2016 is going to be a great year for Wonder Woman fans. The Upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie (March 25th) introduced up to the first cinematic Wonder Woman ever. And honestly she seems really really well done. Her casting, costume, and demeanor seem perfect. Of course, her presence in the trailers is minimal so there's a lot of conjecture happening here. Immediately after Christmas this year, the Batman v Superman merchandise started trickling in to my Toys R Us stores. The first wave of products features 12", 6", and 5" Wonder Women. I certainly don't plan on being a completist because I have a feeling we're going to see a lot more figures (hopefully one with a blue hooded cape!) The detail on this figure is pretty great. There are a couple design flaws, but overall she is awesome. I'm surprised I was able to get my hands on her so soon. Maybe her newfound popularity will lead the way to a NECA Lynda Carter figure! Let's check out Dawn of Justice Wonder Woman below!
I think this figure looks really great. However, being my critical self, I feel like I need to highlight two flaws. (1) Her thighs seems unproportionally skinny. She has a muscular torso and arms, and then toothpick legs. When posed she looks fine, but standing at attention I think she looks odd. And (2) her eyebrows are painted on too heavy (more on that below).
Her personal accessories include a shield and a sword. The detail and paint apps on these are great.
Her leather harness is permanently attached to her back in two places. I'm sure the glue could be dislodged, but then you'd never get it back on without more glue.
Wonder Woman also comes with a display stand for the Collect-n-Connect replica of Batman's Grapnel Blaster gun.
She has some paint issues. The head seems to be cast in a plastic the color of her hair with the face painted in fleshtone. The borderlines are a little rough around the edge of her hairline and chin. Also, I didn't even notice until I saw this photo, but her eyebrow paint is too heavily applied over the actual eyebrow sculpt. I'm going to attempt to fix this and post pics later.
There are very few promotional images of Gal Gadot in costume so far.
Because her head and hair are one single piece of plastic, the hair is inflexible. Therefore you can't really move her head at all. We've gotten spoiled with rubbery hair lately, but this figure offers none of that posing freedom.
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Okay here are a few pics of my eyebrow touchup. When you see this figure in the stores, you'll notice that her sculpted eyebrow is way more inconspicuous than the large one painted over it. I tried to tame back the brown/black paint to its proper margins, but then it made her look scared because of her lack of noticeable eyelashes. So I ended up adding some subtle eyeliner to balance it out. I think she looks prettier now, but less fierce. Since I spent the time mixing up the right color fleshtone, I also fixed the sloppy hairline areas mentioned above.
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Time for some Group and Comparison Pics!
Here she is with two newer DC Collectibles figures: Jae Lee Wonder Woman and New 52 Wonder Woman.
And some older ones: Adam Hughes/Ed Benes Wonder Woman and Terry Dodson Wonder Woman.
Here she is with two other Mattel Figures: DC Universe Classics and DC Comics Unlimited.
Here she is with a Movie Masters DKR Catwoman. They are *almost* the same scale. I'd say it was just her Amazonian stature making her larger, but the skull size seems out of sync too.
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Figure looks pretty good for the most part, but the eyebrows really detract from the look -- keep us posted on how the fix goes!
ReplyDeletePics posted! I'm happy with it, but I might keep on tweaking it. It doesn't really resemble Gal Gadot yet.
DeleteYeah, big improvement. Much more feminine.
DeleteLookin good!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll bet 100 bucks there will be a movie-styled Imaginext re-release on the horizon.
DeleteJust ordered her. She looks so good. I have a couple other wonder woman with invisible plane figures arriving as well. Not really your style but cool nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteAre the invisible plane figures tied in to the movie? I'm a bit unaware of all the movie products coming out, but I didn't think they'd introduce the jet so soon.
DeleteWhere did you order it? I can't find it anywhere other than Ebay?
DeleteI got mine at Toys R US, but I've also seen them at Walmart. I hear that some Targets are also setting up a large Batman v Superman display and stock these.
