McFarlane Toys Spawn With Throne Sketch Edition
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00:00 Simmons sits on a throne that's all monotone. Here's a look at the McFarlane
00:04 toys. Spawn gold label collection black and white spawn with throne.
00:27 Spawn takes the throne with a monochromatic artist sketch deco. Stark
00:31 black and white spawn includes a card stand, a display base, removable cape and
00:35 monolithic throne adorned with skulls. Also included is an exclusive art card
00:40 featuring a sketch of spawn on one side and a numbered certificate of
00:43 authenticity on the other. And while spawn ponders things in purgatory we're
00:48 gonna grab the tape measure and see how tall the sketch version of spawn with
00:51 throne stands. And while I'm doing this as well I'd like to thank the folks over
00:55 McFarlane toys that did provide this very limited run gold label edition
00:58 sketch spawn with throne. We could have a look at this review. First for spawn, now
01:03 I don't know whether you would consider measuring to the top of the head as the
01:05 highest point in the figure because technically he does also have his cape
01:08 collar. I'm gonna go with only just his head. With just the head you're looking
01:12 at spawn standing well he's gonna be about seven inches in height first or
01:15 he's gonna be about 17 and a half centimeters tall. Then on to the throne
01:20 itself. The throne which is basically just a black and white from the colored
01:23 one we looked at before is actually standing eight and a half inches in
01:26 height or it's about 21 centimeters tall. The sketch version of spawn by the way
01:31 is actually limited to only 3,000 pieces worldwide. What wasn't though as limited
01:36 in 3,000 copies was the original colorized version of spawn that also had
01:39 a shortened cape. This is what the figure looks like with the colorized version.
01:42 Also as well here's what the colored version of the actual throne looks like
01:46 with the sketch version of the throne. Again using the same mold as before just
01:50 doing away with most of the colors. What is normally the case with the releases
01:54 like this and is the case currently with spawn and throne the figure comes
01:57 included first of all with a display stand for the figure on its own. The
02:01 stand is just the circular stand as we always get treated but what's
02:04 differently done here though is you have a black and white spawn logo down below.
02:07 It's fun and good really to be displayed with the figure. The downside though is
02:11 the same downside that was with the other spawn is the fact he doesn't
02:13 actually have a fully developed cape. You'll see what I mean in a second but
02:17 what also comes included with this is a little standee card. First of all you get
02:21 yourself the actual stand that's all been cast here in white plastic and
02:24 inverting the colors this time around. We actually have the spawn logo been
02:28 treated here in black. The card that sits inside of this is actually a sketched
02:32 card and I really like the look of this. It's kind of hard to really make out all
02:35 the things that's going on in this card just because there's all just there's
02:38 really no color to separate one thing from the next but really a nice looking
02:42 sketched image of spawn sitting on his throne. If you spin though this around on
02:46 the back of this not only are you shown the 3,000 copy limited run but it's also
02:51 showing as well that this is p9 which is basically an artist's proof of one of
02:55 the 3,000 copied releases. Certificate of Authenticity is always good to have when
02:59 you're having these displayed with the figure or a lot of times when it comes
03:02 to these I usually put these back into their packaging just so that there's no
03:05 damaging done to the actual certificate. As those are moved to the side let's get
03:09 a closer look now at spawn. I already mentioned the fact that this spawn being
03:13 the fact he's going to be sitting in a chair has to unfortunately sacrifice
03:16 some of his cape. He only really gets the top part of his shoulder and loses
03:21 everything else that's below it. The original spawn wasn't any bit different.
03:24 If we look at the original colorized version you can see as well that he
03:27 loses all the bottom half of his cape. In a way though I kind of wish in both the
03:31 releases of spawn that they could have also included a secondary cape that if
03:34 you did want to have the figure displayed for example you would just be
03:37 a case of detaching the existing cape and give him the longer one instead.
03:40 Body wise and proportions of the figure are exactly the same as the one we
03:44 looked at already. I like the look of the black and white honestly. I mean
03:48 obviously looking at this it's devoid of all the color altogether but there's
03:51 something to be said about the sculpting showcasing better I feel on black and
03:55 white. You'll see a lot more of it especially when we look at the throne
03:58 how more decorately detailed it is without all the colors being added on
04:02 top of it. Spawn itself does look quite good and again like with the cape only
04:06 being half well only going to about like the mid spine section I mean it does
04:10 kind of look a little bare and bottom from like this half of the figure down.
