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McFarlane Toys DC Direct Page Punchers Golden Age Wonder Woman Review
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00:00I guess he could have made her out of mud, but wouldn't poseability be a problem?
00:04Here's a look at McFarlane Toys DC Direct Golden Age Wonder Woman.
00:26The origin of Wonder Woman continues from All-Star Comics number 8.
00:30The Amazon Princess arrives in Man's World with a wounded Steve Trevor.
00:33This story also explains the origin of Wonder Woman's secret identity of Diana Prince
00:38and features the first appearance of Wonder Woman's invisible jet.
00:41Now, removing Diana from invisible plastic prison, and yay, back to back, I haven't cut myself either.
00:46Seriously, one of the hardest packages to open is the DC Direct stuff that we're getting now.
00:50There's no forgiving way of cutting the plastic carefully.
00:54Even when you think you've cut it around sort of a border so you can easily kind of open up the frame,
00:59I'm like, pull the plastic tray out that contains the figure.
01:02This whole time you're thinking to yourself, please don't slice my finger.
01:05Please don't slice my finger.
01:06Please don't slice my finger.
01:07And luckily, though, all the piggies, while they went to the market, none of them got damaged.
01:11Even though I know, really, it was only one piggy that went to the market.
01:13Anyways, though, moving along, let's take the tape measure now and see how tall the Golden Age Wonder Woman stands.
01:20Really is the first comic Wonder Woman that I have in my collection.
01:24Wait, you didn't get the other Wonder Woman?
01:26No, no, I did not.
01:28It's going still for stupid money online.
01:30And this guy's not willing to pay stupid money online.
01:33We'll kind of just ignore the other things that I've spent frivolous money on.
01:37But anyways, let's take the tape measure.
01:38Golden Age Wonder Woman's going to be standing at about seven and a quarter inches in height.
01:42She is, you can see for yourself, that's going to work out to be a figure that's 19 centimeters tall.
01:47Okay, maybe that's not true.
01:49I have picked up a couple of Wonder Womans.
01:51But the classic look to the character, I think the closest thing that we have right now,
01:54without spending about $150 for her, would be the one that we're getting now from the Golden Age relief.
01:59Hey, I have examples, though, not necessarily of a Wonder Woman.
02:02I have one Wonder Woman I can bring in as an example.
02:05But just to compare her with a regular DC multiverse female figure.
02:10Just recently, in fact, actually, we've looked at Hawker.
02:12Also, I thought that'd be a good example.
02:14I thought that'd be a pretty good example to bring in.
02:15Here's also what she looks with.
02:17Former Wonder Woman's actress, Gal Gadot.
02:20Because we're not going to be getting any more movies with her.
02:22I'm okay with that, honestly.
02:23I did also kind of, as we've done these recent reviews,
02:26I've kind of wanted to go back to some of my older totes and find some of my favorite figures.
02:31Favorite figures.
02:32I don't know why I need to be putting that in quotations.
02:34I happen to find such figure.
02:36This is my DC direct Wonder Woman.
02:38Surprised, really, that I never found a chance to put their back on the shelf.
02:40She's been really on a shelf for years.
02:42And then, sort of that period of time, I was kind of like moving stuff around.
02:46I decided to put her back, back in plastic totes.
02:48So, this is a chance for her at least to breathe.
02:53And it also gives me a chance as well to bring her.
02:54Now, clearly, she's a much smaller size of figure when you compare her to what we're getting now from Todd and his team.
02:59But still, one of my favorite Wonder Woman.
03:01She will never be replaced.
03:02She may be going back in a tote, but she'll never be replaced with anything new.
03:07And while we are seeing something new, let's look at something old.
03:10To come included, though, with Wonder Woman, you get yourself Wonder Woman issue number one.
03:13It's a summer issue, by the way.
03:15This isn't the original by far.
03:16I mean, one dead giveaway is, first of all, it's in pretty good condition.
