The man in the hat is back in the toy aisles with the six inch scaled Adventure Series. I got my figures from Amazon, but happened to see a few on the pegs at my local Target too, so it’s nice to see them getting out there. Today we are looking at a figure of the other lead character in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marion Ravenwood!
I love the style on these Adventure Series boxes with the combination of the famous map travel sequence from the series with some lovely poster-style graphics for each character. Doesn’t keep it from being recycled, but it’s cool.
Marion is a little light on the accessories compared to Indy, but the monkey is very nice. She comes with a couple of wall pieces for the Ark Build-an-Artifact, a frying pan, and the aforementioned monkey. The Ark parts are two plastic panels that click together painted in a fairly shiny gold paint.
The pan fits well in the right hand and is a little loose in the left. It’s cast in a sort of silvery plastic that’s not great at conveying realistic metal.
The star accessory for my dollar is the little monkey. He’s got a ball-jointed head, tail and arms that all helps you to get him into position on Marion and Indy’s arm and shoulder. The tail is especially helpful to let you hook him onto an arm, but he can also kind of stick under Marion’s hair to balance on her shoulder. He’s got a lot of paint detail for such a little guy with a bit of faded color on the fur, gold trim on his vest, and I think there’s a face print on his little pin head. The ball joint on the head does help you get a little character into the poses.
Sculpting on Marion does a great job capturing her likeness and the flowing nature of her outfit. The downside of puffy sleeves on a plastic figure is it require some chunkier pieces of plastic that interfere a bit with posing a bit. The only real downside of the whole thing for me is that her ankles are a bit clunky looking, like the joint really stands out and looks unnaturally thick.
The articulation is a similar to most black series figures, though she doesn’t quite have all the range that Indy does because she doesn’t have butterfly pec hinges, her hair limits neck movement, and the crunch movement is limited. The thickness of the sleeves makes the elbow swivel a little limited too. Marion has:
- Swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, and ankles
- Swivel thighs
- Ball and socket head, neck, and mid-torso
Paint is really solid, especially the pattern on her shirt and the face printing even includes Marion’s freckles. I think the eyes are slightly misaligned on my figure, which I really only noticed looking at close up photos. In person, I feel like the likeness is spooky good for specific scenes with Karen Allen.
When this figure was announced, I was initially disappointed it was this outfit as I’d seen it before on a couple of figures already and wanted to see somebody take a crack at her outfit from Nepal, but this turned out so nice, it’s really her iconic look, and the monkey is so neat, I’m glad they went this way. I do wish there was an Indy without the jacket to go with her.
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