Ranking the 2022 Mcfarlane DC Multiverse Build-A figures
The next 2022 ranking list I'll be doing will be focusing on the Build-A figures from the year and we got some pretty great ones! Overall, we had a total of six waves that built a separate character which is a continued step up from the previous two years. Todd just keeps giving us more and more each year, and I'm totally okay with that! There's some on here I'm not as excited about, but some that were on my most wanted lists without realistic expectations we'd actually get them! So strap in, because from worst to first these are my rankings for Mcfarlane's DC Multiverse Build-A figures!
6. Solomon Grundy
This figure is already showing up on two of my 2022 ranking videos, and not for good reason. I've already gone over how much this figure disappointed me. I love the sculpting detail, and the texture on the suit jacket that truly makes it looked ratty and moldy; however, the size is so wrong. He is diminutive compared to other figures in the line, and seeing the Arkham Killer Croc and Titan Joker tower over him is laughable compared to his monstrous size in those same games! Even the comic book Mega fig Bane stands taller than this Grundy, and with Grundy's proportions meant for someone of a much larger size he comes off looking very odd and out of scale big time.
5. Dark Knight Returns horse
Now when I saw we were getting a Dark Knight Returns wave I was sure that the Mutant Leader would make an understandable Build-A figure for the wave and nicely round out that storyline; however, we instead got a horse. Don't get me wrong it is a fantastic horse sculpt and is something unique for the line I wasn't expecting, but it is a horse and wasn't completely what struck me as necessary. So nice figure, no issues with articulation or posing, I just didn't find it as something we needed.
4. Frost King
While the Endless Winter storyline wasn't anything groundbreaking that has lasted very long in the minds of fans by the looks of it, it was still a very fun Justice League story so getting a wave of figures based on it was a pleasant start to 2022. Frost King himself as a Build-A figure is a big restricted when it comes to articulation, but he definitely captures of the image of the character from the comics and has some very cool sculpted bits when it comes to the icy frost on his outfit, and the overall aesthetic of his ancient attire.
3. Atrocitus
One of the best highlights from 2022 was no doubt the Blackest Night wave of figures! I truly hope we get another wave based on the storyline, because we got 5 incredible figures out of it already! The zombified Black Lanterns are great to mess around with, Kyle Rayner was a great interpretation of the character, and topping it all off was Atrocitus! The leader of the Red Lanterns is big, menacing, captures the classic look of the character well and looks great in the display! The roaring headsculpt is what truly sells the figure.
2. Darkest Knight
A wave that squeezed itself in by the end of the year was the Speed Metal wave, bringing us four great Metal Speedster figures (including our first Jay Garrick, Wallace, and the Manhattan Wally which fans had been asking for), along with an epic Build-A figure! The Darkest Knight was a design I was extremely curious to see how Mcfarlane would attempt it as an action figure, and while it isn't the pitch black look we see in the comics I like the smoky purple and black translucent plastic almost just as much! The sinister headsculpt, along with the gangly, massive body frame make for a DC figure unlike any others!
1. Starro
This is the big one, a character I was thinking it'd be forever to see in Mcfarlane's line if ever...but here we are. When January hit and we had the reveal of a Crime Syndicate Build-A wave who constructed a freaking Starro I was over the moon! Two of my most wanted DC properties knocked out in one go, and while it isn't quite the Crime Syndicate I wanted (Would've preferred New 52, and we're still missing a few members), Starro himself is absolute perfection. The colors and texture are perfect, along with all of the suction cups and the spiky maw in the center of his "mouth." The three eyes are an alien byproduct of the design from the Crime Syndicate comic, but the number of eyes don't bother me because he looks awesome, and while he isn't the most posable figure I wasn't exactly expecting him to be. I just needed a great looking Starro the Conqueror to have on my DC action figure shelf and Mcfarlane delivered in only year three!
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