{"id":31717,"date":"2015-08-24T01:19:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=31717"},"modified":"2015-08-24T01:31:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T06:31:23","slug":"neca-batman-25th-anniversary-blu-ray-batman-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=31717","title":{"rendered":"NECA Batman
25th Anniversary Blu-Ray Batman Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> I’m not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me. <\/em> – Batman, Batman (1989).<\/strong> <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been staring at my pile of unopened toys thinking of doing another review week to get my butt in gear and I\u2019ve hit upon a good one: Batman. I think there are nine or ten Batmen sitting in that pile. Which is really kinda dumb \u2013 what does a guy need with so many Batmen? That\u2019s ten unopened<\/em> Batmen. Who knows how many there are in the house total…<\/p>\n

I surely won\u2019t get to them all this week. I\u2019ll shoot for three to five. And I figure I\u2019ll start with a good one: NECA\u2019s 7\u201d 1989 version, sold exclusively with the 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray of the 1989 film. This figure pretty much broke the internet when it was revealed. NECA had already done a fantastic quarter scale figure and a lovably wacky 7\u201d video game figure at that point and I think we all that was it. I remember a lot of collectors, myself included, snagged a second NES figure planning to customize this exact toy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>But, I think even those of us that bought the extra to customize all hoped this figure would happen. Would NECA really make an all-new figure to only sell it in NES colors? We couldn\u2019t be sure, but those suspicions turned out to be correct. The licensing issue we thought were at play seem to have been worked around by the figure only being sold with the Blu-Ray and only in select locations at that. It\u2019s still a limited run of just two figures for an all-new mold, but it was clearly worth doing.<\/p>\n

And it was clearly worth it to do.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>Long-time readers of IAT know that I\u2019m a little obsessed with the Keaton Batman. I\u2019ll gobble up just about any toy related to it. I\u2019ve got Keaton Batmen from 1 to 18\u201d tall. I\u2019ve got a $600 Batmobile that I honestly have to leave in the box because I can\u2019t figure out where to put it. I did pass on the Hot Toys Mime Joker (and regret it constantly). I\u2019m not rose-colored about the film \u2013 I loved it when I was nine and I still enjoy it today, even if I\u2019m better able to find a flaw or two.<\/p>\n

And a 6\u201d Keaton figure is one of my biggest wants in all of toydom. And, yeah, it\u2019s still unfulfilled because NECA\u2019s lines run 7\u201d, but I\u2019ll take it. This Batman can run with Dutch, fight Predators & Aliens, or spar with Mr. T (by way of Clubber Lang), so it\u2019s still plenty cool and more in-line with why I want a 6\u201d scale Batman in the first place.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>One reason I haven\u2019t reviewed this figure in all this time is because I love the packaging! NECA is killing it in so many ways of late and one way is the homage packaging. This figure is carded as if he were part of Toy Biz\u2019s massive 1989 push. The gold background with purple trim on the front, the rooftop on the back with the clip-out newspaper subbing in as a file card. It\u2019s genius and it was tough to open even if I did just zip the bubble off and kept the cardback!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>Inside is a figure I mostly really like. The sculpt really is impressive throughout, but maybe because it\u2019s Keaton Batman I\u2019m just really prone to being able to nitpick it. The technical details are found throughout, but the figure could use to be a little bulkier in the arms and legs while the layering on the torso leave some strange undetailed areas visible. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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I do enjoy the look overall. The cowl and head sculpt \u2013 there\u2019s a full, inaccessible Keaton sculpt under there, are fantastic. The gloves, boots, belt, etc. are all well done. It\u2019s a great visual on the sculpt even if it\u2019s not quite as beefy as it should be. The paint completes the visual \u2013 not much is needed, but what is there is sharp enough to get the job done.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>The articulation is pretty good. I have a little trouble figuring out how to get the figure to stand up straight in a vanilla pose, but the articulation is there to be able to do it: ball-joints at the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, mid-torso, waist, hips, knees, & ankles. There is a variance in how well ranged all the joints and the figure tends towards being a little janky, but he\u2019s fun to pose.<\/p>\n

The only thing I really don\u2019t like about the figure? The cape. I hate cloth capes in general, so it\u2019s a tough sell for me, but the material used is so cheap that it\u2019s basically a veil. You can read this review through it with no problem. I\u2019m gonna figure NECA couldn\u2019t budget in the material they used on the quarter scale and I get that. But just even a heavier cloth would\u2019ve gone a long way. The other downfall is how it connects to the figure, creating a gap between the cowl & the torso. We know from the movie that the cowl basically made Keaton\u2019s head immobile; as such, I\u2019m honestly okay with a figure being the same. If NECA or any future Keaton Batman maker could just plan for the cap to tuck into the sculpt and render the head immobile, I\u2019m good with it. The one advantage to what NECA chose was that you move the cape around a bit to get different poses. What I\u2019ve come to like is just folding the cape over the cowl edges as it appears to close the gap and makes the cape doubled over in some areas and appear darker.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/center>Batman includes four hands \u2013 two fists and two designed to hold the accessories, a bat-grapple and a batarang. The hands are a little scary to swap out (particularly due to the rarity of the figure), but it is fun to swap them out and arm Batman wish some of his classic movie gear.<\/p>\n

Overall, this figure is nothing short of a godsend. In addition to NECA\u2019s three figures, Mattel did just recently make a 4\u201d figure so we\u2019re not in the long drought we used to be. I spent a long time assuming the ship has sailed on getting a great figure of my favorite version of Batman, so I\u2019m pretty ecstatic about this one. It\u2019s not perfect, but I appreciate it. NECA put together a really good figure and found a clever workaround to get it to us. That\u2019s win-win for this Batman. Now, if we can just get a 30th Anniversary Joker in a few years\u2026<\/p>\n

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