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McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Batman Rogues Kite Man Figure Review
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00:00I wonder if Benjamin Franklin's bitter. This guy's doing it better.
00:03Here's a look at McFarlane Toys, DC Multiverse, McFarlane Collector's Edition, Batman Rogues, Kite Man.
00:30After studying wind in school, Charles Brown fell into a life of crime, designing the aerodynamics of the Joker's Joker-mobile, but otherwise regarded as a loser, even by his wife.
00:40He became Kite Man when the Riddler murdered his son during the War of Jokes and Riddles, adopting the identity in honor of his boy, with whom he used to fly kites.
00:50Hell yeah! You gotta believe when Charles Brown is telling the Banks family children, go fly a kite. It's not really what he means.
00:56Yes, before we check out Kite Man, of course, and his kite, we're going to bring in the tool that I use, which isn't a kite.
01:02It's my trusty tape measure, and let's see how tall the figure stands.
01:05Now, Kite Man is, for obvious reasons, using bodies that we've seen before. I'll be bringing in those bodies from before.
01:12First things first, though, Kite Man's, well, at least the tape measure's telling us, that Kite Man stands, yeah, 7 inches in height, working out to be a figure that's 18 centimeters tall.
01:21The irony is not lost on me that the Riddler is responsible for his son's death, and yet, though, he's also using the same body as the Riddler. Go figure.
01:30He happens also to be using the same body as Hal Jordan's Green Lantern, and you probably can already see for yourselves how that body gets borrowed over.
01:38Let's bring in figures, though, that don't have that body. Here's what the figure looks like with Clock King, the recently looked-at Deathstroke the Terminator.
01:45And why not, of course, after all, he's a Batman baddie, bring in a Batman as well.
01:50As the name would suggest, yes, Kite Man does come in clue with a kite. The kite does attach on the back of the figure's body.
01:56Before we do that thing over there, let's do the things that are over here.
02:00The figure first does come in clue with a trading card that does show Kite Man doing his thing.
02:05He's flying around literally on a human-sized kite.
02:08On the side, though, it does have McFarlane Collector's Edition. Probably looks a little bit easier to see if I have it held to the light.
02:13On the back, though, of the card, his real name is Charles Brown.
02:17A small enough read that I'm sure you could even pause and read it for yourself right now and still be able to make your appointments, meet your meetings with your friends.
02:24But I've already beaten you to it. I've taken the liberty of reading it already for you.
02:28No, no, no. It's the least I can do. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, please.
02:33Please, not all heroes wear capes. Stop that.
02:36Here's Kite Man's card. We're going to move it off to the side.
02:38We're going to be moving this shortly over as well.
02:40The figure does come in clue with a circular black display stand.
02:44Wait, what? Yeah, yeah, you're right.
02:46It is the same stand as what we've already gotten before.
02:49In fact, as an example, I'm going to bring in also Deathstroke Terminator's display stand.
02:54Now, these are, again, exactly the same.
02:55Do I have one that's not the same? No, I don't.
02:58Do I? I should probably have a good stack of these.
03:00I do. There it is right there.
03:02One of the original DC-logoed stands.
03:04Really hard to really make out the DC logo down below, whether it's been branded there or not.
03:09Now, the new logos are all in silver.
03:11Larger symbols also as well.
03:13Again, I like the look of the symbols.
03:14I don't like the placement of the card.
03:16Here he goes again, talking about the blasted cards and blasted stands.
03:19I don't like where they've actually branded this.
03:22I feel really, again, they could have turned the steering wheel slightly and kept the peg up to the top corner.
03:27This is my own personal opinion.
03:28My personal opinion is that the figure doesn't really have much in the way of accessories.
03:33Guns, those kind of things, you're really not going to find here with Kite Man.
03:36You know, considering really that he is a criminal, and we've really yet to get this with the McFarland Toys release,
03:42I would love just them to release, like, just a criminal accessory set.
