McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Batman Forever Knightmare Bat Wave Robin Figure
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00:00Holy second helpings of O'Donnell, Batman!
00:03Here's a look at the brand-new McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Batman Forever's Robin.
00:31Batman faces off against two foes, the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harvey Dent, a.k.a. Two-Face,
00:38and the Riddler, a disgruntled X-Wing Enterprises inventor seeking revenge against his former employer
00:43by unleashing his brain-sucking weapon on Gotham City's residents.
00:46As the Caped Crusader also deals with tortured memories of his parents' murder,
00:50he has a new romance with psychologist Chase Meridian.
00:53While Alpha takes liberties to make some other guy's suit,
00:56I'm going to be taking the tape measure to see how tall the DC Multiverse Batman Forever Robin stands.
01:00This is, in fact, the second time we've gotten ourselves a Chris O'Donnell Robin,
01:03the first one being the Batman Robin release.
01:05The figure, though, is going to stand about the same size at six and a half inches in height,
01:09or Robin's going to stand at about 17 centimeters tall.
01:13Unless you have your eyes closed, you may notice right away that the Batman Forever Robin
01:16is a little bit shorter than the one we get from Batman and Robin.
01:19Maybe just also a case that the legs need to be a little bit closer together,
01:22but even bringing them as close together as I can,
01:24you can see there's definitely a size difference between the two.
01:27There is, though, a lot of mold sharing between the two figures as well,
01:30sharing not only the torso, sharing the lower legs,
01:32and I have to even question the idea that they're also using the exact same boot mold,
01:36which isn't 100% right.
01:37I think the one we get from Batman Forever is a little bit more simplified
01:40than the one we get from Batman and Robin.
01:42Either way, though, let's bring in some of the other figures we've already had a look at.
01:45I guess we're bringing in all the other figures we've already had a look at,
01:47seeing as Robin is the fourth figure in all.
01:49Here's what the figure looks like first with Sonar Suit Batman.
01:51Here's what he looks like with a superior Tommy Lee Jones Two-Face.
01:54And right front and center, here's what he looks like with Jim Carrey's Riddler.
01:57I guess just before we start building bats,
01:59let's look at the other things that come included with Robin.
02:01First, the figure does come included with a display stand.
02:04No different of a display stand than the normal variety we get,
02:07with the DC logo branded down below
02:08and the name-bearing peg to the far corner that can plug into either one of Robin's boots.
02:12The figure also does come included... What was that all about?
02:17The figure does also come included with the trading card.
02:19The trading card is, though, one of those things that, you know,
02:21if you were to connect all of them, I think Tommy Lee Jones would have been right around here.
02:25Riddler would have been down here.
02:27And then if you had Batman, Batman would have been much larger at the top.
02:31I know I've done this already a couple of times already.
02:32Nobody cares at all.
02:34It isn't, though, quite just a case of matching up the pictures
02:37like we would have done with the Batman and Robin poster,
02:39as, again, like every other character other than Val Kilmer,
02:41is a little bit smaller down below.
02:43And Riddler's kind of right around here.
02:46Nobody cares.
02:48Hope that you care, though, is the fact that we get ourselves thicker photography.
02:51Crystal Garneau really wasn't a bad Robin at all.
02:54I really would have preferred a much younger Robin myself,
02:56but I don't think he really wasn't a bad actor at all to fit the part of Robin.
03:00On the back of the card, though, unfortunately, it's still the same read-up.
03:03If you've already read this now three times, you're going to be reading it now a fourth time.
03:07It's the exact same paragraph breaking down the story behind the scenes of Batman Forever.
03:11It would have been nice if it was more specific to the flying Gray Sins,
03:14but unfortunately there's no reference of that.
03:16It only just really makes more reference to the fact that it's Harvey Dent, it's Two-Face,
03:20and, of course, the fact that Batman's after Chase Meridian.
03:22I don't think, even looking through this now,
03:24yeah, there's no mention of Robin at all.
03:27Poor Robin gets the shaft when it comes to having any bit of a read-up on the back of the card.
03:31I'm going to be putting all these cards together now that I have completed the sets.
