Can Mattel Compete? DC Hush Batman Diorama Review

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: it seems like every single company that has the dc license is making a hush version of batman does that make this mattel version for a hundred dollars worth getting i mean that is a pretty big dial piece with a functioning light and smoke but is it enough this hush batman does have a very nice package that's huh the box is what i mean it's very nice it has the lovely artwork on the front continues all the way through the side and then on the other side we have additional artwork which is absolutely gorgeous and is this a figure gonna well that's kind of seeing this image and then seeing this i'm like this figure comes from mattel but it comes from geek dad life he's the one that got this because they like him they i guess don't like me so i don't have one of these as a review sample even though that's what this is this is a review sample but it's his review sample anyway when you slide the large cover of the box off you get to see batman and his bat signal with a couple additional accessories and then there's another layer of goodies behind that that's the dio piece and then behind that is a nice backdrop now again beautiful artwork nice to see it's not ai it's probably directly pulled from the comic maybe with some additional pieces like this building top but uh it looks really nice i mean it could be original artwork for this and then the back version of it just kind of says hey take your stuff and replicate it with our backdrop okay the first layer you get is uh you know a pretty good first shot but for inbox collectors this does nothing for you because there's no flap to open but you know what i'm not one of those so i'm not too worried about it you also get an instruction booklet which you know is fine i think the really the only thing it's telling us is to put batteries in it and then to use water the second layer it's actually kind of heavy with this huge dial piece now it is really just a bunch of plastics there's like maybe a little bit of paint for this silver piece here but there's a little bit of wash i can i can tell in the dark bricks but not in the light areas which seems odd doesn't it like thank you for putting it here but why wouldn't you continue that on all of it to really just give it a lot more life like i said it's got some weight to it that's where the button is it's actually a piece of soft material on top of this harder plastic that's kind of interesting it's cool as far as the sculpt goes very nicely done in that uh aspect it again just not a lot of paint and you're paying 100 bucks for it i guess you're really paying 100 bucks for electronics and apparently electronics means expensive you have this additional backdrop piece which does again look good i mean the details of the sculpt are fantastic just put that wash up here especially with all these like beautiful cracks that you can't see so high praise to the sculptors that's for sure lock that into that portion there simple then we got this little uh i don't know like a ventilation chunk yeah details are nice it's very simple uh i guess it goes right here and then we got this gorgeous piece which definitely is a ventilation piece uh again really lacking on the paint options which i think it really could benefit from there's just so much beautiful sculpt and details here with this texture that we really aren't getting a good look at because of that goes right over that which means it's gonna all ideally i guess steam right out of this place where steam would come from so it's a cold night in gotham and while mattel may not want to be a sponsor of this channel you know who does flexi spot their second time actually this portion of the video is sponsored by flexi spot over the last year and a half my girlfriend and i have been replacing random pieces of furniture trying to just spruce things up throughout our place the couch the coffee table my standing desk which is a flexi spot desk and the coffee machine i know 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took the batteries out i'm gonna be mad then we got this statue piece this uh bird head which again excellent work on the sculpt great texture this thing looks really nice it's a it's a good choice of dirty plastics meaning like all of these little chunks of other colors really give it that that uh stone appearance this is nice this is a highlight i think of this of this whole piece where does he go just on any chunk yeah wherever you want to put him he's just got a little piece to lock in anywhere so that's kind of nice and by anywhere i mean as long as it's the front or the sides the more i look at it the more i'm like it's just a lot of grace isn't it but you know does kind of match nice piece big chunk don't know if it holds the value and then obviously we'll have a whole section here of trying to steam it up put some lights behind it and see if that kind of fills in that steam and gives it that comic-y city look very curious about that from there we go to call the bat himself with this gigantic gigantic spotlight now this is a huge shelf taker upper uh space taker up i guess the problem with this design is that you just have this one light down here i i really can't wrap my head around it jay showed this off in his video and then talked about it on the live stream there's also this like yellow haze on the top section of this and then but it's only the one light somehow this does shoot off the entire thing from that one spot but the fact they don't have like a yellow diffused section behind it so that when you light this thing up the whole thing is yellow but it's not it's literally just that portion so if you have this on the shelf facing towards you because you love this design it's kind of worthless so you really have to turn it around and then look at the battery and button so that's kind of