03:20And also, too, if you look at the inside of it.
03:22No, maybe not right there.
03:23At the back, though, there's some advertisements for absolute Wonder Woman that, hey, would not have existed back then when this comic was first printed.
03:29Nor would there have been advertisements for McFarlane Toys' digital statues or Batman still doing the Bat-toosie.
03:36Ouch!
03:37Oh!
03:38Just recently, in fact, we've actually had a look at Superboy, also contained in a plastic prison.
03:42And funny, though, enough, I didn't actually...
03:44It came pretty close.
03:45It came pretty close to drawing blood when we opened up Superboy.
03:49But he was also having an advertised Adam West Batman inside his comic.
03:54The rest, though, of the issue is the original issue of Wonder Woman.
03:57So it sort of tells the tale of Diana Prince.
04:00It also shows her an arena of sports.
04:03The arena of sports...
04:03Wait, didn't Cobra helm all that?
04:05No, that was a different arena of sport.
04:07It also shows, as well, how she was made...
04:09I said mud at the beginning, and she was technically kind of made out of clay.
04:13A nice issue, though, I mean, if you...
04:15Obviously, it's just too expensive to go back and try to track down the original Wonder Woman.
04:18If you have that kind of money to blow, I mean, feel free to spend the money the way you want to spend it.
04:22But this is a good, easier, more budget-friendly way of getting Wonder Woman number one.
04:28What's kind of cool, too, is that you also get yourself a trading card.
04:31Now, the trading card does also have a Golden Age Wonder Woman featured on the front.
04:36The style, I'm sure, for hairstyle is probably not something that would be trending nowadays.
04:40Although, if the Kardashians, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, started to get this look down,
04:45everybody would want to have the Kardashian look.
04:47And meanwhile, it wouldn't be Kim Kardashian at all.
04:49It would be Wonder Woman we could thank for this.
04:51Well, that's not even true.
04:52There's been lots of ladies in the past that have had hairstyles like this.
04:57Toni Storm.
04:59Toni Storm.
04:59I'm just kind of thinking of Timeless Toni Storm from AEW.
05:02She's sort of rocking the retro right now.
05:05Does anybody even watch AEW?
05:07I certainly hope that you do.
05:08If you do, let me know down below in the comment section.
05:11See, I love AEW.
05:12On the back, though, of the card, can I also just say, too, like the state of this card,
05:16it was sandwiched inside.
05:19Well, you probably saw it at the beginning of this review.
05:21It was sandwiched inside sort of an outlined bit of plastic molding.
05:25Unfortunately, though, while taking the card out, it caught some of that in the corner of my card.
05:30I mean, it isn't so much the corner.
05:31It's kind of meeting more in the middle.
05:32This one area right now, oh, it's just a bird edge.
05:37If that was a knife, that would be one thing.
05:38You kind of really want to have a bird edge.
05:40That helps for the cutting.
05:41But you certainly don't want that for a card.
05:44You want a card to be nice, flat, and pristine.
05:46My card is not flat, and it's not pristine.
05:49It's kind of flat.
05:49It's certainly not pristine, though.
05:51So let's move the card out of the way, though.
05:52We've spent so much time just talking about dribble.
05:55Some dribble will be spent less talking about the display stand,
05:58because I had already talked about this before when we looked at Superboy.
06:01Wait a minute, wait a minute.
06:02You had a look at Superboy?
06:04Come on, man.
06:05Where are you?
06:07Kind of roping you back in.
06:08Stay on track.
06:09We did actually have a look at Superboy,
06:12and he did, in fact, come include with the exact same display stand.
06:15Now, just to show you, though, the original DC logo stands.
06:18This is something I did talk about,
06:20that the DC logo generally is down in the middle here,
06:22and then the cornered peg is, in fact, that.
06:25It's in the corner.
