McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse DC Classics The Riddler Figure
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00:00 Well, I don't think you'd ever question who this costume belongs to.
00:03 Here's a look at the brand-new McFarlane toys, DC Multiverse, DC Classics, The Riddler.
00:09 [intro]
00:16 [pulling out the box]
00:39 Edward Nygma found his ticket to the big time as an employee of Wayne Industries,
00:44 securing the role of advisor to Philip Kane, Bruce Wayne's uncle who ran the Wayne Corporation
00:48 when Bruce left to train to become the Batman.
00:51 Nygma began plotting his takeover of the city, an expert strategist and genius-level knowledge of history.
00:57 It was not long before Nygma adopted the guise of a supervillain, calling himself The Riddler.
01:02 As I go ahead and measure off this man of many mysteries, I have a riddle in fact to pose to you, the viewing audience.
01:07 He who respects will give it, yet he who expects will need it.
01:11 What exactly is it? Let me know down below in the comments section.
01:14 I'll give you the answer at the end of this review.
01:16 In the meantime, The Riddler stands 7 inches in height, or the figure is going to be about 17 centimeters tall.
01:23 As for a couple of figures we can bring in for comparisons, one I thought would make the most sense along with a classic-looking Riddler
01:28 is a pretty classic-looking Batman. This is the Nightfall Batman, not the one that has the shell shading that we look at from the San Diego Comic-Con release,
01:34 but still a regular blue-clad Batman fits rather nicely here with a classic-looking Riddler.
01:38 I hope this is a trend that's going to continue from McFarlane's team, where we are going to be getting more classic-costumed characters,
01:43 especially ones from Batman's Rogues Gallery.
01:45 Another figure that isn't necessarily from Batman's Rogues Gallery and probably doesn't make any sense as to why I'm bringing him in,
01:50 here's what he also looks like with Blue Beetle.
01:52 The reason why I did also want to bring in Blue Beetle is it seems to be the case that they're sharing the same bodies,
01:57 at least the torsos, at least the arms, the lower legs. It does look like they are using the same bodies from one to the other.
02:03 Now, Riddler is going to have a slightly longer neck. If you were to, say, put the two figures back to back, though,
02:09 you can see the bodies are going to be exactly the same.
02:11 This is also something that has been shared as well when we looked at the Captain Atom, for example,
02:15 that they are using the same bodies. And, you know, I'm all for the idea.
02:18 First of all, it was a good body there anyways. I didn't have any real issues with the Blue Beetle body to start with.
02:22 But if it also means that we're going to be getting the likes of Edward Nigma as a figure, then sign me up.
02:27 Jumping now over to the figure's accessories, first, Edward Nigma comes in clue with a black display stand.
02:32 Nothing really new to report here. It's just the same regular display stands as we always get with the DC Multiverse figures.
02:37 But the fact that we still get, let's just absorb that for a second, the fact that that company is still producing figure stands
02:43 with their figures, whether you have one of these, whether you have a thousand of these,
02:47 and that's probably just exaggerating a little bit. I'm still glad that we actually do get ourselves display stands.
02:51 And move that to the side, though. The figure also comes in clue with a classic-looking trading card.
02:55 Edward Nigma, or the Riddler, if you will, does have two mysteries, two riddles presented in front of me.
03:01 The first one is, "How can one get into a locked cemetery at night?"
03:05 The other one is, "Can you tell what nationality Napoleon's parents were?"
03:09 Anybody have any guesses? I think the first one, "How to get into a locked cemetery," uses skeleton key.
03:15 The second one, "Can you tell what nationality Napoleon's parents were?" Corsican.
03:20 That's the answers. Flip that around to the back, though. The real name, of course, as already stated several times, is Edward Nigma.
03:26 There's a fairly substantial paragraph read. You can read for yourself, if you so wish.
03:31 So it happens to be also a mystery that's already been solved, as I read at the beginning of this review.
03:35 Love the look of these cards, though, especially the idea that we're getting old comic panels like this with old riddles presented.
03:41 Very, very cool. As a little side note, though, I would have loved if they had put a little section where it would have given you the answers down below here,
03:47 just in case you didn't know the answers to these perplexing riddles that were presented to you by the likes of Riddler.
03:54 Let's move that card off, then, to the side. The figure comes also included with a series of interchangeable hands.
03:59 I feel almost even more hands than he really does actually need.
04:02 He comes with gripping hands for, of course, the included cane that we will be looking at in a second, all nicely molded here in purple plastic.
04:08 The figure also comes with a couple of gestured hands. Not exactly the same. One is a completely more flat hand.
