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Super7 Universal Monsters ReAction+ Wave 1 The Creature from the Black Lagoon
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00:00Gilman needs gills to breathe and an o-ring to move.
00:03Here's your spooky spot on the Super 7 Universal Monsters Reaction, Creature from the Black Lagoon.
00:30Since it's always best to swim with a partner, never fear.
00:33The creature from the Black Lagoon will be there by your side, and he's coming to you straight from the Amazon.
00:38Dive in and bring him home as a Universal Monster Super 7 Reaction figure, inspired by the Gilman Creature from the 1954 film.
00:45This 3.75-inch scale collectible is based using an o-ring design.
00:50This collectible has a swivel head and arms, elbow and knee hinges, and a disc joint shoulders.
00:54If anyone could get along swimmingly with your other Universal Monster action figures, it would be the creature from the Black Lagoon.
01:01Catch him now. He can't wait to stock your shelves and display cases.
01:04Well, I guess if the creature did want to capture Kay, it would only then be fitting that Kay wanted to collect the creature.
01:09And she can!
01:09The creature from the Black Lagoon, as well as the rest of the other two Universal Monsters, are available right now as part of the Universal Monsters Reaction Wave 1 figures.
01:17You can either buy the creature on his own for $20, or you can save some big money and get all three of them for $60.
01:22Yes, I know if you do the math, three times 20 still works out to be $60.
01:26And so while we don't try to figure out the math on how exactly you're saving any money by getting three of them,
01:31we can at least figure out the math of just how tall the Gilman stands by bringing in my trusty tape measure.
01:36I would imagine this guy's going to clock in at three and three quarters of an inch in height, and I am right.
01:40He is doing that, in fact.
01:42That's going to translate, though, to a figure that's nine and a half centimeters tall.
01:45If you succeeded in making out the chicken scratch directions I wrote down that led you to the castle,
01:49then you know we've been successful now to look at the third figure from the Reaction Universal Monster line.
01:54We started things first at the castle, looking at Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
01:57Then we made our way to the dark, spooky woods, where we looked at Long Chaney's Wolfman,
02:01and now we're making it to the Amazon.
02:03The one thing, though, I will say about the Gilman, though, is I think the colors are way too bright.
02:07This greenish coloring that he has, I feel, is too hard on the eyes.
02:11I think toning it down just a bit made a darker color would have benefited the figure a little bit better.
02:15You know what else would have benefited the Gilman?
02:17An actual accessory.
02:17Yes, sad to say, the creature from the Black Lagoon doesn't come in clue with anything.
02:22Dracula, of course, came in clue with a candlestick, and then when we looked at the Wolfman, he came in clue with his cane.
02:26Strange, though, that they chose not to include any accessories whatsoever.
02:30The fossilized hand, for example, would have been an ideal accessory.
02:33Or even if they just included, like, just a bunch of leaves or rocks or, I don't know, just something.
02:38Something to be thrown here at the creature from the Black Lagoon.
02:41The figure is one of the other things that's notable about him is that he doesn't actually have a peg on the back of his body.
02:46Yeah, he's the only figure, and for obvious reasons, too.
02:49I mean, with the big fin that's sticking out the back of his body, it would be next to impossible to then drill a hole in the back.
02:53So this guy can't carry around a G.I. Joe backpack.
02:56Ah.
02:58I would have also been, unfortunately, successful cutting open the packaging, having learned my lesson from the other two times.
03:03One thing I did decide to do this time around was actually cut it from the bottom.
03:06And I was successful enough until I got right around here.
03:10And then butterfingers me, I ended up ripping the cardboard.
03:13So while there still is a chance for me to actually get, where's the tray?
03:16Where's the tray?
03:17You could actually get the tray.
03:18If you were, though, better at cutting this than I was, you'd be able to slide this back in the packaging and you wouldn't have to worry as much.
03:24But because, though, I butchered it, I think the packaging still can't be saved.
03:28I would love to have saved the packaging, though, because, again, like we've got this retro design of the creature from the Black Lagoon there, Universal Monsters.
03:35But then what's cool is on the back, horror and thrill show, horror action figures featuring the said creature, featuring, again, Wolfman and Bela Lugosia as the Dracula.
03:44If you're able to collect this or cut this out accurately around the dotted lines, I mean, at least it gives you the dotted lines to cut this out.
03:50You could trim this out and have a file card that you could store away.
03:54Speaking of G.I. Joe's, the creature's name is Gil Man.
03:57Oh, his first name is Gil.
03:59His birthplace is the Black Lagoon, the last known surviving member of the race of amphibious humanoids, which flourished during the Devonian Age.
04:08The Gil Man dwells in a lagoon located in a largely unexplored area of the Amazon rainforest.
04:13The creature was known in the natives, local legends, as Man Fish.
04:18Apparently, he went by also named Gil.
04:20So, again, I probably will be, even though I have unfortunately damaged the packaging, probably put this back in the card.
