Mattel Masters Of The Universe Revelation Clamp Champ Figure
Mattel Masters Of The Universe Revelation Clamp Champ Figure
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00:00 By no surprise he's Eternia's claw game winner 10 years straight.
00:03 You should look at the Mattel Master Universe Masterverse Revelation Clamp Champ.
00:08 Clamp Champ, known to his friends as Rhinus, was present at the Royal Palace of Eternia during the grand ceremony that would conclude with
00:29 Teela being given the title of Man-at-Arms.
00:31 Before the ceremony would conclude though, however, Teela and her father and the entire guard were called away to defend Castle Greyskull
00:38 from an attack by the forces of Skeletor.
00:40 Just before we get going on the review of the Masterverse Revelation Clamp Champ,
00:45 I'm gonna grab the tape measure and see how tall the figure stands. You'll also as well have to excuse me,
00:50 I've had some problems with my voice the last couple of days,
00:52 but we're gonna push forward at least with this review.
00:55 The figure of Clamp Champ though stands about six and a half inches in height or the figure is gonna be about 17 centimeters tall.
01:01 While I may not have a giant claw to bring them in, I'm gonna use at least my hands.
01:05 Here's what the figure looks like with the original Master Universe Revelation He-Man.
01:08 We are gonna be getting another version of He-Man coming out soon,
01:11 but of course because we don't have that figure yet, this will have to do.
01:13 This will also drive home one additional point is the fact that they are using a lot of the same molds together.
01:17 Heads are gonna be obviously very different as well as the armor that they're sporting,
01:20 but you can see that Clamp Champ is using what seems to be the same torso, the same arms, the same lower cloth.
01:26 Maybe the loin cloth is slightly sculpted differently, but the legs and the boots seem to be identical.
01:31 What isn't though identical is comparing him along with the original Master Universe Origins Clamp Champ.
01:36 While the colors of course are very much the same, you can see that they have
01:39 updated the colors adding some additional metallic blue and it looks really nice in this new release.
01:44 Check off that you get the following things when you get your own Clamp Champ.
01:48 The figure comes included with first of all his big giant clamp, but he also comes included as well with some interchangeable hands.
01:53 The hands themselves being that they are closed fists don't really do much for me to be all honest.
01:58 I've always appreciated of course that any time like a company like Mattel would include things like this,
02:02 even though it's ultimately gonna be going into a bag somewhere with all the other fists that I don't use with displaying my figures,
02:07 I don't think I really have a purpose for this.
02:10 Being that Clamp Champ really is already gonna be using his gripping hand on one side to be holding the claw.
02:15 The other hand I'm probably just gonna be using for him to hold a weapon, not that he really necessarily needs a weapon.
02:20 Then basically these closed fists become null and void.
02:22 Gonna become null and void at least for right now.
02:25 I'm gonna put that to the side. The figure as well comes included with his clamp.
02:28 Now it is very different from the original Clamp Champ that we got from Master Universe Origins. Very similar in design.
02:33 This one's a lot bigger. It does also have some additional coloring that they've added to the front of it, some nice metallic blue.
02:38 It also clips onto his arm differently too.
02:41 Whereas this Clamp Champ clamp actually simply just clipped onto his hand like this. Like he'd literally be carrying around like a big gun.
02:48 Just like clipping into his hand like that. This Clamp Champ on the other hand actually has two ways of displaying the clamp.
02:54 The first main way is obviously this is just gonna slide then onto his forearm. Now you can slide it in like this,
03:01 although it's gonna be a little harder and it's gonna fit of course only as so far before it gets into a stopping point.
03:07 What you have to do instead is you have to open this up and
03:10 then you'll take Clamp Champ's hand and you basically will fit this in. Now he has a post right here that he literally is just
03:16 gonna be gripping onto this whole time.
03:18 Which kind of is a little difficult to do. Just get his hand on here for example.
03:22 And then once that's far enough or secure enough, and doesn't really have to be completely in place
03:27 anyways, because you're literally only gonna take the other half of the clamp anyways and you're gonna clip the two together.
03:32 And now Clamp Champ has the clamp then attached literally onto his forearm.
03:36 It looks like he almost had his arm severed right off and Eternia just replaced it all together with a big giant clamp.
03:42 Now if you don't like this look, what you can also do as well is just detach this part,
03:46 put it to the side and then Clamp Champ could have something a little bit more realistic to say his original vintage days.
03:52 Where you can actually hold it more like this, where he's actually got a handle there to hold on to.
03:56 At least to their credit, they at least finished the inside of it.
03:59 So it doesn't look hollow and like if you were to say decide you wanted to have this just completely off,
04:05 at least it looks like it was for all intents and purposes designed that way.
04:09 Now of course you can also
04:10 take it and put it on this hand too. And not really knowing which side I'd like to have it on, I think for all intents
04:15 and purposes I'd like to have it really on this side.