06:26Unfortunately, though, by making the DC logo parallel to the peg,
06:29it means that when you put your figures on them,
06:32they look like they're leaning off the edge.
06:34I still would have preferred this logo.
06:36I would have, though, liked it if they could have put it right here.
06:39Not large and not to the side.
06:42It's a small little quibble.
06:43Does really anybody care?
06:45I care.
06:47Let's put that off to the side.
06:49Figure does also, yes, come include a couple of swappable hands.
06:52So if you're looking at her right now,
06:54she has a close fist on one side and a gripping on the other.
06:57Wait a minute, wait a minute.
06:58Doesn't she have a lasso of truth?
07:00No, she does not.
07:03She does not.
07:04Which is, again, very surprising,
07:06the fact that a Wonder Woman would be released,
07:08now a new Wonder Woman,
07:10and not even have the lasso of truth.
07:11I'm sure I could probably pull one from a Gal Gadot Wonder Woman.
07:14She's looking for work anyways.
07:16I'm sure she's not going to miss any one of her lassos.
07:19Could probably just use one of those.
07:20But really, in the argument, though,
07:22that being made is that this figure should have really had one
07:24coming out of her plastic in the first place.
07:26What we get, though, instead, is a couple of swappable hands.
07:29Okay, so I now have to pull myself back.
07:32The figure already comes with a close fist and a gripping hand,
07:35even though she doesn't have an accessory to hold.
07:37If you want to have that same look on the other mirror flip,
07:41then she also has a gripping hand for that side,
07:43and she has a close fist for that side.
07:46Does that make sense?
07:47I hope so.
07:49She does also come included with a couple of gestured hands.
07:51You may already be spotting the fact that this figure
07:53does have pretty pale plastic.
07:55It's also very...
07:57It's not just pale.
07:58It sort of has almost...
08:00And this might just be the way that I'm observing this.
08:02It kind of does not look like...
08:04She has a little bit of a purplish tint to the plastic.
08:08Am I the only one who really sees that?
08:10Swapping out the hands, by the way,
08:11you've got to be really careful.
08:12She does have her little bracers on there,
08:14but these are actually separate pieces.
08:17Yeah, in the comics, too, they were also supposed to be black
08:19to go back and look at the source material.
08:21See right there?
08:21She's got black bracers or bracelets.
08:23So it's not wrong in that way,
08:26but it would be wrong, though,
08:27to assume that these are glued to the figure's forearms.
08:29So when you are moving, like, her hands off, for example,
08:33just want to make sure that these aren't on the edge,
08:34because if they do, you'll have them fall off,
08:37and you'll never find a bit of plastic that that's small on the floor.
08:40So what we're going to do is we're just going to remove the hands from the pegs,
08:44take the hands that we want to use.
08:45I'm just going to use the gestured hand for right now.
08:47I don't feel like I need to rinse and repeat and do it on the other side.
08:50Is that a weird-looking hand?
08:52Probably in the end, I'll just end up having her with closed fists.
08:54But it's just, though, to show you can also really take the hand, too,
08:57because she does also have a double hinge
08:58and have her sort of rusting against her waist.
09:01Kind of like that.
09:03And I guess you could have the other side bent.
09:06That's a woman of power.
09:08Okay.
09:09So those are the accessories.
09:10Missed, unfortunately, the opportunity that they didn't include a lasso.
09:13So how does Golden Age Wonder Woman stack up?
09:18She's not bad.
09:19There are a few little things let me just talk about for a second.
09:22First of all, the figure is using kind of this weird off-colored plastic.
09:26Kind of, for me, makes it look like she's a little sick.
09:29The kind of purple tint that they've given to the generally, like, flesh-toned plastic
09:33does make her look a little more...
09:35I guess the thing is supposed to be that she looks like a Golden Age Wonder Woman.
09:38I can't, though, help but notice that she's got these marks on her cheek
09:42and on her nose.
09:44Now, to, again, go back, we need to look at the source material again.
