It’s go out drinking night, which is only different from every other night because on this night I actually go out to do it. I’m told it’s good for me, or at least better than doing it home alone. As a result, today I’m going to try to exercise a little more brevity than usual.

I’m pretty sure I told ya that Ram Man wouldn’t be the last time we saw MOTUC around these parts. I’m actually thinking about picking up a few of the Early Access offerings for April, but today’s figure was actually a trade. A friend of mine bought two Frostas, because he was planning on fixing the reversed biceps and he wanted an extra in case he screwed it up. His operation was a success leaving him with an extra figure. I offered to trade, he looked at list of my dupes and to my surprise and delight, he took a white-costumed Mary Batson and Steppenwolf, both from the DCUC, in trade. Let’s see what we’ve got…

After featuring more than 30 of the figures here, what more can I say about the MOTUC packaging? It’s awesome. I love it. The back features a bunch of figures based off the She-Ra side of the fence, including the three Star Sisters. I’ve turned down that set on clearance more times than I can count. One of these days I’m going to crumble, but $20 is my limit. Anyway, I don’t usually bother with the biographies on these figures, but there was something about Frosta’s bio that caught my eye. “With the exception of her magic powers, she is otherwise a normal human female.”  WTF is that supposed to mean? That’s like saying apart from his giant f’cking mechanical elephant head, Snout Spout is just a regular dude. I’m starting to regret not reading more of these. I can’t imagine what other nuggets of wisdom I may have missed out on. Anyway, let’s rip this babe open and check her out.

Right off the bat, I need to applaud T4H on the head sculpt here. Frosta really sports that distinctive look that the Filmation chicks all seemed to have on She-Ra. I can’t put my finger on what it is, but I think it has a lot to do with the eyes and the high cheekbones. Either way, this is a fantastic job on the portrait, assuming Filmation is your bag and not the comics or vintage toy. I am, however, a bit more divided over the use of semi-translucent blue plastic for her hair. That sort of thing works ok when Kotobukiya does it, but it’s a little iffy here. Fortunately, you really need to get her in the light to notice it, so I’m fine with it the way it is.

As with most of the MOTUC female figures, Frosta’s outfit consists of softer plastic layered over the female buck. There isn’t a huge amount of sculpted detail here, apart from her belt. I will applaud the fact that the skirt prevents her from suffering the indignity of the granny diapers seen on The Star Sisters. On the other hand, Frosta has garnered quite a bit of scorn from collectors because Mattel used grey plastic instead of white. I can see the issue, it looks rather dirty, and I think the figure would have looked spectacular with bright white plastic, but the grey doesn’t kill the figure for me. In fact, it kind of goes pretty well with the blue. The soft blue cape can pull easily away from Frosta’s body to prevent it from hindering her articulation.

And speaking of articulation, Frosta features everything you’d expect to find in an MOTUC female, with one extra surprise. You get ball joints in the neck, shoulders, and hips. The arms have swivels in the biceps and wrists, and hinges int he elbows. The legs have hinges in the knees and ankles. What’s the surprise? Holy hell, she can actually swivel at the waist!

Frosta comes with two accessories. You get her pinwheel-style frost wand and her shield. The wand will spin and I rather like the clear ice-like plastic used for the spokes in the wheel. The shield is also an especially nice piece, which uses a great combination of metallic blue and silver paint along with some clear plastic to give it an appropriately frosty look.

Frosta’s a cool enough figure, in fact I like her a lot. She sold out before I could get to her on Matty, but that’s fine because it just means I didn’t have to plunk down the $30 for her with shipping from. Sure I had to wait a while to get her, but it was worth the wait to get her in exchange for a couple of duplicates that were taking up space in a storage tote. Truth is, I have a strange desire to pick up a lot of the Princess of Power figure, mainly because they’re part of the He-Man lore and it was simply unacceptable for me to buy the originals because, well you know, they were dolls for girls because they came with combs and stuff. Now, if you’ll excuse me, my Hot Toys Black Widow’s hair got a bit mussed and I have to fix it.