Right kiddys ,if like me you absolutely loved mezcos first foray into the hellboy franchise then you will be satisfied with these new figures.
However,depending on which version (or variant-nerd speak) you get you may be pleaseder (yes it is a word-i just made it up!)
Overall,the standard Hellboy is the same as the coat wearing fella from the first wave of the first film without ivan the russian corpse .He does get a samaritan pistol and a "big baby" shotgun,a huge cumbersome six barrelled blunderbuss of a weapon that opens at the breach so hellboy can pretend to load it.
The paintwork isnt as good as the first lot and feels "rushed" to accomadate the famous toy store market and mass marketing from the new studio.
The variants are as far as i can tell are as follows.
1-angry black shirt and shotgun
2-closed mouth with cigar and black shirt
3-angry with bare chest and sword instead of shotgun.
the "angry" faced version is ok but makes his face look a little cartoony and swollen as if he'd been stung by a wasp and had a reaction.
his tongue is pink.
The calm cigar smoking dude is the killer though,spot on likeness and just looks cooler and less kid friendly (theyre selling him as "red" in bible belt america so as not to mention the "H" word!!!)
Get the calm face version if you can it may be similar to the first version but that aint a bad thing right?
if ou can't ,still get the other version cos its still cool...thankyou and goodnight !!!