Aug 17, 2012

It Came from the Toychest: He comes from the Giggity Giggity swamp!

Heh heh! Alright! I'm talking about Mr. Kalamarr!! (Slush Head on this side of the pond!) He's a Space Mutant from the New Adventures of He-Man...

Nothing? I understand... The New Adventures characters are not that popular... although they have a nice look when "classicized". Slush head is pretty much the Beastman of New Adventures... He's one of the most wanted New Adventures characters. The vintage toy's dome was filled with a slushy liquid. The MOTUC Version
Kalamarr... Kalamarr sounds like... Squid in Spanish,...
He also has two mechanical tentacles... being a Doc Ock fan, drew me towards Mr. Kalamarr.
Stop! ratings time! 1 = crap and 5 = rad!
Now, before I start I must speak about the Action feature... the "Slush Head"... Mattel couldn't fill in the toys with liquid from china due to health concerns about the quality of Chinese "slush". So, this brings changes to the toy that MAY have an adverse effect to some folks.
-Head is permanently suck to his armor.
-Slush head cannot swap heads or armors with others.
-slush head has a plug on the back of his dome.
-His Torso doesn't have the neck peg for other heads
stupid PLUUUUUG!!
Look Ma! No neck peg!
I'm afraid to do this cause of QC issues...

Articulation:
I mentioned the head issue and that means 1 poa less than the normal figures. His armor limits the ab crunch a lot and his tentacles MAY or MAY NOT have 2 poa each...
3.5
Paint and Sculpt:
The sculpt on Slush head is beautiful... for a swamp dwelling ugly mutant... His body is composed of Clawful's torso and shoulders, whiplash's forearms and legs, Mer-Man's hands and feet, and last but not least Flipshot's crotch and boots! the head, armor and weapon are the new sculpts! (Tentacles are part of the armor not an accessory) I've not noticed any sloppy paints on him.
5.0
Accessories:
He only has one but works as 2... but he has Mer-Man's hands so he can only hold one. His rifle also functions as an axe... in a sort of weird backwards thinking bayonet kind of way!
I wanna AXE HIM A QUESTION, but he's a moron with an axe!


pew! pew!



2.5

Overall:
3.67
for Mr. Kalamarr. I have to say that him being so bare bones, when he's pretty much a new head, hurt him a little bit. The not-so-great planning from Mattel's design team of keeping slush-head's head stuck facing forward when he could have had the ability to turn his head WHILE being able to fill it with liquid is very possible! (something like Man-e-Faces) Also they could've had the four horsemen sculpt faux liquid inside the helmet and we would have no need for that unsightly cap.

Now I wish that we HAD a Hydron!!

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