I’m gone, but that doesn’t mean I can’t load up some toy talk into the queue ahead of time!
Yikes.
First of all, let me get out of the way that I didn’t realize the Unfortunate Implications of the photograph until, well, whoops. Anyway.
Check out these “Manhunter Robots”! This is to distinguish them, I imagine, from the non-robot Martian Manhunter. Lots of hunting of men in the DC universe. In theory. See, it’s weird, because I don’ t think Martian Manhunter even really ever hunted men. (He hunted that lost little girl once, I guess?) The Manhunter Robots, however, seem to better deserve the description. We’ve seen them hunt dudes! It was just John Stewart and it was in a terribly boring episode I never want to see again, but it happened.
Man, I hate that episode.
So, of course, I spent $15.99 plus tax (oh my god how did it come to this) to own characters from an episode I didn’t even like. This is completism, folks. Don’t let this happen to you. A decade ago I had to work myself up towards even buying a friggin’ Batman and maybe a Joker, which took a lot of justifying at the time, and yet here I am now buying Manhunter Robots. What the fuck.
They come with Green Lantern. They also come with these little sticks. I had to look at a screencap or two to find out which end they hold the sticks by. I’m still not entirely sure.
But at least they’re pretty appealing-looking. Big and angular and glossy. And new sculpts! They are very nice toys from an episode I couldn’t care less about.
Somewhere out there is the other new 3-pack from this wave which includes Despero and Green Lantern again and that girl Green Lantern he banged who Mattel won’t deco as her actual skin color for some reason. Maybe I’ve found it by the time this post publishes! Probably not.
Yeah, I hated that episode too.
I think that there are only five or so episodes worth watching from the first season.
Thanks for the warning, Willis. I was in Toys’R'Us today, trying to work up the nerve to buy an MLP:FiM figure. Just one. Any one, as long as it’s on the show.
I will watch for completism, my paycheck’s foe.
Please tell me this means TRU has Fluttershies. All the Fluttershies went away from our Walmarts within three days out here.
(Why, no, I am not focused on getting a Fluttershy. Or a Rainbow Dash. Definitely not more so than the others on account of Wave 2 leaving them out.)
Those are my two favorites too!
I feel like normally I’d like Twilight Sparkle, as the bookish one, but she acted like kind of a jerk for the first half of the pilot.
I prefer Twilight Sparkle to Rainbow Dash, but she’s in the second assortment, so I’m a bit less worried about finding one.
Basically, the only one I don’t like as a character is Rarity, which is frustrating, because I’m a sucker for anything modeled off G1 Glory.
Having only seen the pilot so far, I don’t really mind Rarity that much. And I find it interesting that the fashion-obsessed pony is the one that represents Generosity. I find Pinkie Pie kind of irritating though.
$16.99 for a main character pack in. (comes with everything) and forced army building. I think I see where willis is coming from)
Well, in case they ever make Manhunter figures (Paul Kirk, Kate Spencer, etc…), the Robot distinction is a good idea.
Yeah, the episode was dull, but so is John Stewart as a character.
The one he banged? Katma Tui? (I never saw the show, but that was Stewart’s GL GF; if they conflated him with Hal, though, it might have been Arisia, Hal’s blonde Pedobear-approved alien loli)
“HABEAS CORPUS! and.. phi betta kappa!” I really liked their legal system, though, I must say. Also, Red Foreman was in it!
J’onn J’onzz actually spent several decades as a top-notch police detective, during which time he probably hunted a lot of men.
Not in the DCAU he didn’t!
Yeah, in the DCAU when he assumed a civilian identity, he became an old, fat Asian man.
He adopted his classic John Jones appearance in “Starcrossed,” but that was to hide himself, which is the opposite of manhunting!
I acknowledge and accept your counter-point.
‘Manhunter’ was his job title back on Mars, at least in the comics. I don’t see why he couldn’t have hunted men on Mars in the DCAU as well
I’m not particularly familiar with the martian society in DCU let alone DCAU. Did the martians have similar concepts of masculinity and femininity so that there were men for a manhunter to chase. Or would a manhunter’s role be more limited, like chasing down that John Carter guy from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. I mean as the man typically used in manhunter is, I believe, more a species notation, if he was supposed to hunt say, martian criminals, wouldn;t that simply make him a martian hunter.
Don’t mind me, I’m just having fun with language.
Sadly, that image brings back memories of the LA Riots….