Star-Lord (Marvel Legends: SDCC Exclusive)

Marvel Legends Star-Lord (SDCC Exclusive)

Wanna know what I think about this guy? Star-Lord is this year's most awesome superhero thanks to the talent brought to us by Chris Pratt. I was never really a fan of this Marvel character and his bunch (to be quite honest) not 'til I saw the movie which got me digging through the comics and started learning about their story. Yet despite Pratt's outstanding acting performance on the character, I still prefer the comic book version of Star-Lord in a 6-inch Marvel Legends action figure over his movie counterpart, which happened to have been released following this one last July.














Unlike the movie version, this figure is pretty hard to get! If you haven't gone to SDCC (2014) then your best option is on eBay, which are sold at prices that might take you aback! He comes in this pretty unique boxset with a Galactus Engine artwork and design (which I showed couple of months ago) along with other characters that seemed to be involve in the Thanos Imperative storyline. So if you haven't read that story yet, check it now but in the meantime let's get into this figure.

Noticeably, you can see that this figure used the AIM Soldier body mold, which looked kind of a uniform by the French Foreign Legion in World War 1. The only differences they have are the head sculpts and the belts. Everything is just repainted but still it worked perfectly on Star-Lord! The way the head is sculpted is accurate to the comics. His hands are on a trigger finger-pose to hold his guns properly. Probably one minor issue this figure has is that he does not have holsters to store his weapons, but otherwise, the use of the body mold and the overall sculpt is perfect.

I also got no complain with the paint application. These dark hues of blue that goes from his neck and down to the boot cuts are painted evenly. As well as the red lines that are running along and across his shoulders and torso showed little scuff marks or wears. The added emblems painted over his chest and forehead made this Star-Lord figure looks just right.

The Marvel Legends Star-Lord has a pair of two identical handguns- the "element guns", which look like not the version from the movie but from what we've seen in the comics. It just look like your standard handgun- nothing extraordinary and not something that came from outer space. My only complain about it is that it doesn't even have any paint detail. It's just this one piece gray plastic that I wish Hasbro might wanna consider doing some improvement in the future.

Having the AIM Soldier body mold, Star-Lord can still execute some decent poses like many Marvel Legends figures. His head is on a ball-neck that allows for rotation and leaning towards the sides. He's got ball-hinged shoulders, double-jointed elbows and hinged wrists at the arms. At the torso, he got an abdominal crunch, waist swivel and T-jointed hips. His knees are double-jointed and his ankles are hinged and got the rockers.

The SDCC Exclusive Star-Lord action figure stands about 6.4 inches tall- exactly the same height with our Marvel Legends AIM Soldier. If you're building your team of Guardians of the Galaxy then this action figure is a must-have, let alone being the leader of the team. The overall rendition to his comic book look is being greatly respected with this action figure. I totally recommend this figure but I wouldn't recommend you to pay "scalper price" just to have him.