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!
Two Bad. What a legacy character! The fun thing about the vintage action figure was the spring-loaded arms. This was designed so that he could sneak behind someone and grab them. Of course, you could also take those spring loaded arms (that had closed fists) and make each arm punch the other one in the face! This was a gimmick that seemed to work its way into the cartoon also..at least the two heads didn’t seem to agree with each other.
I am in favor of the 200x design, where were two characters (Tuvar and Baddrah) merged into one body by Skeletor as punishment for allowing their own personal rivalry to botch the capture of He-Man. If you read the bio on the back of this package, the responsibility for them being merged is on themselves, as they were stealing some treasure that mutated them.
Here is basic Two Bad
I have him armed up with everything except his alternate hands. There is a clip on the back of the armor to store a weapon. ”Two Bad” I didn’t take a better profile pic so we could see the axe. Also, I have the shield stored on the back of the figure with a weapon. The problem is that there is a rotating piece on his back. The weight of the shield and in this case the mace causes them to hang down. (You can sort of see the orange of the shield behind him.)
Here are the accessories.
You get alternate punching hands. a shield. A green double headed, blunt piked square mace. A pointy spiked traditional mace, a double barreled ray gun, and a double-headed battle axe. The only paint on the weapons seems to be the hilt of the axe and a wash on the axe. I can’t tell if the spiked mace has a pearl coating or if that is the molded plastic. (I think it is the plastic.). The Axe is my favorite piece, of course. It looks like one side of it has received alot of use. Details on the shield…notice how half of the shield has a circle motif, and the other half a square/diamond motif. There is duality all over these accessories!
This is how I figure on properly arming them with maces.
No problem getting Two Bad into this pose. He is very articulated.
Check out this photo…one of my favorites!
Stinkor didn’t come with a weapon. (Stinky figure, really. I mean…he sucks.). But that green mace looks good with him. So these two are attacking Battleground Teela, who has her ray gun. As I was shooting the photo…at the exact moment…Teela decides to fall forward, creating the illusion of action!
I can’t give Two Bad anything but a 5/5. I mean…compared to Stinkor. Two Bad has everything you could want in the character. Great accessries. Two heads. I paid only $20! Highly posable. He is a good size too. I just wish they would release Tuvar and Baddrah.
What is on December 21? The darkest day of the year? The Winter Solstice?
Nope. The SpartanNerd’s birthday!
So I went to the Toy Federation in Greer. I intended to pick up a Mythic Legion or two. Instead, I picked up two MASTERVERSE figures, and one Mythic Legion. So here is my review of Tri-Klops.
This figure is of the Revelations design for the figure. I got him for $20, specifically because I had a lonely Trap Jaw at the house that seemed to need a Tri-Klops.
Tri-Klops came in the package you would expect. It is blue and boring around the window. There is artwork of the character on the side, and some information and art on the back.
I think it worthy to mention that they have the figure in the vintage style armor…with the priest of the techno cult clothes and armor beside him. Mattel knew they couldn’t sell this toy if he was in that robe.
Here he is out of the package…
As you could see in the box clearly, he came with this armor and sword, an alternate “pope hat” head, alternate “praying” hands, armor with a cape, and a robe. The cape and robe are soft goods.
I almost lost my temper, though. It took me awhile to get the visor on both heads to spin. I thought, “surely they didn’t sculpt this without that specific action feature!” It seemed like it, but then, with enough force, I got the visor to move. And I feel better about it now. The eyes should turn more freely than they do. But at least they DO move.
This sword…
It is the only accessory besides the alternate hands and costume. I am underwhelmed. I prefer this extra sword from the MOTUC weapons pack. What do you think, Hub City Geeks?
Tri-Klops’ sword…the thing about this sword was that as a kid, when I rarely lost He-Man’s sword, I gave Tri-Klop’s sword up to him. While traditionally it was green, it was bigger and perhaps cooler designed.
Check out this little comparison…just for fun!
This is a Super-Deformed, a Mega Bloks (Ok, MEGA,) and the MASTERVERSE Tri-Klops.
