Matthew K has graciously provided a guest review of the DC Universe Classics Wave 18 Toyman, part of his ongoing series of wave 18 reviews. You can check out the previous installments for Samurai, El Dorado, and Black Vulcan, and discuss the wave in this thread at the Fwoosh.
I don’t think I ever read a comic with this version of Toyman – I really only know him for his appearances on the old Superfriends cartoon of which I have pretty hazy memories, so I don’t have a lot of pre-release anticipation built up for this figure. I know a lot of fans really wanted this guy to complete their Legion of Doom displays, and I’ve seen many posts over the years requesting this figure. It’s not that high a priority for me, but I like to see fan service of this kind in character selection.
Accessories
Toyman comes with a couple evil toys – a spiked yo-yo and a top with a bomb in it. The yo-yo has a clip on the end so Toyman can hold it easily. The top balances nicely in his hands and I had some fun figuring out the best poses for him to use these two oddball accessories.
I was thinking a tiny remote control would have been a cool accessory to include with Toyman. You could give Toyman here the remote and any toy you have around the house (teddy bears, etc) could be used as if it was one of his monsterous inventions. Anybody know of a good in-scale remote control accessory I could buy?
Sculpt
Toyman uses one of the thinner base bodies with an overlay piece for the crazy big pointy shoulders of his costume. I’m glad they sculpted him a bit of a grin for maximum craziness. The hand sculpts have a great gestural quality to them.
Articulation
He has standard DCUC artic except for the inclusion of double elbows and hinged wrists. These add a lot of expressive posability to the character, but do look a little bit off proportionally, giving him a bit of the gorilla arm look if you leave them flat at the figure’s sides. I’ll take the trade off of more poseability for proportional oddity, though I would like them to work on shortening up those arms for future figures.
Paint
The paint is solid clean work here without any splatters or slop. They did some darker shading around the muscles on the yellow sections of his costume which helps knock down the sheen you often find on yellow plastics.
The colors are appropriately bright and garish on this guy. I really like the metallic paints on the two deadly toys as well.
Overall he’s a great addition to the villains shelf, and I’m glad to see more than one baddy in this assortment. The more villains the merrier, I always say. He is one of the last figures needed to complete your Legion of Doom group if such things are important to you. It’s not that important to me, and I think I would have preferred to get the old man version of the character, but I’m glad to have this one as well.
Turnarounds
Amazing pics Matt. I anticipate every review you do.
You could use a motherbox as a remote control.
He has no butt.
I mean that it looks like nothing is sculpted behind his legs. This could allow him to bend his legs behind him, as well as in front.
This is not usually the case.
Has DCUC been doing that lately? I haven’t. Bought one in a while.
love how Mattel manage to take toyman and not make him look so cheesy with his jester out fit plus find the deadly yo yo and top hilerious and fit toy man perfectly as accessories for him. plus another member of the legion of doom.
As far as an “in-scale” remote device goes, a few series back there was something that might work. I think it came with the Ultrahumanite or something in that series. I just know I’ve got him holding it (my kids call it the “galactic cell-phone” lol)
If you’ve got all the previous DC series then you’ve got the piece I’m talking about.