McFarlane Toys DC Mulitverse McFarlane Collectors Edition Mr Terrific
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00:00Holt may have one of the sharpest minds, but does he have one of the sharpest looking figures?
00:05Here's a look at the McFarland Toys DC Multiverse McFarland Collector's Edition Mr. Terrific.
00:31The pre-Flashpoint Michael Holt lost his wife in an accident and was visited by the Spectre,
00:36who told him about the Golden Age Mr. Terrific, Terry Sloan.
00:39That inspired Holt to become a superhero and continue the Mr. Terrific legacy.
00:43He became the chairman of the Justice Society of America and developed a friendly rivalry with Batman.
00:48In an ironic twist, the post-Flashpoint Michael Holt was captured by the Earth-2's Mr. Terrific, Terry Sloan,
00:54when he was stranded in that reality.
00:56I'm sure it won't be long before this guy gets surrounded by spheres.
00:59So let's act quick and take the tape measure and see how tall the McFarland Collector's Edition Justice Society of America
01:05Mr. Terrific stands.
01:07I'm not even sure how I'm going to get that all in the title.
01:09I'll worry about that later, though.
01:10In the meantime, though, the tape measure is going to tell us that Mr. Terrific is going to stand at six and three-quarters of an inch in height,
01:16translating, though, to a figure that's 17 centimeters tall.
01:20And as for competing IQs, he apparently kids all the time with the Caped Crusader.
01:24So let's bring in the Nightfall example of that.
01:26Initially, though, I did think that the Nightfall Batman was going to be using at least some of the mold for Mr. Terrific.
01:31Apparently, I wasn't using my own intellect.
01:33It turns out, though, that Mr. Terrific is in fact using the same body as not only both Booster Gold and also Blue Beetle.
01:40You can probably see the indicators down below as well when it comes to the boot cuffs,
01:43as he has that little line along the top that was used more so here for the Blue Beetle.
01:47He doesn't share at all, though, the body, but I never get the chance to bring this guy in as well.
01:51Here's what the figure looks like with Deadman.
01:53Oh, it's not just orbs that come in clue with Mr. Terrific.
01:55In fact, the figure comes with more.
01:57First, he does come in clue with a display stand.
01:59Other than really just having now the silver DC logo down below,
02:02it's pretty much the same stand as we always go to the DC multiverse figures.
02:08Stop that.
02:09The figure does also come in clue with a trading card.
02:11On the side, it does say McFarlane Collector's Edition.
02:14I know I'm probably already stating the obvious for anyone that has their eyes currently open.
02:17You can probably see as well some of the T-orbs that are floating around the figure.
02:21He doesn't have a jacket on, though, in the picture.
02:24You could also really take the jacket off also on the figure,
02:26which is kind of really one of the big issues I have with him.
02:29On the back, though, of the card, it gives us a good meaty read-up.
02:32Now, you can either pause and read this for yourself,
02:34or you can also just know as well, use your own IQ.
02:37I've already done that at the beginning of this review, and I beat you to it.
02:40Good-looking card, though. Let's move that off to the side.
02:43Now, Mr. Terrific, again, does come in clue with all these orbs.
02:46Now, the orbs themselves do attach mostly around his arms,
02:49or they attach as a replacement hand.
02:51Generally, though, in the comics, and usually in the cartoons, too,
02:54Mr. Terrific generally is depicted by having the orbs kind of surrounding the top of his torso.
02:58Unfortunately, though, the figure doesn't have a means to do that.
03:01One of the things, though, he does come included with, first of all,
03:03is a swappable hand that has one of his T-orbs.
03:06It's painted well.
03:08You can see that not only did they take the time to paint the top here,
03:11but also at the back here, an area where they didn't really feel the need to paint at all,
03:15they still went in there with a paintbrush. I do appreciate that.
03:18The hand itself can be swapped out with only the hand on this side.
03:22He already has a gripping hand on this side,
03:24even though he really doesn't have anything to really grip.
03:27He doesn't have a stand-alone orb.
03:29Even if he did, that would be the first thing I'm sure I would lose.
03:31Just take the hand, detach it from the arms, there we go,
03:35and then we'll just go ahead and replace the hand accordingly.
03:38I don't know if it's just me, though.
03:40Does the peg seem small? I don't know.
