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McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Superman 2025 Movie Superman Robot Review
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00:00Fixing up the Man of Steel with the help of some machines.
00:03Here's your look at McFarland Toys DC Multiverse The Superman Movie Superman Robots.
00:08The six Superman robots, simple metal automatons currently led by Robot 4, man the fortress of solitude for the Man of Steel, caring not only for him, but for his Kryptonian legacy as well.
00:37I wonder what their pension plan is like.
00:39Let's, though, take the tape measure, shall we, and see how tall the new DC Multiverse Superman Deluxe Theatrical Edition Superman Robot stands, which is also as well a McFarland Red Platinum Edition figure.
00:49We seem to have moved away completely from the idea of platinum editions, and now we're kind of in the territory of red platinums.
00:54I wonder if we're eventually going to be getting blue platinums, green platinums.
00:58Nobody really cares.
00:59Let's go ahead, though, in the meantime and take the tape measure.
01:01The Superman robot's going to stand exactly, exactly seven inches in height.
01:06The figure's also going to be 18 centimeters tall.
01:10Deluxe Theatrical Editions?
01:11We've been there.
01:12We've done that.
01:13Here's, in fact, what the figure looks like with the Deluxe Theatrical Edition version of Superman, just getting his feet to stand straight.
01:18The only really, again, difference between this one and the regular version of Superman was that this one had a cloth cape, and it did have swappable face plates.
01:25It's done the reviews for both.
01:26We also did get, in fact, a Deluxe Theatrical Edition of Lex Luthor.
01:30And though, unfortunately, we didn't get a Deluxe Theatrical Edition of him, we still got Movies Metamorpho.
01:34Kind of feel a bit bad that it left out this little scamper as well.
01:37We did get, also, a Crypto.
01:38Crypto was part of the Theatrical Edition.
01:40In fact, actually, you know what?
01:40Crypto can stand in for this review while we look at all the other accessories that come in clear with Robot 4.
01:47It's funny, though, that it's called Robot 4.
01:49Robot 4 would have been voiced by Alan Tiddick.
01:52And yet, though, in the movie, there's also Robot 12.
01:54So, if you look at, actually, at the back of the card, no, I'm speaking too fast.
01:58First, the figure does come in clear with a display stand.
02:00The DC logo is branded this time in silver down below, and, of course, does have a peg that can plug into either one of the robot's boots.
02:06Or, I guess, would that be his robotic feats?
02:08Going, though, to the trading card.
02:10Now, the trading card is, again, closer to resembling the Theatrical Editions, in which they don't have the white border.
02:15And, again, it's more of an illustration of the character.
02:17On the side, it does say Deluxe Theatrical Edition.
02:20If you were to actually close your eyes, you could be able to feel that out.
02:23I don't really necessarily, could I be able to feel out what that letters would be?
02:27I know Braille would not be actually just the exact letters, but would I be able to decipher that that says Deluxe Theatrical Edition?
02:33I've got my eyes closed right now.
02:34I already know that it says that anyways.
02:37What's interesting, though, is on the back of the card, it says the six Superman robots.
02:42Now, I've gone back to look at the trailers again, like, twist my rubber arm.
02:45I see four robots.
02:46I also see in the more recent trailer that four robots, if I'm counting them correctly, get destroyed when Lex Luthor first enters into the, you know, into the Fortress of Solitude.
02:56Could those possibly be the four robots that we see also saving Superman?
02:59We don't even know, again, like, the timeline sequence in which those robots appear.
03:03But when they are saving Superman, when they re-heal him with the sun's rays, we see four of them.
03:08And we see four of them carrying Superman then over to the seat where they put him in, and then the big giant magnifying glass zaps him.
03:14And yet, though, on the back of the card, it does say six.
03:17And yet, though, in the trailer, again, we get robot 12.
03:19So I don't really know how the math really works all out.
03:22Technically, you would think that if there's a robot 12, there would be 12 robots.
03:26I'm sure this will be explained at some point.
03:28Maybe that just happens to be that, like, you know, Superman just hand-plucked those four robots in no particular order or sequence.
03:35Anyways, though, the robot does come and include some swappable parts.
03:38If you really look at his robot arms already, the figure does have one pointing hand.
03:43And on the other side, he has sort of more of a closed fist.
03:46Other available options for the robot, though, to include another pointing hand, which is kind of interesting, too, because if you look at the robot, the only thing that's really different is the fact that this has the means now to grip something.
03:57Even though, really, the robot doesn't have any other things to hold other than just his swappable faces.
04:02So you have one that's got a closed fist that's got the pointing finger, and then you've got one that's more of a pointing finger that grabs something, although that something is still unknown.
