NIGHTMARE BAT

 

Now than ever is pretty odd to find a toy of figure that feels unexpected because most of the industry stick with DC, Marvel, Star Wars and even inside those series they stick to the main characters. Its pretty ODD too that some originality comes from McFarlane Toys since the only thing that has beenproducing in the last 10 years is a countless army of Batman. But somehow in between that army of same-ish theres a few sparks of originality at times.

Last century the Batman Forever had a deleted scene that pick the attention of fans all over the world, the scene had Bruce Wayne in a dream like sequence meeting face to face with a gigantic bat that acted like some kind of inspration for his Batman persona. Part of The Riddler mind games, this scene that included a giant bat animatronic wasnt present on the movie at all but in an attacj of originality, McFarlane Toys decided to includes this "Nightamer Bat" into theyr Batman Forever line.

This is a Build-A-Figure soo it was divided into four parts, each inside the box of each character of the line soo this guy dont have a bx of his own and in order to get it you need to collect all other figures. This was something that happened a lot at the 90s and 2000s but is not veyr common to see it now. 

This guy have the size of a standar McFarlane figures but given his body shape he is more "round" than usual and plus the wings....those HUGE wings make this figure looks colossal!!! And of course, it cant stand on hiw own soo it have a black round base with the DC logo in front and a metalic rod that inserts on it in the bottom and on the top it have a ball joint that goes in a hole on the bat chests.

Is not easy to insert the bat but ince in top of the metal rod the base makes a very good job keeping it o the fly and the ball joint let the figure moves to the front, back and sides in a big range of motion. This bat have ball joints on the shoulders and head an have an artoculated jaw.

The head dosnt move too much thanks to the fur of the neck but the mouth opens nicelly and the wings also have a big range of motion in angle or to the front, back, up or down. The membrane stop the movement but the range of motion is still pretty considerable and while is the shame the membrane dont conect to the body, the movility is really worth the big gap between the wings and body.

Andjust the anlge of each wings, the head and the body and you can have this big boy fliying in a very spectacular way and despite the low number of articulations, the display options is almost endles!!!

The sculpt is really really good! The fur have a very sharp sculpt and follows the body structure and msuculature nicelly in a very realistic way and it also fades with the vreature legs and arms in a natural way and changuing into a skin texture with wrinkles and veins. The membrane of the wings have a lot of veins and have a leather like texture pretty similar to NECA´s Gargoyles figures.

The ears are sharp and very deep and the sculpt of each small fangs looks really good as well as his realistic odd shaped nose soo this is McFarlane Toys at its best. The paint tough, its OK but not outstanding since the body is ony painted in plain brown and dosnt have anything that accentuates anything except in the facem where the brown is softer to give the impression of shorter hair.

The red of the eyes and the inside of the mouth stand out a lot and the yellow of the fangs looks good while the inside of the ears have a pink paint with purple wash to make the shadows of theyr ear shape much more natural. The wings have also a mix of pink and pruple and soft brown that makes the leather texture and veins stand out and while this section is brigther, it matches the color palette of the body perfectly.

Overall, the paint job on the face, legs, wings and ears is fantastic but the brown fur of the body is specially simple and with some shadows and shades this figure would looks trully amazing!!! Tough is not like it dosnt looks amazing already.

Really, i am not very fond on McFarlane Toys anymore but once in a blue moon they release somethign that stands out by quality or just by originality because, this goes beyond of a creature from a deleted Batman scene, this figure can stand proudlly like somethign related to Dracula or pretty much fit into any horror themed collection, or even outside of a collection, this big boy can work as a ornament on pretty much any corner of any room and given the movility he have, he is going to looks fantastic all the time.