#Obsidian cull movie#

And lo and behold, he finally arrived this spring! Once that happened, it was just a matter of time until a new Black Knight appeared. That changed when the Dreadknight figure appeared on the scene in 2016, bringing with it a new mailed body mold. That figure was, well… not so great, but many collectors have held onto him for the past 10+ years anyway, as it wasn’t certain we’d ever see this classic Avengers member redone. As a large and imposing alien I think this figure is really neat, but it just doesn’t feel like a definitive figure of this character to me.A little over a decade ago, Hasbro released the first-ever 6” Black Knight Marvel Legends figure as part of the Brood Series. Even so, the character design Hasbro went with for the figure won’t appeal to everyone, his hammer-wielding poses are stifled by a lack of better arm articulation, and he could use some more paint shading. Overall: The Cull Obsidian Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure is beautifully sculpted, suitably big and bulky, and very cool visually. (I do think an axe would have been more appropriate as a weapon for this character than a hammer, though.) Once it was in, though, it wasn’t going to fall out easily. I had a few troubles getting the hammer into Cull Obsidian’s hands, which are also made of a rigid plastic that I had to pry apart a bit to insert the hammer. (And yes, I know how dirty that whole paragraph sounded.) Cull’s hammer is totally stiff and rigid, and doesn’t seem likely to start drooping any time soon. While last year’s Gladiator Hulk Build-A-Figure suffered from some pretty embarrassing “limpy hammer”’issues, that’s not going to be the case with Cull Obsidian’s hardware. To me, Cull Obsidian’s armor would look much improved with a dark wash, while his scales don’t look as impressive as they could being primarily just unpainted plastic. While the paint that’s here on this Cull Obsidian BAF is well-done, I think that overall the paint deco on this figure is pretty sparse and basic. Paint-wise, I’m of two minds with this figure. I would have preferred a more ferocious and less stoic facial expression, since Cull Obsidian is a pretty aggressive guy, but the head looks awesome nonetheless. The best part of the entire sculpt on this figure is probably the head, which looks wonderfully alien and grotesque, while also featuring probably the best paintwork on the whole figure. Ball-hinge neck, shoulders, wrists, and feet.

He’s got a nice heft to him, and can hold up smaller figures like Infinity War Black Widow without breaking a sweat (if toys could sweat-which they can’t).Īlthough Marvel Legends Cull Obsidian is a pretty bulky guy, he’s still got a respectable amount of articulation build in, including: Both pieces fit rather snugly and without hindering the articulation in the Cull Obsidian BAF much-although his legs were prone to popping back off of I tried to push them forward too much.Īs you would expect from the biggest and baddest powerhouse of the Black Order, the ML Cull Obsidian BAF stands an impressive 8”+ tall and weighs around a pound. There are two main “add-on” costume pieces on this figure: a piece of shoulder armor on his right shoulder and an armored loincloth around his waist. The action figure itself is pretty great as a generic alien warrior, but I’m not fully satisfied with him as a Cull Obsidian/Black Dwarf, as I’m not crazy about him not being a close match to either version of the character.

#Obsidian cull movie#

But while the costume has a closer likeness to the comic book version of the character, his “skin” color is the dark brown/green color from the movie and not the gold/orange color the character has in the comics. But while he’s only called Cull Obsidian in the movies, this figure looks like a clear mashup of the comic book and movie designs of the character.Įven with just a brief glance, you can see that the costume on this figure isn’t even close to the uniform that Cull Obsidian is wearing in Infinity War. Originally called “Black Dwarf” in the comics, Marvel Studios changed the name of the character for obvious reasons. While the membership has changed a bit over the years in the comics, the “core” group that appears in Infinity War has remained the most memorable iteration-including the subject of today’s review, Cull Obsidian. While MCU-only fans were just introduced to the Black Order this spring when the Avengers Infinity War movie hit theaters, Marvel comic book readers have been familiar with the group for several years now.