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McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Batman: Year One Part 4 Gold Label Collection Batman
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00:00Trying to stay alive through 365. Here's your look at the McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Batman Year 1 Gold Label Collection Batman.
00:20One of the most important and critically acclaimed Batman adventures ever, Batman Year 1 tells the entire dramatic story of Batman's first year of fighting crime.
00:28Witness Bruce Wayne's transformation into the Dark Knight as he combats his own demons while struggling to topple the corrupt political system infesting his home.
00:37If I didn't know any better, I'd swear for his first year, Batman's sporting a different bod.
00:41In fact, actually, I don't recognize the top torso that they've used for this Batman, and maybe while the arms may have been borrowed over from other Batmans before, there's definitely something different about the top of his torso.
00:51We're going to talk more about that in a moment. Obviously, I'm also going to get things underway by taking the tape measure of mine and measuring to the very tippy top.
00:58The top points of his cowl. While I'm doing this, I actually found this on the Facebook selling group, and I bought this from Popeye the Toy Man.
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01:13If we go to the tops of the points on the tops of his cowl, then Batman from his first year is going to stand at 7 inches in height, or about 17 and a half centimeters tall.
01:21Let's bring in a couple of other examples of the Caped Crusader. Here's what Batman looks like along with the one from Nightfall.
01:27Similar size, similar perhaps arms, but there's definitely something very different, more rounded, that they've done for his torso.
01:34It doesn't change at all either when we bring in the Silver Age release of Batman, because of course it's using the same mold as this one over here.
01:40He does seem to have a very similar color scheme to the Cowardly Lot Batman, although that's not a Batman that's using the same body at all.
01:47Here's also what he looks like, not during his first year, but his first encounter with Spawn.
01:53I guess for his first year, Batman travels rather light.
01:55In fact, the figure only really comes in clue with a display stand, a trading card right over here, and a Batarang.
02:00The display stand is probably one of the more shinier examples that we've gotten of this same used stand.
02:05Has the DC logo branded down below, walking distance from that, the figure does also have a stand, does have a peg that can plug into either one of Batman's boots.
02:14The figure does also come in clue with the card. Now, I have Year One Batman, I think the trade paperback of that.
02:20Great story read. If you ever get the chance to kind of want to read the early beginnings of Batman, check out Year One Batman.
02:26Nice that they actually use the cover art for that, and then on the back of that, his real name obviously is Bruce Wayne.
02:32It doesn't really change much at all, but it does at least, though, tell something about his Year One adventures.
02:37I like that. I like that they chose not just to use the same old go-to read-up, just a generic read of Batman, and just how he fights crime in his city of Gotham City.
02:47So I like that. I do like that a lot.
02:49There's your card right there. I'm going to slide it off to the side, and we'll make then some time spent for looking at the Batarang.
02:56Now, the Batarang, unfortunately, still is thick. You can see that it has a ledge outline to it.
03:00But they still have not changed the problem that's facing all these Batarangs, is that they're overly thick.
03:06They're, I guess, of a size that's still decent enough for Batman.
03:09I don't know, though, if you look at the pockets on his utility, about how there would be any way that he'd be able to fit a Batarang of this size inside one of these smaller-sized pockets.
03:18Still, you can take yourself the Batarang.
03:20Now, he unfortunately doesn't have any other changed-out hands, so you're stuck, unfortunately, with a closed fist,
03:25and then you're stuck with the only available hand to do all the work of holding Batarangs.
03:29Just kind of take the Batarang, fit it into his hand, and Batman's good to go.
03:33A grapple gun or something along those lines would have been ideal to come included with this Batman.
03:37Just the go-to of always having a Batarang, I just feel by now, gets a little boring.
03:42We want to kind of change things up just a little bit.
03:43I know Batman's gadgets by now, like first year doing this, the basic gadgets would be very simpler in design,
03:49but something a little bit more than a Batarang would have gone a long way.
03:53Let's put that off the side.
03:54Getting a little closer look at Batman, you know, I gotta say, I really do like the look of this figure a lot.
