The sculpt is spot-on, from his tuft of blonde hair that crops up past his mask, to the billowing trenchcoat and even the little details on his belts. As the human, gun-toting, smart mouth with a shady past, he's designed to be the team's bad-ass and this figure does the character justice. You can get some decent poses out of him, although given the lack of knee articulation, I would have preferred him a bit more upright.Īt the other end of the spectrum, Grifter is my favorite member of the WildCATS team and my favorite figure in this enitre line. It's standard articulation for ten years ago, but pretty stale now, plus Warblade's hunched pre-posed sculpt doesn't help a whole lot either. His head turns, his arms and legs rotate at the shoulders and hips, and you can swivel his forearms where they detach. There are seven points of articulation on Warblade. In addition to the extra arm attachments, Warblade comes with a Halo Industries walkie-talkie and a figure stand. The rubbery cables plug into a socket in whichever arms you care to attach. There's a set of claws, a large blade, and a normal hand. These powers carried over pretty well to the figure, which uses pop off hands as accessories. Warblade's signature power is in his arms, which he can elongate, and he can morph his hands into claws or metal blades. Maybe it's the neon green ponytail or the red eyes or his ape like posture, but he's a far cry from his human computer genius counterpart. I seriously love the character design in this series, but Warblade is the exception to that rule. Nonetheless, his suit is a pleasing blue and silver and Playmates did a great job sculpting the cables that crisscross his chest and then feed out to his arms from the back. Warblade has never been one of my favorite characters, mainly because his character design is just crazy. It was kind of similar to what the X-Men series did with Jubilee, but Warblade assimilated pretty quickly and before the end of the episode he was rattling off his teammates' names and kicking arse like he'd been around for a while, so it wasn't an element that extended onward and VooDoo more or less remained the green teammate who kids could better relate to. Warblade was the part-human noob of the bunch, as he was recruited to the team in the first episode of the toon. I don't usually do that, but it just goes to show you how much I love the presentation on these figures. It's not a highly collected line, so I often consider going back and picking up a carded set. If you check out the link above with the older reviews, you can see some of the other figure packaging to get an idea. Unfortunately, most of my WildCATS figures came to me in a big lot of loose figures. The cards are big, colorful and sport some amazing artwork. I really wish I had in-package shots to show you, because these figures look magnificent on their original cardbacks. Today we start with Warblade and Grifter. Keep in mind, these figures are based on the short-lived thirteen episode cartoon and not so much on the comic, so that's the context in which I'll be discussing them. I'm going to do my best to post the rest of my collection throughout the next week or so. It's been a while since I last looked at any of the WildCATS figures by Playmates, but feel free to go back and look the figures I've already reviewed HERE.
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