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McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Darkseid War Batman With Mobius Chair Figure Review
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00:00Timelines are converging, and the Caped Crusader has to take a seat.
00:04Here's your look at McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse The Dark Side War Batman with Mobius Chair.
00:08The Dark Side War
00:38One question, actually, that Batman asked the Mobius Chair was all about the Clown Prince of Crime.
00:43In fact, actually, this is a pivotal story, because the Mobius Chair is the one that tells Batman that there hasn't been one Joker this whole time, but there in fact has been three, which then leads then to the three Jokers.
00:53We're going to kind of answer all those questions, and we're also going to be bringing in some other examples of this mold in a second.
00:57But first things first, I also, by the way, would like to thank the folks over at McFarlane Toys that did make this review possible.
01:02Back, though, to the tape measure, which I kind of started doing, up to the very point of his ears, Batman's going to stand at seven inches in height, working out to be a figure that's 17 and a half centimeters tall.
01:12If the figure is looking familiar to you, it's because they're mostly boring over the body of this Batman.
01:16This happens to be the year one release.
01:18Yeah, though they have changed some things, though, with the newer release with the Mobius Chair.
01:22More specifically, they've changed now the gauntlets, and he has a completely different utility belt.
01:26He unfortunately does have one also problem by using the same Batman body.
01:30He has very noticeably short arms.
01:33Speaking of the Darkseid War and all, let's bring in a caped Darkseid.
01:36Now, I do hope, though, at some point before the license runs out, we get a non-caped Darkseid.
01:39Now, I know, I know. There is the task force, build the Darkseid.
01:42But that was cel-shaded. It wasn't really my jam.
01:44I do hope, though, again, before the license runs out, we get essentially this figure release again, but without the cape.
01:50Not, though, the first figure as well that has had a Mobius Chair.
01:52We also did get a Lex Luthor many moons, many years ago, and here's what the figure looks like.
01:56With that, Magic Storyteller, Magic Storyteller, what does Batman come included with?
02:00Well, first of all, the figure does have a display stand.
02:03So, if you choose that you don't want to have him displayed sitting atop of the chair,
02:07you can have him standing on top of the display stand instead.
02:09The DC logo done here in silver is just in walking distance, of course, to the peg.
02:14That can plug into either one, yes, of Batman's boots.
02:17Along with that, though, the figure does also come included with a trading card.
02:19I love this image of Batman.
02:21I know, again, like, Batman does change his costume.
02:24It's a little bit different from what we're used to seeing.
02:25But I do really like the way they've used this artwork.
02:28On the side, though, of the card, you can also see it does have McFarlane Collector Edition.
02:31It's so much, though, easier to see it when I've got the studio light shining across it.
02:35And, of course, if I get my stupid finger out of the way, don't say so stupid things about your finger.
02:39On the back, though, of the card, what?
02:40Real name, though, is Bruce Wayne.
02:42It's a very short read.
02:43I mean, the further that I get or closer I get to the camera, you can see there's very little for me to read.
02:47And it's, in fact, what I read at the beginning of this review.
02:50Let's move the card off to the side.
02:52And he does, of course, also come included with a batarang.
02:54The batarangs still continue to be large and still continue to be thick.
02:58But I do like the look of the shape of the batarang.
03:00And this does fit into Batman's hands.
03:02He does really only have one gripping hand, which happens to be on this side of the figure's body.
03:06Left, if you're looking at it.
03:08Right, I guess, if you're, well, you know, right if you're looking at it the opposite way around.
03:11But does, like I said, you can take the batarang and just fit into his hand.
03:15I guess, if anything, the hand is contoured in a way that it does fit the batarang.
03:19And it fits it well enough that it does survive the blizzard test.
03:22Along with that, though, the figure does also have, just getting a stand here for a second, a couple of hands.
03:28Now, apparently, Batman's choosing to have fingerless gloves.
03:30Everybody was wearing fingerless gloves.
03:32And, again, these hands just need to be swapped out.
03:36The thing about the hands, though, they really are suitable for when he, if he wants, like, to rest his hands on the arms of the chair.
03:42Because if not for that, it kind of looks like Batman has jazz hands.
03:45Jazz hands.
03:46By the way, though, this figure is also getting a Platinum Edition release, which essentially is going to have the same chair.
03:50I think it has the same batarang and it has the same hands.
03:53But then Batman himself is all done in translucent blue.
03:56We will be also looking at that figure in an upcoming review.
03:58Let's not get ahead of ourselves, though.
04:00Some assembly, though, is required for the chair.
04:01Where the Mobius chair does, in fact, actually come in two parts.
04:04Wait a minute.
04:04Didn't you already put that together at the beginning when the figure is rotating in the rotisserie?
04:08Good eye.
