I collect a limited number of these figures and this was one I wanted. McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Cyborg: Teen Titans is the full name given to this action figure. He’s based on his appearance in the Teen Titans animated series, which had a very impressive run of sixty-five episodes over five seasons, plus a full-length film as well, and was the DC Universe streaming service but mover to the HBO streaming service as the DC Universe streaming service is now just a comics service.
(The latter is a story worth telling but too long to tell here. Suffice it to say that Warner, owner of DC Comics, decided the streaming service should be like the Marvel Unlimited streaming service, which is just the comics, an intelligent move in my view. If you’ve got HBO, you can watch the series starting sometime in January of 2021.)
Teen Titans was a much less serious series, so this version of Cyborg, the being that Victor Stone became, looks a lot like a footballer who ran into a serious set of sci-fi armour. The back story is that a serious accident resulted in his father in one version, and other forces in other tellings, making him a cyborg with not much flesh being left and a lot of technology being added. There’s just enough flesh to show Victor’s Black as he always is, and young as well.
He’s seven inches tall, much larger than the standard six inch figure, but he’s supposed to be larger than his fellow Teen Titans so that makes sense.
The colors are true to the animated series and actually look very science fictional in nature, a neat trick that’s hard to do. . He looks cartoonish but not terribly so, say in contrast to the Funko Rock
Candy Spider-Gwen figure which looks seriously like a comic book character or the Rocket Raccoon and Groot figure. He comes with an alternate blaster hand which I’m not using as I like the look that you see here, and a base to stand on, though he doesn’t need it.
He’s quite posable, with some twenty moving parts. Unlike more human looking characters, his joints are not at all distracting as he’s supposed to be mechanical in nature. The skin tones are rather good, so he looks believable as a human too. As you can see by the image from the animated series to the right, the designer did a perfect job of catching the look of the character as he was in the that series.
I’m hoping McFarlane Toys does the rest of the Teen Titans as well, as they’d make a great set, particularly Robin and Raven, though I’m less in need of a Beast Boy. I’ll need to keep an eye on the McFarlane Toys site.
(McFarlane Toys, 2020)
