Action Figure #449: Star Wars Black Series The Mandalorian(Glavis Ringworld)

  This might be the way.

 I've had this figure for over a week and I knew nothing about The Mandalorian. But the fig looked cool, so I got the fig, and a couple of days later I convinced my girlfriend to start watching The Mandalorian with me, we are two episodes in and we love it!

 Well... he does look cool. I've seen posts and videos claiming he is 'almost import quality'. It's pure bull. It's just another series black figure. It has a soft-rubber armor plate, which I don't like, and the belts, the one across his chest and the one on his waist, are a separate rubber piece, which is alright, but it can be a bit hard to handle. He comes with a knife he can't hold, a saber he can barely hold, a blaster ha can actually hold and a jetpack. There's a similar figure, the Mines of Mandalore version, but it lacks the jetpack and the cape is made out of rubber instead of soft goods, like this one. Mando not being able to hold his knife is ridiculous. I used superglue to glue left hand shut so that he'd get a better hold on the dark saber. It's not perfect, but it's much better than how he came out. I saw posts writing about Series Black needing more alternate hands... bro, he can't even hold the Dark Saber, it's not that it should have more hands, it's that at least he should be able to hold AT LEAST two of the three accessories without issues.

 And the articulation, well... usual Series Black subpar fare. All the joints are single, so his arms and legs don't have as much range as Marvel Legends. He has swivels on his gauntlets, so you can rotate them, as well as swivels on his legs. The pauldrons are made out of soft rubber, so they don't hamper movement on his arms. There's no waist swivel, but he has a ball joint on his ab crunch, one which you can't get much use out of due to the soft-rubber belts and armor, preventing him from getting much use out of it. He is just a bit shorter than the Bucky Cap. 

 As seen here, the knife just falls off from either hand. You have to put it on his boot. This is kinda misleading, since promo photos have him holding the knife, which is impossible.

 Mando is not a horrible figure, but... c'mon, to call this almost import quality? At the bare minimum he should be able to hold all his accessories without issues. The articulation is also so limited when compared to Hasbro's other lines... Mind you, I've had fun playing with him, I did, but... Hasbro has done much better.

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