McFarlane Toys Diablo IV Hydra Lightning Sorceress
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00:00 A storm is approaching and so is she. Here's your look at the brand-new
00:03 McFarlane toys Diablo 4 Hydra Lightning Sorceress.
00:09 The sorceress shapes the elements into whatever form is necessary to ensure
00:28 victory from hurling bolts of lightning impaling her foes upon jagged spikes of
00:33 ice and raining flaming meteors down from the sky. I think just before we find
00:38 out what weather she can wield let's grab the tape measure first and see how
00:41 tall the brand-new Diablo 4 Hydra Lightning Sorceress stands. Would you
00:45 believe that she stands almost exactly six inches in height? You can see it for
00:49 yourself or the figure is gonna be about 15 centimeters tall. And a big thank you
00:54 to the folks over at McFarlane toys that did provide this sorceress we could have
00:58 a look at. Most of the online sites say that this is on a pre-order right now
01:01 with a release date of December 2023 so I would imagine they would probably
01:05 start to ship pretty soon. On either side of her booked end are stickers on the
01:09 left and on the right a mystery bag. First let's have a look at the stickers
01:13 before we reveal what surprises are inside. You get actually three stickers
01:17 all of which are actually more larger square stickers and they just again peel
01:21 them off the back like that you stick them anywhere which way that you want
01:24 but you get three of them. You get three really decorative looking detailed
01:27 stickers. I'm gonna find a place where I can at least display these. Then of
01:31 course you also get yourself the mystery bag. What is in the mystery bag? I don't
01:35 know. They're supposed to be mystery weapons and there's a little perforation
01:39 there or a little little lip there on the plastic so I might even not even
01:43 need a knife for this. But what you do is basically just gonna pull this across.
01:46 There we go. Open up the bag. I didn't really do that with my breath. And inside
01:53 it looks like we've got ourselves a couple of other things. Now I think the
01:55 idea with Diablo 4 is that all of the figures that McFarlane's team will be
01:59 producing will all come with these foil baggies and then in the baggies are
02:03 gonna be also these extra weapons. I would imagine that it probably not can
02:06 be universally rotatable so you can't really probably use say this. It's just
02:10 by the size of the peg I'm sure there's probably larger characters with
02:13 larger hands. These are probably specifically designed for the princess
02:17 or the for the sorceress I should say. And then she also comes included like I
02:20 guess I would probably call that a scepter. It's made of actually a lot
02:24 harder of a plastic than I was expecting. And this can either one of these can be
02:27 I don't want to say either one of these. This one will fit on this side of the
02:31 figure's body and then this one like the other the other alternate hand that she
02:35 comes included with it's gonna go on that side. This one is actually a hand of
02:38 her holding a skull. Whose skull that is I couldn't really tell you. I'm sure
02:43 somebody probably let me know down below in the comment section. But she actually
02:45 comes with two variations of things that she can actually hold with this hand. One
02:49 is the skull that was already a mystery that we now already know what the
02:52 mystery is. And then is all the other one is actually her wearing or her holding
02:56 I should say the gold mask. The gold mask as you can see has been molded. I think
03:01 it's painted more in gold and actually as well you can see like the fingers are
03:05 fingerless gloves. Everybody was wearing fingerless gloves and that will swap it
03:09 with the hand on this side. Obviously just for the placement of the thumb you
03:11 know it's only gonna go on the one side of figures body. The other thing that are
03:15 that is gonna be coming through with the figure that are the things that when you
03:18 get the figure first out of the tray are all the things you'll see right away. She
03:21 comes included with a long would that be a scepter? It could be also a long staff.
03:27 The staff painted nicely here in a dark gunmetal gray and then on the top you've
03:32 got this really decorative looking dragon that's been painted here in gold.
03:36 Now this fits in her hands and you can probably already kind of see for
03:40 yourself the placement of where the things are supposed to go. I mean
03:42 unfortunately though this is one of those things that if you if you aren't
03:45 going to be displaying her with the staff or maybe not the scepter that she
03:49 comes included with it's gonna seem a bit out of place that her hand is just
03:52 extended out like this almost as if she's reaching out for a handshake. But
03:56 we're gonna go and take the staff. We're gonna just slide it up her hand here.
