McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse DC Classics Superman Figure
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00:00from Krypton to classic here's your look at McFarland toys DC multiverse DC
00:05classics Superman
00:30Superman is the world's greatest hero he is a timeless champion dedicated to
00:34protecting life and battling injustice not only in his city of Metropolis but
00:38also all over his adopted world and across the universe with his fantastic
00:42powers and abilities fueled by his alien cells which hyper efficiently process
00:46the solar energy of the Earth's yellow Sun Superman is an unstoppable force for
00:51good and a steadfast punisher of evil Superman is a founding member of the
00:55Justice League and an inspiration to countless other heroes continuing into
00:59the 31st century and beyond seems while the Kent's were adopting Kal-El Kal-El
01:04was adopting comic colors just before we get a closer look the McFarland toys DC
01:08comics classics Superman the tape measure is gonna tell us that the figure
01:12stands at 7 inches in height or Kal-El is 17 and a half centimeters tall I had
01:18this figure on my radar for a while and not really sure if I wanted to pull the
01:21trigger until eventually I found one in the wild at my local Walmart the figure
01:25though is using some strange combination of things first of all his mold is
01:29actually being used from the page punchers Superman so right away there's
01:32some things that work for a figure being a classic version of Superman and then
01:36there's other things that aren't more specifically his belt buckle that we'll
01:40talk more about in a moment some of the other Superman's also I mean the go-to
01:44Superman always for me is still the action comic Superman you can't really
01:47beat the original of course since then we've also gotten ourselves the hush
01:50Superman I'm not gonna do trying not to block the Superman that we're about to
01:54have a look at there's also as well the DC Rebirth Superman which was a fine
01:57soups for the time and there's also as well the Red Sun Superman just to show
02:00you guys a couple of comparisons and really if you're gonna have the
02:03conversation but the DC classic figures a figure that has to be part of that
02:05discussion is the Hal Jordan DC classics Green Lantern which was a fine-looking
02:09figure here's also another figure that I'm sure many of you have by now here's
02:12as well what the classics Superman looks like with the nightfall Batman now
02:15because the Superman is using the same mold as the Lee Bermeo Superman from
02:19that page punchers line some of the accessories you may notice will be
02:22identical to the ones we got with that included Superman like for example the
02:26display stand that's one of the only few times in recent memory we've gotten
02:29ourselves actually a display stand that serves as well as a flight stand sure on
02:33its own you could just use as a regular DC stand I mean I'm just grabbing one
02:36that we have off to the side here here's the regular DC stand so you can see it's
02:40much bigger in size it's also clear but it still serves as well just be a
02:43regular stand that you don't have to necessarily attach the idea of the neck
02:47on the back sure yes if you want to have it in a flight pose you also get the
02:50adjustable waist clip stand and this basically just slots onto the back so
02:53there's an open groove you can probably see right there and you can take this
02:57part of the stand and just slot it in place change your mind down the road you
03:00want to maybe divorce the two that's fine that's fine you just detach the two
03:04you can just still use this as a serviceable stand on its own for this at
03:08least I'm gonna attach the two because when we come back the final looks the
03:10figure near the end of this review I'm sure I'm probably gonna have the figure
03:12in a flight suppose I just ruined it I'm not gonna ruin as well the figure well I
03:17guess I will be ruining the figure also comes included with a trading card a
03:20trading card that does have a classic looking Superman feature on the front
03:23there's already a few things wrong really with this figure when you're
03:26comparing it along with the card that comes included with them first of all
03:29the colors of his costume are way too bright second too if they wanted to make
03:32Superman more of a classic look with the squinted eyes then I think they really
03:36chose really the wrong head sculpt on the back though there's a good meaty
03:39read I mean you can read for yourself if you want I've already done that for you
03:42the real name though is Kal-El or Clark Kent if you will but it's a good card
03:46it's a good card we're gonna move that card off though to the side other than
03:49of course the display stand the figure comes included with the hands but the
03:52hands though are the same ones that we got with that Lee Barmaio Superman so
03:55for example he does come with flight hands I'm gonna bring in one that we
03:58can't came include with the other Superman exactly the same they're mold
04:01brothers after all the only thing that's different though is the complexion of
04:04the skin the one that we got before from the page punchers is a much more off
04:07colored or yellowish tinted skin whereas now the Superman has a little much more