As just this…the MASTERVERSE figure is in fact just fine. He is is a bounty hunter, after all.
And he fits right in with this lot…(The only characters I am missing are Whiplash and Evil-Lyn.)
But there is this…
Yep. Tri-Klops has been ordained to the ministry! ”Reverend T.E. Scope,” I presume! We hope he turned over a new leaf…
So this was actually Kevin Smith’s doing. Both Tri-Klops and Trap Jaw are devoted to a goddess they call “Motherboard.” There is a figure for sale of Motherboard, but I probably won’t be picking that up. Essentially, it is a giant robotic woman with techno-angel wings. And she is apparently the herald of the Evil Horde. We saw this in the final scene of the Revelations cartoon, and this figure is set up to prominently drive the “Revolutions” sequal season.
Am I a fan of this story? I never figured Tri-Klops to be a religious kind of guy. Kevin Smith has lined it up so that it is team magic vs. team technology. Which is different, I guess.
I guess I wish there was another accessory here. Maybe the chalice from the cartoon?
To me, this is the bonus character. I would trade this dumb head sculpt and costume for 200x drones, or a maybe a Grayskull ring accessory, or something else. A shield. A ray gun.
As a costume, it is OK. The robe covers the whole figure, even if you keep the green armor on underneath. The rubber of the ribbons on the vestment wants to curl. If you pay close attention, you can see that the shapes on the ribbons are the same ones from Tri-Klops’ eyes. Just this Pastor ‘Klops don’t do it for me.
I am rating this figure 3/5. It loses a point because of how tight it is to turn the visor. THE ACTION FEATURE for Tri-Klops. The other point because of the priest costume. Maybe I am looking at it wrong…now I have the robe to put on someone else. For instance the inner robe reminds me of what “Hamburgler” He-Man might wear. Couldn’t they have made the Pope hat into an accessory somehow? Then it could maybe go on anyone’s head!
Do you agree or disagree? Let me know in the comments!
I purchased a Mythic Legion Skeleton Warrior on Halloween, and you can see the review and make comparisons here…
It seems like the whole month of November was Black Friday/Cyber Monday. So I went shopping for some new stuff online. I made my first purchase from BigBadToyStore. I found them when I actually typed in “Mythic Legions…” They were one of the first sites.
I found more there than I could imagine, and also stuff from Figura Obscura, which looks incredibly cool. (Father Christmas, The Headless Horseman, etc.) I mean…incredibly cool. This sale contained all kinds of Mythic Legions but I went for another Skeleton Warrior. It seems like Mythic Legions is a rabbit hole like Magic the Gathering. You could collect and collect and always want more. But the downside in comparison to MTG is that the Mythic Legions really don’t lose much value over time. A Magic Card might be $50 during its first release and in its Standard season, but then when demand goes down, usually becomes very affordable. But Mythic Legions just stay in demand. The other downside is the amount of space the figures take up.
I wound up buying this guy anyway, as settling into Commander-all-the-time for MTG has also caused me to stop purchasing cards as much. I got him for $35 on sale, and I am good with that.
His (Her?) package is mostly the same as the other, but a key difference is the back of this one shows off other army builder figures. The viking just looks kind of dumb to me…I saw this online for a similar price. Why does he look dumb? Something about the way the helmet comes all the way down to the beard or something. The goblin is reported to be popular, but I am more of a barbarian and skeleton kind of guy. The Knight Templar would be cool if the horn armor on the side of the helmet wasn’t so big. I saw the oversized “ogre scale” gladiator for $50 loose at the Toy Federation on Halloween, just before I left with Raven Spawn and Redeemer. He is really big.
I decided to shoot these pics on some music paper I have laying around. Why not? ‘Tis the Season for Chorus. (The SpartanNerd is a chorus teacher.)
Here are the accessories that came in a little poly bag.
There are two pauldrons, a weapons strap, a quiver with sculpted-in arrows, a bow, and an arrow.
Notable here, and the reason I got this skeleton is the bow and arrow.
The arrow is really skinny. It is very silver! There is a tiny slot on either side of the bow where it can clip in.
