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McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Justice Society Of America Doctor Mid-Nite Figure Review
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00:00They'll stop crime at night, with or without sight.
00:03Here's a look at McFarlane Toys, DC Multiverse, McFarlane Collector's Edition, Justice Society of America, Dr. Midnight.
00:09THE END
00:39After the explosion, McNighter learned that he could now see in the dark, but was blinded by light.
00:44Much like an owl, he developed special infrared glasses that would enable him to see daylight as well.
00:49McNighter would have adopted the costume identity of Dr. Midnight, and used it to capture Maroney.
00:54Dr. Midnight was a member of the All-Star Squadron, and spent many years as a member of the Justice Society of America.
01:01Originally, in the interest of his sensitivity to light, I was going to dim the studio lights down low.
01:05But then I realized, you wouldn't first of all be able to see the figure.
01:08And after all, Dr. Midnight's still wearing his goggles.
01:11So let's push forward.
01:12Let's also grab the tape measure and see how tall the Justice Society of America, Dr. Midnight, stands.
01:17And while I'm doing this, I'd like to also thank the folks over at McFarlane Toys that were kind enough to send over the sample.
01:23Dr. Midnight, in fact, I'm just going to interrupt myself by saying this, is getting a regular release, which we will be looking at in this review.
01:29He also will be windshield wipering his way and getting a Platinum Edition, too.
01:33In both cases, though, the figure is going to obviously stand the same.
01:37Seven inches in height, or roughly 17 and a half centimeters tall.
01:42It would have thought me well in advance knowing I was doing the review of Dr. Midnight.
01:45I would have prepped this review properly and grabbed the right figures.
01:48Dr. Midnight would have been part of Justice Society, and we've gotten quite of the examples from Todd and his team.
01:53We've got like Dr. Fate, for example, a Power Girl, a Hawkman, for example.
01:57But the ones that I just happen to have on the ready happen to also be part of the Justice Society at the time.
02:02Like, for example, we have Wildcat and Silver Age.
02:05I know she's a little on the tad tall side.
02:07We also got ourselves a Silver Age Wonder Woman.
02:09Of some of the examples, I'm also going to be bringing in Batman, I think, at one point was part of Justice Society of America.
02:14So why not?
02:15We'll bring in the Silver Age release of him.
02:17I'm also bringing in, though, Red Tornado.
02:19Not so much that he was in Justice Society.
02:21I suppose if you go down the rabbit hole far enough, you probably could make the connection somehow.
02:25Now, the connection isn't so much the so, the fact that they are part of the same affiliate team,
02:29but more the fact that they also have one issue, one issue facing, and it has something to do with their capes.
02:34Feasting our peepers on the following accessories.
02:36Dr. Midnight first includes a trading card.
02:38The trading card does have a rather nice-looking image of the character featured on the front.
02:42Some shadowy characters make up the background there as well.
02:45And also, on the side of the card, not that I need to draw your attention to it, I'm sure you probably could see for yourself,
02:50it does say McFarlane Collector Edition.
02:53On the back, though, of the card, his real name is Charles McNider,
02:57and probably, I would say, one of the longest reads I've done for the DC multiverse.
03:01I'm sure there has been other examples, ones that maybe have had more complicated wording.
03:06But I think I pushed through, tripped through, and finally got a chance to finish off the entire paragraph.
03:10I would think that that's much more than just one paragraph, maybe three paragraphs,
03:14although there's not really a space here.
03:16So, I mean, it's just one continuous read.
03:18And I think overall, though, I think they do a nice job of actually putting a very good description
03:23so that even if you don't know too much about Dr. Midnight, just reading this alone,
03:27you'll have at least some idea about the background of the character.
03:31He does also come in clear with a display stand.
03:33For a second, though, I wondered if I grabbed the right display stand,
03:36because I just happen to have a couple of them off to the side.
03:38But what we're going with, though, is that it does have the DC logo down below here.
03:41And not that far away, though, from that, you can also see there's a peg.
03:46And that can plug into, obviously, either one of his footwear.
03:49The figure does also come in clear with his owl, his owl, Hootie.
03:52No, no, I'm not making that up.
03:53The owl's name is Hootie.
03:55The American wood owl, though, that Dr. Midnight would have,
03:57and actually then passed down to other versions of Dr. Midnight.
04:01It's a decently sculpted owl.
04:02It doesn't have any articulation.
