Jay's Toy Shelf : McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Batwoman - Batman Beyond: Futur'es End Build-a-Fig

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Batwoman - Batman Beyond: Futur'es End Build-a-Fig

The daughter of Dick Grayson, Mayor of Bludhaven, is Elainna Grayson. Through involvement with Matt McGuiness, Terry McGuinness (Batman), Bruce Wayne and her father, she became aware

and involved in various crimefighting plots. Though she promised her father she wouldn't become involved in the hero's life, she eventually took up the Batsuit when Terry McGuiness had his identity stolen by False Face. She's had some combat training in the armed forces, and is also a bit of demolition expert! She demonstrates this in her fight with Blight where she levels a building on him!

I like the style of the suit's shoulder pads, belt and eyepieces. The wings have the exact same problem as the Terry McGuiness Batman figure. The figure has a bit more range even than the Batman figure in the build-a-fig wave, and the diaphragm joint has an improved back bend. Nice!

Overall a really nice figure, the alternate figure has the unmasked head and jetfire for the boots, which is very tempting! One criticism I have is the same I have for many female figures, the FEET. They are very human barefoot shaped at the bottom as well as being small which makes them hard to balance and pose. DAMMIT. I need toy companies to listen here, stop doing this. In fact, all figures except big, animals, and bare-footed figures, make the bottoms of the feet flat. I don't care canonically what it is supposed to be, make it FLAT.

Sculpt/Paint: 3/3 Really good job of the paint and sculpting here. I have no complaints here, but I haven't seen much of her appearance in the show. There may be some experts out there that find more flaws here vis-a-vis show accuracy. Hard to mess up black and red with silver accents though.

Articulation: 3/3 (30+ points): This figure is even better for flexibility and range of motion. The downsides are the hairpiece, which limits some head posing a little, and the feet, which are entirely too tiny and sculpted so that it is harder to balance.

Accessories: 1/1 The fact that there is another figure that has the fire effect for the boots and an unmasked head means that it basically has what it needs. Comes with the standard card, stand, batarang throwing hands (not that useful and don't look as cool as the open-clawed hands), and the two Jokerbot legs.

Fun Factor: 2/3 I think if this scale had more nuance I'd have a way to make this more enjoyable than the Batman figure just because of the improved range of motion, but it's still pretty great. Not a top 10 necessarily, but pretty good!

Verdict: 9/10 (Worthy) Definitely worth it if you're a fan of the show OR you could get the unmasked head if you don't care about the build-a-figure, though I figure if you are a fan, you'll want all the figures anyway. Not sure if they're going to make any more figures from the show beyond that. See what I did there?