04:13 The coloring does look good though. I mean the areas that have basically
04:18 the light hitting it all all the sections that you can see here on the
04:20 figure so like his pockets will be all light and bright and white. You can also
04:24 see as well some musculature has also been added that really wasn't the case
04:27 before with spawn. It really in a way does give a chance for the sculpting to
04:31 shine. It is an older sculpt yes but it looks a lot better I feel in a way with
04:36 being all black and white especially when you get things like his abdomen
04:38 area for example. Those would be things that would only just rely on the
04:42 sculpting alone but by going in there now and adding the additional white
04:45 elements to it it does give a chance for again like the sculpting to really get a
04:48 chance to shine here. Head sculpt again I have no real problems with the spawn
04:52 actually this head sculpt I think has been used a couple times already with
04:55 the spawn figures from other releases. Again this one just happens to have a
04:58 lot less of a cape. He does have again like that one long large gauntlet that
05:03 has the spikes sticking out and he has smaller spikes which unfortunately if
05:07 you were to say look at it from a light source standpoint this is all basically
05:10 just in relegated to black. Strangely he only has it in one finger and one thumb
05:15 but then all the rest of the hand is basically just left behind to the black
05:18 plastic alone. I wish that they could have added a little something on here.
05:21 Now again like depending on where you're looking at the light if you were to say
05:24 look at it from this side I suppose it's hitting the right places. I just kind of
05:27 wish some of it would also be hitting the places here as well. Now the
05:30 articulation is gonna be exactly the same from the other earlier looked at
05:33 spawn simply because again they're using the exact same mold. Head is gonna be on
05:37 a ball joint so it does rotate all the way around. Luckily at least for the top
05:40 collar it's softer plastic so it's not gonna get in the way of things when it
05:44 comes to especially moving spawn's head. It does look up this far and it does of
05:47 course look down and in between that it does rock back and forth as well. Getting
05:52 kind of in there with the cape the top of the torso is on a ball joint and the
05:55 lower torso just behind the skull belt boy does that ever look really cool. It
05:59 does also have a ball joint there as well. The arms come out no hindrances at
06:03 all but you can also as well bring the arms forward you can bring them back.
06:05 Figure does have a bicep swing swivel double hinge on the elbow and the hands
06:10 do rotate all the way around. This one's a little harder to kind of do a little
06:14 bit of rotation simply just because again like the gauntlet overhangs the
06:16 part of the wrist. The legs do split out and luckily because again like with the
06:21 way they've sculpted the chains there's enough give and leeway space that you
06:25 can easily bring the legs out and you don't feel like it's pulling at all on
06:27 the chains. Legs go forward, legs go also as well back. You can swivel at the top
06:31 of the thigh, double hinge on the knee and once again you got the articulation
06:35 in the ankle back and forth with toe articulation there as well. It is the
06:39 same as well for the larger boot part that he has. Again you're just gonna have
06:43 a little bit more limitations when it comes to really being able to rock the
06:45 A. They still move up and down they still rock back and forth but you kind of have
06:48 to feel like you get in there in order to do all of that. So that's the spawn
06:52 figure and of course the whole idea of it is the fact that he's gonna be
06:55 sitting on his throne. If you are one that's already been avidly collecting
06:59 all the spawn figures anyways from McFarlane's team then you may not even
07:02 be disappointed at all the fact that he doesn't have as much of his cape
07:04 happening because again this figure is gonna be specifically designed for
07:07 sitting in his throne. The throne itself if we can pick this up right now
07:11 consisted of in fact two pieces. While you may be looking at this and assuming
07:15 that that is one extra piece it isn't. It doesn't detach and this part as I had
07:19 mentioned in the earlier review of the first time we looked at spawn seems to
07:22 be a separate piece. I'm not sure why it's constructed the way that it is when
07:26 this easily could have just been sculpted as all one piece unless they're
07:28 planning to maybe use this mold again. This part was actually the part that
07:32 actually was detachable so when you first get this guy out of the tray this
07:36 was a separate piece and the top part that adorns the throne was also a
07:40 separate piece as well. You can maybe see there's a skull there on the front. The
07:43 neat thing I really like about this is by relying more on then paint to show
07:47 the accented sections which unfortunately again like when you're
07:50 looking at the original colorized version of the throne I mean yeah there
07:53 was a lot of great sculpting happening there but it only really relied on just
07:57 sort of this muddier brown to get the job done. There were a few little areas
08:00 like the skulls for example that you could see stood out but I feel it stands
08:04 out so much nicer here when the sketched version. Not only do you get the chance
08:08 to see all the additional skulls but you can get the chance to see all the other
08:11 things that may have gotten lost in the mix when we looked at the mold before. I
08:14 mean if I was just to spin this around you can kind of see like all the very
08:18 cool sculpting that now really gets the chance to showcase itself. All the little
08:23 things like spines and bones and parts of things that all sort of come together
08:26 to make the throne it's a really nice looking piece. Now you may have already
08:29 noticed that it has this little straggling piece that's actually the
08:32 bottom of his cape. It doesn't really go anywhere. It basically just goes to the
08:36 back of the throne and then just disappears. The idea in mind is you're
08:40 supposed to of course take Spawn, bend the legs and bring him forward, bend the
08:44 knees and bring them down and then what you're gonna do is you're gonna have
08:46 Spawn sitting in his throne just like that and of
08:50 course you just want to bring his arms down as well. The thing unfortunately
08:53 about that though is while he is sitting the way that he is if you were to
08:57 actually look at that close you'll see that he's not even sitting down on his
09:01 seat. If you didn't want to bring him down on the seat that's basically as far
09:04 down as he'll go so he's always gonna have a look that he's levitating inside
09:08 the seat. I feel in a case like this what they should have really done is just if
09:12 I can move the figure just out of the way for a second if they had added some
09:15 additional sculpting I'm gonna do my best and get my blasted fingers out of
09:18 the way but if they had sculpted some additional cape right there sort of just
09:22 bunched up like he's a little is essentially sitting on it when you at
09:25 least then took Spawn and you put him on top of his throne it would then look at
09:29 least like there was something finished underneath like a little part of
09:32 additional cape because again like the way it is right now Spawn literally is
09:36 just levitating on the actual throne itself and of course we will be bringing
09:40 back in the original colorized Spawn. Let's get his knees just to bend here
09:43 and we'll get him then on to his throne so you guys can see the differences
09:46 between the two. You know from a color standpoint people probably will be more
09:51 geared I think towards the idea of getting the colorized version of Spawn.
