“Everybody chill!”
Okay, in my last action figure post I stated that it was my last McFarlane review for awhile. Well, I lied. I completely forgot about the fact that I pre-ordered the McFarlane Toys DC Mulitverse Mister Freeze figure. I debated on whether or not I should hold off on reviewing the figure, but the truth is that this action figure is too “cool” to ignore. McFarlane has made up for their many recent miscues with this frigid figure!
Normally I would start my review with images of the box, but the box I received had a massive shipping sticker across the front of it so I had to nab an image from the web to give you a look at the figure in box. Mister Freeze comes with the standard base and one lone accessory, his freeze gun. Please note that the ice blast coming out of the freeze gun DOES NOT detach! It’s meant to stay in the gun and, if I’m being completely honest, it’s the only drawback of the figure. Mister Freeze also comes with the standard collector card that comes with all of McFarlane’s figures.
The first thing I noticed about this figure is the bulk of it. Mister Freeze is a heavy figure. That’s a great change from some of my recent acquisitions such as the John Stewart Green Lantern and the Endless Winter Black Adam. Mister Freeze is also fairly easy to pose despite having the elongated gun and his freeze tank attached to his back. The pauldrons on his shoulders lift out of the way to give him very good shoulder articulation and if you look closely, you’ll notice that many of his hinge points are hidden, especially in his arms. The rest of his POAs are very good as well.
Of special note is the fact that Mister Freeze‘s cryo-dome is removable. It pops off with relative ease and allows you to pose the figure with or without the dome. With it removed, Mister Freeze‘s head as a decent range of motion. Some positions will not allow the dome to be placed back on but you can basically turn the head left or right and then put the dome back on with little to no trouble. The paint apps are also very well done. They do appear to be heavy in some spots, but they look nice overall.
There is a platinum edition of this figure on the market but it honestly does not look as good as the standard figure. I highly recommend picking up the standard figure and save the money you would have burned on the platinum edition for a better figure.
Thanks for checking out my review. This figure is awesome! He’s literally and figuratively the coolest figure McFarlane has released in a long time. On top of that, he’s one of the rare villains that McFarlane decided to make a figure of instead of releasing another Batman or Superman. You’ve got to get this figure. It’s right up there with the Rebirth Batman as one of my favorite figures.
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