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McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse DC Classic Scarecrow Figure Review
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00:00Crane's got a new figure, and a classic one too.
00:03Here's your look at the brand new McFarlane toys, DC Universe, DC Classics, Scarecrow.
00:23Dr. Jonathan Crane has spent as much time lurking in the dark corners of the human psyche
00:27as he has hiding in the shadowy parts of Gotham City.
00:30Obsessed with the idea of fear in its many forms, Crane has adopted the role of the Scarecrow,
00:35a living embodiment of things that go bump in the night.
00:37A career supervillain, Scarecrow lives to clash with the Batman,
00:41intent on making the Dark Knight cower in fear.
00:44Fear can take many forms.
00:45Luckily, though, for fans of Scarecrow, it took the form of another figure.
00:49Before, though, we get a close look at the new DC Universe, DC Classics, Scarecrow.
00:53First, I'd like to thank Popeye the Toy Man.
00:57A name you've heard before, a name you'll hear again,
01:01because actually I just bought a whole ton of DC Universe, DC Multiverse Classics off of him.
01:06We will be looking at it all through this week.
01:07Taking, though, the tape measure right to the very top of Crane's head,
01:10including, of course, his straw hat.
01:12That's part of the figure, after all.
01:13You're looking at classic Scarecrow standing, 6 3 quarters of an inch in height,
01:18working out to be a figure that's about 19 and a half centimeters tall.
01:22Two things you won't catch me saying.
01:24Is this the first time we've gotten a Scarecrow?
01:25And that this is the first time we've gotten a comic-looking Scarecrow.
01:28That one already got beat, though, by the Infinite Frontier release of him,
01:31although many would look at that and not necessarily see Crane.
01:34It's kind of a cool-looking design.
01:35So cool, in fact, that McFarlane released, as well, a black light version of him
01:38that took these colors and made them a lot brighter.
01:41Prefer, though, your Jonathan Crane to be more movie-accurate?
01:44Well, well, of course, they've got you covered there as well.
01:46They did release, though, a straitjacket version of Jonathan Crane.
01:49They also released Scarecrow in all his suit.
01:51There is also a fourth and final figure, one that I don't actually have right now.
01:55He's somewhere sitting inside of a tote.
01:57There was also an Arkham series version of Scarecrow, too.
01:59I know what you're thinking.
02:00Come on, man.
02:01You're not likely going to be picking up a Scarecrow and displaying him with the other,
02:03the same character.
02:04You probably will end up being displaying him with the other rogues of Gotham City.
02:08Let's back it up just a bit, though, and bring in a Batman.
02:10This happens to be one of my favorite Batman.
02:11We already know that by now.
02:12This is the Nightfall Batman.
02:13Let's bring in, also, a Silver Age Robin for size.
02:17As for the rest of the rogues of Gotham City, let's bring in a Classics Deathstroke.
02:21That was a really cool-looking figure.
02:22Maybe not as cool, though, as a Classics Riddler.
02:24Still one of my favorites.
02:26A Classic Two-Face, bringing him in as well.
02:28He isn't Classics, but he's sort of got the Classic colors.
02:31Here's also what he looks like with Victor Freeze or Mr. Freeze.
02:33I'd love, though, if they could release a Classics Mr. Freeze.
02:37Over here, let's bring in Deadshot.
02:39Let's bring in Classics Joker.
02:40I don't know if he's going to necessarily be fitting in frame.
02:44Let's just put him in the back here.
02:45Here's also what he looks like.
02:46Not necessarily with the Classics, one that got packed at least with a Batman.
02:49Here's also what they look like with Nightfall Bane.
02:52That was a lot of figures.
02:53Not as many accessories, though.
02:55The figure first does come in clear with the display stand.
02:57One nice treat, though, is that they actually have now given it the silver DC logo.
03:01I still feel like it's in all the wrong places.
03:03This needs to be turned around.
03:05I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time.
03:06I've spent way too much time in way too many videos talking and complaining about the fact
03:10the DC logo, I feel, needs to be turned around.
