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00:00Forget about prisons. This criminal may be too cold to hold.
00:03Here's a look at McFarlane Toys' DC Multiverse, Mr. Freeze.
00:07The corporation funding Victor's work shut down his experiment and in the process caused
00:28a horrible accident. The coolants did imperable harm and made it impossible for him to survive
00:33above freezing temperatures. To counteract this, Victor constructed a special ultra-durable
00:37suit to keep his body alive and at the right temperature. He embraced his new persona and
00:41became Mr. Freeze. This might just be a figure you'll want to display on its own because
00:45it's very cold in space. Just before we get a closer look though at the brand new Mr.
00:50Freeze, decked out in Batman animated series colors, the tape measure is going to tell
00:54us that with the dome on his head, because you have to keep the dome on after all, the
00:56figure is going to stand at 7 inches in height, or the cold, chilling Mr. Freeze is 18 centimeters
01:02tall. I see the temperature has dropped down below in double digits. Speaking of double
01:07digits, here's what the figure looks like with the other version of Mr. Freeze, speaking
01:10of which that doesn't happen to have his dome right now. His whereabouts of his dome remain
01:18right now unknown, unfortunately though, and while it may be a disappointment to that figure,
01:22it isn't so much a disappointment the fact that this is literally just seeming to be
01:25using the same mold. There are things though that make this figure almost seeming a little
01:31bit shorter though than the original Mr. Freeze, but I think it's more just my eyes playing
01:34tricks on me. Bringing in the other figures as well for comparisons, here's what the figure
01:37looks like with my go-to Batman. Here's the Batman from of course Batman Nightfall. Here's
01:41what he looks like as well with the Joker. Let's bring them all in. Here's what he looks
01:45like as well with the recently looked at Penguin, who's going to fit in really rather nicely
01:48here with the rest of the rogues gallery. Here's what he looks like with the classic
01:51Riddler, and even though we don't really have yet a classic Catwoman, here's what the figure
01:55looks like with one from at least the Nightfall wave. A bit on the basics when it comes to
02:00his accessories. Sure, Mr. Freeze only unfortunately comes included with the display stand, a trading
02:04card, and of course his freeze gun. Backing that up just a bit, the figure of course comes
02:08included with the display stand, which I can't help but notice this time around that the
02:11black is a little more faded. This will of course then change. Every time we look at
02:15these DC Multiverse figures, I should really kind of keep a gradient stack of them so I
02:18could like bring in one for example, just to show you that the colors do change ever
02:22so often. These just happen to be the exact same color, but this one is just a tad bit
02:26lighter than I'm used to seeing, but it still has at least the DC logo branded down below,
02:31and of course the neighboring peg off to the side that can plug into either one of Victor's
02:34feats. Figure as well comes included with a trading card, taking very much the cues
02:39not only from the color scheme, but as well this card, very much basing it from the animated
02:43series design of Victor Freeze. I love that they have him here, Nora I would imagine would
02:47be kind of right around here, and maybe we might even get ourselves a contained Nora
02:51inside her glass chamber. That would be a nice little accompanying display piece for
02:55this version of Mr. Freeze. If we flip it around the back of the card, the back does
03:00tell us that once again it's Victor Freeze, not Fries. It's not serving him on the side,
03:05and of course there is a substantial paragraph you can read for yourself. I don't worry.
03:10Don't worry. No, no, no, no, no, no. I've already read it. Don't even have to bother
03:15reading it. The figure also as well comes included with his freeze gun. It's the same
03:19freeze gun they would have had for the other Mr. Freeze. This would have been the prime
03:23time of course to bring in that other freeze gun. I don't have it right now. It must be
03:26in the same place where the dome for his figure may have actually turned up. It looks to be
03:30though the exact same gun. It seems to also have the same problem of having the freeze
03:34blast extended out. Not that that's a problem. Apparently this is removable. I tried to do
03:38that on the other Mr. Freeze gun, and it just broke right off. There is a piece right here
03:43that seems clearly like it's separate from the rest of the freeze gun, but if history
03:47has served to show me anything, that the last time I did do this, I ended up just breaking
03:51off the nozzle. I mean, if you were just to break this off, not that I would really recommend
03:55the idea of doing that, at least you'd still have quite a serviceable looking freeze gun.
03:59It just has the benefit though of the freeze blast on the end. That's all done here in
04:02a translucent frosted plastic. He does have, by the way, gripping hands on both sides of
04:07his body. No swapping out is required, but this figure, this figure finger's hand on
04:12this side here, just happens to be lined up perfectly to fit around the trigger. Although
04:15the trigger would be only like this small little lip of plastic right here. Just fits
04:20into his hands. A little bit of prying may be required. We'll just go ahead and get
04:25the freeze gun into his hands, and then you can extend his arm out. I don't know if it
04:28really is. Now this is, I think, the third time we've gotten this freeze mold before.
04:32There's also as well, I believe, a super powers version of Mr. Freeze, or that DC superheroes
04:37line that we got kind of as the branched off line after the super powers line. There
04:42was also a colored version of Mr. Freeze that matched a little bit more closer than that.
