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What are the chances this DC Multiverse New 52 Bronze Tiger figure lives up to the hype? Unbox this expertly crafted collectible and decide for yourself! We dive deep into the details, from his impressive six and three-quarter inch height to his striking display options.
Discover how Benjamin Turner’s dual life as a vigilante and informant translates into this dynamic figure. See how he stacks up against other DC icons like Batman, Killer Croc, Deadshot, and Captain Boomerang. Is this a must-have addition to your collection?
We explore the iconic DC Multiverse accessories, including the classic display stand and trading card featuring Bronze Tiger in his signature look. Examine the interchangeable hands, complete with his signature claws, and discuss their impact on posing possibilities.
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Discover how Benjamin Turner’s dual life as a vigilante and informant translates into this dynamic figure. See how he stacks up against other DC icons like Batman, Killer Croc, Deadshot, and Captain Boomerang. Is this a must-have addition to your collection?
We explore the iconic DC Multiverse accessories, including the classic display stand and trading card featuring Bronze Tiger in his signature look. Examine the interchangeable hands, complete with his signature claws, and discuss their impact on posing possibilities.
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00:00What do you think the chances would be that this guy could actually turn into a tiger?
00:03Here's your look at the McFarland toys, DC Direct, the new 52 Bronze Tiger.
00:21Guided by his personal code, Benjamin Turner operates on both sides of the law.
00:25Working with the Suicide Squad and Batman as both a source of information on the mercenary world and a potent
00:29ally in battle.
00:31I know every time Turner uses his talisman, he burns a piece of his soul.
00:34Luckily, though, for getting this figure, I didn't burn any of my budget.
00:37I'd like to thank the folks over at McFarland Toys that did provide this sample.
00:41Before, though, maybe we look at the Bronze Tiger figure.
00:43Let's grab the tape measure as we always do and see how tall he's actually going to stand.
00:46Then we'll bring in some other examples of figures that you may want to display along with the Bronze Tiger.
00:51For how tall he stands, I'm clocking this guy being about six and three-quarters of an inch in height.
00:57That's going to work out to be a figure that's 17 and a half centimeters tall.
01:00I know Bronze Tiger has worked with a Batman, so let's bring in a Batman.
01:04One of my favorites, though, I'm going to bring in this guy right here.
01:06Display-wise, he's about the same size as this Batman here.
01:10He also has aligned himself at one point, several times, actually, with the Suicide Squad.
01:14So let's bring in some examples.
01:15Not knocking over Bronze Tiger.
01:17Let's bring in Killer Croc right here.
01:19He's a little loose in the legs.
01:21He's also quite tall, too.
01:22Let's also bring in Deadshot.
01:24And why not?
01:25Here's also what the figure looks like with Captain Boomerang.
01:27I like a Boomerang.
01:28I can see the display stands and the trading cards have come back.
01:31Well, they never really went away in the first place.
01:32Generally, though, with DC Multiverse figures, the tried-and-true go-to always is that you get yourself a display
01:37stand.
01:38And you also get yourself a trading card.
01:40In the way, though, of the display stand, it's also here molded all in circular black plastic with the DC
01:45Classic logo down below here.
01:46And a peg that can plug into either one of Bronze Tiger's boots.
01:51How many times I'm sure you guys have seen these in the reviews.
01:53Does the format, though, of these reviews start to get a little boring after a while?
01:57The fact that we always seem to start them, though, looking at the display stands.
02:00Then we jump over to the trading card.
02:01Then, of course, we look at the accessories.
02:03You want to see me mix it up a little bit?
02:05Let me know down below in the comments section.
02:07You know what?
02:07Instead of actually looking at the trading card next, we'll look at the other things that come in clue with
02:11Bronze Tiger.
02:12A little boring, though.
02:13The figure does come in clue with trigger-firing finger hands.
02:16Not that they're boring, but the fact that they sort of elude the idea that the figure could have come
02:19in clue with some other accessories than what he has right now.
02:23It's interesting, though, to note that the hands that he has to swap out don't actually have the claws on
02:28the ends.
02:29Those are only the ones that are going to be on the ends of his forearms.
02:31So, really, I'll show you guys how that works in a second.
02:34Back to the usual norm.
02:35The figure does also come in clue with the trading card.
02:37The trading card actually depicts, though, him in the exact same outfit that we actually get in the figure.
02:43Sometimes, though, it isn't the case.
