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00:00 Apparently, when he flies, he can oxidize. Here's a look at McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse, the Superboy Prime Infinite Crisis Patina Edition, McFarlane Store Exclusive.
00:29 An alternate reality version of Superman, Superboy Prime comes from an Earth where the DC superheroes and supervillains were fictional characters.
00:36 Until the day his powers were activated, he became the world's sole superhuman.
00:40 After his planet was destroyed in the Crisis of Infinite Earths, he became unhinged over time and eventually clashed with the superheroes of the main DC universe in the Infinite Crisis events.
00:50 Ultimately, Superboy Prime was defeated and imprisoned in the Source Wall, the barrier that surrounds the universe, only to break free when he was destroyed years later.
00:58 However, another crisis threatened all of reality. Superboy Prime proved himself a hero once again and helped save the DC Multiverse.
01:05 While his team gets a tribute, is Superboy Prime still a teen? I don't think he is.
01:12 But what I do know though is, I'd like to thank the folks over at McFarlane Toys that did provide this sample of the Superboy Prime Infinite Crisis Patina Edition,
01:20 which by the way is a store exclusive over on their site and it's limited to only 4,010 pieces.
01:26 What we happen to know though, it's still in stock as of right now and it's over on their site for $40.46.
01:31 So if you guys are interested, you can click the link down below in the video description.
01:34 In the meantime though, while you're doing this, I'm going to do this. I'm going to grab the tape measure and see how tall the figure stands.
01:39 Now this is just a recasting of the original Infinite Crisis Superboy Prime, in which I'll bring that figure in more in a moment.
01:46 But also for the figure, he stands about 7 inches in height or he's about 18 centimeters tall.
01:52 Bringing now in that other Superboy Prime so you guys can see. It's using of course the exact same mold.
01:58 I will say though, I like the approach of the patina. Patina by the way is when bronze oxidizes.
02:03 So it's the natural settling of green and brown that starts to spot across bronze when it starts to oxidize.
02:09 And I think that's really been well handled here on the actual figure.
02:12 The thing about it though is, while I do like the head sculpt that they've used for Superboy Prime, I never really liked this costume.
02:18 It has nothing to do with really necessarily the figure. The figure is fine.
02:22 I just don't like the way he looked in the comics with all these extra hoses running around his shoulders and up and down his arms and legs.
02:27 I thought that was absolutely ridiculous.
02:29 But I will say though, you know, we'll talk a little bit more about how that's translated here to a patina edition.
02:35 Let's bring in some other figures of at least Superman of other shades.
02:38 Now we recently just looked at this guy. This is the Superman black and white accent edition.
02:42 Now speaking again of exclusives, while he wasn't a McFarlane toy exclusive, he was in fact a big bad toy store exclusive and has sold out over on their sites.
02:51 Another as well remolding of another Supes.
02:53 Let's bring in as well the 85th anniversary Superman, which in that case was a recasting of the hush Superman.
03:00 So a slightly bigger build. Slim are the accessories that come included with Superboy Prime.
03:06 The figure only comes included with a display stand for the figure and then a display stand for the trading card.
03:11 First, we'll look at the stand for the figure.
03:13 The stand for the figure is still the same stand as we always get with the DC multiverse this time around, though it's molded here in brown plastic.
03:19 I do also like the additional touch of adding the Superman symbol on the top of it.
03:23 It's not quite the same color, of course, but it keeps the gold somewhat consistent with the Superman shield that he has on the front of his armor.
03:31 I do like that.
03:32 The figure also comes included with his podium stand.
03:34 Now we've seen this several times already.
03:36 Some of the Joker eyes, Batman's have come included with this, for example, the glow in the dark swamp thing, just to name a few.
03:41 But the podium stand is there to store the card.
03:43 This card basically just slides into the provided grooves on either side.
03:47 And then looking at the card itself, the thing I really like about the card is sort of looks like an old design drawing.