a missed design if we're going to be picky but otherwise sculpt and everything very nice again no wash or anything no paint details to help differentiate anything it does swivel here and then of course uh we have a few ratcheted sections here not a ton so there's definitely a limit to where that can go but it's nice and sturdy and it won't flip over i could see them reusing this and just not adding the electronics to it or we're offering it on its own again later on but without all the dial pieces now one thing to note is that it takes up a huge portion of this display so you may not want to have them in the same spot maybe off to the side or behind it or just in a different part of the shelf like this is this you really can't go anywhere and have batman on it unless you remove like get out of here do something i don't know that's kind of odd there is a foot peg here to lock him in but on the box they have it kind of set up like this and then batman kind of standing on the uh the statue piece the guard it's not really a gargoyle but whatever yeah i guess that's your best option okay now this is kind of the main event for a lot of people because while you may not want that dial and the light and all that stuff and to not spend a hundred dollars this is kind of more in line of what we should expect with the future releases from mattel and their dc license now at first glance nothing really like stands out as like oh that's that's amazing it looks good it looks like it's probably going to be 30 or less as a figure and i better be less because these are the accessories we got a hundred dollar dude with all that stuff and then we still only have these accessories there's no alternate head with like a gritting face uh there's no uh other effect pieces or weapons or anything like that like this is it and that can be a problem for a lot of people because we like to play with our toys and the real question is going to be you know what's the articulation articulation like what's the quality like and i'm very curious especially now that jay has kind of messed with this thing so it's got a little bit of lived-in experience though you know not not a ton basically enough for the review probably so let's look at these accessories because there's not a lot first up we get a fist with a green lantern ring on there and the uh i mean it's probably fine especially at this scale you can kind of tell on this finger you're not really going to notice though but yes the paint is a little bit beyond where that actual ring is um but that's simple the wrist pegs i hate i hate hate hate these standard hinge points like what is it with about domestic companies but ball pegs are going to allow you to make one set of hands instead of like an example of that would be like this so we have gripping hands that can only hinge in this direction where a ball peg would allow it to also angle like vertically but we don't have that so anyway we have a couple of gripping hands for literally nothing there's nothing in the box but look i even say if you're gonna have a figure at least put gripping hands even if there's nothing in there because maybe you want him to hold something and you can do that with anything you can have him hold his cell phone okay you can have him holding his his bat headphones bat pods yeah finally we have this gripping hand with a batarang in it so this is interesting because you don't have a batarang to hold any other way you have two gripping hands but they made a hand with the batarang built into it which i'm very curious what people's thoughts are on this because it doesn't look like he's throwing it it just looks like he's gonna punch somebody with the sides of it or something this is a very very interesting choice he has no accessories no weapons nothing no gadgets at all on by default he's just got some fists which that's fine this is where things are going to get interesting because we're starting to get a very good look at the details of what mattel is doing with paint and it's it's a little sloppy i mean i'll i'll be honest it's not looking great but this is also like shoved into the camera at a i mean look at how big my thumb is in this image but this kind of helps us understand what they're doing so they have basically what mafex and hasbro are doing with that like dot style of printing colors which to the human eye is going to look totally fine on camera you're just we're just noticing details this is the only area that's really sloppy you can see it on his cheek for sure with your eyes but whatever but the sculpt is fantastic much like the dio i really enjoy these sculpts these are very nicely done a lot of good details in this stuff i do wish that we just had more accessories when it comes to this batman it looks like he's got a lot happening here i don't think these are butterfly joints and even if they are the chest shape is going to limit where those arms can go now something i do want to mention jay talked about it in the live stream if you buy those like 20 versions of their like kid line the heads are compatible so you can pop these things off and put other batman heads or whatever on there if there's like a bruce wayne you could easily do that which is great glad they're using the same joints now all of his body parts here like around his cowl and everything look like there's a dark wash in there something like shadowing not probably a wash but some sort of like shadow work same thing all through the muscles and stuff which is nice very premium look especially with a lot of brands out there not even giving you that much so i like to see that and it continues through the back which is huge there's plenty of brands that just like do the front and then skip out because it saves them a ton of money to not paint the back now these joints are looking a little like beat up which is interesting like kind of unfinished plastic edges like that