Quartz (Total Chaos) Review

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Quartz (Total Chaos) Review

Quartz
Total Chaos (McFarlane)Man, I missed this thing. Antique malls FTW!
Rock monsters are a little samey to me. Quartz bucks that trend by being a rock monster with cyberware. To address the elephant in the room (pipe down, Poacher, you'll get your turn), he does lack the rock chunks shown with the prototype. I don't personally miss them; they just look like bits of his own body, and if he was meant to throw them with his spring-action waist, the remarkably weak spring renders that moot anyway. We do get an alternate hand (fist) for the right side, at least.
What gets me is the construction. Being made entirely of clear PVC rather than ABS grants it significant durability, and after 20+ years, even the balljoint shoulders are showing no stress fractures whatsoever. Funko could take a lesson here.
Shoulders aside, Quartz does show his age here, with swivels at the biceps, hips, right wrist and neck. Pretty standard for such a bulky and pre-posed character back then, but the shoulders have a wonderful range, and it all works together surprisingly well.
Quartz may not be to everyone's taste, but like the rest of Total Chaos, he does show off what the design team was capable of when they got free reign. A few duds, but lots of fun overall. If you want a rock dude for a sci-fi setting, you could do a hell of a lot worse.