03:59It does evoke sort of the early days of Batman fighting crime.
04:02I mean, again, like, I don't really recognize this torso piece right here.
04:06If you do, you can certainly let me know down below in the comments section.
04:08I may be even looking too far into the realm of Batman figures.
04:12Maybe I'm sure this is a torso piece that's been used before, like for Superman or some other of the DC superhero figures.
04:17The torso is definitely a little bit more rounded right here.
04:21Before we talk, though, about that, again, going back to the head sculpt right here,
04:24he's certainly a little more grimaced, grumpier looking Batman.
04:27He takes things very seriously at this point.
04:30The face, the only thing I would really have changed, though, is that the skin color I feel is a little too pale.
04:35It comes across a little pasty, even though, like, the paint's applied pretty well.
04:39Maybe by the fact that they use such light paint is one of the reasons why it comes across as chalky and pasty as it does.
04:45I do actually like that they've added the white eyes.
04:48The white eyes look nice and clear and well-painted.
04:50The sculpting of the cowl looks really good, too.
04:53Now, this is also during the time, even though this first year Adventures of Batman,
04:56this isn't the first year that Todd's been releasing figures of Batman.
04:59So, at least now, this figure does come in clear with a fabric cape.
05:02If I was to describe the fabric, let's bring in, like, for example, the Cowardly Law of Batman,
05:07which, again, like, if you look at the color scheme, they're very, very similar.
05:10Both of them have a very similar type of cape, too, where it's like a nylon material.
05:16It's not fabric.
05:17It's not cloth.
05:18This one, actually, by comparison, is a little more of a smoother material,
05:22but it definitely has a more plastic feel to it.
05:24Luckily, though, at least, it does have a wire.
05:26Now, the wire runs only just on the sides.
05:28There's no wire down below.
05:30But with the wingspan, being that it does have a wire frame,
05:33you can bring the wings out like this, and you can get yourself a really nice wingspan for Batman.
05:38And touched off nicely by the little tips on the ends of his cape.
05:41I really like the look of that cape quite a lot.
05:44It does look good, too, on the front.
05:45Now, you can go a little bit more clever with what I've just done right now.
05:48You can obviously pose the cape and have it in different ways and different poses.
05:51You can have it kind of blowing off to the side.
05:53You can do, really, whatever you want with it.
05:55For the torso, though, for Batman, I'm going to bring back in the example,
05:58the one I always seem to go back to, the Well House Batman, I guess, so to speak.
06:02I'm going to bring in the Nightfall Batman.
06:04And to look at the two, it does look like, even like the biceps, now that I look at it,
06:08maybe the shoulders are one thing that retain the two,
06:11but it does look like he's got a different bicep.
06:13It actually even looks like he's got a smaller bicep than Nightfall Batman.
06:16Completely different torso.
06:18I thought even maybe that they may have used the same abdomen area.
06:22This Batman, by the way, if we can just kind of bring his torso back a bit,
06:25and I have to look at the two.
06:27No, no, it doesn't even have, like, it's got wrinkles,
06:29but the wrinkles are in a different direction.
06:31These wrinkles are clearly across the front of his abdomen muscles.
06:34So it doesn't seem to be like they're using any bit of the,
06:37only really by the ones I was kind of thinking that they may have been using.
06:41It doesn't seem to be the case.
06:42It does look like Batman's got very rounded pectoral muscles.
06:47Usually Batman kind of has more, like, tapered off or flat across the top muscles.
06:52These would definitely kind of go a little bit more inward.
06:54He does also have the bat emblem.
06:56Now, the emblem isn't actually sculpted onto the suit.
06:59This is just printed in place.
07:00So it feels just as smooth as I should be running my finger across Batman's chest.
07:06No, it is just as, it's just as flat as the chest that it's attached to.
07:09I like the dark color that they went with.
07:11The disc gray works really well for Batman.
07:13He's got very notably short gloves and equally small hands,
07:18but I think it works well for the proportions of the figure.
07:20I also really like the way they handle the utility belt.
07:22Going dark, going grimy, adding all this nice black wash across it.
