Flashback Friday Figure Addendum #0032: Silver Surfer
SILVER SURFER
FANTASTIC FOUR THE SILVER SURFER (TOY BIZ)
People are fallible. Even the best of us can let you down sometimes. Dear reader, please remember this and be kind as we delve into today’s Flashback Friday Figure Addendum, my oldest Silver Surfer review.
Time for another Fantastic Four review it seems. Today we’re looking at a sometimes foe, but usually friend of the team, Silver Surfer.
THE FIGURE ITSELF
The figure in question is the first herald of Galactus, Norin Radd, aka the Silver Surfer. Good old Nor here has 11 points of articulation and stands 5 inches tall. At one point in time, he was a bit shinier, but my figure has long since dulled. The figure’s sculpt is solid. I think it would be difficult to mess up a bald, naked guy, but I’d probably be wrong. He’s got a nice assortment of articulation, though I’m not really sure what’s going on with his right arm. Is he supposed to be doing something specific ? Because all I see is some kind of record scratching move. Maybe this is actually a figure of often forgotten 90s sensation DJ Sizzle Surfer-izzle and I just wasn’t aware…
THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION
I was a moderate silver surfer fan as a kid, but I actually rarely used this figure as the Surfer. He was a nice, generic figure, good for a million things. His joints are practically worn out from all the play time this guy got!
So, the failing starts right at the beginning, and just goes all the way through, where I just totally and completely LIE about this figure. Because the figure covered both here and in the original review? He’s *not* the one from the Fantastic Four line, nor was he ever any shinier than he is now. No, in fact, he’s actually one of two figures released in 1996, accompanied by a CD-ROM featuring digitized versions of key comic book issues, in the case of this figure, Silver Surfer related ones. I recall that being the one I had, but I guess in my mind he was the same basic figure. He was notably duller than the original release. My initial review, aside from the lying, covered the basics of the figure okay. He was missing his surfboard at the time, but I’ve since scared that one up, so huzzah, he actually gets to be a Surfer again. It’s an okay piece, and matches his finish. The connection is sort of odd, kind of like a slipper that goes over his foot, but it keeps him in place okay. There’s also a loop that attaches to the bottom, so you can put it on your finger? I guess that’s better than just holding the actual board with your hands. What is it, a toy for babies?