03:53 Like if you were to flip through some artist book, you'd find like a way that he's sketched out an image here of Superboy Prime.
03:59 And I kind of like the simplicity of that.
04:01 It doesn't always have to be big and busy.
04:03 It doesn't always have to look like something referenced from a comic.
04:06 Every once in a while, it's kind of nice that you get something like this.
04:08 It kind of has more like a polished look to it.
04:10 Speaking of polished, on the side, you've got Patina Edition, and down below the bottom, you've got Superboy Prime.
04:15 But flip around, though, to the back.
04:17 Now, this is out of a limited run of 4,010 copies.
04:20 The one that was provided to me says PG.
04:22 I'm not really sure what artist proof I know would be AP.
04:25 I'm not quite really quite sure what PG would stand for.
04:28 But it's just once again to indicate that this certifies that the limited edition worldwide product, the Superboy Prime figurine,
04:34 is authentic and officially licensed by McFarlane Toys.
04:37 The figurine was created, developed, and designed by Todd McFarlane and his award-winning design group.
04:42 All figures are individually hand-painted and subsequently numbered.
04:47 We'll go ahead and put this back.
04:49 This is one of those cases where I don't ever put these cards in my trading card sheets.
04:52 Those will always be displayed with the podium.
04:54 Or, if anything, I'll put them back in the actual tray, the figure plastic tray,
04:59 if I don't really have a place to store it with the figure on the shelf.
05:02 I will definitely be displaying this guy on the shelf because I really like the look of him,
05:05 and I do like the approach of the Patina.
05:07 Now, again, the look of this sort of, for me, resonates like a statue.
05:12 Now, obviously, it will still possess all the posability points.
05:15 Not spitting on everybody.
05:17 But it has all still the points that we already looked at with this Superboy.
05:20 So when, of course, we look at the articulation, all still remain the same.
05:23 The thing, though, that does get changed a lot is the color scheme that they approach with the figure.
05:28 Sort of, again, looking like this guy is a bronze statue that has now started to oxidize over time.
05:33 The thing I will say I like about it is the head sculpt.
05:36 And I've always really liked the head sculpt for Superboy Prime.
05:38 The thing that's been very notorious about this figure was it was around the time where the trend was
05:43 to give side eyes for all their figures.
05:45 So you'll see with the original Superboy Prime, he isn't quite necessarily looking right at you.
05:50 He's sort of just slightly off to the side.
05:53 By doing away with the colors altogether for the face, it also means that the side eye is completely gone as well.
05:59 What is there instead is mostly an all-brown plastic figure.
06:03 But all you'll see is this additional oxidization of the green around the areas of his face,
06:08 more importantly around his eyes, and all the sections around his hair as well,
06:11 get brushed with this really nice additional green.
06:14 The green finds its way also in all these other places on the figure's body.
06:18 The cape is one thing that looks a little bit more gold to the appearance,
06:21 but the rest of the figure kind of comes across more like a dark brown.
06:24 It's got green all across his shoulders, it's got green across the front of his chest.
06:28 In fact, the only thing that really isn't green on the figure is the big Superman shield that he has on the front of his armor.
06:33 And that stands out really nicely in the gold.
06:36 It's a good head sculpt and an okay body.
06:39 Again, my biggest thing has always been for Superboy Prime is I never really liked all the additional hose.
06:44 These hoses are sort of the equivalent of the 90s characters always needing them,
06:48 having the need to have all these thigh pockets.
06:51 Every character had to have thigh pockets.
06:53 And for one reason or another, Superboy Prime's design got changed where he had all these extra hoses
06:58 across his shoulders, attaching his forearms to the back of the figure's body.
07:03 Like, it's just I feel unnecessary and it has nothing real.
07:06 It's no fault necessarily McFarlane's team.
07:08 I just never really liked the design of Superboy Prime.
07:11 I will say though, the problem with that though, is while I like the look of the figure
07:15 and I would love to have him just displayed on my shelf, kind of more in a heroic pose,
07:19 maybe bending his arm like this.