04:00 There we go. There we go. Fit it all the way up and now at least she actually has
04:06 something carry in her hand. Now if you don't want necessarily this she also
04:09 comes included with this I'm sure is a scepter. Slither it up the top the scepter
04:13 is a snake. Again it's molded and painted here in gold. Again you can either go
04:18 with this one or now we have this one to work with those also as well. Again those
04:21 will swap out on that side of the figure's body. So again we're just slide
04:25 this all out. You know by now how this is gonna work and then that's gonna go in
04:28 place. You know again with it being slightly smaller it doesn't have perhaps
04:32 the pizzazz of maybe the longer staff and then again if you wanted to have it
04:36 now with the mystery scepter you can also display the inner hand as well. I
04:39 think this one proportionally fits her body a little bit better just because
04:43 like I feel like the snake is maybe a little bit too small when you're looking
04:46 at the proportions of the rest of figures body. But you know what for right
04:49 now seeing as we did start with a staff when we finish with a staff we'll just
04:53 slide that in our arm for right now maybe in final looks at what we jump
04:55 over to something different instead. And then like this hand is not really
04:59 holding much of anything right now. Now she does have two alternate head sculpts.
05:03 Now if you were to say look at the the mask that she wears she carries or holds
05:09 in her hand it doesn't seem to be the same one that she's wearing on her face.
05:12 Now this head sculpt can be swapped out with the other one that we have but if
05:16 you wanted to have say this displayed with her alternate hand it's just a case
05:19 of popping the hand off the peg. Just have to wiggle it back and forth and
05:23 then you're just gonna replace it with this hand. Now when you are putting them
05:27 in unlike the head there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or a reason for where the peg
05:31 is supposed to go and that's just gonna fit into her form just like that and the
05:35 figure can be displayed. I really like this look honestly a lot more than
05:39 displaying the figure with the hood but if you wanted to though she has a
05:43 defaulted head sculpt which is to be fair really quite pretty and very nicely
05:47 painted there as well. In a way it kind of looks a little like Marlena from WWE.
05:51 Remember Marlena? M&M? Was it M&M? Mercury? What was the other guy's name? Drawing a
05:57 blank. M&M. Oh Mercury, Johnny Nitro I think it was and Marlena. M&M. M&M.
06:03 Took me a little bit to register that but she comes up she bears I feel a
06:08 little bit of a resemblance that it's a really nice looking head sculpt. I feel
06:12 in a way it's almost robbed by when you swap it out with this head so to pop the
06:16 head out I actually had a harder time initially doing this. I pulled and I
06:20 pulled until finally it released. You can see like the way that the peg is
06:23 actually set up it's not necessarily a circular peg it actually has kind of
06:28 more of a kind of like a triangle with cut off corners so when you are putting
06:32 it back in place the head only has a one way to go so you can't actually like
06:36 twist the head back and forth. I guess unless you had the head a little higher
06:39 up and then you could twist it that way but once you put it in place there
06:42 really isn't any rotational head movement or anything like that. In fact
06:46 actually there doesn't seem to be anything that is
06:48 poseable on the actual figure here and more so it's the fact that this is
06:52 actually mostly more a statue kind of in the same way that McFarlane was doing
06:56 the movie Maniacs. No real poseability but really does make nice for it makes
07:01 for a nice looking statue. So that's what she looks like. I don't know if like if I
07:04 was to say display her which I'm obviously not going to but if I was to
07:07 say display her with this head sculpt I don't really feel like she would be
07:10 then carrying around a mask as well. So just show you guys what that quickly
07:14 looks like. The blue is nicely done although the blue for the hood I don't
07:19 know if it's supposed to match the same coloring for the rest of the outfit but
07:22 the blue I see is notably brighter here for the rest of the outfit and isn't as
07:25 bright as the hood. We're gonna go ahead just pop the head off right now we're
07:29 gonna go back to the way that we had it before. I just think it's the better of
07:32 the two heads. Yeah it's a nice much nicer looking head sculpt. Really nice
07:35 looking eyes. Again she's got a little tiara there painted nicely there in gold as
07:39 well. Now for the rest of the figure's body she again only has a pre-posed body
07:44 to her so like the elbow is always gonna be bent and the arm is always gonna be
07:47 extended without actually lending the idea of actually displaying her with
07:50 something in her hand it looks a little out of place. So you always want to make
07:54 sure you have the accessories available. If we did want it by the way because I
07:57 know somebody was probably asking can you see what it looks like show what it
08:00 looks like with the skull in her hand I can do that also as well. Now again that
08:05 makes me think that this is probably gonna be a specific accessory that is
08:09 for the sorceress not one that's gonna be used then for another figure and
08:12 again we'll just plug that into her hand twist the peg back and forth it's a
08:18 it's a very tight quarters I will say there we go there we go so if you wanted
08:22 to see what she looks like with the skull I think I don't think the skull
08:25 looks necessarily as good as the mask so I'm probably just gonna be line it back
