



Thor: Ragnarok has been granted with multiple new two packs, and even two new figures in the upcoming Endgame Thor wave, Valkyrie and Heimdall (Who wasn't even in Endgame) . This in addition to the entire wave the movie got, with the Gladiator Hulk BAF. I'll take this as Hasbro's secret admission that Ragnarok is easily one of the best MCU movies, and each character in it deserves at least one figure. (Fingers crossed for Surtur and Fenrir.) We already looked at Korg & Grandmaster , so let's give the baddies a gander.





Packaging:

Hela and Skurge come in the new two pack box used for the smaller figures, like the First Avenger Steve & Peggy. The sleek black design makes it seem very elite and special, and the window gives a great view of all the contents. It's been given special touches, like character portraits and bios, and even a Ragnarok poster that's different than the one on the Korg set. A very nice touch.





Sculpting:









From the neck down, Hela is all reuse from the earlier figure. It's still a very nice, unique sculpt, so I'm fine with that. She's as tall and imposing as Cate was in the movie, and the helmeted head has a great, furious snarl on it. The armor is excellent, and the new paint job makes it look much better than the original.









The first figure isn't bad at all, but the face especially isn't very screen accurate, especially the lack of pupils. She also doesn't really look a thing like Cate, so the new one is a big improvement.









Skurge is an oft requested figure to get a Legends treatment, and this guy is our closest we've gotten so far. That's not to disparage him at all, he's just much shorter and more realistically proportioned than the huge slab of muscle that Executioner is in the comics.





Which is fitting, since this is based on Karl Urban's take. The face sculpt is great, not just resembling Urban, but capturing the details specific to Skurge, like the goatee and facial scars.













I think he's an entirely new sculpt, or at least mostly new. He looks amazing! His armor is super detailed, with individual plates and grooves. The back even has the fasteners that secure his armor! That's an incredible amount of detail, especially for a lesser, one shot villain figure.

All the details make Skurge a great medieval style figure, and I'm sure he'd be great fodder for some custom fantasy character.





Articulation:





Hela has a great articulation scheme, and can easily strike action poses. She has: a ball joint neck, half ball shoulders, a midsection ball joint, ball/hinge elbows, cut/pin wrists, ball hips, thigh cuts, double pin knees, and rocker ankles. All of her joints came out nice and tight, and she's a lot of fun to put in sinister poses.









Despite his impressive armor, Skurge still has a ton of articulation. Including: A ball joint head, ball shoulders, bicep cuts, double pin elbows, hinge/pin wrists, a ball joint midsection, half ball hips, thigh cuts, double pin knees, and rocker ankles. You can get him into some great axe battle poses, and all of his joints are sturdy.





Accessories:

Hela is the goddess of death, and Hasbro wisely gave her five accessories to appease her.

The first is one of two unmasked heads, this one with messy hair and her right eye hidden, matching her first appearance in the movie. It looks awesome! It's a very specific moment to reference, but it looks super accurate, and the resemblance to Cate Blanchett is great.





The second head has straighter hair, and more closely matches her look for the rest of the movie. It's a very nice inclusion, and the sculpt looks great, although I think I prefer the look of the messy head more.





At the very least, it's much better than the unmasked head from the first Hela, both in movie accuracy and looking more like Cate.









The next inclusion is her metallic green cloak. It attaches to her back, and looks excellent.

It has the same mold as the original, but the paint is much better, and even the black section is more defined and colored in. There is a discolored splotch on the bottom of new Hela's cape, which is disheartening for an otherwise great paint job.









Next is a magic effect, which goes nicely on her left hand. It's reused from both recent Scarlet Witch figures, but it's nice to have, and compliments her look well.









Her final inclusion is an alternate hand, which comes gripping Mjolnir, to recreate the famous moment she catches and destroys the hammer. Again, it's nice to get such a specific scene referenced, and the sculpt and paint are great.









The wrist is hinged for up-and-down motion, and while I commend Hasbro for sculpting a hammer specifically for the figure, it's noticeably smaller than one's that've come before.





Unfortunately, Hela doesn't come with the sword her first release did. I'd have preferred the sword to the hammer hand, but it still fits in her hand, and the wrist has up and down movement to pose with it.









Skurge also comes with five accessories, although his aren't as varied. His main accessory is a big, double-headed axe. He wouldn't be the Executioner without that.

It has a great sculpt, with lots of nicks and indents, even on the handle. He can even do some great two-handed poses.





His next two pieces are a set of alternate hands, with raised trigger fingers. Hasbro could've just given him one set, but giving him two allows the grip on the trigger hands to stay tight. A very nice touch.





The final two accessories are his two machine guns, Des and Troy, from the far off land of Tex-As.

They look great, and appear to be new sculpts, instead of just reusing a preexisting gun mold, Hasbro took the effort to make them movie accurate.





He looks neat posing with them, and it's great that we can recreate his famous stand at Gjallerbru in figure form.





Paint:

Hela has incredible paint, and it vastly improves the sculpt. The metallic green of her armor and cape are impressive, and make her seem even more sinister and powerful. Her alternate heads are also expertly done, and help complete her look excellently.









Skurge has a tremendous paint job, and I didn't realize until I got him out of the box how comic accurate his colors are. The metallic blue armor contrasts beautifully with the matte on his arms and legs, and all the different sections of the armor, all the rivets and plates, are all separately detailed. It's very impressive that with details this numerous, not one drop of paint splattered where it shouldn't have. Great job on this guy, all around.





Overall:

This is a really nice set, based off of one of my favorite comic book movies ever. They've given us a nicely improved Hela, and a long desired addition to the Thor villains with Skurge. While they may not blend in perfectly with comic bases figures, if I take a step back and remember that these are movie based, they're excellent. They have really nice likeness, especially for the 1/12 scale, beautiful sculpts, great articulation, and fun, cool accessories. If you're on the fence about these two, I say go for it. I had a ton of fun posing them for this review.





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