![]() ![]() There are definitely some spots on this guy, notably the hips and the mid-torso joint, which aren’t sporting a lot of range, and in fact feel a bit like they may break if pushed much beyond their basic positioning. As much as I liked the Kid Flash from this same assortment, his articulation did leave some things to be desired. This one’s not perfect by any means after all, he’s DCC, and they have mega troubles with articulation, too. The Multiverse Atom was pretty awful in the articulation category, as was true of most Multiverse figures of the time. The figure stands 6 3/4 inches tall and he has 26 points of articulation. As such, Atom hit a bit after the other two. He hit shelves in late 2017, and was in an assortment that also included Kid Flash and White Canary, though as is often the case with DCC figures, the assortment had no bearing on them actually getting to stores together. THE FIGURE ITSELFĪtom was figure 3 in the Legends of Tomorrow line from DC Collectibles. I always meant to get the DCC version as a follow-up, but, well, I didn’t. As a rule, I tended to go with the DCC versions, but Mattel’s Atom got the jump on DCC, which is why I got that one. The thing about the figures from the CW shows was that both Mattel and DC Collectibles had their proverbial fingers in the pie, and that meant we got multiple options for several of the characters. It may be the greatest letdown I ever experienced under Mattel’s tenure with the license, and given how badly they ran things for the last five years or so, that’s saying something. In October of 2017, I reviewed Mattel’s take on Brandon Routh’s Atom from Legends of Tomorrow. He kind of exemplified the kind of stuff the line could do very well when it played to its strengths.ĪTOM DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW (DC COLLECTIBLES) He was always one of my favorites from the line, and I stand by that. The three packs were hard to get at first, and my dad wound up finding this one for me, which he presented to me as sort of a gift of acomplishment after I lost a tooth mid-way through a school play and still went on with the show. Given the scale, though, it’s a pretty minor difference.Ītom was my first JLU figure. ![]() Interestingly, this smaller Atom appears to have his mold based on the mid-range body, which was patterned on Batman, making him look a little bulkier than his full-sized compatriot. As a single-release, Atom actually got an accessory it’s a miniature version of himself. ![]() The insignia on the head and belt is decent, and the blue and red are fairly close to what they should be. His paint work is pretty basic stuff, but it covers his needed set-up pretty well. It’s very cleanly handled, and instantly distinct from the other characters in the line (well, apart from the Hourman figure that re-used the head, but that’s a whole other thing). He got a new head sculpt, which was a strong recreation of the animation design, and just a pretty strong sculpt in general. It’s perhaps a touch skinny for how Ray was portrayed on the show, but it was a closer fit than any of the other options. Atom was built on the skinniest of the male base bodies, which was patterned on the original Flash sculpt. The figure stands 4 1/2 inches tall and he has 5 points of articulation. He was re-released a couple of times after that in multipack form, but this guy’s the original release. They largely kept the new team members confined to the multipacks at the start, so he was largely packed in with a bunch of unnecessary variants of the core 7, making him by far the most desirable in the bunch. The Atom was part of the first single-carded assortment of Mattel’s Justice League Unlimited line. I’m looking at his main JLU line figure today! THE FIGURE ITSELF Percival Cox himself, John C McGinnley, and got two focus episodes of his own, as well as a little bit of action figure coverage. He first got his name dropped during Justice League’s second season, before becoming a member of the titular team in the following season, when the went “Unlimited.” He was voiced in the show by Dr. He’s found himself as a supporting player in a number of DC projects. Ray Palmer’s turn as the Atom reshaped the character, and has been the standard going forward. Where the Golden Age Atom was just a kinda small guy who was a bit of a bruiser, his replacement in the Silver Age was a man who could shrink down to the size of the thing he took his name from. When reworking their slate of Golden Age heroes into something that better fit the more “modern” audience of the ’60s, DC banked far more heavily on science and “space age” ingenuity for the backgrounds of their superheroes.
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