Weekly Action Review

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Superman/Batman : Public Enemies

The latest preview of the upcoming Direct to DVD Superman/Batman movie. Set to be released at the end of this month. The list of characters looks explosive especially with Power Girl in the mix(what?).

So far this is the third animated movie by DC this year. The first two were:

Being a fan of WW, one would expect that I highly recommend the WW movie. Well, I think fans should watch both. Both movies gives viewers a new look at both their origins in the Superhero world. If you're watching GL, keep an eye out for Arisia, one of the GL Corps. Why? 'Cos she's cute - nuff said.

Pic of the Day : Directive 4 is Classified

Directive 4 is Classified by pairadocs
Even when the movie first came out I thought it was awesome...and this was before CGI was big and commonly used. Something to think about -- Lobo

The Iron Monger Cometh

How badass can you get to have 'Iron Monger' as your name? Very bad of course. Although the Obadiah Stane character in the Iron Man movie has no relation to the comic version, he's still a great villain. In fact, we only saw a fraction of Obadiah's viciousness in the movie. But we're not here to talk about the movie are we?
This is about the action figure. It seems I still haven't gotten enough out of the Iron Man movie action figures. Truthfully, I have but fate has other ideas. Target was having a clearance for these figures for the past month or so. I think it's all gone by now. These figures were going for $6 - $8 each from their original price of $16. So I thought there was no harm in getting another figure.
There are currently 4 types of Iron Monger figure that I know of. The first version is in the pic below(right) and sports a different color scheme. The color looks almost brown edging towards bronze. This figure has a spring loaded waist. When you put the legs together the waist will swivel creating a 'punch' action. This unfortunately takes away the articulation in the hips.

The other figure(left) is the one I got last month. This figure has the opening cockpit to reveal part of Obadiah's body and his head.

A decent sculpt all around. The colors are better than the first version. At least this comes close to the metallic look of the figure in the movie. There are signs of black wash all over the body and gives it a bit of greasy look.

Articulation is definitely better than the first figure simply because there articulation in the legs.

The only minus point about this figure is the center piece on the armor. Compared with the first version, this has only a sticker...a STICKER? Why couldn't they just stick with the same blue plastic they used in the first version? Maybe I'll look around on how to customize this problem.