02:44A lot of times I actually will look at the card and I think to myself, it doesn't quite really
02:48follow the source material.
02:49But in this case, though, the costume does match the source material rather nicely.
02:53The back of the card, though, does give his real name as Benjamin Turner.
02:57And it does also give us a paragraph read right in between my fingers.
03:00Those would be the parts that you could actually read for yourself.
03:02But though I've taken the liberty of already doing it for you, I've saved yourself so much time.
03:07Just think of all the time now you've saved, like 15 seconds worth.
03:11What can you do possibly in 15 seconds?
03:13You could probably put down toast, bread in a toaster, make yourself some toast.
03:17In the meantime, though, let's move that off to the side.
03:19So, I said already, the hands that he technically has on the ends of his forearms do actually have the
03:24claws.
03:25If you choose, though, to instead swap them out with these hands, you'll notice that these hands don't have those
03:31blades.
03:33It's unfortunately a trade-off, though, because while unfortunately he does not have it on these hands,
03:37these hands would be ideal, though, if you want to give him some guns.
03:40So, unfortunately, you have to 86 these little claws that he has on the ends of his hands just to,
03:45again, swap them out.
03:47Not that really necessarily you need to swap them out, because after all, again, the figure doesn't come included with
03:50any other accessories.
03:51Just let's pop the hand off the peg.
03:53Very stubborn these pegs are, by the way.
03:56And let's just change one of the hands just to show you guys how that works.
04:00Wait, is that how it works onto the peg?
04:02I know you're just being silly.
04:03But, yeah, you can see, like, there's one hand that doesn't have the spike, the claws, the other side does.
04:08So, I think I'd probably more likely display him with this.
04:10But then the downside, though, is if I happen to go to my tickle trunk and pull myself out some
04:14additional firepower,
04:16then he's going to have to lose that in order for him to hold something.
04:19Let's move those all off to the side.
04:21Getting a closer look, though, at Bronze Tiger.
04:24Nice looking figure overall.
04:25Now, what's interesting about him is the fact that not only in the New 52 does he turn into a
04:29tiger himself,
04:30but he also, at one point, used the venom drug.
04:32So, I guess he has some connection as well to Bane.
04:35The one thing I will say, though, about the figure is, while I do like the head sculpt on it,
04:39I will say, like, the expression is a little tad boring.
04:42Like, I like that they've added all these details on the sides of his face.
04:45Like, for example, I just moved his collar out of the way.
04:46You can see he's got these nice, cool red stripes there on his cheek and the top of his head
04:51as well.
04:52And that looks really good.
04:53What I think, though, could have made him even more good, gooder,
04:57I know that's not really the right word,
04:58is look at the expression that they gave him, though, for the source material on the trading card.
05:03He's kind of got more visible teeth.
05:05And I feel like that could have given him something.
05:08I know, generally, with most of these figures, you don't tend to get it.
05:10You get mostly neutral expressions.
05:13Batman always has his lips closed.
05:16Superman always just has a rather stoic face.
05:18I know by now, we generally, when it comes to these figures,
05:21we don't get much in the way of expressions,
05:22but I feel like for Bronze Tiger, we needed to make the exception.
05:26Just something more than the expression that we're getting right here,
05:29because it's the part that, unfortunately, makes the figure look, then, a little more boring.
05:33Of course, he does have his jacket on.
05:34The jacket is attached, actually, up at the top here.
05:38You'll see that it's actually loose down below.
05:40Texturing-wise, they've added, of course, the tiger print there on the front of his chest.
05:44He has more, like, armored torso, like an armored chest piece.
05:48And, of course, he also does have the little, I guess,
05:50the little teeth there that he has for his necklace as well.
05:52Like, the figure looks great.
05:54I think the only thing that lets this guy down quite a lot is just the fact his face is
05:58a rather boring one.
06:00The jacket, I feel like we've seen before.
06:02I don't know if it's actually been used before.
06:04One thing, unfortunately, about this is because they had to use a softer plastic for the jacket,
06:08and, obviously, more rigid plastic for his arms.
06:10His arms don't quite match the same shininess that he has for his jacket.
06:15Now, this isn't the first time, obviously.
06:17Bronze Tiger isn't the sole exception of that.
06:19But, usually, when you get, like, soft-materialed jackets and harder-materialed arms,
06:26they tend not to be the same kind of trans, like, shiniest.
06:31So, unfortunately, though, it looks a little jarring.
