If you want a figure based on Margot Robbie’s take on Harley Quinn, there are a lot of options available. I really liked the prototype from Figuarts because it used the face printing tech that I’ve come to really enjoy, so I went with Bandai for my Suicide Squad Harley. Let’s take a closer look at the Suicide Squad Harley Quinn from Bandai’s S.H.Figuarts line.
As much as I like the face printing technology, it does work better for me on some figures than others. I think Mace Windu and Bruce Lee look like tiny little clones of the actors, but the likeness is not quite there on figures like the Episode II Obi-Wan.
Harley is somewhere in between. The facial likeness doesn’t quite live up to the heights of the prototype, but it does look a lot Margot Robbie.
It comes with three heads, and I think the least successful is the neutral expression sculpt. I can see Robbie in there, but it’s a weird call for such an expressive character. I have a hard time seeing her with such a flat affect.
The giant smile is pretty great, but I think my favorite is the grin. It’s perfectly mischievous and a little nutty.
The figure comes with a couple of weapons: a bat and a handgun. The bat splits at handle so you can slide the gripping hands on there easily.
The printing on the bat is nice and sharp. The gun fits perfectly on the holster attached to her jacket.
She also comes with two bat-gripping hands, a gun-holding right hand, two splayed “jazz” hands, a slightly open left hand, and a neutral right hand. They pop on and off with some effort, but they are so tight that I was a little afraid that I was going to break the joint.
The articulation is very good with ball joints in the head, neck, upper torso, lower torso, and even her pigtails. There are swivel/hinge joints in the shoulders, wrists, hips, and ankles. The elbows and knees are single-hinged but have nice range of motion that gets over 90 degrees of bend.
The hip swivel is a little impeded a bit by the fact that the leg is sculpted all the way up to her butt cheeks. The legs look really nice until you move them too far forward, then the butt looks a little weird. Check out Robo’s review:
The shoulders are also attached on a hinge so they can swing out so Harley’s arms can cross her chest.
The paint is very nice, though they do miss a couple tattoos here and there. Honestly, I didn’t miss them, but it is a little weird that they dropped these particular tats. I also like that the stocking effect is done with sculptural texture rather than painted lines. It’s very convincing at a regular viewing distance, but less so up close in enlarged photos.
Overall, I’m very pleased with this figure. I think it’s a great representation of Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and a fun, poseable figure.