03:12Just take that steering wheel, course-correct it just a little bit.
03:16You can, though, use the peg that's provided, just adjacent to that.
03:19That can plug in, though, to either one of Scarecrow's feet.
03:22The figure does also come in clear with a trading card that can't attach onto his feet.
03:26It says Carnival of Criminals, and it says,
03:29Not for the faint of heart with Professor of Fear, the living Scarecrow.
03:35I don't know.
03:36I don't know if I would have really gone with this picture as being my choice for Scarecrow.
03:39I mean, there's so many better images, I feel, of a classic-looking Scarecrow.
03:43I feel, though, if you're going to be doing classics of anything,
03:46release, though, like the first appearance of them.
03:48Like, do the first comic issues, the first appearances of Scarecrow.
03:52Put the issue actually on it.
03:53I don't know when it comes to licensing and what they have available at their luxuries.
03:57But yeah, just think, if that was actually the first appearance of Scarecrow,
04:00where it said, Now Introducing...
04:01I don't even know what it would have said on the front of the cover.
04:03But if it said, Now Introducing the Scarecrow, that would have been pretty cool.
04:08On the back, though, quite a mini-read.
04:10You can read it for yourself if you want.
04:11I've already taken the liberty of reading it at the very beginning.
04:14I think I did an okay job.
04:16An A-okay job.
04:17His real name, though, is Dr. Jonathan Crane.
04:20I'm sure you already know that.
04:21Let's put that off to the side.
04:23Okay, so the figure does come and include with a couple of accessories.
04:26One accessory I like.
04:27One accessory I'm kind of, I don't know, on the fence a bit about.
04:30The figure, on the one that is a little more on the fence,
04:33I would say it's the skull.
04:35Some like the idea, I would imagine, that a skull be included.
04:38After all, it is the Master of Fear.
04:39The skull doesn't have any hingable jaw or anything like that.
04:43For what it is, it's decently detailed.
04:45No, you can't swap it out with Scarecrow's head.
04:48I thought that for a second before I actually got this guy out of his plastic prison.
04:52He finally was able to breathe.
04:53But no, no, there's no actually peg hole on the bottom of this.
04:56You can't really swap it out.
04:57I think, too, also, if you look at this and you look at the size of the skull,
05:00well, maybe the skull is undersized just a bit.
05:04I mean, it's clearly more intended to be displayed in his hand.
05:06You can take the skull and just sort of wedge it in between his fingers.
05:10I mean, it doesn't do the greatest jobs of holding.
05:11I guess it does.
05:12Does it survive the blizzard test?
05:13Oh, it does.
05:14It does.
05:15I shouldn't tempt lady luck like this.
05:18But I guess you could hold it.
05:20Honestly, though, I would have probably used the plastic for something else.
05:23As we get the example, though,
05:25just give him the stand here.
05:26As we get the example of the sickle,
05:28not that I would say he necessarily need a scythe.
05:31If you have a sickle, you don't need a scythe.
05:32If you have a scythe, you don't necessarily need a sickle.
05:35The sickle, though, is pretty nicely detailed.
05:37It's pretty rubbery and plastic.
05:38It does have some rust also on there
05:40and some little notches and scratches and stuff.
05:42This is an aged sickle.
05:44This isn't a sickle he's just gone to the store
05:45and bought like Michael Myers,
05:46even though Michael Myers isn't buying anything.
05:48Michael Myers, come on, it's not buying crap.
05:50He's going in and just stealing everything.
05:52But this isn't a pristine looking sickle.
05:54No, in fact, this looks pretty old and rusted.
05:56It does fit into his hand, although it doesn't fit very well.
05:59Before I actually put it into his hand,
06:01going sort of with the idea of farm equipment,
06:04I would have probably also included a pitchfork.
06:06Now, this is the guy that's saying this behind the camera
06:09that has not invested in producing this figure,
06:11is not responsible for making the figure.
06:13It's solely just my personal opinion.
