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Lead Review · From: McFarlane Toys
A Resin Rival Claims My Shelf, Temporarily
Our critic accepts a stoic polyresin gargoyle as mere backdrop furniture after failing to provoke it into any reaction whatsoever.

My human has acquired another dust-gatherer from the McFarlane Toys brand, this one a rigid, pointy fellow in a stark black and white costume that, I must admit, complements my own formalwear. This "Azrael" character is, I deduce, a statue—a word humans use for a toy that has had all its joy and interactivity surgically removed. It is made of polyresin, whi…

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Image of McFarlane Toys- DC Direct Azrael by Joe Quesada (Batman Black & White) 1:10 Scale Resin Statue
Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★☆☆☆
Fine shelf accent, useless as a toy.
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