08:28 to the mask once we get down to the final looks. As for the rest of the
08:31 figure's body being though it is a staction figure she's very brightly
08:35 colored the gold is nicely painted there on the tops of shoulders I love the
08:38 frill that they've given the top of her of her collar there and she has that
08:42 similar sort of frill there on the shoulders also the additional red that
08:46 they've added I don't know if I would necessarily say that's a red it's kind
08:49 of again more of like a like a caramel or a lighter brown but very nicely very
08:53 cleanly painted too like the panel lining would be something that'd be very
08:56 hard to do especially being such close quarters with the sculpting around it
09:00 and yet the silver has been so nicely painted by McFarlane's talented team I
09:04 mean there's no paint that I can see it problem wise anywhere on the figure now
09:08 she is permanently attached from what I can see onto her display stand the
09:12 display stand is though hollow on the bottom of it not really that's not
09:15 really gonna be a place that you're gonna be seeing on the figure anyways
09:17 but trying moving it around that I did I did learn my mistake from looking at the
09:22 movie maniacs Harry Potter I did try to remove the figure and just ultimately
09:25 broke the pegs so being the fact that it doesn't feel like there's a give when
09:29 I'm trying to move the figure back and forth I'm willing to think and lend to
09:32 the idea that these are permanently attached onto the display stands and not
09:35 ones to be messed around but still though for being a staction figure with
09:39 the pose especially that they put her in really really nice-looking figure again
09:44 I don't really necessarily want to call these figures as there really isn't any
09:47 pose ability happening on here like for example the Hydra lightning sorceress
09:51 has more relying on the sculpt to deliver home what I feel to be great
09:55 looking sculpt on the figure she has filled in things the other can make up
09:59 for the fact that she doesn't have necessarily pose ability like an
10:01 alternate head sculpt and then again all the other things that she comes with
10:03 like the stickers and a nice little touch I have to say is also the fact
10:06 that they included this little foil blind baggie so you get the chance when
10:10 you get these figures out of packaging to kind of see what the mystery items
10:13 were inside and I would imagine it's probably just not gonna be a random
10:16 selected accessory I'm sure that anyone picking these up for themselves will
10:20 probably have I'm sure the same accessories inside with the sorceress
10:23 that being again the staff not being necessarily this hand the hand that she
10:27 has currently in the ends of her form but again it's really nice looking figure
10:31 it's actually gonna be the first we could be looking at several of these
10:34 Diablo four figures courtesy of the folks over at McFarlane toys but I think
10:37 a good start here with a Hydra lightning sorceress as we now wrap up things for
10:42 the brand new McFarlane Diablo for Hydra lightning sorceress you can probably
10:46 already see that I've got the figure currently displayed with all the things
10:49 that were found inside that foil bag nice little additional accessories but
10:54 to be all honest and fair I like the more touches of gold that they use for
10:57 the longer staff and the mask that she's holding in her other hand so I'm sure
11:01 I'm probably just gonna end up putting these back into a ziploc bag something
11:04 at least that's sealable so I can kind of keep all the extra Diablo for
11:07 accessories I'm not currently using with any of these statues in that bag and I'm
11:11 not gonna be losing them I had to of course mention that these are statues
11:15 there's gonna be no pose ability they're on basically the same vein as movie
11:18 maniacs they're gonna be more stactions statues than anything else and just
11:22 because you are robbed by pose ability on this does not make this a lacking
11:26 figure I think where it more than makes up for it is the sculpting and the paint
11:30 that the talented team at McFarlane toys painted to this piece I really like the
11:34 rich blue that they've used and I really think it's an interesting looking pose
11:38 not one though that you will want to be removing from the display stand I did
11:41 learn my lesson from the earlier movie maniacs Harry Potter don't try to remove
11:45 these from the display stand as you may likely break the peg but it's a nice
11:48 looking figure and of course the folks over at McFarlane toys were kind enough
11:51 to actually send over several of the Diablo 4 statues that we will be looking
11:55 at in upcoming reviews now let me know down below in the comment section what
11:58 you guys think of these these are slated as far as I know to be released this
12:01 month we're now well into December so they are dropping I think on most of the
12:06 sites they're showing right now is pre-ordered December 2023 so it's just a
12:09 matter of time looking at the calendar with only a few spaces remaining for
12:12 December there's a good likelihood probably gonna be start to seeing these
12:15 in stores if they haven't already started to show up are you a big fan of
12:18 Diablo let me know down below in the comment section and if you're interested
12:22 to start picking these up because McFarlane is gonna do actually from what
12:25 they've sent over there including quite a lot of Diablo 4 characters that you
12:30 can start to see on store shelves but is this a kind of line that you could see
12:33 yourselves getting into collecting let me know down below in the comment
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