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The McFarlane Collector Edition DC Multiverse Wonder Woman figure. This isn't something I generally would buy. Like with Legends, I respect what they do with a limited budget, but recognize it's not really for me so rather than buy it and be critical, I just leave it be.
So one day I saw this Wonder Woman figure and said figure that it's a decent sculpt, and it should be pretty easy to get. Fast forward three months and there are stores like Gamestop that never got their stock, and someone my backorder on Amazon fulfilled and the item delisted.
Marketed as a more prestigious figure than the typical McFarlane release, $50 CAD gets you the figure, six total hands, her terrible Lasso of Truth, an axe, a sword, a shield, a collector card with a stand, and a figure stand. In terms of content, I think it's just the card and the two stands that are extra. The figure is larger than your typical Legends figure, standing in at 7 inches tall, so some points for that.
Compared to the other Wonder Women releases, the overall silhouette on this figure destroys them all, especially the live action ones with their stick like bodies. The face is... OK. It's not terrible, but it's not great either, and it certainly doesn't look like the art. It's just kind of there.
The gear, I believe, are repaints of weapons given to other iterations of the character. It amuses me to no end that despite being a totally different line, it seems I cannot get away from trigger hands, which make for decent Praying Mantis style fighting hands when push comes to shove.
The Articulation is a bit lacking compared to Power Princess on the Legends side, a figure I only know about because everyone was making direct comparisons to Wonder Woman. It's mainly the lack of proper thigh swivel and chest level articulation that separate the two, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss having those when posing for photography. Pliable shorts help with the limited hip articulation. The figure also features butterfly style shoulders and double knees/eblows.
Paint Application wise I generally prefer the McFarlane stuff as it seems to be cleaner, and it seems McFarlane isn't shy about tossing in those metallic paints. The Gold on her waist isn't the best but the paint on her body armour is nice and vivid. The other areas of paint (bracers, weapons, shield, boots) are competent.
Build Quality is an area that I hear many a unhappy comment, and I can understand why. The shoulders on my figure are loose. They still do the job, but they're uncomfortably loose and the collar that fills in the shoulder gab is also pretty loose. The body, while it does have a very nice silhouette, has some fairly roughly finished parts which, to be fair, isn't limited to McFarlane. I guess at least my joints didn't snap apart or anything like that.
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The McFarlane Collector Edition DC Multiverse Wonder Woman figure. This isn't something I generally would buy. Like with Legends, I respect what they do with a limited budget, but recognize it's not really for me so rather than buy it and be critical, I just leave it be.
So one day I saw this Wonder Woman figure and said figure that it's a decent sculpt, and it should be pretty easy to get. Fast forward three months and there are stores like Gamestop that never got their stock, and someone my backorder on Amazon fulfilled and the item delisted.
Marketed as a more prestigious figure than the typical McFarlane release, $50 CAD gets you the figure, six total hands, her terrible Lasso of Truth, an axe, a sword, a shield, a collector card with a stand, and a figure stand. In terms of content, I think it's just the card and the two stands that are extra. The figure is larger than your typical Legends figure, standing in at 7 inches tall, so some points for that.
Compared to the other Wonder Women releases, the overall silhouette on this figure destroys them all, especially the live action ones with their stick like bodies. The face is... OK. It's not terrible, but it's not great either, and it certainly doesn't look like the art. It's just kind of there.
The gear, I believe, are repaints of weapons given to other iterations of the character. It amuses me to no end that despite being a totally different line, it seems I cannot get away from trigger hands, which make for decent Praying Mantis style fighting hands when push comes to shove.
The Articulation is a bit lacking compared to Power Princess on the Legends side, a figure I only know about because everyone was making direct comparisons to Wonder Woman. It's mainly the lack of proper thigh swivel and chest level articulation that separate the two, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss having those when posing for photography. Pliable shorts help with the limited hip articulation. The figure also features butterfly style shoulders and double knees/eblows.
Paint Application wise I generally prefer the McFarlane stuff as it seems to be cleaner, and it seems McFarlane isn't shy about tossing in those metallic paints. The Gold on her waist isn't the best but the paint on her body armour is nice and vivid. The other areas of paint (bracers, weapons, shield, boots) are competent.
Build Quality is an area that I hear many a unhappy comment, and I can understand why. The shoulders on my figure are loose. They still do the job, but they're uncomfortably loose and the collar that fills in the shoulder gab is also pretty loose. The body, while it does have a very nice silhouette, has some fairly roughly finished parts which, to be fair, isn't limited to McFarlane. I guess at least my joints didn't snap apart or anything like that.