Man-Bat (Batman: The Animated Series)

Four words: great design, bad execution.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div>Man-Bat was the very first episode of BTAS, I believe it was the first to actually air. My entire family got together in the basement family room to watch it on Fox Kids, as it originally premiered in the afternoon, not as a morning cartoon. I'll never forget it. The haunting real-orchestral score, the gorgeous art deco cityscape, the noir detective vibes, and the pulp serial feel all mixed with a pseudo-universal monster tone... it influenced my young and impressionable mind forever after.&nbsp;<br><div><br></div><div>So you'd think they'd go all out for Man-Bat. Nah. The flaws in this figure are overwhelming. So much so, I don't know where to begin or what the hell the engineers were thinking.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>You almost literally can't pose this figure in any pose whatsoever and get him to look right. Not flight, not landed, nothing. He always looks wrong. You can't get him to properly look up to get those mid-air poses, nor can you get him to look ahead but crouched like he's landed and walking. I've never seen a figure's engineering be so poor. We're not provided any articulation in the wings other than the shoulder. It's insanely limited. You get, maybe, one post out of this guy; that's it, and good luck getting him to stand. He's utterly disappointing from head to toe, and the shame of it is, he's a great sculpt and design. It's just how they engineered the figure to move; it's completely useless. They might as well have just made him a statue. And while none of the articulation is great on these figures, this one is, by far, the worst.&nbsp;</div></div>