DC Collector Edition Green Lantern Alan Scott review No. 2 (2023)
Green Lantern Alan Scott is one of the best heroes from the Golden Age. He’s been so timeless that he remained a fixture of the Justice Society even when a new generation of heroes joined the ranks.
Alan Scott also has one of those designs that was basically perfect right out the gate. A few tweaks later and DC had one of its iconic Golden Age characters. I’ve been a big fan since I read his exploits teaming with members of the All-Star Squadron and of course the Goyer/Johns JSA run.
Initially, McFarlane Toys released a variant version of him (available on Amazon), but it was clear that all the parts for a classic version of Alan Scott were sculpted. It was just a matter of time. That finally arrived with the second figure in the deluxe Collector Edition line.
Let’s see if this lantern burns bright or needs to get buried under the wood pile and best left forgotten.
Packaging: Green Lantern Alan Scott gets the standard Collector Edition packaging. That’s simply a wider version of the base package setup with silver accents replacing the usual white accents. The side label states this is the Day of Vengeance look for Alan Scott.
While a player in that storyline, he’s hardly the first character I think of from that event. Just as interesting, the rear art features a portrait from Alex Ross, who tends to make his characters look older.
Likeness: My favorite Alan Scott figure is the DC Direct version. It had the cleanest, most heroic head sculpt with fantastic detail on the costume. The Mattel DC Classics figure is so close except for a questionable expression that didn’t fit the character at all.
This one comes close to topping that one if it weren’t missing one crucial detail — his shirt’s collar. Alan Scott didn’t wear a standard spandex outfit. It had a loose fit to it with the shirt collar buttoned all the way up. This figure totally lacks a collar for a more typical superhero oval exposing his neck. His collar is a small thing but it helped to distinguish Alan from his fellow heroes including his close ally, The Flash.
In fairness, his collar wasn’t always a thing. In the History of the DC Universe, George Perez drew Alan like the figure — without the shirt collar. It’s more of a deal where if a character’s outfit is drawn one way 9 times out of 10, don’t use that rare one because it’s easier. Especially when there’s enough newly sculpted elements to the figure that getting that part right shouldn’t have been a big deal.
Alan’s ring is also on the wrong hand. It should be on his left hand. There are some covers with the ring on his right hand, but by far the most common look is for it to be on his left hand. That’s another of those instances where I wish McFarlane had better quality control to catch these kinds of mistakes.
The head sculpt has a classic portrait with a focused expression His hair has a nice wavy flow to it and his mask is angled downward to his nose properly.
He’s got his belt and the angled boots with sculpted cords around them. These are too thick for the smaller corded appearance from the comics, but I appreciate the effort.
McFarlane got to Alan Scott before soft good, wired capes were the norm. That’s too bad as he’s a character who would really benefit from that dynamic flowing cape.
Scale: In the comics, Green Lantern Alan Scott is 6′, which puts at the same height as Wildcat and taller than the 5’11” Jay Garrick. It’s inverted here as Alan is shorter than the Flash figure, but he lines up just right with Wildcat.
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Paint: Green Lantern Alan Scott had a fun combination of colors with the red shirt, green pants and purple cape. It almost shouldn’t work, but it does.
The paintwork is mostly clean save for the weaker yellow around his boots, which isn’t wholly unexpected.
Articulation: All McFarlane figures have 22 points of articulation.
For any Green Lantern, the key aspect of posing is being able to pose aiming his ring as dramatically as possible. Whether in flying poses or conjuring some object with it, that’s his sweet spot.
With the Multiverse articulation scheme, that’s no trouble at all.
Like I mentioned earlier, Alan Scott definitely would look cooler with a poseable cape for when he’s flying around or in battle.
Green Lantern Alan Scott has:
- neck
- ball-jointed shoulders with ratchet rotator cuff joint
- elbow
- wrist
- wrist hinge
- torso
- wings
- waist
- hip
- thigh
- knee
- ankle
- toe
Accessories: The Collector Edition line doesn’t always provide some exceptional accessories to justify the higher price point.
Alan Scott is definitely lacking on that front as well. He gets a tiny lantern that for some reason is cast in a translucent light green. It’s certainly not large enough for this scale and looks dainty in his hands.
He also has a translucent energy burst cast in the same shade of green as the lantern. It’s better than nothing but not a particularly useful construct either.
Green Lantern gets the smaller circular stand and a trading card, but he’s also got the larger black display stand McFarland erroneously thought provided some great value for collectors.
Worth It? As a Collector Edition figure, Green Lantern Alan Scott started out at $30. I grabbed him on clearance at GameStop and was able to get him for $20. I like that price a lot more since some of that extra price tag is for that goofy stand that isn’t necessary.
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Alan has a few things holding him back in terms of outfit accuracy to his most traditional looks, but this is still a figure that’s worth picking up.
Where to Get It? I got Alan Scott at GameStop, but at this rate the best option is to pay a bit more over at Amazon.
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