Jonah Hex and Ghost Rider

Jonah Hex and Ghost Rider

DC Universe Classics - Mattel

Ghost Rider movie line - Toy Biz

Red Dead Redemption II is here!  Greatest games of all time...but why, oh why does Rockstar refuse to make action figures based on their properties?!  Call me old fashioned, but I need a 6-inch line of cowboy figures in my life.  I've only got a couple to fill the void, and they've been around for some time now.

Jonah Hex was part of Mattel's DC Universe Classics wave 16 (Bane wave) back in 2010, the same year as the first Red Dead Redemption.  For whatever reason, I skipped most of this wave...big mistake.  Though, I am happy to have picked up a majority of it on Ebay recently at decent prices.  Jonah is a pretty unique figure for this line, as they didn't get to get away with any parts reuse.  He's dirty, ragged, and scarred appropriately.  His six-shooter and sawed-off shotgun can be holstered and unholstered with ease.  He's a great looking figure, but an odd fit for a mass-market superhero line.  We're lucky to have him, and have him done so well.

The other cowboy in my collection is even older, in toy and character chronology.  Carter Slade was the original, cowboy Ghost Rider (later know as the Phantom Rider.)  He was briefly featured in the awful Ghost Rider movie (played by the awesome Sam Elliot), and was the star figure of the Toy Biz Ghost Rider figure line.  In fact, he's the only figure I bought from that line.  Seriously...a skeleton cowboy!  With guns and fire!  How could anyone not get excited about that?!  Well, his missile-launching,  skele-shotgun was lame and has been ditched for one of Bishop's, but the figure itself is bad ass.  To top it all off, his hat is removable and he features a hinged jaw for maximum creepiness.  It's a shame that Toy Biz didn't make an equally awesome skeleton horse for him.  Oh well...you could track down one of their Lord of the Rings dark rider horses.  For these pics, I used the horse from the deluxe Sleepy Hollow Headless Horseman set (McFarlane Toys.)

If you can track these two down on Ebay, they come highly recommended.  Even if the cowboy thing isn't your bag, every superhero line needs an odd duck in the lineup.  Until a better figure offering comes around, you can find me immersed in Red Dead Redemption II.  Adios and happy trails!