04:11rosier coloring to it but the hands are exactly the same it does also have the
04:15closed fist now this is the closed fist that came through that other page
04:17puncher Superman I currently already have it on the ends of his arms if you
04:20didn't want to change out the hands by the way he does either have flight hands
04:24or the figure also has dynamic hands the dynamic hands and other hands can be
04:29worked the exact same way you basically just take the hands that he has right
04:31now can I just say though just before we start yanking things off the forearms whoo
04:35I would just want to say though his hands seem really large I may have even
04:39made this comment before when you looked at the page puncher Superman which I'll
04:42just bring in right now using yes still the same large hands these oven mitt
04:46hands I think are way too big but to change the hands it's just a case of
04:50holding onto the forearm and just removing the hands completely from the
04:52peg take the hand that you want to use you want to use you want to use this
04:55hand okay we'll use this hand put that in place you want to make sure it really
04:59is all the way on there because if the hand isn't the moment you start to twist
05:02it around look at the size of these hands the hands gonna go across the room
05:06you don't want to go across the room I'm doing on the other side as well
05:10they're awfully demanding go ahead and remove that we're gonna go ahead and
05:13take the other hands pop those back in place I'm sure I'm probably gonna use
05:15the flight hands though when we jump to the turntable near the end of this
05:18review I guess that would be the end of the review at any point near the end
05:22I'm gonna pop that also on the forearm there we go I might make sure it's all
05:26the way on there but you know just again look at that the hands I feel are
05:29proportionally off scale to the rest of the figures body I mean just look at the
05:32size of these things the problem also with this figure and I'm just gonna kind
05:35of move everything away because I need to kind of clear the space around me so
05:38I can really get down to the details here I like the head sculpt for Superman
05:42I can't help but also feel like it bears somewhat of a resemblance that Cavill's
05:46Superman maybe not as much from the front but as you see it certainly from
05:49the sides not only does it look a classic looking Superman portrait but I
05:53feel again it looks a little bit like Cavill's he's got of course the
05:55trademark Superman curl that's a nice thing to include but really all like
05:59from like the head down it's pretty much using the exact same body as the page
06:02puncher Superman which works okay in certain elements the torso is good as
06:07well as the lower legs the lower legs still sport that m-shaped boot on the
06:11top there so I think if you wanted to keep the colors for at least the
06:15costume classic for Superman I'm glad that they use these boots and didn't
06:18arrive on another idea instead here's where though I feel a figure comes up
06:22short is the biggest one really is the fact that he does to have the little
06:25Superman emblem down below here now they could have also retooled this and used a
06:29different one heck I mean they could have also as well taken the action
06:33comic Superman which I think you know for what it is they probably could have
06:36either used the trunks because the trunks just has the oval belt buckle
06:39there on the front or they could also very well just used the entire body I
06:43guess what they wanted to do is use a slightly slimmer body but I mean really
06:46it's not that much smaller than the action comics Superman I also have tried
06:51to change the heads out thinking I could probably just swap these out with
06:54another Superman and it's hard to remove the peg I probably could spend a little
06:57bit more time granted and heat this up a little bit but I'm probably just gonna
07:00ultimately keep the head on the shoulders anyways it's you know to be
07:03honest it's not a bad-looking Superman but I feel like again it's just a
07:06combination of other things that don't kind of collectively work together as a
07:10classic Superman he's also got again like a little band there on the ends of
07:13his sleeves which again would have been carryover from the original page puncher
07:16Superman which worked fine for that Superman in fact that was one of my
07:20favorite Superman still continues to be one of my favorite Superman because it's
07:22just a little bit different but I think if you want to really arrive on the idea
07:25of this being a more classic Supes his emblem looks okay he's unfortunately
07:29though missing the yellow emblem on the back of his cape which is really few and
07:33far between there's very few Superman that have actually had that did the
07:36Hush Superman have it the Hush Superman had it just bring that guy in so you
07:39guys can see as well the cape is also something I'm really crazy about now if
07:43they wanted to really Frankenstein this figure they probably could have pulled
07:45the parts from other Superman so like if for example they could have maybe used
07:49like the trunks here because again like this is just softer plastic I'm sure it
07:53probably would have accommodated using it with this body but also they could
