No doubt about it, Hasbro did a beautiful job recreating this bike!Īpart from looking absolutely fantastic, there aren’t a whole lot of features on this Cosmic Ride.

The entire bike rests easily on a transparent plastic base and it’s mounted on a ball joint, so you can position it at various angles for display. The back also features an exhaust port with a translucent red flame effect part erupting out of it. The body includes a bulbous blue headlamp, some raised blue bands on the sides and behind the seat, floorboards for The Rider to rest his boots, and branching exhaust pipes sweeping off each side of the back. I’ve simply got to find a little battery powered light for inside it! The chopper-style handlebars protrude from it and connect it to the bike’s sleek black body. Wow, this thing is big, and I absolutely love the design! In place of the front wheel is a massive blue globe of energy, with white plastic tendrils of energy visible inside. They have rather distinctive designs and he looks damn fine wielding them akimbo.Īnd they each come with firing effect parts, which plug into the ends of the barrels and look great! And that’s all the little accessories out of the way, let’s check out that bike! These big, chunky weapons are cast all in black plastic and aren’t overburdened with a lot of sculpted detail. Next up, he comes with a pair of futuristic pistols and each one is a unique sculpt. Both ends are sculpted as handles giving some options for display. This piece is made out of bendy transparent yellow plastic with orange flame licking off the edges near the tip. The Cosmic Rider comes with a few fun accessories, the first of which is his flaming chain whip. It looks amazing and I was happy to see that you can pop off the dome to rotate his head from side to side.

But it’s this kind of impossible ensemble that works when dealing with the reality-bending Cosmic Marvel.įrank’s noggin has been transformed into the familiar flaming skull of the Spirit of Vengeance, but this time the translucent red skull sits engulfed in yellow flames inside a clear dome. It just doesn’t jibe with the front at all. From behind, Frank is sporting the back half of a leather jacket, which makes no real sense to me. I doubt I’m ever going to pose him off the bike anyway. You’ll no doubt note that Frank is sporting a rather awkward looking gap up in that crotch, and that’s no doubt to make him work on the bike. His legs are also encased in armor, his shoulders sport a set of most deliciously ridiculous spiked red pauldrons, his wrists are encircled with space-age rings, and under it all is a black ribbed suit that’s speckled with red and blue Kirby-Crackle. The skull itself is now sculpted into chest armor, emblazoned with two crimson red eyes and teeth like blades reaching down to his armored belt. Frank’s new duds include a partially armored and twisted version of his skull-centric costume that we know from Earth-616.

Holy shit, if I didn’t know better I’d swear this character design crawled out of a comic panel from the early 90’s. There’s not too much to slapping it together, but let’s start with the figure. So why didn’t they put that on the package? Anyway, the set comes in a big window box that shows off the figure and the partially assembled bike. Does anything get more bad ass than that? No. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that this is Frank Castle back from Hell itself and infused with powers from both Mephisto and Galactus, and granted a bitchin’ space bike so he can go hunt down The Mad Titan, Thanos, and slay him to avenge the fallen Earth. That difference being that even if I had no idea who or what this figure represented, I’d still have picked it up because it looks all sorts of bad ass. Now granted, there’s a world of difference between releasing Squirrel Girl on a scooter and Ghost Rider from Earth-666. But when faced with these questions Hasbro simply says, “Hold my beer” and bundles Cosmic Ghost Rider in the same assortment. Surely they need to reserve these higher priced releases for more mainstream and important characters. On the last Marvel Monday I checked out Squirrel Girl as part of the Marvel Legends Deluxe Riders series, and I commented on how I couldn’t believe Hasbro was taking the risk of bundling a character like Doreen Green in a $40 set.

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