Watchmen Movie Rorschach Action Figure

Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

I have been wait­ing a long time to get a Rorschach action fig­ure. The orig­i­nal comic book had a sec­tion on a pro­posed Watch­men fig­ure line fea­tur­ing Rorschach and Night Owl, and as a kid that had me drool­ing in antic­i­pa­tion. I wanted those toys so badly! Next, I saw the pro­to­type fig­ures for Watch­men fig­ures at the 2000 San Diego Comic Con, and although Rorschach wasn’t among them you knew that he would be com­ing along soon enough. But that fig­ure line was can­celed due to com­plaints by author Alan Moore. I under­stood and respect his point of view, but I still wish I had those fig­ures! But at last, here we are. Not exactly the action fig­ures I was hop­ing for, as they are based on the film adap­ta­tion, but it is hard to com­plain. Of all the Wave 1 fig­ures based on the new “Watch­men” film, this is obvi­ously the fig­ure to get. Not just because it is of Rorschach, but because unlike Nite Owl, Silk Spec­tre and Ozy­man­dias, Rorschach’s cos­tume wasn’t changed from the orig­i­nal comic book. This is clearly a collector’s fig­ure, and not really meant for play. On the box they even call it a “Col­lec­tor Action Fig­ure”, just so no one mis­un­der­stands. It is much more of a plas­tic statue than any­thing else, with lim­ited pos­abil­ity. The arms can bend at the elbow and rotate at the shoul­der, but the legs are immo­bile. As far as the sculpt­ing goes, it is per­fect. He looks exactly what Rorschach should look like. In the mod­ern era of laser-scanning tech­nol­ogy, one expects noth­ing less. It stands about 6–7 inches high, maybe a lit­tle bit more if you include the base. The base, which looks like a vaguely indus­trial stand, is impor­tant, as the fig­ure can’t really stand on its own. It attaches in a method I haven’t seen before, where you push a peg up from the bot­tom into the fig­ures foot. You have to be care­ful, as I almost threw out the lit­tle pegs along with the pack­ag­ing before I real­ized what they were! There are three spots for the peg, so you have a lit­tle choice on posi­tion­ing although not in pose. They could have done a lit­tle more with the fig­ure, like giv­ing you a “Kovacs” head to swap out and a “The End is Nigh” sign-board. (Although you can buy this ver­sion as a vari­ant fig­ure.) One of the hands can be replaced with a grip­ping hand to hold his included grap­pling gun, but that is about it. For the price it is a bare-bones fig­ure. Not quite the fig­ure I wanted so badly as a kid (and still want!), but it is pretty cool to have a Rorschach fig­ure on my desk men­ac­ing my other fig­ures, includ­ing the orig­i­nal hero Rorschach was based on, The Question.