Diamond Select Marvel Kraven The Hunter Gallery Statue

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00:00I think the most dangerous game now is figuring out which statue is safe next to him.

00:04Here's your look at the brand-new Diamond Select.

00:06This is the Marvel's Kraven the Hunter PVC diorama statue.

00:21Former Russian noble Sergei Kravinov came to America for one reason, to hunt Spider-Man

00:25the Ultimate Prey.

00:26Kraven's fighting skills, combined with his mystical strength-enhancing potions from the

00:30darkest jungles of Africa, made him a prolific gamesman, a legacy that has outlived him.

00:36Kraven the Hunter's initial pursuit of the wall-crawler gave way to years-long feud,

00:42and Kraven's repeated failures slowly drove him to the brink of insanity, and eventually

00:46resulted in his death.

00:48This gallery diorama of Kraven the Hunter is based on his appearance in Marvel Comics.

00:52It features detailed sculpting and paint details, and is made of high-quality PVC.

00:56It was designed by Cesar, and sculpted by Alterton.

01:00Wow, I can't really speak too much about Kraven's last day.

01:02I mean, come on, look at this guy.

01:03If Peter's his prey, the wall-crawler's days are numbered.

01:06How about before we get down to the details of the new Kraven the Hunter PVC gallery statue,

01:09I'm going to just go back up a bit and thank the folks over at Diamond that kindly provided

01:14this sample we could have a look at.

01:16If you're looking though to hunt down Kraven and add him to your statue's Spidey lineup,

01:20he should be available right now in comic book stores or online.

01:23Let's grab that with a tape measure and see how tall he stands, whether it be his last

01:26stand or not.

01:27Kraven the Hunter, if you include the mane on the back of his body, is going to give

01:30us a statue that's 8 inches in height, where the world's greatest hunter is about 19.5

01:35centimeters tall.

01:36Kraven first debuted in comics in The Amazing Spider-Man number 15 from August 1964.

01:41It's also then fitting enough that we're looking at a PVC release of the Hunter, considering

01:44that we're getting a theatrical release of Kraven the Hunter in theaters soon.

01:48I can't help but though feel like Kraven's going to probably follow the same successful

01:51rate as another Spidey villain solo movie with Morbius.

01:54I feel like if anything, Kraven could have worked a little bit better being an introduced

01:57villain in one of the Spidey sequels instead.

02:00While I feel like maybe Sony's going to under-deliver a Kraven the Hunter in theaters, I feel like

02:04though Diamond on the other hand has over-delivered a comic accurate Kraven the Hunter in PVC

02:09form.

02:10Despite being made of plastic though, he's misleadingly heavy.

02:13It's not till you actually pick up the statue that you realize there's a lot of mass of

02:16the plastic here.

02:17Picking it up in fact, actually looking at the bottom of the base, if not for the fact

02:20that they've covered over the bottom here, this probably would have been hollow plastic.

02:24And yet though, there's so much mass of plastic and weight that goes along with this.

02:28The thing I really like first of all about the display base is that they kept the colors

02:31quite grounded, using again a lot more of the grays, the greens of the moss, and again

02:35the rooted twigs and branches sticking out from the ground, you have the green of course

02:39from the plant on the back, and all these additionally cool-looking bamboo rods sticking

02:43out.

02:44This contrasts the colors to the yellow and the flesh tone that he has in his body.

02:47Now again, while looking at the base, there's nothing really at all where I'm looking at

02:51this and thinking that they've left the sculpt off.

02:53This is one thing that Diamond does so well when it comes to their gallery statue releases,

02:56is giving though a subject base that fits then with a character that's on top of it.

03:01As for the character though on top of it, we get a closer look at Kraven the Hunter.

03:04He seems quite proud in what he's doing for a job, big sneer across his face.

03:09His eyes are a little harder to make out though, but despite that you can still see there's

03:12a lot of talented paint that goes behind the scenes, while all the artists meticulously

03:16adding the paint to the eyes.

03:18So as small as they may be, you can still make out that he's got those pupils, very

03:22large-looking caterpillar eyebrows, a foliage of mustache and beard down below.

03:26It's a well-sculpted sculpt of Kraven the Hunter.

03:29I think they've done a nice job on him.

03:31One of the things of course that go along with Kraven the Hunter is the fact that he

03:33does have himself a lion's mane vest, which has been nicely colored here.

03:37You can see though, split it up the middle by his exposed bear chest.

03:41On one side we've got the lion's face, and on the other side we've got that as well.

03:44I like the colors that they've added for the eyes, so that the eyes do stand out.

03:48That from a distance you then start seeing, is there something looking back at me?

03:52And then you realize that's the lion's eyes.

03:54Nicely done there.

03:55Of course the back of the mane as well, starts mostly here in a dark brown, but then they've

03:59dusted on top of that a lighter coloring of beige.

04:02It works to a very nice dark contrasting colors that then blend nicely into a lighter colors

04:06on the top.

04:08Here's the one issue I have though with the statue, is not necessarily the pose, certainly

04:11not at all the sculpt for the portrait.

04:13I feel like it's one thing when they printed on the leopard print for his pants.

04:18It looks generally clean and spaced out on this one side.

