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McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Revenge of the Green Lanterns Cyborg Superman Review
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00:00Man of Steel, you got that right. Here's your look at the brand new McFarlane toys, DC Multiverse, Revenge of the Green Lanterns, Cyborg Superman.
00:07Man of Steel
00:37With his body deteriorating, Hank transferred his consciousness into LexCorp's mainframe, recreating himself and the cyborg in Superman's image.
00:44When Terry later died, a deranged Hank blamed Superman for her death and became one of the Man of Steel's most fiercest foes.
00:50With Mongol, he orchestrated the obliteration of Coast City and became an intergalactic threat, battling the Green Lantern Corps.
00:57First thought to be Kal-El, now assumed to be Kevlar.
00:59Before we get a closer look at the Revenge of the Green Lantern, Cyborg, Superman, we're going to go ahead, as we always do, we're going to take this.
01:07And what is this, you may ask? That's my tape measure, by the way.
01:10The tape measure is going to tell you, you out there, just how tall the figure is going to stand, not only in inches, but because, of course, I'm Canadian, also in centimeters as well.
01:18Let's do that right now.
01:20Cyborg Superman, by the way, is using the same Superman as the Silver Age release.
01:24He's going to stand, because of that, seven inches in height, and because, of course, we do the other thing as well, he's going to stand 17.5 centimeters tall.
01:31If you did see my recent review of the Eradicator, you remember I brought in this Superman.
01:35For a while, that was my stand-in Supes when it came to Cyborgs.
01:38This was the original Cyborg Superman.
01:40Of course, he's probably now going to be retired, now that I think we've got the better one released here.
01:44Much taller, obviously, was the original Cyborg.
01:46We get more standard-sized Supes.
01:48Actually, again, is using the same body as this Superman here, which, you know, does beg, then, the question, if we are using this body to give us a Cyborg Superman.
01:56And, again, we have all these impostors start to show up the moment that Man of Steel is in the morgue.
02:01You would then ask yourself, probably the same question I was asking myself as well,
02:05why wouldn't they have then used the same body to make Eradicator Superman, a recent release we also got from Todd and his team?
02:11You could easily pull out one of these, that'd be your hand, and count off with only one of them just how many accessories come included with Cyborg Superman.
02:18First, though, you have yourself a display stand.
02:20You get yourself a trading card.
02:21You get yourself two pairs, well, one pair of interchangeable hands, and that leaves you a thumb.
02:25A thumbs up for how good this figure actually is.
02:28Backing it back a bit, though, the figure does come include with a display stand.
02:31The display stand is just your regular variety.
02:34Has the DC logo...
02:35Where's the sound?
02:39Right there.
02:39DC logo, branded down below.
02:41And in walking distance, there's a peg right there that can plug into either one of Cyborg Superman's feats.
02:47The figure does also come include with a trading card.
02:49The trading card I really like.
02:51It's actually, in fact, where's Eradicator's card?
02:53I had Eradicator's card right around here.
02:56That's whereabouts now remain unknown.
02:58Anyways, Eradicator's Superman had a very similar style of card.
03:01I kind of like that they've kept sort of the illustration somewhat similar.
03:04Down below, you've got Cyborg Superman, not, though, from the return of Superman, but Revenge of the Green Lanterns.
03:10There is also a really cool-looking alternate version of this guy.
03:13Using the same body, but they're going to be darkening up the colors.
03:16I definitely would love to get my hands on that.
03:17For some reason, though, this guy is hard not only to find, but when you do find him, he's going for a lot of this.
03:24If you currently hide your eyes closed right now, I'm sort of like greasing my fingers.
03:27That's the gesture of it's costing money.
03:30It's a fair bit of money to get your hands on Cyborg Superman.
03:32I found this one actually on the Facebook selling group.
03:35But going back, though, to the trading card, probably one of the longest reads I've had to read when it comes to a McFarlane Toys release.
03:41There's, I mean, there's that much.
03:43I don't know how much that would really, well, I mean, you can see for yourself.
03:46There's a lot of words that I would have to have read to you.
03:48I did it so that you don't have to read it yourself.
03:51Let's move that card off to the side.
03:52The figure does also come and include with some swappable hands.
03:54First, the figure does have a closed fist.
03:57Now, it's easy to tell by the way he's non-symmetrical like this, which hand is going to go to which side of his body.
04:02And, of course, the coloring as well.
04:04His human hand, if I use that term very loosely, the human hand will go, of course, on this side of the figure's body.
04:09It would just then be swapped out with the hand that he has right now.
04:12Let me show you.
04:13Okay.
04:14Picking the figure up.
04:15I will say, like, the hands seem a little large, but not that I'm going to be excusing this guy a lot.