03:43They may have made it deliberately small like this just so it accommodates the hand,
03:47but obviously, popping the new hand in place,
03:50it does look like he's got really scrawny wrists.
03:53I have really scrawny wrists.
03:55The figure does also come included with two other versions of the orbs.
03:59Getting the stand, first of all.
04:02One of the orbs happens to be ones that are connecting together.
04:05Connecting the two together, you can see they're using a translucent blue plastic.
04:10They're probably stretchy as well. This is a pretty pliable plastic.
04:13You don't have to worry about these breaking at all.
04:15You can see the orbs themselves.
04:17Essentially, what they've done is they just molded this entire thing in blue plastic
04:20and then gone back in there and painted the orbs individually in the silver.
04:23They look good.
04:25There's a clip right here, so you can probably already see where this is going.
04:28You basically just roll up the sleeve. Not yours, the figure.
04:31Roll up the sleeve and just basically clip that around his wrist like that.
04:35That's all you really need to do.
04:37The one last thing he also comes from the orb variety is that he has somewhat of a shield.
04:42Again, I don't know why this guy... There we go.
04:44Is he going to stand?
04:46The figure does also come included with this orb sphere, this shield kind of thing.
04:51It's all done here, again, in translucent blue plastic.
04:53The orb in the middle, though, as you can see, is kind of pulsating,
04:56making this projection of shield around it.
04:59I don't really like the way it attaches onto the figure's body.
05:02It kind of works the same way with a clip piece.
05:05You just basically, again, roll the sleeve up.
05:08You can either clip it on his wrist that way.
05:10Maybe that's one of the reasons why they use a slightly smaller peg.
05:13You can either use it as sort of like a Captain America shield,
05:16or you can also clip it around this way.
05:20Don't pinch the plastic cape, whatever you do, the plastic jacket.
05:23You can almost even use it like he's using a disc.
05:27It loses, obviously, some of the illusion when you see it from the inside like this.
05:31I wish there was maybe a better way.
05:33Maybe had the clip been...
05:35Not that they would have had to have added an extra piece so this could have swiveled inward.
05:39I just don't know if I really like it.
05:41I mean, it comes more across like a shield, which I guess maybe is the intended plan for it.
05:45I would have rather it be something that he could have actually attached onto the end of his hand as an example instead.
05:50Anyways, let's just put that off to the side.
05:52As for the figure itself, he does also come included with two other swappable face plates.
05:57I beelined it back to the original defaulted head that he comes out of the packaging with,
06:00basically just a neutral expression of Mr. Terrific.
06:03If you don't like that look and would like to have something a little bit more with characteristics,
06:07then, of course, the personality on this face is a little bit better.
06:09The eyes are about the same.
06:11The mouth is now open and basically all you really need to do...
06:16All you really need to do is just pry the face off.
06:19Why are you laughing so much? You'll see in a second.
06:21Just pry the face off here and just remove it.
06:26Now, I guess what they ended up doing was, if you look at the inside of this,
06:29they contoured the interior of his mouth, I guess, to match the inside of his head.
06:35But with removing it like this, it looks like it's a cyclops that wants to get a kiss.
06:42It looks disturbing.
06:44Let's just get rid of that right away.
06:46When you're basically putting the head back in place, there's a peg at the top.
06:49There's a larger peg below that, and that just attaches onto the front of his face.
06:54Looks good. I actually like this one a little bit more than the defaulted.
06:57But if you like a little bit more exaggeration,
06:59then the figure does also come included with this head sculpt here.
07:02Now, again, if you change the head out,
07:04we're, first of all, going to have to face the alien face again.
07:08Interestingly enough, though, when you pop the new head in place,
07:12maybe this is, again, the reasoning why they decided to sculpt this part of his face.
07:16Because now that the mouth is open, you'll notice that the mouth goes all the way through.
07:21It's like getting that girl that got shot in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.
07:24Oh, no, that was in her head. It wasn't really in her mouth.
07:26You can see, though, that the hole goes straight through that.
07:29And, again, that's probably one of the reasons why they sculpted the face that it did.
07:32So it ends up giving him a tongue, which looks good for the part,
07:36but it looks so strange, obviously, when you take the face off.
07:39I think I probably will just end up either displaying the figure either with this head sculpt
07:43or maybe even going with this one, as there's certainly a little bit more personality,
07:47a little more personality than the defaulted look.