07:26You can see the way even, like, the utility belt fastens itself up.
07:30This is a cruder utility belt.
07:32I don't think by now Batman's has the means to store himself any bat shields on the back of it.
07:36I do also like that it's finished all the way around.
07:38Like, these are large pockets.
07:40These are pockets that would be good for holding capsules.
07:42Maybe if he did have a Batarang that would fold up or, like, a tiny little grapple gun.
07:46I'm sure those things would all fit well in place.
07:48I like the color of that.
07:49That's a color that works really well with this.
07:51You wouldn't really want to have, like, with Batman having dark black and so much use of this dark gray,
07:56having a bright utility belt I think would have just lost the look of this.
07:59He really needs to kind of keep things low, keep things kind of on the down, down low.
08:03The dark color of this beige really works well with the Caped Crusader.
08:07Down below, of course, he does also have his boots.
08:08Now, the boots have really nice, interesting sculpting.
08:11These wrinkles, as you can see here, kind of form to points.
08:15They seem like they are different boots than what we've gotten before.
08:18He does also seem to have different treads on the bottoms of his feet, too.
08:21If you do know, though, the body that they're using for this Batman,
08:24it could possibly even be the case that they're bringing out something brand new.
08:28If this is a brand new for Batman's mold, or a brand new mold for Batman's body,
08:32it's a mold I would certainly like to see again.
08:34It is, though, a little on the rounder side when it comes to his pecs.
08:37I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time, even though I did really spend a fair bit of time,
08:41talking about the top of Batman's body.
08:42Let's talk a little bit instead about Batman's articulation.
08:45Now, his head's going to be in a ball joint.
08:47This allows the head to rotate all the way around.
08:49You can easily have the head looking up, or have it moody, lowing down, like that.
08:54You can also, of course, rock the head back and forth.
08:57His arms just have as much mobility as his head, really.
09:00His arms rotate all the way around.
09:02You can also bring them out.
09:03Bringing them out gives us a T-pose.
09:05Bringing them all also out seems to maybe even bring more attention to the fact that the arms seem short.
09:12Not that that's a bad thing, because I think it works well for Batman's body.
09:15If I could offer any bit of criticism, I would say that maybe Batman's forearms just need to be a little bit longer.
09:21Like, if I bring his arms down, I feel like his arms should come to about here.
09:26They do seem like they're a little on the shorter side.
09:29That's the only thing I probably would say that this Batman needs to do a little bit better.
09:33But still, he has a swivel in his bicep, double hinge on the elbow, and the hands rotate all the way around.
09:38His upper torso, obviously, he didn't want to skip that.
09:41Upper torso is on a ball joint.
09:43Lower from that, the figure does also have that in his abdomen area as well.
09:46His legs split, they're in ratcheted joints.
09:48You can easily take the legs and move them forward and move them back, and all those things that go in between.
09:52Swivel at the top of the thigh, the figure does also have a double hinge on his knee.
09:55He has no articulation for his boots, which leads me to believe that the booter is actually painted on top of the gray plastic.
10:03He does, though, certainly have an ankle pivot, an ankle rocker, and Batman does also have toe articulation as well.
10:09It's an interesting-looking Batman, one that I don't recognize.
10:12I mean, it's strange for me to say that, too, because we've covered off quite a lot of Batmans during the tenure that I've done the McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse line.
10:20Maybe I may be even looking in the wrong direction.
10:22I keep trying to look at this Batman and try to think to myself, okay, what Batman have they used before?
10:28What body parts from this Batman have they used from other borrowed Batmans?
10:32Maybe they haven't borrowed anything.
10:33Maybe they haven't...
10:34Either they've pulled it from a different DC Multiverse figure, top torso, that is, or they've reinvented Batman's body.
10:40If they have, I think the body works really well.
10:43The only, again, thing I would probably say as a critique for the figure is I feel like his arms are a little too short.
10:48But, even just to bring back in the Nightfall Batman, not to knock this one down at all, and let's just straighten out his arms.
10:56Yeah, yeah.
