McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse McFarlane Digital Silver Age Green Lantern
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00:00in brightest day in blackest night with classic comic covers in sight here's a
00:06look at McFarland toys McFarland toys digital the classic green lantern
00:30Hal Jordan is arguably the greatest green lantern valiant honest and able to
00:41conquer great fear he battled threats alien and terrestrial implementing
00:45unyielding willpower through a ring able to create constructs of anything he
00:48could imagine part of an intergalactic police force he patrolled space sector
00:522814 tasked with protecting all life sector 2814 may have had Hal for a while
00:58we had to wait a little bit longer from Todd's team though to be fair we did
01:01technically get ourselves a Hal Jordan we've got a couple of them one that
01:04comes to my mind is the one that got packed along with the Batman from Earth
01:0732 I'll bring those in for comparison sake no this is the classic duds of
01:11Silver Age Green Lantern one of my favorite things about this figure is it
01:14does kind of remind me of the cosmic DC cosmic cards remember those there was
01:18the Golden Age Silver Age and modern age of each of the characters still have
01:22those cards sitting somewhere up in my office but though back to Hal Jordan
01:25here this big version of the figure is gonna stand about six and a quarter
01:28inches in height or a Silver Age Hal Jordan is 17 centimeters tall that
01:34already mentioned Hal Jordan just happens to be this one here this version
01:37of Hal Jordan again came in clue with the Batman from Earth 32 not a bad at a
01:41time not a bad still Hal Jordan if you like the look of the more modern take of
01:46the Green Guardsmen then this is a perfect Hal Jordan to have in your
01:48collection he also Ted technically get as well the same mold get used again for
01:52the DC vs. vampires version of Hal Jordan and as well this body has been
01:57used as well for the Jon Stewart release of him here's also what the figure works
02:00looks with more some classic costume characters first of all here's what he
02:04looks like with the Batman's the nightfall Batman here's also what he
02:07looks like with the digital release Batman from the DC Rebirth line and again
02:11a couple of standing characters one that I will be displaying though along with
02:14Green Lantern here's all as well what the figure looks like with more a
02:17classic firestorm so Jordan get stuff let's look at that stuff right now the
02:21figure first of all comes include with a circular display stand normally would
02:24be the case that would have the DC logo branded down below but because this is
02:27part of the McFarlane toys digital line which we'll talk more about why it's
02:30part of the digital line it does have now the digital stamping there on the
02:33front you can see there on the side the McFarlane logo and then on the other
02:37side of course McFarlane toys digital up to the corner of that though there's a
02:40peg that can plug into either one of Jordan's boots you only have one peg but
02:44you have two feet so you have to choose which feet which foot you want to peg
02:47on to the display stand mentioning though the fact that this is part of the
02:50McFarlane toys digital you get yourself a card the card doesn't look like it's
02:54really doing much of anything on the front but if you look around to the back
02:56though the McFarlane toys digital card has an authentication code which I'll
03:00scratch off in a second all you really have to do is go to www.mtd.gg to
03:05download the McFarlane toys digital viewer app for your Mac or your PC
03:08scratch the above which I will be doing in second to reveal your one-time use
03:13code and then create your account and login and then use redeem code in the
03:16left panel of the screen and follow the instructions in the pop-up window
03:20basically gives you the chance as well to see all these digital artwork pieces
03:23online let's go ahead I'm just gonna grab myself my knife I'm gonna scratch
03:27away I will I have no real plans to actually use these codes myself if you
03:32guys are interested though I'm gonna scratch away the code maybe do it in
03:35such a way that I'm not gonna be scratching off all the actual numbers
03:38themselves but I'm gonna scratch this all off you guys can use that number for
03:42yourself MJ BG M ZED 2 Q L S F G 5 D H anybody that's not currently looking at
03:50the screen is probably wondering what exactly this guy's reciting off but
03:53that's your code right there your authentication code you can use that
03:55online and unlock it that way we're just gonna move the card off to the side the
04:00figure all as well comes included with the trading card I like this trading
04:03card although I'm not sure I like as much the face like the overall image
04:07looks good but the face seems a little off-putting it almost looks almost kind
04:10of looks a little more like Robin than it does Hal Jordan on the back though it
04:14does have that same image so if you weren't a big fan of the way it looked
