My friends at Plastic Memory have your first look at Plastic Man!

[scott metzger]

Except for J'Onn, they look really good:

J'Onn: Another figure with a big head. Seriously, why? Hal is just about perfect scale from the packaged pic, and he has a brand new head sculpt. The sculpt itself is an almost perfect bronze age version of J'Onn; the brows are pronounced, but not too heavy, and he doesn't just look like a bald human. I guess we're never going to get this problem fixed, so it's always going to be a toss up whether any figure is going to be done right. J'Onn is one of my all time favorites, and I'm ticked they had to mess him up like this when Flash and GL are just fine.

GL: Thank the Guardians, his head is actually the right size; this would have been a case where I would have passed on the figure altogether simply out of frustration had he had Alfred syndrome. The sculpt looks great, even the hairstyle is just right (pure Mike Grell). I like the way the gloves were done overall; only minor gripe is that he is going to stand out a little with the other DC classic Mego styled heroes. Maybe they can make him with the classic white hands/material glove tops in a later release? I am glad they went with actually sewing the green and black hourglass shape of the torso rather than just doing a screen print; I realize Mego would likely have done the former, but he fits in with some of the better costumes made later in the line, so that doesn't make him stand out in my eyes. FTC could have cheaped out here, but they went with the upscale option, which is appreciated. If he looks like this in final form, I've got a new favorite Mego.

Flash: Head looks maybe a touch big in the package shot, but fine where he's running; even if the package shot is accurate, it's still within, say, Thor sizing, so it's not too bad. Not sure he needed the turtleneck, but it will keep him from showing flesh around the neck plug, so it's not a bad idea. He's pretty much dead on to what a Mego Flash would have been, though I think the belt and glove bolts are likely applied like the chest emblem, so they are likely a lot sharper than what we would have seen in the 70's. Nice, nice figure.

Plas: heads a tad big, but the exaggerated face mitigates that a lot. THe added highlights in the goggle lenses is a very nice touch, something I never would have expected; above and beyond there. I agree, this is one case where the leggings would have made him more comic accurate, the rare case they were actually needed, but I've got a spare Tarzan suit, so I can easily fix that. The costume with the actual tie in front is excellent. A teeny bit of head shrinkage and leggings would have made him darn near perfect.

[Jeffdmia]

Flash doesn't need gloves! They look strange! He would look great with just the (correct) red hands, and yes, Plastic Man needs leggings!! Maybe for the non-fist fighter versions? Otherwise, these look GREAT!!!

[tllgn]

I pre orered a set ,they look so cool .

[scott metzger]

Have to agree on the gloves for Flash; they'd look great on another figure, but they break up the look of Flash's arms too much. Easy enough to switch to a body with red hands, mind you, and I hope we do see these gloves used elsewhere.

On their own merits, the costumes look really good; I guess my perspective here is that, with these particular characters, I was looking for something that was pure Mego style, something you could put next to the original or repro FTC Mego. I was hoping to get the Megos we never got, and then maybe some better, more comic based versions. So it's not really that there's anything majorly wrong with the figures (aside from the head size on J'Onn); ironically, it's that they are a little TOO good in some aspects to fit in with what I was hoping for....

[hedrap]

I would say they were trying to follow the WGSH line evolution. Titans, Iron Man and FF had gloves instead of colored hands and oven mitts. Emblems were heat sealed and sewing pattern were more detailed.

In that context, to me, they do look like if Mego made a DC line in '76.

[scott metzger]

I would say they were trying to follow the WGSH line evolution. Titans, Iron Man and FF had gloves instead of colored hands and oven mitts. Emblems were heat sealed and sewing pattern were more detailed.

In that context, to me, they do look like if Mego made a DC line in '76.

I see that point for the most part. In Flash's case, though, the lightning bolts are on the sleeve above the glove rather than at the top of the glove itself; that's what looks off and sloppy to me. I think it would actually look cleaner and better with just the colored hands. And Hal would likely look fine with the gloves Barry has in white, as they would fit in with things like Iron Man's gloves back in the day. The sculpted hands/gloves look great on their own merits, but definitely not Mego-like.

[TRDouble]

I am just now seeing the gloved pictures of The Flash... awww! I though he would just have red hands. The Flash should look streamlined and slick. That is probably why the collar feels a bit off to me too.

If I can get the correct color matching hands, I think I will remove the gloves for the hands.

If the lightning bolts were at the top of the glove itself, like scott mentioned, it might have worked.

Still a great looking figure overall though.