07:20 I've got to talk more about that also in a moment.
07:22 And maybe just sort of have a more stoic pose for Superman.
07:25 I honestly feel it's a wrong choice of figure to go with for a patina edition.
07:29 Had it been maybe the case of say, for example, let's just bring back in the black and white accent edition Superman,
07:34 which I know I praised quite a lot in his review.
07:37 Had it only been maybe this Superman or at the very least,
07:40 what if it was maybe like the original action comic Superman that we did get from before?
07:44 Still stoically posed, but maybe not having all the necessary, unnecessary armor all over his body.
07:50 Like, that's my biggest thing about the figure.
07:52 It looks great, but I feel like they almost chose the wrong, I know they chose, I feel they chose,
07:57 the wrong character to go this route with.
07:59 Because I don't feel like Superboy Prime would really justify, I would say, a statue posed of him.
08:06 Now, of course, when it comes to things of the articulation,
08:09 that's one biggest strike I really have about the figure is the fact that,
08:12 because he has these hoses always attached onto his arms,
08:15 it means that when you are turning his arms, for example,
08:18 isn't so much the case where you're moving out this way.
08:21 But if say, for example, you did want to put this guy in kind of a pose where he's got his arms against his leg like this,
08:27 you really do have to be careful by how tight these hoses get.
08:30 On the back of the shoulders, there's very little clearance from that end to this end
08:34 of how much hosing they've afforded the figure.
08:37 You really see it more so here, how stretched this is.
08:40 I wouldn't be able to turn it any further than what it is.
08:42 Obviously, I can't turn it any further beyond this point, but the hose, I just feel, needed to be longer.
08:47 It's funny for me to say that because I don't like the hoses on the figure,
08:49 but I feel in a way by being able to incorporate proper articulation for him,
08:53 he needed to have a little bit longer hoses connecting his forearms to, of course, the back of the shoulders.
08:58 That might also have been the same thing I said also when we looked at that original Superboy Prime,
09:03 was really the fact that the hoses just weren't long enough.
09:06 I will say, though, I also really like the way that the cape flows.
09:09 It also curves inward, too, so it's not just completely a flat cape.
09:13 It has some additional gold that I've already mentioned.
09:15 Just to flip this up as well, you can still see there's just as much green and oxidized brown
09:20 that's added to the back of the figure's body as there is to the front.
09:23 I think he looks really great.
09:25 Just don't like the choice of figure that they went with.
09:28 Now, for the figure's articulation, we're going to go back to the head sculpt here.
09:31 The head rotates all the way around.
09:33 Even though this particular design of Superboy Prime does have the higher collar,
09:36 it doesn't get in the way of things when it comes to rotating his head all the way around.
09:40 You can have the head looking up or down or back and forth, so there's no limitations there.
09:45 Now, when it comes to his arms, the shoulder pads will get in the way,
09:49 and, of course, when it comes to moving his arms as well,
09:51 the shoulder pads having the hoses attach them means there's only so much space you can move the figure's arms with.
09:58 If you bring him out at 90 degrees, that's not a problem.
10:01 But by moving his arms forward or back, that's really where you start to develop a tightness right here,
10:06 and you really don't want to bring the arms any further than what they are right now.
10:09 He has a double hinge on the elbow. The hands, of course, rotate also all the way around.
10:13 Superboy Prime's upper torso is on a ball joint, so that rotates also all the way around.
10:17 And further from that, there is also a ball joint at the base of the abdomen, so he also has it there as well.
10:22 You know, to look at this, you don't really think that for a second there's going to be any poseability on the figure.
10:26 The way he's designed, you almost do look at him and feel like he's made out of metal. At least I think that way.
10:31 Now, when it comes to his legs, the legs aren't going to be as limited as perhaps the arms.
10:35 There is enough clearance, first of all, and by the way, you're going to be moving the legs naturally anyways.
10:40 There never is going to be really a point where the legs get too tight.