04:17on the front you'll probably be not as big of a fan or as equal of an less
04:21interested fan to see the same image in the top corner there's a paragraph read
04:25you can read for yourself also right at the beginning this review so I saved
04:28yourself a little bit of time because obviously sometimes the guy behind the
04:31camera does talk a little too much so I saved yourself at least the time of
04:35having to read the card gets himself a whole bunch of pretty cool constructs I
04:39guess the first thing that we'll have a look at is the figure comes in clue with
04:42his lantern it would seem so out of place if Hal Jordan didn't come in clue
04:46with a green lantern unfortunately though the thing that I don't I'm not a
04:49big fan of though with the lantern is the material that they've used if I could
04:52best describe and I'm gonna be doing a lot of best describing as in the
04:56descriptions of this video if I could best describe this lantern it's like a
04:59very cheap thick gummy not the gummies that you would go to a variety store and
05:04pick those up in a bag no I mean like if you go to I want to say like a dollar
05:08store and if you get the really cheap gummies you know the ones that you're
05:11you're chewing on and you feel like you're chewing on a winter tire for your
05:14car it's that kind of tough gummy it's got a little bit of give to it but the
05:18handle is so super thick that's kind of really hard to get him to hold it in his
05:21hand he has by the way too close fist for the hands he has one relaxed hand
05:26but then he only has one hand to do the job and it's this gripping hand here the
05:30hand isn't the easiest to fit around the handle obviously it also helps as well
05:34if you get it facing the right way so let's just should I probably just change
05:37it in his hand okay let's do that first we'll put that off to the side the
05:41figure comes first of all with a relaxed hand I wanted to kind of keep the way he
05:44was in the packaging and then kind of dismantle stuff on him and show you guys
05:47how you change the hands gets himself basically relaxed and which is fine and
05:50good we just remove these hands from the provided pegs and then swap it out with
05:54the gripping hand he only has one gripping hand which I guess makes sense
05:57that if they choose to have the hand with him holding on this side with a
06:00lantern the other hand obviously is gonna have the actual ring so that's
06:04probably one of the reasons why they only give you one gripping hand but to
06:07take your lantern you have to kind of pride in between his fingers now remember
06:11I did say earlier though there we go remember I did say earlier I was gonna
06:14do a lot of comparisons of what these things feel like to me I mentioned that
06:18the lantern feels a little bit like a really tough cheap gummy I mean that's
06:21not selling necessarily the the lantern short that's just a material that they
06:25decided to use but it does feel sort of like a really dense hard to chew you're
06:28gonna break your teeth if you're not too careful really cheap gummy further
06:33describing things though by the way this is what he looks like with the lantern
06:35in his hand again the handle being so thick like this it's not the easiest
06:39thing to get in his hand but he holds it decently once it's in there removing it
06:43for right now at least the other thing I wanted to describe though is the
06:47material that they've used for the figure I know there's still obviously
06:49the constructs down here I'm gonna get to that more in a moment the plastic and
06:53the only reason why I'm talking about this right now is just it reminded me
06:55when I was looking at his hands the hands as well as the rest of the figure
06:59that would connect to the hands feels like candied mints if you ever go to
07:03like a fast-food place like a Mandarin or Chinese restaurant for example they
07:07kind of give you that takeaway mint you know it's kind of usually in a basket
07:09they give you the prongs the tongs they hand you one because obviously they
07:13want you touching those especially if you've gone to use the washroom and you
07:15haven't washed your hands I'm always one to wash my hands but I frequently see
07:20some people just walking up from the stalls and they just like look in the
07:22mirror and then they walk out the door those are the people that you don't want
07:26to have touching the big community basket of mints anyways though it kind
07:30of reminds me of candied mints just the kind of material it doesn't feel like
07:33regular DC multiverse plastic I'm gonna come back to that though more in a
07:37moment the other thing that the figure comes included with those is closed fist
07:41which again would be just the one that swaps out on this side so there's a lot
07:44of stuff that goes on this side very little that goes on this side just
07:47because again like his hands gonna also have the ring the ring by the way though
07:50is nicely painted just get to the constructs already the hand though is