I’ve played with this for a few days, and it is pretty hard to get good archery poses. The string on the bow is springy, and believe it or not, the arrow has shot off before. It didn’t go far and I didn’t lose it thankfully, but I thought it wouldn’t…but then it did when I was trying to do a pose like you see below.
It is my preference to remove the shoulder pauldrons when doing these archery poses. Which tracks on flavor as far as ranged fighters are concerned. Notice how in both of these photos, the feather side of the arrow doesn’t line up with the hand, and therefore doesn’t look quite right.
Let’s talk about the head. It is a pretty cool sculpt, and the second reason I got this second army builder skeleton figure. It has an articulated jaw, which is nice…the expression doesn’t have to look happy all the time like the other figure. There is also a helmet with a visor…just another cool piece. With the visor down, it reminds me of “Weapon-X.”
The jaw can come off…giving you even another display option.
He also comes with this giant spear thing. Polearm? Axe-spear? Whatever it is, it looks good, but there is no paint on any of the weapons besides the silver on the arrow, or if they are painted then they are painted a consistent glossy shade. I suppose it is a concession, because the figure itself is after all awesomely painted. There is also another barbarian sword, but this time with and angled point. More like a machete with a stabbing point.
The skeleton is very articulated, and like I said before, entirely modular. You can swap pieces with other Mythic Legions in the same scale.
But great army pieces with wizard characters! Check out the Faceless One here.
I rate this figure at a 5/5. I feel it is an improvement on the original that I had just recently purchased in every way except for maybe the axe. What else, the packaging is collector friendly. It turns out that I am jamming both of them into a single Mythic Legions box. Easy storage! The only minor gripe is that it is hard to make a good archery pose with the arrow drawn.
I couldn’t help it. I received an e-mail from Mattel Creations about a clearance sale, and went to look around. I was pleased enough to buy what I wouldn’t have bought at regular price. The three items here were each under $10. In the video above, I am showing off the package. It seems like the easier thing to do with the amount of things I am reviewing. These are all in the “sporty” packaging that I complained about before, but at least it is collector friendly. I have waxed poetic about the line that is never coming back…Masters of the Universe Classics. After thinking about it for awhile, I believe they are probably doing the correct thing. There is symmetry between this line and Star Wars Black Series and GI Joe Classified, as well as some of the newer Transformers. This box seems pretty similar if you think about it. You get a nice artwork profile on the side, an illustration on the back, and in the window you can see what you get. If you were a collector of this line in package, you could file them on the shelf easily like books and take them out when you want. This is the way I see especially GI Joe Classified on the shelf at places like the Toy Federation in Greer SC.
As you can see, I picked up New Eternia Skeletor, Revlations Stinkor, and Revelations Mer-Man. I also have Revelations Savage He-Man with Orko on the way in the mail. After the shipping, I spent $55. You know, Super7 Ultimates cost $55 each, without shipping… See where I felt this was a good value? Looks like I missed Trap Jaw and Tri-Clops…these were already sold out. But today, I just browsed Big Bad Toy Store, and they have all of these at similar prices. It seems like it might be because of the Black Friday sales going on.
Let’s begin with Skeletor.
This “New Eternia” Skeletor has a barbarian vibe that I really like. Sort of stupid and cool at the same time that he has a goatee. (Skulls can’t do that can they?) The concept that they are referring to on the package is of what became Demo-Man, an early concept for Skeletor. In MOTUC they mish-mashed the story up so that Skeletor is Keldor plus this Demo-Man demon. This begs the question of how much of Skeletor’s evil is his own. Not a big fan of that story. The MOTUC Demo-Man figure was bright green and really evoked the concept art. This one only hints at it. I went back and looked and there really isn’t much resemblance.
Above is a similar stance with the scimitar sword.