04:09But I didn't snap it in all the way.
04:10So, essentially, what it is, is the top of the seat is split in half.
04:14And then where the foot stand is, where, of course, Batman's going to be putting his boots.
04:18Basically, what it is, is there's a snap.
04:20I don't know if you can see if I get my stupid finger out of the way.
04:22There's a snap on either side.
04:24Snap may not be the best word to be using when it comes to plastic.
04:26But then those sit inside these little slots right here.
04:29I only just barely snap them in place.
04:32So, again, like the Mobius chairs, for the most part, stays intact.
04:35And then you just disassemble it that way.
04:37If I want to give it the full college try, even then you can still pull it out.
04:41So, I guess I really didn't have to worry so much that if the chair was snapped together,
04:45would I be able to get it free?
04:46The answer to that question is yes.
04:47Yes, you can.
04:49The chair, though, itself is only really molded from the front.
04:51On the back, though, you can see it's very much hollow plastic.
04:54It does also have a little spinning disc on the top.
04:57Now, it's pegged the way that it is so that it does actually rotate.
05:01I don't know if just intentionally or if just it was the way it was assembled.
05:04But, yeah, you can rotate this if you really want to.
05:07You don't really have to make the noise either.
05:09I do like that they've added some nice silver, nice dry brushing of silver on the arms,
05:13the front of this as well.
05:15The one issue I really kind of have with the seat,
05:18the Batman doesn't really sit all that well in it.
05:20Let's just take the batarang off for right now.
05:23Do we want to also swap out his hands?
05:25Okay, this also can serve as a tutorial for swapping out hands.
05:28Dude, I already know how to swap out hands.
05:30I know.
05:30Let's just get those hands going.
05:33Pop them off on one side.
05:35Pull them off on then the other.
05:37It's weird, though, to see Batman with fingerless gloves.
05:40But, again, essentially what it is is Batman's just going to kind of bend his arms like this.
05:44He can kind of bend his arms down, too, his hands down.
05:46And then Batman's going to be firmly planted on top of the chair.
05:49Now, again, he has double hinges on his knees.
05:51I know we're kind of rushing along the articulation point of bended things just yet.
05:55Bend of feet.
05:56Kind of bring his head up.
05:58You probably could spend a little bit more time doing this, what I'm doing right now.
06:01And then, of course, with the cape, the cape is fabric.
06:03It can kind of tuck in.
06:05But, again, like one real issue I kind of have with Batman
06:07is he doesn't really stay on his chair all that well.
06:11Get his feet firmly planted.
06:13Bring his head down just a little bit.
06:15He sits, I suppose, okay.
06:16But he has kind of a bad, notorious feeling that he always kind of feels like he's sliding off his seat.
06:22Some of that may be contributed by the fact that they're using more of a smoother material for his cape.
06:26But it just kind of seems like Batman doesn't really stay all that well.
06:30You can kind of see, by the way, I'm pushing him in.
06:32I suppose they could probably have put also pegs right here.
06:35But, again, like what anybody really would want to see?
06:37Ugly pegs, though, on the front sections of the chair.
06:40Maybe not.
06:40I mean, obviously they're not going to put a peg on the back of that either.
06:42But, I mean, like for what Batman's doing, I guess he's doing it okay.
06:46He just, you might find yourself sort of having to go back and fix him a couple of times
06:50because he feels like he does want to slide off the top of the seat.
06:54Let's take the chair and put it off to the side.
06:56Now, again, the Platinum Edition, I think, is essentially going to be the same Mobius chair.
06:59I don't think they're doing really all that much different.
07:01The only thing that's really going to be different, though, is Batman.
07:03Let's just go straighten out his legs.
07:05There we go. There we go.
07:07Do we want to really change out the hands?
07:08The hands, I know, seem a little out of place.
07:11We'll keep them in.
07:11We'll keep them in for right now.
07:12And let's bring in the year one Batman.
07:16Now, to look at the mold, I'm kind of hard-pressed to say, is it the exact same?
07:22First glance, though, I would have told you that it's a different head sculpt.
07:24But I think, though, the more I'm looking at it,
07:26it might not be the fact that the paint is different or the mold is different.
07:29I think it's just the paint that makes the mold look different.
07:33Because, again, like this had a lot more of the flesh color.
07:35This does go with more of a kind of a darker, grimier color.
07:38They've also taken the liberty of adding a little bit of additional stubble on Batman's chin as well.
07:43What would you say?
07:44Is it the same head sculpt?
07:46Kind of looks like it does.
07:48Now, it does also have some additional lightning panel lining there on the side.
07:52I do actually kind of like this Tron motif that they've gone with here.
07:55Batman does have these lines on the sides of his cowl.
07:57And it's not just the fact that the lines are there as well,
07:59but they've also kind of airbrushed glowing areas around it.
