McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Collectors Edition Captain Boomerang Figure
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00:00when it comes to the captain what goes around comes around here's a look at the
00:05brand-new McFarland toys DC multiverse McFarland collectors edition captain
00:09boomerang
00:30George Digger Harkness is a mercenary and a killer with an aptitude for
00:37boomerangs and other projectiles antagonistic and often annoying to those
00:41around him he has fought the flash and since his incarceration he has become a
00:44member of Task Force X aka the suicide squad
00:48convicts are a lot like boomerangs sure they leave and you think they're gone
00:51but they're always coming back again just before we get a closer look though
00:54at McFarland collectors edition captain boomerang the tape measure is going to
00:58tell us that the figure is gonna stand at about six and three quarters of an
01:01inch in height where the dear captain is 17 and a half centimeters tall maybe not
01:07the best news for Harkness but there's enough flash we've gotten from
01:09McFarland's team that you can choose for yourself which scarlet speedster will be
01:13the foil for captain boomerang sure yes there's the original one this figure in
01:17fact got released to twice one with the happy face and obviously one with the
01:21more grimaced face there was also is one the one that we got from the dawn of DC
01:24we just recently in fact looked at that figure not a bad-looking flash but I
01:27still feel like maybe a little tad too dark if you prefer though your flash to
01:31be a slightly younger scarlet speedster then obviously there's the impulse one
01:35as well I did want to bring this figure in too and you're probably wondering
01:38yourselves why why is he bringing in a bane when you're comparing it along with
01:41captain boomerang just because they seem to follow similar trends that I'm
01:45hoping won't continue we also have only really one other flash black fast bad
01:50guy as part of the rogues gallery that would be the reverse flash we're still
01:53missing obviously the those standouts like the weather wizard the mirror
01:56master I hope certainly that we're gonna be getting more of those from the
01:59folks over at McFarland down the road don't go too far down the road no no
02:02come back come back let's look at the accessories that come in clear with
02:05captain boomerang first the figure comes with a display stand that has a little
02:09more of the frills as they printed down below here the DC logo in silver rather
02:12than the black still there is always the one neighboring peg off to the far
02:16corner that could plug into either one of the captain's boots the figure also
02:19does have the glorified podium display stand that has the matching DC logo
02:23painted in the very same silver silver color there is also as well the card
02:27we're just gonna remove that right now the back of the podium by the way is
02:31always I was I don't know why I always feel the need to point these out but
02:33there it's a hollow plastic it's always gonna be the show side the Julia child
02:38public side that you can be showing everybody on your collection shelf but
02:41you'll also probably be showing it this as well with the trading card the
02:44trading card does feature though the McFarland collectors edition on the side
02:47if you can overlook that you've actually got a decent image though of captain
02:51boomerang sporting though at least from the colors of the card a more green
02:54instead of blue he's throwing one of the boomerangs just careful just get out of
02:58the way this reminds me of that one bluey episode where they go down to
03:01Australia I don't know why I'm even referencing a bluey episode but they
03:05show how to throw a boomerang and every single time someone thinks there's the
03:08they're the experts in the boomerang they throw it and then it always comes
03:11back and smashes this one neighbor's window it's matches like three times I
03:15don't know why I was thinking about that on the back the real name of course is
03:20George digger Harkness there's of course a paragraph free not very long
03:24you can easily digest that for yourself I have already digested it and I've
03:28regurgitated to you all the baby bears you've already read this furnace I guess
03:32it would be more a baby bird than baby bears I've already taken the liberty of
03:35chewing this up and digesting it for you you're welcome
03:38but that grossness aside let's just put this card back in and one thing I did
03:42also want to mention though about the card is that there seems to be like a
03:45little ledge of paper on the side it's not a smooth card it's smooth on this
03:49side but on this side there's like a there's like a little lip it came though
03:53out of the packaging like that I haven't done any damage to the card but we're
03:56just gonna carefully though slide that back to the podium put it right over
03:58there the figure also comes included with four pairs of actually three pairs
04:03of interchangeable hands four extra hands that can also then go into the
04:07sockets of his forearms I have changed things out because at the beginning of
04:09this review I did actually have him holding the bearings he can't
04:12accommodate that feet just yet because I'm gonna have to swap the hands back
04:15in place he does have closed fist right now I will be changing that shortly the