04:04Don't go in there expecting that Hooters, the owl, no, Hootie.
04:07Hootie, the owl, doesn't actually have anything in the way of his head.
04:10And this member of the Blowfish also doesn't have anything
04:13that you can move to the tail nor to the wings.
04:15He's pretty much just a staction figure.
04:18Getting him, though, the balance on Dr. Midnight's form
04:20is not the easiest thing to do.
04:22I was, in fact, actually surprised that I was able to get this guy
04:24to rotate on a rotisserie and not have this fall off.
04:27You can balance it as best as you can,
04:29but you'll find this frequently falls off.
04:31What you can kind of also do is cheat.
04:33In between his talons and the back of his tail,
04:35there's a little ledge space right here
04:37that you can kind of clip around his wrist.
04:41And he does an okay job of holding it,
04:43but you really got to be careful to balance this.
04:45And you can see, like, he holds Hootie, barely holding Hootie.
04:50You can see, like, it does an okay enough job.
04:53I suppose they probably could have put, like, clips
04:54and maybe a hole on the glove.
04:56But, I mean, in the end, would really anybody want
04:58an unsightly hole in Dr. Midnight's glove?
05:00Yeah, yeah, I don't think so.
05:03Moving Hootie out of the way here,
05:04the figure does also come include some swappable hands.
05:07Now, I will admit,
05:08closed-fist hands aren't the most exciting things to look at.
05:11Perhaps maybe entertain instead the idea
05:13that the figure does also have a couple of gripping hands.
05:15Though, unfortunately, though,
05:16Dr. Midnight doesn't have any accessories, really,
05:19other than Hootie.
05:20He does have, again, gripping hands,
05:21but he doesn't really technically have any accessories
05:23for those said gripping hands to hold.
05:25He does also have a pointing hand.
05:27Why not?
05:28I suppose you could try to also...
05:30Well, let's drop the hand.
05:31I suppose you could also try to balance Hootie
05:33on the end of the hand.
05:34I mean, forget about it.
05:35What's the likelihood that you're going to be able to balance that?
05:37Even if you do, nobody sneeze, nobody cough,
05:40nobody even talk in the direction of Dr. Midnight
05:42for the risk that just the air leaving your mouth
05:44will knock the bird off his finger.
05:47And then lastly, he also comes included with a gestured hand,
05:50which, again, also serves, I suppose, the same functionality.
05:52You take a Hootie here, you can kind of...
05:55Actually, you know what?
05:55One thing you can also do, too,
05:56is sort of take Hootie's talon
05:58and fit it underneath the finger.
06:00Although, you know, it loses the illusion.
06:02How's this bird sort of holding his weight up?
06:04I mean, you would think that that's a lot of stress
06:06on the poor bird's one leg,
06:08and that's just going to snap his leg.
06:10Anyways, though, if you did want to change out the hands,
06:12it's just a case of holding onto the forearm.
06:15You know this by now.
06:15You know the drill.
06:16Hold onto the forearm and sort of twist the hand off the peg.
06:19Now, I noticed, though, with these pegs,
06:21these hands were a little harder.
06:23Again, take the hand that you want to use.
06:25Still, thumbs go in.
06:26No matter what figure you're looking at,
06:27pop the hand back onto the peg.
06:29There's one.
06:30We'll do the same.
06:31You want to do the same on the other side?
06:32Show of hands.
06:33Show of hands.
06:34Yeah, show of hands right here.
06:35All right, we'll do it on this side, too.
06:37So, again, just wiggle it.
06:39There we go.
06:40Pop that off.
06:40Just super tight joints.
06:42And pop a new hand in place.
06:45So, I guess you get some adjusted hand.
06:47Again, you get a pointing hand.
06:48He could basically just be telling people,
06:50stay off my property.
06:50Although, if it's in daylight
06:52and he doesn't have his goggles on,
06:53he has no idea if somebody's actually walking on his grass.
06:55And, again, could you get Hootie on there?
06:57No.
06:58I mean, come on.
06:59Balancing that as best you can.
07:00There's so much weight, really, on the back of the bird.
07:03There's no real way that that's going to balance.
07:05I mean, even if they...
07:06I suppose there is.
07:07Like, if you look at the top there,
07:08there is a little ledge right here.
07:10But it's not really designed in such a way
07:12that, you know, you can get the bird resting in there.
07:14I'm sure perhaps somebody could find a better use of this.
