[TAO's Note: It's time for another DrNightmare review, and this time he heads into the world of Toy Biz from a few years ago with this Marvel Legends release in the Onslaught build-a-figure wave. DrNightmare has forbidden me from offering any silly puns, but let me assure anyway, this fellow is indeed the bomb. Read on to find out why!]
Name: Green Goblin
Line: Marvel Legends, Onslaught Wave
Manufacturer: Toy Biz
Price: Online:
Scale: 6.00 in.
Accessories: Glider, purse, and pumpkin bomb
Build-a-Figure Piece: Onslaught's right leg
Why is Green Goblin considered one of the greatest villains of all time? Well, he wears green and purple (like the Joker), laughs insanely all the time (like Joker), and flys around on a rocket (...like Joker's imaginary rocket, yeah!). Anyway, Norman here stands a hair under 6 inches, which is actually perfect considering Osborn is supposed to be a hair under 6-feet tall. This is one fine figure, the detailing enhances the overall appearance, even the long-cap and gloves have realistic seams. The face looks like it's a real face instead of a mask, but the bulging eyes with hollow pupils help remind you that it is a mask after all. The scale-armor is uniform, and Toy Biz even went as far as having that scale-detail in the elbow and knee-joints too! Truly awesome attention to detail, it's always appreciated.
The entire figure has a very fine sandpapery texture, it's like what used sandpaper feels like. It's most visible on the purple areas, but only if you stare at it from 2 inches away. The body has a slender build, but the very round shoulders look a little too wide, they need to be tapered down. Also, the hands are too big, so the arms in turn look too long. While I'm complaining; the metallic pumpkin-bomb is glued in the left hand, but it could have been left unglued and it would work just fine because the palm has a peg that plugs snugly into a little hole in the bomb. In other words, just rip it out of his hand and you magically have a removable bomb. Another thing, that bag he's carrying at his side looks like a purse! It doesn't look like a MANLY satchel, no! It's a purse! Lame! And the strap is too thick to look natural, but you can slip the bag off. There's no hole in his back like many ML figures had, I'm assuming it's because of the Glider-base. The glider stinks though, it's just gray plastic with no details etched in it and so deserves no more mention (also, I probably threw it away!).
And because people demand to know, the only pieces that are the same between the Green Goblin and Hobgoblin figures are the gloves, chest, and thighs/shins. Everything else is a different sculpt, if only slightly.
Sculpt Score: 8 / 10
Why is Green Goblin considered one of the greatest villains of all time? Well, he wears green and purple (liAbout 98% of the figure isn't painted, it gives it the dreaded "plasticky" vibe. At least the plastic has a matte finish so it helps to offset it. The texture helps diffuse light even more so it doesn't look like a block of solid glossy plastic. Inevitably, the figure looks a little bland because it isn't shaded at all, it has all solid colors. There's a simple belt-band at the waist, but it isn't painted. It doesn't stand-out too much though, if you pretend it's not there, hah.
The eyes and teeth are the only painted things on the figure, and they're painted fairly well, with only a little fading. The cute little pumpkin-button on the satchel is painted gold. See, satchels aren't supposed to have cute little designs, another indicator that this bag is a purse!
Paint Score: 7 / 10
All joints are tight and the more important ones, like hips and shoulders, are Click-Joints. In fact, all the Hinges (except the fingers/toes) are Click-Joints! The knees are a little weak because they're scrawny, they like to bend to the sides, but the figure manages to stand well on its own (and the peg-holes under the feet let you use other figures' bases for stability). There are no problems when placing it on the Glider, even the tips of the boots are rubbery so they can loop into the Glider's foot-loops. I said FOOT-loops, not FRUIT-loops. The fingers are also very rubbery...just because! No clue why. The fingers look way too round, I guess they couldn't make the fingers too sharp. Similarly, the ears are also too round at the tips, but anyway... All expected Marvel Legends articulation is present, the ankles just don't rock side-to-side. The waist is surprisingly a Click-Swivel, so you've got added support for all your crazy aerial-poses.
Articulation Score: 9 / 10
He's crazy, he's got no fashion sense, he talks to himself in mirrors all the time, Green Goblin is awesome! Getting toys of characters you know and love is always an inherently-fun experience. Even if you don't love GG, you still have to get him to torment Spidey! You've got stories running through your head as soon as you hit the Check-out line! Today he will push Spiderman into a vat of dirty dish-water. Tomorrow he will take over the Washer and dryer and hold it for ransom until your mom buys you ice-cream and your dad buys you that ugly Mary Jane figure. But you want HIM to go buy it for you, and make him wait in line so all the other manly-men in line can laugh at him for buying a girl-toy. Ha ha, loser.
The Glider is okay, you could easily tie some fishing-line to it and hang it from the ceiling. It doesn't shoot any projectiles like the 90s Spiderman Cartoon glider, but at least it looks a lot more menacing...you know, to people who think dull gray boring things are menacing. You could always give GG Hobgoblin's Shiny Purple Glider! Shiny Purple is MUCH scarier than Gray!
Fun Score: 8 / 10
Thank your lucky stars if you saw one of these at retail, there was a craze where people wanted twice the price for it online. But, that seems to be the trend with EVERY FREAKING TOYLINE nowadays. For around 8 bucks, you would get an average-sized ML figure, a glider, a neat pumpkin-bomb, a purse, an Onslaught BAF piece, a cool backdrop, AND a trading card! Wow! What the hell happened to the toy-world since then? Why the hell didn't we get those badass Fantastic 4 figures like Movie Annihilus and Doombot here in the US!? Where's my half-naked-costume Susan Storm figure!? But I digress. There is an unmasked variant of this figure, so get that one if you want to see Osborn's ugly mug, and if you can even find it.
Value Score: 9 / 10
8 / 10 - Clean crisp details for the most part, chest is great for making Scarlet Spiderman customs, hah.
7 / 10 - Not much at all there, and the bit that is there is a little faded.
9 / 10 - Great, but the rubbery fingers/toes are silly.
8 / 10 - Look at this toy and tell me you don't instantly hear his maniacal laughter!
9 / 10 - Could use more Pumpkin Bombs, but you get lots of goodies anyway.
82 / 100 - This is a Great Toy
This is a definitive Green Goblin to have, it works well as either a comic-version or animated-series-version.
-DrNightmare
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