03:46Something that kind of contains just a stack of money, a safe, bags of money with dollar signs,
03:52even put two lines through it if you really want.
03:54And who else would be all down for the idea of just figure-sized, scaled-down criminal accessories?
04:01Diamonds, jewels, bags of money with dollar signs all over it.
04:05I would certainly love to see that.
04:07The reason why I say all that is the figure does have, well, on the ends of his forums right now,
04:11he has a relaxed hand.
04:13He also has a thumbs-up hand, which is kind of cool as well.
04:16But why I say, though, he doesn't really have any other accessories other than really his kite
04:20is that he does also have, theoretically, trigger-firing finger hands,
04:25or ideally suited hands for holding big bags of money.
04:28Come on! Big bags of money! We've got to see that happening.
04:31These hands can, again, be swapped out.
04:33You just milk the cow, you pop the hands off the ends of the forearms,
04:37and swap them out with these gripping hands.
04:39Or, perhaps, entertain the idea.
04:41The figure does also come in with a bunch of closed fists.
04:45Let's move those off to the side.
04:47And, as I did already say, though, the figure does have a dynamic hand on one side.
04:52Bend that just a bit.
04:53And he also has a thumbs-up hand.
04:54I think that's kind of cool, the fact that the figure does have a thumbs-up hand.
04:57Which, again, I know we've seen before.
04:59I can't even think what figure would have had a thumbs-up hand.
05:02I can't imagine that this is the first time we are seeing this.
05:05First time, though, that we are seeing a kite man.
05:07First time that we're actually seeing this head sculpt.
05:10First time that we're also seeing a big, giant cape.
05:12A big, giant kite.
05:13I'm so used to saying capes.
05:14How this is so effectively pulled off is just essentially because you're using a same body mold as, like, a Riddler or a Hal Jordan.
05:23Cost-producing this figure from scratch.
05:25I mean, right away, you're scratching off the initial molding of this.
05:28You basically only really have to retool the figure.
05:30Some, of course, new things have been added to Kite Man that weren't already on Riddler, for example.
05:35Right down to, actually, the fact of his boots.
05:36You'll see, as well, it has the sculpting of the line on the top.
05:39Hal Jordan's also had the same.
05:42Other than that, though, it's the exact same body.
05:43So that's why we can get more of the obscure characters like Kite Man, because, again, there's very little tooling that's required.
05:49You don't have to do it from the ground up.
05:51What's newly tooled here, though, on Kite Man is a brand new head sculpt.
05:55Now, I like the head.
05:57I was kind of tossed around the idea, like, which would I have really preferred?
06:00And for this, for my argument here, I would have brought back in the card just to show you guys.
06:04Kite Man, depending on where you pull him from the pages, tends to sometimes use see-through goggles.
06:12This Kite Man doesn't have that.
06:14However, though, if you really want to have this guy displayed with other, like, Silver Age characters, like Deathstroke, for example,
06:20I think perhaps the colored goggles work better than translucent plastic.
06:24Because the moment you use translucent plastic, as the example I'm going to be using, throwing out there, is like Blue Beetle.
06:30Classic Blue Beetle works better, I feel, by painting the lenses and not using translucent plastic.
06:35Because I don't really necessarily need to see his eyes.
06:38I kind of really feel the same way about Kite Man.
06:39Where, though, I do feel the head sculpt could have been better improved, had they given him a smirk.
06:45Or a smile.
06:46Or something just to indicate that this guy thinks he is the you-know-what.
06:50The goggles look okay.
06:51They, unfortunately, though, getting them out of the packaging, have, well, they have highlights and a little bit of shadowing.
06:57I suppose that's supposed to be there.
06:58But it actually ends up looking like the goggles got scratched.
07:02I know they're not really supposed to be the case, but it does certainly look like, with the way that they've painted it, at least,
07:07that there's more of a paint problem than a paint intentionally done.
