{"id":44575,"date":"2025-06-29T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=44575"},"modified":"2025-06-01T20:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T00:01:01","slug":"wendys-dc-heroes-2025-set-6-exclusive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/wendys-dc-heroes-2025-set-6-exclusive-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy's DC Heroes 2025 Set 6 exclusive review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our final set from the second year of Wendy's Kids Meal keshi figures is again themed around a team: we already had the Teen Titans<\/a> in Set #4, and now it's the Justice League - specifically, the heroes who aren't big enough to support a set on their own, but who are big enough that there's reasonable expectation that kids would recognize them. For instance: Martian Manhunter! Thanks to the Justice League<\/i> cartoon, he's pretty well known, but who would you ever pair him with? This is a pretty classic figure design with both arms held out to the side and his cape draping against his back. There's not a lot of detail to sculpt on him, but they got his classic costume, his giant folded collar, and the oversized forehead\/brow region, so that's all we need.<\/p>\n

The second figure is mostly League-adjacent: Zatanna has been a member of the team (in the 80s, when nobody cared), but more often she's operating alone and only called in for backup on overtly mystical cases. Since Wendy's wanted classic costumes whenever possible, Zee isn't wearing that god-awful mess<\/a> she had when she was an active member of the team, but rather her traditional top hat and tuxedo jacket. Her pose is taken directly from Matt Kaufenberg's art, with one hand on her hip and the other raised, palm up, at shoulder level. The idea is she's casting some kind of magic spell, but like Mera's<\/a> water blast<\/a>, the toy doesn't actually have anything in her hand. They also didn't make any attempt to sculpt her fishnets, so you'll have to decide for yourself if she's got bare legs or not.<\/p>\n

How do you pick a villain for two such disparate heroes? Get one that's a general Justice League threat! It's the Super Adaptoid<\/a><\/s> Amazo. the robot that can copy all the powers of the Avengers<\/s> the Justice League! The JLU<\/i> design<\/a> made sense, for animation, but it wouldn't have worked at all as one of these toys, so he's back to the \"Giftsmas elf on steroids\" look from the comics. Not his original \"bare chest and striped pants\" look, the later one, with brown pants and a V-shaped vest. He's sculpted with his pointed ears, and since the comics always showed him as being fairly massive, he's taller than the others: as tall as Zatanna with her hat on.<\/p>\n

Considering Martian Manhunter and Amazo's typical colorschemes, getting this set in green would have been the best choice, but I'm polite enough not to bug fast food workers any more than I need to. If there's a third series of these toys in the future, though, hopefully Wendy's will make deciphering which set is which easier again.<\/p>\n

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