![]() ![]() We also get the return of the Skull Master figure from the Double-Demon figure set - he can wield his menacing staff when it isn’t being fired from his big blue howitzer. ![]() It sports a lot of silly, cartoonish decals - one more sign of Bluebird’s growing disinterest in the toy line - but there’s tons of great stuff to make up for it. Many a kid probably enjoyed busting this evil bastard’s face open. As for the exterior, you have an orange lizard with green eyes and a purple tongue. This set’s connection to the cartoon is obvious from the get-go: it’s made in the striking image of Max’s nemesis, the titular Skull Master. However, after scoping out several images online and watching a few review videos Lashes Lizard slowly grew on me (like a parasite, you might say) and a Doom Zone I initially had zero interest in became my fifth purchase in my Mighty Max revival. That has finally been remedied, so the collector in me can finally sleep well at night. I have no idea what the deal is with Series 3’s wishy-washy US distribution, but it’s a shame it kept me from getting the entire playset collection for twenty years. Some states didn’t get anything from Series 3 apparently. The Beetlebrow and Freako horror heads, like the Geela Guts doom zone of Series 3, were readily available all over the UK, but only select areas in the US for whatever reason. It’s also the only doom zone with a black Mighty Max logo, instead of the usual red. I only got it because, at the time, I was a completist. This Mighty Max is the base only with just Max. Where the designs are cool, the substance is…lacking.ĬYBERSKULL is too abstract for my tastes: it plunges Max into the belly of his own computer (just like the elusive Geela Guts doom zone, which plunges him into the belly of his pet iguana), so the interior is an amalgamation of computer parts and electronic miscellany. 1993 Bluebird Mighty Max Doom Zones Battle Cat, in used good condition. There are a few golden moments here, but despite the unchained creativity in the playset compositions, it was at this point I realized Max wouldn’t see a fourth adventure. On the plus side, the designers went all-out with the playset layouts: almost every one of them is a complex puzzle box of moving parts and odd configurations, from the vertically splitting Nautilus to the bagel-shaped Geela Guts. Here the bulk of Max’s adventures draws to a close as we finally round out the Doom Zone collection. ![]()
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