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Spin Master Toys Superman 2025 The Fortress Of Solitude Battle Set Review
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00:00And here I was thinking Hoff had it bad. Here's your look at the brand new Spin Master's Superman movie, Fortress of Solitude, battle set.
00:07Get ready to soar into action with the Superman Fortress of Solitude battle set where epic adventures come to life.
00:34This expandable playset grows to impressive 13 inches tall, transforming into Superman's iconic icy hideout.
00:41Packed with interactive features, it's designed to spark endless creativity.
00:46Kids will love blasting Superman through the flight tunnel, smashing breakaway crystals, and activating the solar ray station to defend the Fortress from danger.
00:54Things I'm sure get abnormally out of hand when you bring in an abominable snow monster.
00:58Before, though, we look at the Yeti and, of course, the Fortress of Solitude to its rights.
01:02Let's do my thing before it does its thing.
01:05I'm going to take the tape measure. We're going to see how big both stand.
01:07I don't have yet Superman and Crypto. They're just actually off to the side.
01:10We're going to kind of bring those in. They more so, I think, represent kind of the accessories.
01:15The biggest thing really being, of course, the Yeti. We're going to measure that thing first.
01:18The Yeti, if I go right to the top of its kind of rigid spine, it's actually on its own eight inches.
01:24So that's pretty big. That's going to work out to be about, I would say, what is that, like 19 centimeters tall?
01:30Maybe 19 and a half centimeters tall?
01:33Once you get everything, though, assembled for the Fortress of Solitude, including the little whirly bird on the top.
01:37Then it's going to be 12 inches. So it's even big.
01:41And that's going to work out to be 30 centimeters tall.
01:44To rid the Fortress of its Yeti problem, Spin Master includes actually two minifigures.
01:49First, though, we get ourselves Superman.
01:51I don't know, though, if it looks as much like David Korn's Sweat.
01:54It actually looks a little bit more like Tom Welling from Smallville.
01:57Tom Welling, though, would have never wore a costume that looked like this.
02:00You know, I think for the size, it's not a bad figure at all.
02:03It's not going to have as much posability packing into it as maybe the larger scale figures we've looked at from Spin Master.
02:08But at least, though, you still get head rotation.
02:10You know, again, you can move your arms back and forth. Not your arms, his arms.
02:14And you can also move its legs back and forth.
02:15And, you know, again, it's small, but I think it's decently detailed for the kind of figure that we're getting here.
02:21The back even does actually have the Superman symbol.
02:23And the cape itself is molded well in plastic.
02:26You also get yourself Crypto.
02:28Now, Crypto really is more just a statue.
02:30There's not really much at all that you can do with Crypto.
02:32Crypto does have the cape on the back.
02:34I mean, they've even gone as far as to add the little Superman symbol.
02:37That's a pretty neat looking Crypto.
02:39Unfortunately, though, by the way the Crypto has to attach onto the spinning contraption,
02:43you have to plug it on the bottom of his belly.
02:47There's a big gaping hole right there.
02:49Well, at least it's on the belly and nowhere else.
02:53But yeah, Crypto, for what it is, it's a pretty fun little figure.
02:55I mean, again, like, you know, this is clearly more geared towards kids.
02:59Funny, though, enough, you know, while I was kind of looking around at my Superman collection,
03:03look what I happen to find, though.
03:04It's sitting inside one of my tickle trunks.
03:07Anybody remember these?
03:07These were the smaller scale Superman figures with Christopher Reeve.
03:11I couldn't believe I actually still had these.
03:14I had both Superman and a General Zod.
03:16I think both of them are actually, you know, for the scale of what they are.
03:19These figures had some decent posability.
03:21I know this isn't really the proper time, maybe, in this review to look at these figures.
03:25But you know, though, if I don't end up using this set specifically for the new Superman,
03:29I think maybe I could even use the Fortress of Solitude for Christopher Reeve's Superman.
03:33I probably shouldn't really introduce new characters into a set that never really had them in the first place.
03:38The Superman, though, by the way, this version of Superman, not Reeves, and Crypto,
03:43does attach, actually both of them attach to the little top spinning contraption.
03:47I'll show you guys how that works in a second.
03:49Let's go over to the Yeti now.
03:51The Yeti, I don't know, I'm getting vibes of Inhumanoids when I was looking at this.
03:55Maybe it's just kind of plastic that they're using.
03:57It's a little more of a hollow plastic.
03:58The way sort of it's also designed very much reminds me of, like, Inhumanoids from the 80s.
04:03It looks pretty ferocious.
04:05Now, I don't know at all if we're going to be getting a giant monster-sized Yeti in the new Superman movie.
04:10It kind of makes me now wonder if I should be taking my 8-year-old daughter to see it,
04:13if there's this big monster that they have to fight.
