The final figure I picked up on my birthday. (It really takes me awhile to get to these blog entries. Sorry if you are a regular reader, Hub City Geeks.)

I didn’t know this character’s name was Balthor the Tower Ogre. I used Google Image Search.

He was loose on the counter at the Toy Federation, pretty much exactly like this. It didn’t take me long to realize this was something really special, even if it was used. Why would someone offload this? He is HUGE!

My first thought was that he would be a great enemy for Vikor, and the Conan the Barbarian Ultimates that I should have in hand before June. (That’s a long wait. And why I am no longer going to pre-order from Super7. I’ll buy stuff in-stock if I shop from their online store).

But these two look way too much like brothers! Or father and son. So…probably going to be on the same team. You can see how big he is.

He is a nine-inch scale figure. In fact, “Ogre Scale” according to the Four Horsemen.

It seems my figure is almost complete…almost. He came with this extra section of pole for the axe.

He has two holes on his back for accessories…(likely wings…I don’t have a picture, but I removed the wings from The Redeemer (from Spawn), and plugged those into his back. This looks great, somehow like a Led Zeppelin album cover).

For this review picture, I just stabbed that small pole in there…it fit just fine for a murder scene. The reason why I know there is a missing piece is because there is nowhere for this section to fit to. You can use it to make a shorter axe, and that’s about it.

Besides his tremendous scale and wonderful sculpt, he is also as modular as the other two Mythic Legions that I have.

I promise that every piece of him can come apart just as well as the skeletons.

And the horns on the side of his helmet…I don’t know if you picked up on it, but they are removable and adjustable also. Without the horns, he looks a bit like Batman. If the whole helmet was removable, that would be cool. You can tell where the face is glued in.

I really appreciate that he has plastic armor with some fur details. There is fur padding under the harness straps, and also a furry loin cloth beneath his belt armor.  I love how there are horns sculpted onto his boots, and those boots have sharp fin-like pieces on them. I know his title is “Tower Ogre,” but I would like to think of him as a large human. Like Goliath or someone. Ogre as a nickname. But these boots might suggest otherwise. I don’t know much about Mythic Legions lore.

So there is someone bigger in my collection…

Well how do I rate this figure? According to the internet, Balthor is around ten years old. He isn’t brittle in any way, and stands perfectly. I am missing the piece of pole, but can that be a reason to downgrade the product? Now when I bought it loose. The paint looks terrific…the sculpt is the Four Horsemen at their best. He is posable, has cool armor. He is exactly the kind of barbarian figure I am into! So 5/5. Fight me over this rating, Hub City Geeks!