[Dormamu]

First off, Tony, amazing gallery. In particular, I love the use of the lighting shots from under the base.

You know, you never really see Darth Vader as this imposing character of pure rage and evil until you start getting into larger scales. Thats when the real detail of the pressure suit, and the armor layered on top, with the controls to his life support directly on his chest really hit home. Thats a person who is this constantly burning, embodiment of hatred and fury underneath, in a suit, with the constant danger of being exposed, already in pain, but armored, and wearing the robes of a Sith Lord.

The skeleton seems...I don't know, something is off with it. Maybe it's the fact that Phicen, and other companies seem to really have advanced the anatomy factor of the endoskeleton to the point that this version just doesn't give the look of being this thing that is able to pose well. And as mentioned, the limitations are there. Should Vader do the splits? No, but should you perhaps have the ability for the cost? Hard to say. The ab lack is also throwing me off. Like....that's kind of a offput in a world where a lot of the collector figures on market have some form of articulation in that area. I'm sure it was for stability of the spine to the heft of the body or preventing tears because that is always the curse of silicone bodies. But Prowse for his height is a stocky guy, and this is that Vader. Big and imposing.

He's also almost as tall as MP-10. That's mindblowing. You really have to be a Star Wars collector to really want this. It's not the scale so much as the overall space in a collection.

I wouldn't even pretend to call this against a Hot Toys or SHF offering. It's a licensed product in it's own sort of created class of eight inch figures. Future releases like Luke should be interesting to see in interaction. Plus then I have more galleries to drool over.