04:21But then when you get to this leg here, even though it's a straight leg rather than bent,

04:25it seems like sort of the leopard print gets lost here, as so much that gets so squished

04:29together, it's hard to kind of make out the print.

04:32I wish that they could have kept the printing a little bit spaced out like this, so it looked

04:36a little bit more like this leg than it does on this side here.

04:39Still despite that though, the print looks very good on it.

04:41You've got some nice additional yellows that they've added in there as well.

04:44It looks like they start generally with a lighter yellow, and then they've brushed on

04:46some little bit more of a warmer yellow, as you can see a few little markings there.

04:51It's a really nice sculpted statue.

04:53Of course he does have the spear in his hand.

04:55Being that this is PVC plastic, you can see there's a little bit also of give.

04:58I don't think that all the spear would be likely to break, because of course as you

05:01can see with a little bit of bend that I'm doing right now, PVC plastic is a really good

05:06entry way to get into statue collecting, because you can get a high-end looking collectible

05:10without paying the price that goes along with it.

05:13He has of course the little bands there, the leopard print there wrapped around his bicep,

05:16has some additional printing here, probably not quite from a leopard, but maybe instead

05:20from a tiger.

05:21He seems to be just loving the cat family, so we've got lions represented, we've got

05:25tigers, no bears unfortunately, but of course we've also got the leopard print.

05:29Generally for the most part, it looks pretty good.

05:31He's got some spikes sticking out the back of his belt there as well, all again made

05:34of PVC plastic, so there's no worry at all that these would break at all.

05:38It's just a generally a neat looking statue.

05:40The one thing I really like also about this though, especially seeing it from the side,

05:43there's a really cool looking pose to this.

05:45It looks like Craven is hunting his prey through like maybe the foliage of a jungle, and it

05:50works really quite well.

05:52One of my favorite things though about the statue is the fact that they added all these

05:54bamboo rods.

05:55Easily, they could have just gone with rocks, and they could have just gone with a few bushes

05:59and plants, but having those little bamboo rods, I feel adds a little bit more character

06:03to the display base as a whole.

06:05As a whole though, like I said, it's a great looking statue.

06:08The only thing I would probably have said as a critique of it is while I do like the

06:12leopard print on this one side of his leg, it gets a little messier here on the other

06:16side.

06:17It kind of looks like they wanted to squish in as many of the leopard print patches as

06:20they possibly could, and it sort of ends results, the end result of that.

06:23It kind of looks like it's a little messier on this side.

06:25Other than that though, it's a really nice Craven the Hunter.

06:27I don't think we really have a lot of Craven the Hunter PVC gallery statues.

06:30If this is the first one, just by virtue of that, if the best one we've gotten so far

06:34from Diamond Select Toys, sure enough, you know me.

06:36I looked online, and there was in fact a Diamond Select release of Craven the Hunter as a statue

06:40in 2006.

06:41The statue though isn't as interesting in this one.

06:44It basically just had the hunter standing straight on top of a spidey stand with a net

06:48in his hand, and his other hand was extended out straight.

06:51I mean, you can look it up online.

06:53I think really between the two Craven statues, in fact, if those are the only two that we've

06:56gotten from Diamond, this is by far the superior one.

06:59Not only from a mold, not only from the way they've posed him, but also as well the paint

07:03applications.

07:04There's a lot of good stuff going into this statue, whether you like the look of the main

07:08vest, for example, that he has, the leopard print in his pants.

07:11There's just a lot of cool pattern work that they've painted in this piece.

07:14I mean, again, I keep going back to the display stand, but that's probably one of my favorite

07:18things about this.

07:19None of it necessarily takes away from the subject of Craven, but it's one of those stands

07:24that complement the subject.

07:25It doesn't have to necessarily compete or take the attention away from it.

07:29It's just one that works really well with the subject, and again, that being Craven

07:32the Hunter.

07:33This spear is also one thing that I like that they put in his hand.

07:36It just adds a little bit more that gives a story to the statue.

07:39If you're having to go to a statue and start thinking to yourself, I wonder what he's doing

07:43right now?

07:44That is a way of being a successful statue.

07:46You don't want to just be looking at it and thinking, oh, that's pretty cool.

07:49But if it brings your eyes in and it wants to make you look at more things on it, that's

07:54the testament of what Diamond's doing regularly.

07:57Again, one of the things I do say often on a regular basis is if you ever want to get

08:01into statue collecting and you don't know where, venture into the idea of collecting

08:04PVC gallery statues from Diamond Select.

08:07You get just as much sculpt and paint as what you get with the premium statues, but because

08:11it's being made in PVC plastic, it's much more affordable to your budget.

08:16This guy, like I said, is available right now through comic book stores or online.

08:19I'd like to thank, again, thank the folks over at Diamond Select that did provide this

08:22sample of the new gallery statue release of Kraven the Hunter.

08:26Let me know down below in the comments section what you guys think of the statue.

08:29Let me also know what your feelings are when it comes to solo villain movies.

08:32I always feel, again, like we don't need to give an entire backstory to these characters.

08:36I feel like Doc Ock, for example, in the Spider-Man 2, the rainy Spider-Man 2, was just as an

08:41effective villain without having to have a standalone movie.

08:45But what do you guys think of it?

08:46Let me know down below.

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09:08As always, thanks for watching.

09:10See you guys next time.

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