04:20figure does also have gripping hands the gripping hands one thing I will say
04:23about them is that he also does come in clue with boomerangs I mean he would to
04:27have his name be Captain Boomerang and not come in clue with said boomerangs
04:30would be a bit disappointment wouldn't it the actual boomerangs themselves
04:33there's you get two of them they seem to be identical this one has though a
04:36little a little burr of plastic as you can see it's not the cleanest cut you
04:42can feel it certainly when you're running your finger across it this
04:44boomerang of the two is definitely the cleaner variety the thing though about
04:47it though is if you're trying to get them into his hands he doesn't really
04:51hold the bearings in the best of ways I mean they sit pretty loose if anything
04:55you're probably just gonna be resting him inside the hand and just hoping the
04:58best that the figure doesn't happen to tip forward because the boomerangs are
05:01gonna fall out of his hands changing out the hands though it's just a case of
05:04obviously we've seen this already before I'm just gonna hold on to the form
05:07easily remove the hand from the provided peg take the hand and we want to use and
05:12just pop it back on the peg super super easy and again we'll just bend the elbow
05:16we'll get the boomerang we'll just slide that into his hand but see how loose
05:19these hands are I always feel as if these hands probably were used from
05:22another figure and they just decide well it's a gripping hands we'll just use
05:25these hands instead of tooling brand new ones the downside though to that is that
05:29choice decide that decided choice end up resulting in these boomerangs sitting
05:32extremely loose in boomerangs hands the figure also does come in clear with a
05:37gestured hand too so if you don't like the idea of displaying him with dual
05:40boomerangs then you could display him with one a boomerang and then the other
05:43hand would just be simply a gestured hand a dynamic hand so we'll move those
05:48all out of the way I guess we could also really move the podium standee out of
05:51the way as well why though I'm gonna slide this guy over why now I'm gonna be
05:55bringing back in Bane I think this now is the only second time this has
05:59happened where McFarlane decided to give us a fake I want to say like a faux
06:04leather jacket Bane had it and Bane I could justify why this character would
06:09have had it the original Bane was a build a figure and it didn't have this
06:12jacket so this was an upsell some additional frills added to the figure I
06:16like that I don't know if it's a trend that I want to see continue with every
06:20single time we get ourselves a jacket character Captain Boomerang might be the
06:24example of why I think it doesn't work necessarily it worked okay for Bane
06:28because we already had a Bane this is basically just again an upgrade Bane by
06:32having this there'll be a trend that's gonna continue I really hope isn't gonna
06:36be the case because the problem is already you can probably already see for
06:39yourself is that this being a leather material over time depending on how
06:43careful and what kind of conditions your collection are in this material most
06:47likely will start to split start to crack and you'll start to cry for its
06:52credit though I think the jacket is tailored well I mean you got some decent
06:55well decent seam lines to it it's certainly a lot more paneled on the back
06:59it's a little cleaner on the front the problem with it though is that if you're
07:02using a jacket over top of a figure body first of all his articulation start
07:06starts to have to be robbed a little bit I mean yes you can move his arms up for
07:10example but the material of the jacket is gonna always seem to force the arms
07:13back down and also too if you're always gonna have the arms bent like this these
07:18will be prime places to have splits and cracks start to develop now Captain
07:23Boomerang I think could have easily just been a figure now obviously underneath
07:26this is gonna be just a regular suit we're gonna take this off more in a
07:29moment underneath this you could just really display the figure without the
07:32jacket I always think of Captain Boomerang really more with the jacket
07:35and I think honestly it would have not been hard for them just to have this as
07:39a plastic piece plastic piece and have obviously arm holes here on the sides
07:43we've seen this countless times before and then just have these sleeved arms be
07:47plastic as well so it would give us at least the look of a jack on a character
07:51without going the full idea of giving him a real leather material by the way
07:55the jacket does look good on the inside too nothing looks unfinished necessarily
07:59but I just feel like it's not a good choice to start going this direction
08:03where every jacket on every character that's gonna have a jacket is start to
08:06is it going to start using a fabric material I really think in my own honest
08:10opinion I think that this is not the direction we want to be going I mean I
08:13think we've now started the trend of having real fabric capes being
08:17introduced these characters which was a really great idea but I think that's
08:20kind of where we need to stop I don't think we need to start to tread into the
08:23territory where now characters that have jackets have to now have a fabric
08:28material jacket because I think you could have done the job just as well by
