The sculpt itself is top-notch as expected with plenty of little details throughout the figure. I love the harsher angles on the figure, particularly the face. Cyclops size is worrisome enough, but his sharp details and clawed feet & hands ensure that you don’t want to meet this guy in a dark milky way. Another nice touch on the sculpt is the addition of two little lines on his chest symbol. These lines are a shout out to Matt Doughty over at Onell as they transform his already Pheyden-like symbol into being a really Pheyden-like symbol. You have to love little stuff like that!

I’d say the paint work is still sharp for a figure this size, but I did have a few little oddities like the darker copper stain on the gold circles on the figures chest and some fuzzy lines here and there. The colors themselves looks fantastic though – the figure is molded white so all the colors pop on the figure. The metallic blue and flat purple really stand out with the gold areas finishing off the look. One other nod here is the purple coloring on the palms. For some reason, it just looks really sharp. I love it.

Articulation is a little better than your average OSM thanks to an extra swivel at the elbow. I think if anything held OSM back a bit, it’s the lack of traditional articulation and I still find that to be true here. There is plenty of great movement using the swivels (14 in all, I think), particularly on the arms where those extra joints come in handy.

Cyclops included two of his classic pistols and five pieces of armor to round things out. I love the gold paint, but I can’t help the desire to want to display Cyclops without the armor. The colors and sculpt are just too great to cover up. They are cool pieces though – the helmet looks sharp with its one slit for the Cyclops eye. The armor is hard to pass on though. It looks sharp and can help to hold a couple of the accessories. Also included of course is the “bubble helmet” I love those, but didn’t take many pictures because I couldn’t find the little box I built to avoid the my reflection ending up in the picture.

Overall, I was happy to receive this set because it reawakened a section of my collecting that I’d been a little buy for. The OSM are just a fun set to collect, particularly any painted versions. I think what really gets me here though is the history. Yes Cyclops is well sculpted, decently painted, etc., but what really gets me is the idea that Cyclops has finally, finally gotten a figure! I’m not old enough to know much of anything about the originals, but how cool is it for a concept to finally reach it’s fruition over forty years later! I know there are collectors out there who surely wanted Cyclops to finally hit figure form – and they’ve waited a really long time. I don’t know – not to wax on all poetic, but on the back of Cyclops vintage packaging is a picture of the “unreleased original” and it really gets me thinking. Is there some cancelled toy, one that I want now, that I’m going to see pop up for realz when I’m in my seventies?

Probably not. And that makes the OSM pretty darn special.

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