{"id":32141,"date":"2015-10-28T23:54:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T04:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=32141"},"modified":"2015-10-28T23:54:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T04:54:39","slug":"dc-collectibles-the-new-batman-adventure-6-robin-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=32141","title":{"rendered":"DC Collectibles The New
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<\/a> “Holy Cow!”<\/em>– Robin, The New Adventures of Batman, S2E2 “Critters” (1998)<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Thankfully, tonight\u2019s World Series game was much less nerve-wracking and I can actually get some work done. I\u2019ll try to not let Baseball screw up the schedule too much (I\u2019m in a good groove after that long absence), but I\u2019m a born & blue Kansas City Royals fan and they haven\u2019t won a World Series since I was in Kindergarten\u2026 I\u2019ll try to stay focused!<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s any one thing I could impart to my fellow toy collectors about toy collecting it\u2019s to keep an open mind. I\u2019m all for finding reasons to turn down stuff, to save money & stay on a budget, but if I\u2019ve learned one thing over and over it\u2019s that you just can\u2019t judge most figures until you have them in hand. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m struggling to keep up with this DC Collectibles Animated glut at the end of the year. Don\u2019t get me wrong, DCC was aces to push things back and get the figures done right (& they have). But after six figures, Roxy Rocket, & the Batmobile in the last five weeks, I think I\u2019m up over $300 and that\u2019s not including what I\u2019ve spent on diapers. Also, there\u2019s still six more figures due out in the next few weeks. They\u2019re great figures, so I\u2019m stoked, but let\u2019s just say that I hope my wife doesn\u2019t read this paragraph. <\/p>\n

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Anyway, as I\u2019m working to keep up, these little budget questions pop up. The obvious one for this line is choosing between BTAS & TNBA designs (I can\u2019t), or between heroes & villains (I can\u2019t), or just cherry-picking favorites (I can\u2019t). There is still low-hanging fruit, based on decades old likes & dislikes that you think maybe you can skip. TNBA Robin was supposed to be one of those. <\/p>\n

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I haven\u2019t skipped anything yet though, so I dutifully picked up Robin yesterday. It wasn\u2019t easy. He\u2019s such a little guy for $25, but I reminded myself that I also paid $25 for Man-Bat, so I figure DCC and I are square. Also, funny sidenote, I also didn\u2019t buy hi because I thought his accessories were missing due to some packaging error. You can\u2019t really tell in the packaged shot, but they\u2019re tiny, they\u2019re black, and they\u2019re packaged against a black background. It\u2019s pretty good camouflage. Luckily, I turned it to the right angle and all was revealed, enabling my purchase. <\/p>\n

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Once I got him out of the box and took a few pictures, any qualms I had about buying him disappeared. The Robin redesign is still among my least favorite and I\u2019ve never liked the all-red look, but playing around and photographing the figure just revealed this ineffable quality. He\u2019s just a fun toy. I haven\u2019t opened all of the DCC Animated figures yet, but this one feels like he\u2019s the most benefitted from the early issues. He feels like a toy. He doesn\u2019t feel delicate, none of the joints are stiff; he\u2019s just fun to have. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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And the visuals finally speak to me as a result. The hair is fun. The giant noggin\u2019 isn\u2019t a distraction. And the all-red costume, well, I still miss the green. But the figure looks great and is spot-on to the source material, so no complaints there. <\/p>\n

The articulation gets points for being a lot less fragile and giving the figure some decent range \u2013 I would like to see more out of some areas like the neck and shoulders (and I still miss those bicep & thigh swivels), but there is plenty of useful range for some good poses here thanks to the ball-joints at the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, & inverted ankles; the waist and boot swivels; and the h-jointed hips. I do have a little trouble getting the figure to stand now and again, but I\u2019m chalking that up to the aesthetic of the sculpt. The articulation can usually compensate once you strike the right balance. <\/p>\n

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Pain was one area where I wish the figure were a little bit better. I got to pick the less sloppy of the two, but I still ended up with a Robin that has a dirty face on the right side thanks to some black slop. The yellow paint was much better on the one I chose (and that\u2019s why I chose it), but it left me hoping most folks wanting one does in fact get to pick from at least two. You may need to. <\/p>\n

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Robin included the usual stand (thankfully with the more space friendly waist clip), seven hands, handcuffs with a real chain, a tiny batgrapple, and a tinier batarang. I was kinda hoping for a bigger item to offset the smaller figure, but the accessories we did get our great. The batarang is neat, I just hope I don\u2019t lose it, the handcuffs are fun, and the bat-grapple is cool, but kinda rendered pointless by the seventh hand which has it molded into it. The hands include a set of fists, gripping hands, and batarang hands. They pop on & off easily and help the figure\u2019s versatility. <\/p>\n

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Overall, this one just caught me off guard. I wasn\u2019t expecting to love it as much as I do, so Posnanski\u2019s Plus\/Minus system is probably in play, but I don\u2019t care. He\u2019s a fun little guy that looks great with Batman visually, has some sharp articulation for good poses, and a couple neat accessories. His head is still too big, but I don\u2019t have a time machine to go back to the 90s to do anything about it. <\/p>\n

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