07:51As for the rest of the figure, now, underneath the jacket,
07:54if we were to pull away everything, and let's just bring back in a blue beetle,
07:58you can see that it seems to be the exact same body.
08:01Same abdomen, same arms, same, obviously, lower legs.
08:04The only thing that's different, though, is blue beetle had to have a sculpted belt.
08:07Mr. Terrific doesn't need that at all.
08:09But the telltale sign really is the boots.
08:11See at the top of the band there in the black?
08:14It basically just gets painted over completely with the black and the white.
08:18I'll tell you one thing, though, I'm a little worried about when it comes to this figure.
08:21I like the look of him. I'm not so crazy, though, about the jacket.
08:24Not that they haven't done a good enough job on it.
08:26I mean, look at even the interior of the jacket.
08:28It looks like they've really done a nice enough job of tailoring this.
08:31My issue really comes with more of the material.
08:35It would be hard to describe this.
08:37I don't want to say it's faux leather,
08:39but it's sort of got a plasticky leather feel to it
08:43that I would know over time, just my assumption at least,
08:46that this would probably start to flake, start to crack, start to split.
08:49And I just don't know the longevity of a jacket like this.
08:53I get that it adds a little bit more of a premium look and feel to it
08:57in the same way, really, that the fabric capes do that with now the other caped characters.
09:01But unfortunately, though, I feel like certain characters didn't need to have this.
09:05Captain Boomerang also had a very similar issue as well.
09:08They essentially just basically gave him a fabric jacket over top,
09:11and what I usually just end up doing with Captain Boomerang,
09:13I just take the jacket off altogether.
09:15I actually would rather have liked to have the jacket on Mr. Terrific
09:18because I think it completes his look.
09:20For me, at least, in my own honest opinion,
09:22I would have rather preferred this just being molded in plastic.
09:26So sculpting this just to his torso,
09:28and I know, again, it loses the illusion of it,
09:30but I would have rather if they had just sculpted the jacket sleeve as part of his arm
09:34and just made it all completely plastic.
09:37It's the look that I would have rather, first of all,
09:39because, I mean, even again, you can always just, again, take the jacket off,
09:42but the jacket does give something to the character of Mr. Terrific.
09:45I just don't... I worry about the material. That's it.
09:48Also something, too, is going back to the idea of the floating orbs on the top,
09:52which is something that, unfortunately, they couldn't do clearly
09:54just because, again, like, jackets over top of it.
09:56Had they, yes, molded this all in plastic,
09:59I mean, obviously, they would have given it away with a hole on the back of his body,
10:02but had they put a hole right here,
10:04you could have attached, like, two floating orbs on either side of Mr. Terrific's body.
10:09I would have rather that than have to worry, again,
10:11about material like this splitting over time.
10:14For the figure's articulation, though, going back to Mr. Terrific's head sculpt,
10:17which looks a lot nicer now that we actually know where that tongue belongs.
10:21Head's going to rotate all the way around.
10:23It goes up. It goes up.
10:25Oh, there it goes. There goes the face again.
10:28Pop the head back in place.
10:29Head's going to look down.
10:30That's going to happen from time to time when you're dealing with Mr. Terrific like this.
10:33I mean, any figure that has removable faces,
10:35when you start to kind of manhandle the faces the way that I'm manhandling the faces,
10:39sometimes they pop off in the process.
10:41Head's going to rotate back, or rock back and forth,
10:44and, again, it's going to rotate all the way around.
10:46The figure's upper torso is going to be on a ball joint.
10:48So, if, again, you're familiar with both Booster Gold and Blue Beetle,
10:51it's going to be the exact same format.
10:53Lower abdomen area is also going to be on a ball joint.
10:55That's going to rotate quite freely.
10:57The arms, I will say, to at least the credit of the fabric,
10:59it gives you a lot of room to work with.
11:02So the arms can move easily forward and easily back.
11:04Nothing feels tight at all to this, whether I like that material or not.
11:07There's a swivel there at the bicep, a double hinge on the elbow,
11:10and hands rotate all the way around.
11:12Mr. Terrific's lower legs do split out on ratcheted joints, after all.
11:15I don't know why that looks like a cat's face, a little cat's head.
11:18Meow, meow, meow.
