review by justin anderson

the desription: Doppelganger was a later, and welcome, addition to the animated series line, despite never having actually BEEN in the show.

the articulation: The head slides up and down, each of the 6 arms has a shoulder joint, and each leg is jointed at the hip and knee.

the design: I like it. Toy Biz took the right step by giving it a lot of muscular detail, no gimmicks, and a mouthful of teeth. I love the way the tongue sticks out, and the eyes are properly segmented and painted silver. The fingers and toes are sculpted in a bony, sharp detail, and the proportions are not human. Colors are as you'd expect, red and blue with black web detailings. The elbows even have spikes.

It's nice to see Toy Biz do a good figure with six arms. Multi-armed Spidey had all the arms on a side on one joint, and two of his arms were attached to the arm above, not the body(a victim of a gimmick). And the animated Man-Spider's arms were prone to tearing off.

While there aren't any gimmicks, there is a sort of "transformation" referenced to. Pivot the head up, and rotate the legs backwards to get the toy in an eight-legged spider pose. The universal hip joints are the only thing even allowing this pose, and not even they look too out of place. This pose is probably the only reason knee joints were added, seeing as the arms lack elbow joints.

The figure stands 5" tall(keep in mind, he's a hunchback), and stands 2" in spider formation.

The figure includes 1 accessory, which fills the required Toy Biz gimmick. A small alien plant, about 2 inches tall, with a button in the flytrap mouth to snap the jaws shut.

the review: My Doppelganger is now showing some heavy paint wear from age, but nothing I can't fix (with paint, or eBay). Possibly the best monster figure the animated series produced. And aside from poseability, has detail and accuracy which rivals the current classics figures. ***** out of *****

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