Wonder Woman- The old decent articulation of DCUC figures. She's in the outfit as above, 'cept not as many stars on the panties, high heels instead of flat, not as shiny and of course to glitter. Mattel will charge you twice as many for glitter... She's about the average height of regular male DCUC figures. She comes with an axe with the Wonder Woman Ws in the shape of an eagle. Also a shield with eight stars and something that looks like a sun in the middle. The axe works best in her right hand, as for my figure, the shield can clip on either wrist and it has a peg for rotary action! No I just kid, it can spin though...Am I missing anything, you ask? No I'm not, the Golden Lasso is not removable, it's glued onto her waist. No worries, making one shouldn't be to hard, it's just I haven't gotten time to make it.
Cyborg- Still same articulation as the others. Same appearance as above (Chain not included). A lot of sculpting to make this guy. He's one of the best detailed in the whole series. He comes with two accessories. A thing and...another thing? I have no idea what to call them. A claw that can shoot stuff I'm assuming, it has a little nozzle in between the claw grips. The other thing looks like a USB Drive. maybe it shoots stuff too. It has three little nozzles as well. The right fist pops off to accommodate either of the two. The left fist does not, so he can USB and claw people at the same time. Damn...
Captain Atom- Same POA. Same as pictured above. This is the "variant", but i see more of these than the silver, actually I saw one silver and four gold. He seems to shiny in the pic, This figure isn't in chrome by the way...Well this one was so easy for mattel. No sculpt on the body what so ever. Great for customs, bad for the figure. The red lines don't line exactly with the others. For say, line the front shoulder to the torso and the lines running across his shoulders don't line to the back. The boots and gloves are a nice shiney red. Not to be mean to the figure but he needs help in the paint department. He looks fine when in package and then open him up and turn him around, he's scraps all over. Lines don't match up. I see it's a hard thing to do to not have any carved in guideline for the painter to use. Pose wise he is awesome, nothing like armor or cloths get is the way. For me the left fist feels like it's tight and about to tear off, so no upper cuts from that hand.
Ares- Same POA as all of them. I wish they had more pictures to pick from but this is the most like the figure. The figure has skulls on his knee pads as well, not the design shown in the pic. The helmet seems a bit small compared to the figure. The figure has the helmet that's just big enough to give him a hulking look. Also the cape in the pic...that's bull, the figure features the best cape ever, a stiff, non flowing cape, it can't get better than that! The figure also has hooks on his waist, I'll talk about it later... Well yeah, this guy is my favorite out of the series. Great, no excellent, wait, not quite, superb? I think so... The chest armor has dents in it like it was made from the black smith, plus it has scratches in it. The helmet is bloody cool (no pun intended). Horns, coiled with snake like things, designs that looks cool. The horse brush on top is somewhat flexible, it is molded so the end sweeps to the left. I really like the skulls on his forearms. Really cool. How can he be the god of war without weapons? He comes with an axe and a long sword. Both painted with silver, black handles, and seems like Sapphire jewels embedded in the blades. The handles are dry brushed silver. Now the hooks... the axe has one of those "leather" loops so you can wrap it around his wrist, like Thor's hammer. Well he can't wrap it around his wrist, it can hook onto the hook and hand there. Either one is good. The sword is left to carry in his hand. I can't see how to hook it on anyways. On the value side he's the bigger DCUC in the series.
Batman Beyond- Looks like the body of Captain Atom with the little spikes coming out his forearms. I can't fully review him. Both of his legs snapped off, after super tight hip joint. He's all shiny black. He's not like the pictured picture above. He was either pumping iron or steroids. He comes with a little batarang. I tried fixing his hips, but it would stick, there was all this grease in the joint. I'm returning him tomorrow for another one. Hoping it would bet better.
Despero- Huge, big, elephant, walrus, pink. Whatever you may, he's bulky. Pictures of him are limited on the Internet. He's supposed to be wearing a cape, or ripped shirt, pants, or an orange jumpsuit. I guess the figure is based off the toy above. He comes with a pistol and a rifle. The rifle can attach to his back via a clip and the pistol hangs from a holster from his belt. My Despero is left armless. Thanks a lot Batman Beyond... I don't know but my right shin/knee joint is actually a left one. He's kind of hard to make him stand.
My first near completed DCUC wave and they look pretty cool. These are on sale at Target for $8.99 each. Two dollars cheaper than normal price. Out of the whole Despero Series, I really like Ares, he alone is worth it. If I didn't know, I would've just bought him alone and maybe Wonder Woman. My only thing to watch out if parts, Some are not attached correctly, and soon you'll have two right biceps. My Ares has two inverted biceps, no big though. I rate this series 8.5 out of 10. A good line up of figures, the accessories fit well with the characters. Hope you enjoy this review, and i hope it's an improvement of my previous reviews. Thanks. DTM Outz...
(On a side note, I did not write this review on November 9th. It just happens I edited an old draft and the date seems permanent. Today is December 30th...)
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