11:20The legs go, yes, forward. They also go back as well.
11:22There's a swivel there at the top of the thigh.
11:24Double hinge on the knee.
11:26And clearly, though, I mean, obviously, when you start to bend the knees,
11:28it's going to break up and lose some of the illusion of having a single strand,
11:32a single layer of black paint on the one side,
11:35because you're now going to start to see the white underneath.
11:37But there's really no way around that.
11:39Then, of course, you've also got yourself your ankle pivot.
11:41Your ankle rocker.
11:43And Mr. Terrific, yes, does.
11:45He's the smartest guy around, knows his wallet smart enough to have toe articulation.
11:48The figure does have that as well.
11:50Mr. Terrific is a nice-looking figure.
11:52He was going for some crazy, crazy money online.
11:54I don't know why he was going for as much as he was.
11:56I was seeing this guy selling for as high as $70 to $80.
11:59I wasn't willing to pay that at all.
12:01I think, again, Amazon came through,
12:03and I ended up finding this figure for a decent price,
12:05maybe around $25, maybe around $28.
12:07That's not bad at all.
12:09And when, again, you have this guy displayed
12:11with the likes of, say, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle,
12:13who, again, he happens to be sharing borrowing bodies from,
12:16even though he is using the same body,
12:18he's doing things a lot nicer.
12:20I do like the colors of the white and the black.
12:22I don't want to say he's doing things nicer.
12:24He's doing things his own way.
12:26Speaking of doing things his own way,
12:28one of the things that is doing his own way
12:30is that he's now using a fabric jacket.
12:32I don't really like the material.
12:34I know I've already said it.
12:36I worry about the longevity of that material splitting over time.
12:38The type of pleather material that you know,
12:40direct exposure to sunlight,
12:42just even manhandling and bending the elbows
12:44for long periods of time,
12:46I would imagine, would start to develop splits,
12:48and that's when the cracks all begin.
12:50Other than that, though, I do like the look of Mr. Terrific.
12:52I would have to make the argument
12:54that maybe Mr. Terrific would have benefited better
12:56by having a plastic jacket
12:58molded to the rest of his body.
13:00It loses the illusion,
13:02but it keeps the figure looking this way years from now.
13:04I don't think it was until Justice League Unlimited
13:06that I was introduced to the character of Mr. Terrific.
13:08He appeared in only just a few random episodes.
13:10I think a lot of times he was in the Watchtower,
13:12but Mr. Terrific certainly stood out
13:14as one of the more interesting-looking characters
13:16that were part of the Justice League universe.
13:18His look, though, hasn't changed too much over the years.
13:20It kept kind of the idea that he had himself
13:22like either black and white colors.
13:24Usually when it comes to his jacket,
13:26they were always black and white
13:28with a little bit of red accents,
13:30and they carried that look over here as well to this character.
13:32Generally, though, when I think of Mr. Terrific,
13:34I think of the character with that gray tee on his face.
13:36Now, they chose instead to go with red.
13:38I would imagine, though, that's probably a little bit more accurate
13:40to the current look that he has in the comics.
13:42His look, though, speaking of which,
13:44does involve, again, using a real fabric jacket.
13:46You may like that look
13:48because it gives him more of that premium look
13:50that McFarlane has been doing lately
13:52with the McFarlane toys,
13:54especially as well when it comes to these removable faceplates.
13:56I like the faceplate idea
13:58because it makes things a lot easier,
14:00and from a cost standings,
14:02you can use faceplates rather than entire head sculpts.
14:04It does, though, mean one unfortunate thing.
14:06Well, two problems.
14:08First of all, you're going to be losing those faceplates
14:10a lot easier than you're going to be losing
14:12obviously full-size heads.
14:14And every time, though, that you're going to be changing out the head,
14:16you're going to be experiencing a rather disturbing
14:18sight of a cyclops with a kissy face.
14:20What do you guys, though,
14:22think of Mr. Terrific?
14:24Let me know down below in the comments section.
14:26Do you guys like the idea of these characters having real jackets?
14:28Fabric capes is one thing,
14:30but I think the moment you start to incorporate that into a jacket
14:32that has to have mobility in the arms,
14:34I think that's where you're going to start to have some problems.
14:36But what do you guys think? Let me know.
14:38Let me know.
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