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Series: Spawn Reborn, 2 Craftsmanship: 8.8 / 10 - Hoses can be accidentally ripped off - Improvements over the original release - The yang to the original’s ying - Very good articulation and poseability Playability: 6.9 / 10 - Hoses are really easy to rip off - Fragile pieces can be broken off - Fits in with most of the other regular Spawn figures
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Cyber Spawn (Spawn Reborn)
Cyber Spawn, repaint (left) and Cyber Spawn, original (right)
The original Cyber Spawn, released with Spawn 15, had one major flaw: it wasn’t made of stainless steel. This issue isn’t addressed with this repaint/re-release of Cyber Spawn, but a couple other problems have been. For starters, the tail is now of the bendy variety. This actually does quite a bit in terms of display. The original only featured one articulation point (seamed) where the tail attached to the body. This allowed the curly-cue tail to rotate but nothing else. The other area of improvement is the waist, which is not spring-loaded anymore. No longer can you give Cyber a half twist and watch him slash forward with his blade hand. However, this loss means more stable poseability, so the tradeoff is worth it.
Cyber Spawn has around 19 points of articulation (six of those are locate in the left hand) and the mix is a great combination of hinge, seam and ball-joints allowing for many poses |
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while maintaining stability. The sculpt also remains unchanged, but it was good to start with so no complaints there. The paint application is a sharp contrast of colors with the original, which featured a lot black and silver. This repaint acts as yang to the original’s ying – a light versus dark, good versus evil dichotomy. Having both opens up some diorama possibilities. The technical application is done very well, with no oversplash. While I would have really liked having a faux metal paint application or for the figure to be made of stainless steal for an authentic look, the paint is good. |
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Due to the red tubing and small, breakable joints (mainly in the left hand), playability does not rank very high. If you’re somewhat careful with your toys, there shouldn’t be a problem since most of the danger only presents itself under rough play. The ball-jointed hips also look like they might break under rough play, but I didn’t want to test it – gluing ball-joints is incredibly difficult! Cyber Spawn is a cool figure because it shows a radically different Spawn and comes as a recommended figure, because of its strong display properties. - Omni (July 10, 2004)
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