09:54 First of all it's a lot easier to get as well I mean with this being only 3,000
09:58 pieces a little harder to try to track one down but I will say like I like the
10:02 colorized version but I feel like maybe not as much for Spawn but definitely
10:06 for his throne there's a lot more opportunity to see really what's
10:09 happening with the sculpt. So much it sort of really got lost when you added
10:12 the muddier paint over top of it that really now by only really relying on
10:16 just when you think about it the black molding of the plastic and then the
10:19 white accented paint over top of it that throne looks a lot nicer honestly with
10:23 the sketched version. Whether though you get the chance to actually grab this one
10:26 for yourself or if you are even interested in the sketched pieces I know
10:30 it's certainly one thing that either as a collector you're probably just not
10:33 more interested in getting the colorized versions or if you are a collector like
10:36 myself that loves what they're doing with the sketched editions it's a great
10:39 piece to be putting on the shelf because it gets the chance to finally showcase
10:42 the sculpting that honestly I feel was really lost in the first initial release.
10:46 Apparently the rule still applies that if you sit in your favorite comfy chair
10:50 that you start to doze off and it looks to be the case here with Al Simmons that
10:53 it looks like he's starting to nod off. I may not be saying this as loud. What I do
10:57 really though like about this mold was the same thing I liked about the mold
11:00 before. It does unfortunately sacrifice the cape. Spawn has to do away with
11:05 the lower half of the cape but what it does at least give him instead is a
11:07 place to sit down. If he had had a cape you wouldn't be able to do
11:12 something like you're doing right now because again the plastic whether it be
11:15 soft or not for the cape there'd be no way really to be able to bend the cape
11:18 and have a character properly sitting. He'd be levitating even more than what
11:21 he's actually doing right now. So I understand why McFarlane's team had to
11:26 do away with part of the cape at least so the figure could sit down. It cheats
11:29 in a way in order to get the job done. Still though I wish that on the bottom
11:33 of the throne they could have added some additional sculpting of the cape so it
11:37 does look like while he's kind of still levitating above his seat it still looks
11:41 like at least there's a cape underneath it. Now of course while I love the look
11:45 of the spawn I think honestly I might say I like the throne a little bit more
11:49 because when you're looking at it it boy does it ever really resonate with all
11:53 the cool sculpting that they had in there in the first place. I can see
11:55 things like tires. I can see things like parts of a motorbike from what I can see
11:59 at least some spikes, some bones, some spinal cords. It's all there and it was
12:04 really all there when we looked at the first one before but it seems to look a
12:07 lot nicer here with a sketched edition. Now I get it not everyone's gonna love
12:10 these sketched edition. Some may just say it was a cheap way to use a repaint of
12:15 an existing mold and I certainly get that but what I do like is that at least
12:19 they approached this line knowing exactly well what it was supposed
12:22 to be. It wasn't just a case that we took an existing colored spawn maybe we made
12:26 a bloodied version or they made them just you know slightly darker colors and
12:30 they just released it again. They at least saw there's a potential to release
12:34 this essentially as it would have looked before colorist would have gone and
12:37 colored the pages and the result is really quite nice. Big thank you once
12:42 again to the folks over at McFarland toys that did provide this sample of the
12:45 spawn with throne sketched gold label edition version that we had the chance
12:49 to have a look at this review. Have you guys been collecting any of the sketched
12:52 edition characters? If you have which figures do you have in your collection
12:55 right now? Could you guys also see yourselves wanting to pick up this set
12:58 that has the spawn and the throne in black and white? Let me know what you
13:01 think down below in the comment section. Also as well if you guys enjoyed this
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13:07 and you would like to certainly stick around for more. We will be by the way
13:10 looking at some more McFarland toys and specifically we will also be looking at
13:13 some more spawn figures in upcoming reviews but if you haven't had enough of
13:17 your fix and you certainly would like to check out more, popping up also at the
13:20 very end this video will be a playlist of other spawn reviews that I've done
13:23 and other reviews I've done for McFarland toys so check those out if you
13:27 have a little bit of time on your hands. Of course as always guys thanks for
13:29 watching, see you guys next time!
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