My role in CantinaDan's Super Powers to DCUC Evolution Blog was pretty much just me boxing up all the figs and taking them to his place so he could photograph them and do all the work (I suppose I answered a few questions he had as well, and sometimes I would hand the figures to him ).

He and I had been discussing doing that series of photos for a long time--he had done an evolution shot of Hawkman in one of his previous evolution blogs (first one, second one), and I think we talked about it at least that far back. We just had to wait for the DCUC figs to come out (I think we were assuming they would do all of them, if we didn't know that already), and I was collecting both lines (I have been with DCUC since the start, and I had been, slowly but surely, putting together a loose SP collection). As we got closer to all of the DCUC versions being announced/released, I started going over my loose SP collection and finishing it up, while also doing some upgrades. I hadn't even noticed before that some of my figs weren't complete, and I wanted them to be in good shape for all the evolution shots (and cause I want a nice loose set of course).

Anyway, that brings me to my tale of woe. In this process of double checking all my SP figs, I figured out that the Mr. Freeze I had received in a trade with a fellow AFIer, was not in fact the Super Powers Mr. Freeze. It was the knockoff from the DC Super Heroes by ToyBiz. Ugh. When I figured this out the trade had happened about a year prior, and since it took me that long to notice I just decided it was my bad, and I also decided to just assume it was an honest mistake by my trading partner. I'm still inclined to think that.

So at that point, I didn't have a real SP Mr. Freeze at all, and I was going to need one soon. Not long after figuring this out I had the opportunity to buy a complete loose SP Mr. Freeze from a different AFIer for a good price. Great, sold. Fast forward a few months. CantinaDan does the blog, pics look great to me, and then I see a comment on the blog saying that the helmet on the Freeze is from the ToyBiz knockoff. I wondered if maybe I switched the helmets by mistake. I grabbed both figs, looked online at pics of the SP Freeze, and guess what, the replacement Freeze I bought, the one that I thought was a nice complete loose SP version, did have the ToyBiz helmet. So I still don't have an actual loose complete Mr. Freeze, the evolution shot is wrong-ish (blarg) and two different AFIers have screwed me (intentionally or not). On the one hand, these were probably honest mistakes. On the other hand, I was pretty confident that the sellers, especially one of them, knew what they were doing.

And that concludes my tale of woe. I'm still on the hunt for a loose complete SP Mr. Freeze, or a stray helmet from the SP version.