Last one was literally unwatchable withoutthe cake rating. Thank you for adding it back.

@fightclubify

Жыл бұрын

We want CAKE! 😂🤣

@punkedout62

Жыл бұрын

I come for cake, if I leave hungry what's the point anymore man.

@amgraph2060

Жыл бұрын

Amen.

@WineJ57

Жыл бұрын

I pretty much put a thigh swivel, and touch up paint or small accents on every Modern McFarlane figure. I dont kind putting in "that little extra" lol

@TheMattTrakker

Жыл бұрын

@@WineJ57 how much does the thigh swivel help? I've considered it on a couple, but generally am able to get them to do what I want without it.

I love modding, regardless of how far you go. It’s taking something mass produced and making it your own. It’s cathartic: adding paint and washes, cloth/wired capes, head swaps and added articulation. One channel I’d recommend is Ink Drop Customs, he specifically takes McFarlane figures and goes step by step in customization and does both Spanish and English language versions of his tutorials.

@mynamedoesntmatter3129

Жыл бұрын

+1 for Ink Drop Customs. They do such good work, especially with all the sewing. I've learned a lot from his channel.

Mcfarlane started out wonky with this line, but the character selection and quality is pretty good now.

It's incredible how much a well-proportioned and unique sculpt will elevate a figure, even without paint

@giobunsoy

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree

I thought you would talk more about the legs because they finally have more defined muscles and better shape. I really hope future McFarlane figures look like this one. Question of the Day: I have never tried to customize anything, I feel like I wouldn't mind if I had to.

I truly hated this line when it first came out. Agreed with your earlier reviews about it. Told myself I was going to just skip it. It wasn't about the scale (if you collected DC Direct/Collectibles it was on par with that) but that sculpt and articulation cuts were terrible. Then that 3 Jokers wave came out and I started seeing improvements in the line. Picked up that wave and started picking up more after it and each time I have seen more improvements. Glad to hear what you have said about this one. I just hope il able to get my hands on him.

@TheMattTrakker

Жыл бұрын

By on par, do you mean in scale with? It's really not in scale with DC Direct. I mix them anyway because there are a few DC Direct I really like, but I have to pose them differently or hide them to make it less noticeable. Scale doesn't bother me a ton though.

I really enjoy modding my figures and making them unique, even sold a few once they’ve reached end of life on my shelf. McFarlane figures are always fun to work on too because you’ve got a lot of sculptural detail and nice large surfaces to work on.

That cake rate tho! 🤣 I don’t mind doing simple mods or touch-ups to my figures. Great review! I still don’t own any DC Multiverse but this one, for $20, looks good. Too bad I’ll never find it at my Walmart.

I love modifying my figures but I’m also of the mindset we should NEVER feel like we NEED to modify a figure. They should come good from the companies we buy them from at the prices we pay.

The new catwoman appears to have a whole bakery...mcfarlane is putting that extra plastic hasbro has been saving to good use I see..

Yes, I do slight mods to my figures. Usually paint washes. I used a Gundam marker for my retro Thing and Shocker figs and they look phenomenal now. I love wire capes too. I recently added a wire cape to the 80Y Thor and it's infinitely better.

Ab crunches are absolutely obsolete at this point it’s one of the few issues remaining in the Joe Classified line.

I regret not getting 2 to custom one. Such a great figure. Glad it got a 9.5.

I really enjoy modding and painting my figures, I also enjoy building and painting model kits, especially when they turn out exactly the way I envisioned. Dry brushing, washes, pastel dust, color glazing, articulation mods, airbrushing, sculpting, kit bashing, I adore it all. With the exception of joint prep of course, bit I think that's most of us, lol.

I actively disliked Az-Bat back in the day. BUT. I kind of love this figure, light blue and all. Gonna have to track one down. Also: I have been known to do the occasional figure mod, both minor and major. Great video as always, thanks!

Would love to see how this figure turns out after you hit it with some paint and washes!!

