Mafex Medicom Nightwing - Batman Hush

 

Nightwing is one of my favourite DC characters, Dick Grayson is my favourite Robin and this figure is by far my favourite Nightwing figure. Mafex has done an amazing job of this, and because of Nightwing's basic design, this Nightwing honestly fits in just about everywhere in your collection. 

As per the Hush storyline, Nightwing is helping Batman discover a grand plot that involves or touches nearly every main villain in Batman's rogue gallery. He doesn't play a particularly large role, but he does fight the Riddler and his goons. They discover some ash at the end of the scene from the Lazarus pit. 

This Nightwing comes with some amazing poseability, and some interesting accessories to make for some great posing. 

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Sculpt & Paint: 3/3 Mafex nails it once again with this one, really clean paint, some gloss here and there, and great face sculpting and musculature. 

Articulation: 3/3 (31 points): This is fully fleshed out articulation with pretty good range everywhere. The most impressive is probably the butterfly joints that have a large shoulder cap and a large swivel inside the armpit area. It gives a lot of flexibility to the character when using his Escrima sticks. His hips have a second cap inside that allows more motion inwards. He comes with pretty decent ab and diaphragm work. His neck is extremely flexible, and maybe the head sits slightly too high on the top ball joint. 

Accessories: 1/1 He comes with everything you need for Nightwing: six sets of hands (punching, grasping, clutching, splayed, knife hands, and baton effect twirling), his escrima sticks, a long wire tied set of sticks, a back plate to swap to store his sticks and two heads (angry and calm, both with great hair).

Fun Factor: 3/3 He's one of my favourite figures outside my Naruto collection. He looks cool, you can pose him so well, he's got great balance and I regularly have him outside my glass Detolf shelves so I can change his pose and put him alongside other characters. 

Verdict: 10/10 No notes. 

Nice look here, if a bit grainy

VERY muscular back

Many a decent accessory. Forgot to include one of 
the clear poles for the stand (oh well!)

GRIT TIME

This is how you remove the back piece.
Interesting to see the Mafex engineering!

Clips work well but they're a little stiff, worried
they'll break one day if I'm not careful

Spin time!

This extended stick grapple rope is insanely good. The bendy wire
they use for Mafex is really durable and easy to handle

...also very long!

Look up!

Kinda sweet he can pose on his hands. 
Very well balanced figure. 

Some flying Grayson maneuvers!

All the Hush Mafex figures I have so far. Huntress
and Poison Ivy are up for review! I don't
think I'll be getting Joker, Harley or Riddler, but
who knows!

McFarlane DC Multiverse Nightwing (Red Version) - DC Rebirth (Two Pack)

 

So this is from the two-pack with Red Hood. Could I have waited and saved some money just buying the Red Hood single figure that came out later? Yes...what's your point!?!? Haha. Realistically though, the only difference here is all the blue parts are red, and the eyes are also black-outlined red instead of white. Otherwise, it's identical! Still very cool next to Red Hood, and with the Damian Wayne coming out soon, Batfamily 3.0 will be complete! The review for the original figure link is here.

McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse - Nightwing (DC Rebirth: Better Than Batman)

 

Hey! Look! A new Nightwing! 

Still one of my favourite characters in the DC Universe, and Best Boy of the Bat-Family. He's still the same Nightwing you know and love from the New 52 and most other comic books lines, with very minor changes to his suit. Instead of mostly all black with a blue chest symbol, he now has blue for his boot tops, hands and mask. Woo! I guess! 

Basic pros of this figure: great head sculpt with details put in between hair parts, really good range of movement, and you can clip his escrima sticks to his back. He's also, like all McFarlane figures, reasonable in price with nice paint and details (Is McFarlane trying to do for DC what Classics and Hasbro is doing? If so, consider making more characters outside the Batman comics! I'm not complaining, just a suggestion!)

Basic cons: His sticks have nice detail but a little plain, the chest to leg proportions are kinda off. Reminds me of the Arkham Knight Nightwing figure. I'll add to that by saying I think 7 inches is a proportional ratio that many figures don't seem to have quite right. It's like they are either making the legs too long and thing, or the arms not reaching far enough past the waistline. 

DC Icons - Nightwing (Hush)

As I've said before, Nightwing is easily my favourite of the Bat-family. Where man of the other supporting protagonist characters in the Batman storylines are dour, moody, grim or have outright psychosis (Damian!). He's funny, charming and his fighting style and willpower is unique to his character.

This figure is based on Nightwing's appearance in Hush (2009), where Batman is fighting a mysterious stalker named Hush who is sabotaging him from afar. Nightwing returns to Gotham for a funeral, and gets drawn into the plot by helping Batman uncover a larger plot against him involving Ras Al'Ghul.

This figure features the most minimalist of a Nightwing design, and yet it is superbly done. The paint is clean, the sculpt is fantastic (especially the face) and it does have a mix of shiny gloss and matte paints through the figure. His batons are not detailed, but are sufficient. I like the wingding with rope accessory. The original photo releases featured 2 batarangs, but honestly we don't need any, especially since the DC Icons accessory pack and Batman already have some.

DC Collectibles: Nightwing - Arkham Knight

Where in Arkham City Nightwing has no dialogue and only appears in DLC for Challenge maps, in Arkham Knight he actually has dialogue and a side mission. As I said before, Nightwing is easily my favourite of the Bat family. He adds levity, fun fighting and wit to an otherwise fairly dark Bat-universe, with the Arkhamverse being a few shades darker than that.

His costume and look here is pretty different from most incarnations of Nightwing I've seen. This version is more armored, the hair is less messy, and they traded in the domino mask for more of a cut out cowl look. I gotta say, I prefer the face look of the Arkham City version. He was fun to use in the game though, and still had his escrima sticks and electrical discharge attacks. He has a stealth mission too that allows him to use wrist mounted knock out darts, along with other gadgets. 

This figure is pretty spot on for the game. Very well articulated, very good paint and pretty fun to pose. I wish he had a real ab crunch and that DC would just not even try to paint stubble on figures, but we can't have everything! 

DC Collectibles Nightwing: Arkham City

Nightwing has always been one of my personal favorites. He has the dashing charm of a rogue and the morals of The Dark Knight coupled with a fun, acrobatic fighting style. While Nightwing had a role in a story-line in Arkham Knight, he was only present in the Arkham City as a playable character in Challenge maps.

This figure does a few things well. The shiny blue suit highlights are great, the electrified kali sticks are very well detailed and dry brushed to create a blackened metal tone. The back has clips to hold his sticks, which is a nice touch. The face and eyes are well painted.

The pelvis area is a bit odd. The way the leg ball joint joins the hips gives this figure an odd, lower half silhouette.  The articulation isn't abundant, but after collecting DC Collectibles in the Arkham game lines, that isn't a big surprise. The head is a little too big perhaps, and sunk into the neck to allow every little up and down movement. He isn't able to do the splits, but some cool poses are still possible!

This one may not be as poseable as the Arkham Knight version, but it's got a great aesthetic and I prefer the face design on this version.