Mattel MOTU Chronicles Movie Figures

NORM said:
So I see how Scare Glow is an improvement over existing Masterverse bodies. Ran home for lunch to open him up and mess with him. In addition to ball pivots at the mid torso and waist, he has a similar set up at the top and bottom of the neck. He’s got ball hinge wrists and ankles that peg into the hands, similar to McFarlane but with smooth movement, no detents. Pinless elbows and knees. Drop hips. Butterfly joints at the ball hinge shoulders. No thigh swivels but the ball sockets offer some pivot, and he has boot swivels over the ball hinge ankles. These are definitively an upgrade over the standard Masterverse body.

Then there’s the 100% unique sculpt. I love that his bones are finally sculpted over the body. There are striations on his skin making it look like muscle tissue. The only weird spot of sculpted bones is the abs, where the bones are meant to look like his spine, but why not sculpt on his back (which has no bone sculpt at all). Even finger bones and toe bones are sculpted (metacarpals and metatarsals?)

Shoulder armor is removable if you remove the skull and flames. Moving jaw would have been nice. Cape is expectedly chintzy. Spear is sick. Overall, could be an amazing sign of what’s to come from MotU. Was never a fan of Scare Glow because his figures never impressed me. Until now.
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How much crunch do you get with the ball waist?
 
Apparently, there is indeed an Origins style movie offering happening (not what we thought as being Origins which we later found to be "Core").

Spikor is in the first series. Really has me hankering for a Chronicles version.
 
AceofKnaves said:
I’m guessing he means Scarecrow.
Scare-Glow would more-or-less be the God the Scarecrow worships and wishes to become.
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NORM said:
Too much work stuff on my mind, that was a lay up.
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Yeah, sorry, I meant Scarecrow. Not your fault- I should've been more clear. I sometimes forget I'm the only one with access to my thoughts- it certainly feels crowded up in there, but it ain't. 🤪 I like your theory, Ace! That'll be my head canon from now on too.

I've always had a draw to spooky and spook-adjacent characters. And the whole "making a person see their worst fears" thing that Scareglow can do feels very Scarecrow, and I dig it. Plus, both were played at one time by horror icons- Glow by Tony Todd, and Crow by Robert Englund.

Funnily enough, I was going through a box today, looking for something, and I'd totally forgotten that I'd even gotten the Masterverse Revelation Scareglow a while back when it was on clearance. So I guess I'm more of a fan than I thought!
 
Only DC character I could think of that rhymed was Hair Grow, I don’t think he was anyone’s favorite
 
I'm down for the movie 'Origins' figures if they're reasonably easy to get. At least a couple.
 
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