Review of the DC Collectibles Designer Series Greg Capullo Mr.Freeze figure

*sigh* There's nothing worse than being disappointment by a figure that you were looking forward to for months...

The Basics:
Scale: 6 1/2 inches
Price: $24.99



Sculpt and Paint:
So this is the New 52 Mr.Freeze design that has comic fans divided. I for one like the design, however I do feel a bit more armor bits would pull it together. That said the sculpt captures the design perfectly, but my favorite feature of the sculpt is definitely the face. The face sculpt perfectly captures Greg Capullo's art style and it just has a really nice menacing look to it. The goggles are sculpted and painted really well but it's his stern scowl that really makes the face. 

His chest armor and backpack all look really well, and his under-suit has a really cool chain-mail/Kevlar look about it. His bicep/shoulder guards are separate pieces that are glued on and I've seen reviews where they pop off, so be careful around that area. The knee pads and tips of his shoes are done in a nice metallic paint similar to his chest piece, belt and shoulder guards. His skin tone is the perfect shade of blue, with some nice highlights in the wrinkles and muscles. The belt is a separate sculpted piece also done in a nice metallic paint.

Accessories and Articulation:
For accessories, he comes with a removable helmet and his signature freeze gun. The freeze gun has a nice design to it, with what looks like an ice-pick at the top of it, and the only flaw is that it doesn't really fit well in his left hand, the only hand that can hold it. You can put it in the hand, but the grip doesn't fit and it just wobbles around in the grip. It is painted really nicely though with a metallic paint job and some blue highlights. 

For articulation his head is on a ball-joint, he has a swivel-hinge at the shoulders, swivel biceps, hinge elbows, swivel-hinge wrists, an ab crunch, a swivel waist, swivel-hinge ankles that are really loose, double hinge knees, swivel hips, and really limited ball jointed hips. They go out to the side really far, but forward and back they barely move. Oh wait, why is this hip suddenly really loose? It's almost as if the peg is-

*sigh* so...that happened. See the ball-joint is SO FREAKING SMALL, and it fits tightly in the hip, not to mention that once again it's molded out of THE VERY FRAGILE CLEAR PLASTIC that it just ripped while I tried to move it. Come on DC Collectibles. Why can't you just use normal plastic that is much tougher. I understand that it would probably cost more, but at the same time, you would be delivering a much better product! *sigh*

Overall: 
So this was a disappointing review. Even though the hips were insanely limited going forward and back, I could live with that since Mr. Freeze was never one for dynamic poses, but the fact that I simply tried to move it forward slightly led to the hip joint breaking. That's not cool, and shouldn't be a problem with these figures. Apart from that he also suffers from some really loose ankles.
6.5 out of 10