04:10Then there's also a thumbs-up hand.
04:13So, again, if you want to swap out the hands, you just hold on to the forearms here, twist the hands back and forth, and pop them off the peg.
04:20And just take the peg.
04:21Now, this is kind of one thing, because the arms are also a little bit smaller.
04:25The pegs are going to stay with the hands.
04:26The pegs don't be looking for them.
04:28I'm so used to kind of doing that when we do DC Multiverse figures.
04:31I go to pop the hand off, and I'm always expecting to see the peg.
04:33And even though I've done this a couple of times, I, for a moment, though, stopped and thought, whoa, where's the peg?
04:38And I realized quickly it was on the end of the hand.
04:40So we just pop the new hand then in place.
04:43There we go.
04:43And now we've got a thumbs-up.
04:45The boy in blue is going to pull through, everybody.
04:47Everybody.
04:48The other thing that he does also have, or does it also have, is some swappable faces.
04:54Now, if you look at the faces, the thing that changes is the visor.
04:57So you can see, like, for example, this has more of a larger eye.
05:01This has kind of more of a squinty or bashful eye.
05:04The mouth is also a little bit changed, too.
05:07There's that.
05:08There's also this one, where it looks like he's more smiling.
05:11It would be helpful if I showed you guys that in camera.
05:13This one has a slightly more squinted eye.
05:16And then there's also this one, which is just a regular visor.
05:20It doesn't have the little eye, the little cyclops eye in the middle.
05:23If you did want to change out the eyes, though, it's just a case of taking the...
05:26Now, this kind of surprised me.
05:28When you take the two halves, you have to take this half off from the back half.
05:31I was surprised with how long of a peg this was.
05:34I felt like I kept pulling the thing.
05:35See, pulling, pulling, pulling.
05:37That's how long the peg is.
05:39It's definitely to ensure that the front of the face isn't going to fall off.
05:42But I felt like the peg just went on forever.
05:45Just take, again, the face that you want to swap it out.
05:48There's the little peg hole on the inside.
05:49There's the peg right there.
05:50You get a close enough shot of that.
05:52There we go.
05:53There we go.
05:54Now, just take that and align everything back up.
05:57Slide it smoothly in place.
05:59And now the robot has a swappable face.
06:02Now, to go back and think of the idea that we have six robots advertised on the back of the card.
06:06Again, I don't know what numbered sequence these would be.
06:08That we have a number four and number 12.
06:10But still, it's odd, though, that they gave us swappable faces.
06:14And yet, the only thing that changes one robot to the other is also this crest right here.
06:17Logically, they could have also included, I mean, in fact, like, even just doing away with the plastic on a couple of these hands.
06:24Had they just included the same sort of notion as what they've done to the front of the face, a swappable front placard.
06:31So, ideally, you'd be able to just pop this off, right?
06:34I mean, it can't because it's all attached right here.
06:37But in theory, though, if you remove the four, you could replace it with 12, right?
06:42Because you would imagine that they're eventually going to do this.
06:44Like, McFarlane's likely going to be shipping out several different versions of the robot, which are exactly going to be the same.
06:49Maybe the face might change in some of them.
06:51But then the only thing that's really going to be different is that one's going to say four, one's going to say 12, one's going to say, you know, again, the other two robots.
06:57But I feel like they could have almost just packaged that all together.
07:00If anything, again, do away with the hands or maybe do away with at least one of these heads.
07:04And then use the plastic budget for that to replace it then with the little placard pieces.
07:09Take them in the shield.
07:10Again, just change those around.
07:12You could get the four.
07:12And then right away, collectors would go out, buy four different robots or four of the same robot.
07:17And then they would just be able to swap the pieces out.
07:19And, you know, you could just do that all out the gate.
07:21You wouldn't have to release them individually with each of the different numbers.
07:25For the rest of the details, the robot looks just as good as it does in the trailers.
07:29Again, we don't have the movie out just yet.
07:31It does have a cape.
07:32I think, though, the cape is a little too short.
07:35To go and look at this again, I feel like the capes are a little bit longer in the movie.
07:38They do have, though, a wire that's run down the side and it's running down the other side and it's loose right in the middle.
07:45So, again, you can pose the cape if you want.
07:47You can bend the cape if you want.
07:48There you go.
07:50Granted, you could do a little bit better of a job than I'm just doing right now.
07:52Are you enjoying this, by the way, Crypto?
07:55Okay, good.
07:55I'm glad you're enjoying that.
07:56I do really think that this is a neat-looking design of robot.
07:59Now, it's not been introduced in the James Gunn universe.
08:02I mean, Superman has had robots protecting the Fortress of Solitude for years.