I have had this figure for a week now and he's awesome. I plan on doing light mods, like making the claws silver, and adding a wash. I am okay with the blue color they gave him.

I had these comics as a kid and the design on the package is what I was hoping for. I might still try and pick this up.

I'll basically always mod a figure if it will make me like it more. Like coloring in Spidey lines or matte spray

I repainted his claws with a metallic craft marker and it looks so much better. I bought two as well (walmart is pain) 😄 Mcfarlane figures always have a almost complete look to them. I'd pay $5 more for more paint and accessories.

@adelbashirimoghaddam696

Жыл бұрын

i'll pay 5$ more if they were 6 inch scale

@CyborgSodaCollects

Жыл бұрын

@@adelbashirimoghaddam696 It's unfortunately not up to Todd. Warner Bros mandated the scale.

Molotow metallic markers are a fantastic option for no fuss painting. My only concern is if they'd look too good and stick out. This figure seems ripe for repaints. If they do a future one with darker blue and different execution of the gold and maybe the extra paint, I'd pick up another. This, speeding bullets Bats, and Parallax are the execution of figures I always wanted. I hope Todd continues with that level because it should be applauded.

@AnthonysCustoms

Жыл бұрын

They wear off though

The cake rating is one of the best things to happen to these vids. As an assman I can say I appreciate it. But yeah I am down for some minor alterations on my figures. My only issue is actually having to buy paint so that's the main reason why I just don't do it usually. I DO use a silver paint marker every now and then, though.

Now this is how I love the cake rating. Just the absolute perfect outro to any mcfartland toys review

@roachdoggjr4266

Жыл бұрын

Excuse me. Mcfartlane. Can’t spell his name wrong that would be disrespectful to the man

I'm willing to do mods to make a figure better if it's easy. Fir example, those Retro Megazord figures that Hasbro put out for 17 bucks are sorely lacking paint, but but of the sculpt is there. They are cheap enough for what you get, but when painted look damn good. I'll also add the black soles to the LC Rangers.

I mod almost every McFarlane figure I get to add torso lean. I also used a silver sharpie for the claws on this guy. It works great.

That Batman 500 looks pretty good! Yeah, I am willing to do mods to get a figure looking the way I want. Sometimes I buy a figure knowing I will have to mod it. I am an artist, so kind of enjoy it. With Hasbro figures, I have to break out the paint often.

@TheMattTrakker

Жыл бұрын

My problem with Hasbro figures is that even after I do stuff to them, so many of them STILL look the same. McFarlane has it's problems, but the varied body designs are nice.

Gonna support what Anthony said about the difficulty in painting swords. Been repainting the McFarlane Chaos Space Marine, and even though the overall experience is pretty zen, hand brushing the blades of the knife and gun silver is a humungous pain in the arse. Never tried a silver Sharpie myself but if it's anything like Gundam markers, then it sounds like a really good tip.

@TheMattTrakker

Жыл бұрын

For swords, I bought a chrome pen, it makes it so much easier. I use the gundam markers sometimes, but it's harder to get a uniform coat on a sword with those, for me. Sharpie works, but you have to top coat it, or it just wipes off in my experience.

Awesome tip regarding using a silver sharpie for the claws. I used a sharpie a few days ago when I got mine and the figure looks infinitely better. I colored the claws, the end bands of his gauntlets & his neck. And I’ll be using some metallic paint markers to color the rest of him. I don’t usually customize my figures, but the sculpt on Azbat is just too enticing to leave as is lol.

I'm totally good with doing slight mods and extra details myself. It's actually entertaining for me.

This review might have convinced me to finally buy a McFarlane figure... if I didn't already have the Mafex one. I rarely mod figures, I like them to stay in their original condition. But occasionally I will use non-destructive methods. Like replacing the neck peg on Sentinel Miles, adding vinyl swoosh stickers on his shoes, and replacing plastic with cloth goods.

