It's exceedingly rare for the Four Horsemen to put out a bad figure. Boring? Well, yeah, that has been known to happen. The high-quality Princess of Power character Netossa was one I saw at Comic-Con 2012 and said "Who is this?" With big hair and the largest earrings I've ever seen, the character comes effectively devoid of a proper weapon - just a shield and a net cape - but on the bright side the net seems better made than Leech's, and her deco is top-notch. But where's the sword or mace or something? It turns out that one would come out months later in the "End of Wars Weapons Pak," another essential add-on for this and numerous other figures.
Netossa's sculpt is a good one - there are new dress elements, the boots look perfectly fine, and articulation is par for the course for this line. The eye make-up is applied well, plus there are numerous highlights that help make the figure look better than one might expect. A light blue lining on her cape, some metallic blue on her dress, and not all that much on the boots make it a decent enough figure. Keeping her in line with the original toy, it seems the Horsemen and Mattel opted to not take any shortcuts or really, any great additions. The inclusion of a sword would have been nice, I have to admit.
At about 7-inches tall, Netossa is a pretty great figure - and a pretty one, to boot. As one of the many characters that isn't taking up a lot of air time on the repeats of Princess of Power on ION. The gimmick behind her get-up is that she catches bad guys in the net, which more or less works but the rubbery material doesn't exactly beg to be played with and once you have it on as a cape, you have to decapitate her to make use of the net - unless you want to have her caught up in the net as well.
Her other accessory is a throwback to the original toy with a shield. The pattern looks like a star, or a flower, depending on how you look at it. It's white and silver with a large blue jewel, so the design works quite nicely. It's just, well, it's a shield. It's not much to look at. I went ahead and handed her a light blue Power Sword from one of the accessory packs at first, simply because she looks better with it than without it. As luck would have it, Mattel made a blue version of She-Ra's sword so now I'm just going to hand her that. See it in the shots below.
On one hand, Netossa is a well-executed figure with no obvious flaws, minus the omission of an extra accessory. On the other, it's just a boring choice - a (most likely very) limited number of She-Ra fans have succeeded in making themselves a vocal minority in this line, so the good thing (or bad thing) is they manage to have enough clout to warrant a release like this one. There's nothing wrong with it, but the entire He-Man toy universe has shifted from one where nearly every figure was a major release to one where a decreasing percentage of the customer base will recognize these characters. (I assume most people don't recognize King He-Man, Octavia, Icer, or Strobo either.) It's been a great ride, and we've managed to get some awesome figures like this one, but I'm going to assume this is a figures fans will enjoy in spite of her obscurity rather than because of it. (And then maybe you'll see her again at Big Lots! in two or three years.)
At this point, I'm more interested in the really weird stuff - Plundor, for example - so who am I to judge?
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