Review of Marvel Select's The Wolverine movie figure!

 
Character Bio:
The Wolverine finds James Howlett, a.k.a Logan, a.k.a Wolverine, living on his own in the Yukon after killing the second great love of his life, Jean Grey. Summoned to Japan by an elderly businessman whose life he saved in World War II, he is given an offer he can't refuse: the removal of his mutant healing factor, the source of his long lifespan. Having lived over a century, Logan accepts the offer and, with the burden of eternal life off his shoulders, begins to find happiness again. But when his cure turns out to be his curse and those he loves are threatened, he must unsheathe his claws and hunt down his enemies, without a healing factor to keep him alive.
The figure stands about 6 1/2 inches tall and retails at most local comic shops for $24.99.

 Sculpt and Paint:
This figure depicts Wolverine from the opening flashback sequence in World War II, where he was shirtless with army pants and boots. The sculpt is fantastic and looks much more like Hugh Jackman than the previous Marvel Select movie Wolverine. The figure has a very nice sculpt overall from the muscle definition, to the veins. The pants have great wrinkles sculpted and the boots look great. All three heads and sets of hands (we'll get more into detail with those in accessories) look wonderful and I really like this customizable figure approach that Marvel Select is taking with their figures like they did with the Venom figure from earlier this year. Paint wise the figure is pretty good but their is a bit of slop where the pants meets the torso, so watch out for that, some have it well done, some have paint missing towards the top of the pants. Other than that the face is painted wonderfully.

Articulation and Accessories:
In terms of articulation, Wolverine has a balljointed head, swivel-hinge shoulders, swivel biceps, hinge elbows, swivel-hinge wrists, a balljointed mid-torso joint, very odd H-hips, swivel thighs, double-hinge knees, swivel shins, swivel-hinge/ankle rocker ankles. Now the hips are strange because they are like the Marvel Select Venom and Avengers Hulk hips, but when I move it out, the whole joint moves down leaving a gap between the top of the hip and the area where it hinges out to the side. I don't know if its just mine but its very strange, and once its out, you can push it back up to cover the gap. I'm thinking mine maybe had a molding error, but I'm honestly not sure. It doesn't hurt the figure, the joint can't pop out, but I just found it to be a really weird joint.
For Accessories, Wolverine has three heads, one pissed, one very pissed, and one super pissed. He also has three sets of hands, one clenched fists with adamantium claws, one clenched fist and open palm with bone claws, and one with two clenching hands with no claws to hold his final accessory, his samurai blade.

 

OVERALL:
One other thing worth noting is that the back of the box says this figure comes with a base. It does not. That too isn't the worst thing because the figure stands fine on it's own and we get a LOT of accessories with Logan here. The base in the pics below is from the first movie Wolverine Marvel Select did. This figure..it's hard to say whether he is a must have. For a few reasons. The first is that, the definitive wolverine for you may be his comic costume and not shirtless Fabio here. Second, You may want a movie Wolverine with an X-Men costume, and if that's the case I'd wait until Days of Future Past is released to see if we will get one from Diamond Select. On the whole however, I've had, at some point or another, all of  the movie-verse Wolverine figures in the 6" scale and this one, to me is the hands down best one we have gotten to date. So if you just want a really good Movie Wolverine, and don't care about his wardrobe, I would definitely recommend this guy weird hips aside. He is an awesome figure with tons of accessories and he looks great on display. As of late Marvel Select has been delivering some amazing products and I cannot wait to see what's next!

9.5 OUT OF 10!!! (CURSE YOU AWKWARD HIP JOINT!!)