This figure has loose leg joints. It seems that the thigh cut is loose, and the bottom shin is also. So there is a complaint there. I really had to wrangle to get him to stand. The cape is an interesting piece. It has a large neck hole with a hard piece of bat armor meant to go over the top of the regular armor, really making this figure seem like a two-for-one. It is a soft-goods cape. (On thinking about this line vs. Classics, the soft goods have to be cheaper than those plastic capes. Think about all of the plastic and paint that went into those! With these, its a piece of fabric. The cost is less, and it does the job. However, there is something to be said about the plastic sculpted capes. They are impressive and it keeps a consistent look to the figure.
This is the way that I will generally keep him on display. This alternate head is more jovial but campy evil. The red eyes stare aggressively. The havoc staff is pretty heavy, and the pole is thick. I didn’t break any fingers, but you really have to stretch them. Skeletor also has a trigger finger but no gun accessory.
Look at how evil the goat head appears. This head is so different, like I said before, it could be a different character. Check it out on Movie Skeletor’s body.
Here I have a scene where movie Skeletor is summoning some help. See how this viking type of Skeletor can go as a generic kind of guy? Here is a good comparison now. Look at how much more detailed the paint is on the Mythic Legion army builder skeleton. With the Four Horsemen figure did they scrimp on the paint? No where. Skeletor has mostly unpainted blue plastic. The face is ok. But do you see why this figure is so much cheaper? To be fair, Movie Skeletor has many more paint hits. Maybe more than the Mythic Legion.
Oh the barbary!
This is the kind of thing I am after! Vikor fits pretty good with Skeletor. Yes, Skeletor is more articulated. So why didn’t I buy the New Eternia He-Man that was also on sale? Why would I? It is the same basic figure as Movie He-Man with different paint and a horned helmet.
The New Eternia He-Man doesn’t have a cape or the daggers. Essentially I also didn’t really like the way it looked.
Let’s move on to Skinkor
Here’s what you get. That mouth has a hole in it to plug that mask into. Without the mask it looks like he has an open mouth, giving you another option for display.
Notice anything missing? NO GUN. I think he should have some kind of spray gun. And no. He doesn’t stink. One thing I do like about this figure is the paint job. They really caked it on this time, which makes him fluffier looking.
So I wanted to see if he has a skunk stripe down his back?
Nope. No skunk stripe. No stink. No gun. BOOO.
There would never be a time when these two would fist bump! His hands are larger than the other figures. He has gloves obviously. But He-Man’s fist…I said it before. Deadpool baby hand.
The vintage Stinkor was a repaint of Mer-Man. Here you can see that isn’t true, at least between Revelations Mer-Man and Stinkor. There is some resemblance, and perhaps a different version of Mer-Man has the same head.
Speaking of…
My review of Mer-Man
This is the Revelations cartoon version of Mer-Man. Here’s what you get. Mer-Man, who has no removable armor. Four extra hands. These hands are four fingered and feature webbing. An aquatic scimitar type of sword. And a bident. (I mistakenly said “trident” in the packaging video. SHAME!)
This figure is a wizened and grisly motif for the character.
The box for Skeletor’s scimitar sword mentions that his is a “legendary weapon.” Mer-Man’s is likely generic. But it does look cool!
Never bring a bident to a gun fight!
He can even swim! (Just kidding…photo magic!)
SpartanNerd’s ratings of these three figures.
Skeletor is by far the best. That is exactly what I wanted! The undead knight look of that head is great. I do wish his legs were more sturdy, and that Havoc Staff has a little too much plastic in the handle. Taking off for the weak standing…4/5.
Stinkor is the weakest. I picked it up for just over $8. But no gun or other weapon? No stink. Why? You get a skunk themed biohazard suit character with a blue shield and some hands. 2/5. Pretty low. At least he stands well and the sculpt and paint are good.
Mer-Man is OK. I appreciate that he comes with a couple of weapons…pretty cool weapons. And he does look like the cartoon. I really like that color. Whatever it is … blue. Green. Aqua? The scratches and scars are a new and welcome touch. If they included yellow armor and a corn-cob sword it could be better. I am awarding 3/5. I’m glad to have him.
Savage He-Man and Orko are on the way. Keep an eye on the SpartanNerd Blog for my review!