04:45I think it had like the purples, it had the reds, it didn't have little nozzle cannons
04:49that would have been on the front of that version of Mr. Freeze. I never got the chance
04:52to pick that one up, and I'm kind of really glad that I did. The reason why I just meandered
04:56on just talking about the way that I did, was that I think with the mold time of having
05:01this figure being released, what, the three times already, I think he started to develop
05:04very much looseness in the arms. I've noticed that the arms on my freeze, at least, are
05:09very much on the looser side. You can kind of see for yourself the way that these flop
05:13around. It will mean, though, that when, if it comes to displaying this guy with his arm
05:17out like this, it's already adding stress to the shoulders, because there's the weight,
05:20fairly bit of weight there on the plastic for the cannon, that I think it's going to
05:24start to make the arms drip a little bit more, and that makes me a little sad. Let's go ahead
05:28and remove this right now. We'll put it off to the side. Mr. Freeze, like the original
05:31one, would have had a removable dome. I'm only going to do this temporary, because I
05:34don't want this man to suffocate by just the temperatures all around him. I've also
05:37dropped the temperatures all around me. I don't know if you can see my breath. No, you
05:41can't. Okay. Let's just remove his dome. This just pops off like this, and if you look at
05:45the inside, the front of the dome has this little half circle shape that fits then basically
05:50around this little area of his, of the inside collar. This is what Mr. Freeze would look
05:54like. He's obviously, though, a different color, though, of Mr. Freeze. Let's just bring
05:58in the original one here. Mr. Freeze, the original one, approached the colors kind of
06:02more in a very light teal, whereas this new Mr. Freeze, of course, matching the colors
06:07of the animated series, goes the more approach of coloring the face more of a white. The
06:12goggles are also red, where the original one would have been kind of more of an orange-ish
06:15red. You can see, as well, like the colors of the costume. Hold on, guys. Hold on. Hold
06:19on. You can see the colors, though, of the costume are the only thing that seems to be
06:22changed. The molds are exactly the same, whereas there, obviously, there's some, a little more
06:29efforts, attentions to details that they've done to this one, because obviously they would
06:32have colored differently the tops of the thighs, the lower end of the boots, the things like,
06:35for example, on the sides of his gloves, those would also have been painted, because, of
06:38course, this has to match the colors a little closer, I feel, to the animated series. They've
06:43done away with all the additional detailing here and kind of just kept the colors more
06:47just to the basic black. The black works really well with the color that they've used here,
06:51which is, I would best describe as kind of a bluish silver. It's got the nozzles there
06:54on the front that will feed its way all the way back to the back tank. The tank isn't,
06:58though, removable. I wish there was still a section that there could have been, like
07:01a little hole for here, and maybe there would be a peg. They could plug the Freeze blaster
07:05on the back. Just someplace to store it if you weren't looking to display this, though,
07:09with Mr. Freeze. I like the look of the cannon. I like the look of the tank, though, on his
07:13back, and it's definitely permanently attached to his torso. All in all, though, it is nice
07:17Mr. Freeze. I would try to refrain from saying the word cool, because I know that would just
07:22be punning this character, but I really like, I think the figure looks really, really cool.
07:27The thing when I looked at the original Mr. Freeze, I always kind of really felt that
07:30he was going to be just a temporary stand-in until we eventually got ourselves a better
07:33release. I don't think it was necessarily the mold. The mold wasn't so much the problem.
07:37I just thought that the original colors of Mr. Freeze didn't quite jive for what I wanted
07:41to have as the iconic look to the killer. You don't need so much a killer. I guess
07:45he just likes to freeze people more for revenge. Now, for the figure's articulation, I guess
07:49we'll just leave the dome off for right now, because Mr. Freeze's does have head articulation,
07:54which can rotate the head back and forth, and you can also move it up and down. A very
07:58young actor, Matt Frewer, would have been an ideal candidate for Mr. Freeze. He would
08:02have done Max Hedrum back in the day. He would have also done other things as well. He was
08:05the space time traveler in that episode of Star Trek Next Generation. He basically just
08:10wanted to steal all the technology from the future, because he was actually from the past.
08:14Anyways, he looked a little bit like that. I mean, obviously you can see he's got the
08:17goggles there, but yeah, the head does have a ball joint, so even though he is encased
08:21underneath the tomb of that dome, he does actually have some decent levels of posability.
08:26You can move the head up and down. You can also rock it back and forth as well. Let's
08:29go ahead and put the dome back in place. Let the poor man breathe.
