{"id":3031,"date":"2010-03-19T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2010-08-02T01:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T05:11:58","slug":"first-green-lantern-kyle-rayner-figure-that-doesnt-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/19\/first-green-lantern-kyle-rayner-figure-that-doesnt-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Kyle Rayner Green Lantern Figure That Doesn&#8217;t Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They&#8217;ve finally managed to produce a Kyle Rayner Green Lantern action figure that doesn&#8217;t suck.\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Green Lantern Kyle Rayner DC Direct Action Figure\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/greenlanter_rayner_fig1.jpg\" alt=\"Green Lantern Kyle Rayner DC Direct Action Figure\" width=\"367\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Admittedly, this figure is more muscle-bound than Kyle truly is.\u00a0 Y&#8217;know what?\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter, this figure just looks awesome!\u00a0 The previous Kyle figures have been very disappointing.\u00a0 <a title=\"Previous Kyle Rayner figures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\/dccomics\/search\/?q=kyle+rayner+figure&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" class=\"broken_link\">Click here<\/a> to see a few of the previous <em>DC Direct<\/em> figures.\u00a0 There have also been figures from the <em><a title=\"Kyle Rayner from Total Justice\" href=\"http:\/\/cooltoyreview.com\/Kenner_TJ_GreenLantern.asp\">Total Justice<\/a><\/em> line as well as <a title=\"Kyle Rayner figure for JLU\" href=\"http:\/\/dchallofjustice.com\/news\/?p=1545\">Justice League Unlimited<\/a>.\u00a0 This one beats them all hands-down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Green Lantern Kyle Rayner DC Direct Action Figure\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/greenlanter_rayner_fig2.jpg\" alt=\"Green Lantern Kyle Rayner DC Direct Action Figure\" width=\"500\" height=\"605\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This figure was released as part of the <a title=\"DC Direct\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\/dcdirect\/?dcd=12999\" class=\"broken_link\">JLA Classified: Classic: Series 2<\/a>.\u00a0 The package is shown below.\u00a0 It was released in February, so you may still be able to find it in stores.\u00a0 Otherwise ask your local comic shop to order it for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Green Lantern Kyle Rayner DC Direct Action Figure\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/greenlanter_rayner_fig3.jpg\" alt=\"Green Lantern Kyle Rayner DC Direct Action Figure\" width=\"400\" height=\"702\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div 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