06:15I would have rather included, again, not only a pitchfork,
06:18rather than just including, again, the skull.
06:20And I also would have included,
06:22I mean, they've done this for Flash,
06:23just, again, like some gassy effects
06:25that could have maybe wrapped around his leg
06:26or wrapped around his arm.
06:27Just something really cool and imposing.
06:30I'm sure they probably could have used it
06:32from some other figure that they have already produced.
06:34Or, or, if they do produce, like a cloudy smoke,
06:38maybe done all casted in green plastic,
06:40there would be a good likelihood
06:42they probably could use that again for another figure.
06:43I don't know what figure that would be.
06:45Again, speaks only to the guy
06:47that's behind the camera that has.
06:48No, again, invested budget
06:49in producing these figures from scratch.
06:51I have nothing to do with the actual designing process.
06:54You get the idea.
06:56Again, the sickle does fit into his hand.
06:58The hand, though, is pretty hard in plastic.
07:01So, already, I had to heat the hand in hot water
07:03to actually get the sickle in his hand.
07:05And even then, with the time that I've yammered on
07:07about not producing squat,
07:09the plastic, unfortunately, has cooled on the hand.
07:11So, it does fit into his hand.
07:12It doesn't fit all that well.
07:14I would certainly recommend maybe doing
07:16a lot more of a time to heat this up in hot water.
07:19However, I only had the soaking for just a few seconds.
07:22I probably could have probably had that soaking
07:23just a little bit longer.
07:24But he holds the sickle.
07:26He holds it just...
07:28Okay.
07:29Okay.
07:30Taking the sickle and putting it off to the side for right now.
07:32Yeah, I mean, the skull is okay.
07:34It's a nice little nod to the fact that he is,
07:36after all, the master of fear.
07:37But, I don't know.
07:39I think a cloud of green smoke,
07:41something to wrap around his hand,
07:42maybe even, again, a pitchfork,
07:44I think I would have rather gone to that category of accessories
07:47than necessarily a skull.
07:48You agree with that?
07:49It's okay if you don't.
07:51You can let me know down below.
07:52You may also want to let me know down below, too,
07:54what you guys think of this guy's head sculpt.
07:55I think it is perfect.
07:57I don't know if I really would have done anything differently
07:59when it comes to Scarecrow.
08:00I know Scarecrow has taken forms.
08:02Again, like we've looked at the Infinite Frontier.
08:04There's the Arkham series game, Scarecrow,
08:07that, again, has like the syringes on his fingers.
08:08I really probably should have found that figure.
08:10But, for me, at least, if you were to ask me,
08:12I mean, you don't even have to put me on a lie detector test.
08:15I would have admittingly, honestly said,
08:17my favorite look to the character is the look that you're looking at right now.
08:20I like that he's got a stitched mouth.
08:21That's one thing that's really cool about him.
08:23He does also have glowing, beady red eyes.
08:26Now, I've seen some images where people have had glowing eyes on theirs.
08:29I think they've probably just gone in there and edited it after the fact.
08:32But I think the eyes glow well enough on their own.
08:34I mean, yeah, I mean, like, I love the fact he's got the hat,
08:37the old straw hat, torn, tattered, and ripped, just the way I like it.
08:42That plastic that they've used, actually, for the hat is more of a softer plastic.
08:45No, no, you can't remove the hat.
08:47I was thinking that, too.
08:49They could have maybe added a removable hat,
08:51but I know, again, that's added cost.
08:53But, again, I love the fact that they've added a little rope here.
08:56The rope drapes off the side, too.
08:58That's a nice little fun touch.
08:59And, of course, he does also have the noose.
09:01The noose is harder to see from the front.
09:03It's a lot easier to see on the back.
09:05The noose, as you can see, does tie up in a knot,
09:07and you've got the little strands of rope coming down from that.
09:10He does also have a collar piece.
09:11Now, the collar does sit relatively loose.
09:14I mean, it's going to be moving around a lot
09:15while you're trying to move the figure's articulation.
