Is The New Mandarin Spawn Figure From McFarlane Toys Part Of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Line?

by Jay Cochran
September 02, 2020
Yesterday we told you how McFarlane Toys was going to be releasing a new 7" Mandarin Spawn figure. There will be two version of the figure released, a regular version and one exclusive to Walmart that will be part of the Gold Label Collection. On that we are clear, but where there is some confusion is what property banner the figure will actually fall under? Yesterday we reported that we think the figure will be released under their newly announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt line. The main reason we felt this was the case, and honestly still do is because a listing for the Mandarin figure actually showed up online several months ago from an overseas distributor stating it was part of the Witcher line.

I realize some folks might have thought we said it was part of the Witcher line because in the video Todd McFarlane released yesterday announcing the figure, he holds up packaging that is Witcher based. It's not, at least not on it's own right. We saw that packaging he held up was for the previously announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 7" Gold Label Collection Geralt of Rivia figure, and not the Spawn one.

Now what we didn't see yesterday was the end of the video because I guess it was cut off on the video posted to Twitter. Since yesterday, we have seen the Instagram version which didn't have the ending cut off. In the full version he does use the words a different property when talking about the packaging. So we are definitely not saying the figure is 100% part of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt line, but we still think its possible. If you watch enough of these video's Todd posts, he often seemingly just speaks off the cuff, and we think it's possible he might have misspoken and meant to say the packaging shown is for a different figure and not different property.

We also realize, at this point there is no indication that Mandarin Spawn has any connection to the The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt video game. So why would they stick a figure of this character in a video game line it has no connection to? We don't know. Obviously the last Spawn figure that was released at mass retail was done under the Mortal Kombat 11 banner, since Spawn did end up appearing in that game as a playable character. I don't follow video games enough to be able to say one way or the other if there is any chance or way for Mandarin Spawn to show up in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt game. I certainly don't know how anyone could say it's impossible that at some point he could or have some kind of connection that would make more sense to put the figure in that line. IF there is some surprise coming for that, it would be a good reason for why McFarlane wouldn't reveal now what property the Spawn figure will fall under. Also if it's not part of the Witcher line, what current McFarlane property would it make sense to put it under??

Time will only tell and honestly I am not sure why it really matters? The real news here is that the figure is coming. I am sure some might be wondering why don't they just do a full on Spawn dedicated action figure line at mass retail? I obviously can't say they won't, or even that this figure couldn't be part of such a line. I can say I've seen nothing indicating there is a such a line coming at this point. We knew The Witcher line was coming months in advance of the official announcement as I knew this Mandarin figure was coming before yesterday. I suppose it's possible they've managed to keep a dedicated Spawn line a complete secret, but in this day and age that doesn't seem very likely. As to why they aren't doing a dedicated Spawn line? I can only speculate, but my best guess is because it's easier to convince a Walmart to sell these Spawn figures when they are mixed in with properties that have greater notoriety. I really don't see much chance of a Walmart carrying a full blown Spawn line until there is an actual release date on the books for a new Spawn movie. I certainly wouldn't be upset if I was wrong about that.
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SpiderS - 2020-12-23 @ 7:50 am

Red version will be much better, blue just seems out right wrong, maybe if it was more metallic or glittery ordarker it might have looked better. I do wish we would get instead of that just more articulated version of Mandarin Spawn 2 figure, that version was waycooler and would make for just a awesome looking figure, they way Todd likes it.

Belmont13 - 2020-12-23 @ 7:28 am

The lack of paint apps(wash mostly) is unfortunate it makes the figure looks cheap.

deecee4 - 2020-12-22 @ 5:26 pm

The paintwork looks really unfinished...no washes on anything and gray primer throughout the figure.

Satam - 2020-12-22 @ 4:40 pm
10 minutes ago, EvilHayato said:

Yeah definitely not feeling this at all. For some reason I feel like even the paint work is bad and not very detailed, at least compared to the originals.

I was thinking the same thing. A wash would probably help a lot. I still want to see the red version.

EvilHayato - 2020-12-22 @ 4:37 pm

Yeah definitely not feeling this at all. For some reason I feel like even the paint work is bad and not very detailed, at least compared to the originals.

Lord_Scareglow - 2020-12-22 @ 4:22 pm

Nahhh, still doesn't look as good as the original, hate the spawn logo on the forehead.

Nosferatuman62172 - 2020-12-22 @ 4:07 pm

What about the regular version?

JayC - 2020-12-22 @ 1:57 pm
The new Gold Label Mandarin 7" Spawn figure from McFarlane Toys has started to hit overseas and now you can check out in-hand images of the figure below via Undead Mok. He has also posted a review of the figure which you can check out though it is not in English. You can still watch it to get a good idea of the type of articulation it has and such.Here in the US, this Gold Label blue version will be released as a Walmart exclusive. There is supposed to be a general release version of this figure coming as well which will feature Mandarin Spawn in his more traditional red colors. We have yet to see any actual images for that figure other than some early prototype ones, or know when it will be released.

JayC - 2020-09-29 @ 7:45 pm

Todd McFarlane today revealed the packaging for their upcoming 7" Gold Label Mandarin Spawn figure which will be released as a Walmart exclusive and goes up for pre-order on October 1. There will be a regular version released in red with some other variations. It's still unknown if the regular version will have it's own unique Spawn packaging like this one, or if it will be released under The Witcher banner which is how the figure was first listed when it originally showed up earlier in the year on some overseas solicitations. Todd hasn't gone into many details for the regular release one yet. Could Todd be sneaking out a full on new Spawn action figure line or is this just special packaging for this one figure?

EvilHayato - 2020-09-08 @ 11:56 pm
On 9/3/2020 at 2:48 PM, JayC said:

But these arent being sold AS Spawn figures. The first one was sold as a Mortal Kombat figure and this one I think will be sold as a Witcher figure.

Spawn was actually IN Mortal Kombat 11, which makes sense to have a figure version of him. Its just a cross promotional way of getting figures made and spawn cross over together. McFarlane did the same thing when Soul Calibur 2 came out and spawn guest starred in the Xbox version of the game. With that deal, he made figures of some of the cast as well as 2 versions of spawn from the game. There is no tie in with Witcher and Spawn. I would hazard a guess that a 5 year old game will not suddenly be getting a new update that has any form of spawn in it to sell more copies. I would also find it an extremely strange move to market a mandarin spawn as a witcher figure. All that will do is confuse tf out of people. If anything, this gold label is more of a round about all star miscellaneous property akin to NECAs player select line they had years ago. It had miscellaneous characters from many different video games, but in one line.

As for the figure itself, I used to love the original. I even had the original and a variant of it as well as the 2nd revision where they remade it. I had to purge and sell them as I really dont have the taste for most of my mcfarlane spawn figs anymore. But this one is a shell of what the original looked like. I dont really like how he articulates his figures as well. Hopefully if he does any later spawn releases, they have better reworkings. Fingers crossed for santa spawn and gunslinger spawn!

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