BATMAN

One i started this blog, one of the very first posts was about Manbat from Batman The Animated Series. I love that series but collect all the characters was a negative, expensive and very tiring, soo i just wanted to get the characters from my favorite episode: On Leather Wings. I got Manbat and i was very happy with him but it was untill now that i also got Batman, the second basic piece for the display.

This guy was cheap tough and is much more smaller than Manbat since he comes in a blister instead of a big deluxe box. Batman was sculpted by Irene Matar and he is the same size a Figma. He can stand on his own gladlly, tough thats odd considering his small feet and big torso.

He is...good i guess, i always had my doubts about this figure since i tough he looked stiff but doing comparations with stills of the series and character design, the proportions and shapes of the figures are really good, with the squareish shapes and muscles and the total lack of painting.

There is very little paint in this figure, only the eyes and the yellow logo on his chest, the rest of the parts are cast on the color they need and have no other deail on it but only a soft velvet texture. This give to the figure a pretty clean and 2D look wich is really good given the cartoon nature of it.

The only detail i wish he had was his mouth, is sculpted but not painted and is sometimes difficult to see it.

He is articulated on the head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs, knees and ankles and not all articulations work good really. The shoulders are extremelly stiff and hard to move as well as his knees that almost dosnt move. Overall he have a pretty low movement ratio wich is pretty strange given the simplistic design.

Also, his cape, is probablly my most favorite part of the figure. The cape is made with soft plastic and have a wonderfull electric blue color that makes him stand out a lot. This cape curls on the sides wich gives it a very dynamic and cool efect and dosnt get on the way of the articulations at all. I just wish it was longer but i guess that would make him hard to stand.

His accesoryes are a lot of extra hands and a pair can even hold the Manabat pills, tough its really difficult to remove the hands since they have a pretty thin peg and i have the feeling they can break at any minute, soo i dont want to mess too much with them.

He also have an really simple batarang (with hands that hold it perfectly) and a hoock device i cant remember the name of, tough this he cant hold this hoock launcher but instead have an extra hand holding it. Weird.

He also have a base in the same fashion as Manbat, a pretty cool looking shet of character design with a transluscent claw to hold his waist. This base is actually a joke since it mess a lot with Bamtman balance and is too weak to hold him, plush the cpae get on its way, soo i think its only a purelly aesthetic item.

And in the end....i still think this figure is too stiff for such a dynamic design, the poses he can hold are very limited and the articulations are really ugly (specially on the legs) tough this is much better than the Kenner version and fits really nice with Manbat soo my Batman TAS display is complete now.