04:14 Really good if you wanted to have the hand turned around, for example, like he's posing a riddle to the Caped Crusader.
04:19 And then he's got kind of more of a gestured, exaggerated hand, like good for dynamic poses.
04:24 All of these hands, by the way, can easily be then swapped out.
04:27 The figure also comes included with a thumbs up, and he also comes included with a pointing hand,
04:31 which is also ideal as well if he's wanting to rhyme off several riddles to both Batman and the Boy Wonder.
04:36 We've got those as well. Changing out the hands, by the way, because of course we will be needing to do that in a second before we do that as well.
04:42 The figure comes included with a fairly flexible cane. More flexible than I was really hoping.
04:47 The cane itself is nicely molded here in gold plastic.
04:50 I'm sure they probably had used a softer plastic just so there wasn't the likelihood that this would break if, for example, it was to be bent by accident.
04:57 But I think it's almost a little too soft of a plastic that they would have still used.
05:01 Going back though to the hands, let's just grab a couple of hands, for example. We'll grab a gripping hand for right now.
05:06 Just remove the hands. One thing I did notice though with the hands and removing them, first of all, two things.
05:12 The gloves do slide off fairly easy. Not easy in the sense that, I mean, they're not just going to drop off on their own, but you can just slide them right off.
05:20 And that's probably why you're going to be getting a little bit thinner of a forearm.
05:23 Because I know when we did compare this with the Blue Beetle, obviously the forearms look a little bit bigger on Riddler.
05:28 It's simply just because, again, they've got the piece over top of it.
05:31 And that's probably one thing that it involved. First of all, it saved them the cost of having to reproduce, remold a brand new forearm piece.
05:38 All they really needed to do was just really essentially mold this piece and then put it over top of the existing hands.
05:43 Now really, for all intents and purposes, too, you can also just leave that off altogether.
05:46 If you sort of want, like, more just a regular looking hand, you can just take that off entirely, really, if you want to.
05:52 And it does remove, I think, a little bit of extra bulk because the problem with the glove, though, is it just adds a lot of bulk onto his forearms.
05:59 So again, like, if you wanted to leave it off completely, you know, in a way, I kind of like it, honestly, with the glove part off.
06:04 I don't know if I'm going to decide altogether just to remove it. If I'm going to leave it on, I have yet still to decide.
06:10 But let's just say for right now, I'm going to leave maybe, let's put, like, this hand on, for example.
06:15 Actually, that's not the right hand we can use because he's already got that hand on the other side.
06:18 Let's grab just a gestured hand. We'll plug that into place. There we go.
06:23 Oh, the other thing I did also want to mention, because I kind of trailed off there for a second talking about his glove,
06:27 is that the pegs I noticed on his hands here are very prone to separating.
06:31 You kind of see that for yourself, the way that that pries, the sandwich is sort of separating in half.
06:36 So just be careful when you're removing the hands that you don't accidentally remove, well, you don't separate the peg in the process.
06:42 Anyways, let's go ahead and take his cane now.
06:45 And again, you can decide for yourself if you want to leave the glove part off completely, if you want to just have, like, more fitted-looking gloves.
06:51 One thing I will say, though, about kind of removing the glove piece, it kind of gives him kind of a more, I feel like more of a classic look.
06:58 I mean, like, again, if you want the bigger glove, there's that option available as well.
07:01 But it does, if you don't have the glove far enough down, it does leave, obviously, the divide where it has to be in order for the hand to move back and forth.
07:08 You can bring this down, but it does make the glove look a little bit bigger and bulkier.
07:13 So there's obviously either option available if you wanted to.
07:16 The staff, I keep talking about his gloves, the staff fits fairly well into his hands. I really like the look of that one.
07:21 So let's go ahead and just remove the staff for right now.
07:24 It kind of looks a little out of place, I suppose, the fact that you figured out, you know what, let's just remove the hands for right now.
07:29 I'm going to put the glove piece back in place because, of course, that's the way he comes out of his plastic prison.
07:34 I'm going to pop this back into place. There we go.
07:37 I just did that more so just to show you guys the options available if you wanted to.
07:41 Getting a close look at Riddler, I mean, I couldn't have asked for really a better-looking head sculpt than what we got right here.
07:45 Now, there is also one figure that we will be looking at in an upcoming review.
07:48 It's the Gold Label Edition version of Riddler that really has a few real noticeable changes.
07:53 Obviously, the suit is going to be exactly the same, but they have reduced the number of question marks.
07:56 I don't know why I'm waving my finger so viciously around in front of the camera.
08:01 But the other Gold Label Edition Riddler is going to really remove a lot of these smaller question marks there in favor of kind of just one large question mark.