09:48Let's just find an image of Wonder Woman.
09:51I mean, most of the images won't really have her depicted
09:53with that little bit of purple or that little bit of gold there on her face.
09:57That would be, by the way, a pretty cool Wonder Woman.
09:59The one that she's disguised in the arena of sport.
10:02I know we're still talking about Cobra.
10:04Yeah, she does have this kind of gold kind of glimmer on her cheeks,
10:08on her nose, if I move my thumb out of the way.
10:11You know, to be honest with you, I really don't feel like it needed to be there.
10:14It was fine just the way that they painted it.
10:16I think the eyes, the mouth look good.
10:18She also does have a little red there for her earrings.
10:21I'm having a hard time thinking about earrings.
10:23And she does also have a little fleck of blue added to her hair,
10:26so it gives her that classic look.
10:28I feel, if anything, though, really the gold on her cheeks and her nose
10:31kind of detract away from the figure's face.
10:35If not for that, actually, the rest of the figure looks pretty good.
10:37There are a few little things, like if I could, you know, find fault.
10:40Not that I really would find much fault in her.
10:42She's generally looking pretty good.
10:44I feel like the eagle is a little on the small side.
10:46Again, just to look at, like, the card, for example.
10:49Generally, like, the eagle takes up a lot of her bodice.
10:52Unfortunately, it just stops really abruptly here.
10:55But really, I feel, should have gone further down.
10:57Because it really should take, I feel, more space up on her bodice.
11:02It's a little on the small side.
11:03But it's printed well, and I would imagine it's probably been printed.
11:07It's not sculpted or anything like that.
11:08The bodice is a nice, natural color.
11:10The colors, at least, that Wonder Woman should really have.
11:13And, of course, being that she has the red, she has the stars down below.
11:16Now, this is done using a plastic.
11:18I looked at this initially, thought to myself,
11:21could they maybe have not done something that they've done with their fabric capes?
11:24Added fabric here with a little wire frame.
11:27I guess the more that I look at it, though,
11:28skirting would be a hard thing to pull off.
11:30Because, first of all, you'd have to find a way to mount this or adhere this to the figure's body.
11:35Then fabric, I mean, really, what are you going to be doing with it anyways?
11:38Giving, like, little ripples into the fabric skirt?
11:40I think, like, the plastic is fine.
11:42I mean, it gives at least enough clearance,
11:44so when you want to, like, split the figure's legs,
11:46you're not feeling like she's kind of contained or confined.
11:50The plastic skirt, I think, is fine.
11:52The paint looks generally pretty quite good.
11:54I mean, again, you've got the white there on the top of the belt.
11:56But the stars are, for the most part, done well.
12:00There are a few areas that just feel like they're missing stars.
12:03There probably could be, like, one that could have been added there.
12:06Maybe one down at the bottom.
12:07Is that really just a feel, a need to feel to nitpick something?
12:12I don't know.
12:12I think, for the most part, that stars look good.
12:15Some would probably even have said that she really needed a lot less stars.
12:18Again, like, the figure looks pretty good.
12:20She's got the red boots.
12:21She's got the striping there on the front.
12:23All classic looks to Wonder Woman.
12:25I wonder if, I know this is the Golden Age Wonder Woman.
12:27I wonder if we're probably going to be getting a Silver Age,
12:29maybe a Modern Age Wonder Woman.
12:31We need to really offset, like, what those,
12:34I don't want to say, like, the people that are,
12:36that had bought all of these, the hoarders that bought up the Wonder Woman
12:39and then sold them for really high.
12:40I mean, they're really, I guess, selling them for the price
12:42that the Wonder Womans are going for right now.
12:44But I really feel like they need to release another modern Wonder Woman.
12:48I honestly didn't even really like the face on that Wonder Woman anyways.
12:52Because, not that this would necessarily be the replacement,
12:54because just to begin, she's got more of a day to look to her.
