NECA Defenders of the Earth Series 2 Lothar the Strongest Man on Earth Figure
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00:00this guy's got the weight of the world on his shoulders and in his hands here's
00:04a look at the neck of toys this is Defenders of the Earth figure number 5
00:06Lothar the strongest man on earth
00:25Lothar is Mandrake's special assistant he is also relied upon by the whole
00:29defender team for his brilliant military genius his specialty plot strategy and
00:33psychological warfare this heavyweight champ is usually calm and cool until
00:37somebody crosses his path then watch out because Lothar's fist can drive
00:41railroad spikes and the evil world shudders Lothar likes to cook the
00:47favorite thing he serves knuckle sandwiches before though we get a closer
00:50look at Lothar the strongest man on earth let's take the tape measure and
00:53see how tall the figure stands yep it was released in 2022 three years too
00:58late looking at this but you know again I found these all in my office I thought
01:01oh wait why why not I'm still waiting for a bunch of things to arrive in the
01:04mail and while I'm waiting for things let's cover off the basis on other
01:07things that we already have been kind of sitting around with let's take though
01:10the tape measure and according to this Lothar is gonna stand at about six and
01:15a half inches in height working out though to be a figure that's about 17
01:18centimeters tall I'll bring in three other defenders of the earth figures
01:21I'll tell you in advance though one of them is imposter the flash Gordon yeah
01:25you already saw my review okay so here's what the figure looks like first of all
01:28with the phantom nice-looking figure I actually kind of like the glue version
01:32of the phantoms just a little bit more because he's got actually striped
01:34trunks here's also what the figure looks like what they recently looked at
01:37Mandrake the magician and ding ding ding here's also what he looks like with
01:40flash Gordon yeah I know I know it this flash Gordon and Ming the merciless I
01:44guess must be stuck in a portal somewhere can't find those either two
01:47figures now this flash Gordon was though part of the Galoob defenders of the
01:51earth although produced by NECA toys for a figure that's three years old Lothar
01:55has done pretty good for himself pretty good although to be fair the majority of
01:59his accessories were already borrowed over from both Mandrake flash Gordon and
02:03the phantom he does have two unique accessories and seems to be also like
02:08each one of these figures seem to have something that's unique to them what
02:11isn't necessarily unique is that he does have on the ends of his arms closed fist
02:15good for punching bad guys you don't like that look one different look
02:17instead well entertain perhaps the idea the figure does also have a gripping
02:21hand for holding the grapple he does also have a trigger hand for holding the
02:24blaster now again like all these hands have already been used before I can't
02:29fault NECA for the fact that they're just reusing the same castings I mean if
02:32you get the most mileage out of it it doesn't matter what color you're casting
02:36the plastic in all the characters gonna be holding the blast of the same way
02:39anyways like I said he does also come included with a blaster shockwave makes
02:44an appearance again transforming in course into the blaster I'm just gonna
02:48bring in Mandrake's but if you have the phantoms and you had also a flash
02:51Gordon's they would all be identical to one another I mean they're they're part
02:55of a team after all they're gonna be issued the same sort of military you
02:58know same sort of tech the guns themselves I do like the way that
03:01they're cast here in I can't tell whether they've actually cast this in a
03:05vac chrome purple plastic or they just simply have gone in there and painted it
03:08metallic either way though the blasters look really neat just be careful it
03:12could be a Decepticon now of course he can't swap out the hands that he has so
03:16just go ahead and wiggle them off the ends of the forums do it on one side and
03:21we'll just put the hand in now obviously they haven't mirror-flipped at any of
03:24these so you'll notice if you have been collecting defenders of the earth figures
03:27and they all happen to have blasters they will all have them basically held
03:30on one side is that one of the requirements you're part of the
03:33defenders of the earth no no if you've read the playbook you'll see that in the
03:36handbook it actually says you have to hold the blaster on this side well what
03:39if I want to hold down this side no you got to be a defender of the earth so
03:43that you have to be on the one side so just let's go ahead and take the hand
03:46just put the post into the into the hole so this is a little more stubborn but of
03:52course you'll get the fix in there once you just twist it a little bit probably
03:55doesn't happen help at all that this humble reviewer happens to be having
03:59some moisturizer on his hands everything is slippery stop that anyways let's go
04:04ahead and remove the hand we'll pop the new hand in place paint flakage may
04:08happen from time to time I thought I had gotten rid of all the paint but looks
04:10like there's some still left behind now the hands are swapped out go ahead and
