[En Sabah Nerd]

Darkseid is.

My pre-order from BBTS arrived yesterday. There's no ignoring that this is a flawed figure but I still really dig it. I'll get my gripes out of the way first, he has articulation issues. I'm not talking about the single-jointed elbows or any other "missing" joints because we've been able to see that stuff since he went up for pre-order, I'm referring to the part where his hip joints barely have any range of motion and the left ankle on mine is loose so when he's not on the base he falls over very easily. He's basically locked to standing upright, I'll grant that is probably what I'd have him doing anyway but it is still a bummer when you're handling a figure and you find out a good chunk of him is useless articulation because the hips are functionally static. On to what I like, I just think he looks great. It's not truly classic Darkseid but it's pretty damn close, being based on his Super Powers design and not the proper original just means trading the miniskirt for a cape and the belt being white. I would have preferred the cape be removable but it doesn't offend me either. He's quite larger than the typical DC Multiverse figure but on the smaller end of megafigs, Bane is actually a little bit taller than him and he's notably smaller than Mongul (whose arms he reuses) or Swamp Thing. I appreciate this size because classically Darkseid was not particularly big but the toy still feels large enough to support the higher price of being a megafig. The new sculpting and color choices are what make this figure really work for me, I especially like the heads. Both portraits came out very well but I definitely have to give the edge to the one with the energy effect, I think they did a great job making him look like he's charging up an omega beam. So yeah this Darkseid just stands there looking menacing but that's all I really wanted from him so I'm willing to move past some of his flaws and enjoy McFarlane's first classic Darkseid.