07:17But if they had only put, like, a peg right here.
07:19See the way that the hand has, like, a little indentation right here?
07:23Had it really only been the case that they added, like, a little plastic lip.
07:27Something that could have plugged in place.
07:29But, again, you don't really want to have him holding the under-behind of the bird.
07:33He's not going to enjoy that, whether he can see it or not.
07:35And I can tell you, Hootie ain't going to like that either.
07:38Let's move that off to the side.
07:39Again, I kind of wish there was something on the bottom.
07:41So there's Dr. Midnight.
07:42Now, again, I did say one thing about him earlier,
07:44and I brought, then, the example of Red Tornado.
07:47Even though, really, maybe at some point in the comics,
07:49these guys would have teamed up.
07:50But the one thing, though, about both of them
07:52is that they happen to share one issue with their cape.
07:55Not so much that the cape material is bad.
07:57In fact, rather the opposite.
07:58But that neither of them actually have wires built into the side seams.
08:03When we looked at, like, Red Tornado, for example,
08:05there was nothing at all you could do to manipulate the cape.
08:08There was no wire actually sewn into the side of the cape.
08:11And the same thing, unfortunately, though, for Dr. Midnight.
08:12I think, though, with him,
08:14his cape seems to bow out a lot more.
08:17I wish there was a way,
08:19even to the point where I'm almost even tempted
08:21just to kind of tuck that underneath.
08:23But, I mean, it looks out of place.
08:24The cape, I feel, really did need to have a seam
08:26or something sewn into the seam
08:28so you could have actually been able to bend
08:30and move the cape around.
08:32Still, despite that, though,
08:33I really like the material that they've gone with here.
08:35Sort of this emerald green.
08:36It glistens.
08:37The studio lights are just bouncing off of this.
08:40But, you know, again, like, it's a very, very wide cape.
08:42And with not having anything to really then manipulate the cape,
08:45it draws more to the attention
08:46that the cape, I feel, is almost too wide
08:49for the figure's body.
08:50As for the head sculpt, though, for Dr. Midnight.
08:52Now, again, we are getting two version releases of him.
08:55Some, I think the other one swaps more
08:56of the gold out for the silver.
08:58But the mold is going to be exactly the same.
09:00You see, though, the crescent moon shape
09:01on the top of his head,
09:02his calling card of Dr. Midnight.
09:04And he has the silver rimmed goggles.
09:07Very nice looking head sculpt on the figure's face.
09:08I don't think he necessarily needed to have an expression.
09:11He's very, like, very neutral expression face.
09:14But again, I think it works really well for the character.
09:16He has the red tunic.
09:17Now, one thing I will say about the red tunic.
09:20I know they have gone in there.
09:21Let's just move his arms out of the way here.
09:23If you look at, really, the side,
09:24they have deliberately added, like,
09:26an airbrushing of a darker, kind of blackish red.
09:29See, it's on the sides.
09:30It's nowhere here in the middle.
09:32Unfortunately, though, like, it works fine here and here
09:34where you can still get the chance
09:36to see the brighter red tunic.
09:37But down here, unfortunately,
09:39I feel like they should have done something similar.
09:41It seems a little too muddy down below in the skirting.
09:44Again, if they had kept it kind of more
09:46of the brighter color right here,
09:47by having this, all this same level of darkness,
09:50it does kind of look like it's two different plastics,
09:52even though I know it's not.
09:54The belt looks good.
09:54And again, he's got the little crescent moon snaps there
09:56doing up the front of his tunic.
09:58I like the wrinkling that they've also added to it as well.
10:00And it will save anything.
10:01I mean, the fact that they alone gone in there
10:03and airbrushed the sides,
10:05nice little tension and additional detail.
10:07The majority of the figure's body is, like, black.
10:10Again, overlooking the red.
10:11Black on the arms.
10:12Again, he's got the gloves.
10:13Those, I really like the coloring of the gloves
10:15that they've given him.
10:16Kind of that Werther's original brown.
10:18And then, of course, he has that same sort of idea
10:19down below here with his buccaneer boots.
10:22One thing, though, I've also noticed with Dr. Midnight.
10:24Let's just bring his arms up here for a second.
10:26You'll see that he's got, like, a shinier black plastic
10:29making up the majority of his arms.
10:31Yet, though, the joints for his elbows
10:33and even more, though, for his knees
10:35seem like it's a different plastic.
