I teased an image in my first blog, one that featured both the holiday Hal Jordan and the recent SDCC Hal Jordan. I had hoped I’d be able to come up with something interesting to write about them. I couldn’t. So I’m just going to throw a few pictures at you and call it a day. Sound good?
Considering all the crap Mattel has received over their holiday Hal Jordan figure, I am impressed that they even bothered to release another Hal, especially a maskless one.
In addition to different logos, the figures also sport a different shade of green on both the suit and ring.
The new Hal head sculpt is much longer in the neck and face. It looks good on holiday Hal though!
Hal’s head looks a little bigger on the GL body than I thought it would. Mine’s still in package. Maybe I’ll just leave it there.
Sorry if its been mentioned, but how did you get the Holiday Hal?
I picked it up not too long after the first one hit eBay. (Note: This is not the first one that was sold on eBay.)
“Holiday Hal” was a bad idea. Period. And this blog proves it.
I agree that Holiday Hal was a bad idea. But how does a photo comparison of it and the SDCC Hal prove that?
Oh, I figured that was the point of the blog… my bad. I’m still surprised how many collectors don’t mind that the SDCC Hal head looks in no way at all like a classic Hal Jordan. Green Lantern without his mask, yeah…..that’s great, but…..
Thank the toygods for Spy Magician’s contribution though. I was thinking of doing the same thing when I had the chance to get the two test shots of Holiday Hal. I passed because of the price, but I bet Spy will break even.
Ham is that you or a young Ron Jeremy in the picture?
Love the Holiday Hal figure. Like the Hal Jordan figure. Never realized how long his neck was until the comparison shot. Thanks!
Thanks for the photos.
I’d love to see a pic of Holiday Hal next to the Sinestro body from the GLC 3-pack with one of Spy’s Hal heads on it. You send me the Holiday Hal, I’ll take the pics and send it back to you. Deal?
He looks funny without his collar painted green. Apparently Matty thought so too, since in the head-swapping photo on the back of the card, they painted his collar. Way to not show people what they’re getting Matty!
Just got the Spy head, and I love it. Paint is perfect. Fit is perfect. Everything in the universe is good (except that I don’t have Barda, Deadshot, Volcana, the new 3-packs….).
Aaargh, this never ends, does it?
I will say that if you give flight suit Hal one of the Lanterns (got mine for a Kiliwog fig on clearance), it makes the figure so much better. If they ever do a Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne, it’ll be a great figure to have. I never gave a crud about Sinestro in the GL outfit, so I’m totally happy to have flight suit Hal, GL Spy head Hal, and Abin Sur.
Mattel’s latest Hal is a total fail as a Hal GL. However I much prefer the SDCC GL body. Three cheers for SpyMagician. Savior of the universe!
I think the paint jobs and logo on the new three-pack GL bodies look way better than the paint job and logo on Holiday Hal. I can’t wait to get my casts of that head from Spy Magician. And I agree with Daikins that giving flight suit Hal a lantern to hold really elevates the figure to another level.
Thanks for the comparison photos, Ham!
This makes me sad and happy at the same time!
I really think mattel dropped the ball on this one in the first place, it made me so angry when i first heard about it. I am happy to get more GL characters, but looking at this I wish the bodies were a little more exact so I too, can do the spy trick! I will anyway.
Good to see direct side by sides to see how they differ!
As far as I’m concerned, thanks to Spy, I have Holiday Hal. Even if they made one now I wouldn’t buy it because I already have it!
Personally for me all is forgiven with the great Hal cast from Spymagician!
see the pictures shows Mattel is at least trying to make up to fans who are mad over holiday hal and knowing they will never be able to consider their collection complete with out Hal and can never get one since Holiday Hal makes that immpossible.
I really picked up this pack for the Abin Sur… but I would love to be able to recycle that Sinestro body into Holiday Hal… How does one get a hold of the head cast by Spymagician?