” friendly kind of packaging. It’s either MISB or you opened it and throw away the packaging, easy to open because it’s so heavy the glue that stick the bubble plastic to the cardboard is not doing a great job, it might tear the cardboard a bit and you may ended up with some chapped packaging.I hope they will learn this next time and maybe use a clamshell for a big figures like this. But the best thing about the packaging is the graphic design,it’s awesome.

Design/sculpt; in terms of design and sculpt I might rate this as the best Hulk figure that was ever made. Standing about 8 inches tall, he looks great trashing my Ripclaw. The sculpt deserves two thumbs up, the veins sculpted are very realistic and not overly done.Because he’s big the face sculpt are also a thing to talk about. You can count the teeth, well if you want to.

The Hulk came with a display base, it fits nicely to the feet of Hulk, his feet are big and flat you actually don’t need a base to display it.

Articulations; this is the part which this Hulk is lacking. But if you have previous Marvel Select action figures, you know that Marvel Select is still “learning” about articulations. It’s not very bad you can do some simple pose, at least it have 14 points of articulations. The best articulations are the shoulders, the hips and knees-fail.Other than that the articulations are not bad.

Colors; the body was painted green and washed by a darker green, that make the detail sculpts really pops up.

Accessory; just a really cool looking display base.

Collectors values; I personally think that Marvel Select is really catching up on what the collectors wants.They first made a true to comic icons alive, than they gradually making them better, adding more articulations to it and I think this can be the alternate choice to the not so legend, Marvel Legends, by “Hasblow”. It kind of cure me from the depression that I had from what “Hasblow” had done to Marvel Legends.

-Baseguardian