McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Batman vs Abyss Gold Label Edition Abyss Figure
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00:00 And here the Dark Knight thought he had already dealt with his darkness.
00:03 Here's a look at the McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse McFarlane Collector Edition Batman vs. Abyss.
00:08 Abyss.
00:09 For years, Batman used the darkness as a weapon, but now a new enemy turns that darkness against
00:35 him.
00:36 He and his team team up with Batman Inc.'s mystery new benefactor to bring the deadly
00:39 Abyss into the light.
00:42 Maybe it would be a good idea that the Dark Knight invests in a Bat-Knight light.
00:45 Before of course we get a closer look at the new Abyss from the Batman vs. Abyss comic
00:49 run.
00:50 Grabbing the old tape measure to tell us that the figure stands about 7 and a quarter inches
00:53 in height or it's about 18 and a half centimeters tall.
00:57 I'm not really sure which Batman you'd like to have paired along with Abyss, so I'm going
01:00 to bring in a couple right now.
01:02 Booked in on either side of him.
01:03 So on one side we've got the Dark Knight in the dark colors.
01:06 Here's the Batman came included with the hush.
01:08 I have still yet to pick up the alternate version of this Batman hush that does have
01:12 the corrected elbows.
01:13 Because of course this one just has the plastic elbows without actually painting the gloves
01:17 in.
01:18 There's also a neutral expression on his face.
01:19 Definitely still need to get my hands on that figure.
01:21 So there's the bigger, bulkier Batman.
01:23 Or if you prefer something a little bit more streamlined.
01:25 Here's what he also looks like with the Nightfall Batman.
01:29 Abyss's accessories will include a run-of-the-mill display stand.
01:32 Not really out of the norm of the traditional DC logo stands that we usually get, but other
01:36 than just the bells and whistles of now branding the DC logo in silver, unlike the traditional
01:40 blacks that we normally get, it's the exact same display stand.
01:43 It tends to usually be the case as well when we're looking at the McFarlane Collector
01:46 Edition figures, that they go all out, at least when it comes to the printing and branding
01:50 the DC logo.
01:51 I do wish though that they could make more appearances, because generally though, while
01:54 I do like the more generic look of the display stands, especially if you want to display
01:57 them with other non-McFarlane related figures, these are always good to have around.
02:01 But I do kind of like every once in a while that we get a lot more DC logos visible like
02:05 this.
02:06 These by the way can attach to either one of his boots, although right now, Abyss is
02:09 standing fine.
02:10 If you want to put him in a more dynamic pose, especially with his dual sickle weapon, definitely
02:13 bring back that display stand.
02:15 While we're still speaking of stands, the figure as well, as you can see off to the
02:19 side I'm pointing at right now, comes with a podium stand that houses the card on top.
02:23 The actual stand itself, we have seen lots of times before, I mean obviously it's just
02:26 hollow on the back here, does have still the matching DC logo printed on the front, and
02:30 like I said, it does house the card on the top.
02:32 Carefully removing the card, it does feature Batman down below, and a dual sickle wielding
02:37 Abyss just above him.
02:39 On the side, we've got McFarlane Collector Edition, which again is nicely done here in
02:42 silver, and on the back, even though his real name is unlisted, I think his first appearance
02:46 was Batman 118, was from 2021, so the character itself is only about 3, almost 4 years old.
02:53 On the back though, it does have a very small paragraph read, you can read for yourself,
02:56 it happens to be the same thing I read at the beginning of this review.
02:59 It tends to be the case usually, even though these come included with their podium standees.
03:02 If I don't decide to display them with their podiums, I usually then still end up putting
03:06 these in with my trading card sheets, just to kind of keep everything in organized fashion.
03:10 Just going to put this carefully.
03:12 These by the way just sit on the side tracks here, but when you are putting them down,
03:15 frequent times of doing this, you might find yourself starting to fray the corners of the
03:19 card.
03:20 Just carefully put that back in place.
03:21 Let's just put the standee to the side for right now, we're going to come back to that
03:24 probably, probably I think in final looks as this guy's rotating on the rotisserie.
03:27 The figure also as well comes included with a gripping hand.
03:30 He has one gripping hand, but the gripping hand is only on this side of his body.
03:33 He has as well a gestured hand, but if he wants to wield dual sickles, then you definitely
03:38 will want to swap out the hands.
