{"id":12678,"date":"2011-05-20T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=12678"},"modified":"2011-07-21T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:01:01","slug":"vault-review-4-green-lantern-hannu-isamot-kol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=12678","title":{"rendered":"Vault Review: 4″ Green Lantern Hannu & Isamot Kol"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> The tidal wave of movie toys is upon us. While Hasbro is busy with their torrent of Transformers and Cap toys, Mattel is hitting us with as much Green Lantern merchandise that they can muster. So I thought I\u2019d give the 4\u201d figures a try with a couple of the more interesting aliens: Hannu and Isamot Kol. <\/p>\n

I originally wasn\u2019t going to pick up any of the four inch line. It\u2019s just not a scale that appeals to me and I really don\u2019t care for Hal and the rest of the humanoid figures. But when I was face to face with this line in the aisle I couldn\u2019t help but think how interesting Hannu and Isamot Kol looked. Plus, there was the ring constructs that they came with…<\/p>\n

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From the trailers it looks like we\u2019ll be seeing quite a few members of the Lantern Corps, sadly I doubt many of them will get much characterization. Luckily, each of the figures has a small bio on the back of their cards. Even though the character\u2019s appearance has changed for the movie, it seems their bios are basically the same. Hannu is still the massive rock-like creature from Ovacron 6 who prefers using his physical strength over ring constructs, while Isamot is still a lizard creature from Thanagar that fought to repel an invading army.<\/p>\n

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Going with Hannu first, he has a really different look from his comic book counterpart. The Hannu from the books has a humanoid shape with a rocky white skin, while movie Hannu is literally made of rocks. This gives him a really interesting shape since he\u2019s a jumble of different sized pieces. The character\u2019s design even shows that his right forearm has some words chiseled into it, like it was part of a wall at one time. Sadly, those little etchings didn\u2019t make it into this figures design. But still, I think I actually prefer the look of movie Hannu to the comic.<\/p>\n

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The movie version of Isamot Kol still has a unique look, but his design is much more reminiscent of his comic book version. The biggest difference here is that the movie look is even more reptile like than the humanoid crocodile that exists in the comics. They actually did a great job on sculpting the textured scales of his back. Much more detail than I expected from this figure. Another big difference is that the movie Kol has a bluish\/purple skin color verses the brown of the comics. All around this gives him a much more alien and fierce look.<\/p>\n

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Since these are the cheaper movie figures, the paint job is pretty standard on both. Isamot Kol\u2019s body is dyed light green and painted with dark green to give him his GL costume. Interestingly his tail is covered by the costume, which just seems odd to me. One thing I really like is the metallic green they used for his ring. It really helps it to stand out from his costume. His head is molded in that purplish color while his eyes, teeth, and tongue have been painted. They also put a very light pink just behind his jaw, almost like a highlight. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hannu has an even simpler paint scheme. His entire body is molded in the same gray plastic. It\u2019s kind of boring really. A nice dry wash of black paint really could have added a lot by bringing out all those tiny sculpted cracks and details on his body. They did do one interesting thing though. They mixed in these large glitter pieces so you get that shiny rock effect that you see in gravel sometimes. The only two parts of Hannu that were painted are his GL symbol, which is just tampoed on and looks a bit out of place, and his ring. For some reason they didn\u2019t sculpt a ring to his fist, they just painted one on. Not cool Matty.<\/p>\n

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Articulation for these two is just OK. I don\u2019t really expect a lot considering these are cheap movie figures, but there\u2019s still a couple things missing. Isamot Kol\u2019s consists of six swivel joints: head, shoulders, hips, and tail. Those are all fine, and you can definitely get a couple of interesting poses. The issue I have with him is a lack of jaw articulation. His head is actually two pieces, top and bottom, glued together. For the same amount of tooling Matty could have designed his lower jaw to be a hinge joint. This would have added a ton of character to the figure.<\/p>\n

Hannu\u2019s is even worse. It may appear like he has five POA, but he really only has four. His shoulders and hips are swivel joints. His head, even though it\u2019s a separate piece and has a round peg, doesn\u2019t move at all. It\u2019s kept in place by the rocks on his shoulders and upper neck. If they weren\u2019t going to leave room for his head to turn, why didn\u2019t they just sculpt the head onto the body?<\/p>\n

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Both figures come with a translucent green energy construct. Isamot Kol comes with a very cool bear trap. Both sides of the trap\u2019s mouth can move to close and there is a swivel joint at the base of the ring energy. These articulated points allow the trap to look great from multiple directions. This is probably one of the best ring constructs we\u2019ve ever gotten.<\/p>\n

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Hannu\u2019s construct isn\u2019t as cool when it comes to looks. His is just a large spiky burst of energy. But what does make it cool is that the nub on the end lets you attach the smaller constructs that come with the humanoid figures like Hal, Sinestro, and Abin. This adaptor construct that Hannu and Kilowog come with is also big enough for a DC Classics or DC Direct figure to use, allowing a whole new arsenal of ring constructs for your six inch figures!<\/p>\n

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Something else I discovered while playing around with these guys is that they\u2019re about the same scale as Hasbro\u2019s old Total Justice line. I don\u2019t know how well the humanoids like Hal and Sinestro would work, but the aliens like Hannu, Isamot, Stel, and The Green Man seem to fit in just fine. It\u2019s kind of nice to add to my 90\u2019s DC collection so many years later.<\/p>\n

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The four inch figures retail for about $7 and are pretty much everywhere by now. I\u2019m not sure how many more of these guys I\u2019m going to pick up. I\u2019m more of a six inch collector now, so I\u2019ll be focusing more on the Movie Masters line. But, I\u2019m going to be adding to my ring construct arsenal if I see an awesome one like the bear trap.<\/p>\n

-Vault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tidal wave of movie toys is upon us. While Hasbro is busy with their torrent of Transformers and Cap toys, Mattel is hitting us with as much Green Lantern merchandise that they can muster. So I thought I\u2019d give the 4\u201d figures a try with a couple of the more interesting aliens: Hannu and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[34,10],"tags":[1021,1023,1022,20],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.itsalltrue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/glmTN.jpg?fit=50%2C50","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pObc6-3iu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17576,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=17576","url_meta":{"origin":12678,"position":0},"title":"DC Direct Red Lantern Guy Gardner Review","date":"March 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For this Weekend Spotlight, I\u2019m looking at another 2011 figure that didn\u2019t get their spot in the regular rotation: Red Lantern Guy Gardner from DC Direct. 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