04:17 But you can also have it on this side as well.
04:19 Clips around his arm the exact same way and this also of course you can take the other half and fit that in place as well.
04:24 The only downside though to the clamp is I, if I fit the two back together the way it was,
04:30 basically I have to take these little tabs, see the little clips on the other sides of each either side of the plastic and it
04:36 has to fit then inside of these.
04:37 We'll just kind of line everything up the way that we found it at least snap that in place.
04:41 I'm a little worrisome about how many times I can actually do that.
04:44 I'm sure the frequency of removing this will start to mar the plastic and there potentially could be some stress marks to start to develop.
04:51 One thing I did wonder though is say about the clamp.
04:54 I'm just gonna put clamp back in frame here, is it does have a spring built inside of it.
04:58 And when you pull back the clamps for example, and you let them go they spring forward.
05:03 But all the time of doing that, it has to be you manually doing this. Like there's no button,
05:08 there's no lever. On the original Clamp Champ clamp, try saying that ten times fast,
05:13 there was actually an option to pull back the clamp pieces, the clips. And those snapped in place and like the original vintage toy,
05:20 you didn't press the button on the front and that would latch them or detach them and they would spring forward.
05:26 I wish that they could have found a similar way of incorporating that gimmick into this clamp.
05:30 Because really other than just prying this back yourself, there isn't any way to really lock this in place.
05:35 There certainly isn't anything to lock and keep them latched in place.
05:39 And there also isn't no button to also release this to have them clamp forward.
05:43 It's a nice gimmick to at least have included a spring in there.
05:46 But I just don't like the idea that I have to do this every single time to bring the claw backwards.
05:51 It should have been built into something more than just just doing this manually.
05:56 Having a closer look though at Clamp Champ.
05:58 It's a nice looking figure, honestly.
06:00 One thing I really like going for this guy is the fact that they've added some really nice metallic blues.
06:05 The metallic blue and almost even borderline in purple.
06:08 You can see it's been nicely painted there on the front and the back of his armor, back of the armor right there.
06:13 It detaches by means, there's a little clip right here,
06:16 there's a little clip right there, you can kind of see there's actually little pegs. You want to detach these.
06:22 Not that you really will need to be doing this. Just detach these and then the armor can come off completely.
06:27 I don't really want to do it too much to be all honest, just because again,
06:30 I'm sure that will start to loosen up the plastic.
06:33 It'll become even more increasingly harder to put this back in place.
06:36 But for all intents and purposes, you'd be able to take the armor off and then just underneath this,
06:40 basically what you'd be treated to is a He-Man body underneath it.
06:43 The coloring though on this guy is really quite good.
06:46 And I think the head sculpt is very good too. He sort of has a bit of a scowl though,
06:50 which is in a way I wish they could have gone with maybe less a scowl and just more of a neutral face.
06:55 He does have a neutral face, but he has just a lot of bags on his eyes.
06:58 But just a lot of bit of sagginess a little on his face as well.
07:02 Bringing the original Clamp Champ, at least from the Origins one that we had,
07:06 the problem I had with the original Origins Clamp Champ, if you saw the review of that one, is that they mispainted his eyebrows.
07:11 Now maybe not this head sculpt, but the alternate head sculpt that came included with the figure.
07:15 He had a sculpted eyebrow, but then they painted way beyond that area. This newer Clamp Champ at least doesn't have that issue.
07:22 But I just wish he would smile a little bit. He looks just so downtrodden and defeated.
07:26 Of course, we already know what happens to Clamp Champ and Fisto in the series Revelation.
07:32 I mean, honestly, I would like to have brought in Fisto for comparisons as well.
07:35 Loincloth down below though is slightly different than what we get here for He-Man.
07:39 I think it is different. The front seems slightly sculpted different. Maybe it's just more my eyes playing tricks on me.
07:45 If not for that, maybe it is an identical body between the two. And it looks like they're also sharing the same boots as well.
07:50 Colors, of course, bring in some additional black and some nice red for the fur, all matching the color scheme on the original Clamp Champ as well.
07:59 For the figure's articulation, his head sculpt is going to be on a ball joint,
08:03 so it rotates all the way around. Head looks down, head looks up.
08:06 And you, of course, can move it back and forth as well. As for the arms,
08:10 they do rotate all the way around. His armor does prevent some of the movement ever so often as I'm moving the arm right here.
08:17 I can kind of feel it rubbing against the armor piece.
08:19 So just want to be careful of that. The arms do come out though at 90 degrees.
08:23 You can swivel the arms at the bicep, double hinge on the elbow, and you can, of course, rotate the hands all the way around.
08:28 There is also a hinge in the hands too, so you can also hinge them back and forth too.
08:32 We can't forget that. Swivel just only on the wrist. He does technically...
08:36 I mean, he has a ball joint, but it's kind of hard to kind of see what's going on behind the scenes.
