DC Comics Statues and Busts: DST Gallery Wonder Woman 1984 PVC Statue Review

Street Date: 2021-03-10

MSRP: $50

Price I Paid: $50

Statue Scale: 1/8

Sculpted by Alejandro Pereira

Gal Gadot will be wearing the same standard armor for the remainder of her time as Wonder Woman, so as far as statues go, companies need to create compelling poses coupled with great face sculpts and QC in order to catch fans' attention. Diamond Select Toys has released three Gal Gadot statues. This one, associated with the Wonder Woman 1984 movie that was released in December 2020, is probably the last from DST since their licensing agreement with DC Comics ended earlier this year. Although I had hoped for a Golden Eagle Armor statue from DST, I'm glad that someone finally released a Wonder-Woman-deflecting-bullets-with-bracelets statue that I actually want.

DST's previous Gal Gadot statue has her arms crossed in front of her to block a bullet. Gadot usually places her right arm behind her left arm, but the statue has the left behind the right. I also don't like how the bullet effect was sculpted. The production face sculpt is "off" just enough for me to pass.

Rocco Tartamella sculpted the previous two Gal Gadot statues, but Alejandro Pereira sculpted this new one. The face sculpt is the best one of the three. I like how Wonder Woman is deflecting bullets but appears to be in motion, as if she's running across a field. (The usual pose associated with deflecting bullets is iconic but so ubiquitous that it's rather stale now.)

Yes, I know the paint around the eyes are a bit dark / heavy, but we can attribute that to dirt or grime generated in the heat of battle. The bullet effects, including the ones on the ground, are made of a soft plastic.

The base has a flat cover rather than the usual DST hollow presentation, though mine was already scratched from the factory. I measured the statue from the top of her head to the bottom of her ankle (not the bottom of the boot wedge), and she's 8.25-inches tall. Depending on how you want to calculate Wonder Woman's height, this statue is somewhere between 1/8 and 1/9 scales.