Movie Realization Batman and Batpod
November 1, 2008 by BaseGuardian
Filed under Movie Realization
Greetings heroes/citizens, it seems like the spirit of the Dark Knight is slowly fading away and with no new comic books based movies until 2009 there are nothing interested for me to watch on the cinema accept Tropic Thunder and Bond.So to lift the spirit of the Dark Knight back, I present you the Movie Realization Batman and Batpod. About Movie Realization, it’s not S.I.C but more like a derived or a spin-off products of the S.I.C. This action figure was design by Masakazu Katsura and sculpted by Takayuki Takeya. You may know Masakazu Katsura by his famous works like Shadow Lady and Zetman. Retail price for this action figure set is about $86.12. This action figure was released on September 08.
Packaging; it’s a damn big box for a Movie Realization action figure. It’s bigger than my size 10 Nike shoes box (and it’s a basketball shoes). You might get the picture of how big it is , I also have to use Photoshop to edit the box’s picture because it will not fit the background that was set on my photo shoot’s table.The box have a flap cover, flip it up and there is a huge windows, perfect for M.I.S.B collectors, not me. The graphics was done by Masakuza Katsura and it’s suits the movie’s theme, black background with silver fonts.Inside the thick box there is a tray and the cover.Not much twisties, as it uses buttons to snap the cover and the tray together, so it holds the toys inside nicely.
Design/sculpt;it’s about 7 inches tall, and yes it doesn’t look like the Bat in the movie. That’s the whole idea of having this Movie Realization action figures. You got a movie based action figure that was given a bit of twist to make it more fun. He looks thinner than the real one and have a very muscular chest, too muscular if you ask me.The sculpts are fantastic, but I still don’t understand why there are translucent parts on his big chest, it should be black and make it flat black.The headsculpt is amazing, Batty have a sharp deep looks on his eyes. Another thing that bothered me is the “neck brace”, the neck should be one sleek piece so that he doesn’t looks like he injured his neck from the fight scene with Scarecrow. It (the brace) looks good from the back but not from the front. The last thing that I hate is the cape, it should be made of cloth. There is a gimmick that I like though, the fins on both of his hands can be flipped up and down, it’s for the hands to be fitted nicely on the Batpod’s handles, it kind of hard to get them in there.
The Batpod, I was surprised that there are many parts on the Batpod that was made of die cast metal. That’s why it’s so heavy. The Batpod design are not much different from the real Batpod, but if you see it you know it’s a Movie Realization version. Both tires were made of rubber that adds more points to why you should get this. If you put Batman on the Batpod, he looks like he is riding the Batpod not like he was doing something inappropriate to his Batpod. The Batpod’s wide tires made it stable to stand on it’s own but just to be safe use the display stand that was provided.
Articulation; the Batman got a very good set of articulation. The only complain for Batman’s articulation are on the shoulders. The shoulders’ armors was made fixed to the body and it limited the movement of the shoulders.You can see the picture of him holding up the grappling gun, that’s the high it can be. Other than that, the socket ball joint for his hips works like a charm. The Batpod, not so much or maybe I’m just being to precautions. I don’t want to break something on the Batpod as I had a very long history about breaking toys accidentally. So you have to find out at your own risk haha 
The handles can be turn left and right, both tires can spins and remember how the Batpod’s front tire turned around in the chase scene? Nope that can’t be done with this, I’m quite upset with that.
Colors; no complain, but the I hate the chest’s colors. It should be flat black. The colors of the bat suit are not all black , if you look closely there is a dark grey on the background. His face looks tanned. As for the Batpod, the colors are superb, the exhaust is not made of diecast metal but the colors made it looks like a die cast metal. No silver smudges on the tires, and
Collectors values; do I really need to tell you? Hell yeah it’s a freakin’ awesome Batman action figure. So if you don’t want to get it, its up to you but believe me there are much things that you’ll be missing if you’re not getting this one. Now Bandai, make me a Movie Realization Ironman and Iron Monger muahaha…
-Baseguardian.
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