08:40 But he does have one because, of course, you can move the upper body up and down this way and also rock it back and forth there too.
08:45 So, has a ball joint, has a waist swivel. He has leg splits, certainly. You can see there's ball joints behind the scenes.
08:51 Swivel on the thigh, three-quarters of the way up the cut. He has a double hinge on the knee, if I can get to that.
08:56 Articulation as well in the boots. Thigh also, the thigh, the calves, the ankles.
09:03 There we go. The ankles move back and forth this way. You can also rock it back and forth this way. It's a nice-looking figure.
09:08 Let's go ahead and just grab his clamp champ clamp again.
09:12 We'll just go ahead and attach that. And again,
09:14 you can either have it this way or you can just attach it onto the top like this.
09:18 And once that's all in place,
09:21 kind of hard to kind of get that into his hand, then you can take the other half of it and you can clamp the clamp
09:26 together, at least the two halves of the clamp together.
09:29 And again, like it looks good on the figure, whether you decide to have it upside down like this or you want to have the
09:34 right side up, at least have the better paint. It's a nice-looking figure.
09:36 The thing about it though is while the figure came out really good, I'm a little disappointed, honestly, that the clamp is a little underwhelming.
09:43 I mean, of course, when we already have the
09:45 revelation, the origins clamp champ clamp to work with. Not to mention the original vintage toy.
09:51 All of them worked the same idea by having a little button pressed on the top that flipped then the fronts or the sides of the
09:58 claw outward. I wish that they could have done something incorporate into this figure as well.
10:01 He does have a spring, which is fine and good, but I hate to have to always go back and do it manually.
10:07 I think that's a bit of a drag. If they had found only a way to incorporate, I mean again,
10:11 it's literally the same idea.
10:12 Not again, probably had something also do with the fact that you have to detach the two halves on this version,
10:17 that there wasn't a way to really put in the mechanics of it. If that was the case,
10:21 I would have found maybe another way, like here this guy is talking like he designs toys for a living,
10:25 but I really wish that they could have found still a way to incorporate a gimmick.
10:29 It's the only thing that's overlooked, unfortunately, with the brand new release of clamp champ.
10:33 I mean, in the end,
10:35 it's not really a big deal that clamp champ had to unfortunately
10:37 forfeit his gimmick mechanism built into his clamp, because
10:40 unlike the original origins one that we looked at and the vintage one before that, it was all self-contained.
10:45 It was very easy for Mattel at the time to be able to build in a spring and the mechanism because you didn't have to
10:50 put a forearm sliding into it.
10:52 This time around with clamp champ actually having the clamp as part of his body,
10:55 two halves unfortunately have to fit around his forearm and there just isn't enough quarters inside to accommodate a spring and a latching or
11:02 detaching feature.
11:03 So I don't mind, I guess, the idea that they had to do away with that. At least to their credit,
11:07 they found a way to incorporate a spring and
11:09 unfortunately means though you as a collector have to manually go in there and pull back the claw and release it.
11:15 Whereas the original one would you just latch them in place and press a little button for the fun feature.
11:20 Clamp champ though his real selling point is the fact that they've added some really nice paint applications to this figure while using still the same
11:27 He-Man body. Sure, the additional metallic blue is both lighter and darker.
11:31 The additional red and the black that they've added to the body's armor is a really nice way to
11:35 update the existing armor that the original clamp champ would have had.
11:39 That first clamp champ that we looked at from the origins line and of course the one that predated that in the 80s would have
11:45 had a very simple looking armor with a revelation and especially the master verse.
11:49 One thing that Mattel has been able to really do well is
11:51 update the look of the armor, keep it still looking like the original vintage design,
11:56 but finding a way to apply some much more
11:58 additional sculpting and a lot of that as well goes hand in hand with the additional paint mentioned already the metallic blue.
12:04 Yeah, it's a nice looking figure. When it comes to certainly displaying clamp champ, though missed opportunity on the purse behind the cameras part,
12:10 I'm going to be displaying this guy on the shelf with Fisto.
12:12 If you've seen the first season of Revelation, you probably all know why I will be displaying Fisto and clamp champ together.
12:19 Speaking of which though at the time of doing this video, they have just recently shown the trailer for season 2 of Revelation.
12:25 There's a lot of He-Man happening in that teaser.
12:28 Hopefully that's not just bait and switch and we're actually going to get He-Man actually representing the entire second season and not just sporadically
12:35 sprinkled in there. What do you guys think of clamp champ? Let me know down below in the comment section.
12:39 Have you had the chance to already get this figure or are you planning to get this figure based on this review?
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12:48 seeing and you certainly would like to stick around for more.
12:51 We are by the way going to be looking at some more Master Universe, Masterverse figures. There's a whole bunch of them.
12:56 I got a big stack behind me. So upcoming videos will be coming your way. Of course as always guys, thanks for watching.
13:00 See you guys next time.
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