McFarlane DC Batman The Dark Knight Hong Kong Sky Dive (Platinum Edition)
In the Dark Knight, Batman travels to Hong Kong to capture and extradite Gotham mafia accountant, Lau, to retrieve the Gotham crime organization’s hidden money (hence the figure’s name, Hong Kong Skydive Batman). It’s the first scene in the movie where we see Batman’s new and improved Batsuit. The new suit features stronger, but lightweight material, as well as a new modification to the suit’s neck, allowing Batman to now turn his head, as opposed to his “Batman Begins” suit.
The figure is a chase variant release of the Hong Kong Skydive unmasked Bruce Wayne/ Batman, itself a reuse of the previously released Dark Knight Batman figure, but this time featuring a wired cape instead of a sculpted plastic one.
As a Platinum Edition release, this figure is randomly swapped in place for the mass retail version. There’s also rumor that the production numbers for Platinum Edition figures are around only 3000 units per run.
The figure’s cape is made with cloth this time around (instead of the original all-plastic version). It also features a very thin wire running along the sides of the cape for dynamic poses.
That’s about as far as it can spread, though. Nowhere near the height it’s supposed to be able to go like Batman used it in the movie.
It’s been a while since I picked up a McFarlane DC figure, I just realized, they don’t have thigh swivels?
For the lower legs, the swivel joint is located at the ankles.
Toe articulation joint.
The new suit also features retractable scallops on his gauntlets, that are also capable of firing off as projectiles.
According to Lucius Fox, the new suit is made with “hardened Kevlar plates over titanium-dipped tri-weave fibers for flexibility”. This makes the suit lighter, making Batman faster and more agile.
Thanks to the cloth cape, you can really pull off some nice poses with this figure.
The set comes with a flight stand for Batman to recreate his skydive “flight” scene into Lau’s tower in Hong Kong.
The grip’s a bit small though. I wish McFarlane Toys improved the grip to hold onto the figure’s torso instead of just the thigh.
In the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman movies, thanks to the “memory fabric”, Batman’s cape can turn rigid when a current runs through it, turning the cape into a glider of sorts for “base jumping” from rooftop to rooftop.
It’s really a shame we don’t get more accessories with this figure (not even a grappel gun), unlike the previous release that was a part of the Dark Knight Rises Bane Build-A-Figure wave, that one came with the grapple gun and three Batarangs, all we get here is the flight stand.
Overall, not too shabby. I love the new wired cape which really adds a lot of dynamic posing options to one of my favorite Batmen from the movies.
I’m glad I didn’t grab the first version from the Bane Build-A-Figure wave. While that one did come with more accessories, the figure itself was pretty unappealing thanks to the poorly designed form of the cape. The biggest downside with this one is that this is a chase figure so chancing upon one off the shelves is pretty hard and getting it from secondary sources comes at a premium cost.
Gold