07:12The Kite Man logo is, as you can see there on the front of his chest.
07:15I mean, this isn't sculpted necessarily, so this is so super easy just to tempograph that across the front of his torso.
07:20He also has the Kite logo there on the head.
07:23Now, because the head has to be a brand new head, it's so easy for them just to sculpt this as a new piece,
07:27because they're not likely going to be using this Kite Man head again.
07:31Where he also gets something brand new, too, is he gets himself his Kite Pack.
07:34Now, the Kite Pack really is just one piece.
07:38It clamps over his existing body, so at any given point, you can remove it.
07:43And the more you remove, then, from Kite Man, the more and more he resembles both Riddler and Hal Jordan.
07:48Hal Jordan, again, I keep talking about him.
07:50Here's Hal Jordan right here.
07:52Again, same body, nothing different, really, at all between the two.
07:55Obviously, it's just the paint that changes between the two characters.
07:59Kite Man's Pack.
08:00Let's talk a little bit about that, shall we?
08:03I'll put the figure down here just for a second.
08:04Kite Man's Pack consists of really two parts.
08:07You've got the main pack that obviously clips over top of his torso.
08:11This obviously goes over top of his shoulders.
08:13This goes around his waist.
08:14There's not really much in the way of paint.
08:16It only really relied on the plastic alone.
08:18It has two essential parts to it.
08:21It's got the pack that...
08:22Well, it's got this little piece right here that clips onto the back.
08:26And it's supposed to look like the backpack is finished, and it hasn't yet opened up,
08:29because the idea is the backpack opens up, and, of course, that forms the Kite.
08:33But it has two parts.
08:35The problem with it, though, is that this part, as you can see, has a designated shape.
08:41It's not that you can put it any other way than the shape that's telling you.
08:45So it has to plug in like this.
08:47I have noticed this is extremely tight.
08:49To the point, though, pushing this all the way in.
08:52I did this once, and it only took once.
08:54I plugged it in once, and I had the hardest time prying this back off.
08:59Even with the lip that I've given this, it's hard to remove it.
09:03I wouldn't necessarily push the idea of pushing this all the way in,
09:06because if you push it all the way in, it might make the pack look more complete,
09:10but you're going to have a hard time trying to remove it.
09:13So, again, this just attaches.
09:15Again, if you want to have the figure displayed,
09:16likely people are probably going to be picking up Kite Man with the intended plan
09:19of displaying him, obviously, with his kite.
09:22But the kite essentially just plugs onto the back the exact same way.
09:25The coloring really isn't matching all that much.
09:29I would have really liked, maybe not as dark of a green here,
09:32maybe not as light of a green as the plastic here,
09:34but meeting somewhere in the middle.
09:36Because I feel like when you put it on the figure,
09:38I think the plastic coloring of the kite is too dark.
09:41Again, just my personal opinion.
09:43The kite itself is, again, a fairly thin bit of plastic.
09:47Like, it's that kind of plastic that if you bent it, it would snap.
09:52Does that make any sense?
09:53I'm obviously not going to do it for the purpose of showing you guys,
09:56but it's that kind of plastic.
09:59It's not a bad plastic at all, but it is that type, though,
10:02that if you were to bend it, it would snap the plastic.
10:05It wouldn't bend it.
10:06The Kite Man kite, though, all we basically, again,
10:09have to do is just put this over top of his torso.
10:11So we'll fit this first around his waist and then just snap it around the top.
10:16I mean, it stays secure enough.
10:17I mean, it is obviously going to move around a little bit on you,
10:20but I guess it's done that way so that the figure doesn't have to be sculpted
10:24with the kite pack on the back of his body.
10:27Take, of course, your kite.
10:28The kite snaps just on the back here.
10:31Now, one thing that's actually different, though, is where's the pack?
10:34You'll notice with this one, it's solid plastic.
10:37With this one, actually, you can see there's a little lip of plastic right here.