Part 3- “Section 2” and final thoughts (You are here!)
I mentioned in the Part 2 review that this is a “daunting” project. I kept putting it off. I actually figured it would snow some during the school year, but that never materialized, and so a lot of the projects I would work on never happened. But this one…the first part took hours and hours. And I knew this part would also. Throw in that this is my least favorite looking piece of Snake Mountain, and it finally just took me getting tired of the box taking up all the room in the closet.
This build took about 10-12 hours. I would work on it for 1.5-3 hours and then stop. (I would take brief breaks to do normal things, of course. I mention the box was taking up my space. I ultimately decided to throw it away. I kept some of the more “diarama”-ish pieces, which is why you see the build sitting on the black and gray “brick” packaging. Going forward with vehicles and such, this will be nice! I saw someone on FaceBook used HeroClix floor pieces to fill out their displays, and that looked fantastic! Using the box this way gives a similar vibe I think. The other thing…I used a large poster board we had sitting around as a backdrop. It is kind of beaten up and has a conspicuous label on the side, but I blurred that out in case anyone was wondering what that was about.
I have never been a big fan of the “face” on the vintage toy Snake Mountain. As a kid it was kind of confusing to me that the Filmation version had such a radically different design. All these years later, in order to make the most fans happy, they have amalgamated the designs. I don’t dislike it. But I still am not a fan that stupid face. As a kid I think I supposed it to be a snake…only the ugly face we can see. As an adult I learned that it was supposed to be a demon face. Well…it is a stupid face either way. It has a lever that you can used to open and close the mouth to make it “speak,” but I thought it more fun to have it eat Ram Man.
Up at the top where He-Man is being eaten, I still don’t know if that is a rat or a wolf. The original toy featured a removable microphone “voice changer.” This is still removable, and you can move its mouth also.
I like to joke about the Battle Bones having a “secret action feature.” One or two of the claws, they just launch off! I guess it is the type of plastic, the thickness of the pieces. But usually when I move it around, I lose some toes. Well, the back cheeks of the rat/wolf also have this problem. Eventually, not really caring as they aren’t that necessary of pieces, I just took them off.
I’m getting ahead of myself! What about the build.
I almost had a seizure when I saw the discoloration on these bricks. The SpartanWife decided I shouldn’t complain…it was probably on purpose. Turns out she was correct! Easily some of the most rewarding Mega building I have ever done was the lava slide!
You can take a flashlight of some kind and shine it behind and it makes a really cool glowing effect! The way the pieces are layered is also very fun and satisfying. The mix of translucent yellow/orange, opaque red, plus those unsightly paint splotches are what makes this work. (Isn’t the bridge a cool feature. And it is designed to break down like this also!)
Fans will sure get the picture reference of the above!
I don’t have pics of the other two sections alone. But the lava slide was just fun!
As you can see, there is a nice stairway going in front of the face that leads up to the bridge that crosses the lava slide. There is a ledge with shackles…actually a piece of the vintage design that I had forgotten about! In order to get a minifigure on it correctly, you pretty much have to take the chains off and attach to the arms, and then put them back on the wall. Beneath the ledge there is a false wall so that prisoners can bust out! It has a much better switch to cause it to open than the ones that came with Grayskull.
There are lots of pink squirel-ly things and a couple of “faces of evil,” as well as pink horns all over the place making this place into a corny, campy, obvious base for bad guys. One of the problems I had more than once in both sections of this build was getting the “faces of evil” to work. I wound up adding a round or square stud piece in several instances to make them fit. (You can’t tell I added a piece.)
Let’s look at the inside.
We have a jail. (Guess who is inside…) Filmation’s magic table. (Notice I placed Filmation-type figures around it. You don’t get more 1980’s than this!). A ladder leading from the top floor. The top floor also has the computer, which I think was in the vintage toy (maybe?). And the bone throne!
I love that more is going on here than in the vintage playset, where there was nothing but a hollow shell.