03:34They're going to be going in my trading card sheets. Nobody cares.
03:36Let's move those off to the side.
03:38I hope, though, that you care that the figure does come in clear
03:40with the final piece that we need to build the Nightmare Bats.
03:43This is being the Batwing.
03:44The Batwing is, if you have collected the McFarlane toys' dragons, for example,
03:48that kind of plastic that they use for those dragons, yeah?
03:51It happens to be the same kind of plastic they're using here for the wings of the Nightmare Bat.
03:55I just happen to have the Nightmare Bat.
03:57Just off to the side here, we'll kind of move Robin out of the way.
04:00I may not do an entire review dedicated just solely to the Bat.
04:03I might find maybe just looking at it right now might be more than enough.
04:06But you're going to take basically the peg here on the side for the arm,
04:09and you're just going to attach it onto, you guessed it, the other side that didn't have the wing.
04:13I may even, in fact, want to bring this up just a little bit.
04:16I do like the look of the Bat.
04:17I know initially—there goes Robin.
04:18I know initially when I was going to be looking at the Bat,
04:20I was kind of thinking to myself,
04:21did we really need this to be a build-a-figure piece?
04:23The more that I have been building this, the only other three times,
04:26I really actually like the look of this Bat quite a lot.
04:29It doesn't have to necessarily be one that attaches to Batman and Robin
04:31as I'm trying my best to attach now the wing, this blasted wing.
04:35There we go, onto the side of the Bat body.
04:37You know, again, like, it doesn't have to necessarily be one
04:39that you want to display with the Batman Forever figures.
04:41If you want to just have this as a standalone Bat,
04:43it's pretty cool on its own.
04:44Actually, you know what?
04:45Just leave Robin over there for right now.
04:47The Bat itself, the only one complaint I would say
04:49is the way it attaches onto the ball joint.
04:51It sits very loose.
04:53The Bat body itself, I don't know if it's just way too heavy
04:55or that once the ball joint has lodged itself into the undergullet of the Bat,
05:00it just has become way too loose.
05:01I may see if I can maybe thicken this up just a little bit.
05:04I don't know, add a little bit of nail polish or floor polish or something,
05:07whatever they do to thicken up a joint.
05:09I may just end up doing that just because I feel like the Bat
05:12is just a little on the loose side.
05:14The Bat, though, head does have some pretty decent detailing done to it.
05:17We've already looked at the fact it doesn't open and close mouth.
05:20You can move the Bat head up and down.
05:22It does have some fair bit of freedom back and forth.
05:25You can also move, as well, the Bat wings up and down.
05:27You can also rotate them forward and back, as well.
05:28There's no articulation on the back.
05:30This is solely just soft, rubbery plastic.
05:32Not a bad-looking Bat, though.
05:33I'm actually kind of glad the fact that they decided to use this
05:36as the Build-A-Figure piece.
05:38Initially, I was kind of thinking to myself,
05:39could they not have just done the save?
05:41Could they have not done a smaller version of Edward Nygma's brain blender?
05:44Could they not have done that?
05:45Even just one of Tommy Lee Jones' two-faced goons, I think,
05:48would have been a perfect Bat figure.
05:50The more I'm looking at the Bat, though,
05:53the more I'm really liking the look of it.
05:55It's probably not going to be honestly displayed with the rest of my
05:57Batman Forever figures.
05:58I might just end up putting it on the shelf, as you see.
06:00Now, all on its own.
06:02Ah!
06:03Flying it off to the side.
06:04We'll just put it off to the side over right here.
06:06Let's bring back in Robin.
06:07Put him front and center.
06:08Let's look at the other remaining accessories
06:10that the figure comes included with.
06:12I can't help but notice, though, that Robin, unfortunately,
06:14not only is not listed on the back of the card
06:16when it comes to the read-up,
06:18but while Batman comes included with all these Batarangs,
06:20Robin came included with this.
06:22A magic egg?
06:24Does it look like a...
06:25I guess it does kind of look like a magic egg.
06:26He comes with nothing, everybody.
06:28He comes with nothing at all,
06:29other than some swappable hands.
06:30The figure, first of all, does already come out of the packaging,
06:32as you see right now with closed fists.
