So here’s Walter Peck. The best thing about this toy is the smug grin they managed to sculpt into his face. It really makes you want to punch him, in a Faz/Matty sort of way. Which is appropriate! It wouldn’t be a good Walter Peck toy if you don’t want to throttle it.
He’s in the suited body that Mattel used on… The Dark Knight toys, I presume? He feels less awkward than my Riddler and Two-Face, which makes me think he’s not that. (You know, I guess I could go up and compare, but I’m lazy.) So if I had to guess, he’s Harvey Dent with a new head.
Now, it’s his “accessory” that really makes this a fun set. It’s the ghost containment unit door. The best thing is, it opens! If you push down the lever like a good EPA representative, the door folds down. The door (or Walter) comes with a trap that you can shove in there, and the door can close back up with it inside. The red on the containment unit is nice and glossy so it looks like painted metal. (Well, truthfully, painted plastic and painted metal probably doesn’t look all that different.) It’s a great setpiece for the existing Ghostbusters figures.
I was a little iffy on Walter at first because he’s not one of the four Ghostbusters, but I’m glad I got him. He’s a great figure and he comes with a great backdrop. And I want to punch him, which is more of an emotional reaction than I get from many of my action figures.
(The bio on the back of the packaging notes that he is “hypothesized to lack genitalia.” This is also awesome.)
It took me a while to figure out who Walter Peck was again.
I should be ashamed of myself.
Don’t feel bad, you aren’t alone. I had to wiki him. Course the only reason I mention it is I want to see what avatar I get…
Oh, I have one I made. Weak.
He should be advertised as having a fantastically punchable sculped face.
I just learned that Ghostbusters III is due out X-mas 2011, now if the world doesn’t blow up from the simple fact we get Transformers III, and Ghostbusters III in the same year, 2011 is starting to look really good…But I get ahead of myself, there is just no possible way something that mind blowing awesome can happen, I fear this is the coming of the end, and the world will end
Don’t forget Captain america and Thor too. We’re doomed.
And Green Lantern!
Poor William Atherton seemed to have been typecast in this sort of antagonistic role in the 80s.
A Walter Peck figure. A Walter Peck figure. A Walter Peck figure. A Walter Peck figure. It never even occurred to me that there might be one…
wantwantwantwantwantwantwantwantwantwantwantwant
It’s a totally new body. They bragged about it constantly in their Q&A’s.
For some reason I get a bit of a Will Riker vibe off it. Must be the beard.
I spontaneously like Mattel.
This toy demands Batman punching him. Or Bludgeon stabbing him. Or both!
And maybe have Masterpiece Starscream point & smirk. Just for good measure.
I gotta agree with Kevin. There are few people who I’d like to see Batman punch more. Then you can repost it as Batman punching Richard Thornburg in Die Hard.
Third vote. Batman NEEDS to punch him. And yeah, Animated Starscream pointing and smirking at him would be good, too. And then Megatron kills Starscream (again)…
Yes, I do now need this toy,
& yes, please let the Batman punching resume, beginning with this oh-so-punchable face!