As we’ve seen, Validus is comprised of seven parts, spread out over six figures in the assortment. Don’t forget that Golden Pharaoh didn’t come with a part, Manhunter came with two, and the two Starman figures came with the same leg. You simply snap together the arms, legs, torso, pelvis and head to get your Validus.

He’s a big figure, standing just a tad taller than Darkseid and while the sculpt from the neck down is fairly simple, he’s no less impressive and cool looking. Most of the attention to detail is in his musculature and the two bands around his biceps with the soft plastic tubing. He has a pretty simple color scheme of purple, gray, black and silver, but it really looks great together.

The head is the most impressive part of the figure. The exposed brain under the clear dome looks awesome and disgusting and the sculpting on the jaws is certainly fierce. I especially like that if you look close enough you can see the sculpted closed scars of where his eyes would be.

The articulation is just a bit under what we find in the regular figures. Validus has a ball jointed neck, his arms have ball joints in the shoulders, swivels in the biceps and wrists and hinged elbows. His legs have universal movment in the hips as well as hinged knees and ankles. He also swivels at the waist.

Granted, for me Validus wasn’t one of those, “Oh my god, I have to have him” figures. At least not like Darkseid was. But then Mattel could have had pretty much anyone in the Darkseid Wave and I still would have needed him because I’m a New Gods whore. In this case, Validus was just a nice bonus for completing a Wave of figures that I really wanted, OMAC not withstanding. He’s a really menacing looking figure and he looks great in the back row, towering over the other DCUC figures.