06:34The figure does have, though,
06:35the option of giving him open, gripping hands.
06:37So I suppose if you want to share the wealth around,
06:39you could...
06:40I mean, Bruce Wayne has wealth.
06:41You could also share the wealth of his Batarangs around
06:43by giving one of them to Robin.
06:45Again, the hands just pop out from what...
06:47Well, you already know how...
06:48We're going to be changing them.
06:49We'll change them in a second.
06:50Because the figure also comes included with these dynamic hands.
06:52One is sort of like a gestured hand.
06:54I guess it could really be the hand that he's reaching down
06:56when he first pulls Batman out.
06:58What almost looks like he's just fallen and had confetti.
07:01Remember when he kind of shields himself up,
07:03which is one of the more stupider aspects of Batman Forever?
07:05He seems to have just a power-up energy shield on his cape
07:09that prevents Tommy Lee Jones from blowing him to bits.
07:11And then, basically, Tommy Lee just blows the things above him
07:14and just rains down, I guess, confetti.
07:16Robin reaches down,
07:17although he's not necessarily really wearing this outfit.
07:20He's wearing the Flying Grayson's outfit.
07:22But he does reach down to grab Batman's hand.
07:24I suppose that could be the hand for that.
07:26He also does come in pointing hand as well.
07:28I don't really know what the pointing hand would be.
07:30Now you've got yourself a partner?
07:32Maybe. I don't know.
07:33If you want to change the hands,
07:34which is the point I'm trying to make,
07:36just easily remove them from the provided peg,
07:38take the hand that you want to use,
07:39and plug it back in place.
07:41And, of course, now you've got yourself a pointing hand.
07:43You're going to go behind bars.
07:46I can't have a tough time saying this.
07:48You're going behind bars,
07:49I think is actually what he says to Two-Face,
07:51as opposed to trying to kill him.
07:53He learns his lesson from Batman
07:54that you don't need to kill someone to get revenge.
07:56Seeing them just behind bars for the rest of their lives,
07:58even though Two-Face really...
08:00It's funny, kind of like Batman tells Robin,
08:02you can't kill somebody.
08:04And then Batman proceeds to then throw the coins at Two-Face,
08:06so he deliberately falls off and plummets to his death.
08:09Batman was a bit of a hypocrite, I feel, in this movie.
08:12Anyways, though, Robin has the pointing hand.
08:14He does, again, have the gestured hand.
08:16You want to change that out, too?
08:17Okay, we'll remove the hand from the peg.
08:19We'll pop the new hand in place.
08:21There we go.
08:23Again, he has the reaching hand,
08:24he has the pointing hand.
08:25Robin's doing a whole lot of things
08:26other than really holding any accessories.
08:29Getting, though, a closer look at the figure.
08:31Sliding everything else out of the way.
08:33First of all, I want to say,
08:34the head sculpt's really good on this one.
08:35I don't know if I would say it's as good as the one
08:37that we got here from Batman and Robin.
08:39The one from Batman and Robin,
08:40not only, I thought,
08:41looked a little bit more like Chris O'Donnell,
08:43but, I mean, it's strange, really,
08:44when you're looking at the head sculpts,
08:45that one is notably longer than the other,
08:47and it's also a little bit thinner than the other.
08:50I know some years have passed
08:51between Batman Forever and Batman and Robin,
08:53and yet, I don't know,
08:54maybe that's the one justified reason why Chris O'Donnell...
08:57I think, by the point that Chris O'Donnell
08:59was playing the role of Robin,
09:00I think he had already hit
09:01all these growth spurts in his life
09:03that I don't think he was going to be getting any bit taller.
09:05But, you know, to look at the two,
09:06you can clearly see, though,
09:07that Batman Forever's Robin is smaller
09:10than Batman and Robin's Robin.
09:12One of the things that's also done
09:13is that they've shared the same bodies.
09:15So, if you didn't like the idea that Batman has,
09:17or Robin has, for example,
09:18these little nipples there on the front of his body,
09:21obviously, Batman Forever's Robin has that as well.
