Wave 3 - Sinestro
It's no surprise that a character with a name as sinister as Sinestro’s would turn out to be one of the greatest villains in the galaxy, but that wasn't always the case with Sinestro. This dynamic alien dictator began his life as a galactic hero and member of the Green Lantern Corps. But his quest for more power and control led him down a dark path that turned him into a maniacal tyrant.
Sinestro was once revered as one of the greatest heroes in the Green Lantern Corps. He even served as mentor to young members of the Corps - including Hal Jordan. While Sinestro began as an iron-fisted protector of order in his assigned sector of the galaxy, his penchant for totalitarian justice soon evolved into a dictatorial rule over his home planet and its sector of the galaxy. Contesting Sinestro's fascistic methods, Hal Jordan alerted the other members of the Green Lantern Corps to Sinestro's budding dictatorship. Sinestro was taken before the Guardians - the governing body of the Corps. His punishment for abusing the power of the Green Lantern was banishment.
In exile, Sinestro came into possession of a yellow power ring - yellow being the one color of the spectrum that could neutralize the green lantern's effects. Hating the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps for banishing him, a newly invigorated Sinestro returned for revenge. As Sinestro's former student, Hal Jordan faced the evil tyrant in battle, cementing the duos transition from instructor/apprentice to arch-nemeses.
Throughout the years Sinestro and Jordan have battled many times, with Jordan always coming out the victor. Realizing he would never achieve his goal of galactic domination alone, Sinestro went about forming the Sinestro Corps - a counter to the Green Lantern Corps that consists of all the most vile and wretched villains in the galaxy. Sinestro imbued each of his Corps members with yellow power rings and led them against Hal Jordan's Green Lantern Corps. While the battle was savage and costly to the Green Lantern Corps, Hal Jordan's side prevailed and Sinestro was imprisoned by the Guardians on their homeworld.
SINESTRO CLASSIC (Coming Soon!)
SINESTRO CORPS VARIANT
Sculpt: Sinestro is an all new sculpt for the DCUC line, which ordinarily is a good thing. Unfortunately, Sinetro's all-new sculpt is, um, midget sized. For a guy who is listed in DC's handbook as being 6'7" his figure only stands a touch taller than Robin. Sigh. This is the first big "miss" for Mattel in the DCUC line. Fans might be forgiving this one time, but hopefully errors of this magnitude won't become the norm. Apart from his woefully undersized stature, Sinesto's sculpt is great. He has the most "natural" looking shoulders of any figure in the line so far. And his head sculpt is out of this world (heh). He has one of the most emotive facial expressions I've seen on a 6" (er, 5") figure.
Paint: Sinestro has a great paint job. All of his detail work is tight and crisp with no bleed or slop. The Sinestro Corps variant in particular is really nice. The yellow covers the black base very nicely and he just lot of shard detail work done on that uniform. His face and hands are drybrushed with a lighter pink over a darker purple shade to give him lots of shadowing and lend a more lifelike finish to his alien flesh color.
Articulation: Sinestro gets the DCUC standard and all of his POAs work really well. I'm happy that Mattel has resolved the "wide stance" issues on their body sculpts. Older figures were plagued with the inability to bring their legs close together but that is no longer case. Sinestro can get into a lot of good, dynamic poses.
Accessories: Sinestro comes with this yellow lantern for recharging his evil power ring.
Quality: Like the other figures he's a little rubbery but it's not a deal-breaker. The real disappointment here is his size. The paint, articulation and plastic quality are all pretty solid.