10:37It's more of a matte black plastic.
10:39So it doesn't stand out, I feel, as much on the arms.
10:42It stands out certainly a lot more
10:43when it comes to his legs.
10:45His legs are, again, a much more matte black plastic.
10:48And I kind of wish that they could have used the same plastic.
10:50I don't know the reasonings why they chose not to.
10:52Maybe the shinier plastic doesn't hold up as well
10:55when it comes to posability.
10:56Maybe joints seem to work better with a denser plastic
10:59that just, as the trade-off, unfortunately has to be matte.
11:02Overall, though, I really like the look of the figure.
11:04Again, the boots look really cool on this guy as well.
11:06He's a good-looking guy.
11:07I mean, the only thing I really would say
11:09from a critical standpoint is maybe, again,
11:11like, just lightening up some of the lower end of the tunic
11:13and, like, again, like the joints stand out
11:16just a little bit more.
11:17And I do really, like, the biggest one, I think,
11:18is they really needed to add a wire to the side of the cape
11:21just so the cape, again, doesn't fan out as much as it does.
11:24Other than that, though, really nice-looking Dr. Midnight.
11:26For the figure's articulation, Dr. Midnight, yeah,
11:29for posability, head rotates all the way around.
11:32And while Hootie, unfortunately, didn't have anything,
11:34head hinges up, head hinges down,
11:36and you can also move it back and forth, too.
11:38Top of his tunic does have a ball joint.
11:41The lower end of his tunic also has the same,
11:44although it's kind of a little harder to get in there
11:45because there seems more of the articulation
11:48or more of a torso piece further up.
11:50And then you kind of have to get in there
11:52underneath the belt to kind of start moving things around.
11:55The arms rotate all the way around.
11:56You can hinge those arms out at 90 degrees.
11:59It looks so strange with him just pointing out to the air.
12:01He does also have a swivel in his bicep,
12:03a double hinge on the elbow,
12:05and the hands rotate all the way around.
12:07For his lower half of his body,
12:09Dr. Midnight's legs split, split, split,
12:11about that far.
12:13In addition to that, the legs go further forward.
12:17Now, even though he does have, like, the tunic here,
12:19it doesn't go low enough down
12:21that I feel like it's in the way of the legs.
12:22If anything gets really in the way of the legs,
12:24it's kind of more his trunks.
12:26The trunks, the way that they cut this like this,
12:28and I know it's more just to give the seamless look
12:29to the joints, like they're hiding the joints.
12:32The legs, as a result of that,
12:34can't go a full, like, kick.
12:35In fact, that seems to be as high
12:37as Dr. Midnight's legs will go.
12:39The legs also go back only further,
12:41well, only about that far back,
12:42so they're a little bit more limited.
12:44There's a little bit of a swivel,
12:45a mild swivelage at the top of the thigh,
12:47a double hinge on the knee.
12:49Articulation doesn't exist down below here,
12:51but it does, though, exist in the ankles,
12:53where not only can you move them
12:54back and forth this way,
12:55you can rock them back and forth.
12:56And the figure of Dr. Midnight
12:58does also have some decent levels
12:59of toe posability.
13:02Great-looking figure.
13:03I really like the look of Dr. Midnight.
13:05Again, there is going to be
13:06a Platinum Edition release of this guy
13:07that does have some additional silver
13:08that's added in there as well.
13:10But sort of my same feelings that I felt
13:11when it comes to a Red Tornado
13:14feels sort of the same thing
13:15I'm saying about Dr. Midnight.
13:17Overall, great-looking figure,
13:18but I really feel like,
13:19I really have to kind of wonder,
13:20what is it about certain figures
13:22and certain capes
13:23where they have wires built into their capes,
13:25but then they don't for others?
13:27As another example,
13:28I also wanted to bring back in,
13:29I said originally, though,
13:30when we looked at the Red Tornado
13:32that maybe it had something to do
13:33with the type of material
13:33that they're using,
13:34that may be nylon.
13:35Nylon is a harder thing
13:37to seam a wire into.
13:38Yet Batman,
13:39this Silver Age Batman,
13:40has, couldn't you very well
13:42make the argument,
13:43a very similar type of material?
13:44And yet, with his release,
13:46he does actually have a wire.
13:47So again, I'm not really sure
13:48why some figures have them
13:50and other figures don't.
