Another Friday, another review. ‘pologize for the lateness, so lets not waste time and get started.

 

Today we’re reviewing The Watcher, next week I’ll review The Monitor who is also seen in this picture. The Watcher is a Marvel character known for….watching stuff. Primarily Earth and Earth’s superheroes.

 

This figure is a Marvel Select, so while it has some of the articulation of a Legend its not quite one.

 

So for the most part the Watcher has decent mobility in his arms, hands, wrists and neck, but thats pretty much where it ends with the upper body. He can’t bend at the waist and neither can he bend at the knees which can be a little frustrating if you want a dramatic pose, but then again the Watcher has never been a very dramatically posing person and one has to assume with such a huge head making the neck, waist or knees pose able might prove problematic if the joints became weak in helping it stand up.

As you can see below the figure can be rotated completely around at the waist and his rubber clothes don’t seem to get very much in the way. Speaking of the clothes, they’re not bad. They are rubber which I think might be a wiser decision then cloth because sometimes cloth just looks silly no matter how hard you try to dress it up and fit it to an action figure. Plastic is easier to control and shape. I don’t agree with this for the fact of Batman figures, I believe there they should be cloth but thats for another day.

And I don’t have a picture of it, but while the Watcher doesn’t bend at the knees his legs can swivel the 90 degrees so they are pointed straight out from his body. This is a little impractical as they character, at least in my experience, seems to need the added planetary/rocky base he comes with to stand properly without falling down. This also helps in giving him a few more inches to stand a head or two bigger then most legends.

So in the end is the Watcher a good figure? Its decent. It could be better, in terms of articulation but if it is articulated the way it is for the reasons I believe then I guess it makes sense. I think the Watcher might have been better as a Marvel 12 Inch figure. That way he could be a lot taller then the rest of your legends and make him seem a bit more epic a figure. So if you really need or like The Watcher you can probably find him on Ebay for around 20-30 dollars or at toy stores on the internet that stock Marvel Selects.

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