03:40 The hands itself, or the hand itself is molded only just in black plastic.
03:43 I do like the longer use of the nails that they've sculpted in there as well.
03:47 It's a good looking hand, and again it just easily pops out.
03:50 You want to see it?
03:51 Okay.
03:52 You can just take the hand right now, he has just a regular gestured hand.
03:54 I don't want to say regular like I'm dismissing it, I mean that's a pretty menacing looking
03:57 hand.
03:58 But you can see on the other hand, literally on the other hand, he does have just a gripping
04:01 means so he can hold the sickle at least on this side.
04:04 Can't really do much of anything on this side until we remove the hand.
04:07 You just take the hand and remove it from the provided post.
04:10 If you're having a tough time doing this, by the way, you can always heat this up with
04:13 hot water or a hair dryer.
04:15 I didn't have any problems really, so I didn't end up doing either, but just going to detach
04:18 it plugging then the new hand, and now he's good to go to actually wield his weapon.
04:22 I did actually say he wields a dual sickle weapon because even though you're looking
04:26 at right now and thinking it's only just a single weapon, the sickle itself can actually
04:30 detach right in the middle here.
04:32 If you take the two halves and just detach them, now also he can wield two instead of
04:36 one.
04:37 The sickles look really sick, really menacing, like they do some serious destructive damage.
04:41 They're fairly soft plastic, at least the ends of them are pretty soft.
04:45 The majority of them, I'm guessing, have probably been molded here in dark gray plastic,
04:49 and then they just paint the end.
04:50 I'm going to joke about it, not going to joke, but they only painted the end blades
04:54 a nice silver finish.
04:56 Again, you can either have them attaching these, these just plug in place like that.
05:00 You can either have them displayed with one, or again, I kind of like the idea of having
05:03 displayed with two sickles instead of just the one.
05:06 You just take your sickles and we'll slide them in on either side, one of his hands there,
05:12 and then we'll do the exact same thing on the other side.
05:14 As I'm doing this also as well, like I said, the character from an Abyss standpoint of
05:18 when he was created, he's not very old.
05:20 I feel he's sort of a sign of the times as well.
05:22 You can kind of look at the character and kind of know where influence was given.
05:25 I mean, he does really look, I feel, like the Purge movies, and I wonder if they probably
05:29 gave the ideas to that.
05:30 I mean, it's one of those cases where I don't know where his origins came from, at least
05:34 from a standpoint of where they designed him.
05:36 But looking at him, he doesn't look a little like someone you would expect to see from
05:40 a Purge film.
05:41 The fact that this character is only about three or four years old, I feel like there's
05:45 maybe some alignment of planets as to where they maybe got the idea from.
05:49 But obviously from there, I can't just make the assumption that that's the case.
05:52 But maybe from there, they just said, "Okay, well, we like the designs of these characters
05:56 from the movies.
05:57 I wonder if we could find a way to incorporate that as a villain."
06:00 Only just speculation more than anything else.
06:02 Let's just go right down right now.
06:03 Actually, we'll just remove the sickles because I know looking at the figure, it's going to
06:05 be a little harder to look at them if he's wielding weapons.
06:08 Like I said, the detailing on the face is really good.
06:10 He's got the X there shapes there on the front of his face that would simulate his eyes.
06:14 And of course, he's got a little breathing mask down below here.
06:16 It's encased inside of a hood, but the hood itself is pretty soft and plastic.
06:21 When you are moving the figure's head, for example, you're probably generally going to
06:24 be moving as well the hood.
06:25 And like I said, it's a pretty soft plastic.
06:27 And then of course, the head on the inside, not that you could really peel this back.
06:31 I'm sure if you were to peel this back, which I haven't really done yet, you probably would
06:34 see there's some detailing there on the back of it.
06:36 It kind of looks a little bit like he's wearing Aviator's helmet.
06:40 And he's just got like the glowing eyes there on the front.
06:42 A little like the Purge movies.
06:43 I don't know, maybe just a little bit.
06:45 The rest of him sort of comes across like a futuristic Grim Reaper.
06:49 I do like the way they sort of have sculpted in like a rib cage and he has a really lean
06:53 looking body to him.
06:55 Very thin on the limbs, obviously for his legs itself.
06:57 He's got very long legs there as well.
06:59 And he's also got a very tattered cape on the back.
