MrJ Brick's Saint Walker (Patreon)
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Saint Walker! The OG Blue Lantern! I love this dude so much! But his custom minifig? Well… it’s not perfect, but it’s a really good stab!
I only have one big question though… with a full 360° print job on the entire figure, why did we have to get ANOTHER pair of #IncompleteLegs?! The design of those boots are so simple! These legs literally have just ONE layer of black ink on them! Why couldn’t we have gotten the full print up into the hips?!
I mean even just looking at this fig from the front before you pose him, you can see the missing ink! Gah!!
Anyway! Getting that Red Lantern anger out of my system, the rest of this fig is better!
It ain’t too complicated of a fig design, but it certainly didn’t need to be! I do sort of wish MrJ would've considered adding some blue around the arm sockets on the sides of the torso, but it doesn't really need it. Would have been nice to get something that looked like this though...
But again, it’s fine without it I feel. Honestly this entire fig is sort of like that. Coulda used a little more ink in very specific places, but the design itself overall is very good!
As for the parts, the “tentacle(?)” headpiece is very nice! This is the first time anyone’s tackled that aspect of his character design. Most customizers just opt to give us a blank minifig head and call it a day! So getting this piece is a treat!
It is extremely tight however, and once I had put mine on, I couldn't get it off for the life of me!
We also get some more of those glove gauntlets in a color we’ve not seen since MrJ’s Peacemaker. The same design it's always been, but nice to get another pair of them in blue!
And finally the piece that I think I’ll find the most use out of, the Blue Lantern! But uh... for some reason though, mine looks like somebody took a drill to it! Maybe to hollow out the bar-socket, but didn’t put it in straight… like this is rough, and probably unnecessary.
Oh and before I wrap this up! Here's MrJ compared to SJB’s Saint Walker from a good few years back!
Comparatively, MrJ’s fig generallt has the cleaner print quality. I think I enjoy SJB's lighter facial details better though... idk it’s not like it’s bad by any means! The dark linework is much more in style with the original Saint Walker design from the early 00s, while SJB’s has more of a refined "newer" look to it.
It’s a bummer that the custom headpiece isn’t exactly swappable because of this design choice, but fully swapping the heads themselves is still possible (but again, MrJ's fig is just generally a bit better than SBJ's)
But at the end of the day, we're talking about MrJ's Saint Walker! For around the $75 range, this was another nice entry for the MrJ Lantern collection, but man... it could've been better.
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