Knowing McFarlane, we'll prob get a non god label regular release with the darker blue. QOTD: I slightly mod most of my McFarlane figures when I get them. I don't mess with paint really unless I'm using a paint marker or sharpie, but I do usually mod the legs to get an upper thigh swivel. I'll heat up the figure, pop off the legs and cut off the extra plastic they sculpted butt cheek that stops it from freely rotating. I'll also sometimes, depending on how bad the detent is in the ankles, pop the ankle joints apart and melt down the ridges in the joint so it moves smoothly.

Another thing can can improve a figure like this , is really good lighting. Allowing the light to create dramatic shadows can capture a lot of the textures.

@kenpenalosa6963

Жыл бұрын

only works on toy photography

Cake rating edition

This is my first DC McFarlane figure and I love it. Hoping for more figures like this down the line

Takes me back to an older day where figs got entirely new molds and more effort towards them. McFarlane isn't perfect but it feels like these are trying to be collectible like old marvel legends were trying to be

Grabbed the only one at my local Walmart as he was being stocked. I wanted to get 2 just to keep one in the box. Employee said they’ve only been 1 per case when they get them. As for modding? Yes, I’ve nodded a lot of McFarlane figures. I feel they’re also pretty easy to mod.

I have to say the one mod i always do with this figures are the ones involving increasing articulation. Mostly ab crunch. It shows how much potential this line has and it could really go toe to toe with other import companies in terms of range of movement. You just have to unlock the joints

One of the best McFarlane figs I've seen. Still not keen on the hip articulation. If this was in 6 inch scale I'd buy it. McFarlane's figures are better value than Hasbro's.

Show this fig to the Hasbro fan boys and they'd say this is trash and the $35 Iron Spider is a next level, top tier collectable😂

@AnthonysCustoms

Жыл бұрын

That iron spider is so blah

@joselitopuzon5620

Жыл бұрын

Im a hasbro fan boy and this is good coz I collect every line. Maybe u just stick to Mcfarlane thats why u act like this.

With McFarlane toys, almost always, you have to fix some things. But by far, the most fixing I did was with the Future State Superman. That was tough but I needed to complete the Super Sons.

I dunno why this happens but whenever McFarlane releases an Azrael figure, it's a very good product AT MINIMUM. For the price, this thing is an absolute steal. I wish this had a couple of accesories and scaled better with MAFEX; it would be a great alternative to their already out of stock (and pretty expensive for what it is) release. I like to think that someone at McFarlane Toys does watch your channel and takes notes of the objective criticism some releases get. That way, we could see this and Speeding Bullets Batman as the start of an iconic toy line as opposed to a couple of flukes.

I wonder if $25 would be fair for this with some additional paint or accessories. It's a gorgeous figure and even at that price it would be very nice. McF is definitely taking Hasbro to school. On this guy, a wash is nice but I'd probably take a first stab at silvering his claws.

@Zombub

Жыл бұрын

Fr. Todd is blowing Hasbro out of the water. But show this to the Hasbro fan boys and they'd say this is trash and the $35 Iron Spider is a next level, top tier collectable lmao

@ReeceHoward06

Жыл бұрын

@@Zombub I literally skipped that Iron Spider because that shit looks like a straight up kid's toy. Gonna wait for a Mafex version on that one.lol THIS Az-Bat...I cancelled my Mafex when this was announced, knowing full well I could make this one look just as good as the Mafex. Mission accomplished.

@AnthonysCustoms

Жыл бұрын

I think 25 world be good with extra paint

@TheMattTrakker

Жыл бұрын

@@AnthonysCustoms Do you know if that's a realistic $ amount increase? Are companies able to automate adding paint and washes or would that need to be done by hand? I've always been curious what the actual cost is to have that kind of stuff added at production level ends up being. I have no problem adding paint here and there on these McFarlane figures and I wouldn't be surprised if staying "under $20" for a lot of these is part of their marketing idea, but I probably wouldn't mind paying $25 if they were painted well-ish.

