{"id":21950,"date":"2012-11-26T03:32:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T09:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21950"},"modified":"2012-11-26T18:43:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T00:43:38","slug":"motuclassics-com-sir-laser-lot-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21950","title":{"rendered":"MOTUClassics.Com:
Sir Laser Lot Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> I want to review Castle Grayskull Man, but there\u2019s another MOTUC review I\u2019ve been putting off that I should probably do first. Regular readers may have noticed that I skipped a figure these past few months. It wasn\u2019t really on purpose. I just kept finding things I\u2019d rather spend time on…<\/p>\n

Sir Laser Lot was part of 2012\u2019s mini-sub featuring (mostly) all-new characters in the MOTU mythos. In years past I have championed, and still do, new characters being added to the ongoing story and there being figures of those characters too. I think that a line can\u2019t be healthy without growth and new characters, so when the 30th sub was announced, I, in particular, was pretty excited. <\/p>\n

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With all the figures in hand, I still think it was worth my signing up, but I\u2019ll be the first to admit that I don\u2019t love all of the figures. The best way to sum up why is probably to talk about what I find compelling (and what I don\u2019t). The six figures in the 30th Anniversary subscription were compelling to me in different ways. Photog got the easiest past for his history as the original \u201cCreate-A-Character\u201d winner thirty years ago. The others had to rely on a mix of their design and their backstories. <\/p>\n

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Draego-Man, Castle Grayskull Man, and (Cy-Chop to a lesser extent) all appealed to me visually and creatively. Draego-Man looks kickass and his bio did a great job of explaining who he is. CGM looks kickass and his bio laid out the particulars while his creator, the amazing Daniel Benedict, made me fall in love by having him chuck the door of Castle Grayskull as a projectile. Cy-Chop took a little longer for me to warm up to, but he\u2019s fun and again, his bio gives me a good idea of where to go with him. And yes, I\u2019ve even accepted the Spector into the fold. I don\u2019t mind the design and Scott has (somewhat inadvertently) given Jon Spector his own personality in my eyes. Regular readers have seen me get a kick of out having Spector around. <\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Sir Laser Lot. <\/p>\n

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Laser Lot had the misfortune of receiving one of the bios that doesn’t really say much of anything about the character. Some of it was purposeful (his real name is “unknown”… so mysterious<\/em>), but it was mostly because it told you about what happened to him instead of about him specifically. What makes Laser Lot cool? What sets him apart? The bio doesn’t really tell us. We know he wears gem-powered armor and that he’s an excellent hand-to-hand combatant that gets flung into the future, but that’s about it. Bios like that make work for characters like Bow that have plenty of media to explore should we care, but it wasn’t the right away to make us care about Laser Lot. It forced the figure to rely almost exclusively on the design and… Well, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I’m the one writing the review. <\/p>\n

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I dont’ want to armchair quarterback the design, but he just needs something different. I like the idea that he’s a knight (he can pal around with Extendar) but there’s not much else here. I’d almost say he primarily suffers from not being able to include the action feature that the “original” would have presumably had: a light-up feature. Laser Lot presumably would’ve worked similar to Laser Power He-Man & Laser Light Skeletor (though his CAC design should predate those figures, right?). A battery pack would light up his weapons, his plume, and ideally the gem on his chest. The gem not being a clear-molded add-on piece, is downright criminal by the way. How can Mattel expect us to think the Gem of Tamadge is cool when they wouldn’t spring for it to be cool? <\/p>\n

Anyway, I don’t know if it’s simply the design, the lack of action feature or what, but one thing I did do to improve SLL was to remove the cape. It did further offset the blue\/red balance, but I think he’s a sharper figure without it. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Since Laser Lot only features new armor and a neat head, the articulation is precisely what we’ve come to expect. The paint apps on my Laser Lot were all fine, but keep in mind that SLL is a “black plastic” figure. If you check out this right bicep in some of the pics, you can see where a line or cut was made in the bicep and the thin black line showing through underneath.<\/p>\n

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Laser Lot did include a nice compliment of accessories, all designed to make use of his not-action feature: a translucent sword, mace, and a shield. The sculpts on all the weapons are great and would look even better lit up, but I mostly intrigued by the shield. I’d love to know that it means or what it’s depicting. <\/p>\n

Which brings me back to that lack of back story. I neglected to mention that we do know a little bit more about Laser Lot thanks to Geoff Johns choosing his own creation to kick off the digital MOTU Comics earlier this year (who wouldn’t want to start a new era of MOTU comics with Laser Lot?). It only amounts to a few more teases and isn’t all that well-written, but that comic has been Mattel’s best weapon for making me care about Laser Lot. It’s set after the death of Grayskull, but just before Laser Lot is whisked to the future. We see him as a warrior without a master and are also given a new tidbit: no one can touch him without burning themselves. Ouch. If you haven’t checked out the comic yet, you can download it from Comixology<\/a> for 99 cents. It’s worth a $1. <\/p>\n

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Overal, I\u2019ve written this review a few times because I really feel like I\u2019m just piling on the figure when it comes down to it. I\u2019m not the biggest fan of his creator, Geoff Johns, and I\u2019m sensitive to the fact that at least some of my initial dislike stems from that alone. But I also think the design could use some work too. He might be cooler if there were more media tie-ins to give him life, but this is a line with next to no media tie-ins. He might be cooler if the light-up functions were included, but this is a line without those kinds of action figures. He might be cooler if… well, you get the idea. <\/p>\n

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For more MOTU reviews, check out our
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