The latest Metal crap installment has almost every character turned into a Batman or wears a Batman cowl. More toy ideas for McFarlane. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring in the Dr. Manhattan/ Clark version from Doomsday Clock into this storyline to counter Dr Manhattan/ Bruce I mentioned earlier.
Sort of already happened, only it was with Ares instead of WW. I expect a toy will be coming for this version also and I'll be disappointed if this is the closest I get to a modern toy of Perez blue-armored Ares.
Amazon just delivered my Arkham Joker! He looks even better in-hand. I would also like to take this opportunity to once again let Target know that their street dates can lick my balls.
Saw the blue and gray McFarlane Batman today (they had like 8 of him, so I guess he isn't as rare as reports were making him out to be a few months ago) and he looked terrible. The head is way too tiny as are the bat ears.
Well that Dark Knights of the dark multiverse event had an evil Bruce Wayne copy of each of the magnificent 7 league members. So yes there is a Bruce Wayne that killed Wonder Woman, The Merciless. But he has Ares helmet and thus powers. That's what made him go nuts. And the Aquaman one, The Drowned, is Bryce Wayne. DC's version of the dark judges. What other reason could there be for the Batman who laughs to look so much like Judge Death (and the Merciless like judge Fear).
Weird. He’s a pretty good figure, IMO. He also might end up being the only Joker I ever get. That head sculpt is crazy.
This is the one I'm waiting on Man your pics never cease to give a sense of entertainment, Batmikey is just killing it
My first ever full on custom, introducing John Henry Irons. Clark gifted John his unchained armor after his own armor was destroyed. John took the armor tuned it to his style and viola Base was of course the Unchainged Superman, MS Drax head, painted silver chrome, sealed with clear acrylic. The Hammer was made from the staff of MS Drax's axe and ML Sugarman hammer. It's not complete bcuz i dodnt finish the ears, but im not adding the rivets as i was never a fan of them like that. I have a long way to go with learning tech to better paint figures but I'm happy with how it turned out.
How bout no, happy wife happy life, but mostly bcuz i leave mine laying around as well lol, had to double take and make sure they weren't my daughter's lol
The entire execution of this line just seems so whacked to me. For so long, McFarlane resisted industry trends towards highly articulated action figures, because the sculpt and paintwork were far more important to him. As if to (poorly) prove his point, he's now finally caught up to the modern era, but sacrificed all of his identity in the process. The sculpt work seems sloppy and rudimentary in most cases, with some awful proportions. Paint is basic and yet still somehow sloppy. His figures are finally articulated, but in a semi-awkward way that still manages to not be quite up to par. All that painstaking attention to detail that he prided himself and his company in is out the window, when he can go and release something like the Animated Batman figure. And then all the figures are in a non-interactive scale, as if to prove he's still an industry rebel.
I have to say I prefer what he's putting out now than over most of the last 20yrs, I've no qualms with the sculpts on hjs stuff outside of DC and even a few of the outlier DC stuff I've enjoyed if you hadn't notice my 2 customs using his figures as bases, and i can tell you there's a lot more of that coming from me. As for paint, meh, all the companies have sloppy paint, Love triangle Jean jumps to mind real quick, or Lighting Collection, there's plenty of examples across the industry. Before his new found love of articulation I hadn't bought anything made by McFarlane toys outside of 10th Anni Spawn, personally before that he made pretty statues that sucked, i don't buy statues. Anyways brong on the Metal Batmen as I see a few more base bodies