04:20But I kind of just feel like, for how good the figure turned out, I find that he has quite large, oven mitt-sized hands.
04:27We're going to change the handout on that side.
04:29The figure does also come and include with a Hulk Hogan U-pointing hands.
04:35When would we ever reference Superman?
04:37Referencing Superman and Hulk Hogan.
04:38If you kind of think of Hulk and you think of Superman, completely different comic companies.
04:43When you get yourself a pointing hand, the pointing hand is all done here in a very nice silver plastic.
04:47Even to look at the inside of it, it does look like it's been cast in its color and not just painted.
04:53And again, if you want to change out the hand, you're just going to hold on to the forearm and just change it out like that.
04:57That's all you have to really do.
04:59And then again, now you've got Cyborg Superman saying,
05:02You, right over there.
05:03You, in the back corner.
05:04You're falling asleep.
05:06Come on.
05:06This guy puts out entertaining material.
05:08I don't really put out entertaining material.
05:10But thank you, though.
05:11Now, the figure itself, just to put down Cyborg Superman and just feast your eyes how good this guy actually is.
05:18And then realize that he's also using the same figure mold as one of the best Superman we've also gotten in recent memory from McFarlane Toys.
05:26Now, obviously, some extensive tooling had to be done.
05:29This isn't just a case that you're using this body and they're just slapping on some paint.
05:33But, no, they would have had to sculpt brand new parts, this guy's arm, obviously the side of his torso here, and not so on the same side.
05:40So, very similar to like Uber Jason or Jason X.
05:43He has then a metallic leg on the other side.
05:45So, it's kind of crisscrossing.
05:46What it does land us, though, with is a really nice looking Cyborg Superman.
05:51Now, again, there is a variant release of this guy that is also going to be part of the revenge of the Green Lanterns.
05:56But, I mean, certainly if you just want to get a classic Return of Superman version of Cyborg, this one fits the bill perfectly.
06:04The head sculpt is really good on this one as well.
06:06I don't think you can easily look at this and then look at this and say anything was shared between the two.
06:10Even like the head sculpts are completely different.
06:12The hair is completely more a mess, more of a mess.
06:15And, of course, he does have the endoskeleton head on the other side.
06:18I mean, obviously, some very extensive influence had to be done from the original Terminator films.
06:22I mean, you know, that looks very much like an endoskeleton.
06:25I really wish the mouth could have opened and closed.
06:29I mean, I think I know that's wishful thinking.
06:31That's very wishful thinking on my part.
06:33But I think what we get, though, is one of the best Cyborg Superman releases.
06:37I really did actually have at one point the Cyborg Superman from the Mattel DC Universe.
06:41I think it was DC Universe Classics.
06:43I couldn't even find his whereabouts for this review.
06:45But I know I have him somewhere.
06:47He's sitting inside of a tote.
06:48But the face is really good on this one.
06:50Obviously, a lot of silver paint had to go into this.
06:52Initially, I didn't really love that his pupil was as bright as this.
06:57I would imagine, like, if you're looking at this, this would likely be just his red eye.
07:01And then he's just got more of a light in the middle.
07:03I wish this was just a little bit more red and less the white color it is.
07:07But I don't think there's really at all anything else I would have changed the figure's head sculpt.
07:12Something else it does do too very well also is that he does have a fabric cape.
07:16The fabric cape also is fully plugged in there.
07:18It's not just a case that they would have molded this in plastic and then all of a sudden, just out of nowhere, you got yourself a fabric cape.
07:24No, what they probably would have done is they would have molded this piece and then probably put it on top of that.
07:29Because you can kind of see, like, the neck seems to go over top of the fabric.
07:33Or maybe they just left the hole right there and just tucked the capes on the sides.
07:36But either way, though, we do have ourselves a fabric cape.
07:38And the fabric cape does just add a little bit extra pizzazz to the figure's body.
07:42Brand new molding also had to go on this side of the figure's body too.
07:45So, of course, you've got all the little tubes and pistons and stuff working behind the scenes.
07:49I do wish, though, that they could have darkened the one side of his shield.
07:52I know, I think a lot of times it's more really in the comics just with the lighting.
07:56But even just to look back at the card, a lot of times with the cyborg Superman, he has a darker side on his shield.
08:01I think with having the emblem completely bright like this, I think there may have been a missed opportunity that they didn't go in there and darken at least one side of it.
08:09But the blue looks good for what we get of at least Superman.
08:11Again, he's just basically, like, if you were to kind of look at this body and you're looking at this Superman body, like, the arms are the same, torso had to be retooled, same lower trunks, same one leg.
08:21Because, I mean, there really is no damage done at all to the one leg.
