I don’t play Overwatch and I don’t know much about it. I was intrigued by the look of the figures we saw at Toy Fair, so when I saw them on the shelf, I couldn’t pass them by. Let’s take a look at the Overwatch Ultimates figures Mercy and Pharah!
First off, the packaging is really eye-catching. I love the pop of white and the orange backdrop in the window itself and all the graphics have a crisp, modern look to them. It stands out on the retail shelf for sure.
The set comes with quite a bit of stuff and feels like a good value for cost. The set comes with the angelic Mercy and the mech suited Pharah. Mercy comes with a staff with a removeable blast (healing?) effect, a fist, a pistol, a fist, a splayed finger hand, removeable wings, and a figure stand.
The flight stand is quite nice. It has a nice etched Overwatch symbol on the base and the flight arm is hinged at the base and the top. The clip to hold the figure has a hinge with ratchets, so it holds both figures well. The only downside is there’s only one stand since both characters are flyers.
The staff is cast in slightly flexible plastic and did come a little bent out of the package. It’s fairly thin and the hands have a softer plastic and open grip, so the figure doesn’t hold it well in all poses. The translucent effect attaches securely to staff via a peg.
The wings peg into the body on a ball and socket joint that allows for some nice poseability. They have a tendency to pop out when posing the figure.
The gun is pretty massive for a pistol and has some nice detail. The gun fits a lot better in the grip hands than the staff.
The fist and splayed finger hands are really nice options to have and I love to see Hasbro including these as a regular thing more often.
Pharah comes with extra set of fists, a large rocket launcher, some detachable jetpack wings, and blast effects for those wings.
The wings also attach on a ball and socket joint and have some decent mobility. They also hinge open and the yellow blast effects can be added on.
The rocket launcher is absolutely massive and while it fits well in the figure’s hand, the hand is a pretty soft plastic and the articulation in the wrist is pretty loose, so posing was somewhat challenging.
The fists swap on and off easily and are a little loose, but again, I’m really glad to have the options.
Both figures have exquisite sculpts that match the game models well, from what I can tell. The design aesthetic here is very appealing and I think the figures capture that aesthetic perfectly.
I’m blown away by all the cool little armor details packed into this figure. The figure has a great silhouette and the figure captures the exaggerated anatomy of the designs really well.
Pharah has a great robotic design that for me, feels like a mash-up of Samus Aran and Blue Falcon.
This figure is packed with cool armor detail and I love the exaggerated silhouette. The massive shoulder pads are also well engineered to allow for arm movement. One of my favorite details is the wrist rocket that almost looks like the rocket from the vintage Boba Fett.
I also really like how the shoulder pads have a hinged opening that reveals a set of rockets. It hits me right in the Robotech nostalgia feels perfectly.
The articulation is familiar for Marvel Legends fans, though it doesn’t quite hit the Marvel Legends range of motion. Both figures have:
- Swivel/hinge neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips and ankles
- Lower ab hinge
- Ball and socket wings and upper torso
- Double hinged knees
- Swivel thighs
Pharah has additional bicep swivels which are pretty loose and her wings hinge to an open configuration. The figures both move pretty well for the most part, but one frustration I had is that the elbows were somewhat limited, hitting a 90 degree bend at best.
For Pharah I found the combination of soft plastic hands, limited elbow range, and loose joints frustrating when posing. Mercy’s upper torso ball and socket can sometime reveal a gap if you move it too far back.
The paint is great on these figures. I normally don’t love it when Hasbro does armored characters with a swirly metallic plastic, but it works perfectly for Pharah.
Both figures appear to utilize some sort of face printing and it’s really nice and sharp. I also really like how Mercy’s costume has the nice fade from red to yellow in places.
Overall I like these figures a lot. They aren’t perfect and the soft plastic hands do make some posing less fun for both figures, but they are otherwise fun and striking looking characters.