06:33Like, again, like, I wish, like, the arms were shinier like this,
06:35because I think, like, the jacket part looks quite good.
06:38Of course, he does also have his slacks down below.
06:40There's a little bit of texturing there as twos,
06:41and, of course, he also has a little belt buckle.
06:43I know I'm really only listing the things that you probably can already even see for yourself,
06:47but I like the belt buckle.
06:49If I could pull that off, I would certainly use a belt buckle like that on my own pants.
06:54The boots are very generic.
06:56I mean, in the sense that, obviously, he has more, like, military style of boots.
06:59But they did at least go in there and actually sculpt the bottoms of the treads.
07:03Again, I like the look of the character,
07:04and I hate to sound so redundantly by saying the exact same thing again.
07:08I think, again, the only thing that really lets this figure down is,
07:11while the face is good, he needed some sort of expression.
07:15Something.
07:16A little bit of life.
07:17A little bit of personality.
07:18For the figure's articulation,
07:20Bronze Tiger is going to have a head rotation now.
07:22Now, he has a higher collar for his jacket.
07:25You'll find that that's going to get in the way when it comes to rotating his head around.
07:29It gets here, and then as you kind of move it further,
07:31you can hear that it really does squeak.
07:35By the way, though, it does look like the necklace is a separate piece.
07:37Not that I would really try to take the head off to take the necklace off,
07:41but it does look like, though, it's separate from the rest of his body.
07:44As for his arms, they rotate all the way around.
07:47There's enough, at least, clearance that they've put to the jacket
07:49that you can rotate his arms all the way around and not have too many issues with that.
07:53You can also bring the arms out to give him a T pose.
07:55There's a swivel here to the bicep.
07:57To be fair, actually, he has a swivel on this side as well.
08:00Double hinge on his elbow.
08:01Of course, the hands do rotate all the way around,
08:03whether you want to use trigger-firing finger hands,
08:05even though the figure doesn't have any guns,
08:07or you want to stick instead with his tiger claws.
08:11Either way would be fine.
08:12The legs do split.
08:13Did we actually look at the top of the torso?
08:15I don't feel like we did.
08:16The torso does actually, when you look at it,
08:19you think that this is all kind of one piece.
08:21In actual fact, though, this torso is separate.
08:25It's tight, mind you, though,
08:26but you can still rotate it back and forth and up and down.
08:29The figure does also have a bowl joint at the base of his abdomen,
08:32which actually moves a lot freer.
08:34Legs split, and when they do split,
08:36they have a ratcheted joint working behind the scenes.
08:39Of course, you can move the legs forward and back.
08:43There's a little swivel there at the top of the thigh.
08:46A little excessive, don't you think?
08:48There's also a double hinge in the knee.
08:49No articulation here for the boots,
08:52which, again, makes me think that they probably have used...
08:54Well, obviously, the calf and the boot are all one piece.
08:57I'm wondering, though,
08:58maybe they use these feet for grifter?
09:01Maybe not.
09:02Somebody could probably let me know down below in the comments section.
09:05And then, of course, he has his ankle pivot,
09:06a nice ankle rocker.
09:08And the figure does also have toe articulation as well.
09:11What could make this figure be better?
09:14Hmm, ponder it yourself.
09:16I think, first of all, like, again, give him a better expression.
09:18Just the fact that we set the bar pretty high with bronze
09:21when it comes to, like, the way that the card looks,
09:23I really wish that his face looked more like this.
09:26Like, the jacket is the same.
09:28The, obviously, the torso armor that he has underneath
09:31is exactly the same as well.
09:32He even also has his little belt buckle.
09:34I say little.
09:36It's not quite little.
09:37I also feel like he probably could have used some accessories as well.
09:40This week, we've actually looked at Page Puncher's figures.
09:43And because, again, like, they include comics,
09:45you could kind of maybe say,
09:46okay, maybe that's where the budget is going.
09:48But with Bronze Tiger just being a DC multiverse release,
09:51I would think, though,
09:52that he should have really had more accessories
09:53than just some swappable hands.
09:56I know guns, maybe we can't still yet do guns
09:58when it comes to these figures,
09:59but maybe he could have included something else as well.
10:02Still, in the end, though,
10:03you get yourself a trading card,
10:04you get yourself a display stand.
10:05There's not a whole lot that comes with Bronze Tiger.
