It’s only been four months since the last wave of Icons was released, but it almost feels like four years ago. I say “only four months” because it used to be that was always about the normal time frame in between waves of new figures. Now, with the way Hasbro pumps out wave after wave of Marvel Legends, we’ve been spoiled with what seems like a constant stream of new figures to collect. I think what really made it seem like an even longer wait is that this wave had a couple of figures that everyone who collects this line couldn’t wait to get in their hands. Actually, I think people who don’t collect this line were still eagerly anticipating grabbing a Harley Quinn figure. I know she was my biggest want in this line since I saw her prototype way back at last year’s Toy Fair.
Thankfully, the wait was worth it. I really couldn’t be happier with the results. Simply put, this Harley is just an awesome figure.
The packaging is the standard Icons boxing: basic white trimmed in the color scheme of the character. Her attachments and weapons are displayed right in front of her wide window box, and the rest of the characters in the wave are shown on the back. I do love how the “O” in the Icons is always depicted with each character’s specific logo or symbol. Each Icons figure is numbered, and Harley ended up being lucky number thirteen.
Right out of the box, I fell in love with this figure. It’s iconic Harley with a perfect build and with all the details needed to make this figure stand out. Like all Icon figures, this look is based on a specific storyline, in this case the “No Man’s Land” arc. Really, this is just classic, iconic Harley in all her glory.
Besides scoring one in the win column for being in her classic costume, this figure really is a great sculpt. Her cuffs, booties, neck piece, and jester’s hat are all very well-crafted. There are some nice cloth folds and wrinkles to make her costume look like more than just painted on. As for her paints, they are very good. All the paint lines are even and clean, and her little diamonds are crisp and straight. While all that stuff is nice, the standout piece of this figure, both sculpt and paint-wise, is clearly her face.
Wowzers. This is one of my favorite head sculpts of all time — it’s seriously that good. The sculpt itself is perfect with a slightly devious smile breaking in. Her eyes are sultry yet playful, with perhaps a hint of crazy. Her mask is a raised sculpt, not just painted on. The paints really stand out here with crisp and shiny blue eyes, and there is some nice color on her lips. Her cheeks even have a touch of red to make her face almost lifelike. You can also see all the details on her jester hat with cloth wrinkles and little indentations on the white balls on her hat. I also love the fact that there is a seam where her hat meets her head instead of just a paint line.
Harley, like most of the other Icon figures, comes with a few sets of hands and accessories. She comes with fists, open hands for holding weapons, and a “left trigger finger hand” to hold her gun. I really dig her fists because they’re shaped very well. Truthfully, all three sets of hands are done well with each finger looking realistic and not cartoony.
Besides the extra hands, Harley comes with two different weapons: a mallet and her cork gun. Both are almost always associated with her, especially in this Jester look of hers. Again, the little details pop out again, with grain sculpted in the wood of the mallet, along with rivets and the metal bands holding it together. The handle has a wrap to it almost like the grip on a baseball bat or a tennis racket would have. Her gun is definitely on the goofy end, but it’s made well and the cork looks like cork. They both fit well in her hands, but the handle on the mallet seems like it could break. It doesn’t feel like it has much give, and I worry it could pop with too much force.
Articulation is another strong point for Harley. You can get her into most, if not all, of the “Harley” poses you’d think of. She’s not as poseable as the Figuarts Injustice Harley, but, then again, not much compares to Figuarts stuff. With her articulation setup you can get her into some really cool poses, though. Plus, she has a very nice balance to her so when you pose her with the mallet, it’s weight doesn’t cause her to topple over. Her rocker ankles really do a great job of keeping her balanced.
You see her full range of movement in Robo’s video review:
Harley’s articulation scheme:
- Ball-jointed neck
- Ball-jointed shoulders
- Double-jointed elbows and knees
- Mid-torso ab swivel and lower ab crunch
- Ball-jointed hips
- Hinge-and-swivel wrists
- Rocker ankles
Scale has been the biggest concern with the Icons line, both in the line itself and how it scales with other “6-inch” lines. With Harley, she scales perfectly with both. If anything, she may be a smidge too tall within the icons scale. As for other lines, she’ll fit in with both Marvel Legends and DC Universe Classics. She scales really with Joker from DCUC in particular. As you can see in the pics below, she fits right in scale-wise with the other lines as well.
Bottom line is this is just a fantastic figure that you have to own if you collect DC figures, or any figures for that matter. It’s just that good. It blows away the DCUC Harley and is just a perfect representation of Harley in her classic jester outfit. Sculpt, paints, and articulation are all well done and easily makes this figure my favorite version of her. That is saying a lot too because I love, love, love my Figuarts Injustice Harley. The highly detailed, well-painted sculpt of Harley in her classic costume just puts this figure over the top for me. Seriously — go get one.
You can grab her at your local comic book shop, Big Bad Toy Store, or Amazon.com.
*I also have to give a big thank you to RoboKillah for supplying these awesome pics. I’m in the middle of a move and all my figures and set up are in storage.
