{"id":16554,"date":"2012-02-01T00:16:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T06:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=16554"},"modified":"2012-02-01T00:16:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T06:16:57","slug":"dc-classics-com-young-justice-superboy-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=16554","title":{"rendered":"DC Classics.Com Young Justice
Superboy Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Young Justice. We meet again. This is one of those reviews were I passed on the figure initially, but repeated trips to the store and a lack of resolution about collecting the line ultimately led to picking up the figure. Not my favorite, but not bad, here\u2019s six-inch Solar Suit Superboy.<\/p>\n

I know. I\u2019m where I said I wouldn\u2019t be. I\u2019ve bought yet another Young Justice figure that doesn\u2019t complete the team. I feel no investment in Mattel, nor do I feel any closer to getting a 6\u201d Miss Martian. I didn\u2019t buy this Superboy because I want to help the line or support Mattel. I ultimately just bought it because it looked cool. And, hey look, there’s the whole line together. Funny how that happened…<\/p>\n

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That said, I did spend $21 on this and it’s important that I point out this figure isn\u2019t worth it. I enjoy the figure, but a large part of the \u201cvalue\u201d these figures are supposed to have comes from the base and Superboy just happens to not only have the worst base so far, but a particularly crappy one at that. More on that in a minute, but yes, that is a piece of styrofoam trapped inside the tube there.<\/p>\n

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First, let’s focus on what I liked. Superboy has a great head sculpt. I could see some value in his having an angry face, but the sculpt here looks a little sullen. One of the parts of Young Justice that I find interesting is that Superman, acting generally out of character for how I perceive he should be, doesn\u2019t know what to do about Superboy. It can\u2019t be easy \u2013 it\u2019s gotta be bad enough when a teenager walks up and tell you that he\u2019s your son, but it\u2019s surely worse when it\u2019s a clone made from your stolen DNA. Superman will surely come around, but in the early episodes he\u2019s kinda of a dick to Superboy and that amuses me. How Superboy feels in those situations is what I see on his face here. Not the anger, but the issues under it. Now that\u2019s a lot of heavy lifting for an animated head sculpt, but it works. It helps that this sculpt doesn\u2019t have too much of an animated influence though. <\/p>\n

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For the rest of the figure, well that\u2019s nothing new. Superboy sports the Legion buck from his head to his toes. It\u2019s pretty cheap, but it works and I happen to really love the all-white look here. It\u2019s a simple design, one I didn\u2019t really give a second look when the show first aired, but it looks snazzy on the figure and it\u2019s ultimately the reason I bought it. Plus, if I ever tire of having him, he\u2019s like \u201cAnybody Kid\u201d for the Legion, some acetone to get an all-white buck, a custom paint job, a repurposed head, and boom instant thirteenth Legionnaire. <\/p>\n

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After the figure though, this toy\u2019s appeal starts to fade fast. On the upside, there\u2019s two accessories \u2013 a bendy girder and a cement block hammer. I don\u2019t remember the show\u2019s pilot off the top of my head and I don\u2019t recall if he utilized these during his breakout, but that would certainly help. The bendy girder kinda sucks as it\u2019s really only bendy in the middle at the grip \u2013 girders don\u2019t bend easy, see? That\u2019s kinda the point. <\/p>\n

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The hammer is a little cooler, but it walks the line between being debris and looking like it was made to be a hammer. I don\u2019t dislike it, but it\u2019s a fair sight odd and I can\u2019t help but think it\u2019s best use will be in a future edition of Poe Ghostal\u2019s Odds n Ends articles. Now, about that base… (Continue to Page 2)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Finally, we get to the real reason that almost prevented me from taking this piece home, the base. Now, I\u2019ve complained the bases (with Sportsmaster being the excellent exception) from here til Sunday, but this one really does take the sucky cake and makes Aqualad\u2019s base look good. <\/p>\n

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While I prefer the bases to connect or at least have a unifying theme, I don\u2019t mind SS Superboy coming with a Cadmus interior. The funky red walls and blue pods make for a cool backdrop, but the problem here is the scale. The main feature of the base is the little DNA selector tube. It\u2019s cool \u2013 it\u2019s got the little vials and the robot arm coming down to sort them, but have you ever seen a sci-fi movie where the vials are kept at ankle level? I tried out some different figures and the base even looked too small for Infinite Heroes. I had to get down to Glyos-size to find a decent scale (hey, a cool Glyos base!). <\/p>\n

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This is another what where the engineers at Mattel thinking moment? The base is the key component of why these figures are $20+ and they go and make a shrinky-dink room? And mind you, it\u2019s paired with a figure that needed one new piece \u2013 a piece that has plenty of reuse potential to boot. This base could have featured Superboy\u2019s broken capsule, a busted wall, beaten doors \u2013 just about anything from Cadmus in scale and it probably would\u2019ve turned out pretty cool, maybe even connected with Guardian\u2019s Cadmus base, but they chose to shrink it down and all but ruin it. That\u2019s boneheaded for collectors and kids alike. The base just stinks all around (unless you\u2019ve got some Glyos or OMFG to give it to).<\/p>\n

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Overall, I don\u2019t regret the purchase. My regular readers should know by now that completism runs in my veins and, even though they\u2019re pricey, the Young Justice figures are few and far enough between that they\u2019re easy to collect. I\u2019m looking forward to Guardian and Kid Flash in the next wave, Batman\u2019s kinda of a groaner but he looks to have some cool accessories, and ideally the next figures announced will help complete the team. I\u2019m pulling for Miss Martian, but hopefully they can at least get Superboy some pants\u2026 <\/p>\n

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For more DC reviews, check out our
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Young Justice. We meet again. This is one of those reviews were I passed on the figure initially, but repeated trips to the store and a lack of resolution about collecting the line ultimately led to picking up the figure. 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