07:01 The thing I really like about it though, is while there's really not a lot of color at
07:04 play here for the plastic, I do actually like that they added a little bit of purple on
07:07 the inside of the cape.
07:08 It just brings a little more color to the table.
07:10 Because if not for that, he's pretty much dealing with a lot of blacks and grays.
07:13 The gray does do a nice job though, at least.
07:15 So it's not just always black that you're looking at.
07:18 Things like his armor on the side, for example, have a nice gray approach.
07:20 They've also some nice gray there also in his abdomen area.
07:23 And the already mentioned rib cage, he's got some nice breakup of gray added in there to
07:27 an otherwise all black.
07:28 He does have sort of the equivalent of a utility belt.
07:31 Although the utility belt doesn't have a buckle in the middle.
07:34 What it does have in the middle though, is pretty soft plastic.
07:36 It's the only thing I really don't like about this, that all this lower half of his body
07:40 is pretty much just a soft overlay of plastic.
07:43 The utility belt, or the pockets he at least has for it, is only just attached on the end
07:48 of this.
07:49 So I feel like I would worry, not that it's going to come to play when we look at the
07:53 figure's articulation, but I just feel like rotating things around, like the figure's
07:56 body, for example, just that this being soft plastic, I worry if that's going to just
08:00 start to kind of crimp or even stretch the material that they're using down here.
08:04 Because like I said, all of this is just using soft goods rubber.
08:08 It's in his torso, it's in here on his side pockets.
08:11 Even on his lower half, I mean obviously usually with trunks like this for the DC Multiverse
08:15 figures, these all tend to be soft plastic as well.
08:17 But it's like soft here all the way down to the bottom.
08:19 The only thing that's really hard and plastic is obviously his arms, his upper torso, and
08:23 then his lower legs.
08:25 The legs again are sculpted nicely.
08:27 It isn't even quite a black that they're using either.
08:29 It's almost got like a slight tint of blue.
08:31 I don't know if you can even see that if the film is, the video is doing it justice.
08:35 And he's also got some really nice, interesting sculpted legs.
08:38 There's a whole lot of gray and a whole lot of black on this figure.
08:40 But it's a decent looking sculpted figure.
08:42 I really like the look of Abyss here, even though again, I really feel like he's just
08:47 literally taking a page from like the Purge movies as to where maybe the character's design
08:51 originated from.
08:52 Now, for the figure's articulation, Abyss does have the ball joint.
08:56 But again, as you're all rotating the head, you're going to be rotating all the hood along
09:00 with it as well.
09:01 It does move up and down.
09:02 And you could in a way get in there as well, where you can move the head freely on its
09:05 own.
09:06 But usually it's a package deal.
09:08 When you're moving the one thing, you're pretty much going to be moving the hood along with
09:10 it as well.
09:11 It moves down, it moves up.
09:12 You can also rock it back and forth as well.
09:14 And even though normally a hood would not allow you to do this, you could rotate it
09:17 all the way around as well.
09:19 Abyss also has an upper torso ball joint.
09:21 He has the makings of a lower torso ball joint.
09:24 But again, like moving things around on this guy, this is all just soft plastic that you're
09:28 having to deal with.
09:29 The arms at least do come out easily at 90 degrees, so there's no problems there.
09:33 Rotating the arms all the way around can be a little more of a hang up just because of
09:35 the way they've actually got the cape sitting against the shoulders.
09:39 But he does also have a swivel in his bicep.
09:41 He does possess also a double hinge on his elbow.
09:44 And he does also have a rotation in his hand all the way around back and forth there too.
09:47 For his legs, Abyss's legs split out very, very easily at 90 degrees.
09:52 Would that be 90 degrees?
09:53 I guess it would because again, straight down, straight across.
09:55 He also does move forward and move back.
09:57 He has what I feel to be some of the softest lower trunks that I've seen on a figure.
10:02 Unfortunately, it does mean though when you are moving him back and forth like this, you
10:05 can really see the way that that all bunches up.
10:07 And I think also by doing this the number of times that I have, it sort of now starts
10:11 to leave behind a little bit of a gap space between the trunk and the top of the thigh.
10:15 Speaking of the top of the thigh, there's a little bit of a swivel right there.
10:18 The figure does also have a double hinge on his knee.
10:20 And he does also have the same articulation that pretty much goes with the territory of
10:24 usually DC Multiverse figures.
