It came from the Toy Chest: Buttered up for Jim Henson

Awful Clawful is here!

He made one quick stop to visit Captain Paintbrush... Now that I think of it All 3 characters who shared the "Lizard/Bee/Crab" Body were visited by Captain Paintbrush...

Unlike the Other 2 where the visit was on their bodies... Clawful got a visit for an Eyebrow plucking treatment...

IF/When Mermista is available, I shall use this for a joke...
Before I start with the Review I have to say this: Finally a Clawful ACTION FIGURE that does NOT look like a Mexican Wrestler with a Crab Motif... While he truly looked like a Crab Monster in 200X, he never had an ACTION FIGURE... Now with MOTUC, his Crabby self is more Crabby, less Rey Mysterio.

Now, for the review I will use A Mattel Stock Photo of Clawful cause I was too eager to eliminate the Muppet Brows that I customized before taking the pics! My bad!

Look at him! He looks like a Muppet... That's why I don't use the Vintage Whiplash head...

Mandatory Muppet Video with a touch of Cyrus... Don't make me play the Ponies!!

I did not play any Pony videos on this article... BTW DO NOT READ CUPCAKES!!!

Articulation:

He's got the Standard MOTUC Articulation, mine has Clawfully loose ankles. His Large, meaty claw has an Articulation point that is rendered useless by the action feature. (No open claw display)

4.0
Paint and sculpt:

The reuse of the Whiplash body and Buzz-Off claw help break the "Curse of the Mexican Wrestler" on Clawful. The large, meaty claw is beautiful... They even gave him a more Crab-like back piece...

The Paint is nicely applied here. Love the red fading into his arms to avoid the Guy in a suit look. I May dislike the Black Eyebrows, the black shading inside his mouth and the pearly white teeth, but those aren't really flaws. Just design choices that I disagree with...
4.5

Accessories:

He's got his Mace... which looks a tad different than the rest of the Maces. It's a bit longer and thicker... and he's got a Crab shelled shield!? A Crab carrying an extra shell to use as a shield... That's like giving a watergun to Snout Spout... Extra head could've worked well here... (Not necessarily a 200X Head, but a more menacing, snarling head... The Classicized 200X look can almost be obtained by painting the eyebrows red...)

Some people may like the shield, but I find it too much and unneeded. It's in my extra pieces bag now... Maybe when I get Peedrink-or: Heroic Master of Crazy Survival in MOTUC he'll use it to make a shelter...
3.0

Overall: 3.83

The Lack accessories, once again hurt this score. (Your Mileage may vary.) Paintwise he's one of the best figs I've gotten. shame that he's got such loose ankles...
After the tweaks to hide the design elements that I don't like, he's a lot better now!! He is A LOT better than I expected... aside the ankles and small range of movement on his claw...

Odds and ends: Spider-Man is now half Latino/half black

Boom! Shock Value Bomb! This is not on the main universe where Peter Parker is forever a loser thanks to the lame ass Pseudo Retcon made by The Devil... I mean Joe Quesada.

Ultimate Spider-Man is Peter Parker no more... they killed him and his replacement is half black/half Latino... Miles Morales... Who the heck is Miles Morales? The newest Marketing ploy from Marvel...

We interrupt this pseudonews related rant with some PONIES!!


OK, where was I... Why is Miles Morales doomed to fail?
-First, He reeks of "Marketing Ploy" The whole big announcement stuff that made this article possible is proof enough. Like all Marketing ploys it'll eventually be shoved under the rug and quickly forgotten. (Especially if it backfires on Marvel)

-Replacing Spider-Man has been tried before and it failed... They tried to Replace Peter Parker with... Peter Parker... And that was a massive failure.

-The replacing a hero with another one of different ethnicity rarely works when it's done for shock value...

Monday was the sale for Mattycollector.com's SDCC items. I was able to sang a Marlena Glenn. The curious thing was that they HAD an All Star sale in which they were getting rid of some older figures (such as He-Man, Skeletor, She-Ra, The 4 Ghostbusters, Superman, etc.) set up for customers who discovered the site AFTER SDCC... All the way until August 15th (or the items ran out).
During Monday August 1st the All Star stuff was marked Sold out! and the Allstar Page was inaccessible during the time of the SDCC sale. Now the items are back up! WTF MATTEL!? That's ridiculous... It's like y'all want the products to fail... Kinda like the Club Infinite Earths.

Now that I mentioned Club Infinite Earths, let me get a bit deeper into it. Mattel is Killing DCUC. I mean, the line as it is is going through a reboot... kinda like DC Comics. The collector oriented characters will be on the Sub program Club Infinite Earths, while your basic Superman, Batman, GL will be in retail (most likely based on the new DC Universe designs.)

Also you'd get 3 Large scale beasts not available on Retail (They're killing the collect and connect)
Sounds fine and dandy, BUT this is the only Subscription that has a gauge that determines if this will be done or not... Unlike Voltron, Ghostbusters or MOTU... As of today the subscriptions to CIE are at a 20-something % of what they need... The sub period ends this Friday... It's official Matty is killen teh lien...