McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse DC New 52 Red Robin Figure
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00:00He never needed to be a Robin, he needed to be himself. Here's a look at McFarlane
00:04Toys DC Multiverse DC New 52 Red Robin.
00:10A self-made hero in every sense of the word, Tim Drake deduced the real identity of Batman
00:32and auditioned for the role of his next partner. Batman had lost his most recent sidekick Jason
00:37Todd in a tragic turn of events and in Tim's mind Batman needed a Robin to stay true to himself and
00:42his mission. Tim was taken into Batman's care where he spent only a brief time serving as Robin
00:47before striking out on his own as the Red Robin. Analytical almost to a fault, Tim represents the
00:53brains of the Batman's family's roster of former Robins. As Teen Titan, Tim excelled in both leader
00:58and mentor, though following Batman's footsteps is anything but his dream. Tim Drake shows that
01:04even though you leave the nest, you'll always have your family. Just before we get a closer
01:08look though at the New 52 Red Robin, the tape measure in fact is going to tell us that the
01:12figure stands at six and a half inches in height or Red Robin is 16 and a half centimeters tall.
01:18Drake's backstory and costume are taken from the pages of the New 52, so they don't share the same
01:24backstory as this version of Tim Drake here. Different backgrounds, different bodies, neither
01:29one of them are actually using any of the same molds. This version of Tim Drake is also notably
01:33taller than the Red Robin version of Tim Drake, bringing other figure comparisons as well. Here's
01:37what the figure looks like with a Nightfall Batman. Even though those two Tims aren't sharing the same
01:42body, they are though sharing two of the three following accessories. Can you take any guess as
01:47to which those two accessories are? You're very smart. It's not definitely the trading card. The
01:52trading card does feature Red Robin on the front. Now this is an older figure. It's been sitting in
01:56my collection for a while. I kept telling myself I want to get around to reviewing him, so they're
02:00actually using figure photography here. If I bring in the Tim Drake card that we got before,
02:05this is actually taking it from, I think, the limited series of Red Robin. This is issue number
02:09one. Different Robins, again, different backgrounds. In fact, looking on the back, you can actually see
02:14that they've also added his real name is Timothy Tim Jackson Drake, whereas this one actually just
02:19says Timothy or Timothy Tim Drake. The read-up is also completely different. You may have to
02:24actually put your glasses on to read the finer print on this one. For some reasons unknown,
02:29they're actually using a smaller font for his card. I guess maybe because there's a lot more to
02:33read than this one right here. Those two are obviously completely different. The things that
02:37we're going to be looking at right now are exactly the same. I mean, obviously, exactly the same is
02:41going to be the display stand. Nothing gets changed here. You got the DC logo printed down below. You
02:45got, of course, the peg that's going to plug into either one of Drake's boots. The other thing that's
02:49also the same between the two Robins is also this one here. He comes included with a staff. I'm going
02:54to bring in the staff that came included with the other Tim Drake Robin. They are identical.
02:59I think, if anything, you could look at one and see the other and probably think that maybe one
03:02is a little bit lighter of a silver, but the molding is exactly the same. He also holds it in
03:07his hands, and good things for him, at least, that he actually has two gripping hands, so he doesn't
03:11even have to accommodate just holding the staff with one hand. Just go ahead and take your figure,
03:15for example, and we're going to slide the staff. Now, the problem with the staff, though, is the
03:19same problem I had with the original Tim Drake staff, is that the staff, I feel, is way too thick.
03:23Look how thick that is. That's going to be hard for him to hold in his hands.
03:27We're just going to slide it in one hand, and we're not dropping the hand in the process.
03:31Taking this guy actually out of the packaging, the funny thing enough was, his hand was snagged
03:36inside the tray, and I was trying to pull him out on one hand. Literally, I was just pulling out with
03:40my own hand. I guess the cape or the back of the wings got snagged inside the tray. When I was
03:45trying to remove it, his hand popped off. It's no harm. I mean, I was able to easily fix it. The
03:50thing about it, though, is that his hand falls off now frequently. That was more my fault than
03:54the package's fault, although I guess I could say, really, that the cape was also responsible for that
03:59as well. But you can't get him to actually hold the staff in both his hands. It's just really hard
04:03to do, because obviously, I mean, for starters, I've got the hand that was falling off, but the
04:07staff is also way too thick. It needs to be a lot thinner, but you can also see, as well, the way
04:11that the hand works. It's basically like a half piece, so you can see the top half has the hole.
04:16The other half that keeps falling off has the peg. So again, I can easily plug it back in place,
04:20but I'm sure this won't be the last time. I'm sure it won't be the last time that I'm going to
04:24remove the hand. I'm going to turn the hand, and the hand's going to fall off its peg. Getting,
04:28though, a closer look at the Red Robin version of Robin, one thing I do really like about it is the
04:33way they've painted the face. I'm not as crazy, though, about... even though I like the hair and
04:37I like the way they painted the mask, I do feel like the skin tone is a little too grayish,
04:43if that makes any sense. Bringing in the original Tim Dray, so you guys can see.