04:14just take yourself the blaster fit that into his hand boy that's super easy yeah
04:18I probably struggled a little bit more than I needed to but you can see like
04:21yeah if you're a defender of the earth it always have to be on this side if I
04:25want to have it on this side listen this new guy listen this new guy everybody
04:28knows that the blaster has to be on this side one of the other included
04:32accessories is that the figure does also have blast effects now both of these I'm
04:37just gonna bring in Mandrake's are exactly the same standard issue you get
04:41part of the team right and then also he comes with a smaller version now with
04:46these smaller and actually for that matter the larger beam they work the
04:49exact same way so there's a hole on the end of it and just basically plugs on
04:52the end of the nozzle just like that that's all that's really required if you
04:56like the longer beam change the longer beam all it is it basically just a hole
05:00on the bottom of that and then that just plugs in place I am I'm sure I've
05:04certainly said that for the Master of Illusion but Mandrake also did say in
05:08the review that the blast effect I think is one that's also been borrowed over to
05:11a predator does look like a very predator plasma caster you know effect
05:15piece anyways let's just attach that I guess probably will just take the
05:20blaster out of his hand as well here are the unique accessories though that come
05:24include with Lothar one and one of which I'm sure I would lose right away if it
05:27wasn't it wasn't for the fact just took it out of the packaging it does come
05:30include with a tiny little knife it's painted really well you got some silver
05:34on the blade there the actual handles done in a military green it actually
05:38does really nicely match the colorings of his pockets on his vest and the
05:41pockets down below here as well now looking around you're looking in you're
05:46thinking yourself well where's that where's that gun store he's got a
05:48holster on the sides good for holding the blaster but where's everything else
05:51supposed to go ah right here he actually has a holster unfortunately though I
05:55mean it's convenient for him but like for the sake of this being falling out
06:00of his of his pocket you basically would have to sheet the knife upside
06:03down so basically when he needs it he would just pull it out that way it
06:07certainly makes sense that it goes that direction the only thing that kind of
06:10concerns me is that as I'm moving the figure around if I don't happen to pull
06:13this it is pretty securely in there though maybe it won't come out maybe I
06:17maybe I'm just being more paranoid than you know then what's really necessary
06:21but so there's a place at least to store that technically to unlike Mandrake
06:25because Mandrake you know as a magician you're not gonna have a big holster on
06:28the side it loses some of the illusion but also Lothar doesn't care at all
06:32about illusions I mean basically you just take the holster you just take
06:35yourself the blaster and the blaster doesn't really sheath but you can
06:39certainly holster the gun on the side of his leg now one last thing that comes in
06:43clear with the figure is his grapple line I'm just gonna stand here for a
06:47second I really like this quite a lot it actually has a real rope and they've
06:51tied it securely on the top there the cording itself seems quite durable as
06:56well but you can actually take the end of the grapple and the hook opens up
07:00yeah so you can just retract these all they don't lock necessarily in place so
07:06like basically the moment you start to bang it these will basically push back
07:09down but has teeth on the end of it so it looks like it would really securely
07:12attach to something and then Lothar can scale up walls trees wherever he's
07:17climbing up mountainsides as well just watch out for the goats watch out for
07:20the goats and of course you can also take that and that just fits into his
07:24hand now I find it actually instead of you can obviously just pry the plastic
07:29away from the palm you can do it that way you could also take the grapple hook
07:32and just basically fit it down from the top so basically just tuck it down that
07:35way you just would have to contend with the string you don't like to contend
07:39with the string just hold it that way instead really nice look for the
07:42character to have something displayed with him that is unique to him and
07:45doesn't feel like it was just a hand me down from every other figure that we've
07:48already had a look at let's go ahead and take the hook put it off to the side
07:51maybe what we'll do too is we'll just unsheath the knife that's not really the
07:56sound that unsheath knife would make and then basically just take the blaster put
07:59it off to the side getting though a closer look at Lothar it's a nice
08:03looking head sculpt I like the molding of it I can't help but feel like the
08:08head sculpt is squished like I feel like proportionally he looks okay right
08:12around here but I feel like his chin is really short really short maybe it
08:17could have been sculpted a little bit longer again I can't help but feel like
08:21the face is a little squishy other than that though I like the paint that the