09:17Speaking, though, around his collar,
09:19one small, small little thing I would certainly say.
09:23I wish that the neck was longer on Scarecrow.
09:25I mean, I know it's, from the design of the character,
09:27he's generally just like a burlap sack mask,
09:30and it's part of, really, the mask that he has this collar.
09:33I would have, though, made the neck just a little bit longer.
09:35The neck seems Florence Pugh kind of shortness.
09:38It seems way too short.
09:40I would have made that neck a little bit longer.
09:42Just, again, personal preference.
09:44The body overall looks good.
09:45It's a little on the thick side here for the torso.
09:47Maybe they could have leaned it up just a little bit.
09:49I do like the length of his arms.
09:51I love that they have straw also sticking out the ends of the sleeves.
09:54It's got a nice torn off, tied up rope there in the middle there as well.
09:57Now, the rope actually does seem like it's a separate piece.
10:00If we lift this up, you can see that there's a peg right here.
10:04And if I get my blasted finger out of the way, there's actually a hole right here.
10:07So the rope seems like it's supposed to attach right there.
10:10But, yeah, it's just a separate rope piece.
10:13The skirting also is something, too, that's a continuation from...
10:16I love that this looks like it's been wrapped up.
10:18Like, he's just a wrapped up piece of straw.
10:21This would be the kind of thing that would be keeping crows away.
10:24Like, that they've also added sewn-on patches.
10:26Now, the patches themselves are more suggested by only printing them on there.
10:30They're not actually sculpted onto the plastic.
10:32So it may could be a case that they're probably going to maybe use these legs again.
10:35I don't know really who else they could use these for.
10:39Because, again, like the nature of this, this all sort of checks the boxes of what Jonathan Crane would be.
10:43Anyway, the one other thing I would say is, like, that the feet seem stubborn.
10:47Seem a little more on the stubborn side.
10:50Yeah, there's a little bit of more brighter plastic that you can kind of see just underneath the pant leg.
10:54But most of that's only being covered over by the pants anyways.
10:58No, I do find, like, the feet seem like...
11:01There's a bit of resistance when I find I want to be pushing the feet up and down.
11:05You can, yeah, you can rock them back and forth there as well.
11:07Maybe I just need to tighten up the joints or loosen, I should say, the joints a little bit more than what they are.
11:11But, yeah, you know, there's not really much at all I would have changed to the Scarecrow.
11:15The design is good.
11:16If anything could be said, I probably would have just changed out some of the accessories.
11:20Again, some may like the look of the skull.
11:22I think I probably would have preferred a pitchfork.
11:25Or, again, like green gassy effects.
11:27Just something, again, that you could have wrapped maybe around his leg, wrapped around his arm.
11:30And then, of course, have him displayed with a sickle in his hand.
11:33Or maybe a pitchfork.
11:34For the figure's articulation or his posability, if you prefer.
11:39Scarecrow's head is going to be on a ball joint.
11:41It does move up and down.
11:42Mine, I've noticed, though, is a little on the tighter side.
11:45But it looks down.
11:46It looks up.
11:46You can also rock it back and forth.
11:48And, yeah, you could technically rotate it all the way around.
11:50It gets a little on the more tied up side when it tries to rotate.
11:54But it can do that if you want to.
11:56The figure does also have what seems like a ball joint at the base of the neck.
11:59Is it?
12:00No, maybe it's not.
12:00No, it's one sculpt.
12:02So he only has just the ball joint in his head.
12:04Just at the top of the neck.
12:05The top of the torso, though, on the other hand, is on a ball joint.
12:09So you can move it up and down.
12:10Rotate it back and forth.
12:12You can rock it this way.
12:13You can also move it forward and back this way as well.
12:15The figure does also have a waist swivel.
12:17So that's good to see as well.
12:19Arms rotate all the way around.
12:20No issues there.
12:22Can you pull off a T-pose?
12:23Can you pull off an any degree angle?
12:25The answer is yes.
12:26Yes, you can.
12:27Give him a nice big hug.