08:31having this all be plastic yes it would have had more limitations to the
08:34articulation yes I mean it would have also prevented this figure like if he
08:38had a boomerang vehicle for example it would be very difficult for him to sit
08:41inside of that just because he would have had a plastic jacket but you would
08:45have done away with all the problems that could be down the road dot dot dot
08:48if this material starts to degrade it is a nice color though I will say at least
08:53that from the head sculpt I know we spent so much time talking about the
08:57jacket itself you know what let's just move Bane out of the way I don't want
08:59him to compete here along with Captain Boomerang. The head sculpt is really good
09:02Boomerang is one of my favorite of the Flash Rogue gallery one thing I also
09:07forgot was Captain Cold Captain Cold I would love to see I think we did get
09:10ourselves a page punchers Captain Cold but we'd love to get a classic version
09:13of that captain a lot of captains Captain Boomerang Captain Cold was there
09:17another captain part of flashes baddies I don't know you guys let me know down
09:21below I do like the way they get in these big large mutton chops sideburns
09:24on the sides he's got a good head sculpt too there's also as well a platinum
09:28edition release of this guy it's I think as far as I know is already out where
09:31it's basically gonna be this jacket but it's a lighter color it's not quite the
09:34color of his scarf for example but the lighter of a shade of that so it's not
09:38the dark blue I prefer really the dark blue I might still end up picking up the
09:41platinum edition and if that's the case I'll obviously compare the two if you
09:45did want to though you could take the jacket off the jacket you're just gonna
09:48pull off the hands for example you may not don't want to do this too often and
09:52then you're just gonna literally slide this off I feel though one thing at
09:56least is that they finish the body underneath so if you decide like myself
09:59at least for right now that I don't want to have the jacket on you can easily
10:02take this off and I'm sure if anything you could probably use that jacket with
10:05something else it still looks like Captain Boomerang you whether you decide
10:08to use the scarf the scarf can be just removed as well or you can just have the
10:12scarf and everything off completely and at least we get ourselves a finished
10:15body underneath he's got himself a strap here that has slightly smaller varieties
10:19of those boomerangs these none of these are removable by the way they're all
10:22soft plastic about it the body does look good let's go ahead and actually
10:25put some hands back in though there we go and we'll do the exact same on the
10:29other side okay yeah the body does look good so I mean it's not a case where if
10:36you decide that you don't like the jacket or you decide like myself that
10:39you have the fear that this jacket is gonna start to degrade over time if you
10:42did take the jacket off and just store it away somewhere else you at least have
10:45yourself still a finished body underneath the jacket the shirt that he
10:49has looks really good I like the coloring to this blue works really well
10:52with the darker blue that he has for his beanie hat down below of course he's
10:56also got himself a belt there unfortunately very little in the way of
10:59paint it looks like they've just molded it only just in the black plastic large
11:02pockets though on the sides and he's got these large military boots there down
11:05below as well pegs pick holes on the bottoms of his feet so he at least he's
11:08a finished looking boomerang ideally though I would have really liked this
11:11figure just to have a jacket all the time with no choice at all on the
11:14collectors part to remove the jacket but again with the idea of using a faux
11:18leather material I just don't think that was the right way to go for the
11:21figures articulation though going back to his head sculpt captain boomerang's
11:24head is gonna be on a ball joint so it allows the head to rotate all the way
11:27around the head can look as far up as that the far the head can look down as
11:32far as that as low as that the head can also rock back and forth to the upper
11:36torso is gonna be on a ball joint it's not limited at all by the fact he's got
11:39the strap in front of it the figure also has down below at the bottom of his
11:42abdomen a secondary ball joint as for the arms now that the jackets removed
11:46the arms can freely go where they want so they can come out at 90 degrees you
11:50take the arms you can rotate them around as a side note though just before we
11:53start moving forward with the rest of the articulation I do like the actual
11:56wrinkles that they've sculpted into the sleeves anyways though the figure does
12:00have a swivel in his bicep the figure does have a double hinge on the elbow and
12:04the hands whatever hands you want to use do rotate all the way around the legs
12:07split out there on ratcheted joints they go about as far as that you can take a
12:11legs move forward you can move them back there's a swivel at the top a double
12:15hinge on the knee there almost for a second looks like there's a cut in his
12:18leg where you can swivel it right there that's not the case at all the figure
12:22though has ankle pivot back and forth a little loose on this side unfortunately
12:25an ankle rocker and Captain Boomerang does have toe articulation as well I
