A couple of Call of Duty Spawn figures, based on downloadable skins, might not normally merit a whole lot of attention, especially since both appear to use the same basic body that McFarlane Toys has recycled umpteen times for Mortal Kombat Spawn variants. Yet something looks different this time. Is that actually a cloth and wired cape on the first Spawn?
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If so, and it seems so — a McFarlane rep did not respond to email inquiries — it would be the fulfillment of an extremely frequent request. Spawn’s cape, like the rest of his costume, is a dynamic, living symbiote, and ought to be poseable. Yet even as McFarlane has experimented with bendy wires inside cloth capes for Batman and Superman, Todd’s own creation has cried out for it. But take a good look at the promo image;
That definitely looks like a wire sewn into the hem. That said, McFarlane has tricked us before, with textured plastic that looked a lot like cloth in the right lighting. And the official product description doesn’t mention the cape at all. There’s also the fact that it’s the same size as the Mortal Kombat Spawn plastic cape, and not the huge, sprawling thing most fans would rather pose. Buyer beware — maybe wait to see it in a store rather than preorder — but this looks like at least a step in the right direction.
A deluxe figure at $29.99, the Call of Duty Spawn also includes five guns, presumably to share with DC figures who don’t get any. Tactical Spawn, his video-game brother in arms, gets four, plus a headset, and one of his guns notably looks like the preposterously long-barreled weapon of a certain clown prince of crime.
Here’s hoping it is what it appears to be, it does well for the company, and Todd realizes that fans want an even bigger one on his signature creation.