08:02So it does look like these are actually glowing.
08:04That's really cool.
08:05Of course, underneath that, he also has that as well.
08:08Even if you don't really like the idea of Batman sitting in his chair,
08:10this would really work well for a futuristic Batman,
08:13where I guess he's not so much hiding in the shadows.
08:16I mean, clearly anybody could be able to spot Batman, at least from his symbol alone.
08:19The symbol is, again, very much the same as the year one Batman.
08:23I don't think I'd be hard-pressed to be able to spot the differences other than really just the colors.
08:26And then jetting out from the bottom end of the points,
08:29you can see he's got some additional lineage there as well.
08:32Now, again, where some of the things have been changed with Batman,
08:34again, verdict's not really out whether they've actually done a different head or not.
08:38You can see it's, well, you know what, let's go like for like.
08:41You can see that the gauntlets are different.
08:43Unfortunately, again, this guy out of his plastic prison,
08:45you can see he has bent the little spikes that he has on his gauntlet.
08:48Other than that, short of that, it does seem, though, that Batman has different gauntlets.
08:53Yes, speaking also of short, Batman still seems to have very short-looking arms.
08:56I don't know why it doesn't look as short, necessarily, on this Batman than it did on this one.
09:01Different utility belt, too.
09:03It's a much more streamlined-looking utility belt, where this one had actual flaps-to-pockets.
09:07This one has less pockets.
09:09It sort of looks like they're just sort of cargo sections.
09:11Again, the front belt buckle is there different, too.
09:14I mean, this is a separate piece,
09:15so it's easy for them, sure, to go in there and just kind of change the parts they need to change
09:19while keeping the majority of the body the exact same.
09:22The capes themselves seem to be the same, as well.
09:25I mean, material-wise, they've also added, though, a wire stitched into the seam.
09:30So, again, you can also manipulate this, too.
09:31By him also sitting in the chair, unfortunately, it does cause wrinklage on the back of the cape.
09:36It doesn't look so bad, though, from the front.
09:37And it's a good-sized cape, too.
09:39Again, you've got wires running in the sides.
09:42All in all, it's a good-looking Batman.
09:44I never really had problems other than maybe the short arms on the year-one Batman.
09:47Again, using this mold, again, I think was smart on their part.
09:50It gives us an all-in-all, all-in-all, all-around, all-around-looking good-looking Batman.
09:55Again, just a little bit different of a color.
09:57For the Batman's utility, for Batman's utility, for Batman's articulation,
10:01the head's going to be on a ball joint.
10:02So, like with the one before, you can move the head up and down.
10:05You can also rotate it.
10:06I know, normally, a human being would be able to survive somebody twisting their head all the way around.
10:11But with an action figure, you can certainly do that.
10:14Back and forth, back and forth, it goes as well.
10:15Well, the top of the torso is going to be on a ball joint.
10:18The figure's lower abdomen also does the same.
10:21The arms rotate all the way around.
10:22You can bring those arms out.
10:24Now, I did notice, though, on this arm, it's a little on the loose side,
10:27but not loose to the point where I feel like it's going to get worse.
10:29Maybe it will, depending on how much more I'm doing this.
10:31This arm is a much tighter joint.
10:33It does have a swivel, though, speaking of joints in his bicep.
10:36Double hinge on his elbow.
10:37And again, like those jazz hands.
10:39Jazz hands!
10:40Also do rotate all the way around with a hinge back and forth.
10:44For his legs, they do split out.
10:46You can take those and move them forward.
10:48The legs, in fact, also move back, too.
10:50There's a swivel there at the top of the thigh.
10:52Double hinge on the knee.
10:53No articulation, like with the original year one Batman.
10:56There's nothing really at all that you can do with his lower boots,
10:58other than, you know, just, I mean, this isn't going to necessarily turn.
11:01You're just being silly by constantly turning something that doesn't turn in the first place.
11:05An ankle pivot.
11:06An ankle rocker.
11:08Yes, he does, by the way, have tractions on the bottoms of his boots.
11:10I like the look of those.
11:11And the figure does also have toe articulation as well.
11:14You know, again, like I think it's probably just the paint that's throwing things off for me.
11:17Because, again, I'm looking at the two.
11:19I could tell you, though, that they're not the same.
11:22But I think I'm probably wrong.
11:23They look like they're probably using the same mold.
11:25And it's really just the paint that makes this one so look so drastically different.
11:30Clearly, though, too, like the molding of the plastic is a different color.
11:33This guy goes with much more, it's not even really like a black or gray.
11:37It almost seems like it's got a brownish tint to it.
11:39But I do like that they've added the little lines of light here that jet out from the Batman bat symbol.
11:44Again, he's got like some more little decorative details.
11:47He's also got it on his biceps there as well.
