I believe it's on record that my preferred color scheme for Batman is either blue and gray or all black. Well, there is something to be said for the combo of black and gray. It's what the character started with and has become the sort of, modern default. So, MAFEX repainting this figure in those colors is kind of a no-brainer.
Alright, my blue and gray Bats is in rough shape, mostly due to my own hands. Trying to glue the cowl down led to staining the cape and trying to fix that just caused more problems. Replacing that cape led to major paint damage on the cowl that bothered me a lot. I could have just bought another if it bothered me that bad (or try to repaint but lol), but I really hate just buying the same figure again. So, might as well get the variant. Found one for a solid price and got it.
It's the same figure, in different colors. With a few improvements here or there. The cowl still feels like it sits high, buuuuut it's better overall. The cape is also easier to manipulate, the wires are placed better than the blue one. I hear these improvements are on the reissued blue ones, alongside a few other changes like the cowl now sits better. Also worth noting, he doesn't have a Bruce Wayne head, but does come with a sweet grotesque base.
I'm very prone to figure bias, so this is already making me like this color combo a lot. Regardless, I suppose I could have waited for the upcoming Knightfall Batman if I wanted another blue & gray Bats, but I'm not really into the headsculpts on those. The defined human ears feel wrong for that era's art. It's like they took the Jim Lee sculpts and just extended the ears. Still, decent chance I end up with that when they release it.
I'm two Batmans in on this line and I hardly have any others DC characters. Just a Harley. Once Bane, Riddler, and Scarecrow show up, though? Well, those three right there are already my faves. Now let's get a Penguin and a better Joker too. It's strange how it seems like Medicom almost consciously aimed for the most divisive Joker variants. Maybe I'll pick up the Golden Age one Mezco is doing, that honestly looks like the best one so far to me.
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What if...
...the giant of light chose Hongo Takeshi as its host...
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Oh, man, ANOTHER MAFEX Spider-Man? Don't you just know it. I've got an infestation of the things at this point. What can I say? I love a good Spider-Man. This is the Ben Reilly Spidey, the current rerelease of it. Normally, my preferred attire for Ben is the Scarlet Spider costume, but this figure just looked so CLEAN. It's just hard to say no.
What can I say? I've talked about so many similar figures in the past and will continue to do so in the future. It's really fun. I've heard reports of easily damaged paint on the chest logo on this reissue. My reissue Carnage suffered some major issues that were a pain to clean up, but so far Ben Reilly is holding up.
In general, paint continues to be my one consistent issue with Medicom's offerings. I can be rough with my toys, so I expect some wear but this one's alternate head came with some strange paint blotching on one of the lenses right out the box. My Venom had some cracked paint on one of his eyes as well. Classic Spidey's blue paint feels easily worn even compared to others. The spider on Scarlet Spider's hoodie is fading with posing. Carnage, as I mentioned, had a whole lot of easily damaged black paint on his lower abdomen and pelvis. There's more I could list, but just about all of my comic MAFEX have had some problems in the paint department.
Still, I continue to be a big fan of this line. The fun outweighs the problems. I think I even prefer this figure over Scarlet Spider. Recency bias being what it is plays a factor, but again: this figure just looks fantastic. It poses just as well too, maybe even the best of all my MAFEX Spideys. Feels like you get a bit more out of that torso. Overall, I'm totally happy with this.
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