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				Description;  one of THE best Batman figures you can get your mitts on. The figure is approximately 4" tall and is sculpted in the same style as the animated series; smooth lines and heavy detail is not emphasized to create a more natural looking figure, rather then something pumped-up on steroids. Batman also comes with the excellent belt, which is equipted with grappling-gun, hand-cuffs, and a batarang/missile.
Combat Belt Batman- Batman, The Animated Series, Hasbro Meat and Potatoes; 5.0 Perks; 5.0 Homer Factor; 5.0
'ANOTHER FREAKING BATMAN REVIEW?????!?!?!?!?!!'  Yes.  Hey, considering how many figures Hasbro pumped out, which if memory serves was OVER 200, it could be worse.   Besides, this isn't just ANY Batman figure.  Remember when the only cartoon versions of Batman were from Hana-Barbera?  Granted, it's a nice, warm, and fuzzy memory, but let's be frank here... they sucked.  It's ok.. you can say it; they were pretty dang corny, silly, blah, blah, blah.  Then, someone at Warner Brothers saw the light and listened to Bruce Timm and Co. when they proposed a NEW Batman series.  We weren't talking silly, punny stuff, we were talking moody, character driven, dark, AMAZING stories, and the art wasn't a rip-off of the new super-musculature look being done at Image.  Instead, the guys went for the simple lines and smooth motion of the Max Fleisher Superman cartoons from the '30s.  Corny?  Yes.  Still gorgeous to watch?  DEFINITELY. After years of indifferent cartoons from the US, 'Batman the Animated Series' was a huge leap forward for 'toons for folks 14 and over, and not just about slap-stick and pointless battles.  And people LOVED it; the Emmys rolled in, comics, the works... and naturally the TOYS.   After hibernating for years, the entire rogues gallery and marketing potential of the Dark Knight exploded, and the result was one heck of a figure; Combat Belt Batman. Meat and potatoes were huge on this.  Ok, ok, so you don't have 35 points of articulation; you get hips, shoulders, and neck.  Hey, the SCULPT, that's the thing.  The piece is an amalgamation of all the great artists from the '30s and '40s; a little Wayne Boring, some Dick Sprang, and naturally Bob Kane as well.  The look isn't the mega-detailed-sculpt-every-hair-and-wrinkle.  Instead, it captures the clean lines and musculature of the figure.  Ah, but the PERKS... ooooohhhhhhhhhhhh.  Hey, we ALL wanted a Batman figure with a utility belt; batarangs, rope, the works.  Well, now you got it... well, pretty dang close.  The figure came with a removable 'belt' that had a spring-loaded grappling gun, hand-cuffs, and a missile/hand-weapon as well.   Ok, so it's not a complex as the 'real' belt, but for a figure about 4" tall, it's pretty dang good. Homer Factor?  Oh baby, waaaaaaaaaaay high.  Great sculpt AND  a working belt?  Oh man, what more could you want? In the end, this is one of THE best Batman pieces you can get.  Others may have more articulation, be larger, have more detailed sculpts, but if you want to capture the spirit of the Bat, this is it.