04:46Now, these are two extremes. Obviously, this one here, I think, is way too light. This one here,
04:51though, is way too dark. If they could somehow meet in the middle, I think we'd have a really
04:54good skin complexion, but, like, just this one, I feel, was lacking a whole lot of paint. In fact,
04:59like, his face seemed way too pale at the time. It still continues to look way too pale. This,
05:04though, Robin, this Red Robin version of him, actually is just... I feel a little maybe too
05:08yellowish in his skin tone. I like the way they painted the mask, though, and I do like the way
05:13they sculpted the hair. The hair isn't even just simply sticking up. It's actually slightly blowing
05:17off to the side. It's really nice sculpted hair. I will say, though, like, I feel like the head
05:21sculpt is maybe depicting a Robin that's way too old. Looking at the way he looks in New 52,
05:26I feel like his skin face, or his skin face, his face should look a lot younger than what
05:32we're getting right here. It's just my own personal opinion, but, again, I like the way
05:35they painted the mask. The paint, for the most part, what we get is pretty cleanly painted,
05:39as well to be said for the rest of his costume. Now, this is not your traditional Robin suits,
05:44in that he has now, like, like a bandolier armor piece that goes across the front of his chest,
05:48and the notable thing, as well, about this Robin is that he does also have wings. The thing that's
05:53neat about the wings is that they do actually open up. What it essentially is is that the cape,
05:57the wings, are attached by these pegs right here. So there's one and one on either side,
06:02and then you've got this back appliance piece that's going over top of it. That allows, then,
06:06the wings to have their own articulation. So you just swing these out. It's something that the
06:10other Robin couldn't say, the other Robins couldn't say that they've had. The thing,
06:13unfortunately, about it is the way that they've angled it up the torso. It's not straight up like
06:18this. It's actually more on a on an overhang or a curve. So it means that when you're bringing the
06:22wings up, the wings seem to naturally want to drape forward instead of actually sitting upright.
06:28I think what I might end up doing is trying to heat these in hot water, or even maybe just taking
06:32a hairdryer, take a few passes that way. I'm going to see if I can maybe put them on something and
06:36make them flat. The thing about it, though, is obviously when they come down, they look more
06:41like a cape. So maybe the curve does help at least from from making it look like a cape. But to bring
06:46the wings forward is really when you start to experience the drapage on the wings. The wings
06:50are also really large, too, and they're made of a fairly soft plastic. I do, though, like the idea
06:55that they brought over the feature of having the wings swing out like this. It is a nice touch,
06:59although I don't think the wings are super effective just because the way that they drape
07:02down like this. A lot of it is also, too, just the weight of them as well. For the rest of his
07:06suit, the primary colors, of course, are very much a dark red, but you've got these nice little
07:11accents of yellow. He's got these bands that almost even look like tiny little utility belts.
07:15He's got them all around his arms. He's got them also in the front of his chest, and he's got the
07:18little notable symbol there, although it's really hard to make that out. It's super dark, and if I
07:24can actually just hold it up to light, you can see that there's something that's supposed to be there,
07:28but it's just super, super dark. On the side, though, he has a much more easier to read symbol
07:32there on the side. It's just, I don't know if it's, I guess, a little bird there that he has.
07:36That's been fairly well outlined as well in yellow. All in all, the character looks good.
07:41If you like this design of Tim Drake, then I think the Red Robin looks good. I just feel, though,
07:46like, again, if you're putting him next to the regular Tim Drake, which we had gotten before,
07:50yes, he is notably smaller, but I feel like he probably even should have been even smaller still,
07:55and I feel like, if anything, they probably should have made the face a little bit younger than what
07:58we're actually getting here. Now, for the figure's articulation, he's going to have the ball joint in
08:03the head, so it's going to allow the head to rotate all the way around. Tim's head does look up about
08:07that high. It can also look down, and it also can move back and forth as well. I guess you could
08:12consider as well the wings to be articulation, as there's a peg and there's a peg, so obviously
08:16those wings allow to move to move outward. Again, I just don't, I wish that there was a way that they
08:20didn't have to hang forward like this. I mean, I guess the more you bring them up, the little bit
08:24more noticeable that they are. If you have them just really off to the sides or kind of just a
08:27little more on an angle like this, maybe they don't look so bad. The figure does also have an upper
08:32torso ball joint. It's actually just below the bandolier, and this bandolier is actually a
08:36separate appliance piece. It's soft plastic, and it looks like they probably would have glued this
08:40over top of his body and not molded it from scratch. Makes me think that they could probably
08:44then use this body, if they haven't already, for another future figure. Anyways, he does have an
08:48upper torso ball joint. Red Robin does also have a lower torso ball joint. The one thing I'll also
08:54say, too, just before we kind of move on to the rest of the figure's articulation, is that there
08:57are some aspects of the figure that are a lot brighter. So his torso right here, I would imagine,
09:02has probably been cast in this color of plastic, where I feel like his arms and I feel like his
09:07abdomen, and especially his lower legs, have probably been cast in dark black plastic. You
09:11can see there is a noticeable difference between the color tints. So this is a much more bright,
09:16vibrant red. The things on his arms, for example, and his abdomen, or even, I mean, even just look
09:20at his abdomen, how close it is to the tops of his, well, I guess, the top of his torso.
