I’ve tried heating it, then freezing, to see if that will get it moving, but to no avail. The legs connect via these small, skinny, pegs and below them should be a thigh swivel, but my figure is totally stuck on both legs. At the hips, he can pivot a bit, but the shell won’t let him spin all the way around or anything. The wrists rotate and have horizontal hinges. The elbows are single-hinged, and like the other turtles, the elbow pad won’t let him achieve a 90 degree bend. He won’t be serving as a “T” for any cheer squads. At the shoulders, we have ball hinges, but the shape of the shoulder means he really can’t lift his arms out to the side much. The range isn’t spectacular since he has a sculpted neck with no lower neck articulation, but it works all right. Metalhead has a head that sits on the same ball joint and he can pivot up, down, and to the side. In terms of articulation, Metalhead is basically the same as his organic allies, though the execution is not. You can see how the stuck thigh swivels impact how the left kneed is positioned. It’s so pleasing that I kind of don’t want to put the backpack on him. Something about how the light rolls across the rear of the shell is very pleasing. I think this paint job is pretty flashy and I quite like it. I am personally not that into vac metal, so I don’t really care. Instead, they just went with a super, metallic, paint job for the torso that’s a very lustrous gold. The front of the figure’s “shell” is a separate piece so they could have made that removable and given people a vac metal plate to put over it if they so desired.
I think, with a little creativity, they could have made it happen if they had really wanted to. Super7 opted not to do the chest or shell in vac metal for these reasons. The problem is, it only adheres to harder plastics like ABS (most toys are a type of PVC) and it’s prone to chipping as it does not possess any sort of give. The vac metal is less a paint, and more like a heavy, duty, coating. The original figure was vac metal, a process by which a layer of reflective, metallic, paint is placed over a hard plastic to create a finish akin to chrome. Of course, the elephant in the room concerns Metalhead’s torso. Here it looks cool, but is a little concerning when it comes to articulation, but we’ll get to that in due time. I don’t recall how these looked on the old figure, I’m guessing they were there, but part of the sculpt. Super7 seems to have taken some small liberties with the figure’s legs as there are now tubes connecting the back of the knee to the thigh. If you don’t care for this though, Metalhead’s alternate head is exactly the same, but with that feature removed in favor of red paint. Shine a light into the top of his brain and it should filter through the eyes. The head still features the light piping which is to say that his eyes and brain are cast in a red, transparent, plastic and the rest of the head is molded around it. Those were sculpted on the original toy, but unpainted and it’s nice to see them brought to life here. And a lot of the details are quite familiar to me as I look this guy over, especially the little lightning bolts on the forearms and shins. The base color for the figure is gray, so every bit of red, black, yellow, silver, and green is painted on. It’s an impressive mold and it also means Super7 had to use a lot more paint than they usually do. His entire body is covered with grooves, buttons, vents, wires, and rivets.
Metalhead was one of the more detailed sculpts released by Playmates in the original toy line, and the same is true for this version as well. I had to bring out the flash for this shell.
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