Maggie Greene: The Walking Dead (McFarlane Toys)

The Walking Dead: Maggie Greene

Buffy is not the only hot chick around murdering monsters and demons or undead beings on TV. There are several of these women but there is one that specializes on post-apocalyptic survival and zombies, and that's Maggie. Like her boyfriend, Glenn, she started in this simple-normal type of job not until a zombie outbreak turned her from a farm girl to a zombie slayer! Not only that she added some unique element to the show (thanks to her gorgeous body), but made this whole zombie thing even more entertaining to watch... especially for the guys who admires her.















Now this McFarlane figure have a lot of details, sculpt-wise. However, the face never really captured the likeness of Lauren Cohan (a.k.a. Maggie Greene); and it's even hard to tell if she's Caucasian. For me, the only indicator that tells me that I'm looking at a Maggie Greene figure are these dark straps from her brassier at the back along with her army green tank top. Like all Walking Dead figures, she has uncannily realistic features from head to toe, except for the moving parts on her joints that has ridges over it, which I really don't understand why this toyline still stick with these.

Paint-wise, again- I'm not too impressed with how her face looked as though she needs some correctional lenses. I have to say that the eyes are probably the most important parts of a figure that needs to be done properly. Unfortunately, all Maggie Greene figures I've seen in stores have eyes like these! But, oh well what can you do, at least the paint details over her arms, legs and torso made up for it. There are splatters of blood around her neck and her forearm, and a well executed paint wash over her denim pants.

Maggie doesn't come with any interchangeable parts. She only comes with weapons which are very true to what she used in the series; a machete, a pistol and an assault rifle. Both the machete and the pistol are concealable and each comes with their own storage. The assault rifle considerably doesn't have one and it doesn't need to. The only thing that's kinda weird with this gun is that it looks a little big for her! Or maybe she's just made a little short to be a Walking Dead figure.

As you might have already learned, these figures are display pieces and so the articulation is not that great. It's more or less likely a "staction figure" (statue-like action figure). There is no bicep rotation or ankle pivot, which is very common with these figures. Maggie got the standard Walking Dead articulation; a ball-neck, ball-hinged shoulders, single-jointed elbows and hinged wrists with rotation. She got waist rotation that doesn't perform well and thigh cuts that rotates and moves forward or back but only to a limited range. Also, she got single-jointed knees and hinged ankles that rotates.

My verdict is that I think it is a must-have figure only because she definitely needs to be partnered with Glenn Rhee. These two go together like Bonnie and Clyde. But speaking about its rendition to the actual look on the face of the character, it is poorly executed. The only good thing about it though is the body mold and (as always) paint job. Overall, I'm satisfied with this figure but not extremely happy.