BATMAN

HotToys have LOTS of Batman figures. Not as much as the ridiculous amount of Ironman´s, but still they have many many version of Bale´s Batman and a few of Keaton´s Batman. While i hated Bale and i have a soft spot in my heart for Keaton, i dont see non of them as the definitive Batman. I never liked theyr design of “armored” Batman.

But when Arkham Asylum was released i was in love of Batman´s design. Aside of the OBVIOUS reasons and his baranes and big muscles, i found his look and design pretty close to the concept i always saw like the perfect Batman: with the long ears, angular and menacing face and an outfit that looked like a whole uniform covering a bulky body instead of a transformer robot.

Last year HotToys released Arkham City Batman and i was excited for him! Tough the price was WAY too high and i wasnt able to afford him. He is still on some toy stores on display with the high number on his price tag and i doubt someone dare to buy him.

But eventually i saved some money for another figure: The Creature From the Black Lagoon. And of course, i wasnt able to buy it cus someone else got him before me…ugggh….but to my surprise the store also had Batman and they had him at a very low price!!! It was a pretty nice surprise.

I was pretty nervious to get him thanks to his outfit. Naked Snake uses a similar outfit and he is almost a static statue and Chris is no better since his pants and “flesh” covering his arms restrict the articulations way too much. But THIS guy is a reall exception.

Batman is spectacular in details, his cowl and gauntlets are jet black and clean. I wish his gautlets had some “damage” but is just a minor complaing. His costume have a perfectly done texture and his belt is realistic and detailed with little signs of use here and there. His eyes are wet and perfectly painted and the texture on the skin of his lowe jaw is really fantastic. Each wrinkle of his lips is perfecly sculpted and sofly painted and you can even see 5 o´clock shadow.

Hot Toys sculpt and paint is beyond perfect, is trully creppy how realistic it is.

He can stand on his own, but he still comes with the standar Hot Toys base too. The logo on the base is pretty cool but the base as a whole is kinda useless given his odd design (the figure is supossed to be sit on it).

Here comes the tricky part: the articulation. He have a fully articulated body under his outfit but Hot Toys FINALLY managed to free the articulations. The body is a little thinner soo his outfit is kinda lose, the big muscles are actually shaped in the latex costume, not the digure himself, soo he have some “space” to move inside. This is both stetic and usefull since he can move his arms to a much wider range than i was expecting.

He still cant put his arms above his head but he is much MUCH more movable than Naked Snake or Sheva Alomar and Chris Redfield. Also, his legs are a separate piece independent from each other and the torso, soo he can pretty much open them and move them as much as i want.

The armour on his legs with the ugly tongue dosnt get in the way either soo if i have to compare him, i say he is as articulated as the Predator.

He comes with an extra lower face with a fierce expression. The quality is as impresive as the serious expression if not more, since every single on his teeth are sculpted and painted perfectly and they are even wet looking. He also comes with toons of hands but thats standar now days actually.

He comes with his basic batarang that can be placed on a small hole on his fist (something perfect given how the other Batman toys cant even hold the batarang), the explosive gel thingy, the line launcher and the Batclaw.

His Batclaw have a pretty stylish and elegant design and the claw is actually removable (something useless since it can get lose pretty easylly) and it have a second variant claw as well. The line launcher is the most detailed of the items since it have a pretty intrincate sculpt and a vibrant blue and yellow metalic paint on it. The barrels are also articulated and can move left and rigth.

In fact, it feels like he dosnt have too much items compared to the Resident Evil guys or Snake but i cant think of anything else they could have added. Maybe a couple of smoke bombs? Batman really dosnt have too much weaponry aside of this.

In last place he have his cape. Is not remobavle and is the only piece made with fabric and a pretty classy one it. The outside is made withplastic material to make it looks like leather and the inside is made with black silk for a shiny and more dark looks. I dosnt have wires but the weigth is good and can be placed in various shapes thansks to the “latherish” part.

I only wished the cape was longer tough… it would be pretty silly to fight with a long cape but it may looks much coller.

And he is HUGE. He is much bigger than Jill and Sheva (of course) but also bigger than Chris and Snake!!! He is the same size of the Predator. I always expect Batman to be pretty tall but i dont know how i feel with him being Predator size. In the end i dont know if he is too big or if Chris and Snake are way too small.

I could say Chris and Snake are too small since they are the same size of Jill but the Predator makes me think otherwise. Is the Predator supposed to be taller too? I dunno…i didnt expect Hot Toys to have scale issues actually, not for the price they ask for theyr products.

In the end, he is incrediblly good looking and he is much better articulated than i was expecting (still kinda stiff), my only issue would be the scale since i dont know wath to think about it at all but i am pretty happy with this guy.

He mades an exceptionally nice item for a videogame collector and at the same time satisfy my Batman needs since i dont have many figures of him at all, also he is one of the most bara visions i have ever seen. If only Hot Toys release Arkham City Catwoman (in Jill´s size!) i could not ask for anything more.