09:24Now, there is some tooling,
09:25and it isn't simply just a tit-for-tat
09:27where they simply have taken the torso
09:28and then they've just used the mold again.
09:30They have honestly added, also,
09:32these little straps that he has on the front,
09:34little tied-off pieces that he has.
09:37So, those are brand new.
09:38The symbol is also something
09:39that they would have had to sculpt over top of the plastic.
09:41This actually isn't simply just printed in place.
09:44You can actually feel, if you rub your hand across it,
09:46the tiny little R.
09:47So, they would have essentially taken, again, this body,
09:50and they would have probably used the body again
09:52and just molded whatever they need to mold for this one
09:54because, of course, this has
09:55the additional Nightwing symbol on the front,
09:57and then they would have just...
09:58You already know.
09:59I don't feel like I have to explain any more.
10:02Gloves are also something
10:03that's also different between the two figures.
10:05One does have longer, thinner spikes on one,
10:08and the Batman Robin had his a little bit more curved back.
10:11The arms, though, being very similar,
10:13this one does have the additional sculpting there on the side.
10:16The cod piece.
10:17I know everybody's all that interested
10:19with Robin's cod piece.
10:20First of all, the utility belt is one thing that's different.
10:22The cod piece, though, is completely different.
10:24They don't have the lines there on the front.
10:26You can see, like, this one's a little bit more smoother.
10:28I don't want to spend a whole lot of time...
10:30I don't want to spend a whole lot of time talking about this.
10:32Same legs and also same boots.
10:34Now, this is something I did mention earlier
10:36that I feel like the boots should be a little bit different.
10:38I'm trying to really do my best to research into this
10:40to see what Robin's original boots look like.
10:42He had, though, little symbols there on the top,
10:44but the original one that we got from Batman and Robin
10:46does have more of a Nightwing symbol
10:48or kind of looks like the Ultimate Warrior's face makeup.
10:51Robin's, though, if you look at the movie,
10:53and, again, it's very hard to kind of make out
10:55what the boots actually look like,
10:56they're not as defined as this.
10:58They have a symbol, though, at the top of the boots,
11:00but they're a little bit more...
11:02a little bit more jagged, I suppose, at the bottom
11:04than they actually look like.
11:05So they have essentially used the same boots
11:07from the looks of it, at least.
11:09And, again, they really shouldn't have,
11:11but, I mean, again, the fact that we get ourselves
11:13two different Robins from that, that's not a bad thing at all.
11:15One thing, one thing that's very different
11:17between the two figures is that the Batman and Robin
11:19version of Robin had the plastic cape.
11:21The new Robin actually has the fabric cape.
11:23I think the fabric cape is really nicely done here.
11:25It's two layers, so the top layer
11:27is obviously more of like a black felt.
11:29The internal layer kind of looks more like
11:31jogging pants or track pants,
11:33kind of like that nylon material.
11:35It's a good color. I think it fairly matches
11:37what we get in the movie.
11:38I do actually like the fact they've also added a wire frame,
11:40and it's a soft enough material, too.
11:42We just recently looked at the 66 Batman series Batman,
11:45but the cape I found was really...
11:46One of the things I kind of let the figure down,
11:48I feel like the cape at all is not letting Robin down.
11:50I think it's a decent-looking cape that they've given him.
11:52And, of course, if you wanted to, you can bend it up.
11:54You have Robin kind of perched.
11:56We see it very... I guess in the trailer we see him
11:58standing on top of the rock face.
12:00You can have the cape bent that way also as well
12:02if you want to.
12:03Decently done. Decent-looking figure overall.
12:06Still not really, again, sure why he has to be
12:08a shorter figure than the Batman and Robin,
12:10considering really that they're using
12:11a lot of the same molds together.
12:13I guess maybe it is just the case that
12:14because the head is a little bit differently shaped,
12:17that could have been one of the contributions...
12:20Boy, I'm having a tough time.
12:21One of the contributions as to maybe why the figure
12:23is a little bit taller.
12:24But, I mean, even just to put them back-to-back like this,
12:26it does, though, seem like the Batman and Robin
12:28is taller than the Batman Forever Robin.
12:31With that all being said,
12:32let's run through the figure's articulation now.