I enjoy repainting/modding my figures especially if I want a specific look

I am annoyed I have to paint the claws and neck silver chrome and blues to metallic blue. I agree with you on this one Anthony.

I have no probelm custimziing a figure to get it looking better.

The hunt begins..

Always willing to touch things up….his claws were number one

Oh I am definitely adding paint this this once I get it, It's almost like when you have a model kits and you paint to your liking. For this I would add some shading in a bunch of places and make the claws silver like in the comics. But if it's really $50 like it says on the Walmart site then it's probably gonna deter me

Zup Anthony , I'm not really into this character, but you sold it to me, I've done some shading on my figs, I think this fig its worth buying , thanks for the video

I’ve done slight modifications to several figures and it usually elevates the figure quite a bit in my opinion. I like to customize figures, so I don’t mind doing it.

same here, love this blue way more than the darker one of mafex

i love to mod my figures to make it even better, or maybe even change them up completely into new character cause i thought the body of the figure fits well with what i wanted to do, also nice cake rating as always for mcfarlane figures

Great review, thx

Mine also had the shiny squeeze marks - heated it up in my food dehydrator to take apart for painting...the head divets look to be gone.

Not gonna lie. I generally don't like McF's engineering and overall aesthetics, but this figure looks so good. I mostly buy domestic figures for kitbash/customizing these days, so I still mostly go for ML on deep discount for parts, but if Todd can keep up this level of quality, I might start picking some of his figures up for collection purposes. As for modding figures, most ML requires some slight modding out of the box to not be objectively terrible, so there's that lol. BTW just realized... Storm and McF should work together a find a common ground regarding the use of soft crotch pieces. Storm often make the pieces too small, leading to gapping, and McF seems to just make giant diapers. Somewhere in the middle would be great.

I was lucky to find this one. But parallax has been impossible

I like doing slight mods on my figures. Normally if I know I love a figure and want to keep it I'll look for ways to modify it to make it the "ultimate version" of a character.

I'm willing to do light paint mods, like a wash or correcting lines on something. Also fine with stuff like dremeling a torso to get better ab movement on a ball, etc. I'm cutting the harness off Bane as I watch this. I plan on getting AzBats to repaint. imo it's better than the Mafex and I own plenty of Mafex.

Pls sir Anthony make a video on how will you customize this fig.. It would be great and inspiring especially for a newbie customizer like me. Thank you Sir for always giving us a better perspective on every figure you review! 😊

If figures are cheap, I generally do try to do some paint and wash on them to practice and try out new things. I got two of these because I wanted to try to do a wash and some air brushing, but wanted an extra incase I mess it up.

I have sworn off 7” humans so my 6” guys can fit together, but dang is this tempting. Looks even better than the Mafex to me thanks to that extra texture.

I would love a tutorial on applying washes to these figures. I can do d&d minis no issue. But every time I try to wash a figure it never turns out right.

Awesome

I just used a silver sharpie! Thanks man

Sometimes I buy a figure because I know I can do some simple things to make it better. For example, I got the black series beskar mando. Gave him a cloth cape. Magnetized the rifle. Gave it a black wash and put some missing paint details like the red on the bombs and gauntlet. looks real nice now.

If it weren't for the coloring being so incredibly off, this figure would be perfect, even without a super deep paint job.

Sure, I could do slight mods... but I shouldn't have to.

😃The best figure so far. 8.8👍 wired cape could work good!🤨

Got the figure (was tempted due to your positive review) and I wasn't disappointed. I'm not sure if somebody pointed it out yet but the arm joint connecting to the torso is using the blue material instead of the molded gold which I love for durability (if you are familiar with anything molded on metallic colors, they tend to be brittle).