04:26But I will, though, be cutting out the back card and displaying it with my other two that are very collected.
04:31Let's move that out of the way.
04:32So, yeah, sad to say, no accessories at all when it comes to the Gil Man.
04:37But the figure still pulls out a pretty good looking look.
04:40I mean, again, while I do think the colors of the green are way too bright, I think toning this down just a little bit, I'm not really sure, though, why they chose the color that they did.
04:48I mean, it's really kind of hard, again, to look at these figures like this because they're based on black and white designs.
04:52I mean, like the Wolfman, we can only go by the fact that in the colorized version, if there was, he'd have a green shirt, he'd have blue slacks.
04:59But with these being black and white, which, again, I'm surprised that Super 7 for this year didn't do black and white treatments of all these figures.
05:06But I do feel, though, the colors of the Gil Man are way too bright of a green.
05:10The face looks good, though.
05:12Very nice looking face, though, on the Gil Man.
05:14Of course, he's got gills all over his face.
05:15That's why he's called Gil, after all.
05:17And again, like we've already looked at the fact he doesn't have the means to carry around a backpack at all.
05:21He does have a big, though, fin sticking out the back of his body.
05:25Scales look generally quite good.
05:27Again, with the G.I. Joe designs is that you do have peg hinges, though, in the arms.
05:31Again, we'll look at all the articulation on this figure in a second.
05:33But it doesn't necessarily impede the look of the figure.
05:35The one thing, though, I do notice that I have a difficult time with Gil Man is his feet.
05:40He has large feet for obvious reasons.
05:42I mean, like, Creature does have a design of feet like this.
05:45He does also have pegels on the bottoms of his feet.
05:47So if you did want to make use of a display stand, even though ones aren't included with these figures, you can, though, barely.
05:54And I'm just going to grab a display stand just to show you guys here.
05:57This is a McFarlane Toys display stand.
05:59Just it's always really on the ready.
06:00I've got like like 7000 of them.
06:03That's I know that's exaggerating, but I've got a good stack of them off to the side here.
06:06But if you did want to use a display stand, for example, I mean, that the hole on the bottom of the feet are much larger than the peg.
06:13So really, to put them on the stands, they're only just going to be balancing on the peg.
06:17They won't survive, though, a blizzard test if you try to dump it upside down.
06:20The figures are only just going to fall off.
06:22But you can use them.
06:23You just can't use them all that well.
06:25But the feet, though, I will say is that if you look at them, they're not completely flat.
06:30They bow out.
06:31See how this one goes on an angle?
06:33This one also does the same.
06:34Because of that, I did notice there's a harder time to get the creature to balance just right.
06:38I mean, if you get them in any bit of a walking stance, for example, it's next to impossible.
06:42This guy's never going to be able to stand on his own.
06:45It's only one thing I don't really like necessarily about the figure.
06:47I wish there was kind of a way that they could have made the feet a little bit more flat, not on an angle like this.
06:53Other than that, though, I mean, like generally the scales look really good on the figure.
06:56Nice detail done to the hands themselves.
06:58You've got the big fins sticking out the sides of his arms.
07:00It's a really nice recreation of the creature on a smaller scale.
07:05For the figure's articulation, again, if you're familiar with the Wolfman and you're familiar with Dracula, then the articulation on Gilman is exactly the same.
07:14So the head isn't, while not being on a ball joint, it still manages to pull a swivel off.
07:19The swivel, though, only goes so far.
07:20So while you do it to here and you do it to here, you can't go anywhere else.
07:25Don't charter any unknown waters.
07:28I think this is only going to cause damage to the figure's head.
07:30So I'm just going to leave it alone.
07:31But it only seems that it would be able to do back and forth motion, not all the way around.
07:35But the top of the torso is obviously still sitting on an O-ring.
07:38So I'm not really sure how you'd be able to really take this guy apart.
07:42With generally the other GI Joes or really the Universal Monster Reaction figures, taking, though, a screwdriver to the back of the holder.
07:48Unscrew that.
07:49You could take the front half to the back half of Wolfie and see exactly what Wolfie's made of.
07:53This one, unfortunately, you can't do that, though.
07:55So if you ever had, like, a damaged O-ring, for example, if this deteriorated over time, which is one thing that we lose a lot of Joes over, I don't think there would be a way, unless you would have to pry me of the front of the torso apart to fix the O-ring inside.
08:09So there is one downside to having this being a fully sealed figure.
08:13There doesn't seem to be in a way to access the O-ring inside.
08:16The O-ring does allow for a much better range of articulation where you can move the figure all the way around, forward and back, back and forth.
08:23When I used to play with GI Joes as a kid, this would always be the point where I actually put a sword.
08:27Like, if there was a GI Joe that had a sword or a knife, I'd always kind of lunge it.
08:30Boy, that's rather dark.
08:31Stick it in the front, and I'd pretend like a Cobra got stabbed.