07:55nicely molded with as you can see there the ring there's a little bit of paint
07:58bleed I think I can see on the side of the finger but overall the ring looks
08:02good all right let's look at the constructs the constructs that come
08:05included howler kind of very similar to one another they are just basically orbs
08:09of energy he constructs a whole lot less other than just basically balls of fire
08:14the the way they've sculpted these look really good they look almost like they
08:18would be using the same mold until you start to kind of dissect each of them
08:22individually and you notice that some of the mountain peaks don't quite match the
08:26peaks that are on the other side so they're a little bit different from one
08:28another and I've dropped that one I do want to bring also the one that came in
08:31clue with the Batman from earth 32 2-pack it's a very similar design this
08:35one here as you can see has almost like the Green Lantern ring on the inside I
08:39think that's just the way it see there yeah there's a peg around the inside so
08:42you basically would have to commit to the idea of just removing the hands
08:45completely from the forearms if you wanted to use this construct instead you
08:48could still go use it I mean it's just a case of sliding this up his arm here
08:52but it's a little bit more closer in quarters it just seems like the holes a
08:55little bit smaller but if you wanted to you could also use that with how these
08:58don't really require any bit of disassembly of hands providing though
09:02that you are using the closed fist which I don't happen to be using on this side
09:05so let's quickly fix that you could in theory use this hand but it's not gonna
09:09quite fit on there I mean it fits but then it feels like it's really tight but
09:13if you wanted to you could use that hand also as well so maybe we'll just leave
09:16them on for the time being and he also has these energy constructs which look
09:19good looks good nice translucency of the green plastic obviously that they've
09:23used there as well it looks really good though with the figure hard thing about
09:27this though is I'll probably just end up displaying the figure with one of
09:30them and then have the other hand literally on the other hand holding the
09:33lantern itself it's removing this for at least right now we'll put that off to
09:37the side talking already about the fact that the plastic feels a little bit
09:40different I mean the figure hands the head sculpt starting things first is
09:44fantastic if again you weren't a big fan of the original Green Lantern Hal
09:48Jordan which again we'll just bring back in here for comparison sake yeah again
09:51nothing wrong with really the figure itself that original classic more modern
09:55take for how it was a fine figure and it still continues to be a fine figure I
09:58gotta say here here's the old guy talking in the room right now oh god get
10:02off my front property lawn this old guy loves classic looking costumes so this
10:07old guy actually likes the idea that Green Lantern Hal Jordan is actually
10:11sporting more a classic looking Green Lantern suit if you like the modern take
10:15that's all power to you if you like the way he looks like in this figure it's a
10:18still a good figure I still like more just the suit itself to look less
10:23complicated where it doesn't have to have necessarily so much stuff going on
10:26here I mean he's made of an energy suits or I guess in this case would you just
10:30be winner no he wouldn't be wearing a regular energies you you'd have a suit
10:33basically would come over top of his body as he used in summon the ring but
10:36this just kind of takes the idea and complicates the matters I just don't
10:39feel like always superheroes need to have overly busy like suits that have so
10:44many panel lines for example all over them if that's your thing that's the
10:48stuff that you like again all the power to you but for me I love the look of
10:52this with this Green Lantern first of all the face the head sculpt kind of
10:55gives us just more hope the idea that nothing always has to be doom and gloom
10:58you can't have just a very happy looking Green Goblin Green Goblin Green
11:02Lantern here with a nice big smile it's not like a very obnoxious you know big
11:06smile but it's just enough to kind of get the idea that Hal's enjoying what he
11:10does for life he he doesn't have to worry about suffering and going to his
11:13job and just hating his job every day there's other things that you could find
11:16joy in when it comes to your work the head sculpt looks good I think the
11:19coloring also looks good as well I think one thing I think they've done
11:22really nice is the way they've painted the eyes the eyes I feel really pop
11:26against the backdrop of the green for his mask hair sculpted really well is
11:29also the only thing I would say my takeaway for what would almost be a
11:33perfect figure from head to toe is the way they handled the neck clearly is the
11:38case that they've molded the face here in all plastic so obviously keeping the