10:41I don't know if they've done that intentionally
10:43so that it makes things easier to remove the kite.
10:46Or, again, like it might be more that once you push this all the way in,
10:50you're going to have, again, a harder time to remove this.
10:52But it looks okay.
10:53I mean, obviously, for him to be Kite Man without the kite,
10:55he would certainly feel incomplete.
11:00The one thing, though, I mean, when you see him, though, in comics,
11:03especially, again, even referencing the card,
11:05Kite Man tends to also have a harness piece,
11:07which it's not that the cape always, the kites,
11:10the cape, not the kite.
11:12The kite usually is not attached right to the back of his body.
11:17There tends to be usually a harness,
11:19depending, again, your source material.
11:20Originally, Kite Man usually just literally flew with straps down from a giant kite.
11:25But this one doesn't have that.
11:27It's, I mean, it gives you at least the frame of it,
11:29but it doesn't have the harness.
11:31So, you know, if you're looking for that,
11:32necessarily, you're going to be a little disappointed.
11:34I can understand, certainly, why they chose not to include the harness.
11:38Those would really be thin bits of plastic,
11:40whether they use soft plastic or not.
11:42And, again, that would be a lot of additional tooling.
11:44I think, really, Todd saw this figure as an opportunity
11:46to make, again, a use of a mold that they already have
11:49in their repertoire,
11:51repertoire,
11:52without really having to spend a whole lot more
11:54to give us an obscure character like that.
11:56So, the fact that he doesn't really have the harness,
11:58it's a little disappointing,
11:59but at least in the end,
12:00he's got himself a very large kite.
12:03But the figure is articulation.
12:05I don't know whether we should really keep the kite on him or not.
12:07We'll try.
12:08The head's going to be on a ball joint,
12:09so it allows the head for Kite Man to rotate all the way around.
12:12The head can look up and down,
12:14and you can, of course, move it back and forth as well.
12:17The arms normally, in theory, would rotate all the way around.
12:20Unfortunately, yeah, you're going to be hitting.
12:21Hello? Who's there?
12:22You're going to be rotating this
12:24and banging the back of the kite.
12:26So, again, you're going to just kind of want to move around that.
12:29Arms hinge out.
12:30I did notice, though,
12:31that Kite Man's arms are a tad on the loose side.
12:34It makes some sense, obviously,
12:36because they've used the mold several times already.
12:39But I think maybe some mold degradation,
12:41because, again, I've noticed the joints on some of these figures
12:43have started to develop looseness so quickly
12:45after getting these guys out of their plastic prison.
12:48Kite Man's arms do have a bicep swivel.
12:50They also do possess a double hinge on the elbow.
12:53Look at this guy.
12:54Yeah!
12:54And, of course, his hands,
12:56whatever hands you want to use for Kite Man,
12:58do swivel all the way around with a hinge back and forth.
13:01Upper torso is going to be on a ball joint.
13:04Luckily, though, even though the straps
13:05do kind of get in the way of things,
13:07being that they're not permanently there,
13:08you can easily move them out of the way
13:10to still gain access to his articulation.
13:13Further from that, down in the abdomen area,
13:15the figure does also have a ball joint there as well.
13:18Kite Man's legs do split.
13:19Nice ratcheted joints working behind the scenes.
13:22Swivel at the top of the thigh.
13:24The figure does have a double hinge on the knee.
13:26No articulation here for the boot.
13:28This isn't new.
13:29The articulation on Riddler wasn't even there in the first place.
13:33Haldor never had it.
13:34Or any of the subsequent releases using this mold
13:37have never had any articulation in this boot.
13:39So you're not really necessarily being robbed.
13:41You're just not getting it.
13:43The articulation, though, on the ankle is there.
13:45There is certainly the ankle rocker.
13:47And Kite Man does have toe articulation as well.
13:51A good-looking figure.
13:53One of a figure that obviously would have not ever made production at all
13:57had he not already been released as this guy
14:00and if he had also not been released as this guy here.