09:24It is a lot darker here, and again, I'm wondering if they maybe have painted that over black plastic,
09:28whereas this wasn't cast in black plastic in the first place. Other than, like, the color variations,
09:33again, you've got the abdomen area there that has a ball joint. You can split the legs out on Robin.
09:38You take the legs and move forward. You can move them back. Swivel at the top of the thigh. The
09:42figure does have a double hinge on the knee, and of course, you've got your ankle articulation.
09:46Your ankle rocker. The figure does also have toe articulation. Did we talk at all about the
09:50arm articulation? I feel like we didn't. Anyways, to go back to that rotation on the arms, he has a
09:54swivel there in his bicep, double hinge on the elbow, and the hands rotate all the way around.
10:00I like the Robin. There are a few little things I probably would have done differently for Red
10:03Robin. First, notably, I feel like his face is way too old. I feel like Robin, at least from seeing
10:08what he looks like in New 52, Robin should have, I feel, a lot younger of a face. From the molding
10:13of the figure, it looks good. I like the wings, even though I think like the wings kind of hang
10:17over a little bit too much. There are, of course, some color variations where you can clearly see
10:21like the colors were probably painted the red over top of the black, like in the legs, like in
10:25the arms, even like the abdomen. The only thing that doesn't seem to be the case is also the top
10:29of his torso, where they probably would have just then painted the neck area. There are a few,
10:33again, little areas where the colors don't quite match up, but it's a decent looking Robin. If
10:38you're a big fan of like the Red Robin as he appears in the New 52, it's not a bad figure to
10:42pick up. It's also an older figure to be picking up. It's not one that's been out for a while.
10:48It's been sitting in my collection for a while, and I finally got around to reviewing him. Now
10:52that I have him out of the packaging, I probably will end up displaying this guy, honestly, with
10:56the other Tim Drake Robin. For my Batman, at least, collection, at least for the majority of
11:00my DC Multiverse figures, I tend to have the smaller Golden Age Robin. He wasn't that small.
11:05He was a little bit shorter than that. I usually tend to have that Robin displayed with that
11:08Batman, and then usually then I'll just have the other Robins, literally like in the Robin family,
11:12I'll just have them kind of displayed on their own. I might just end up doing that. I'll display
11:15the two Tim Drake Robins, one the regular Robin, one the Red Robin. I'll display the two of them
11:20together on my shelf. Even though, really, this is the first time we've gotten the Red Robin mold,
11:25it's not the last time, though, that this mold got used. Later on, though, McFarland would release
11:29a DC Multiverse Red Robin Jokerized version, which was a gold label release. It was also one that I
11:34still have in my collection now. I wanted to kind of at least look at the original molds before we
11:39did any Jokerizing at all, so that Jokerized version of the Red Robin may still be a review
11:44that's going to be coming to the channel down the road. Back, though, to the original mold of Red
11:48Robin, the mold is good. The colors aren't quite matching up. Obviously, again, as mentioned in
11:53this review, there are a few little areas where some of the reds on the arms, some of the reds on
11:57the legs don't quite match up with the red that he has on the top of his torso. Something, though,
12:02I didn't mention in this review, and hopefully you guys can still see now, he's got a little bit of a
12:06bluish tint on the top of his head. I do like that they added that. I mean, too much of it,
12:12it takes away, I feel, too much away from the hair, but just in the right amounts, it adds a
12:16nice little bit of comic appeal. The appealing thing also about this figure is the fact he does
12:20have swing forward wings. The wings, though, are a very soft plastic, and you can see that they also
12:25droop forward. I don't know, and because I haven't had the figure out of the packaging for very long
12:30at all, if having the wings always out like this, if they would continue to droop forward, but it
12:34could be a problem that's going to be facing his figure down the road. He does come included with
12:38the staff. Now, the staff, again, was packaged originally with the first Tim Drake that we got,
12:42so it's kind of fitting, and even though, again, they're not using the molds, they happen, though,
12:46to be using the exact same mold for the staff. What do you guys think of the Red Robin? Has this
12:50been a figure that you had already a chance to pick up, or is it the figure that's now on your
12:54radar to pick up? Let me know what you think of it down below. As your video question for today,
12:58who's your favorite Robin? Even though this is technically New 52, and really this Robin didn't
13:03really spend a whole lot of time as a Robin, who's your favorite Robin? Not necessarily
13:08your character, not a Tim Drake, not a Jason Todd, not a Dick Grayson, but what's your favorite
13:13version of Robin, if that makes any sense? Let me know down below in the comments section. By the
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