12:58But she certainly will be at least a Wonder Woman
12:59that's going to be on my shelf front and center
13:01until eventually another release of her gets released.
13:04A classic Wonder Woman.
13:06McFarlane, come on.
13:07A classic Wonder Woman.
13:08It just, it says to me, like,
13:10I know they're listening when it comes to, like,
13:12the figures that they're releasing.
13:13Because clearly, like, as we're kind of getting near the end
13:16of the figure's license with Todd and his team,
13:18we are kind of getting those figures that now would have been the figures,
13:20like, right from day one, I would have wanted.
13:23I think right, right away,
13:24I think a lot of fans are probably,
13:25and I, I don't want to speak for all the fans,
13:28but I think a lot of fans are really asking
13:29for another classic Wonder Woman.
13:31Come on, make it happen.
13:32In the meantime, though, figures articulation.
13:35She does have a bulge on the head.
13:37She has a lot of sculpting on the back of her hair.
13:39It doesn't seem to impede at all the head's rotation.
13:41It does impede a little bit when it comes to the head looking up.
13:44It does look pretty high, though.
13:46You can also bring the head down low.
13:48And she can also rock back and forth.
13:51Now, the upper torso is actually not two pieces.
13:54Generally, when we have gotten figures in the past,
13:57a top torso is then separate from the abdomen down below.
14:00In this case, though, for Wonder Woman,
14:02the bodice and the torso are all one piece.
14:04When you're rotating it,
14:05you're actually rotating one entire torso.
14:08So when you move everything,
14:10you're moving everything collectively.
14:12I guess that's not a bad thing.
14:14If they had put a cut right here,
14:15I don't think it really would have given the figure anything more
14:18than what it's doing right now.
14:20Plus, too, it probably would have caused a conflict with, like, the eagle.
14:23I mean, the eagle would have been broken up,
14:25and the moment you start to twist the figure's torso,
14:27one part of the eagle would be over here,
14:30and then, like, the tail bit would be, like, right over here.
14:32This just makes a whole lot more sense.
14:34For the arms, yeah, they rotate all the way around.
14:36She does have, just bring those arms up,
14:38the means to pull off more than just a T-pose.
14:41So it actually looks like she could win the arena of sports.
14:44But the figure does have a bicep swivel.
14:48Yes, she does.
14:48A double hinge on the elbow, sure.
14:50And, of course, the hands do rotate all the way around.
14:52Just, again, one precautionary measure.
14:54As you are removing the hands,
14:56just make sure, again, like the bracelets aren't far down on the forearms,
14:59that they don't fall on the floor.
15:00That's a lot of Fs in the row.
15:03And you'll be also probably yelling another F
15:05when you drop that bracelet on the floor.
15:06I'm not going to be repeating it.
15:08Let's bring her arm, by the way, all the way around.
15:10I want to make sure they've got the facing the right way.
15:12There we go.
15:14For the legs, the legs do split.
15:16There's enough at least pocket space on either side of the skirt,
15:19so you can pull off about that far of a split.
15:21Legs move forward.
15:23They move back.
15:24About that far.
15:25She does have a swivel at the top of the thigh.
15:27It's just kind of hard to see with plastic in the way.
15:30She does have a double hinge on the knee.
15:32Surprisingly, no articulation here for the boots.
15:34But she does, however, have at least an ankle pivot, an ankle rocker.
15:37The foot figure does also have no toe articulation.
15:41You know, if you were to sacrifice something, I feel like toe articulation could be it.
15:45If you're getting like a ninja figure, for example, where you've got to get them in a squatting pose,
15:49maybe then Wonder Woman probably could have used foot articulation or toe articulation.
15:54The fact that they then left that off, I don't think it's a bad thing at all.
15:57Now, I am wondering, too, to go back and look at this comic again,
16:02one thing I'd like to kind of think about as an add-on to Wonder Woman is get her a horse.
