“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. My name's Steven with a "v."
Once the 2022 Moon Knight series had aired, it was clear that Marvel Legends figures would follow and we didn’t have to wait long to get our hands on the 6-inch scale Moon Knight and Mr. Knight. They were released in 2022 as part of the first Disney+ wave of the year, featuring the Infinity Ultron BAF. The wave was one of the last to be in a window format in 2022 as the ultimately ill-fated move to plastic-free packaging began, and it featured the logo for Moon Knight on the box front along with side and rear artwork that aligned to the mystical nature of the show and its main characters.
Mr. Knight is essentially a full new figure with Hasbro obviously avoiding the temptation to use the significantly overused suited body to create Steven Grant’s alter-ego. Instead, we get a suited figure built from the ground up as seen in the Mr. Knight scenes with a pair of ‘bandaged’ shoes, a simple pair of white trousers, and then a complex combination of Jacket, Waistcoat, Shirt and tie all with sculpted Egyptian winged detail around the lapels. Paintwork on first glance appear limited to just the silver buttons of the waistcoat, although there is variation in the white tones uses with some cream creeping in to the lapels to vary the figure's look overall. There is re-use in the arms which are pinned and part of that suited body sculpt, and we have a touch more paintwork here with the sleeve buttons also picked out in silver.
Mr. Knight has a single masked head which is cast in white with detailing that replicates a cloth mask pulled tight over a human face with the nose cheeks and mouth visible under the mask itself. The eyes are painted in an icy blue, while the forehead carries a sculpted Moon Knight crescent moon symbol.
Mr. Knight features two pairs of hands, a clenched pair of fists for hand-to-hand fighting, and a pair of gripping hands. These gripped hands are designed to work with his batons which are two cylindrical rods in silver with gold tips at either end and sculpted hieroglyphs down the length of each of them. There is no holstering option for these, but they fit well into the gripping hands.
Articulation is 18 points overall with no real obstructions caused by the costume. Mr. Knight has a number of posing options from neutral stances to more action-orientated poses with or without his weapons. There is a slight miss with not including butterfly shoulders under the coat, but their absence isn’t hugely noticeable. I did find Mr Knight a bit painful to pose stood upright as like the suited body, there is not quite enough forward play int he ankle rockets to plan the feet straight.
Mr. Knight is a particularly faithful re-creation of what we saw during the events of Moon Knight with the jacket, waistcoat and tie detailing impressive considering the scale. Proportions are also good, as is the articulation without being spectacular considering we are missing a couple of more modern elements such as the butterfly shoulders. I do find personally the colouring a bit too stark white and compared to the onscreen look and the figure's early promo images, adding some definition to the white via shading would have been beneficial particularly when you consider how they executed the looks for Moon Knight himself and the later Khonshu release which were also (on paper) full white costumes.
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About Me : As a child of the 70's and 80's I grew up in a golden age for action figures and in my youth bought and sold myself through collections of Star Wars, G.I. Joe (Action Force) and M.A.S.K. while also dabbling in He-Man, Transformers and Ghostbusters. Roll forward and I am now reliving that Youth with the action figures of today and am a collector and fan of the larger 6-8 inch figures from my favourite movie and TV licences - including the ones mentioned above, but also the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Who and the Aliens. I launched The Mephitsu Archives in 2015 with a view of creating a UK focused site or these figures where fans can pick up the latest action figure news, read reviews and get information on where to buy their figures and what is currently on store shelves. I hope I am delivering that to you guys...
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