08:35I think, if anything, that tells me a bit of a sign of what I would be later on in life.
08:39I seem to love my horror movies.
08:41But the arms do rotate all the way around.
08:43They're pinned hinged there, right?
08:45So you'd be able to move the arms out at 90 degrees.
08:47Or, again, you can also rotate them all the way around.
08:49The Gill Man does also have a swivel here at the top of his bicep.
08:53Only just a single hinge on the elbow, but that's not necessarily for the creature.
08:56I mean, all the other figures have also had that as well.
08:59There's no hand articulation because the hand is all one molded piece to the rest of the body.
09:03I mean, like all the other figures have also had that as well.
09:06If I just move the arms out of the way.
09:07The legs split about that far.
09:10And you can, of course, take the legs and move forward and back.
09:12GI Joes, again, like you could always really customize these.
09:14If you unscrewed these, you could take these two halves apart.
09:17And then you could take another half GI Joe leg and you could put them two together.
09:20So if you want to have like pockets on the outside that maybe weren't on the pockets on the figure in the first place,
09:25you would just put the two pieces together and then you'd screw the whole back together.
09:29The figure does have a knee bend and that's really all he's going to have.
09:32And he has no articulation in his feet.
09:34So like, you know, while it does maybe look like the feet would have posability,
09:38it's more just a tease than anything else.
09:40All in all, there's a really nice looking figure.
09:43The only thing I would really say is my one complaint.
09:46Well, first of all, he has a harder time just to stand because he's got these giant webbed feet.
09:49I mean, I think anybody really has webbed feet probably has a hard time to stand straight.
09:53If you have webbed feet, you don't have to come clean.
09:55You don't have to tell us down below in the comment section.
09:57The only other thing I would say, too, is like the coloring seems brighter than it necessarily needed to be.
10:01I mean, again, like if you look at Wolfman, we can only again base this on these characters being colorized.
10:06Generally, though, they would have been known for being black and white.
10:08I think that the Gilman colors are maybe a little too bright.
10:11They need to be a little bit darker, a little more darker, kind of swamp green,
10:15as opposed to like that fluorescent green that they chose to go with instead.
10:20The only one other issue I kind of see that faces Gilman down the road.
10:23Not right now.
10:24You know, you live for the now, but you got to also look for the future as well.
10:28I think in the future, if there ever was a time where the O-ring started to deteriorate or eventually snapped,
10:34I think you'd have a harder time to try to fix that on the Gilman.
10:36You wouldn't have any issues at all to fix that on Dracula or the Wolfman.
10:40But Gilman being self-contained with no screw visible on the back,
10:43you'd have a harder time to fix that if that event ever happened down the road.
10:47I think the creature's enjoying that everybody's staring at it right now.
10:50How could we not stare at it?
10:51Look how bright of a green they chose to mold the figure in.
10:54Now, generally, though, I would have gone with much more of a darker green myself.
10:58But one thing, though, at least with being a figure line that's only 3.75 inch or 3.75 inch,
11:02you really want to do something to draw attention to it.
11:05While you may have been somebody that would have walked completely past Bela Lugosi's Dracula or Lon Chaney's Wolfman,
11:10I don't think there's any chance at all you'd walk by the Gilman without catching an eye over at it.
11:15The one thing, though, I do really like about the Gilman is the attention to the details.
11:18All the scales and all the fins have been captured nicely here.
11:21The webbed feet, the webbed hands, all the things you'd check off when you consider when you think of the creature from the Black Lagoon.
11:26The one thing, though, that's rather interesting, though, is the self-contained design of his torso.
11:31Normally, at the very least, you'd be able to see with the G.I. Joe, there's a front half, there's a back half,
11:34there's a screw that keeps the two together.
11:36With Gilman, though, I'm even, like, looking at the sides of his body and I don't see a seam line.
11:41So I'm thinking, though, that they've molded the torso as all one piece,
11:44which then makes me really wonder how they got the O-ring in there in the first place.
11:48They must have had a reason.
11:50The thing about it, though, unfortunately, is if it ever does break down the road,
11:54I know we don't want to, we want to live for the now, but you have to still kind of think of this.
11:57If it does happen to snap down the road, how are you ever going to replace the O-ring?
12:01Well, at least we can enjoy the figure for what it is right now.
12:04What it is right now is a pretty cool-looking creature from the Black Lagoon.
12:08What do you guys think of the creature?
12:09Let me know down below in the comments section.
12:11Now that we actually have finished off the first wave of the Reaction Universal Monsters,
12:15let me know your top three favorite.
12:17Well, obviously, we only have the three to go with, but how would you rank them?
12:20Which was the best figure?
12:21Which was the medium or the silver?
12:22And which one got the bronze?
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12:31Certainly, there's going to be more Spottober coming your way.
12:33There's going to be more spooky spots coming your way.
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12:37As always, thanks for watching.
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