16:08Now, I have a horse right now.
16:09This is the Dark Knight Returns horse.
16:12It was done all, done black.
16:13Yes, it did come in black.
16:14It did also come in white, though.
16:16There was a platinum edition of Jonah Hex.
16:18Jonah Hex.
16:19I didn't like to look at the figure because he had kind of more of a pastel blue.
16:22But now that I'm looking at Wonder Woman, and now that I'm also seeing the comic on the side,
16:27I might see if I can try to find myself a cheap release of the platinum edition Jonah Hex.
16:32Because Jonah Hex did have a white horse.
16:34And I think a white horse would be a perfect way to display the Golden Age Wonder Woman here.
16:39There's a couple of things that are missing here for Wonder Woman.
16:41Primarily, she doesn't come in clue with a lasso of truth.
16:43She doesn't also come in clue with a white horse.
16:45The lasso is a cheaper thing that I can easily find because we've gotten a couple of Gal Gadot Wonder Womans.
16:49I can easily just pull the lasso.
16:51She's looking for work, by the way.
16:53The more expensive thing to try to track down, though,
16:55would be the white horse that came in clue with the platinum edition Jonah Hex.
16:59I've looked online.
17:00I mean, do I really need to have a white horse?
17:02I've got really the black horse from the Dark Knight Returns that really wasn't doing anything.
17:06He was kind of out of work as well.
17:07I might just use that right now for a serviceable stand-in.
17:10I'm wondering, though, if maybe they might consider releasing another version of the white horse.
17:15They could have also packed really Wonder Woman with the horse.
17:17But then that's a hard sell.
17:19First of all, collectors don't want to be shelling out any more money than a figure is already worth.
17:24If this Wonder Woman, for example, adds just to pull a number out of the sky, $35, would it be a good assumption?
17:30$35 for a DC Direct Wonder Woman.
17:32Tack on the price of what that horse would then cost you.
17:35You're looking probably closer to $100.
17:36A lot of people probably wouldn't be spending $100 to get a Wonder Woman with a white horse.
17:41Those same people probably would come to their senses and not spend $150 to $200 for the original Wonder Woman that was released, what, a couple of years ago?
17:50I have still not pulled the trigger to get that Wonder Woman.
17:53And I'm kind of hoping, though, that the body that we're getting here right now could then be repurposed.
17:59That's a word we don't use nearly enough here on this channel.
18:01I always say retooling.
18:02But repurposed this mold for a modern look of classic Wonder Woman.
18:06I mean, we've looked at now the Silver Age.
18:08We could even, in fact, jump right over the Golden Age years of Wonder Woman.
18:12And let's just get a classic look to the character.
18:15It certainly would help the budgets of any collector that missed the chance to get the Wonder Woman in the first place.
18:20Plus, too, it would also give you a chance to probably upsize the figure and maybe make it a little bit closer to the classic Superman that we got as well.
18:29But what do you guys, though, think of this Wonder Woman?
18:31Let me know down below in the comments section.
18:32Do you think it's a good look to the character?
18:33I know certainly it is more dated the way that she's designed, but that's not a bad thing at all.
18:39I think if anything could be said for the figures, maybe the changes that they could have done differently.
18:44I like the blue that they've added to the hair.
18:47I don't love the gold that they've added to the cheeks and the face.
18:50I know it adds a little bit of something, something more to the face, but I think it could have probably been fine without it.
18:56Do you guys agree with that or disagree?
18:57Do you feel like the figure could have come and glued with a horse or do you just say nay to that?
19:02Come on, man.
19:03We can't be spending out more money than $35 for a figure.
19:06There's, in fact, actually this figure I think was a little bit more than $35 when I picked her up.
19:09And I'm certainly glad that I did.
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19:16We are going to be having some more DC Multiverse reviews in the pipeline coming your way.
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19:27As always, guys, thanks for watching.
19:28See you guys next time.
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