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DC Multiverse Endless Winter Gallery – Frost King, Aquaman, Black Adam and More

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Another round of DC Multiverse is up for a look today with the Endless Winter Build-A wave.  Plus Aquaman.  The wave consists of Batman and Wonder Woman in arctic gear, Green Lantern Jon Stewart, and Black Adam.  Each come with a part of Frost King, the big baddie from that story arc.  In addition, a single packed Aquaman was released featuring is look from the Endless Winter books, but does not have any Build-A parts.  We’ve run the figs for a set of basic and fancy pants shots, so read on to check them out along with some quick thoughts on each, courtesy of McFarlane Toys!   These are starting to trickle out to retail but are generally due in April so check our sponsors below to grab your copies!

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McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Endless Winter Build-A-Wave + Aquaman

Overall Thoughts

Solid Wave.  It scores points for sticking with a theme and getting right to the meat of it in one go.  The story is recent, so old school fans might not be up on it, but the wave still delivers on a couple standard looking characters.  Green Lantern is a re-release of the one from a while back, he has a new head with more of a military cut, and comes with book-specific constructs in the swords.  Aquaman, while not part of the Build-A wave, is accurate to that book and gives us a modern yet classic look.  These two are exactly what I am looking for in DC Multiverse.  Black Adam  is technically in that boat, but the head sculpt is a bit weird to me.  It doesn’t quite match the book, and it almost has an animated vibe to it.  Plus, the physique is a bit small for what I expect in Black Adam and Shazam.   The painted heads on this wave are well done overall, on all of them.  When paint can be applied to skin areas, it’s a plus.

Batman and Wonder Woman – These are very specific to the books.  I feel like we are getting into 90s Kenner zone with all the Batman’s and his crazy outfits.  It is theme accurate tho, and the sculpt is sharp.  Wonder Woman – sculpt is great, but the color blocking and execution seems off to me.   Feels half done.  I think a metallic shimmer on the yellow parts, and a bit of blue variation on those areas, with maybe a wash, could have helped this immensely.  The red also has a slight pinkish hue, a darker maroon would have worked here.  Head sculpt and paint is fantastic though.  While talking about Wonder Woman – please give us the Aquaman equivalent of her. Modern-yet-classic.  Nothing story specific.  Thanks. :)

Frost King – I assume this is what drew Todd to doing this.  A big icy spiky sword wielding monster.  Looks like he could be in Game of Thrones or even the Spawn Universe. It’s well sculpted, well painted, good use of translucent plastics.  I had issues keeping the legs plugged into the torso though, they kept popping out when posing.   When all is working properly, it’s solid – full range of articulation so you can’t even tell it’s a BAF.

Bottom line, good thematic wave.  If you dig the books or visuals, worth a pick up.  Aquaman is the winner though, he’s sharp AF.

Key shots here, 60+ below in gallery format.

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Discussion / Comments (Jump to this Thread on the Forum)

  2. IzzyTipsy has no avatar! IzzyTipsy says

    Really wish they'd stop using the same legs from the first Batgirl. She's way to tall.

  3. FabioTheMidget has no avatar! FabioTheMidget says

    The first Batgirl mold was never reused, I think that's something all companies avoid, all other figures were reused as far as I can remember

  4. BarbaraGordon's Avatar BarbaraGordon says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by FabioTheMidget View Post
    The first Batgirl mold was never reused, I think that's something all companies avoid, all other figures were reused as far as I can remember
    The legs were re-used on the Three Jokers Batgirl.

  5. Tony_Bacala's Avatar Tony_Bacala says

    I like both of those figs, they just need to be shrunk like 15 percent in every direction.

    All the DCM female figures are off in scale IMO. Wonder Woman could be argued otherwise, but Gal Gadot ones shouldn't have been that big if being movie accurate.

  6. FabioTheMidget has no avatar! FabioTheMidget says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon View Post
    The legs were re-used on the Three Jokers Batgirl.
    That's exactly what I was trying to say, it was never reused before the one on Three Jokers wave.

  7. BarbaraGordon's Avatar BarbaraGordon says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tony_Bacala View Post
    I like both of those figs, they just need to be shrunk like 15 percent in every direction.