@josephsims5851

Жыл бұрын

where did u get one i looked every where and cant find one

I mainly build gunpla so I have no problem moding a figure. The only reason why I would buy a McFarlane figure is to customize it

I agree he would definitely look even better with more paint, great price too. I definitely do mods if I think the extra paint etc. would make the figure look better on camera for stop motion. The lanard Alien vs Predator figure line look amazing after a great paint job

BAD ASS!!!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

I treat all my figures as just an artists rendition, so it's sort of cool to get a new version. I don't necessarily like the light blue, but I have older ones that are dark blue. :)

Favorite Bat Suit I wish it had been in Arkham Knight like it had been in Arkham Origins

I stayed, for the CAKE. 🍰

i put panel wash on some of my figures, to make the details pop more.

Qotd: I'm willing to do some slight modding, maybe just a few bits of washes here and there.

How much better do you think this is from Speeding Bullet? I’m torn between the two, I’m getting both, just curious.

@AnthonysCustoms

Жыл бұрын

I think it's better enough to pick it over the super bat if you don't have a preference in design

@roberthuff4763

Жыл бұрын

@@AnthonysCustoms I’m smack dab middle in which design I like more, but I think Speeding Bullet for me is just slightly a bit better due to the accuracy not being as much as I’d like in some spots for the Knightfall. Enjoy your feedback and video!

The only customization I have done, bought a Jyn Erso Star Wars Black Series, cut the hood off, and put the scarf on my Jessica Jones Netflix Marvel Legends

FYI: I know people in Walmart and yup employees will "hold" stuff for family etc. I got my ps5 that way. I'm sure it's been happening though since Walmart existed

I was not used to modding my figures, but the way Hasbro did the toys recently made me quite decent in basic modding. So, is it a blessing in disguise or a curse of a modern toy fan? 😂

Didn't have any trouble finding this one in Michigan. Had like 6 on the shelf priced at $11. I guess I should have gotten an extra to try modding it. Hey Anthony. Any chance you could do a tutorial on how a person with not much painting experience could best improve a figure like this? Or maybe you did one already and I didn't see it. Been enjoying your reviews. Thanks!

@AnthonysCustoms

Жыл бұрын

i havent simply because there are a million videos about hobby painting already on youtube. you should go back and see if there are more for 11 bucks.

Super nice figure!

The modification I do generally is print my own 3d head to give head proportionally to their body's and sometimes when I got time paint body completely , to felt I'm not wasting money, I just buy marvel figures

He's very good looking. May be ask some Who can customise and post pictures or videos from.

The biggest modifications I’m willing to do are slight fiddling. Nothing that requires tools or painting. If I’m buying a finished product, then that’s what I expect.

Now I'm waiting for the Turbo Cake Ultra Mega Super Deluxe Hyper Maximin Overdrive Definitive Edition to come out.

Cake Rating Gang stand up! Thanks for remembering us this time.

Hasbro puts a toe hinge on a Spiderman figure = we all go and massively buy the two pack for $60

if the base is good then I am willing to mod it

Those non-silver fingers are raging me!

Paint is overrated; it chips or rubs off. Innately colored plastic is far better, especially if it's matt.

I'm not getting it because there's no place for him in my display and he isn't good enough to earn a place for himself but I agree with your critics. Thanks for the review Anthony.

Yes, I'll modify any figure as much as I want to.

I wish that McFarlane wasn't so anti thigh swivel. I hope he does the Catwoman armor from that single issue from the Jim Balent era of Catwoman

I cant even get one of these because of scalpers

Are you going to review the Mafex Azbat?

@AnthonysCustoms

Жыл бұрын

No. No plans to buy it

I'll say it again, u should review gold label hazmat batman

cant find this guy anywhere right now for less than double/triple retail price, community is saying be patient though i guess, just hoping the repaint isnt red lol

@ReeceHoward06

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don't think it's shown up in every Walmart yet. I grabbed one a few weeks back to mod. I want 1 more to leave as is. Hopefully more comes in a month or so like most of the McFarlane stuff.

@WiGgYof09

Жыл бұрын

Will this and Parallax end up online?

Honestly I kind of want to wait for the inevitable repaint but if I see it I will likely buy it

@AnthonysCustoms

Жыл бұрын

It'll be red if they do one