Dec 28, 2020

It came from the Toy Chest: Mutagenless Man...

 

Super7 dropped the wave 2 Ultimates yesterday afternoon at my feet. I got busy repainting Shredder in Toon colors, which I'll go in detail on his ICFtTC. So Mutagen Man. Duude experimented on by Krang lives in a jar that's fused to his mutated and rotting limbs. On the Vintage figure, you could fill him with water or Ooze and he'd have little objects floating inside.
You cannot do this on the new one. It's not water tight. Since he's not water tight it defeats the purpose. Yeah, this pisses me off and you will read about it.

Articulation 
Believe it or not, Mutagen Man has a decent range of articulation. All his joints have hinged ball behavior. Obviously there is no waist twist nor ab crunch. Head articulation is non-existent for obvious reasons. The only issues lie on poor engineering making the figure leak more than celeb nudes from the Fappening... or  movie industry if we believe wegotthiscovered. I would've paid $55 or $65 for a non-leaking Mutagen Man. But back to Articulation. He gets a 
4.0


Paint and sculpt:
Dude is HUGE!!! I don't have the biggest hands ever, but this guy would look huge even in Shaq's hand!! He looks just like I remember, only bigger and with slightly more paint Application. But what's the point of looking like the vintage figure, have the little sinkers and floaters, that cannot be suspended in fluid. Might as well had them sculpted on the inside and "floating" in a static position.
4.0


Accessories:
His gun, an extra set of fists, his floating trash. You can see them on the MOC Pic. Not taking them out of the package for obvious reasons. Then the vintage rack with yellow plastic versions of the items.

He has plenty of stuff... but pretty much everything is useless! The only reason he gets a 5.0 is sheer number of accessories.

Overall:
Mutagen Man gets an undeserved 4.33 as his final score. Personally, I'd dock a point for teasing me with the action feature and not even delivering an acceptable imitation.
I feel that having him being in a double walled tank would've worked better for him.
That way, the "inner wall" which would be the actual tank wpuld hold water, while the outer wall, hidden by the purple armor would support the articulation. Sadly, Bryan Flynn

 But if that was impossible, then a slightly tinted tank with a fake liquid line would've made the trick...

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