Believe it or not, I expected the look at White Star Commander Comet
to be the obituary for this line - maybe I've said that before a few
times. By the end of 2013 and 2014, fan sentiment toward the Four
Horsemen's two Glyos properties seemed to straddle the fence between
adoration and loathing. On one hand, Power Lords and The Outer Space Men
were amazingly well-crafted indie toys using familiar licenses to make
something for the discriminating action figure fan. On the other, to
recoup the tooling investment fans were effectively used to subsidize
the tooling with varied, dull unpainted figures like this one.
Effectively a blank that didn't have the good sense to actually be
unpainted, this figure was part of a set that actually cost more than
the fully-painted figures while delivering less. Even more
unfortunate, the set continued - 14 of the (so far) 17 unique characters
were done up in bare white plastic. And, if you can believe it, the
set is going to be finished up very very soon, and at least those three
have more interesting designs that make more of the whole White Star
motif.[ READ THE FULL REVIEW ]
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