11:41colors pretty light on the skin tone would be easy to do the problem comes
11:45though is that they decided to mold the body in a different color of plastic and
11:48then they've tried to go in there and replicate the neck to match the same
11:51skin tone you can clearly see though that poor house got a dirty neck doesn't
11:56match at all it's a shame really because like I said from head to what will be
12:01his toes everything for the rest of the figure looks really good very clean also
12:05the way they've done the emblem there on the front of his body now obviously with
12:08this one there's a variations that Hal has had his suit over the years in the
12:11comics sometimes he's also had shoulder pieces in the green there as well but
12:14this is basically just a strip of green down the middle and then he's got the
12:17black there off to the sides the white painted nicely there too there's no
12:21real there's no problems usually like if they always have to kind of paint a
12:24glove sometimes you'll see a little bit of bleed sometimes you'll see like a
12:28little bit of a jagged unstraight line but this is clean this is sharp this is
12:32precise of course you got the lantern you got the ring there on the end of his
12:35finger there as well yeah oh no it's a it's a really good green lantern it's
12:39just strange really that the plastic feels a little off to me like a candy
12:42mint here's what it looks like by the way on the back of his body the trunks
12:46by the way are using a different material and I think from what I'm
12:50seeing here at least the top part that is actually green matches pretty close
12:54I mean it's it's not quite perfect but I think it's more perfect for the top of
12:58his torso to match the trunks than it is for his head to match the neck which
13:01clearly isn't the same color for the figures articulation though Hal Jordan
13:04from Silver Age has the head that rotates on a ball joint so it rotates
13:08quite freely all the way around you can have the head looking up down back and
13:11forth and again full rotation their shoulders come out easily beyond the
13:15point of 90 degrees you take the arms or rotate them all the way around in
13:18both sides figure does have a swivel in his bicep so that's good to see figure
13:22also has possessed a double hinge on his elbow hands rotate all the way around
13:26the upper torso is gonna be on a ball joint the lower abdomen area is also on
13:30a ball joint legs split out they seem to be on ratcheted joints the legs move
13:34forward they move back they swivel at the top of the thigh would you believe
13:39as well the figure does have a double hinge on the knee I'm not fooling you
13:41either no articulation no articulation so this is basically all just one piece
13:45and then they just would have gone in there meticulously and painted the lower
13:49half of the boots ankle pivot back and forth ankle rocker this way as well and
13:54the figure does have some decent toe articulation to this is one of those
13:57things that may divide the kind of collectors out there if you're kind of
14:00me like myself and stuck in the past this guy needs to move on and look to
14:04the future this guy's stuck in the past digs the idea of a classic looking
14:07costume and for me this is the kind of Green Lantern I've always really wanted
14:11not to say again that the original Green Lantern that we got wasn't a bad figure I
14:16just think it's overly busy doesn't always have to be the case that you have
14:20to over complicate suits this is something that they're notoriously bad
14:23for doing in the movies they take a suit and they give it so many panel lines and
14:27it's made up of usually little tiny shapes that are of that specific
14:30character let's hold on a second I'm just gonna give myself a display stand
14:33here yeah well you may like that look of Green Lantern I still think it's a good
14:37looking figure I've always really kind of wanted a more classic look to the
14:40character and now we got one with the Silver Age release of Hal Jordan figure
14:43looks good he's got some decent level of posability and obviously he's got quite
14:47a lot of accessories to him the only thing I would probably have said is
14:50looking at this figure I kind of wish in a way he could have come in clue with a
14:52flight stand but though I don't think though looking back on it if it meant
14:57that I had to sacrifice say one of these for example for a flight stand or dare I
15:00even say I had to replace the tough gummy bear lantern in favor of a flight
15:05stand I can always just grab a flight stand from other things that I've gotten
15:08from the DC multiverse line I there's many figures that have come released
15:11with flight stands I could just easily use one of those yeah if you haven't had
15:15the chance to pick up this figure or even if you have had the chance to pick
15:17up this figure and you've always kind of really wanted a more classic take to
15:20Jordan this is the best one going around right now
15:23Silver Age Hal Jordan succeeds in doing something that I feel the DC multiverse