08:26expression that they've given his face like he looks like a guy you don't want
08:29to mess around with just doesn't seem like he has there's the term weak chin I
08:35know if anybody's really heard that before basically weak chin is where you
08:37have like a next to nothing chin I knew somebody I had like almost no chin
08:41whatsoever I mean for them just to be able to shave I mean like you're you're
08:45asking so much I mean those hairs have very little surface space to work with
08:48but at a very tiny tiny I wouldn't even what to be fair I would have never said
08:52it to his face but like me I may have said to other people boy this guy's got
08:56a really weak chin and they would also say yeah I know right that guys as long
08:59as I've known him he's always had a really weak chin I don't think that's
09:02something that would just necessarily go away or you know like you would probably
09:06be born with a weak chin and then just progressively as you get older the weak
09:10chin becomes even more apparent why we even talking about weak chins and and by
09:13the way to even though I'm saying this I would never say to the face I guess I
09:16really am saying to the face of Lothar probably not a good idea oh man anyways
09:21yeah the head sculpt is good I just can't help but feel like there's not
09:24much in the way of chin down below here what I do really like though is that he
09:27does also have a vest for what I can also see to the vest is removable what
09:31would only have to be involved is you'd have to probably pop the arms off
09:34because there's obviously no way you'd be able to slide this down his arms but
09:38it doesn't look like it's attached to really anything the vest itself is a
09:41softer plastic it's got some roping there on the side a backpack on the back
09:44it's not removable or anything like that it's basically just molded the rest
09:47of the of the torso piece here it's got some nice pockets of course he has the
09:51sheath there to hold the knife but it yeah if you wanted to I suppose you
09:54probably could just take this off all together underneath though you've got
09:57the Defenders of the Earth symbol Mandrake would not have also had that
09:59and actually come to think of it I don't think any other character for that matter
10:03has had the Defenders of the Earth symbol interesting interesting I do
10:09think it's nicely painted of course you've got the yellow in the background
10:11there gold there for the symbol on the front it's a really nice-looking symbol
10:15though kind of looks very much like flash for the rest of the sculpting
10:18again you've got the bear arms here's short sleeves he's got elbow pads it's
10:22kind of funny though if you're looking at the elbow pads there's no strap I
10:25mean there would have obviously been a strap had there not be a joint here but
10:29with the joint not being painted anywhere in green it does kind of just
10:33look like he takes the elbow pads and sticks them to his elbows I can't
10:36imagine that's doing much in the way of protection I guess it is but then
10:38ripping off on the end of the night I mean that would just be painful got at
10:42least some bands down below as well painting the same similar green it's a
10:45nice silver added there as well yeah lower lower legs as well I mean of
10:49course you got knee pads the knee pads at least make believable sense they're
10:52attached also to his legs he's got the strapping there for the side for the
10:56holster it's a really nice-looking figure I like the greens I like the
10:59grays that they've used as well it's not even just like a straight gray either
11:02kind of looks to be more like a bluish gray the figure does also have it
11:06already mentioned the peg holes on the bombs of his feet that I already
11:08mentioned that I know I didn't mention it I was just testing you guys for the
11:12articulation though for Lothar heads gonna be on a ball joint so it's gonna
11:15rotate all the way around because the way that the actual vest is the colors
11:20far enough away from his head so like there's no problems whatsoever moving
11:23his head around even like rotating the head because he does have the weak chin
11:27sorry sorry because it doesn't look like it's gonna be scraping at all I mean if
11:33even there are scrapes just a little bit I can't imagine it's gonna be doing much
11:37damage to the paint but yeah good good moving head overall the upper torso is
11:41gonna be on a ball joint it's a little bit more limited though just because
11:44you've got the vest all around it the arms rotate all the way around now
11:48Lothar unlike Mandrake can actually pull off a full T pose really because
11:52there's nothing there's nothing getting in the way at all there's enough open
11:54cuts here to the sides of his shoulders yeah I mean easily easily you can rotate
11:59his arms and get that T pose going swivel in the bicep double hinge on the
12:03elbow and the hands rotate all the way around as for Lothar's legs they split
12:08out even though despite having really these long pockets on one side and a
12:12shorter one on the other splitting his egg his legs not eggs his legs seem not
12:17much of an issue at all you take the legs move forward you can move them back
12:21you can swivel up the course at the top of the thigh double hinge on the knee no
12:25issues there either he does have though a swivel in his boots that's one thing