10:43 Maybe if you bring the legs too far back like this, but really, who's going to be doing that with Superboy?
10:48 The legs do swivel at the top of the thigh. The figure does have a double hinge on the knee.
10:52 No articulation, surprising to say, when it comes to his boots. The boots don't move at all.
10:56 However, his feet do move up and down and back and forth.
10:59 And he also does have still the same toe articulation as before.
11:03 All in all, though, it's a really good looking figure.
11:06 It's one of those figures I feel like if somebody was to collect and pick this up for themselves,
11:10 they probably are picking up with the idea in mind that they're going to be putting it as if it's more like a tribute statue to Superman.
11:16 And it's unfortunate, though, ironic in fact, that if you were to pick this up as a tribute statue to Superman,
11:22 when it's not really even technically Superman, it's Superboy Prime instead.
11:26 I really would like to see this approach happen again.
11:30 Like McFarlane team to go with another Patina edition, but maybe next time don't choose Superboy Prime.
11:36 Just out of my own personal opinion at all.
11:38 I mean, it's just the fact that I don't like the look of the suit anyways.
11:41 I mean, it does do away with a lot of the brighter colors that really was a problem with the figure initially.
11:45 Like all of the brighter yellows, I think was just more eyesore than something I would appreciate.
11:50 I like the head sculpt, but I never really liked anything that was really below the head sculpt.
11:54 This now does, I think, change a lot of the color scheme.
11:58 Now it's more of a muted brown, the golds and the greens look really good, like natural oxidization would happen on bronze.
12:04 But I feel again, in my honest opinion, I know I've already said it a couple of times already,
12:08 a good approach, maybe I would say necessarily the wrong figure to go with.
12:13 I'm sure I already mentioned this when we had a look at the Infinite Crisis Superboy,
12:16 but it's something of course I'll mention again in the review here of the Patina edition.
12:20 By far, it's one of the best head sculpts that we've gotten for Superman.
12:24 And it's ironic to say that, of course, because it's on the neck of a body for Superboy Prime.
12:28 I would love to see them use this head sculpt again and maybe just do away with the armor altogether and give us a classic looking Superman body.
12:36 For me, at least looking at this, it kind of resonates a little bit like a Christopher Reeve or even a Ruby Spears Superman,
12:42 from the 80s cartoon series. Just again, change the body. That's all that needed to be done.
12:46 Maybe even go back to this approach, revisit the idea of patining a figure down the road,
12:51 but maybe not go with the right of a figure that's armored.
12:54 Like that would be the equivalent of doing a tribute statue figure for say Batman, and you decide to use,
13:00 I'm just trying to think like a random Batman figure.
13:03 Let's say for example, they decided to use like the heavy metal Batman.
13:08 That's kind of like what I'm thinking of here. Superboy Prime is an okay figure,
13:12 but I don't think he's worthy enough to make into a quote "statue" figure, which is basically what I'm getting right here.
13:18 Now imagine, just if you will, if this was a classic looking Superman with still the same head sculpt that we looked at in this review,
13:24 and say he came in clear with like a little bird or something that could be resting on his hand.
13:28 That would be a great looking figure. It didn't have to necessarily have a lot of poseability,
13:31 but it still blessed the fact that these figures all have as much articulation as they do.
13:36 I just don't think that Superboy Prime was really a candidate for going the approach of a patina edition,
13:41 because for me, I think tribute Superman, and the first figure I'm not going to be thinking of when I'm thinking tribute doing Superman,
13:46 is going to be Superboy Prime, especially the one from Infinite Crisis.
13:50 What do you guys think of the figure? Let me know down below in the comments section,
13:53 and would you like to see McFarlane's team approach a patina edition figure again?
13:57 And if that's the case, what figure would you like to see them use for a future release?
14:01 Of course, let me know down below in the comments section.
14:03 As already mentioned though, this is a McFarlane store exclusive.
14:06 It's limited to only 4,010 copies, and again, I'll provide the link down below in the video description
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