10:07But if you did want to have somebody
10:08that's going to help lead the Suicide Squad,
10:11which, again, we just, you know what,
10:12we can bring them back.
10:14Start talking about the Suicide Squad
10:16and what horrible reviewer would I be
10:17if I didn't actually bring them back.
10:20I don't think we actually have any more.
10:22Do we have any more Suicide Squad?
10:23It's actually funny that I say Suicide Squad.
10:26With all the very different Batmans
10:28that we've gotten over the years
10:29from Todd and his team,
10:30think how many times
10:31we've actually gotten ourselves a Harley Quinn.
10:33I know you're probably already thinking,
10:34well, there's the Harley Quinn
10:35from the Suicide Squad movies.
10:37Yeah, I know that.
10:38And there was, again,
10:39like that comic-inspired Harley Quinn,
10:41which really, again,
10:42was just her in the Jester outfit.
10:43But outside of that,
10:44you would think, really,
10:46that Harley Quinn would have been
10:47a go-to obvious one
10:49that we would have gotten
10:50a whole lot more figures.
10:51And as we kind of, again,
10:52get near the end of the lineage
10:53of the DC multiverse,
10:55it's kind of, again, surprising to me
10:56that we never got more Harley Quinns.
10:58Just regular comic Harley Quinns.
11:01Needless, though, to say,
11:02my display plans are going to be
11:04that Bronze Tiger is going to be
11:05displayed along the rest of the League,
11:07the rest of the Suicide Squad,
11:08with maybe Batman making
11:09an occasional appearance.
11:11But the new 52 Bronze Tiger
11:12got an extensive overhaul.
11:14The original Silver Age Bronze Tiger
11:16actually did have the character
11:17wearing kind of more
11:18of an orange jumpsuit
11:19with a crisscross tiger print
11:22on the front of his chest,
11:22yellow gloves,
11:24this sounds crazy,
11:25and yellow boots.
11:26He also, of course,
11:27had like tiger teeth
11:29kind of branded
11:29on the front of his face.
11:31I would love
11:32if they could give us
11:33like a Silver Age Bronze Tiger,
11:34but I think the likelihood
11:35is probably not going to happen
11:36considering now
11:37how close we are
11:38to the ending of DC Multiverse.
11:40At the very least, though,
11:41we can at least walk away
11:43knowing that we did
11:44get ourselves a Bronze Tiger,
11:45and I guess most people
11:46probably would want
11:47a more modernized character
11:48than the one
11:49I just finished describing.
11:50Bronze Tiger, though,
11:51the original Bronze Tiger,
11:52is awesome.
11:52This figure is not awesome,
11:55but he's still pretty good.
11:56I know, again,
11:57the few things that I mentioned
11:58probably could have
11:58maybe improved this figure,
12:00one of which,
12:01the biggest of which,
12:02happens to be
12:02the facial expression
12:03on the character's face.
12:04I know we tend not
12:05to get this a lot
12:06with the DC brand,
12:08but, you know,
12:08just an expression
12:09every once in a while.
12:10We don't need side eyes.
12:12We don't need tongues
12:13sticking out, for example,
12:14but every once in a while,
12:15though,
12:16just showing some teeth
12:17could really help
12:18to add a little bit
12:19extra life
12:19to these plastic figures.
12:21I know generally
12:22like these figures
12:22aren't going to have
12:23all the life of their own,
12:24but there's things
12:25that you can do
12:26to make them
12:27a little bit more interesting.
12:28I feel like in the case,
12:29though,
12:30with Bronze Tiger,
12:30he's not a bad figure,
12:32but he could have
12:32certainly been
12:33a lot more interesting.
12:35What do you guys think
12:35of Bronze Tiger?
12:36Let me know down below
12:36in the comments section.
12:37What other character
12:38can you think of
12:39that got an extensive
12:41overhaul
12:41in the DC comic world,
12:43but you kind of
12:44actually think
12:45there's more charm
12:45to the original way
12:46that they were designed?
12:48Let me know down below.
12:49If, in the meantime,
12:50though,
12:50you guys did enjoy this video,
12:51you can do it a song,
12:52throw it a like.
12:52You guys want to stick around
12:53for more so?
12:54I do hope so.
12:55We're going to have
12:56some more videos
12:56coming your way,
12:57yes, we will,
12:57for the rest of this week,
12:58so I hope you guys
12:59are going to be
12:59coming back for that.
13:00As always,
13:01thanks for watching.
13:01See you guys next time.