looks like you got scraped off with an exacto knife that's kind of interesting again we're just nitpicking because this is the very first one it's gonna obviously these things should improve over time they're not all going to be a hundred dollars they'll be very affordable and these issues concerns mistakes whatever we want to call these are so minor and probably you know it's excusable when they're below 30 dollars the yellow on the belt is so heavy though that we're like we are genuinely losing the details of his pouches in some sections so on this side you can see all those details as the light hits it you can tell that some of the yellow is a little heavy but it has to be heavy because it looks like it's blue underneath and then they painted the yellow on top but look it's like filled into that it looks a little messy this is more like if i tried to paint this thing myself and i'd just be like oh i can't go back over that now but i do appreciate the the details and the sculpt for sure the cape is also really good this has a wire just around the side so if you have or have seen the arkham asylum batman from in art they did the same thing where it's just wires on the sides nothing down this section which i do wish there were something it doesn't have to be a wire all the way down here especially with this type of cut but maybe a couple down there so you can give it a little bit more shape because the problem is going to be we're going to get that cape into position and then the center just droops down which can look a little messy some of these joints are moving a little easily as i'm just kind of touching him so i'm a little concerned that maybe if not now that over time stuff gets a little loose all right nitpicks out of the way again just being a little harder on them because they didn't send me one where were you at mattel no i'm being hard on it because it's the first one and we just need to know the differences the details one thing i really hate by the way are these huge holes in the toe articulation something dan larson uh hates hates toe articulation and then especially hates it if there's a huge hole down there for a pinless figure that's such a weird thing to leave behind let's talk about the articulation because i am super curious about this i really like what they've been doing with the masters of the universe the chronicles line i have just a few of those figures but they are really nice and for the price especially so he doesn't really look down okay if he's up on that rooftop he's he's not quite getting the uh the angle that you might want that's not that's not very good he doesn't look up well at all side to side also doesn't really happen i mean that's that's all you're getting out of the head completely i'm fine with no neck articulation but that should be compensated with like some alternate setup here for the head shoulders go up we got a nice t pose check that out uh again i don't know that these are butterfly joints maybe i can pop this apart even though it's not my batman to do that with swivel the bicep double jointed elbows which uh you know looking pretty rough i don't like this and this is going to happen with the knees down here this is just that very uh we're just domestic company making domestic decisions does that make sense like sculpt the knee and then have it sculpted into the leg rather than having this like floating kneecap on that this is going to go in line with your marvel legends for sure because it just feels like a marvel legends figure especially with these thigh cuts problem with these shoulders and arms you're not going to get him to have like a relaxed look his arms are always going to be like i'm just too swole to have relaxed arms i want them to i want them to go straight down yeah that's that's a god that's worse than i thought it was going to be i thought for sure at least like it would be a long peg in there or something that would allow i know the chest is kind of getting in the way but look look at that that's not that's not good this is like a huge flaw if you notice this disc piece around the shoulder and then you want to articulate his arm and look at that it's flexing that plastic which means it's going to turn it white uh there's also a little bit of bleed coming from the cape but whatever kind of blends in a little bit but yeah you can definitely cause some issues with this plastic also like that's not a very clean edge that's what we're looking at on the inside i'm sorry jay it didn't take much effort to get that off don't know how this part's attached so it's not really coming out but like that's all you got no wonder it doesn't move this is a little stubby dude let's see upper body oh boy mattel's never going to send me anything ever you know by the way i did get an email last week from mattel saying that they're interested in it felt a little generic though that hey we love your content we'd love to send like sign you up well it didn't even say we're going to send you stuff it was just sign up and then like share links with people we offer commission nothing i can find on the anywhere in their website any of the documentation any of it says how much commission that you would get so sounds like it might be one or two percent which is uh i don't know they never replied on my email so obviously a generic email side to side is good because of the waste there's not a whole lot happening here in this upper body like that is yikes i'm gonna be i'm curious this will probably be something where people pick it up and then they come up with some kind of mod on the inside so that you can get more crunch out of it but this batman is for looks only so it's like a ball peg barbell style or whatever underneath the waist there so you're getting some decent out of this portion just not the upper body legs go out the perfect splits so this is pretty interesting this is the uh the setup here for the