Jay's Toy Shelf : S.H. Figuarts Injustice Harley Quinn

Saddened by the loss of Joker, Harley Quinn joins some of the other former villains and heroes to fight Superman's totalitarian regime. In honour of the man she lost, she creates the Joker clan to fight with the Insurgency led by Batman.

Harley Quinn has a couple of skins in this one, and the word skin here is appropriate since, like many incarnations of the character after her creation in the Batman Animated Series by Bruce Timm, she's a bit scantily clad. This Insurgency version shows her with some kick-ass boots, leggings chock full of knives, barest of undershirts, jacket, mask and tied up pig-tails. It's colourful, still uses her theme, and comes with great accessories.

She's got a slim build, and while this would normally make her range of motion greater, there are some limitations in her range on the figure, especially below the waist.

Sculpt/Paint 5/5 They did a good job of painting the colours and separations of red and black really cleanly. Her eyes and face is well done, as is the smiling face on her undershirt (if you can call it a shirt..) The knives and bands on her legs are also clean and well detailed. I still don't get how they did the spikes on her boots so well without any paint bleeding onto the boots. Good job here!

Articulation 4/5 (30 Points) This actually has a bit less articulation than is common for SH Figuarts, but mostly you get the same range with some exceptions. The shoulders move forward enough with her slim build as if you had a butterfly joint. The hair pieces have 3 points each to allow some interesting hair movement. The diaphragm joint is fairly good at swivelling but has poor movement side to side and back and forth. The knees and elbows are single jointed, but because of the slim build offers nearly as much range as a double jointed version. I find the pegs for the hands far too small; they often fall off when posing due to how small the ball joint connector is.
The legs are good but 1) aren't drop down! What the heck? I thought that was a given with SH Figuarts. 2) The ankle joints aren't double ball swivels (again, what?) and the toe joint is not particularly useful. Has a pretty limited range. That said, it still beats nearly every domestic figure for joints and range.

Price/Availability: 3/5 She's a bit higher priced than I paid for at this point on Amazon and other online retailers. From 75 CAd to 100! Whoo, that's a bit. Other places like BBTS have her a bit cheaper, though you'll have to pay the steep shipping and import if you don't live in the continental US.

Accessories: 5/5 She comes with most of her important weapons including the jester knife (that fits in her leg sheathe...so cool), dual guns (which are made of solid metal! Not magnetized as it turns out), her giant hammer, and a joker card of her own (this one I didn't lose, hooray!). Aside from that, she has her two other facial expressions as well as a bunch of hands to hold weapons, the card, and punch things! They are only missing an exploding cherry pie from her special metered move!

Fun Factor: 4/5 She is a great looking figure that I really like posing with her guns even more than the iconic hammer. She is a bit trickier to balance than the other two SH Figuarts Injustice figures due to her lack of premium ankle and hip articulation, but still a highly prized figure of mine.

Verdict: 21/25 Great. Although it doesn't have the classic SH Figuarts range of motion, she's still a great figure with cool aesthetics and lots of good accessories. A definite must if you're collecting Injustice figures.

On a side, I will get the SH Figuarts Superman Injustice someday but...he's just not my most favourite character so I've been delaying in getting him for a while.

Second side note, I'm feeling that the Verdict section the reviews may be unnecessary. After all, I'm not the kind of collector that typically gets figures I'm going to dislike or find lacklustre. I do my research and as such this section may not matter. I may change it to a note of how it compliments a collection rather than a final score of some kind.