10:57If you really have the two displayed side by side, it's ever more apparent.
11:01Like, the torso ends in the same spot.
11:03You know, the utility belt is still in the starting same place.
11:07Yet, if you look at the arms on the Nightfall Batman, his arms go about mid-thigh.
11:11Maybe that's the thing that's kind of throwing me off, really, on the year one Batman, is that his arms do seem short.
11:17Maybe not as much to the bicep, because, again, if you match the shoulders to shoulders, the bicep to bicep, and even match the elbow to elbow,
11:24it really is the length of the forearm, I think, that's throwing off the proportions for the body.
11:29The rest of the body looks okay, and I love the color scheme that they've given this Batman.
11:32This is a Batman that does look like his year one.
11:35The thing only about it that I would say is a bit jarring is the length of his arm.
11:39If you can get past that, though, it's a really neat-looking Batman.
11:43Very much, again, evokes the same sort of color scheme that we've got with the Cowardly Lot Batman,
11:47with those darker grays, like the moodier-looking head sculpt.
11:51It's a Batman that I think also really did need some other accessories.
11:54Yes, it's nice to go back to the well all the time and just pull out Batarangs,
11:58but I think for Batman as well, for his year one adventures, he needed a little bit more than just a Batarang.
12:03A grapple gun certainly would be well appreciated.
12:06You know, for his first-year adventures, it's not a bad-looking figure.
12:08Yes, it does have short arms.
12:11We can't overlook that problem with the figure.
12:13But you know, though, if you have it bent and you have him in a pose,
12:16you don't really notice that he's coming up short when it comes to his limbs.
12:20I mean, I've got him right now posed where I've got the cape kind of wrapped around his hand.
12:23Because he doesn't actually have a gripping hand on the other side,
12:26what I ended up doing was I kind of cheated.
12:28I took then the hand off the arm post.
12:31I kind of put the cape on top of the post and then very carefully put the hand on top of that.
12:36So it kind of does look like Batman's holding his cape without technically holding his cape at all.
12:41Being that this is also one of the newer released, McFarland Toys figures,
12:44he does also benefit from having a fabric cape.
12:47It's one of the nicer plastic capes.
12:49I know we have like fabric capes.
12:51Those fabric capes always have a nice flow to them.
12:53When you get to kind of this plastic material, there's like a rigidness to it.
12:57The Cowardly Law of Batman had that problem, for example.
12:59But I've noticed, though, that the material that they've used,
13:01and I don't know if this is a material that they're going to switch to using moving forward,
13:04I do think it works a little bit better.
13:06It's more collective-friendly when it comes to displaying the figure.
13:09Yeah, I like the darker colors.
13:11I like the head sculpt.
13:12I do wish, though, he could have come in clear with some other bad gadgets.
13:15We can't always just keep going back to a bucket of Batarangs.
13:18But at least he does have something.
13:20I wish he could have come with some swappable hands.
13:22But in the end, though, I'm happy that we finally have ourselves a year one Batman.
13:26What do you guys think of this figure?
13:27Let me know down below in the comments section.
13:28And does it also bother you as well that Batman does have rather short limbs?
13:32Not so much in his legs, certainly more in his arms.
13:34I did say at the beginning of this review that proportionally it worked okay.
13:38I think it works better and works more okay if you have the figure always in a pose.
13:42The moment you put his arms parallel to his body and just have him dragging him down like he's standing straight,
13:47then you'll really notice the shortcomings of Batman.
13:50Again, if you guys did want to get this one for yourself,
13:52I did grab this one from Poppy the Toyman on the Facebook selling group.
13:55If you guys are interested, yeah, you can click the link down below in the video description.
14:01If you guys did also enjoy this video, hey now, you can do it as solid and hit it with a like.
14:05Now, you guys want to stick around for more so, and I hope so.
14:08This isn't, by the way, the end of Batman or DC Multiverse for that matter.
14:11There's going to be a couple more coming your way for the upcoming reviews.
14:14So I hope you guys are going to be coming back for those.
14:17As always, guys, thanks for watching.
14:19See you guys next time.
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