legs it's like a round disc piece with like a pin through it is what it looks like instead of being a ball peg that we see on pretty much everything these days so very curious on on that but it does rotate in there so you still get some good range out of that piece just something to point out no drop downs thigh cuts which are uh hideous not good on marvel either unless there's like belts and things to hide it also it doesn't really have like a clean area to line up this looks like it would be the proper alignment but then you kind of see the edges here yeah a little weird double jointed knees uh again just ugly style there is a boot swivel which is nice so i imagine a lot of this just like marvel legends and most mattel things you're gonna get a lot of reused parts well most brands i shouldn't just single out two companies but i imagine this is going to be like used a thousand times pretty standard ankles uh really nice range going up the toe articulation is also a bit floppy so that's a that could be something of a concern for a lot of people as far as getting into a ball i mean that's that's about as good as it gets he he just cannot crunch at all i i don't think we're gonna get many fun dynamic poses with this batman but he's going to look good so hopefully there are some like running updates as they're producing these figures but you know i get it i'm being very picky in this video and i think it needs that it deserves that um for being their 100 figure their first figure i do believe that things will change get better as they make the line i mean it has to right if this guy is less than 30 dollars all of this is very forgivable it's a very like entry level price point i know i'm not expecting mafex not definitely not expecting in art if you want to spend 100 on a batman and you don't care about dio stuff you do go with in art i mean mafex is just kind of outdated at this point because of in art for the roughly same price points it's all becoming a big weird world that we live in for action figures if you need a decent basic thing i think in january these prices are going to be very fair and they're going to be worth getting and i'm sure there will be dc characters that i pick up and want and uh hopefully enjoy again it's really going to be a figure that you can put in with a lot of your 112 collectibles the sh figure arts uh that doesn't really work i mean this is shorter cyclops but you know this line is a little short and there we have him with a couple of x-men 97 characters and look i i think it works their heads are maybe a little bit bigger than his especially like when you compare him to rogue i think it's going to blend nicely especially compared to what mcfarland was doing with and a very nice compliment if you have some neka live action tmnt and you want to throw in a batman the scales well i think they look good together that's actually pretty cool might not work with the humans that are in the neka line but looks good after posing this guy uh probably three times i felt like things were really starting to get worrisome uh the the rubber crotch thing is a good idea but it also tends to kind of get stuck underneath his own hips and you got to like fiddle with that to try to get it back in place so as of right now he's a little warped and wrong all the joints have been getting real loose like there's so much play uh like this this should not be moving as easily as it does the everything basically except for the torso everything has gotten looser and um it just becomes this like very hard to pose guy especially if you're just wanting him on the shelf as there is no stand and you're trying to get him in a dynamic pose he's probably going to fall over thanks to loose toe joints loose hip joints loose arms the cape is fun it's not as bad as i thought it would be having just the side wires but it does make it a challenge especially if you're wanting things like in the air or whatever the plastic quality overall i for the joints at least i just don't really like i just don't and we really are missing out on like some flat hands or like relaxed hands something that you could use to change up the scene a little bit for a batman and you know even just his hand on his knee like the box so is it perfect no not at all not even not not at all it's a good it's still pretty good and everything i've said throughout the video i think is going to be um applicable still and in the future but he definitely has his concerns i i don't know what's going on underneath the plastic but it's starting to poke through and it caused like a little white spot and i can't get rid of that so i feel bad but jay did say just do whatever i need to do for the review so that i appreciate that because uh some of this is well all of this is not my fault but i it allowed me to not have to baby it and i don't really like the legs honestly like at all there's not really anything helpful with the way these hips and everything are getting him into like a a kicking pose just really doesn't work and a lot of it too is like because he doesn't have a good crunch so he just looks super awkward trying to do like a a jumping kick or something i think maybe the angle at which the hips rotate out as well but not a fan of that and then these uh thigh cuts are just absolutely hideous just some of the worst it's crazy to me that the masters of the universe chronicle line had ball peg wrists why don't we have just the lack of articulation is a huge downside to this figure and they really need to consider that with everything going forward well there you have it folks that is batman hush one of a billion coming out in the next year or so if you enjoyed this you want to see some more batman figures get reviewed then be sure to click that video right there check out that in art christian bell that is one of the best things to exist thank you so much for watching we'll see you next time