12:34Robin, first of all, does have a ball joint in his head.
12:36I did notice it was fairly tight in the figure's head too.
12:39So when it rotates, it rotates tightly.
12:41Head looks up. The head looks down.
12:43The head can also angle back and forth as well.
12:45The upper torso is going to be on a ball joint.
12:47The lower abdomen area is also on a ball joint.
12:50The arms come out,
12:51and the arms, I noticed on this figure,
12:53are a little on the looser side.
12:54To be fair, though, I would rather these be loose here
12:57than loose legs, which he doesn't seem to have.
12:59He has a swivel, though, and a bicep.
13:00He does have, though, a double hinge on his elbow,
13:02and hands rotate all the way around.
13:04Legs split out.
13:05You probably can also hear, as well, the ratchet joint.
13:08The lower trunks, by the way,
13:09like all the other figures we've looked at,
13:11are using a softer plastic.
13:13The legs go forward, the legs go back,
13:15and they also swivel at the top of the thigh.
13:17I really made very little mention of this,
13:19but I do think that the colors look pretty good
13:20to the way they did in the movie.
13:22If anything, I would say maybe the colors
13:23need to be a tad bit darker,
13:25like the chest piece, for example,
13:26needs to be a little bit more of a darker red.
13:28The same also could be said, as well,
13:29for the teal color that they've got for the arms
13:31and the lower legs,
13:32but I think the colors are pretty close.
13:34The legs, as we continue, though,
13:35does have a double hinge on his knee.
13:37There's no articulation at all
13:38because the boot is simply just the same mold
13:40as the rest of his calf,
13:41but there is, though, articulation in the ankle.
13:43You can move it back and forth.
13:44You can rock it back and forth,
13:46and the figure does also have toe articulation, as well.
13:48Not a bad-looking Robin.
13:50You know, one thing I do actually like about this line
13:51is the fact that, first of all,
13:52the figures look decent.
13:53All the ones, really, except for, honestly, Batman,
13:55have been really good, have been really stellar.
13:58Robin looks pretty good.
13:59Honestly, though, one of the issues I had with Robin
14:02still sort of seems to be the case
14:03that every time you kind of bring his legs together,
14:05they want to kind of spring back out,
14:08so I'm going to probably want to make sure
14:10I use myself the display stand
14:12to get this guy to properly stand.
14:14Yeah, bringing in Batman,
14:15which, unfortunately, was the letdown of this line,
14:18simply just because, again,
14:19if he's so in our suit, Batman,
14:20I feel, really, again,
14:21his cowl needed to be the proper colors.
14:23They needed to match, obviously,
14:24the colors of the costume,
14:25and also the colors of the costume
14:27weren't all that right, either.
14:28Then we got ourselves a pretty decent-looking Jim Carrey,
14:31and I like the look of this one,
14:32but I think, by far, my favorite
14:33has to be the Tommy Lee Jones Two-Face.
14:36And, of course, this whole time, as well,
14:39bringing in the Bat, I don't know,
14:40I should probably really move all these guys out of the way,
14:42bringing in the Bat that we have been building
14:44this whole time.
14:45We'll put him probably just in the back here.
14:47Even though I am putting him in the back right now,
14:48this isn't going to be the way
14:49I'm going to be displaying them on the shelf.
14:51If anything, I really would like
14:52just to display the figures on their own,
14:53maybe display the Bat off on its own
14:55onto a shelf somewhere.
14:57Yeah, there we go, there we go.
14:59Now, I did say, though, I mean,
15:01when we were looking at both the Robin and the Two-Face,
15:03the Riddler and Two-Face,
15:05I think there's definitely opportunities
15:06that maybe McFarlane down the road could release.
15:08Why is this Robin having such a hard time to stand?
15:10I feel like, really, that they could release
15:12platinum editions of both Two-Face and Riddler.
15:14Riddler could have the white suit.
15:16Tommy Lee Jones's Two-Face could then have
15:17the top-hat circus version of Two-Face.
15:20But I do think, like Robin,
15:21I think there's maybe an opportunity
15:22also there, as well,
15:23that they could give us a Flying Grayson's release
15:25where he has more of the fabric costume,
15:27not necessarily implying that they need to
15:29create another Bat figure for that.
