The theme? Buying McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse figures for $35 depsite knowing better because dammit I need the character. In this case, Kite-Man.
I looooove the Andy Daly Kite-Man from the Harley Quinn cartoon even though I fell behind on the show itself a couple seasons ago. And while this is technically a comics Kite-Man it’s close enough. But damn.
First, it is borderline shoddy. The wrists are loose. The shoulders are loose. The butterfly shoulders are even looser. And the harness piece over the torso is gappy and, yes, loose. It rattles around. It stays on, but it’s not positionally secure, especially with the giant kite on it. The only reason it’s a separate piece is so they can use a standard body and not mold a new torso, which I get, but ffs if making overlay pieces tight was difficult Hasbro would be out of business.
He’s also skimpy as fuck for a $35 figure. He comes with a backpack piece in case you ever want to display Kite-Man without his kite like some kind of weirdo. And he comes with a couple of hands. He doesn’t even come with a DC Multivere flight stand. I don’t need one, I don’t like them, but it’s an existing thing and they coulda thrown one in. But no, instead you’re paying $35 for “We made Kite-Man, suck it up, fanboy.”
For the pic, I tried an effectI thought up recently, which is using a Four Horsemen Graveyard Skeleton, posed identically to a figure, as the “zapped” skeleton cartoon type effect. It was way more difficult than I’d hoped, and I did end up having to digitally disassemble the different skeleton parts and reposition and resize them to match Kite-Man’s proportions, but otherwise I like it. I’d love to figure out how to make it stand out more without also taking too much away from the figure. We’ll see in the future.
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