LOBO

 

Honestly Injustice is not mya favorite fight game, far from it, its full of the same issues Nether Realm rejoice reproduce over and over again: odd models, weird and choppy animations, stiff movement and tacky half combos as well as unbalancing enviroment gimmicks, and yet despite being soo "basic" it had a lot of mindless fun as well as a good athmosphere and an inviting idea; using the DC characters.

When Strom Collectibles took the lisence it was a susprise but not as much as when they released the figures: not only they didnt touch Batman, Superman or any other Justice League characters, but they focused entirelly on the villians! And not only that but they give a chance to a DLC, my favorite character from the game, Lobo.

It took me a long time to get Lobo, like i said, i dont like too much Injustice but Storm releasing my favorite character first was once in a million chances, also after seen the hiddeous version of McFarlane Toys it was pretty evident Strom´s Lobo is the best plastic version of the character soo i took the chance before his price sky rocket next year.

Lobo is huge, much more taller than the rest of figures of Strom and even a little bit taller than Dimitri and is also much more heavyer. He dosnt have issues standing tough his legs kind of "bounce" due to the heavy weigth, something i only say on the Play Arts Kai. And since he is not a Street Figther, he dosnt have the honor to have a base.

He is articulated on the head, shoulders, elbows, biceps, wrists, chest, waist, legs, knes, ankles and half feet. The chest section (including his vest), as well as the hips piece and skulls on his knes are made with soft plastic soo they dont get in the way of the articulations, tough thanks to his masive frame, he have a kind of limited movement. Like an example he cant hold his weapon with both hands at front because his arms and chest are soo huge his hands cannot meet. ALos his ankles articulations move in front and back but somehow dosnt move to the sides.

His head is also restricted by his hair but thats to be expected, all the pose limitations are due to the character muscles and hair and not by the clothes or enginering issues.

Now the sculpt, really it seems Storm wanted to mix the Injustice design with the original comic book version because there is a lot of alterations in here. First his huge frame, in the game he is much more lean but in this figure he is almost hulkish (and of course taller), also he is missing the gun on his left leg hostler and in the game he have only one glove, here he have two. The face is also different, since in the game he have a thicker beard and here he have a thin mustache and the "marks" on his eyes are also different.

This is like the comic book Lobo dressed on the outfit of the Injustice Lobo and i cant blame Storm for doing this since Injustice character models are very poor in quality (in Injustice 2 every female character have the same face lmao) soo by sticking to the comic book original design i think they defined the character much more and made him stand out from other figures of the same brand.

Once you forget the difference with the game (and is not hard) is easy to see how good the sculpt is. His anatomy looks very unique compared to the other Strom figures, his abs looks amazing and extremelly realistic as well as the veins on his biceps, the wrinkles on his forehead and around his mouth shows this is not a young guy but a mature man and i love that.

The leatherish texture on his vest is fantastic as well as the small details on it, like the skull pin and the "Bit me Fanboy" on the back . The softish spikes on his shoulders, the granedes on his legs, the skull buckle on his belt, i think is imposible to find a single thing that looks out of place in here.

The paint have the same quality, with a very dark blue and grey color palette, with only red on the stars of his shin guards and eyes, there is a lot of paint here unlike the other Storm figures, mostly because his body is not cast on skin color like the rest, but is fully painted, this gives to his skin a pretty unatural texture and theres risk of chipping away the paint with the movement of the articulation and theres even some chipping already on his skull, under the hair, but i guess that cant be helped given the odd color of his skin.

His accesorys are a bunch of extra hands: a pair to hold his gun, a pair to hold his chain and a pair to hold his cigar soo he can hold any item on either side and exchange them is pretty easy. He also have two extra head: one smiling, and another one smiling with the cigar between his teeth. His smile is extremelly big and demonic, very sexy really and bod heads have the same quality paint as the normal serious head.

He also have 3 extra wigs and that was a susprise. Is pretty evident Storm really wanted this figure to be taken as well as something from the comic book, since they give him two wish with the hair style of the comic, with the short hair in front. This two hair pieces are helpfull to move his head better and reveal his vest since the other two hair pieces have really thick dreads locks hanging on front. One of the dread locks wigs is sculpted looking at the side because move his head with the basic hair piece is pretty difficult.

All 4 wigs can be exchanged in between the 3 heads using a little lid that fits on a small cavity on his cranium. This hair change is pretty tricky and kind of confusing, really, but i guess is better to have more than less and you can chose his looks from the comic or the videogame.

His other accesory is a cigar that fits between his fingers and gives him lots of personality as well as his two weapons: a short shotgun and his hook. The shotgun is nicelly sculpted and reads "BOOM!" on the side tough for some reason it have no paint application, it have a metalic texture and is totally black, with some grey tones here and there but somehow they forget to add the brown and white details for the wood and bandages section. I am surprised Storm forget the paint considering how spectacular is the rest of the figure. The shotgun fits on the hostler on his back perfectly while not on his hands.

His other weapon is his hook, attached to a long chain that forms a bracalet that conects with his wrists. This chain can be detached by removing the hand and the hook can be separated from the chain as well with the use of a clasp. I was expecting the chain to be really anoying but is not, while really good looking, it wraps around his arms pretty nicelly and is easy to remove, totaly opposite to McFarlane Toys, tough while not in use there no place to "hold" the hook since on the game it hangs from the back side of his pants but thats impposible with this figure.

And thats it....there is no effect in here, this is the very first Strom figure i get with no effect and i dont know wath to think about it. I mean, Lobo dosnt shoot any eye ray like Superman or anything but i wish they gives him a shootign effect for his shotgun. Also, and even more worrysome for me, he is laking any background. Really, all Storm figures have a background made of cardboard with an image of a level of the games, but here thats missing. I cant belive Storm is missing one of the signatures details of his products. Sorry, not one sigantrue detail, but two since there is no effect either.

While i find the missing effect and background alarming, the rest of the figure is stelar: he looks really mean, menacing, scary and unique and the quaity is top notch, even the design libertys they took with him are really good and suits him well.

Lobo is in fact one of the sexyer male characters from the comic book industry and this action figure really do him justice as the best plastic representation of the character (not counting the Sideshow statues). There is not any other character from Injustice i want too soo he will be alone, until Storm release his bike....i am really REALLY tempted to get his bike now....