MR SINISTER

X-MEN (TOY BIZ)

Fun FiQ Fact #0020:  Toy Biz’s original Mr Sinister mold had three different color variations, as they desperately attempted to keep up with the character’s comic design changes.

Remember when I was talking about how I screwed up on my ID-ing of the Mr Sinister figures from Toy Biz?  It was a week ago, so it shouldn’t be too distant in your memories.  Well, there’s the three color variants, and I’ve looked at the original, and the late run repaint, but there’s one more, right in the middle, and I haven’t looked at him.  I don’t like the dangling anticipation, so check it out!  The last one!  Now with beard!

THE FIGURE ITSELF

Mr Sinister was released in the 1993 repaint series of Toy Biz’s X-Men line.  Last week’s Sinister was the way the repaint was shown off on the card back, but was actually released later, while this figure wasn’t pictured at all, yet was still the figure that shipped with the rest of the repaint series.  Like the other two Sinister figures, this one is 5 inches tall and he has 8 points of articulation.  It’s exactly the same sculpt as before.  He’s still stiff, but he still works for the character.  The color differences between this guy and the very first release are exceedingly minimal.  In fact, the two are identical apart from the outlined lips and the presence of the beard.  That’s it.  That’s the whole change-up.  Not even a minor palette swap.  I mean, I guess it could be worse?  It was enough to get me to buy it, so somebody won.  I don’t know who.  I mean, Toy Biz went out of business years ago, and I bought all of my Sinisters second hand, so not them.  Was it me?  Did I win?

THE ME REMAINDER OF THE EQUATION

It’s crazy that I didn’t have this guy on hand to do both repaints in one review last week, right?  Like, what are the odds that I’d find this repaint right after reviewing the other one?  Well, pretty low, because this one has been sitting in the backroom at All Time Toys since I got the other one.  They came in at the same time, and I got so distracted by the more obvious repaint, that I missed that I didn’t have this one.  Look, I try, you guys, but the Sinisters just confuse me.  They’re my Toy Biz blindspot!  Well, now I have all three, so no one can stop me now!

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