13:51Maybe it boils down
13:52to just cost-saving measures
13:53that they wanted to,
13:54with certain figures,
13:55the ones that maybe are,
13:57I don't want to say obscure,
13:59but maybe more people
14:00would be invested
14:00in getting a Batman figure
14:01so they spend a little more
14:02of that budget
14:03adding a wire into it.
14:05But I feel like, really,
14:06as it goes with all the ones
14:07that get released
14:08with fabric capes,
14:08whether of fabric
14:09it ends up being the case,
14:11I feel like they should
14:12all at least have wires.
14:13Especially with Dr. Midnight,
14:14because if we bring
14:15these figures out,
14:17it wasn't obviously
14:18as noticeable on Red Tornado.
14:20Again, I still would have liked
14:21that he would have had it.
14:22But Dr. Midnight
14:22has that type of cape
14:23that really fans out
14:24like a big Christmas tree.
14:26And by not having wires
14:27sewn into the seams,
14:28there's no real way
14:29that he can do anything else
14:30than what he's doing right now.
14:32Barely holding on
14:33to his hoodie.
14:33What?
14:34Is Dr. Midnight here
14:35as he's rotating
14:36and we wrap up
14:37this review of him.
14:38I think one of the things
14:39I really like
14:39is that he does include
14:40his owl.
14:41I wish, though,
14:42truth be told,
14:42there was a better way
14:43to attach the owl
14:44short of not just having
14:45to wedge it in between
14:46the legs and the back
14:48of the tail.
14:49Because, like,
14:49the way you're looking
14:50at it right now,
14:51no way is this believable
14:52that these talons,
14:54these feet of the owl
14:55are just floating there.
14:57It doesn't really
14:58so much, though,
14:58it looks like he's
14:59taken the owl, honestly,
15:00and just has glued
15:01it to his hand.
15:02I don't think Dr. Midnight
15:03is going to enjoy that.
15:03I can certainly say
15:04Hootie ain't enjoying
15:05that either.
15:06Colors for Dr. Midnight
15:07generally are quite good.
15:09The red of the tunic,
15:10the bright green of the cape,
15:11and again,
15:11like the off,
15:12kind of brownish tan color
15:14that he's got for his gloves
15:15and his lower buccaneer boots.
15:17Things that maybe
15:18don't work as well
15:19for Dr. Midnight
15:20is that they also chose
15:21to make kind of darker
15:22airbrushed areas
15:23on the sides
15:23of the red tunic.
15:24It works well
15:25for the top
15:25just above the belt,
15:27but below the belt
15:28by doing it all across
15:29the front plastic,
15:30it does then result
15:31in the red
15:32not looking the same color.
15:34The cape also works
15:34well too.
15:35Now,
15:35again,
15:36with the problem
15:36with the cape
15:36is that the cape
15:37doesn't have a wire
15:38sewn into the seams.
15:40I would love
15:40to really have the chance
15:41to talk to Todd McFarlane
15:42and ask them,
15:43why is it specifically
15:44that some capes
15:46on figures,
15:47obviously the fabric capes,
15:48why are some figures
15:49have wires
15:50and other figures don't?
15:52Maybe it's all just
15:53calling cards,
15:54pecking orders,
15:55you know,
15:55the ones further up
15:56on the totem
15:56when it comes to priorities,
15:57like a Batman.
15:58I think there's very few times,
15:59there may have been a time,
16:01but more times than not.
16:02Bruce Wayne
16:03always gets himself
16:04a wire into his cape,
16:05and I guess
16:05Dr. Midnight
16:06just wasn't as high
16:07of a priority.
16:08Other than that,
16:08though,
16:09I really like
16:09the look of this figure.
16:10Now,
16:10again,
16:10there's going to be
16:11a platinum edition
16:12release of Dr. Midnight
16:13that brings in
16:13some additional silver.
16:15Whether you like
16:15the look of the silver
16:16or you like more
16:17the look of the gold,
16:18we will be looking
16:19at that Dr. Midnight
16:19either way
16:20in one of the upcoming reviews.
16:23Speaking,
16:23though,
16:23of this review,
16:24I'd like to thank
16:25the folks over
16:25at McFarlane Toys
16:26that did make this one
16:26possible by providing
16:28the sample of Dr. Midnight
16:29that we had the chance
16:30to have a look
16:30in this review.
16:31What do you guys
16:31think of the figure?
16:32Let me know down below
16:32in the comments section.
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