07:56have probably pulled the cape too the cape looked good here on the Hush
07:59Superman but unfortunately though using the cape that they decided to go with
08:02when they came to the page punchers the page punchers has sort of a weird
08:06looking twisted cape and I don't think it lends as well if you don't want to
08:09really give this guy a classic look the cape if anything I feel I like the way
08:13it drapes down like this because that's one thing I really wish that I mean even
08:16like the new James Gunn Superman costume design I think there's a lot of things
08:20really wrong with that because they're kind of taking a lot of elements
08:22all-star Superman they're taking new 52 Superman and they're kind of been taking
08:26like the kingdom come Superman with the emblem and they're trying to kind of
08:29take it all those those ideas and mashing them together I feel like they're almost
08:33doing something very similar here they're taking an idea of a figure that
08:36really belonged for his own thing and then they're trying to find a way to
08:39incorporate that to a classic Superman there's things that again work I don't
08:42think the cape is one of them though I just would have liked if the cape would
08:44have just been straight down or if had they taken like the the Hush Superman
08:48maybe take the cape from him for it for example the other thing that I don't
08:51think is working as well for the figure is the coloring of his costume I think
08:54it's maybe too bright of a blue now depending on when you really read the
08:58comics you could say well I think that's a good justified blue but to look at it
09:02though from other Superman standpoints just to look at me like next to the Hush
09:05Superman I think that would be the perfect blue to go with but I guess
09:08they're kind of going with more like the Golden Age Superman or even like Super
09:11Boy from back in the day would have had a much brighter blue like this I
09:14personally would have just liked rather a darker blue myself but I think the
09:18blue at least for what it is you could argue the point at least it's a primary
09:20blue they're not doing too much busy to it missing obviously the fact that the
09:24oval isn't right there I mean obviously going for the fact that the cape isn't
09:27quite right the Superman for the most part is okay and I can probably even
09:31see now why I maybe took as long as I did to pick this figure up because I was
09:35really on the fence of whether I would have liked this figure it's not for me
09:38at least giving me the perfect looking classic Superman I think for that figure
09:41we've already gotten that with the action comics but the Superman again is
09:44pretty good I think the head sculpt is probably the better things that are on
09:47the figure and again like if you don't mind the fact that there are a few
09:50little a little problem areas that don't really resonate for me at least as
09:54classic like the emblem or the fact that the cape is a little off and like the
09:57brighter of the colors of the blue probably could have been a little bit
09:59darker for what he is if you can get this guy at local retail I think he's
10:03actually a good he's a decent enough Superman now for the figures articulation
10:07if you are familiar with that page puncher Superman that you already know
10:10by now the same articulation applies that's gonna rotate all the way around
10:13on a ball joint the head looks fairly high as well and that's one of the
10:17benefits of a figure being with a long neck like this the original Bermeo
10:20Superman also had a decent head articulation so head looks up the head
10:24looks down you can also move it yeah yeah back and forth and it also can
10:27rotate all the way around Superman's upper torso is gonna be on our ball
10:30joint and really to say this is exactly the same to Bermeo I mean it's really
10:33not only just the page puncher Superman but like really most Superman across the
10:37board all kind of have the same posability points upper torso ball joint
10:41yes abdomen area ball joint sure the arms rotate all the way around you can
10:44bring those arms at 90 degrees figure has a swivel in the bicep a double hinge
10:48on the elbow and the hands rotate all the way around legs do split out you can
10:53take the legs and move forward you can move them back a swivel there at the top
10:56the thigh a double hinge on the knee there's the articulation here for the
11:00ball there's no articulation shit it should say for the boots but there at
11:03least is articulation here for the ankle it moves back and forth it moves up and
11:06down an ankle rocker and there's toe articulation as well at the end of it
11:10though I feel like I don't know if I would say this is a perfect classic
11:13looking Superman there's again things that I like about it primarily it's the
11:17head sculpt and I think really for the costume being at least as classic as
11:21they got it it could have been I don't want to say a lot worse I think it could
11:24have been a lot different of a choice that they could have gone with still
11:27though I you know I would have to ask the real the question why didn't they
11:30just decide to not use the action comics Superman and then just give him a
11:33different head sculpt because that Superman was good maybe you could say
