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(More customer reviews)DC Universe Classics wave 12 (or you could call it the Darksied series) skewed a little more obscure than some past waves. They also have some updated packaging. This is Mary Batson A/K/A Mary Marvel and sister of Billy Batson A/K/A Captain Marvel. Like a lot of folks she was given great powers by the wizard Shazam and can transform back and forth from her super powered persona by invoking his name.
For Kids:
If you're trying to get your little girl to be a geek this may be a good starter figure. Can't really say the Marvel Family of characters are nearly as well known as other DC characters (Supes, Bats, WW I'm looking at you) but she's an attractive superheroic teen - that's got to count for something. She is of course smaller than other figures in this line as is appropriate but that does make her slightly more fragile, most notably in the arms.
For Adults:
If you scored Billy Batson (Shazam I think they called him on the package) and Black Adam from previous waves then she'll fit in well with the group. What they've delivered here is a confident young superheroine standing straight and proud. The hair and cape are made to look as if blowing to the left in a breeze. They've done an outstanding job on the flow and wrinkling of the material on her shirt and skirt. The face is attractive and the details on her cuffed boots and on the cape are done well.
What I have here is the white uniformed version. The other is red. The white is nice and uniform and the yellow lightning bolt and details look good. The yellow edging is not 100% consistent and the yellow rope is a touch clumpy but otherwise it's all good. Her hair is brown and eyes blue.
Articulation wise she's got, ball pin shoulders, pin elbows, cut wrists, cut waist, pin knees and ankles and cuts above the ankles. Due to the hair sculpt she can only turn her head slightly to the left. She seems to have ball hip joints that allow her legs to turn up top but all other hip movement is pretty much hampered by the skirt.
All the figures in this wave come with a little collector button, the kind you pin to your shirt, with little comic pictures loosely related to the figure. Her only other accessory is her piece of Darksied - the biggest piece - the torso.
I think they knocked the sculpt out of the park and the paint is very good and there are only minor quibbles with the articulation and she's a classic character that will look good in a Marvel Family / Shazam set.
The Collect and Connect, Darksied, is a welcome addition to all the Fourth World characters. He stands a fairly impressive 8 ½" tall. His craggy skin looks just a touch soft to me in comparison with an older (but smaller) version of the character I have but he still looks pretty good. There's good detail despite that and even the bottom of his feet contain all that Fourth World circuitry. He's just as articulated as his smaller counterparts and even has a couple of accessories. One, he's got a Mother Box he can hold in his hand and that also will attach to the back of his belt. Two, he has an interchangeable right hand, one in the regular blue glove posed to hold the Mother Box and an open menacing golden gloved hand covered in circuits and machinery. He's not as impressive as I'd like but still a very good figure who deserves 4 stars.
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