15:31The Bat, though, is a nice release.
15:33I honestly didn't think I was going to like
15:35the Bat so much until I started to kind of
15:37put everything together.
15:38And I'm glad that we actually did get ourselves the Bat.
15:40He may not be, though, displayed
15:42with the figures that I did say already,
15:44but he's definitely going to be displayed on my shelf
15:45because it's too cool of a Bat to start storing away.
15:48While I may have struggled a bit
15:49getting my words all out,
15:50one of the things I do want to take away
15:52from this figure is the fact that he has
15:53definitely one of the best capes around,
15:55if you like the fabric variety.
15:57I know plastic capes seems to be something
15:59that they've done away with altogether.
16:00The more we get more releases of characters
16:02that have capes,
16:03the more we seem to be getting fabric capes
16:05than we're getting plastic.
16:06I, though, initially did think that plastic
16:08was good because it stuck with the sort of material
16:10that they were already using for the figures.
16:12Plastic with a plastic figure worked best for me,
16:14at least, but the more I'm seeing more figures
16:16get released with fabric capes,
16:17the more I'm liking the look of it.
16:19With especially a wire built into Robbins,
16:21you can get some real dynamic things
16:22going on with the cape.
16:23So even though the figure kind of got let down
16:25when it comes to accessories,
16:26he does kind of do a little bit better than Batman,
16:28not only having more color-accurate colors
16:30in his costumes,
16:32but he also has, as well,
16:33a better looking cape, too.
16:34He is, though, smaller than Batman and Robbins' Robbins,
16:37so if you're hoping to put the two together
16:38and expect the same similar size results,
16:40you're going to be a little let down
16:41by the fact that this one's going to be
16:42a little bit shorter.
16:43Perhaps between the span of two movies,
16:45Chris O'Donnell maybe have just got
16:47a little bit taller in size,
16:49or maybe because, again,
16:50like maybe with George Clooney,
16:52he wanted to be a little bit taller,
16:53so secretly he asked the people behind the scenes
16:55that were making the suits,
16:56can you add a few lifts in my shoes?
16:59That's the only guess I really have.
17:00Caution looks good on this guy.
17:01I think it could have probably been
17:02just a little bit darker,
17:03but overall, though, head to toe,
17:05it's a pretty good looking Robin.
17:07Of the four figures,
17:08and it's pretty easy to kind of summarize
17:10my favorite figures
17:11when you're only really dealing
17:12with four figures in this wave,
17:13my favorite would be Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face.
17:15I don't know why I keep having to say
17:16Tommy Lee Jones in the front of it,
17:18just probably because we already had
17:19an Eric Eckhart version of Two-Face.
17:22Aaron Eckhart's Two-Face was okay.
17:25Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face was exceptional.
17:27So I like him right away.
17:28He's my favorite figure.
17:29Probably would then say,
17:30probably the Riddler.
17:32Riddler, I would say second.
17:33Then Robin, then the distant fourth,
17:35and it only again happens
17:36to be four figures in this wave,
17:37would unfortunately be Sonar Suit Batman.
17:39Sculpt wasn't that bad,
17:40but the colors of the costume
17:41definitely let that figure down.
17:43What was your favorite figures
17:44that we've looked at from this wave?
17:45And yes, I was a little tongue-tied
17:47in this review.
17:48So sorry for that.
17:49It must've been all the lemonade
17:50I was drinking just puckered up my lips.
17:52I had a hard time getting all the words out.
17:54Hopefully I can get the following words out
17:56if you guys did enjoy this review.
17:57Do it a solid.
17:58Why don't you throw it a like?
17:59You guys wanna stick around for more so?
18:01I hope so.
18:02Even though we are wrapping up things right now
18:04for at least Batman Forever,
18:05there's gonna be a lot more
18:06DC Multiverse reviews in the pipeline.
18:08So make sure you hit that subscribe,
18:10making sure you're turning on the bell,
18:11making sure the most important thing
18:13is that you're coming back.
18:14As always, guys, thanks for watching.
18:15See you guys next time.
18:27Bye.