08:06The thing I think that's really clever, though, is that James Gunn didn't use CG to create these.
08:10In fact, the robots were actually mechanically created.
08:14I mean, granted, they weren't fully walking robots.
08:16I think they actually had themselves, like, the cabling on the back.
08:18But that they actually did animatronic robots.
08:21That shows James Gunn's passion to creating something that could be living, breathing, realistically,
08:25even though a robot really isn't living or breathing.
08:28The thing I really also like about this is it's very poseable.
08:31It's got a lot of good colors going in here as well.
08:34Got some blues, some metallic blues, some darker blues, all kind of sticking with the same shade,
08:38just like, you know, a couple of various shades of that blue.
08:42The inside, as you can see, of the legs, there's a lot of good detailing going on in the interior.
08:45Of course, you've got the plates on the outside.
08:47Very lean, lean-looking legs.
08:49The very lean-looking arms as well.
08:51On the back of the body, too, it kind of has a very similar design to, like, some of the
08:56droids we would see in Star Wars.
08:58Although, again, like, with the way that Star Wars movies have been as of late, that would
09:01probably not be a good idea to compare it to that.
09:04Again, when it comes to the cape, it looks like it's actually attached by this piece
09:07right here.
09:08Realistically, if you didn't like the look of the cape, I would imagine you'd probably
09:10be able to kind of pry this off, and the cape would be tucked underneath.
09:13But if they have it in the movie, there's no real reason, I feel, to take the cape off.
09:17Now, for the robot's articulation, very surprised to see that he had as much as he does.
09:23The head's going to be on, first of all, it's not attached where, like, if you're looking
09:27at the head, for example, it's not as a separate piece.
09:29It does look like the neck and the head are all one piece, but they likely have done that
09:33so that the sculpting doesn't look interrupted.
09:35The neck, however, though, is the thing that's doing all the work, and it's on a very good
09:39ball joint.
09:40So you can move the head down, up, back, and forth.
09:43You can, of course, rotate all the way around as well.
09:45The top of the torso.
09:46So how this works is the top of it is on a ball joint, but there's not a whole lot you
09:51can do with it.
09:52You can move it more forward or side to side.
09:55You can't really do too much when it comes to up and down.
09:58When you also move it to the side, you can see there's more of a gap that is developed
10:01in there, but when it works for its crunch, it doesn't actually so much crunch up here.
10:06It crunches right here, and it moves forward and back that way.
10:10It all really is, it's just a peg that goes from this side to this side, or it probably
10:15is just like a clamp piece where it's got the little tabs on both sides, and they just
10:18wedged it on top.
10:19So it gives us at least the crunch that we deserve for this figure.
10:23The arms do hinge out.
10:24I wouldn't comfortably say at 90 degrees.
10:26I mean, with the amount of space that it has, yes, you can bring the arms down and get
10:30a little more clearance.
10:32So if you want to have a full T-pose, you will have to drop the arms down.
10:35If you leave them up like this, you can't do as much, obviously.
10:39So I do like that they can actually shift up and down, shimmy their way, depending on which
10:43look you really want to have.
10:44So again, if you drop them as far down, you can get a T-pose going for the robot's arms.
10:50The figure doesn't have bicep swivel, though, but what it does have, though, is a single
10:53hinge in the elbow.
10:55It's kind of surprising, though, that they didn't incorporate a cut right here, because then
10:58you could have swiveled at the bicep.
11:00Technically, there is some swivelage that's happening more to the shoulder, but there's
11:04nothing that seems to be the case here in the bicep.
11:07Just, again, a single hinge in the elbow, but it bends decently enough, and the hands
11:10do rotate all the way around.
11:12They're just, again, on those pegs.
11:14For the figure's legs, the legs work so that they can split out.
11:18There's enough space and allotment on that.
11:20Are you enjoying this, by the way?
11:21Okay, good.
11:21The legs do also move forward and back.
11:24A good kick forward and a good kick backwards as well.
11:28There's a swivel, but the swivel actually is further down.
11:31It's not at the top where the leg connects, so it swivels more so like right here.
11:36You can move it back and forth.
11:38The figure does have knee articulation, but again, it's only just a single hinge.
11:42It's got also ankle articulation, and you can also move the ankle back and forth.
11:46It doesn't have toe articulation.
11:47There's nothing that's poseable on the ends for the toots, but at least it does move forward
11:51and back, and again, you can rock it back and forth as well.
11:54Even though, again, I just don't know how the numbers really work all out, because again,
11:58like, the card says, well, in the trailer, you see four.
12:02In the later trailer, you see four.
