Honestly? It's a shame we didn't get more of these. Toy Biz tried like hell to make at least one representative of every faction, and that obviously includes Spooks here, but a soldier would have been nice. I'll first say that he doesn't look like much in the package: the paint wash and airbrushing can't save him from looking quite corporeal. This is a trade-off; more on that later. Articulation is fairly standard for late-series LOTR, which is to say "excellent". The joints are plentiful and well hidden, with the exception of the double elbows: ugly but very functional. Any pose you could reasonably ask of a king's ghost is possible. Accessories are limited to the sword, cape and sash, though I hate to count the last two, since they're kind of integral to the look. Lastly, we come to the...[See More]

The detail in this figure is sublime and it’s a good scale with decent articulation and the glow effect is pretty cool, but if you’re comparing this figure to the soldier of the dead and then the actual design in the film they probably should have made the figure look more like the on screen detailing with the red cloak and gold armour etc. It’s still a really nicely done figure with a good headsculpt and decent sword accessory though and well worth the buy....[See More]

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