Diamond Select Toys Invincible Wave 2: Atom Eve and Robot Review and Images

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It's Wednesday and you know what that means... ToyFarce review!

This week, we're having a look at the second wave of Invincible figures from Diamond Select. A mentioned in the review of the first wave (which can be found here), Invincible is a great comic book by Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Outcast, Thief of Thieves,...), but also an animated series on Amazon Prime. The first season came out in 2021, and the second season should come out this year. Diamond Select Toys went with the animated series look for their figures. This second wave of figure included Atom Eve and Robot, a member of the Guardians of the Globe.

The wave 2 figures are definitely an improvement over the first wave, with way better articulations, like using a ball joint for the legs rather than... whatever that was in the first wave. Sadly, no improvements on the flight stands, which are still terrible (as explained in the first wave review).

First off, Atom Eve, which is... not great. That head sculpt is certainly questionable, especially when you have the picture from the animated series on the packaging. It's completely different than the ones that was on the 3D renders too.  Mine is also slightly cross eyed, so yay... She comes with 4 interchangeable hands, 2 hands with effects, 2 effects to attach to her feet, and a mini, unarticulated Shrinking Rae figure. She also comes with a flight stand... we try not to talk about the flight stands. The effects which can be attached to her feet and hands are pretty nice, though. They can help recreate how her powers look like in the show, even if very simple.

Robot, on the other hand is quite ok. He is not necessarily the most dynamic or impressive character in the show, and the figure does the job (even if he'll become way more interesting later on, read the comics!). The figure comes with 4 extra pairs of hands... and a flight stand (*sigh*). Not a lot to say about it, it's a pretty simple figure, which could use more articulations, but is fine for what it is. The front part of his chest can be removed to reveal what's inside (not much...). One of his extra hands has a wire coming out of the wrist. The sculpt is pretty accurate. I only wish those figures had cell shading or even panel lining to have a bit more "punch".

Wave 3 should have Dupli-Kate and Allen the Alien, and there is also a Monster Girl set of 2 figures announced.

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