08:09 I think he may have a couple more on him, but he certainly doesn't have as many as what we're getting right here with this Riddler.
08:13 And then the other thing with the Gold Label Edition is he's going to have pupils, whereas this Riddler kind of has just more of the white eyes.
08:19 I mean, I kind of like the idea that really it's not just a case that they changed the look of the costume, but they also did add pupils.
08:25 So if you want to prefer to have your Riddler with, say, the pupils instead, you can obviously go that route as well.
08:30 Ultimately, we're going to be looking at both of them anyways in an upcoming review.
08:32 We're going to be looking at this one, obviously, in this review, and then, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going to be looking at the Gold Label Edition in the upcoming release.
08:37 But head sculpt-wise, it really does look good.
08:41 Not only does it look like a classic-looking Riddler, but in a way, it kind of bears a little bit of a resemblance to Robin Williams.
08:47 Which I know, like, Robin Williams has sort of tossed around the idea at one point to be Riddler in Batman Triumphant,
08:52 which was Burton's last sort of effort at doing a Batman movie, and things sort of got changed,
08:57 and then Michael Keaton sort of ducked out of it as well because, of course, he was very loyal to Burton.
09:01 But at one point, we had—there was talks to do a Batman Triumphant.
09:04 I think Marlon Wayans was talked to play actually Robin, and I think he even got residuals even after the movie was cancelled.
09:11 So that wasn't that bad on Marlon Wayans' part.
09:13 But I really am very happy with how this head sculpt turned out.
09:17 In a way, it kind of looks like the old classic cartoons.
09:20 The one actual cartoon that kind of reminds me of this, and isn't so much even a cartoon, is an animated commercial featuring Batman.
09:27 I think it may have even had Riddler in it, but it had Penguin, I know for sure, and it had Joker.
09:31 Riddler might have also been in it as well, but it sort of has that sort of animation style to it.
09:35 He's got the cleft chin, which I think is a nice touch.
09:37 I think the coloring on this guy is really good also as well.
09:40 A big smile on his face.
09:41 Now again, if you did want to have pupils, there's that option available if you want to get the gold label edition.
09:46 As for the rest of the costume, there's really nothing I would have changed to suit itself.
09:50 All the individual question marks, I would imagine, have been artificially printed on that.
09:54 I can't imagine that somebody's going in there and hand-painting these.
09:57 Each of the individual question marks look very cleanly applied.
10:00 There's no real smearing of paint anywhere.
10:02 He's got the big purple belt that matches that, of course, his gloves.
10:05 He doesn't have any boots necessarily, but he does have sort of the sculpting, the indication of what boots would be.
10:11 Now, this would have been banded, obviously, in black when we looked at, say, the Blue Beetle, for example.
10:16 I just have off to the side here.
10:18 I really should have actually had him a little more closer in quarters.
10:21 Just to kind of show you guys, there's Blue Beetle's boots.
10:24 See how he has the black band?
10:25 The Riddler doesn't have that, but it's still sort of left behind from the molding.
10:28 Legs are going to be exactly the same.
10:30 Really, the torso and the lower waist is also shared the same between the two.
10:34 Now, Riddler clearly has a differently sculpted belt, but it looks like the bodies are going to be the exact same.
10:40 Now, I have them arched backwards because I think earlier I had them kind of brought forward.
10:44 It kind of does reduce the height of him.
10:46 Riddler, I had him a little bit further up, too, but you can see the bodies are going to be the exact same.
10:51 Biceps, forearms are shared the same as well.
10:54 Everything is going to be looking as if they're using the exact same bodies from one to the other.
10:58 Now, again, I'm OK with that.
11:00 Now, if you look at the articulation here on Riddler, it's sculpted once again on a ball joint, so it does rotate all the way around.
11:06 It looks up, it looks down, about that far, and it also rocks back and forth.
11:10 I know before we actually kind of go back to the articulation points of the figure,
11:14 one thing I also do want to mention is I like the fact that he added the blue, the little streaks of blue on the top of his hair.
11:20 I feel like it would be leaving off a very crucial thing to point out in this review,
11:24 not to mention that Riddler does have blue hair.
11:26 It's not crazy to the point where it feels like his entire hair is blue, but it's just in right enough places.
11:31 I mean, really, even to look at that, that's a good-looking Superman head sculpt, too.
11:34 I don't think they'd likely use that for a Superman body, but, yeah, there's always that option, I'm sure, down the road.
11:39 Kind of has a bit of a cavil look also, too.
11:42 Anyways, for the rest of the figure's articulation, his arms easily come out beyond the point of 90 degrees.