    All the DCM female figures are off in scale IMO. Wonder Woman could be argued otherwise, but Gal Gadot ones shouldn't have been that big if being movie accurate.
    They've started making the female figures more petite, though that's been leading to some problems with standing (since the feet are correspondingly smaller as well).







    Quote:
    Originally Posted by FabioTheMidget View Post
    That's exactly what I was trying to say, it was never reused before the one on Three Jokers wave.
    Unfortunately, that's not how your post reads.

  8. Tony_Bacala's Avatar Tony_Bacala says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon View Post
    They've started making the female figures more petite, though that's been leading to some problems with standing (since the feet are correspondingly smaller as well).

    Unfortunately, that's not how your post reads.
    Yeah, those look better scale wise. Don't have either yet. 90% of McFarlane figures I have issues with standing and need the bases, so I'd rather they just get the scale right and deal with balance separately later.

  9. FabioTheMidget has no avatar! FabioTheMidget says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon View Post
    Unfortunately, that's not how your post reads.
    I'm new here, I'm having some issues with the quotes system but my comment was for the previous post regarding the reuse of the first Batgirl release, what I meant is that Nightwing and The Batman who Laughs were reused but Batgirl wasn't, that was my point, I'll try to be more clear from now on
    I wonder what they will do with the Dark Knights Metal Wonder Woman body mold, that's another one I think never was reused

  10. ghostbogey's Avatar ghostbogey says

    Nice Pic's......
    I'm really "digging" that...

    Batgirl fig ;^)

  11. Otter has no avatar! Otter says

    Is the Swamp Thing updated at all, or is it the same one that's been available for a while?

  12. Tony_Bacala's Avatar Tony_Bacala says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Otter View Post
    Is the Swamp Thing updated at all, or is it the same one that's been available for a while?
    I think this is same as been out for a while, just took me a bit to get to pictures. There is also a variant with a different head, Gamestop I think.

  13. Otter has no avatar! Otter says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tony_Bacala View Post
    I think this is same as been out for a while, just took me a bit to get to pictures. There is also a variant with a different head, Gamestop I think.
    Thanks. The paint applications can look so different in different people's photos.

  14. Tony_Bacala's Avatar Tony_Bacala says

    Yeah, for these Swamp Thing ones I only did the "fancy pants" style shots, so matching real world wasn't the goal. It's still pretty good in normal light IMO tho.

  16. meihuar2006 has no avatar! meihuar2006 says

    Regarding Todd's house-design for Wonder Woman--the sculpt shows her belly is bare, but in both releases, it has been painted over.

    Now, granted, armor with the belly exposed (probably the most common target!) is silly, but why did he sculpt that way then hide with paint?

    The Joker with the... stapled on skin mask does look suitably gross. DC comics really blinked on that one... it sought to be "edgy gross" but not "true-life horrific"... a skinned face grows back horrifically (check out the woman mauled by a chimpanzee a few years back), but Joker's face remained conveniently "cool" not "puffy, shapeless, and unrecognizeable".

  17. BarbaraGordon's Avatar BarbaraGordon says

    McFarlane could re-release all of those figures one more time, with bandages wrapped around their heads.

  18. snake5289's Avatar snake5289 says

    I liking that Rebirth Batman a lot. Since I don't really collect this line (only have Arkham Knight Batman) the size thing doesn't bother me. Maybe I'll get lucky and find one soon.

  20. BarbaraGordon's Avatar BarbaraGordon says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by emeraldnite View Post
    I lol'd at the "ZurENArrhgrrddfdfderrrp" file names!
    Also "Kneel MOFO" for Zod.

  21. cowen's Avatar cowen says

    I'm looking forward to that rebirth batman being available. At least the sculpts are getting better even though articulation needs some tweaking.

  22. Halien90 has no avatar! Halien90 says

    That Joker headsculpt is amazing, but I absolutely cannot understand why they wouldn't have put it on a Joe's garage mechanic jumpsuit body. They need to make that figure.

  23. BarbaraGordon's Avatar BarbaraGordon says

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Halien90 View Post
    That Joker headsculpt is amazing, but I absolutely cannot understand why they wouldn't have put it on a Joe's garage mechanic jumpsuit body. They need to make that figure.
    Cheap re-use of an existing body.



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