12:04I count four being destroyed as Lex Luthor enters into the Fortress of Solitude.
12:07So again, it could be these four.
12:09It could be that there's a total of eight, maybe, and that four robots or even more got
12:13destroyed, and these are the four that are left that save Kal-El when, again, he
12:17needs to have that sunlight shining down on his body.
12:21Either way, though, again, like the numbers, if you look at them, Robot 4, which I guess
12:24would be the primary robot, and then, of course, there's the Robot 12 that kind of has more
12:29of the female voice, gets a little giddy when the fact that Superman, I guess, was talking
12:33to her.
12:33And then again, like, again, we can bring in some of those other characters also that we've
12:36looked at so far.
12:37That's Lex Luthor, the man responsible for destroying some of these robots.
12:40There again, there's Superman, and there's Metamorpho.
12:42So I still think, though, that when releasing this robot, easily they could have done the
12:48same approach to what they did with the faces.
12:50The swappable faces are smart ideas, but why not do maybe the same with the torso?
12:55The torso right away, out the gate, you could have had, like, four, you could have had 12,
13:00whatever the other numbered sequences for the robots would have been.
13:02They could have all just been sitting inside the tray.
13:04You would have just pulled out the crest, popped the new crest in.
13:08Collectors right away, out the gate, like I said, would have probably bought, like, well,
13:11I would have bought the four.
13:13That way, then I could have all the four represented.
13:15If we already have this mold, I think it would probably be safe to assume that McFarlane
13:19would likely release other versions of this where we'll have a robot four, but we'll have
13:23a robot 12.
13:24But again, I just feel like that's something that they probably could have done right away
13:28with the robot.
13:28Include that with all the other accessories that the robot already has now.
13:32And then collectors would only just buy the extra three that they need so that all four
13:36are represented on their shelf.
13:38Let's see, we're being joined by Crypto again.
13:39And as we wrap up the review for the Superman robot, I've got the figure displayed with this
13:44thumbs up.
13:45Yes, the boy in blue is going to pull through.
13:47It's odd, though, that this robot is being branded under the Red Platinum Edition.
13:51When you think of Platinum Edition or Red Platinum Edition, it tends to be a variant of a figure
13:56that already exists.
13:57Being that this is the only time that we've gotten a Superman robot so far, I'm odd.
14:02It surprised me, really, that they didn't just simply release this as the Deluxe Theatrical
14:05Edition and then save the Red Platinum Edition sticker for another release of this robot.
14:11Still, though, I would imagine with this mold now being part of their inventory, Todd and
14:15his team working diligently, I'm sure, behind the scenes, they will be releasing several
14:19other versions of this robot.
14:21I'm calling it now.
14:22They've already got the body.
14:23All they really need to do is maybe give them different accessories, different hands,
14:27different faces, and different chest numbers.
14:30Still, though, I really feel like all of that could have been packaged so easily at the
14:33beginning and initially releasing this robot with the three other chest numbers and with
14:37the three different faceplates.
14:39If anything, I would say you could probably have done away with at least half the head
14:43faces and use that plastic instead to give us all the numbers.
14:47As a collector, one that certainly is a completionist, we already now see the trailer.
14:52We know that there's a scene where the four robots are carrying Superman into safety.
14:55How many collectors will not want to get a battle-damaged Superman and not recreate that
14:59scene on their shelf?
15:00Out the gate, yeah, they could have released four different versions, or they could have
15:04released this one robot, yes, with the three different other chest numbers, and the collectors
15:09then could have just done that themselves.
15:11Bought four of these things, changed the numbers, and have them displayed with the different
15:14numbers.
15:15Still, I don't understand how you have six robots in the Fortress of Solitude, yet in
15:19the trailer, we see Robot 12.
15:22It's a question I'm sure it will be answered when the movie eventually comes out in July.
15:25What do you guys think of Superman Robot?
15:27Let me know down below in the comment section.
15:28Do you feel like instead of getting subsequent numbered releases of these guys under the
15:32Platinum Edition, do you feel like, again, they could have just bundled it all together
15:36and included the chest numbers with one figure instead of releasing another three?
15:41If, in the meantime, you guys did enjoy this video, you can do it a solid throw to like.
15:44You guys want to stick around for more so?
15:46Yeah, I hope so.
15:47Mentioning also, by the way, that Battle Damaged Superman, would you believe?
15:50As well, there's going to be a review of Battle Damaged Superman coming up to this channel,
15:54coming on to this channel during this week.
15:57Mark it on your calendar, even if you have an outdated calendar, mark it down anyways.
16:00There's definitely going to be a lot more videos coming your way.
16:02So as always, thanks for watching.
16:04See you guys next time.
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