DC Multiverse Green Lantern review – McFarlane Collector Edition

Green Lantern. Say the name and you probably think of Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Alan Scott. Maybe Guy Gardner or Kyle Rayner. Maybe Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz even? With most of those characters already knocked out in the DC Multiverse line, McFarlane Toys opted to make the Collector Edition Green Lantern special by making for a relatively easy way to further build out your Green Lantern Corps.

The standard figure comes with two swappable heads and the platinum figure comes with two additional heads allowing collectors the option to have a quick four new members to add to the Corps. That’s a pretty clever way to further branch out a major faction in the DC Universe.

Let’s see how this two in one Collector Edition turns out and if it’s worth getting three more.

Packaging:  The Collector Edition line has a slight tweak with silver foil lettering instead of white. The plastic window is expanded to show off the accessories. On the back we get a fairly generic Tales of the Green Lantern Corps photo, which is probably the best way to showcase multiple Lanterns.

At least one of the two, Tomar-Re, is featured on the cover image.

Likeness: I thought the mold was the same one used for the DC Direct Hal Jordan figure, but it’s actually the Kyle Raynor mold with new gloves and boots. Since they’re not using the Blue Beetle boots, this Green Lantern mold doesn’t have lines around the top section of the boots.

I really like the Raynor mold as it offers some texturing throughout the body. That makes sense seeing as the GL uniform is not clothes but a very thin protective shell.

Tomar-Re’s head sculpt is also nicely done with an impressive level of detail in his beak and fin. The head sculpt gives him plenty of personality like he’s seen a lot over his years as a Green Lantern.

Tomar Re was a smart choice for this first Green Lantern army builder as he’s got a basic body and allows for quick and easy army building including for a Bronze Age Hal Jordan costume.

The coolest aspect of this Green Lantern setup is the alternate head sculpt. I’m pretty sure this is not McF’s attempt at Abin Sur — he didn’t have pointy ears and the scales over his head — but it makes for a cool alien humanoid to join the Lantern ranks.

Scale: While the Lanterns vary in size and shape. Tomar-Re is a largely human size and scale. This doesn’t mean much unless you wanted to have a massive GLC and JLA team-up, but for custom’s sake, Hal won’t tower over Superman with a head swap here.

Paint:  For this version of GL, McFarlane Toys went with a darker kelly green compared to the brighter hue used for the Hal Jordan figure. The whites on the gloves and boots are a nice, crisp white.

While some bleed through of the chest logo was to be expected, it’s actually not bad. The paintwork along the ring is lining up much better with the sculpt as well.

Tomar-Re’s head sculpt has some flaws if you’re looking to find some. From a reasonable distance they’re not obvious.

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Articulation: Green Lantern rocks the usual 22 points of articulation. He’s a character that’s normally taking a flying attacking approach so gliding poses are a must. This mold is very fluid allowing for all the Lantern style poses and movements you’d expect.

Green Lantern has:

• neck
• ball-jointed shoulders
• butterfly shoulders
• elbow
• wrist
• wrist hinge
• torso
• waist
• hip
• thigh
• knee
• ankle
• toe

Accessories: McFarlane Toys tends to pack more into the Collector Edition figures. Green Lantern is loaded with helpful, useful accessories.

He’s got a set of flat, flying hands and a matching left fist and open, clutching right hand to complement the default setup.

Additionally, there’s two right hands with various levels of construct effects. One is a small burst. The second is a much longer burst with a blast-like spark coming from the ring.

Also, there’s the Collector Edition card holder. This is probably my least favorite accessory as it’s just a worthless addition even if it does look nice. Given the chance, I’d much rather have the flight stand with any flying figures.

Finally, he’s got the black stand, which is always helpful for posing figures.

Worth it?  The Collector Edition figures are regularly $30. Green Lantern has a decent amount of accessories on sale for $20. The $30 price for the CE figures is overkill since the stand doesn’t add that much to the figure. Right now he’s going for $27, which still feels about $5 too much.

Rating:  8.5 out of 10

Where to get it?  I’ve seen Green Lantern a few times at GameStop, but I grabbed mine from Amazon.

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