12:28It's okay, Crane.
12:30Not everybody is afraid of you.
12:31I'm not afraid of being your friend.
12:32Aw, that's nice.
12:33That's deep.
12:34The figure does also have quite the deep swivel cut in his bicep.
12:38He also does possess a double hinge in his elbow.
12:41And the hands rotate.
12:42If I can get behind the straw, that is.
12:44Do rotate back and forth and all the way around.
12:47Legs do split.
12:48Although they only split so far just by the fact that the skirt goes down as much as it does.
12:53You can move the legs forward and you can move them back.
12:55There's a nice bit of swiveling.
12:57Swivelage at the top of the thigh.
12:59Double hinge on the knee.
13:00And then again, like we were talking about before, there is a little bit of reluctancy when it comes to those ankles wanting to move.
13:06I thought maybe some of it had also to do with the fact that the draped down, tattered area of his pants get then in the way of trying to move the ankles.
13:13But I think if you have them, if you have them this way, yeah, they're going to be hitting this.
13:17If you have it this way, though, I think there's a little bit more freedom.
13:20And the figure does also have some toe articulation as well.
13:23Good looking scarecrow.
13:24Great looking scarecrow.
13:25You know, again, like I know some people, collectors just in general, look at this and think, oh no, it's another Batman.
13:30Or it's a Batman related character.
13:32And that's not bad.
13:33That's not a bad thing at all.
13:33I've said this before.
13:35I think really generally when it comes to McFarland toys, are they losing the license in 26?
13:39I feel like it is.
13:40But if they are, they are going out in a big way.
13:43They're producing like the classic looking characters.
13:46The figures that I really wanted right from day one.
13:48And I mean, again, like there's Infinite Frontier Scarecrow is fine and good if you like Infinite Frontier.
13:53Where is Infinite Frontier Scarecrow?
13:54Let's bring him back.
13:55Let's bring him back.
13:56Yeah, I mean, this is kind of like one of the more earliest releases of Scarecrow that we've gotten from, again, Todd and his team.
14:02Some like that look.
14:03And I like the look.
14:04But still in the end.
14:05You know, in the back of my mind, I was still thinking to myself, I want a classic Scarecrow.
14:08I want the Scarecrow that has to go back and look at some of the comics I did as a kid.
14:12That would be the look of the character that I would have really liked.
14:15And now I can finally say that I have a figure in my collection.
14:17That goes really well with like the likes of a classic Two-Face.
14:22Or like a Riddler.
14:23Still one of my favorite Scarecrow.
14:25One of my favorite Riddlers.
14:26He's big.
14:27He's bulk.
14:27It's okay.
14:29But just a great design of the character.
14:30And again, a classic looking Joker.
14:34We'll just get Joker right there.
14:34I don't love Joker's head.
14:36I kind of really wish that the head could have been a bit better than what it actually is.
14:39And also, too, when you're looking at the sizing, too.
14:41Scarecrow is more on the taller side.
14:43I mean, if you were to compare him like the Clown Prince of Crime or Two-Face, Scarecrow sits a lot higher than that.
14:48Just because, again, he also does have the hat on his head.
14:51He's a little bulkier than what I really would have preferred.
14:53I do wish kind of like his torso was a little more tapered off, a little more narrower.
14:58But other than that, though, man, oh, man, what a great looking figure.
15:00I'm finally glad to see that we can have not only a classic looking Scarecrow to put on the shelf, but that we also have classic.
15:06How many times have I said that word?
15:08We also have classic other rogues gallery that can be displayed along with them.
15:12Frights of the Scarecrow is what it does actually say in the first appearance of Scarecrow from Batman number 189 way back in 1968.
15:19And if you think to yourself, man, hey, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on the first appearance of Scarecrow.
15:23Well, if you look on eBay as a Canadian, at least for collecting comics, expect to pay about $300 to $350.
15:29I don't have $350.
15:31I certainly don't have that much money to be spending on a first issue comic.
15:34But take that, though, idea and shrink it down.
