Yesterday I talked about the impressive trio of resin Marvel Premier Collection statues Diamond Select Toys brought to New York Toy Fair 2019, but today let’s look at the latest entries in their ever-improving and extremely popular Marvel Gallery PVC range! As always, DST brought the goods to Toy Fair, with brand new value-priced Marvel Gallery Beast, Proxima Midnight, Goblin Queen and Captain Marvel PVC figures!
Walking into the Diamond Select Toys booth at the 2019 Toy Fair yesterday, there were a handful of things that caught my eye amidst the onslaught of toys lining the shelves in the booth. One of those things was the Marvel Gallery Beast Statue.
When DST debuted their Marvel Select Beast figure at last year’s show, a lot of collectors complained that they didn’t like how feral Hank McCoy’s portrait looked. With this Beast Gallery figure, though…? I doubt anybody is going to complain!
The toothy, grinning Beast head sculpt on this PVC Marvel Gallery Statue is exactly how I envision the character in my mind. The portrait on this figure is overflowing with personality. Love it!
For the statue’s pose, Diamond Select opted for an upside-down, acrobatic design that is so perfectly Hank McCoy. This is easily one of the coolest and most fun pieces in the whole DST Gallery line to-date.
The Beast Marvel Gallery Statue is expected to release in fall 2019, so we should see him up for PO in a couple months. Can’t wait for this one! Hopefully we get more X-Men Gallery statues revealed in the near-future, as I’m dying for Gambit, Cyclops, Colossus and more to get this kind of exquisite treatment.
One other new comic-based Statue also debuted for Marvel Gallery: Goblin Queen Madelyne Pryor! Cyclops’ one-time wife and the clone of Jean Grey, Madelyne Pryor is a perennially popular villain despite only appearing sporadically since the classic “Inferno” storyline decades ago.
With the Marvel Gallery Mr. Sinister expected to launch for pre-order in the very near future, the Goblin Queen is a fantastic choice for a companion piece and will pair quite well with Sinister.
The pose on the Goblin Queen figure is well-executed, and the goblin climbing out of the base is great. X-Men villain + Scantily-clad woman + terrific sculpt = top seller for Diamond Select Toys.
Proxima Midnight unfortunately made the smallest impression on me of her team in Avengers Infinity War, but I think that this is a really nice-looking, action-packed PVC statue of the character.
Anyone looking to assemble the whole Black Order in Statue form should be really pleased with this piece—which is good since I don’t imagine there are any other statue companies chomping at the bit to do a whole set of Black Order statues. Cull Obsidian is still planned and in-development, and will complete the quartet.
All of these newly-revealed statues should be up for order online in the coming months, and I’ll post links to PO them both here and on our social media once they go up for sale. Proxima Midnight is a movie statue, so she’ll be a more limited release than Beast or Goblin Queen. Diamond Select has a good record of getting these pieces out on-time, so I think it’s unlikely we’ll see any of them slip outside their estimated summer/fall release dates.
What do you think of this trifecta of Marvel Gallery Toy Fair reveals? Do any of these economically-priced PVC figures light a fire in your heart, or are you disappointed in what DST brought to show off this year?
That Goblin Queen costume is taken directly from the Mutant X comics that ran for 3 years or so in the late ’90s, which depicted an AU where Havok was the 1st X-Man and was now married to Madelyne Pryor. I’m guessing they went with it because it’s a touch more conservative than her better-known 616 universe underboob & loincloth costume, but as a fan of those comics since I was a kid, I’m psyched for it. I’d go nuts if they did other characters from the series, like Bloodstorm and The Fallen.
I was going to mention that! Definitely the Mutant X version…and I think it’s actually a great idea. Really awesome surprise to see that design. I don’t collect statues, but wow…things I’m seeing these last fews days look great.
Nice one 👍 !! Those will do me !! I thought it was strange there hadn’t been a Captain Marvel announcement !! Pleased with all of those !! ✌️
What are the things around Beast? I have been trying to wrap my head around it for the last day or two and I can’t really figure it out. Probably a must buy but I really won’t be able to pull the trigger on it until I know what those things are!
danger room rods being shot at him?
That was my initial thought but I wasn’t 100% sure.
I both love and hate Hasbro. Awesome reveals . My wallet is weeping.