12:28the Master of Illusion couldn't say he had you can rotate his boots till the
12:31cows come home if you want he has an ankle pivot up and down he has an ankle
12:35rocker and the figure does also have toe articulation yeah you know again Lothar
12:39just happens to be I mean if I don't count really the robot the evil robots
12:43Grax was a Grax Lothar is really the last figure that was advertised on the
12:47back of the packaging for Defenders of the Earth even though really again like
12:50I don't have the Flash Gordon I don't know where his whereabouts are right now
12:53I do have certainly Mandrake the Magician because of course we just had a
12:57look at me if I was to lose him now wouldn't blame me don't blame me blame
13:00the Master of Illusion and of course there's also the Phantom Ming the
13:04Merciless and also again the regular version of Flash Gordon would have also
13:07made up this five-figure set and then on top of that they also would have released
13:11Garrix that's the name of the robot Garrix would have also released him but
13:15he wasn't advertised until his card came out so of course we will also be looking
13:19at him in an upcoming review I certainly do think though that Lothar is a nice
13:23looking figure short of maybe having perhaps a bit of a weak chin I think the
13:26head sculpt looks really good the paints really done done well and I do also
13:29really like the fact the figure does come included a grapple hook even if you
13:32don't plan to have a display with the figure why would you want to display it
13:35with the figure you can most definitely board it over and use it with someone
13:37else instead it wasn't for that evil robot Garrix messing up the plastic
13:40packaging originally the Defenders of the Earth ultimate figures listed only
13:43five figures on the back of the packaging but then they updated it and
13:46Garrix was featured there as well if it wasn't for that I could have walked away
13:50saying I figured I finally finished all the five figure reviews though there
13:54obviously was a considerable gap between the first three figures I looked at and
13:57then Mandrake the Magician now like Mandrake the Magician though Lothar the
14:02strongest man on earth was actually was in fact part of the original Galoob
14:051986 Defenders of the Earth toyline unfortunately though like Mandrake as
14:09well NECA didn't seem to release them as part of the retro card backs the only
14:14figures that they have done in the retro cards were the Phantom Flash Gordon and
14:17the Ming the Merciless and Garrix speaking of the evil robot so if you
14:21didn't want to maybe add specifically and only really be collecting the Galoob
14:24toyline you'd have to get then the Master of Illusion Mandrake and you'd
14:27have to get the strongest man on earth Lothar in their ultimate releases
14:30instead now the figure lines if you go back and look the original 86 Galoob
14:34release of Lothar it's not that much different in fact he still has the
14:38grapple hook although the grapple hook back then would have all been cast in
14:41black plastic with just a regular thin cording I think he also came in clue
14:45with a blaster as well but the outfit is very similar looking like this so I
14:48don't think he would stand out of place if he were to only display collectively
14:52if you're only just displaying the Galoob figures I think he would still
14:55work really well on your shelf the thing that's also cool about this figure too
14:57is he has a removable vest overlooking maybe perhaps he's got a pretty weak
15:01chin and he looks a little bit like pop singer songwriter seal I don't know why
15:07now I just can't stop thinking about seal he does also have a removable pack
15:10but I think in order to do all that you're gonna have to detach obviously
15:13the arms you can either go the route of heating it with hot water or just using
15:17the hairdryer trick I don't want to say like 100% I'm signing off on that just
15:21in case somebody ends up breaking their shoulder and they say oh that review
15:24spot guy told me I could remove these shoulders and what did I end up
15:27happening I broke the peg blame him don't know don't don't blame me I mean
15:31it's only a suggestion I honestly like the look of the vest honestly on his on
15:34his outfit just because again like it matches nicely then to the coloring of
15:37his boots and Lothar is all about matching his wardrobe what do you guys
15:41think of Lothar the strongest man on earth does he look a little bit like
15:44seal I think he does we're never gonna survive unless we get a little bit crazy
15:48and I'm sure Lothar can get pretty crazy pretty pretty crazy if you guys did
15:53enjoy this video certainly do it it's all and hit it like you guys wanna stick
15:56around for more so I hope so even though like again we've finished technically on
16:01paper based at least on the packaging of Lothar all five figures but then of
16:05course Garrix had to make his way in there so technically there's six of the
16:09six figure set there wasn't just the five so of course we're gonna be looking
16:11at Garrix Garrix Garrix the evil robot in the upcoming review if you guys again
16:16certainly want to stick around I certainly hope so there's gonna be tons
16:19more videos coming away for the rest of this week as always thanks for watching
16:22see you guys next time