15:38Now, imagine if that was the first appearance and they featured it on the front of the trading cards.
15:41Now, first of all, I will say that Todd is listening.
15:43I mean, getting away from figure photography, figure photography never really worked for a trading card.
15:48Who really wants to look at an image of a figure that you already have in front of you?
15:51But using source material is fine and good.
15:54Sometimes, though, these trading cards do sort of feel like they just randomly plucked just some random picture of Scarecrow.
16:00And in the case of the one that they end up using for Carnival of Criminals,
16:03I don't think it really does best represent Jonathan Crane.
16:06Whereas, maybe using the first appearance would be a fun included touch.
16:10Again, they don't have to do it with every figure, but to do it with the DC classics, I think, again, would be a fun thing to include.
16:15Speaking of things that they included, though, if we're looking at Scarecrow here and his two accessories,
16:20not, of course, including the stand, you get a sickle, which is cool.
16:23You get a skull, which I feel is less cool.
16:26I mean, I get some people really liking the idea of he's the master of fear, after all.
16:29Why not include a skull?
16:31I feel like maybe, again, a pitchfork or like smoky whiffs of green clouded smoke wrapped around his arms or maybe wrapped around his legs would be a fun thing to include instead.
16:41Just my own personal opinion.
16:43It goes to show, though, with the design of Scarecrow.
16:45There are some character designs that are timeless.
16:48To go back and look at Batman number 189 as the example, Scarecrow really doesn't change all that much.
16:53He's still got the torn kind of brown outfit.
16:55But his face looks a little different, but not that much different than what we're looking at right now.
16:59And you got to think, though, like that's the Silver Age Scarecrow.
17:02Scarecrow looked this way for many years before, of course, new design teams come in and they want to redesign everything from scratch.
17:09So like now that's why we get an infinite frontier Scarecrow.
17:13I get why some people didn't like that look.
17:15I like that Scarecrow.
17:17I don't like it, though, as much as a classic look design of the character.
17:20And I'm glad that we as we get near the end of the DC multiverse lineage with what McFarlane Toys has been doing.
17:26He seems, I feel, still to be turning out some of the best figures he has in years in like the last two years or so.
17:34You know, again, like I know he really is heavily into Batman.
17:36I'm heavily into Batman, so I don't mind.
17:38I can understand why some people would just say, oh, are we still can we get away from Batman for just a little bit?
17:43But at least, though, you can say that's got to be one of the coolest looking Scarecrows we've ever gotten.
17:47Now, for me, like as we, again, we'll get near the end of the license, I can think to myself, there are still a few characters that, as a big Batman fan, I would love to still see them release.
17:57My like wish list, top of my list would be Preston Payne's Clayface.
18:01I think it's a very low unlikelihood that we're ever going to be getting a Clayface.
18:04Maybe another one, definitely probably not Preston Payne.
18:07The one wish that I would certainly have is if McFarlane Toys could release a mud pack, four pack of the Clayfaces.
18:12The Lady Clayface, Preston Payne, all those Clayfaces.
18:15But again, the likelihood of that ever happening to a comedy, just this one Canadian collector, probably not going to happen.
18:21What other characters, though, would you guys like to see?
18:23Would it be classic?
18:25Maybe some of the characters, though, that McFarlane hasn't touched yet.
18:27Maybe maybe something that's not even related to Batman.
18:29What other characters before the license runs out would you like to see Todd and his team produce?
18:35Let me know down below.
18:36In the meantime, though, I'd like to thank Popeye the Toy Man.
18:39That is, though, a name that you're probably going to be hearing a couple more times this week.
18:43As just recently, I actually met up with the guy and picked up a big stack of not only DC Multiverse figures, but a couple of other figures as well.
18:50So we're going to be looking at all those.
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19:19I hope that more rad videos are going to be popping up in front of your peepers in the upcoming days.
19:23So I hope you guys are going to be coming back for those.
19:25As always, thanks for watching.
19:26See you guys next time.
19:27See you guys next time.
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