Imaginext DC Super Friends Series 1 - Blind Bag Surprise Assortment Figures 3" 7.5cm - Single Blind Bag

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Young crimefighters can unwrap and act out exciting Super Hero versus Super-Villain adventures with these Imaginext® DC Super Friends™ mystery character figures from Fisher-Price®. Each blind bag includes a poseable figure styled like a different DC Super Friends™, including Batman™, Shazam™, Blue Beetle™, The Flash™, Supergirl™, Clayface™, and a glow-in-the-dark Swamp Thing™ figure. Kids can collect them all! (Each sold separately and subject to availability.) The Imaginext Bind Bag series are things I really, really enjoy but I've found them increasingly tough to find over the last several waves series. Fortunately, this sixth series of the DC ones seemed to be a return to ample distribution so I was thrilled when I was able to snag myself a full set in a single go last year! Bring these figures to any Imaginext® DC Super Friends™ playset for more preschool-friendly, Super Hero pretend play! (Playsets sold separately and subject to availability.) Yeti? YAY! Snowboarder? BOO! This is 100% repaint using the figure and mask from the Series 2 Bigfoot and the snowboard comes from the Series 4 Snowboarder. At least the snowboard kind of better justifies that this is just a guy in a costume rather than an actual Yeti (like in the Target exclusive line). Aside from the addition of a blue bandana on his head, his face is identical to the Bigfoot guy, implying that this is actually the same dude - a first for the line. It's a testament to how good the sculpt is of the body and mask that this looks quite good in the Yeti colors and even feels more different than it actually is. Part of that sense is the new face deco on the Yeti mask, which features angry yellow eyes with pink bags under them and the suggestion of an open mouth. I really must confess I like this much more than I expected to or feel like I should. He's fun and cool! (no pun icetended)

Note: This series really starts to tug on some of the more obscure corners of the DCU as well as stuff that is surprisingly up-to-date with the comics. I’ve done some research where applicable and provided a little bit of context when necessary. If you understand how the coding on the bags work and you just need to see which numbers match up with which people, just scroll down until you see a list. If you want to know how to identify these bags from one another without the whole “feel around on ’em” then keep readin’! What in the world happened to Imaginext? Granted they released a ton of Toy Story 4 and Jurassic World stuff, it wasn’t nearly as varied as their DC line or their original stuff (which I actually thought was pretty cool). I know it’s all pre-school versions of stuff that exists elsewhere in arguably more desirable formats, but for being pre-school toys the quality was/is very good, there was excellent attention to detail, and the toys weren’t dumbed down because of their target audience. So many “younger kid” toys have shoddy paint jobs, ill-fitting molds, and it seems like there’s always some “weak point” that QC never catches…or never gives a damn about. Who’s hiding inside? 7 possibilities for kids to collect! (Each sold separately and subject to availability.)

John Stewart here is a pretty nice figure and a decent repaint of some armor-y body. It's not quite accurate but it's a good mashup of costume and available tooling. Weirdly, they used a pale green plastic which doesn't seem very right for John. There's also something a bit off about the head (a bit too "inverted pear"-shaped, I think) and the power ring is just a dot of paint on his hand rather than a raised part of the sculpt like on Sinestro. I kind of have to wonder how the figures would have looked if they'd swapped the bodies used for Sinestro and John, here. He also, bizarrely, comes with the armor and weapon from the Chinese Warrior in Blind Bag series 5... they do look kinda neat in translucent green, but make absolutely no sense for this character at all. Overall, this Green Lantern is fine, but he's definitely not as strong of a release as the previous three figures. Okay, this is a weird series... Like some previous ones it really favors only a few particular colors (as if there was a sale on them, or excess that needed to be used up) which is kind of a bummer but not nearly as odd as that four of these six figures are just repaints! Does this guy look familiar? He might well because he's a repaint of two Series 4 figure - the Boxer but with the Basketball Player's head! He even gets a re-color of the boxer's practice dummy. At least they did swap the heads out, which helps make this guy feel more different (but if they wanted to go with a 'fro I would have preferred they grab the Disco stud's head with the sideburns - that would have been more fun/cool!). It is cool that they gave this guy a new face print, with a goatee and even a missing tooth. I had honestly forgotten about the previous Boxer but now that I'm reminded I'm quite happy to have an opponent for both! Collection of Imaginext® DC Super Friends™ mystery character figures for surprising, preschool-friendly pretend play

This dude is another weird one-off, that I'd seen described as "post-apocalyptic" somewhere, so I'll go with it (maybe he can fight the Welder guy from Series 8). This is the kind of figure I buy just to complete the set. I suppose he's fine for what he is, with a bulging mutant left arm/hand and right leg/foot, plus some bubbling on his head, but I don't really "get it." The biker outfit seems a bit incongruous and the fire hydrant accessory is well done but an odd, if not confusing, choice. I don't know that I'd ever heard of Catman before the Mattel figure, and he certainly does feel like a bit of a bottom-barrel character and effort... Basically "what if he just looks like Batman? Yeah! But orange and yellow! Sure. And... and give him Wolverine claws, too! Alright..." This figure captures that pretty well, despite a little bit of masking issues with the paint, mainly around the belt. I presume this is just a repaint of any number of Batman figures, but he does get some brand-new tooling is the guise of new hands sporting the "totally not a Wolverine ripoff" (I mean, he's almost wearing Wolverine's colors for crying out loud!) claws. The sculpts are nice and surprisingly more detailed and pointier than I'd expected from Imaginext. He come with a silver briefcase with a dollar sign on it because he's a hashtag-Villain. That, or just a hyper-paranoid hero with the power to not trust banks. Anyway, I hope the series continues, and I hope we get a Series 8 before Christmas of ’21. I like the choices for this set and I look forward to getting as many of these Imaginext DC figures together as my son and I can find in the near future. Maybe I’ll even try to snag up those missing, super-hard-to-find couple of guys we’re missing from Series 3.