04:16As monstrous as this may look, it's quite horrifying its feature.
04:21One of the things it does also have, yeah, it does have posability.
04:24You can rotate the arms and you can even rotate the legs, but that's not the selling feature of the Yeti.
04:29It's not even really the paint and a head sculpt, which I will say on its own looks really neat.
04:35I thought, like, looking at this, that you'd be able to rotate the head because there's a line right there.
04:40Follow the line around.
04:41Follow the line around.
04:42Doesn't it look like you'd be able to turn the head?
04:45I think if I was to turn it, it would only break.
04:48I would get really sad and I'd run out of the room.
04:50And then who's going to be then turning off the camera?
04:52Producer Tony?
04:53Producer Tony doesn't even care.
04:55So it's an interesting looking Yeti.
04:57It does actually have, I wouldn't necessarily call this really peg holes in the bottom of its feet.
05:02This was really just the way it was contained inside of its plastic prison.
05:05It'll turn the pieces off, take them off, and that's basically why he has holes in the bottom of its feet.
05:09It actually has holes on the display stand, though, for the Fortress of Solitude 2,
05:13which is a bit of a bummer because you can really very visibly see them.
05:16Going back, though, to the horrifying thing that Spin Master decided to do with their Yeti,
05:22you can actually disassemble the parts.
05:25You can rip them off, and I'm hoping, though, that this is not going to be something we're going to be seeing in the movie.
05:28You can literally take the arms and the legs of the Yeti and break them off.
05:33And not only do you break them off, you get a bloody bone.
05:36I can't even believe that we're saying this.
05:38You get a bloody bone on the inside of what's now remaining of its cavity.
05:43There's the bloody interior there.
05:44I mean, I guess it's realistically right.
05:47It's just so unsettling to see that everything else on the Yeti is white,
05:51until, of course, you yank off its arm, and now you've got yourself this bloodied stump.
05:56Now, blood is...
05:57Well, I keep saying blood.
05:58The red is on the inside there.
05:59You can basically do the same thing on this side as well.
06:02Care for a piece of Yeti?
06:03Oh, does it have dark meat?
06:05Just plug off.
06:05You're going to unpeg these also as well.
06:07And everything that now...
06:08Let's just take off everything.
06:10What's left behind of the Yeti is just a stump.
06:12Just a big stump with these red caverns where basically limbs would be attached to before.
06:19Are we okay with that?
06:21I mean, this is being marketed towards kids.
06:23And again, I understand that kids watch horror movies and stuff like that.
06:25But that's pretty horrifying, the fact that they would...
06:29Even to the point where they actually sculpt the pegs as bloody bones.
06:34Now, I haven't actually tried this.
06:35I wonder if you could take these and plug them on.
06:37Okay, you can do that as well.
06:38So if you want to have this mutant monster, you can mix and match the parts.
06:42That's not going to look right.
06:43No, that's not going to look right at all.
06:45And just plug that in place.
06:46Now the Yeti just doesn't know what he's doing anymore.
06:48He's like, did I sign on for this?
06:50Did I realize that part of my contract was that I'm going to be ripped to shreds by the Man of Steel?
06:55So I think that's a little...
06:56It makes me feel kind of uneasy.
06:58But I mean, it's a fun feature.
06:59I mean, for me, being a guy that loves bloody stuff in movies, I like it.
07:05I don't know.
07:05I just kind of feel like maybe it's a little inappropriate for kids.
07:09Let's plug that all back in place.
07:10We'll put the Yeti right over here.
07:12And now let's look at the Fortress of Solitude.
07:13So the Fortress of Solitude does have a little bit of assembly that's required.
07:17I'll kind of go through and show you guys everything that is.
07:19First of all, I did want to mention, though, the solar device that we see so far in the trailer,
07:25you get this also in the Fortress of Solitude.
07:27Omitted, though, is stickers.
07:28Now, the instructions, though, and the instructions are actually on the bottom of the packaging,
07:32does show, though, that sticker application is necessary for this.
07:36It would also then mean that you get yourself a sticker sheet.
07:39I have looked around.
07:40I've looked along the floor.
07:41I've looked inside the packaging.
07:42I've just looked behind things in the hopes that I would find myself a little,
07:46probably about this size, sticker sheet.
07:48I can't.
07:49I don't know its whereabouts.
07:51So unfortunately, though, my solar device doesn't look like it's working right now,
07:54just because I don't have a sticker application.
07:56There's no real place that this attaches.
07:57I mean, you basically just put it on the front,
07:59and that's all it's really going to be doing.
08:01It doesn't attach to anything.
08:03I mean, there's kind of like a little area right here where you think to yourself,
08:06it must attach right there, but no, it doesn't.
