While I liked the line, I wasn't intending to buy a lot - but the Dungeons & Dragons Sacred Statue just seems like a smart buy. My pal Seth makes some cool playsets and this was not only a cool figure, but seemed like the thing you would want to decorate your cool intergalactic space bar playset. Super7 got the packaging and pose right for a retro figure, but the level of detail and engineering was far, far too good for a product of the 1980s this time. The loincloth is a separately molded plastic piece, and the right eye socket comes packaged empty - a teeny-tiny gem can fit in it, though. It's smaller than a grain of rice and may well be the smallest action figure accessory I own. Also, the stony deco is very good - there's no way you would have seen anything like this last century outside of some sort of customizer table. And even then, customizers in the 1990s did nice work... but not this nice.
I have a passing familiarity with D&D, mostly through a few games with friends in college and my flipping through the books and various miniatures. I have no idea what this thing's deal is other than supposedly some books say it can come to life - so I see it as a literal statue. After taking these pictures, I didn't initially realize that there was a teensy gem in the packaging until I got in close to the head. It's subtle, but you can see an empty socket for a clear gem that, were it to fall out, you would never see again. Once I got it in there, it's a tight fit and I have no desire to ever remove it, even to tell you if it's easy to remove or not. That's how small it is - unless I shoot it in a brightly lit, empty, and uncarpeted room with nothing in it, I will never remove this accessory. It has a tiny indentation for the eye, and the color matches the left eye perfectly.
Its other accessory is a large bowl of fire. The bowl is painted, sculpted with cracks and looks appropriately aged. The fire is a clear orange - simple, but effective. An aspiring customizer could drill out a hole and put an LED in there, but I'm not going to do that. He holds it perfectly in his outstretched hands. When all the parts are on this figure, it looks like the kind of thing some rich dork would put in his house. I hope some day to be that dork.
The figure's sculpting is excellent, but almost too perfect. It's not quite as flawless as some other recently released ReAction figures, thanks to numerous cracks and other weathered elements from the deco. The red plastic looks great and the black wash really brings out most of the cracks and cuts. The head has a lot of black in the mouth to make the teeth pop, and the horns are really pointy! The sculptor interpreted the art quite nicely, with tons of cracks and marks on the front but even more on the back. This figure looks like it has seen some action, which is great, because none of the adult fans buying it are likely to ever play with it. That's the sad fate of all new toys.
Articulation is good. The figure's head swivels, the arms swivel, and the legs also swivel with a rubbery loincloth that doesn't hinder the movement. I assume if he sits for a long period of time, it'll stick up - so I won't have him pilot any vehicles. It fits the template and the sculpting is on par with - or better than - a lot of recent figures from Super7 in this size.
Sure he could've been bigger like the Planet of the Apes Lawgiver, but sometimes you have to cut some corners - or realize there's probably no demand for a $40 or $60 giant. I think this turned out surprisingly well, with another surprise action feature. I don't buy all the ReAction Figures, but I have been surprised by the little extras like the gem eye, or the Yip Yip mouths lately. $20 isn't exactly a steal for a figure, but the low-run figures do have exceptional card art and, increasingly, really impressive deco and thoughtful accessories. I can't deny this feels like a $20 figure, although I also can't deny I couldn't spend $25 on Hasbro's super-articulated 6-inch figures. Maybe it's the whimsy, or the packaging that lets me see the figure, but it's probably just the form factor. I like this guy a lot - and all he's going to do is stand around in a playset. He'll be perfect, and do his job well.
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