DeleteNice review! I saw her yesterday at a Toys R Us and almost picked her up but the weird lack of separation between the hair and the head kept me from pulling the trigger. Now watch, I'll probably never see her again on shelves. The armor and her accessories are just first rate, though. She really looks nice and now I'm kind of regretting not grabbing her. Your fix on the head and eyebrows looks amazing. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I almost didn't touch her because I kind of liked her as-is. I've been seeing her everywhere so I don't think you'll have trouble getting her.
DeleteI think your eyebrow/eyeliner fix vastly improves the figure! I've got a couple on the way from Amazon (ha), so I'm hoping I can pull off the same magic you've accomplished. Nice!
ReplyDeleteIT's really hard to get a good skintone to match. Although you could use a slightly darker shade and have it double as a eyebrow-coverup and eyeshadow. I wanted it to match because I didn't think an Amazonian warrior princess would really be applying eyeshadow and heavy eyeliner haha.
DeleteI found one at Target along with the stylized metal figure -- mine had a goof on the paint that I was able to fix pretty easily, but overall she's a great figure... will have to go back and do the eyebrows too. Didn't notice until I saw your pic!
ReplyDeleteI was temped by that stylized figure but in the end I passed. Maybe someday if I find her on clearance. Good luck with the eyebrows!
DeleteYour mod looks so much better from the original paint!
ReplyDeleteYour mod looks so much better from the original paint!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteI know this is an old post, but I just recently got this figure in a lot on eBay for a really good price. I'm not a huge WW fan, or DC for that matter, but I was looking forward to getting her since the sculpt details and paint looked really nice in the photos I've seen. While those hold up in person what kills this figure for me is the utter lack of proportion, it's not just that the thighs are too skinny, but that the legs are altogether way too short. I'm kind of a stickler for this sort of thing, recently modified a Hulkbuster Valkyrie to see if I could shave a bit of height off her since that seems to be the most common complaint, the figure being too tall. Found the Mockingbird lower legs and knees swapped out perfectly, but then the original arms looked too big at the shoulders, so swapped the shoulders and biceps with those from the Allfather wave Captain Marvel for a narrower profile. That made the Valkyrie head appear too large, so used the unmasked Carol Danvers head with Val's hair and that did the trick. I'm fine with the original figure but wanted to see if I could address other's complaints while using as much of the original parts as possible and not putting excessive work into the process, i.e. cracking open the torso. Point being that's pretty much impossible with this Wonder Woman, she looks deformed and I have an escalating urge to attempt a fix, but it will require a total rebuild from the waist down imo, and I'm not even a huge Wondy fan to begin with, so why am I even entertaining the idea?
ReplyDeleteHave you checked out the new TRU exclusive Wonder Woman? (I just reviewed her Saturday). She re-uses this body but with a resculpted and scaled-down head and it makes a huge difference. I think when we look at scale with action figures, we start with the head and use that as the baseline for the body scale. I do agree that the legs seems little short for a typical action figure. But I also think that the typical action figure greatly exaggerates leg length for females (same way it does shoulder width and hand size for males). But with movie-themed lines, the proportions are usually look more realistic and therefore seem more short and stocky compared to the rest of our collections.
DeleteAnd PS I have the same feelings about the Suicide Squad Multiverse Harley(s). I want to completely break her apart and fix her proportions. hahah
DeleteI think the torso and shoulders on the figure are a bit too big, kind of wide.
DeleteJust wanted to update, got the Mafex BvS figure, and I'm pretty happy with the proportions compared to the Multiverse WW, and the details and paint apps look great. The head sculpt even looks a lot more like Gal Gadot. Like I mentioned before, not a huge Wonder Woman fan (well, not big on DC in general), but after seeing the recent movie just wanted a nice figure of her. She may be a bit small compared to current Marvel Legends figures, but she measures up well with ones from older series.
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