I’m a little short on time today as I’m building some furniture for my den and seeing as how I’ll probably be putting it together while drunk, it’ll likely take me most of the evening. So I’m stopping by with a real quickie today. I made an excursion to TRU today and picked up a bag of goodies, and I’m going to start with one of the figures that I can do justice without having to spill too much electronic ink. Is it Medphyll? Is it Naut Kei Loi? It’s both!!!
Green Lantern Classics package. It’s been a little while since I’ve seen this. I picked up the first wave in one shot and I’ve been dragging my feet on picking up this second wave. I love the packaging, as its basically the DC Universe Classics dipped in a lime slushee. The back panel has the ubiquitous bio blurb and the publication stats for the characters. I consider myself pretty up on my DC Comics trivia, but I was actually surprised to learn that these guys went back so far. Anyway, you’ll note that the package says Medphyll on it and that’s the head that comes attached to the figure. You could also buy this figure with the Naut Kei Loi head attached and with his name on the insert. Yep, just like Low & Maash from the first wave.
The body used here is an absolutely standard and generic Green Lantern buck, with the exception of the forked toes on his feet. The paint is ok and his power ring is sculpted onto his finger. Medphyll’s head is basically a brown cyclopoid stalk of broccoli. Wow, I’m pretty sure I’ve never typed those words in one sentence before! It’s goofy, but it really shows the crazy and creative concepts that DC tries to drum up to convey the diversity of the Green Lantern Corps. Naut Kei Loi’s head is far more complex as you get the head, the cowl and the dome, all of which are three separate pieces. It looks great, and is my favorite of the two, but I have been unable to actually get the head to peg in, which is really disappointing. I’m actually tempted to try to buy the figure packaged to get one with the head already attached.
Unless you count the extra head, the only other thing you get in the package is one of the leg pieces to build the Collect & Connect figure Stel.
Unlike Low and Maash, which had swappable hands as well as heads, Medphyll and Naut Kei Loi’s only have the swappable heads. It still works, but it’s not as impressive or dramatic a change as we saw with Low and Maash. If you’re one of those collectors that wasn’t crazy about this two-figures-in-one concept to begin with I don’t think this one is going to make you any happier about the idea. Next time we’ll check out another one of these combo-style figures that really takes this conceptual gimmick to the next level.
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