15:27line as a whole has kind of struggled with for the first few years of his
15:30existence giving us a said character that isn't gonna then be replaced by the
15:34next thing and that next thing happens quite often with the frequency in which
15:38Todd and his team are producing all these DC multiverse figures there's
15:41always gonna be another Batman there's always gonna be another Superman but
15:45will there always be a Superman that you could look on the shelf and say I can't
15:49see myself ever replacing you now for a while I had the modern version of Green
15:53Lanterns Hal Jordan the one that got packed along with the Batman Earth 32
15:56and for a while it was a fine stand in how but I was sort of in the back of my
15:59mind I was kind of keep hoping holding out hope that eventually we would come
16:03around and we would start getting kind of classic inspired characters hey just
16:07I'm sorry I'm the old guy here unfortunate kind of looking at the way
16:09these characters look at like how Jordan here for example this is the how that I
16:13would have read in the comics as a kid growing up so for me this is something
16:17that's a little more up my alley it's not to say that I don't like the other
16:20stuff that Todd and his team are producing but with a lot of times the
16:23multiverse is sort of more centric around mini mini verse or comic mini
16:27runs so if you don't know the source material you might just pass on the
16:30character altogether I'm thinking in a character like this this version of how
16:34Jordan I feel has more timeless look to him could he ever be replaced I mean I
16:38can't even say right now as a definitive guarantee that he's never gonna be
16:41replaced by something else but I feel like this being the way that he should
16:44have always really looked from day one and that it was fine and good to kind of
16:48do the comic mini run characters but I think on a side thing and to be honest I
16:52think Todd's done a good job now to kind of add a little bit of the classic and a
16:56little bit of the modern with what they're doing with the DC multiverse
16:59figures that it does cater not only just to the niche collectors out there that
17:02know that specific comic run or they they're just collecting anything and
17:06everything that's coming out or more to the the older collectors out there that
17:10just for a while have been screaming look can we just get some classic
17:13looking characters and I think that's now been answered here with the silver
17:16age Hal Jordan the accessories I think could probably have used a little bit of
17:20work I mean giving him just two basic this almost the same simple shaped orbs
17:24on either side of his arms they probably could have done something a little bit
17:26more creative but the fact that the figure at least comes include the
17:29constructs and as well the lantern it's not something that you really tend to
17:33see a whole lot with the multiverse figures you tend to get maybe one
17:36accessory and two swappable hands this guy considering he is a McFarlane toys
17:39digitally not exclusive but a digital release I would have just expected this
17:44guy to have maybe a pair of interchangeable hands the lantern and
17:47that was probably about it but the fact he also has these extra little things
17:50whether I decide to display them with him or not I'm just glad the fact that
17:53they actually packed it along with the character could this ever got this guy
17:57ever be replaced down the road maybe but I think for right now I'm pretty
18:00confident with the idea that this is gonna be my go-to Hal Jordan moving
18:04forward what do you guys think of the figure let me know down below in the
18:06comment section you know here here's something I want to throw out to you
18:09guys you guys can digest it and let me know when it comes to the stuff that
18:13we're getting from the multiverse line do you like more the fact that that what
18:16McFarlane is doing is kind of doing the mini comic run characters which again
18:20like you would have to know the source material or again you could just like
18:22the design or do you also hope that they're also gonna be doing a lot more
18:25kind of definitive Silver Age characters and I hope the trend will continue
18:29there's also a Silver Age Aquaman we will be looking at him in an upcoming
18:32review but yeah continue the trend like this like a Joker a Batman a Superman a
18:37Wonder Woman I think keeping the idea like this could cater to two types of
18:42collectors one again like the collectors are gonna collect everything and one
18:45more just the specific collectors that are all gonna be only picking out
18:49certain characters over others I think this is the kind of how Jordan that may
18:52might be right up their alley good news though is if you guys are interested to
18:56get the Silver Age Green Lantern Hal Jordan for yourself he's available right
18:58now either in stores or online I happen to order this one online but what do
19:02you guys think of the figure let me know down below if in the meantime you guys
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