11:36his emblem is way too wide across his chest and maybe that's one of the
11:40reasons why they arrived on the idea of using the page punchers Superman because
11:44again like if you're looking at the page punchers Superman you comparing him like
11:46to the action comics this one is closer to the original classic costume in the
11:51sense that the emblem is the right size proportion to the rest of his body he
11:54has the trunks he has the yellow on the trunks which again really could have
11:57just been colored differently and like he even has like the Superman boots
12:00where it misses though I feel some of the mark is the fact that again like the
12:04belt buckle isn't the traditional oval shape he's also overlooked the idea that
12:08he doesn't have as well the emblem on the back of his cape that's something I
12:11feel that the figure also could have included and I just I just don't know if
12:14I generally like the look of the cape maybe that's the thing that comes
12:17disrupting it for me it disrupted me certainly when I was looking at the page
12:20puncher Superman I feel sort of the same thing the same vibe when I'm looking at
12:24the classics one we're getting here as well as we arrive on to the turntable and
12:27get one final look for the DC comic classic Superman you know again I'm
12:30looking at all the other Superman I just have them off to the side here kind of
12:33just looking at each of them pros and cons sure there are some elements about
12:37the Superman I wasn't super crazy about but you know to think about all the
12:40other options that they could have gone with the go-to for me would have been
12:43action comics Superman but to be fair though the biggest problem with that
12:46figure is first of all that moles been used to death it's been used by like
12:48four times already not to mention as well like the last time we got that
12:52figure mold was released I think with the atomic skull but all sort of the
12:55same problem goes without using that Superman for the classic costume is that
12:58his emblem is way too wide it literally stretch stretches across his entire
13:02torso so maybe that's one of the reasons they chose not to use that one then of
13:05course there's the hush Superman which sort of again the same problem is the
13:08action comics it's been used so many times already that's not one of the
13:12molds it's not actually one of my favorite Superman molds by far I mean
13:15it's I feel it's just way too squat he's got really stumpy legs and really wide
13:18of a torso and even though like the emblem and the trunks work really well
13:22for that Superman especially the cape the rest of the body and the biggest
13:25thing the biggest problem would be the body just doesn't cut it for me the only
13:29other option I really can think of though is like the rebirth Superman and
13:32he's just too big of a figure to have used for a classic looking body that to
13:36eliminate all those other Superman it kind of just leaves us left behind with
13:40what like one or two choice to go with and obviously the Lee Bermeo Superman or
13:43the page puncher Superman would really be the best one that checks off the most
13:47boxes if you're thinking classic Superman costume okay the Bermeo
13:51Superman the page puncher Superman does have the appropriately sized a classic
13:55Superman emblem on the front of his chest it's not too big so right away
13:57that's a good thing he has the trademark Superman M boots and he also has trunks
14:02granted the trunks don't have the oval shaped belt buckle on the front and
14:06granted the cape is a little wonky but for the least the most part it checks
14:10more of the boxes than the other Superman molds so I can see why they
14:13chose this body granted that I think I still would have gone in and maybe
14:17tweaked some of the elements to literally just take the mold and carbon
14:20copy it over to give it to give us this one yes they probably could have gone
14:24and maybe changed the cape if they had somehow Frankenstein this figure using
14:28the cape for example or even the cape of the trunks from hush Superman and kept
14:32all the rest of it as the Lee Bermeo Superman maybe we may have arrived on a
14:36better looking soups but I figure company isn't gonna do that if they have
14:39all the molds kind of at their disposal they're literally gonna just take the
14:42body from one figure and then carry it over to the other and just cosmetically
14:45change the colors which I guess is really the only other thing that I think
14:48kind of stumbles a bit for Superman is just the colors are way too bright the
14:51blues are way too bright the reds and the yellows work okay but I think the
14:54blue is just too pastel for me again had the colors been closer to the blues of
14:58the action comics or the hush Superman we may have gotten ourselves a better
15:02looking Superman as a result what do you guys think of the figure let me know
15:05down below in the comment section have you guys had the chance to collect the
15:08DC classics Superman or if there's a reason why you wouldn't want to pick him
15:12up what is that reason is it the fact that the costume is way too bright is
15:15it the fact he has a Superman emblem instead of a belt buckle let me know one
15:19of the reasons why you wouldn't want to pick up this figure down below in the
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