12:29feel the figure sells the best with his sculpt it's a really good sculpt for
12:34Captain Boomerang definitely one of the better ones we've gotten in recent
12:36memory the downside though and I feel still the detriment of this figure is
12:40the fact that they had to go the route of a real fabric jacket it started with
12:44capes and I like the idea of a fabric cape but when we start to go to the
12:49approach of jackets like faux material jackets and again I'm just gonna bring
12:53back in Bane for the example of this Bane I think could have been the
12:57exception to that rule where he didn't have to necessarily have a plastic
13:00jacket Bane although I still have the worry that his jacket is gonna break
13:04down over time it doesn't seem like it's been the case so far now granted where
13:08you have your conditions of your collection if you have high humidity for
13:12example that's always prone to start to have flaking issues when it comes to the
13:16faux material whether it be smaller size 7 inch figures like this or the larger
13:21variety 12 inch tall figures if you have faux material for anything really that's
13:26always the thing that's the most problematic Bane I can get behind though
13:29Bane we already had a build a figure Bane a bath Bane this Bane I'm fine with
13:33I don't think again we have to kind of start moving in the direction that every
13:37jacket character now has to incorporate material if this was just say a regular
13:42material one that wasn't obviously a faux material like this I don't know how
13:46many times I've said faux in this review if it was just a regular fabric that
13:48would be one thing but by doing it in the material that they've used I just
13:51means it just means for me that you're cutting down the lifespan of something
13:55like this whether you decide you want to display it with captive boomerang or you
13:59decide though to leave it off I think it's though approach that they shouldn't
14:03really do moving forward I must have had one memory lapse it wasn't an episode of
14:07Bluey it was an episode of Peppa Pig Peppa and her family go down I think
14:11it's a pin pal that she has in Australia and while they're visiting
14:14down by her house they're proceeding to show Peppa how to throw a boomerang and
14:18each one of them claiming to throw it better than the other they just every
14:21single time they throw it it ends up smashing the next-door neighbor's window
14:25even he at one point says no I'll show you how to throw a boomerang and he
14:28smashes his last window why or why was even referencing Peppa Pig and why was I
14:33even thinking it was a Bluey episode I got too many kids cartoons on my brain
14:36going back though to Captain Boomerang please can we Captain Boomerang as you
14:41can see I've got the figure displayed right now without the jacket I will say
14:44at least if you're worried like I am worried about having the figure
14:47displayed with a jacket that could down the road start to split at least
14:50McFarlane's team designed a fully finished figure underneath all that and
14:54it honestly was even without the jacket the figure looks good I prefer boomerang
14:58myself to have a jacket but if I choose to decide to leave it off altogether at
15:02least I've still got what looks to be a great-looking brain underneath the
15:06figure does come in clear with two bearings unfortunately boomerangs don't
15:09hold the best inside his gripping hands it almost seems as if those hands were
15:12used from another figure which probably makes sense I can't imagine that they
15:15would have tooled brand-new hands specifically for Captain Boomerang to
15:17grip his boomerangs figures face looks good the figures paint job is pretty
15:21good as well this guy is also getting released as a platinum edition which
15:24takes the colors and I think it lightens everything his jacket more so as the
15:28standout instead of the darker blue he has kind of more of a pastel blue I
15:32don't know if I'm gonna plan to pick that one up if I do obviously a review
15:35of that will be following have you guys had the chance to pick up the McFarland
15:38collectors edition Captain Boomerang if you haven't or if you have do you have
15:42the figure display with the jacket if you haven't are you also worried that
15:46they're going the direction of now using jackets real jackets on characters I
15:50think still with Captain Boomerang while the appeal is definitely there to peel
15:54off the layers and actually have two different ways of displaying the figure
15:57I still don't think in the end right from the beginning this figure could
16:00have easily just been pulled off with a plastic jacket never with any intended
16:05plan of being removed but where do you guys feel like where's your standing
16:08point where when it comes to jackets like this do you feel like McFarlane
16:11should start to incorporate more fabric outfits on these characters or you like
16:15myself just are happy with the idea of getting plastic jackets that are
16:19non-removable let me know down below if you guys also did enjoy this video want
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16:25to stick around for more we are gonna be also looking at some more DC multiverse
16:29stuff hey that sounds good so don't be smashing anybody's windows with
16:32boomerangs whatever you do Peppa Pig it wasn't bluey it was Peppa Pig as always
16:36guys thanks for watching see you guys next time