08:09I mean, I guess it's just more an open area where the Yeti could stand,
08:13or Superman and Krypto could stand.
08:15But yeah, this basically is just going to attach and place on the front.
08:18And again, I don't even want to say attach.
08:19It just sits right there and does what it's doing right now.
08:23The flooring is also something that you have to add.
08:25So this whole part right here snaps in place on this side and on this side here.
08:29Then you get yourself a couple of breakaway crystals.
08:31The crystals do break away quite easily.
08:34I mean, they're basically just plugged.
08:35They're just a peg and they fit into this hole.
08:37You get two of them on both sides.
08:39So, you know, for the play feature of this,
08:41you can pretend that Superman is being whipped against these crystals and knocking them off.
08:46There is also a couple of crystals on the top here too.
08:48You can detach.
08:49There's one on this side and there's one on the top here too.
08:51And those basically just detach.
08:53There is, when you look at them on the top, there's a hole.
08:56And again, just like kind of a rectangular peg.
08:59And those just slot in place.
09:02So the big other thing too that the Fortress of Solitude has,
09:05I don't know why now I'm having such a hard time getting these back in place.
09:09Should we just leave them off?
09:11No, there we go.
09:11Give it the college try.
09:13Let's just plug those all the way on there.
09:15There we go.
09:15Okay.
09:16One of the things also the Fortress of Solitude does have is we see ourselves doors.
09:20The doors do slide open.
09:21Hey, there's a finger on the other side.
09:23That's my finger, by the way.
09:24These doors just slide on a track so you can open and close them.
09:28I mean, they look a little more finished on the front than they do on the back.
09:31I guess that's not true.
09:32They look just as good on the back as...
09:33So, I mean, basically in the trailer, we see Crypto carrying Kal-El, obviously, to the door.
09:38He...
09:39Woof, woof, woof.
09:39And then the door sort of...
09:41At first, I think it illuminates.
09:42And then the doors slide open.
09:43So that's a nice little bit of a play feature.
09:46The crystals look neat enough.
09:47And they're all translucent blue plastic.
09:50Unfortunately, though, I mean, it looks more finished from the front.
09:52The moment you see it from the back, you see all these screws that have been kind of keeping
09:55the two halves together.
09:57But I think it looks pretty good from the front.
09:59The other thing, too, that it has is this little attachment here that spins.
10:03It doesn't spin really all that well.
10:05But the idea with this, though, is you take yourself your Superman.
10:07You know what?
10:08I'll take this off first because it's just a little easier to show you guys how everything
10:11really works.
10:13So this basically will spin.
10:14What it really is is just two rods.
10:17I think the two rods connect together.
10:20There.
10:20There we go.
10:21You get two basically halves that look like this.
10:23You plug on cryptos to what would be then already Superman's.
10:26And now you got yourself a clamp on one side for Superman.
10:30Woof, woof, woof.
10:31And then you also got the peg right there that's going to plug on to crypto.
10:34Take yourself your Superman.
10:36Superman.
10:36I mean, there's real no proper way to do it.
10:39You're basically just going to fit Superman right onto the clip.
10:43And I mean, it does an okay enough job.
10:45The only thing I really worry about, though, first of all, it's where I've decided to put
10:48that.
10:49Can we move it a little bit?
10:50I guess that really is the best place.
10:51Let's bring Superman's arms first out of the way.
10:53So at least when he's flying, it looks like he has a direction.
10:56So we bring those arms up.
10:58Then we kind of slot that in place.
11:00The one real worry I have is, first of all, it kind of looks like I'm serving Superman over
11:04like a barbecue.
11:05How do you prefer your Superman?
11:06A lot better than I prefer my Yetis.
11:09Unfortunately, though, by where they clip this, I would worry that this is going to
11:12start to flake the paint.
11:14If that's not a big thing for you, then whatever I've just now said isn't going to be a big
11:17thing at all.
11:18But then you get basically yourself a spinning Superman.
11:20And then that's going to sit on top of that peg.
11:23And then you can spin Superman around.
11:25Woo!
11:26You don't have to really make the noise while you're doing that.
11:28Then you're going to take this hole, this peg, find the hole that's on the bottom of
11:32crypto.
11:32It's very easy to spot.
11:34And then just plug.
11:36Then you're just going to plug it on top like that.
11:37Once you have yourself your Superman and you have yourself crypto, there's a peg right
11:41on the top here.
11:42And you just attach it in place like that.
11:45I'm going to do my best to spin this around.
11:48It doesn't spin the easiest, but at least it's not mechanical.
11:51I mean, you're just only going to be manually doing this.
11:53So I guess the idea in mind is, well, the Yeti is down below just destroying everything
11:58in its sight.
