One of the themes in this set is the Seven Soldiers of Victory.  We pulled the Vigilante in our first box.  Here in Box 8 of our Justice League Unlimited brick of HeroClix by WizKids we pull 2 more, Shining Knight and Green Arrow.  Our full pull list for this booster is Star Labs Scientist (common), Wonder Woman (common), Red Tornado (uncommon), Shining Knight (uncommon) and Green Arrow (rare).

We’ve seen the scientist and Wonder Woman already.  Again duplicates of generics and big name characters are fine.  Let’s focus on the other 3.

I love the very robotic look of Red Tornado.  Both WizKids and Mattel did a great job capturing the feel of the robot here.  One of the cool things WizKids did here is they snuck in the Young Justice keyword on the Red Tornado piece.  While Static may be the only other piece in this set with that keyword, it is cool that they included it here so you can use him with other members of the team across sets if you wish.

WizKids version of Shining Knight has a metallic gold look to it with metallic silver highlights.  A very cool contrast to Mattel’s basic yellow.  I do love how Mattel added the tunic over their basic body to give us a distinctive figure here.  Shining Knight’s HeroClix piece has a reference to his horse with one of his named powers being “To me, Winged Victory”.

You may have been thinking, we’ve already seen Green Arrow, well, yes and no.  We saw the uncommon Green Arrow, which represents him when he joins the League in Initiation.  This rare version of Green Arrow represents him at the end of Divided We Fall as his named power says “The Justice League goes on with or without you.”  This piece also covers Patriot Act where the assembled heroes are the modern incarnations of the heroes which make up the Seven Soldiers of Victory.  And includes the classic piece of dialog “Say ‘Ah’, dirtbag.”

The failure here is that there is no paint difference to tell these two pieces apart from a distance.  You really need to look at the dial to tell them apart.  While long time players of the game are used to this (The 15th Anniversary sets were aggravating in having 3 copies of the exact same sculpt and paint job for 5 pieces each).   It would have been nice if WizKids could have done something to the paint scheme to make these 2 pieces stand out a bit differently from each other.  At one point Green Arrow had red boots and gloves.  It might not be show accurate, but doing that to one of these would have helped in playing the game.  Or make them black.  Or remove the lightest color of green from one piece.  Something.