TOYS: Green Lantern Stuff ...

This is sort of droid related, since I took the videos and pictures WITH my droid ...


I am stoked for the new Green Lantern movie ... the latest trailer (if you haven't seen it) was really cool and I like Ryan Reynolds, who is Green Lantern in his 4th "superhero/comicbook" role:


His others:

• Deadpool (Xmen Origins)
• Captain Excellent (Paper Man)
• Hannibal King (Blade 3)

Anyway, ever since Star Wars, just about EVERY movie now gets child toy tie-ins (notable missteps in this practice: Alien, Rambo and  Battlefield: Earth)


Well, I recently was sent 2 toys for me  my kids to play with and see how they are.

A Hal Jordan Action Figure complete with "giant energy fist" and wearable power-ring


A Gauntlet/Gatling Gun (Colossal Cannon) thing that really shoots.

Lets start with the action figure. It's your standard "star wars figure" 3.5 inch size action figure that surprisingly really looks like Mr. Reynolds.  The molding is really nice and though it lacks elbows and knees, the articulation is pretty good.  

 It also came with what I can best describe as a giant snot-fist that can be stuck to the end of his arm.  But due to it being around 3 times the size of the figure, it woefully unbalances the tiny figure and he cannot stand on his own with it attached.  But it does stay on once it's on so  my son was able to run around with it pretending to punch stuff.

The ring is nice  and well sculpted and is the right size for any 5-8 year old but unfortunately doesn't light up or even glow ... bit of a disappointment there. 

On to the the Power Gun.  It's sort of a "gauntlet" that you load up to 10 discs into. Inside the toy, there is a trigger that when gripped, causes the outer part of the gauntlet to rotate (like a gattling gun), emit a rat-at-at gun sound, light up and best of all ... shoot off a disc.  


It's semi-automatic, firing off a disc for every squeeze of the trigger.  

To be honest, this thing was a lot of fun. The discs don't really fire all that fast, in fact, they kind of spin off like little frisbees.  So you're not going to hurt anyone or any thing (pets included).

It's easy to load and so far took the abuse of both my 4 year old and my 7 year old.  Even with no discs loaded, it's fun since it will still spin, light up and make a machine-gun-noise.  It even has a switch underneath for single gun shot noise, never-ending, parent-maddening, non-stop machine gun noises, and (best of all) ..."off".




The only drawbacks I can think of:

•  like any "shooting toy", the discs are easy to lose. 
•  It's also a tad big.  

Scratch that last one: being big is actually a benefit ... since it's big enough for me to play with use.


Here is the gun in action:



Here are some hi-res images of the toys:

I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour by Dad Central Consulting on behalf of Mattel and received Green Lantern toys to facilitate my review and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate.