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Overall score: 9.6 / 10 - Perfect sculpt - Excellent paint job, especially the eyes - Four points of articulation - Blinky, the three-eyed fish, is a great accessory - Stands easily - Put him into his -"Excellent" pose - Simple design down properly
Playability: 9.6 / 10 - Durable figure - Small accessories can be lost - Every playset needs a villain - Articulation is enough
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Montgomery Burns (The Simpsons) by Playmates
Mr. Montgomery Burns is a right bastard. Over the ten years that we’ve come to know him he’s proved this statement a number of times. Heck, he even blocked out the sun! What kind of deviant does that? Playmates brings Mr. Burns to plastic life with this addition of the Simpson’s toy line. Finding him on the retail shelves can be a challenge since he’s extremely popular. But if you do manage to find him . . . oh, what a find! He comes packaged with Blinky, the three-eyed fish (encased in a fishbowl), and a couple of stacks of money. Once freed from the packaging, Mr. Burns exudes maniacal evil. His arms are molded and articulated at the shoulders to facilitate Mr. Burns’ most famous pose – the "Excellent" stance as one of his evil plans comes to fruition. The sculpt itself is very good. He’s stooped over, his neck, nose and huge overbite make him look decidedly vulture-like. The paint job is very good, especially the eyes. They look to the side in a menacing way. Oversplash is nonexistent – even the tie is done very |
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well. Of course, like all the other characters in the Simpson line, Mr. Burns can interact with the Intelli-tronic playsets. He simply shines when placed on the Nuclear Power Plant base! When put on the Simpson Living Room set he basically says one thing, "Hello, Simpson. My lawyers and I were in the neighbourhood and thought we’d drop by." Playability is good. As with most of the figures I review I let my son play with the toy (under close supervision, of course). And since he’s going through a "throwing things" stage, Mr. Burns earned his wings after about five minutes. No parts broke off and he still works with the playsets. Mr. Burns is in proportion to the |
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other figures in the line. In terms of display, he’s very easy to stand and it fairly centered so he doesn’t fall over without provocation, especially when he’s attached to a playset. - Omni
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