9/28/09

Look What The Cat Dragged In

The DC Infinite Heroes Gotham City Patrol action figure set!

This Toys R Us exclusive set is the only way to get Catwoman in the DCIH series.

Catwoman is depicted in the costume she is currently running around the comic books in. The body is a simple lack plastic with no real details, but it works with this scale and this costume.

Her head sculpt is nice with the goggles and cat ears - there's no mistaking this feline fatale!

The whip/belt is a nice touch too,

They even added small "buckle" accents to her shoes. An interesting touch, but a nice effort nonetheless.

The Gotham City Patrol set is also the only place you can get a Jason Todd as Hush (or Hush as Jason Todd, or Clayface as Hush as Jason Todd or however it went down in the comics) figure!

Simply the same body as the DCIH Hush figure, This one has a new Jason Todd head, and an "R" painted on his chest too.

This figure was made solely for the fans, and Mattel should get high praise for it's existence (even if they should be admonished for it coming in a near impossible to find exclusive set at the same time.)

Only appearing in one comic back in 2002, Clayface as Hush as Jason Todd is a pretty obscure choice for any action figure series, let alone one as mainstream as Infinite Heroes.

The notoriously accessory free DCIH take a huge turn with this figure pack, including two - count 'em - TWO machine guns. While this doesn't make up for the accessories that are absent in every single other DCIH release, it makes me happy to have a gun totin' Clayface as Jason Todd as Hush.
Bang bang.

As if that all wasn't enough to make every DCIH lovin' Batman fan out there want this set, it ALSO is the only place you can get a DCIH Killer Croc!

This Killer Croc is much more mutant crocodile than man-with-skin-condition-turned-criminal Waylon Jones, but he's still a very impressive figure and if we assume the Hush storyline inspired this whole set then he does look closer to what Jim Lee envisions him to look than he did in many comics and the animated series.

At least he doesn't have a tail.

Croc is mean and green, and the tattered wrappings on his wrist remind me of the time Bane broke both his arms.

Rounding out the set are two Gotham City SWAT team members, who each also come with an accessory in the form of a billy club.

The cops' hands are sculpted to hold the small billy clubs well.

In addition, there's a small hole on their belts to hold it when not smacking justice into the skulls of the addicts, bums and jaywalkers of Gotham City.

They're either SWAT members or SWAT busters.

"A billy club ain't no match for Killer Croc, I gaurontee!"

Finally, this six figure set came with Batman in his Black and Greys. I already reviewed his single pack self in the same livery, so I won't go into details now, but he's cool and if you like Batman and you like DCIH you like this one too.

Forbidden love.

"Tickle tickle!"

Here's a side by side size comparison with recently reviewed Monsieur Mallah (also from DCIH) and Red Hulk (from Marvel Universe) because no one demanded it.

For some reason the Gotham City Patrol set, a Toys R Us exclusive, is very difficult to find at retail and is fetching big $ on eBay. It originally came out about a year ago, and I only ever saw it when I recently picked this one up during a road trip far from home. I highly recommend it, but sadly it may not be easy to track down. I got lucky - I also found mine for $19.98 because Toys R Us is clearancing their DCIH stuff lately.

DC Infinite Heroes: 16

DC Infinite Villains: 14

5 comments:

  1. Nice new figures i think the DC ones are really out doing the Marvel figures from the pictures i have seen.

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  2. This photo set makes me want to go shopping for some DCIH toys : )

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  3. I agree, jboy - the DC stuff just hits me closer to my toy lovin' heart than the Marvel stuff.

    Go CB go!

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  4. Am with you Chunky B am thinking of hitting up Toys R Us this weekend while the wife is at work i want to get a Blue Beetle and Question action figures if they have any and maybe Captain Atom too lol.

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  5. Wow. Nice find!

    Lucky!!

    Color me jealous. I've been looking for this set for a long time but I'm not willing to spend ebay prices.

    You'd think Mattel would have made plenty of these to go around.

    Drat.

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