Funko Legacy – Magic: The Gathering Ajani Goldmane

Next up in our Funko Legacy Magic:The Gathering mornings is the lion-man white magic wielder Ajani Goldmane! Now, Ajani is right in my wheelhouse as I’m a big fan of the 7th Kingdom line from the Four Horsemen that features a kingdom of animal-men-type warriors, not to mention the lion-men from Flash Gordon and the Quadian lion-men from Masters of the Universe.

Accessories

Ajani has the most accessories from this line so far with his massive two-headed axe and shorter, almost scimitar-like sword. Both accessories are finely detailed and cast in a solid plastic.

The sword’s handle is a little thin and is prone to slight bending. It’s pretty tough to get the sword in his hand because the right hand grip is very tight, and, consequently, Ajani won’t be doing many two-handed axe-wielding poses.

The sword does have a nicely detailed scabbard, which is nice. I really like all the different materials in the axe with its thick wooden handle, leather straps, fur, teeth, and, finally, two different types of metallic blades.

It’s very detailed and the sculpting all conveys the different types of materials well.

The left shoulder pad and cape is not intended to be removable. I actually yanked mine off trying to figure out if it was or not. I haven’t glued it back on because it sits on the figure pretty well without any support.

The nice thing about the cape section that goes over the right shoulder pad is that the right pad is it’s own piece and is fully painted. Robokillah has a brief video that shows off how a little judicious surgery can transform the look of your Ajani if you so desire.

I think I like the no-cape look and may do this myself at some point.

Sculpt

The sculpting is fantastic. They captured all the great detail of Ajani’s design perfectly. It’s really quite impressive how all the shoulder pads, cape, skirt, and leg armor still allow for decent movement. The teeth and claws are SHARP!

Almost too sharp as they kind of hurt my hands posing sometimes, but it’s really nice to see that they didn’t dull the sharp edges like you see Mattel do on their MOTUC line.

Articulation

Ajani has the following articulation:

Ball-jointed torso
Swivel/hinged shoulders, hips, and wrists
Single-hinged knees, elbows, and back leg
Swivel bicep, thigh, and ankles

The tail isn’t articulated; it’s actually a pretty soft piece of plastic. The neck may be a ball joint, but due to the shape of the head sculpt, I really only get slight side-to-side movement for Ajani’s head. I’m not sure if the lower leg hinge is actually meant to be a swivel or not.

I could see getting more poses out of him if it were, but you also sacrifice stability. The feet would have benefited from a rocker hinge of some kind, but, again, I could see the decision to keep this more solid for stability.

Paint

There is so much good paint work here that I almost feel bad nitpicking what I don’t like. The metallics are nice and the detail work is very good. There is a bit of a wash or something on the large leg armor that really conveys the feel of boiled leather well.

However, the tiger-like markings on Ajani’s face miss the mark a little for me. They look less like animal markings and more like squiggly lines.