11:49The fingers and gloves, again, look more in place when you have the figure displayed on the chair.
11:53I don't know necessarily if I would just have Batman kind of displaying, miming himself on a shelf.
11:57I think that looks a little stupid, though.
11:59But, again, to have the figure displayed on the chair.
12:01The one thing, though, about the chairs I did say earlier.
12:04I don't know if it's necessarily just the fact that the chair need to be deeper.
12:08I don't think that's the problem.
12:09I think that it's just that Batman has a very smooth material cape that results in then.
12:14Like, even if you bring the cape as further forward as you can.
12:17And then just sort of have Batman sitting on top of the chair.
12:19I think you could go with a really cool look of having the excess of the cape sort of fanning out the sides of Batman's leg.
12:27I mean, it looks good.
12:28But, again, like, Batman, sometimes you'll find yourself constantly pushing the figure back on top of his seat.
12:34I don't know, really, again, if they could have solved the problem by putting pegs there, like, where his feet would attach.
12:39Like, if these were securely attached, maybe Batman still would move forward.
12:43But, again, like, other than that, it's a nice-looking figure.
12:45And, again, like, if you have been collecting the Dark Side War, like the Dark Side War Lex Luthor, which, again, came with the Mobius chair, you can also have him displayed along with that as well.
12:53This Batman does get, like I said, a second release, too.
12:56He's getting a Platinum Edition, which one thing that is different about the Platinum Edition that will obviously get more involved when we look at the figure in that, his own standalone review, is that he also does have an open, screaming face.
13:07So, he isn't going to be using this same mold, nor is he going to be using the Year One Batman mold.
13:12The body he is going to be boring over the same.
13:14And, in fact, it's going to be the exact same body as this one here, but it's going to have a slightly different face, while all the accessories and the chairs seem to remain the same.
13:22I think if anyone was to be the god of knowledge, certainly Batman would be a good pick for that.
13:25And speaking of picking a good Batman body, I did even think I said in the review of the Year One Batman that I hope, though, that that mold will be used again.
13:32And sure enough, it is.
13:34Now, obviously, he's including, though, the Mobius chair.
13:36There's some additional paint that goes then into Batman, but it isn't just the same carbon copy of the character.
13:41Batman now gets himself new tooled gloves, and he also comes with a brand new utility belt.
13:46The look of the figure, and I still think it's probably using the same head sculpt, although, again, like looking at it, what throws a figure off so easily is just a different paint scheme.
13:55Now, if this was just a black, a flat black like the original Batman had, and it had the same skin tone, it would be easy to look at one and then see the other and think that, yeah, they're using the exact same head.
14:05By, though, darkening the skin tone, adding some stubble to his chin, and adding the little lightning lines, it does make, almost like for Batman, a different head.
14:13Now, what's interesting, though, is that the head is more of a black coloring, and I didn't mention that in the review, but his head is a different color than the rest of his body.
14:21Batman's majority of his body is kind of more of this brownish black, whereas his head is clearly more of a darker black.
14:27One thing I also really like about this figure is, again, he carries over the fabric cape.
14:31Now, I've got this guy displayed in probably a way that if I can carefully pick this guy, I just remember where he was sort of situating, but to pick this figure up and put him on the shelf, just like I've got him right now spinning on the rotisserie, is the way I'm going to have the figure displayed on the shelf.
14:45Now, if you want to, yeah, Batman can't sit on his seat if he chooses to.
14:48The thing about it, though, is, as you saw in this review, he doesn't always stay on the chair.
14:53He slides, he shimmies.
14:55Again, like, I think some of it may have also do with the kind of fabric that they chose for the cape, but, you know, just to have Batman displayed with a cape fanned out like this is just as cool as he's sitting in Mobius' chair.
15:05What do you guys think of this figure?
15:06Let me know down below in the comments section.
15:08Now, again, we are going to be wrapping up the review for this one, but we will also, in the upcoming video, look at also the Platinum Edition that's going to keep a lot of the same things the same, with just a different head sculpt and a different use of blue plastic.
15:21A big thank you again to the folks over at McFarlane Toys that did provide this sample of the new McFarlane Collector's Edition, Batman with Mobius' chair from the Dark Side War.
15:30If you guys did enjoy this video, you can do it a stall and throw it a like.
15:32You guys want to stick around for more, so I hope so.
15:34So, there's going to be some more DC Multiverse reviews coming your way, coming in the pipeline all, hopefully, that you guys will be checking out, and I hope certainly you guys will be checking out the playlist popping up.
15:44Yeah, shamelessly plugging up playlists at the very end of this video.
15:47You can have a good gander at all the other stuff that I've looked at from McFarlane Toys over the years.
15:51As always, guys, thanks for watching.
15:53See you guys next time.
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