SWAMP THING

When i was probablly six years old, i remember enter into a toy store and being left in awe with the Swamp Thing action figure series from Kenner. I didnt knew there was a comic about it nor did i watched the movie and the cartoon was never on TV but i feel in love of those characters.

The main character was a plant man that was somehow cute and sexy (muscled plant) and i loved Dr. Arcane spidery shape and his mutated and monstruos Un-men. A century later i still have those figures and remember them as one of the most unusual and fun collection from my childhood.

Fastforward 26 years later and here i am, getting a brand new Swamp Thing with modern touches. This guy was….extremelly cheap, i could not pass on him due to the low price and how big he is.

He is from DC Classic series and since i dont own any other figure of the series i cant do a size comparission, but i seen photos on the internet that show hes bigger than Bane and double the size of Batman. This figure is a little bit smaller than a Play Arts Kai but dwarfs all other action figure scale being Neca or Figma and is really heavy.

Tough he can stand perfectly with his own huge feet but he comes with wath is his only accesory: a base. The base consist on a swampy setting with logs and skills and a spinal cord coming out from the fungus and mud. The details are good but wath i love the most about this is the colors. The vibrant greens are really good looking and looks poisonous and radioactive and match perfectly with the oranges and browns here and there. The base is deffinetly nicelly done.

Now going back to the Swamp Thing, he can stand perfectly and is huge, like i say, but he also have the same green radioactive texture and color from the base soo is really consistant with the overall look almost like he and the base are the same creature. He have brown vines and mushrooms coming out randomly on him as well as yellow flowers and sweet potato on his back (a great detail for those who reads Alan Moore story arc and still remember that grose scene with a character eating this sweet potatos).

The colors are vibrant and strong and are perfectly deffined. This is specially evident on his face with his dark green lips and shiny red eyes. His eyes and the overall shape of his face reminds me the Boris Karloff Frankestein Monster, his face features are menacing and cold but they have a bautifull statuesque angles as well.

Now here is the thing, he is squishy, veeeerrryyyy squishy soo that gives him a kind of….organic texture that makes him very different to any other action figure around.

He is articulated on his head, shoulders and legs. The legs articulations can be opened but the gap is pretty evident and not pretty to see, tough he also have a frame skeleton under his squishy ruber meat soo he have invisible articulations!!! Elbows, wrists, knees and ankles can be also moved without revealing a gap wich gives him an amazing look!!

Tough as pretty and bautifull as this figure is, he have his issues. The thick rubber meat limit his articulations a lot and is not recomended to keep him in different poses for too long or force the articulations sicne i am afraid the rubber skin can broke apart (and is also possible to broke the inside frame) soo this guy is extremelly delicate.

Even soo, i dont think this guy was too expensive, as far as i know, he is in “standar” action figure category, in mass market price, wich is pretty amaxing since the framed body, super detailed sculpt and vibrant paint is much more of a high end market. This is like a Hot Toys figure in smaller scale.

And while i love the Kenner figures set from 1990, i am very happy to own this character in a more modern and impresive figure. He looks great for a DC and comic books collection but he looks terrific as well as a horror character as well and can be paired with any monster figure around (Universal Monster or horror movies figures) and….i still think he looks kinda hunky.