10:26 There doesn't seem to be much in the way of an ankle pivot, or if there is, it's just
10:31 really tight on this figure.
10:32 But he has at least toe articulation, so you can also do that as well.
10:36 He's an interesting enough figure, but again, I feel like with Abyss, judging by the time
10:39 that the character first debuted, he's sort of a sign of the times.
10:42 What was popular at the time usually then translates itself into other medium.
10:46 And I just feel like it's a case, let's just get him on his display stand.
10:49 Speaking of the display stands, I feel like it's one of those cases where being a sign
10:52 of the time kind of character, he comes around when things become popular.
10:56 Not that that's necessarily the origins of Abyss, but me again, looking at him, he looks
11:00 like a cross between sort of a futuristic kind of grim reaper, paired along with someone
11:05 you'd expect to see on the streets of a purge film.
11:09 Knowing very well I was going to get Abyss in some more of a dynamic pose than what I
11:12 was doing during the review, I did want to keep his display stand pretty close to him,
11:15 even though he not necessarily really needed them.
11:17 I mean, I'm just looking around my reviewing table right now, and I can easily count off
11:20 on two hands how many displays stands that currently aren't being occupied by other
11:25 figures.
11:26 I would rather have more displays stands than what I really need.
11:28 I mean, I sound like I'm in an episode of hoarders, but the fact that we get to display
11:32 stand with every single figure doesn't necessarily mean that you always have to have a figure
11:35 displayed with it.
11:37 But the good thing about these display stands being generic the way that they are, is that
11:40 you can also use them for other figure companies as well.
11:42 And I can think of several figures that I have on my shelf that don't actually belong
11:46 to McFarlane toys, but that are in fact using a black display stand because of what they
11:50 have provided with their figures before.
11:52 Now when it comes to Certainly Abyss, the black clad Abyss does have a little bit of
11:56 pops of color with the purple in the back of his cape, not to mention the glowing eyes.
11:59 I do like the idea that he's wielding dual sickle weapons that you can either attach
12:03 as being one weapon, or again, you can remove it and he has at least the benefit of a secondary
12:07 hand.
12:08 What a bit of a bummer it would have been if he actually could have had detachable sickle
12:11 sights and then he wouldn't have even had two gripping hands.
12:14 But they did think of that, and at least the figure comes included with it.
12:16 I mean, if anything could be said, I know they sometimes short changes collectors when
12:20 it comes to accessory counts, but at least when it counts, when it does matter, McFarlane
12:24 includes the accessories at least that we need.
12:26 I mean, obviously there's always still the gun mandate where they can include weapons
12:30 like that, but a character like Abyss isn't going to be wielding around necessarily guns.
12:34 I think the sickles work fine for the character.
12:37 Now again, where his origin may have came from, I don't even know.
12:39 I don't want to make again any speculation that they may have gotten some influence,
12:43 some inspiration perhaps from something that they saw on the big screen, but it definitely
12:47 does for me at least look like a cross between the Grim Reaper and a character that be roaming
12:51 the city streets in the Purge films.
12:54 I mean, whatever the case may be, it makes for a pretty cool looking character.
12:57 And again, the way I've got him displayed right now may very well be the same way I'm
13:01 going to be displaying this guy in the show because he does have an interesting shelf
13:04 presence to him.
13:05 It doesn't have a whole lot of color, but the color at least and the molding that he
13:08 has at least does make for a rather interesting looking figure to be displayed.
13:12 What do you guys think of Abyss?
13:13 Let me know down below in the comments section.
13:15 Have you had the chance to pick up this figure for yourself or based on these reviews, is
13:19 this a figure you could see yourselves picking up also as well, if you guys are interested
13:23 and would like to get this one for yourself, it should start already being online.
13:26 And I did in fact actually order this one online, but I think you should also be able
13:30 to find this guy in local stores, depending on where you can actually pick up your DC
13:33 multiverse figures.
13:34 Speaking as only it's just a Canadian collector.
13:36 I can tell you brick and mortar stores here in Canada just stink.
13:39 I mean, you just can't find anything.
13:41 So half the time when it usually comes from me stocking up on DC multiverse figures, I
13:46 can't look to my local stores cause they have like next to nothing, but at least usually
13:50 I can just order these online.
13:51 It means I have to pay a little bit more for them, but for a character like Abyss, for
13:54 as cool of Abyss may be, it definitely was worth the order this guy online.
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