That Mr Freeze Figure By Big Bear Nov 13, 2006 - 4:48:56 PM

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Today as I walked around Wal-Mart doing a little grocery shopping, I stopped over to the toy department to see if they had anything new. While the Marvel Legends had the same ole, same ole (where can I find an Age of Apocalypse Weapon X variant????), the DC Super Heroes rack had a few treats for me. Off to the side were the last two available figures of Azrael and Mr. Freeze. Since I do not know nearly as much about the system of St. Dumas as I do about the tragic life of Victor Fries, I took Mr. Freeze home and placed Azrael on layaway with a few TNA wrestling figures.

Azrael looked really good. He even has a little decal on his cloak that shows the sign of the Order of St. Dumas. The detail in his hood is great. It helps make him look very menacing. And that is the way anyone should look as he is the guy who first beat Bane after Batman got his back broken. Speaking of detail, the gloves take the cake. It is almost as intricate as some of the parts of the Marvel Legends Sentinel figure, plus his electric blades look like they are really on fire. Kudos to the Four Horsemen crew for this design.

Now Mr. Freeze is a treat indeed. I already loved the original that Mattel for the Batman toy line of 2004, and this version is a very nice up-date. While I did like color scheme of the original costume a little bit better, this version of Freeze has more articulation. More points of movements means more variety of poses. Freeze is already a menace, but now he looks like he can spray ice all over the world, or at least Gotham City, with his huge gun and extra joints. He now has elbow bending joints along with the swivel movements of his forearms, and he gets to stretch his legs at the hips like Superman and Doomsday, something that the original version could never do.

The only drawback is this panaroma stand that comes with the figure. It is cool, but for nostalgia's sake, I prefer comic books. How about a comic book featuring the origin of Mr. Freeze? For the extra 2 or 3 bucks that one must shell out for product from Mattel, a collector should feel like he is getting his money's worth.

Mr. Freeze: Part 2

Today, on September 20, 2006, I opened my Mr. Freeze figure and he is even cooler than the original that Mattel did nearly two years ago. The only thing that the original Ice Cannon Mr Freeze had over the new more articulated version is that the Ice Cannon really shot off a stream of "ice" when you put water into the special tank and pressed the button in the middle of the back-pack to release it. The new version for the DC Super Heroes line has 21 points of movement, while the original only had 13 moving parts. Victor Fries already had a pair of limited movement ball-jointed shoulders, cut/ rotating biceps and forearms, a "T"-crotch, and bending knees, and moving waist, which also affected the movement of his head. This time around you have to add in elbow joints, extending movement at the hips, bending ankle movements, and rotating cuts at the calves and the thighs. There is also a little bit of color accents added to the costume giving Mr. Freeze a nice overhaul. Too bad Robin did not get the same type of treatment. That is why I kept my original version and did not even bother to spend the extra money on the latest edition of Robin. As for Mr. Freeze, if you can find "Mr. Short-Pack", then he is worth the money. I just wish it was the old price of 8 bills instead of 10. You can find him at Toys "R" Us or at Wal-Mart.

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