11:47 They rotate all the way around on both sides.
11:49 He swivels at the bicep, yes.
11:52 The figure does also have a double hinge on his elbow, sure.
11:54 Upper torso is on a very generous ball joint, as well.
11:57 It could be said for the lower abdomen area, that's also on a ball joint.
12:00 Legs do split out.
12:01 You can take the legs and move them forward.
12:03 You can move them back, out.
12:04 Swivel at the—slight, slight swivel at the top of the thigh.
12:07 Double hinge on the knee.
12:08 No articulation here in the boot, although it kind of looks like there's a cut right there.
12:12 You'd be able to rotate it, but I can't seem to rotate it on my figure, so it could be just permanently like that.
12:17 Hinging back and forth, yes, on the ankle.
12:19 You can, of course, rock it back and forth this way.
12:21 And the figure has toe articulation, if, again, if you wanted to get that.
12:25 Yeah, there's nothing really I would have necessarily changed to the Riddler.
12:29 I don't know if I really like the gloves being as big and bulky as this, but as I already showed you in this review,
12:33 you can take the glove part technically off.
12:35 Well, at least the top of the glove.
12:37 You're going to leave still the hand below, because, of course, he can't hold onto the cane if he doesn't have his hands.
12:42 Yeah, still, though, while it is really essentially being used—using the same figure build and body as what we got here with Blue Beetle,
12:49 I'm glad at least that it did translate to a really good-looking Riddler, if I can get Blue Beetle to stand here.
12:55 Now, again, we are going to be looking at an upcoming review, the Gold Label Edition Riddler,
13:00 which is going to be also using the same body as well.
13:02 The only thing that's going to be notably different between the two figures is that the question marks are a lot less, quantity-wise,
13:08 and he's also going to have the pupils in the mask area of his face.
13:11 But, yeah, if you're into the classic look of Riddler—and now I keep dropping the word "classic" over the course of this review,
13:16 but it's something consistently good about this figure that it just resonates for me.
13:21 This is something, really, that I always wanted the DC Multiverse line to be from day one, and I hate to be that old guy.
13:26 "Oh, the guy's stuck in the past."
13:28 I know the younger youth is all looking at us old collectors thinking, "You've got to move on, guys.
13:32 You've got to branch off and kind of welcome the new designs."
13:37 It's fun and good, which is what we have been really doing with the DC Multiverse stuff.
13:41 Like, we've been getting the newer designs, the single-series arc character designs,
13:45 but I'm glad to see we're getting this stuff, too.
13:47 This is the kind of thing that, again, I always really wanted the DC Multiverse line to be delivering,
13:52 and every once in a while we are getting delivered a really good-looking figure.
13:55 I think Riddler here is a fantastic pickup if you get the chance to find one for yourself.
13:59 And as we wrap up the review of the DC Classics Riddler, I did promise at the end of this I was going to give you guys the answer to my earlier posed riddle.
14:06 That riddle, by the way, is "He who respects will give it, yet he who expects will need it."
14:11 Anybody guess what the answer was?
14:13 Just checking down below. Oh, right, this is live. I can't check down below and see what the answers were.
14:17 The answer, by the way, was "Thanks."
14:19 "He who respects it will give thanks. He who expects it, on the other hand, will need it."
14:23 The answer is "Thanks."
14:24 Speaking of thanks, though, I'd like to thank the folks over at McFarland Toys that did provide the sample of the brand-new DC Multiverse DC Classics Riddler
14:32 that we had the chance to have a look at in this review.
14:34 Really a nice-looking Riddler overall.
14:36 If you like the look of the classic costume, then this Riddler fits the bill rather nicely.
14:40 I have decided, as you can already see, that I've removed the top part of his glove.
14:44 I think, first of all, the glove part just makes it look a little too bulky,
14:47 and, of course, getting a closer look to kind of that Frank Gorshin design of the Riddler suits.
14:52 I kind of prefer to have the smaller gloves instead.
14:55 So I like that as an option.
14:57 They made it not only as a cost-effective way of using the arm again from the Blue Beetle build,
15:01 but it also gives you the option, as well as a collector, to decide just to scrap it to 86 the top of the glove altogether.
15:07 And I think it's going to look a little nicer, I think, with this design of Riddler.
15:10 Now, of course, as I already mentioned, we are going to be looking at the Gold Label Edition Riddler in an upcoming review.
15:14 About the same as these when it comes to the overall build,
15:17 but you'll see that there have been some cosmetic changes, notably some pupils in the peepers of Riddler.
15:23 So definitely that video is going to be coming up shortly.
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15:48 (explosion)