The magic table. This is the most worthy item! And the bone throne! If you watched the unfortunate “Some Kind of Monster” rockumentary about Metallica’s “St. Anger” disaster, I think I remember Kirk Hammet having a similar item. He said he likes to sit on it and think. In Filmation, we saw Skeletor sit on this quite often. I love the design…so evil! I like how Super7 made one for their MOTUC Snake Mountain, and was positively envious as it would be something I would never have. But this is great for Mega! Now, I do have a complaint. There is almost no floor space in front of the chair.
The throne rests on some flat gray pieces that have a single stud, so it is easy to take it out to set in other places or on other playsets. Traditional Skeletor works better. (Hub City Geeks, do you think this havoc staff is a darker color than the carded one?)
Notice that we have the correct stand for Screech also. It is red, and he (she?) has dark blue or black feet. Sorry, the SpartanNerd isn’t great with colors!
Thoughts on the whole set.
When you put it all together, it is massive!
You can store your figures in here. But there isn’t really that much room. For instance…
By the way, the instructions state that this table is supposed to lock in here. NO WAY! It doesn’t, and I don’t want to.
Ultimately, in the interest of space, I am going to keep it on display like this…
The table, the throne, and the sarlacc pit monster are ultimately cool pieces to use anywhere. I don’t recommend relying on this castle to stay locked together as you move it around. Remember, the SpartanNerd has dropped Castle Grayskull and had rebuild it. On the other hand, the pieces here are very tight. Almost unreasonably tight. The little pink horns and teeth and such…those things break off very easily. But also, that is an area where you kind of have artistic liberty also if you wanted to change them around.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I mentioned I might have to think twice about building an Eternia three towers or Fright Zone on account of some of the frustrations I had with building this set. But if you have been reading my blog, then you know I already have Eternia tower. In other words, it wasn’t bad enough to deter me from getting it.
The box got on my nerves enough to finally toss it out.
Do I regret this castle? Not really. As a Mega set, it has its quirks. The pieces not fitting together well, or fitting together TOO well. For. the price, looking back, I know I gave the minifigs a 5/5. I can stand by that, but why didn’t this set come with more? Where are the Snake Men? Why did we get another Evil Lyn?
In total, it probably took 24 hours to build this set. Your mileage may vary. I am an adult with the responsibilities of jobs and a family, and do other things also to be entertained. Some things have to give sometimes, and Section 2 of Snake Mountain kept getting procrastinated in favor of spending time with my wife, playing Magic the Gathering with my son, building other sets, playing with my dogs, fishing, etc. When I began building section 2, it sat on the kitchen table taking up everyone’s space for several days.
I guess I am saying, this was probably too much. There are complaints that the new Eternia Tower is too small…even I said this. But looking back after building this behemoth, I don’t think I want anymore sets this large. It is too tedious, and I think Mattel/Mega believes the same thing.
Let’s consider $300…and. it has been almost 365 days since it first arrived.
The packaging was a fail.
The selection of minifigures…Dragonblaster Skeletor (Great), Thunder Punch He-Man (Great), Ram Man (Great), Webstor (Great), Trap Jaw toy colors (should have been available apart from the set), Evil Lyn (meh), Screech (OK I guess. Why can’t we have open wings?). Snake Men (MIA). Skelcons (MIA).
(Rather than a Battle Cat large set build, they should give us Zoar and Screech. That would be worthy!)
The Filmation Side was terrific.
The more toy accurate side had a cool lava slide and terrific accessories.
A lot of hours of work. I am going to give the whole set a 3.5/5. Why the decimal? I believe there is alot of fun ahead with this set. I already have plans to make a comic! But the build was daunting, tedious, and lengthy, perhaps moreso than the feeling of accomplishment when it was done. More like “I’m glad I am finally finished.” I know I am old and such, but who is this marketed towards? The mid 30’s to mid 40’s crowd. I am optimistic that I will really enjoy it as a part of my almost complete set (Battle for Eternia II is hard to get). This piece is essential to having a complete set on account of the minifigures and on account of being a Masters of the Universe fan.
Thanks for reading if you did follow all of this! Do you agree with my 3.5/5 rating? Let me know in the comments or let me know of FaceBook!
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