Mattel DC Universe Classics Man-Bat, Wave 10 Action Figure. Review

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(More customer reviews)Robert "Kirk" Langstrom develops an extract to give humans the sonar ability of bats and tests it on himself due to a developing deafness. But this is comic book land so OF COURSE he instead turns into a big crazy Man-Bat! On the up side I suppose that means the extract DID in fact give him the sonar so it did work. Sometimes when he takes the extract he can retain intelligence and be a good guy but most of the time he just goes on a rampage.
For kids:
Due to the character this DC Universe figure looks a lot different than most and it works really well. I couldn't imagine a kid (especially a little boy) who wouldn't like a big monster man-bat in the toy box. He looks monstrous, is well articulated and considering he exists in the Batman universe many kids probably know of him, from cartoons or comics. And this means he can be used to play with Batman figures. This guy is a win win for kids I would think.
For adults:
The sculpting is the standout here. From head to toe he's unique from the tips of his long bat ears to the toes on his clawed feet. His mouth is open in a shriek and there are even fine lines accentuating this. He's sculpted to give the appearance of a body covered in coarse hair and there is an extra piece on his back for the tuft of spine hair. He wears shredded pants and has clawed "bat" feet. The stand out of course is the winged arms. They are thin and long but don't feel too fragile. The large wings are tattered and sectioned to his forearms and hands/claws with a small piece on the upper arm. The overall wingspan is pretty impressive and the wings them selves are a translucent but sturdy plastic.
The skin color is brown with many highlights. In the face there is a lot of color, light and dark browns, painted teeth and mouth and red eyes. He has blue pants and the wings are translucent brown with tinges of yellow and his claws are black. Not one spot that looks out of place to me - although admittedly the wild nature of the character lends well to a little roughness. OK, there's one tiny spot of black on a wing I don't think is supposed to be there.
He's got a ball jointed neck although it can't look as far up as I'd like, ball and pin shoulders allowing the shoulder socket and the bicep to rotate, pin elbows and ball and bin wrists. All this arm articulation with the wings looks really good and dynamic and you can pull off flying poses, menacing poses and poses where he's draped his wings around him (a la Dracula). Very nice. He's got an ab crunch, cut waist, pin knees and pin "ankles". These last are situated where on a human the shin would be. He stands in an animalistic bent leg fashion.
His only "accessory" is a piece of Imperiex.
Great looking figure with an excellent sculpt and articulation that both kids and adults should love.
Imperiex is a pretty cool collect and connect (CC) figure. His is black and red armor and cape with lots of gold highlights and every surface is sculpted. It's really colorful while being imposing at the same time. His face is skeletal with exposed teeth and menacing red eyes in taught wrinkled skin. But he has two issues. One, his head pops into the neck on a really long peg that just drops down into his body so his head just kind of floats, what I mean is there is no tightness to the joint at all so it's like a bobble head if you move him around. A really weird choice - he looks fine standing still but you have to finagle the head around to get it just right. Second is his size. You see Imperiex is supposed to be a planetary threat and huge in size but you wouldn't know it from this nine inch figure. Yeah, I know the days of Galactus and Sentinel 14 to 16 inch figures are behind us (for now) but this guy looks like maybe some Fourth World warrior or something not the living embodiment of entropy. Even with all that he's still a four star figure though if only for the amount of detail they packed into him.

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Mattel produced this line of action figures based on the greatest heroes and villains from the DC Comics universe! Each figure is about 6 inch in height and features multiple points of articulation.

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