“He who finds the Holy Grail must face three challenges.”
The third wave of Hasbro’s Indiana Jones Adventure Series figures was released in October 2023 and while it contained a couple of figures from The Dial of Destiny, the wave and its build-an-artifact were themed around The Last Crusade including - finally - an action figure of Henry Jones Sr.
Henry Sr’s. packaging is the standard windowless box with its sandy base colour and map design overlaid with images of the figure and the Adventure Series logo. The side spines contain artwork of the character and a checklist of the Build-an-Artifact for this wave (The Grail Table) while the reverse of the box features further images of the Knight and his accessories. The only reference to The Last Crusade as the source material is made on the back of the box but there is no synopsis or character bio as exists on other Hasbro lines.
Sean Connery action figures are pretty scarce, and having one in a six-inch scale is exciting. Thankfully the quality of the figure is impressive, doing Sir Sean real justice in replicating his role as Henry Jones Sr. in The Last Crusade. The figure does recycle much of the body from earlier Indy figures. It is a direct re-use of much of the Professor Indiana Jones figure from the same movie, which originally took parts from the Temple of Doom Club Obi-Wan release. Henry does get an updated jacket with some additional pocket details and a textured bow tie. The outfit is cast in the base brown with minor paint applications on a few of the buttons and on the shirt sleeves that protrude from the jacket sleeves. The original costume was a wool suit with some level of texture, but that hasn’t been replicated on the figure - it would have been very hard to do so at the scale. The colouring also varies in the film depending on lighting and location, and the colour Hasbro has settled on is towards the lighter end of what we see on screen.
The head sculpt is glorious in terms of the likeness to Connory at the time of The Last Crusade, perfectly capturing that iconic brow line and intense eyes beneath. The beard is sculpted with the face and the whole likeness is enhanced with a non-glossy photo real application that adds in the eyes, mouth, some shading around the nose and a couple of tones of grey on the beard.
The glasses are removable as we saw with Jurgen Voller and these include transparent lenses and arms that are shaped around the head. The look remains a bit too ‘thick’ but a balance has been struck over looks vs practicality at this scale and making them removable does give collectors a choice rather than fixing them in place as we’ve seen with other Hasbro lines (Egon in Ghostbusters). The hat too is also removable, cast in more soft plastic and shaped against the head for a snug natural-looking fit. My sole issue with the figure I bought was some rogue grey paint sat on Henry’s forehead.
Articulation is the full 19 points across the body, all pinless, and inclusive of the elbow & knee joints, the butterfly shoulders, and the two-part neck. He poses really nicely with any of the included accessories replicating elements from The Last Crusade.
These accessories start with his grail diary. I thought this might be a re-use of the notepad from the Well of Souls figure, but it is new and includes visible detail of the pages, the leather cover, and the black elasticated tie. We also get Henry’s bag, a full-to-bursting travel case in dark brown, with lighter dry brushing to create wear and tear, and silver to finish on the clasps and where the handle meets the main bag. It sadly doesn’t open - that would have been a neat feature to stow away other accessories - but it will fit in either of Henry’s hands for carrying.
The final element is the umbrella, which is also well-detailed with the folded umbrella element in black, a curved brown handle, and a silver and brown tip. While the figure inherits the hands from Indiana Jones, the right trigger hand still works perfectly fine to hold the umbrella - either in a walking stick pose with the tip on the floor, or in a more dynamic stance.
Henry Jones Sr. is the highlight of wave 3 for me and shows the journey Hasbro has been on with the Adventure Series in just under a year in terms of execution of both the figure aesthetics, but also the accessories which are now coming in much more detailed and better painted. Henry has a number of slightly different looks to work with by way of the removable glasses and hat which Hasbro could have fixed in place, but instead provided us with the options.
He poses really well with his son, and with any of the other Last Crusade pieces including the Grail Table - and you can even reunite him with Marcus Brody if you wish using the figure from the two-pack. A near-perfect figure in the price point of Hasbro’s 6-inch line, and a great way to end the year.
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