14:04Now, again, I know there's been other versions using this body and this build.
14:07But again, I like the look of Kite Man.
14:09He's an obscure, he's a deep-cut character.
14:11He's one of those, again, characters that work really well
14:13with the likes of Clock King.
14:14Clock King, for me, I just love the obscure characters.
14:18The more, the many.
14:19The many, the more.
14:20Even better.
14:21Having more.
14:22And again, because they're using, again, the exact same molds
14:25allows opportunities for McFarlane toys
14:27to venture into waters that normally collectors would think,
14:29do we really necessarily need a Kite Man?
14:32But because, again, like these figures already exist,
14:34the answer is yes.
14:35Yes, we do need a Kite Man.
14:36And Kite Man turned out pretty good.
14:37He doesn't have any accessories.
14:39He doesn't have, again, the big bag of money.
14:40And we need a big bag of money.
14:42A little criminal pack.
14:45Shaking frantically.
14:46Other than that, though, not having, though, the accessories,
14:48you can certainly see that some of the budget,
14:50most of the budget, went into the production of the kite
14:53that goes on the back of his body,
14:54the harness, of course, to hold the kite,
14:55and a brand new head sculpt
14:57that wasn't in the cases of the other two on either side of it.
15:00I know it's kind of cheating,
15:01considering the figure never had it,
15:02but the fact that he's known as Kite Man
15:04means this guy should always be airborne,
15:06and not including a flight stand.
15:08Even though I know a lot of the budget went into the kite,
15:10the back of his body, the harness piece,
15:12and the new head sculpt,
15:13they couldn't have put in, then, a flight stand.
15:15If you happen to have a flight stand,
15:17which I so happen to have,
15:18it's definitely going to be used
15:20when it comes to displaying Kite Man.
15:21Speaking of borrowing things over,
15:24uh-oh, thumbs down hand.
15:25It's bad news for Gotham City below.
15:27That thumbs up hand, actually,
15:29was also borrowed over from Riddler.
15:31So the irony continues to astound me.
15:33The man responsible for killing Kite Man's son
15:36also happens to be the same guy
15:37that pretty much gives him
15:38all the same body parts that he gets used here.
15:41What budget we do get spent,
15:43what McFarlane Toys did spend for the budget,
15:45was obviously the large-sized kite,
15:47which, it's a good size.
15:49He gets the harness to hold the kite.
15:50He gets also a replacement piece.
15:52Just be careful, though,
15:53as you saw in this review,
15:55if you put the kite piece completely in
15:56to finish the back of the pack,
15:58you're going to have a real hard time
16:00getting that piece back off.
16:02Is Kite Man a successful figure?
16:04Based on the fact that, yeah,
16:05for a budget,
16:06they had to spend a whole lot less on him.
16:08I think he's good.
16:09I think he could have, granted,
16:10used some additional accessories.
16:12But with how much plastic went into that kite,
16:14I can't really fault for the fact
16:16that he didn't have anything more
16:17than what he came out of the packaging with.
16:19If you guys are interested,
16:20I actually found this on the Facebook selling group.
16:22He seems to be making the rounds right now,
16:24whether it be in brick-and-mortar stores
16:26or online,
16:27or if you can't find any,
16:28if you have no luck finding them
16:29in either of those places,
16:31Facebook selling group
16:32seems to be a good place to be finding these.
16:34And, of course,
16:34I did actually grab this
16:35from Popeye the Toy Man.
16:37Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
16:40Yeah, you guys can certainly check his link
16:42or check out his selling page
16:44by clicking the link down below
16:45in the video description.
16:46What do you guys think of Kite Man?
16:47Let me know down below
16:48in the comment section.
16:49Do you guys also like the idea
16:50that parts get reused from other figures,
16:52so at least we do get these deep-cut,
16:54more obscure villains?
16:56I'd say more the merrier.
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