08:25And, of course, he does also have maybe, like, the same length of cape.
08:28I don't think, like, the cape is any bit different other than this Superman had the emblem.
08:31This one does not.
08:32Lots of cool sculpting also goes into his arm, you can see.
08:35Now, the one thing, unfortunately, about this, though, and here's a trade-off.
08:39I mean, on one end, though, you do have at least some sculpting.
08:42It didn't just give us, like, a flat hinge joint.
08:44Because this, by the way, is the point where the figure's elbows would bend.
08:47I mean, yeah, they could have probably just made this completely smooth, but they actually did sculpt a piston.
08:52The trade-off, unfortunately, though, is that it's not painted.
08:54So it's, unfortunately, left just behind with gray while all the nice silver is all around it.
08:59It's, unfortunately, like, one thing, but there's no real way around it.
09:02I guess just because the amount of moving goes on in the elbow, any bit of paint that would have probably gone in there would have been scraped off the first couple of times that you did this.
09:11Yeah, overall, I do really like the look of Cyborg Superman.
09:14It's got a brand-new leg, brand-new foot as well.
09:17Again, like, the pegs aren't really lining up when it comes to matching colors, but they're still pretty close.
09:22Just move that out of the way so you guys can see.
09:24There's, even on the back, I mean, this would be so much of an easier place just to kind of leave off the sculpting.
09:29But his talented team behind the scenes, hey, Todd's crew did a nice job of sculpting the back of that as well.
09:35Very nice-looking figure.
09:37I suppose, yeah, if you wanted to, if you're a talented artist with some paint skills, you probably could go in there and just add, like, a brush wash of, like, a darker black just to kind of bring out some of those details.
09:46But I think, really, just out of the packaging, nothing at all I would have really changed the figure itself.
09:51Other than maybe just, like, yeah, just darkening the one side of his emblem shield.
09:56For the figure's articulation, if you're familiar with the other Superman, you'll be familiar with this Superman.
10:00Head's going to be on ball joint, so the head rotates all the way around.
10:03The head looks up and looks down, but actually quite low down, too.
10:07And you can also rock it back and forth.
10:10You can pretty much do the same thing with his torso, too.
10:12Despite having so much sculpting going on here, Superman still retains a full bit of pose ability.
10:18I mean, you can fully rotate this guy the same way that you'd be able to do it with the original Superman mold.
10:22Same thing as well for his abdomen.
10:24His arms rotate all the way around, whether you want to go with the human side or you want to go with the robotic side.
10:28They work the exact same way.
10:30You can also pull off a T-pose.
10:32No problems there.
10:33The figure does have a bicep swivel.
10:35Bicep swivel.
10:36Hinge joint elbow.
10:37Hinge joint elbow.
10:38And the hands rotate all the way around.
10:39You can hinge those back and forth, too.
10:41So, legs split out.
10:43I don't know why we always have to spend so much time looking at the inside crotch of these Superman figures.
10:47But the legs go forward.
10:48They go back.
10:49There's a swivel nicely on the top of the thigh.
10:52Double hinge on the knee, whether you want to go with the robotic side or the regular side.
10:56Although, funny though enough, it's a much tighter joint on the side that isn't robotic.
11:01Then again, you've got your ankle pivots.
11:02Ankle pivot.
11:03Ankle rocker.
11:05And you've also got toe articulation.
11:06You even actually have toe articulation on the cybernetic side.
11:10So, that's very cool as well.
11:12You know, again, I can't figure out why this figure's done so well.
11:16And it's using a mold that makes the most sense.
11:18And yet, though, yet, though, when we got ourselves...
11:21Where's Eradicator?
11:22Eradicator's right over here.
11:24I don't know.
11:25I just don't understand why Eradicator wasn't using the same blueprint of the Boy in Blue right here.
11:30I mean, again, like, if you're going to be using this body for that Superman, and we see how well that pulls off, why would you have taken that for, like, essentially a clone of Superman just wearing, you know, just the Miami Vice.
11:42I'm just trying to think of a name.
11:43Miami Vice sunglasses.
11:44Other than just having Miami Vice sunglasses on Supes.
11:48I mean, I can't imagine why they couldn't have just used the exact same body.
11:51The only thing that I can think of is that Eradicator was designed and he was kind of packaged long before they made the move and switched over to using this Superman body.
12:00For kind of all the subsequent releases after the fact.
12:03That's the only thing I can think of as to why Eradicator never got this Silver Age Superman treatment.
12:09And yet, Cyborg Superman did.
12:11In the end, though, I mean, I don't think there's at all anything I would have changed to Cyborg Superman.
12:16I mean, sort of also when you're looking at him, too.
12:18And I think a lot of it also has maybe to do with the fact that the head sculpts...
