{"id":40244,"date":"2023-07-29T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=40244"},"modified":"2025-02-02T00:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T05:55:59","slug":"indiana-jones-adventure-series-marion-ravenwood-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/indiana-jones-adventure-series-marion-ravenwood-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Jones: Adventure Series Marion Ravenwood review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the Indiana Jones Adventure Series<\/i> on being the first toyline to hit clearance before it even hit shelves! That's right, my Target doesn't have anything but the exclusives yet, but they've yellow-tagged the pegs where the standard line will theoretically one day be. Big win, Hasbro!<\/p>\n

Marion Ravenwood is comfortable in any situation, including ballrooms and barroom brawls.<\/i><\/p>\n

I honestly don't know why everyone views Marion as \"the\" Indiana Jones Girl, but every latter-day sequel says it's so, and thus we must accept it. This Marion is wearing her Cairo marketplace outfit, an embroidered blouse and the poofiest red pants you ever did see - not a costume that lends itself well to plastic action figure form. Like, this is supposed to be breezy, desert-friendly garb, but the realities out toymaking turn it into big, heavy chunks she could use to knock someone unconscious. Has anyone ever<\/b> made a toy of her in her Tibetan drinking contest look?<\/p>\n

However the likeness may have looked at the sculpting phase, the final production figure is terrible. Comparing the toy to the art on the box, it doesn't look like the photo of Karen Allen, it doesn't look like the painting of Marion Ravenwood... I'm sure it looks like someone, in that there are only so many configurations a human face can take, but Hasbro would have been smart to not put any photos of the actress on this box, because it just underscores how bad the product looks.<\/p>\n

One thing they did do well is the articulation. Bulbous clothes like this are usually not conducive to mobile joints, but Marion has ankles, knees, thighs, hips, waist, wrists, elbows, shoulders, and head, and the majority of those are balljoints or swivel\/hinges. The printing on her shirt is excellently applied, and though it seems like an error that there are no red flowers(?) on her back, you can see in the movie that that's accurate. Her accessories are the frying pan she hit the weirdly grinning goon with, and the Nazi monkey. Who doesn't love a Nazi monkey! Fuhre-ous George is wearing their little red vest, and is articulated with little balljoints for the head, arms, and tail. Yes, both arms. So you can make the monkey salute if you want. The set also includes one side and one end of the Ark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This figure is... fine? There's nothing terribly wrong with her, but the execution is underwhelming. The engineering and paint on the body are great, but the sculpt doesn't live up to their standard. On paper everything's great; for whatever reason, the parts just don't add up to the whole. We can't even say that she's bad; she's not special enough to be \"bad.\" We're lucky enough to be collectors in an era where high standards are considered, well, standard<\/b>, and this is just \"the low side of mediocre.\" Good effort from the artists, but bad execution from the company.<\/p>\n

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