11:59Superman and crypto are just basically spinning along the top there of the Fortress of Solitude.
12:03For what it is, I mean, it's a fun little play feature.
12:07I can understand certainly why kids will have a blast playing with this.
12:11You know, again, like it doesn't really spin the best.
12:13I mean, I've had helicopter toys in the past that propellers also don't do the greatest
12:18job always of spinning.
12:19But again, like, you know, it is something.
12:21It's something more than just having this displayed always where, you know, you've got
12:25your figures displayed on the snow.
12:27Speaking, though, of the snow, the one other thing I did also want to mention, by the way
12:30that they attached the Yeti, we already had looked at the fact he's got the holes on the
12:34bottoms of his feet.
12:35They unfortunately, though, also put the holes right here on the flooring, because when this
12:39is sitting inside the packaging, there are two circular pieces that tab in here that
12:43kind of keep this attached to the cardboard.
12:46By unfortunately having it where they put it, I think they really should have relied more
12:49on just a zip tie, something that I could have easily cut.
12:53Because now that I've removed it, I keep looking at these holes thinking that they
12:56have a purpose.
12:58I don't think they have, oh, I don't think they have any other purpose.
13:00Superman just sort of flew in front of my face.
13:02I don't think they serve any purpose.
13:03They're just more eyesores, really.
13:06They actually do kind of look a little like eyes.
13:08And you've also got yourself the Superman crest on the front.
13:10Now, this doesn't do anything.
13:11I was kind of hoping that this would spin or something, but the way that they attach it
13:15in place, it's just only pegged right here, here, and here.
13:18The only thing, again, I don't like is just that these are so visible.
13:22And again, it's really unsettling the fact that we got ourselves a Yeti where you're literally
13:26being told as a kid, you've got to yank the arms off this creature.
13:29We don't even know, really, if this creature was just defending its home.
13:32He just maybe was lost.
13:33He was looking for the rest of his family.
13:34I don't know where the rest of my family is.
13:37He has, unfortunately, found its way through the door.
13:39I don't even know, again, like if you look at the size of the door and you look at the
13:42size of the Yeti, how is even really the Yeti able to fit himself inside the door?
13:47So maybe he was living inside?
13:49I mean, I'm asking questions that I know really there aren't any answers for.
13:53The only really other answer I really would have wished I could have gotten is whereabouts
13:57my sticker sheet end up going?
13:59Because while this looks good, I mean, it doesn't really have a place to attach properly.
14:02I wish that I could have actually found myself my sticker sheet, but it didn't seem to be
14:06included when I bought this for myself.
14:08If you're, by the way, wondering what the cost was for the Fortress of Solitude battle set,
14:12picked it up on Amazon for $59.34.
14:15That's $59.34.
14:17I don't think that's all that bad.
14:18I mean, it's for the size of what you're getting for an oversized Yeti, whether you have removable
14:23limbs or not on it, and that you also get two small figures of Superman and Crypto, I think
14:28a $60 set for kids would certainly be not overly expensive.
14:32I mean, one thing though about it, I don't know why it keeps bothering me while I'm looking
14:36at this, the part that has Superman and Crypto spinning, the little propeller piece, the fact
14:42that it's not symmetrical is driving me batty.
14:45I'm looking at this, and I keep thinking to myself that they should have made the spinning
14:48part in the middle of the Fortress Crystal, not on the far side, because it kind of throws
14:54everything off alignment-wise.
14:56And I keep looking at it, thinking that Superman's leaning too far to the right.
15:00I think for this, at least, probably one of the big marketing things about the set is
15:05the fact you can't attach.
15:07On the front, it just says battle.
15:08And actually, even in the image that they use on the front of the packaging, they have
15:13Superman ripping, actually, I think it's Crypto, Crypto is ripping the arm off one side of
15:18the Yeti, and you can see the bloody bone underneath.
15:22Really?
15:23I don't know.
15:25Could it maybe just be the fact that now, as a father, I kind of look at that and think
15:28to myself, that was violent when it didn't need to be violent.
15:32You could have had removable parts on a Yeti, and I'm fine for that.
15:35But do we need to really make it a reminder to the child that you've ripped off something
15:40from a creature, and now you've got a blood bone underneath it?
15:44I don't know.
15:45I don't know if it really would have worked as well for me, but somehow, though, it made
15:48it through the boardroom, and it made it into production.
15:50Spin Master didn't seem to have as much of a problem with it as I did.
15:54What do you guys, though, think of the new Superman movie, Fortress of Solitude battle set?
15:58Pretty fun?
15:58I mean, as a kid, for a thing for kids to play with, I don't think it's a bad set at
16:03all.
16:04We're also going to be, by the way, speaking of Spin Master, yeah, looking at some more
16:07Spin Master Superman movie figures.
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