12:21This one's a little bit smaller when you compare it next to the Silver Age release.
12:25And maybe one of the reasons why it ends up making that figure body a little bit smaller in comparisons.
12:29I mean, again, like, brand new tooled torso.
12:32So nothing...
12:32I mean, they had to do everything from scratch there.
12:34I mean, even just to, like, look at the torso, too.
12:37Cyborg Superman has a lot more musculature that's been sculpted into the plastic.
12:41This Superman's a little smoother.
12:43But, yeah, you know, again, like, it kind of just, again, makes the question, why wouldn't they have just used the same mold?
12:49I mean, you know, again, like, if you were to look at this, it is clearly not just a case where, like, they just did everything from head to toe the exact same.
12:56I mean, the trunks are a little bit different.
12:58The leg is a little bit different.
13:00There is enough substantial changes.
13:02I think probably the one thing that does kind of remain unscathed is likely maybe Superman's arm.
13:07That's about the only thing that seems to be 100% a carbon copy.
13:10Again, the leg is a little sculpted differently.
13:12So I don't want to really fully say and fully invest in the idea that this entire body was carried over to this one.
13:18Clearly it wasn't.
13:19Clearly it wasn't.
13:19But you can kind of really see how one is the inspiration to the other and how we just get a much better looking cyborg Superman.
13:25Again, I really wish that attention and detail would have been spent to Eradicator.
13:30And I think I would have liked that figure a lot more than what I actually do.
13:33As to maybe avoid the angry villagers with pitchfork and torch, no, the cyborg Superman is not using the same mold as the Silver Age Superman.
13:41There's too much tooling that had to go into this figure's body.
13:44And I mean, even just a look on the back of his arm either.
13:46I mean, like, there's some sculpting on his tricep that wasn't obviously on the original Superman's body.
13:53The torso is brand new.
13:54His cybernetic arm obviously is brand new.
13:56And even if you, like, look at his regular blue thigh.
13:59Yes, everybody look at Superman's thigh.
14:02There's a circular shape that's on this leg that isn't on the other Superman.
14:06So if I can fully retract my opinion from earlier into this review, while no, no, not being the same mold as the other Superman, it's still, though, a lot of extensive sculpting, not retooling, but a lot of extensive sculpting had to go into this release.
14:21Speaking of this release and speaking of reusing this mold, I think I can confidently say that this mold is being used again for a gold label release of Cyborg Superman that trades then the blue for red.
14:33So, like, the top of his torso is going to be red as well as his arm.
14:36He's going to have the still red trunks.
14:38And he's also going to have some black in there as well.
14:40I don't know if his price is going to be any bit more or less than what I end up paying for this one.
14:45I think I end up getting Cyborg Superman here for, like, $45.
14:48I don't think that's a bad price at all considering what prices he's really going for now.
14:53I've seen $60.
14:54I've seen even $70 and $80, even more for that.
14:56I think, though, if you can find him for a good price and you like the look of Return of Superman,
15:01even though, really, like, the packaging does really state this as being the revenge of Green Lantern.
15:05I mean, really, there's nothing at all for me, at least, that, looking at this, I don't think right away, the return of Superman.
15:11You know, again, like, while we are getting this version of Cyborg Superman, we're getting a better release of Superboy,
15:17which, again, I know the other Superboy really wasn't part of the return of Superman,
15:20but that was the stand-in I had for a while.
15:22We're getting a new Superboy.
15:24We've got the Cyborg Superman.
15:26Come on, we need to get ourselves a better Eradicator.
15:28The Eradicator that we just recently looked at, like, a day or so ago,
15:32I don't think is really going to be worthy enough to go on a shelf.
15:36Like, I like that we did get ourselves one that looks at least the colors of the comics,
15:40but he definitely needed to have this kind of body.
15:43Maybe not the one that's got the robotic parts,
15:45but he needed to have the proportions of this body
15:47and not the proportions of the Superman that they used instead.
15:50What do you guys think of Cyborg Superman?
15:52Let me know down below in the comments section.
15:54I hope you guys have put away your pitchforks and your torches.
15:56Because, you know, he's not the same body as the other Silver Age Superman.
15:59If you guys did, by the way, enjoy this review,
16:01do it a solid, hey, now, and hit it with a like.
16:03You guys want to stick around for more so?
16:05I hope so.
16:06By the way, though, we are also, even though we're wrapping up things right now,
16:09for our Mechanized Man of Steel,
16:11there are more DC Multiverse reviews in the pipeline.
16:14They're coming your way for the rest of this week.
16:15So I hope you guys are going to be coming back for those.
16:17As always, guys, thanks for watching.
16:19See you guys next time.
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