The DC Bombshells brand is a reimagining of DC characters in a ’40s pin-up style. Pin-up art and statues aren’t really my thing, but I do like a couple of the redesigns of the characters, so when I saw that they were making articulated figures, I decided to give one a try. Let’s take a look at DC Bombshell Harley Quinn!
Harley comes with a good amount of stuff including an oversized, corked pistol pop-gun and a massive mallet designed to look like it was made from a barrel.
The weapons have great, sharp detail and both very sturdy. I love the little Batman keychain that hangs from the pistol grip. It’s a tiny little detail right from the artwork.
Harley also comes with three sets of hands, including fists, grip hands, a right hand making the peace sign and left hand with splayed fingers.
The hands swap easily, but hold securely and allow for a wide variety of posing.
The articulation is quite nice with the following POA:
-Swivel/hinge shoulders, hips, wrists and ankles
-Double-hinged knees and elbows
-Single-hinge lower ab crunch
-Ball/socket mid-torso and neck
-Bicep and thigh swivel
-Drop-hinge hips
The movement is pretty great on this figure. I don’t love the way the bicep swivels look, they are just plain cut joints and I think they could have been integrated into the sculpt better. My only other complaint is that the lower ab joint scraped a line on the abs of my figure.
The figure is a good match for the artwork and it’s a sharp, detailed sculpt. Harley is a bit taller than I was expecting, closer to the old DC Collectibles scale than the current Icons line.
The paint is cleanly applied and there are washes and drybrushing to affect the leather materials in her outfit. I’m impressed at how clean the tiny details of her medals and joker card came out.
Ultimately this is another fun Harley Quinn variant even though she’s a little a larger scale than I prefer. It’s so stylistically different from my other DC figures, that even if it scaled well with DCUC, it would never really fit in anyway. It was fun to shoot, so I may pick up a Hawkgirl if they get to her.
You and me both
Those the same accessories as the Icons Harley or upscaled?
Well, the new DCC ab crunches are lower-ab crunches that work in conjunction with the diaphragm joints, while the older ML (and modern Hasbro ML males) and DCUC ab crunches function as the singular and primary torso joints. They both work if done well, and it’s really up to the subjective preferences of the collectors, but I really think the single ab crunches that serve agile characters like Spidey or Harley very poorly. When you bend the figures forward all the way, the lack of a proper lower-ab crunch really makes them look funny, with the protruding hips.
That Swamp Thing looks pretty good. I might have to get it, though at 6.25″, he’s not going to be the right scale outside Icons at all :X
Thanks, I would agree that they seem to be their own scale.
Thanks!
Yeah, it’s weird to me too. It’s funny because it’s the same basic function and design of the old DCUC/Marvel Legends style ab crunch, but it looks so jarring to me where it’s placed. I guess it’s what you get used to.
Thanks, I agree about the Figuarts. It’s less range of motion, but a lot nicer to look at.
That ab joint looks so freaky.
Bingo. Make the cut at the bra-line, and it would look so much better. Still, it’s a great figure. I have one too.
I think they’re about to ship Wave 5 (unless the 12″ Darkseid w/ Grail and Batgirl of Burnside sets are considered Wave 5, then the next would be Wave 6) in a week or two, if all goes well; this line has been going /very/ slowly.
What wave are they on now? Gotta admit haven’t been keeping track, as I wasn’t too terribly impressed with the first two waves, and just kinda stopped paying close attention.
That Captain Marvel looks GREAT though, so if they’ve improved so much since then, maybe it’s time to dip my toes in the Icons line now.
No, I meant that ever since Wave 2, if not Wave 1 itself, they’ve been doing entirely new bodies for each DC Icons figure, with not just surface detail changing from figure, but actual size and shape of each body part. Each figure was differently sized and proportioned. Also, Wave 4 came out back in, like, October, so they’ve been doing drop-down hips for at least ~6 months.
Yeah, that’s what I meant “retooling” when you mentioned surface details like costume patterns, belts, emblems, etc. With the first figures like Superman and Batman, Atomica and Harley, seems like they had a standard buck, and then worked off of those by adding details. But it’s good that they’re doing fully unique sculpts now. It gets monotonous having an army of clones sporting different colors.
And I suppose Bombshells came out about the same time as the more recent waves of Icons, so maybe DCC just decided to add in the new hips for both lines from that point on.
Well, that just leaves HASBRO to catch up then.
Nope, each Icons figure is an entirely new sculpt, for the most part; different figures have different sizes and bulks, as well as different surface detail, compared to each other. Also, the drop-down hips isn’t on the first couple of waves, I think it started with Wave 4 (John Stewart GL, Joker, and Firestorm, plus the deluxe Batgirl of Burnside set). I have the GL and Batgirl from that wave, and they definitely have drop-down hips.
That’s actually kinda true… somewhat. Heh.
Though having briefly handled Icons Harley, seems like the way they did the ab crunch was a bit more janky and limited there, which is frustrating, because Harley is supposed to be ultra-flexible. Still a wonderful figure, but could’ve been a bit better.
Also, are you sure Icons have drop-down hips? I didn’t notice it when playing with Harley, though it wasn’t mine, so I was being careful not to force anything. And I was under the impression that they only have a male buck and a female buck over at Icons, with some minor re-tooling and added accessories to suit each figure (akin to ML), while Designer Series (including Bombshells) employs entirely different sculpts for each individual figure.
The only thing here that DC Icons doesn’t already have is a thigh swivel. They already have the detailed paint jobs, unique sculpts, interchangeable hands, accessories, and drop-down hips and lower hinge/upper diaphragm joint style of torso articulation.
They are officially listed as 1:11 scale, and they range from around 6.5″ to 7″+, so definitely on the tall side. Not going to work with Icons, as they’re true 1:12 and on the short side of domestic “1:12” figures.
Yeah I don’t own Harley (yet) but it seems in comparison with Ivy (which I just got), her crunch and diaphragm joints are a bit less seamless. Could’ve made the cut at the bra-line and preserved some of the torso sculpt; though having Ivy, I do have to point out that the bra-cut diaphragm has weakened lateral range of movement considerably.
These Bombshells figures are unreal. Detailed paint jobs, unique sculpts, interchangeable hands, accessories and phenomenal articulation (drop-down hips, females with functioning ab crunches? what?).
If DCC adopts this standard to their Icons line (and Hasbro steals it for their female Legends), we’re going to be witnessing a new age of domestic 6-in. figures.
Nice pictures! Great looking figure for the price, I’ll have to get one.
I am absolutely attracted to that figure in ways that will take years of therapy to unknot.
What scale are these officially? They look too small to be the normal 1:10 DC Collectibles and too tall for 1:12 Icons/Multiverse.
Great pic set! Have her, too … the ab artic is a bit unfortunate looking … DCC needs to take their cues from Figuarts when it comes to waist and chest swivels.