Clayface (DC Super Heroes (Mattel)) Review

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Clayface (DC Super Heroes (Mattel)) Review

Clayface
DC Super Heroes (Mattel) (Mattel)Matt Hagen, actor turned monster by chemical manufacturer Roland Daggett. At least I think that's the Clayface they're trying to go for, but Mattel doesn't seem to like putting any information about the character on the packaging other than the character's name. So I'll just assume it's Matt Hagen Clayface.

Sculpt: The sculpt is fantastic, like most of Four Horsemen's stuff, but even moreso on this guy. He looks like dripping clay, as he should. His arms are even longer than his legs, as if his legs are being compressed by his weight and his arms are stretching down due to gravity, but I suppose that that's probably largely because thats what he looks like in the comics, rather than 4H just deciding to make it like that.

Articulation: This has about as much articulation as your standard DCSH. He has 17 points of articulation plus the bendy arms, so that's essentially 21 points of articulation. One thing some people might not like is that he has Hasbro Elbow syndrome on his knees and ankles, but it works better on him than on the Hasbro ML's since he is a big, semi-liquid semi-solid guy with folds of clay over the joints, probably wouldn't have looked as good with how 4H usually does knee joints. Unlike other toys with bendy arms, his arms look good in pretty much all poses, not like others where their arms don't have elbows and just don't look good. Despite the fact that they did a great job on the bendy arms, I still think I would have preferred normal arms, even though it would have looked less like clay because of the joints. His hands don't have any frame inside like the arms do and because of that combined with it being a really soft material, you probably shouldn't be rough with the figure, or you might end up ripping off a finger.

Paint: The painting on him is good, there are a few small splotches in a couple places, but it doesn't really matter because you can't tell unless you're up close and 98% of him is brown. With his brown clay/flesh and his yellow teeth and eyes, if they ever decided to do a 12+" version of him, who do you think would be the perfect base for that guy from N64's Conker's Bad Fur Day? You know the one I mean. Also, on a more appropriate note, for any Teen Titans fans out there, he would make a great base for animated Plasmus as well. In fact there are even more possibilities for Clayface, repaint him black and he could be a sludge monster for Captain Planet to fight. Repaint him white, and he could be a small, melting Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Speaking of which, Marvel Toys should get the rights to produce GhostBusters toys and make a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man BAF for LCBH, but back to the review.

Accessories: The one area that this figure doesn't do well in. The only accessories he comes with is the usual back-drop which I'll probably end up throwing away eventually, and the package if you're crazy and consider that an accessory. I know it's not like Clayface is the type of guy to use guns and tools, but come on, if 4H made his arms with normal plastic and normal joints, they could have given him some kick-awesome interchangeable hands so that you could replace his hand with his mace hand, hammerhead hand, hand with metal claws for fingers, etc.

All in all, Clayface is a great figure, despite lack of interchangeable hands, and should be purchased for your Batman collection/display, as he is definitely one of the figures on the shelves today that is worth the $10 you pay for him, not saying that they shouldn't go back down to like $8 though, and include comics again. And if 4H/Mattel is listening/reading, why no brown Man-bat?