08:33As for the arms, now the way they've designed the arms is that the shoulders are attached
08:37right here. These extra shoulder pieces. These are soft plastic, but at least they've put
08:41them far enough down that if you wanted to move his arms out, for example, they're not
08:44going to be getting in the way. You can take those, of course, those arms and rotate them
08:47all the way around, but I can't help but still be the bearer of the bad news that the arms
08:51just feel looser on this figure. Mold degradation could be the cause of that, or it just could
08:55be the case that I just was the lucky one. I just happened to get a Mr. Freeze that has
08:58loose arms. He has a swivel there in his bicep. The problem with the swivel, though, is that
09:03obviously you're going to want to be careful that you don't clip the part of the shoulder
09:06pad in the process. He does have a double hinge on the elbow. I really like the additional
09:09texturing that they've added to the bottom of his elbow pads there. Hands also again
09:13rotate all the way around. The upper torso is going to be on a ball joint. Further from
09:17that, the figure also has a ball joint at the base of his abdomen. Legs split out. They're
09:21on, once again, ratcheted joints. You can take the legs and move them forward, move
09:24them back. A nice swivel there at the top of the thigh. Double hinge, once again, on
09:28the knees. There's articulation as well for the boots. And for the tops of the feet, there's
09:32an ankle pivot this way. There's an ankle rocker this way. And there's also toe articulation
09:38there as well. Essentially, though, still using the same building blocks, the same blueprints
09:43really as the Mr. Freeze that we've gotten before. This, again, I think marks the third
09:46time that we've gotten this mold. Having already gotten this version of Mr. Freeze at the first
09:50outing for the figure, then we also got as well that kind of Kenner version of Mr. Freeze
09:54that would have had like the little more red accents than the white pale accents that we
09:59get here with this figure. I think truly, though, when it comes to this mold, the one
10:02that we looked at in this review, the one that I'm just trying to get in the stand right
10:05now, this version of Mr. Freeze, I think, is the best of the batch. I still might be
10:09still tempted to try to track down that other Mr. Freeze, but from the last time I looked
10:13at it, it was going for some crazy, stupid money. I think I'm rather just happy to save
10:19the money. Plus as well, I feel like with this version of Mr. Freeze, let's just move
10:22this inferior version of the mold out of the way. I feel like also this Mr. Freeze works
10:26a little bit better with the other more classic look to the characters that we've gotten so
10:30far from McFarlane's team. That being the classic version of Riddler, that being the
10:34somewhat classic look to Oswald Cobblepot, even though, again, we don't have ourselves
10:38really a classic looking Joker. I'm sure that's going to be changing sometime soon. Yeah,
10:42a nice looking way of displaying. I feel now the better looking Mr. Freeze is part of your
10:46DC collection. Now that I think about it, this mold of Mr. Freeze, including the one
10:50we looked at in this review, has been released four times, not just three. There was one
10:54inspired by the obviously the 80s superpowers version of Mr. Freeze that kept the colors
10:58pretty cool, more of the pastel blues and red accents. If he's not going for any more
11:02crazy, stupid money, I might just see if I can try to track that one down because that's
11:05going to go rather nicely with what I'm trying to start with a superpowers DC multiverse
11:09collection. But then there also was a very oddity of a Mr. Freeze that was part of the
11:13gold label collection, trading the colors of blue in favor of a very awkward to look
11:18at bright yellow, almost like a fluorescent yellow with pink accents. You're thinking
11:23yourself, when was there ever a time that Mr. Freeze ever looked like that? And apparently
11:26it's a reference to the comics. A few of the comics actually did have Mr. Freeze designed
11:31like that, colored like that. And he also has a flesh tone face. I have little to no
11:36interest. As much as I like this mold, I have no interest at all to ever get my hands on
11:39that version of Mr. Freeze. And plus as well, he's probably going for again, stupid money,
11:43putting all of them in. If I could, I'd just be happy, honestly, just to have this one.
11:47If I had just to choose one, the superpowers one would be great, but I like that they use
11:51the color approach of the Batman animated series for the inspiration of the color scheme
11:55on Victor Freeze here. Mr. Victor Freeze, if you like the design of the way he looked
11:59in the animated series, you're going to love this one because there wasn't really anything
12:02wrong with the mold in the first place. The only thing I really took away from that first
12:06release of Mr. Freeze was the mold looked good. I thought the colors were all wrong.
12:10And I may have even said in that review that that was only just going to be a temporary
12:13stand-in for Mr. Freeze until something better came along. Something better did come along
12:18and it obviously was using still the same mold, but it took all its cues from a 1990s
12:23series. What do you guys think though of this version of Mr. Freeze? Is this your go-to
12:27Mr. Freeze when it comes to displaying this guy in the shop? I think for right now, until
12:30we get another one, there is also as well, the Mr. Freeze, the one from the DC, not the
12:35DC direct line, but the one that looked like he was in a snorkel kind of scuba suit. That's
12:39a great Mr. Freeze, but that's a Mr. Freeze that stands all on his own. He doesn't need
12:42to necessarily belong with the rest of the rogues gallery of Batman. This will be the
12:46Mr. Freeze that's going to be displayed with all the rest of the Batman baddies. But again,
12:50what do you guys think of this figure? Let me know. Also as well, if you guys did enjoy
12:53this video, I want to throw it a like. If you guys are loving the content you guys are
12:56seeing and want to stick around for more, we may be wrapping up things right now for
12:59the man with the cool touch, Mr. Freeze, but we will be though looking at some more DC
13:03multiverse reviews this week. So making sure you're coming back on a regular basis, of
13:08course, as always, thanks for watching. See you guys next time.