McFarlane Toys DC Direct Page Punchers 7" Batman Reborn Robin (Damian Wayne) Figure In-hand Images

So 7"inch scale Damien would be...what, four or five, maybe five and a half inches tall compared to the rest of the line? It's how NECA's stuff works, judging from the descriptions of their M3GAN figures. Depending on how this one scales with the rest of my non-McFarlane collection, I may get this Damien to replace the DC Direct one I already have.

11 minutes ago, hainrs said:

The person taking the picture isn't going to notice nor care about that and very few people are going to notice it.

Yeah, that was kind of his point. I mean, if you were a professional photographer creating marketing material, wouldn't you take enough pride in your work and have enough basic diligence and general competency to take a pause and say, "hold up, maybe we should fix this before proceeding?" You know, if you rose to the degree where that were how you made your living? You wouldn't notice?

Shown below via asokathegeek is an in-hand look at the new DC Direct Page Punchers 7" Batman Reborn Robin (Damian Wayne) Figure from McFarlane Toys. You can purchase this figure from Amazon with a suggested retail price of $24.99 each.

You can even notice Deathstroke's staff is warped in that image. Great marketing team.

Wow. I remember the early days of McFarlane with the DC license and all the heaps of praise for how much better they supposedly were than Hasbro, with "all original sculpts" and other things. Well, hello, Deathstroke. Nothing but a repaint. The colors are not as good as the previous version. On top of that, they stand in stark contrast to the artwork, which is FAR darker. The weapons on this are much better than the silly sword with the original, BUT...a knife sheath with no knife. McFarlane is capable of so much good with their products, but it's like they have some unpublished rule that they can never fully deliver on that potential in any individual offering.

1 hour ago, RobertD said:

That's the Platinum Dick Grayson Batman.

Cool. Thanks for the info.

54 minutes ago, Minotaur said:

Looks like Deathstroke includes a knife sheath but doesn't come with a knife to go in the sheath.

I'm putting the sword in that sheath no matter what

Lots of people like McFarlane's figures (although, I think, maybe a portion of that is people like DC characters and he's the only game in town), but to say that Hasbro is as lazy or weird in its parts reuse as McFarlane is inaccurate. RobertD cited some very bizarre examples of McFarlane's parts reuse (his love of that zip-up Catwoman torso is unbelievable) so I won't belabor the point. I will just say that I think he's right.

26 minutes ago, MrAllMine said:

Has that 7 Page Puncher Batman pictured with Robin been released? I dont remember.

That's the Platinum Dick Grayson Batman.

On 9/5/2024 at 11:09 AM, hainrs said:

Yes, and I'll buy them all. And I'll do the same with Marvel Legends, Star Wars, Transformers and all the rest given they all do it.

And they're still legs. It doesn't matter.

Hey, feel free to be as indiscriminating in your collecting as you like, it's not my job to set your personal standards. But lazy, half-assed efforts are lazy, half-assed efforts, and I am going to point them out whenever I see them. That there's an audience out there that doesn't care and will buy whatever gets dangled in front of them doesn't really change that. Most companies will re-use but it's typically just standard bucks, and sculpts or parts that make sense for the character (or at least come close). I don't see the Marvel Legends team painting over Wolverine hands with a different color and calling them Cyclops' gloves. They're hardly flawless mind, (looking at you, Abomination-Ch'od) but most of the time the re-use makes sense. Don't get me started on Transformers though, their re-use is just as bad as McFarlane.

Here's some fun examples though, just because: