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I’m just gonna say it, it’s not Julie Newmar. I didn’t expect the likeness to be there, but they did pretty fair likenesses of Burgess Meredith and Cesar Romero so maybe I got my hopes up, something you should NEVER do when it comes to Mattel. Come to think of it, it doesn’t much look like Lee Merriweather either, but kinda does have Eartha Kitt’s cheeks……..
She’s not as shapely, and no, it doesn’t have Julie’s ass. Perhaps that’s an unfair critcism. This is an action figure, and not a statue or maquette where that particular feature could be accurately executed. Other than that it hits most of the marks. The reasonably well. The necklace is more or less correct, as is the belt and her funky-ass eybrows. She’s missing the seam up the back, but that’s a small detail.
I’m sure you’ve noticed that her mask is absent. I’m not holding this against the figure, Catwoman spent about equal amounts of time with and without the mask. I think it would have been better had she been masked, given the nonexistent likeness, and I suspect an SDCC exclusive with a masked head will probably make an appearence, because Mattel, that’s why. The flesh tone apps are clean, if a little….peach-colored, and the eyes and lahses are all applied straight and I think they’re tampoed on. The body is cast in black plastic, and looks to have a dry-brushed silver coat to replicate the show costume’s glittery effect. Her hands bother me a bit, as they’re sculpted to either have her arms folded or with her hands on her hips, but the articulation really doesn’t allow for it.
Catwoman comes with a base with a sound effect sticker and a card to slip in it. One side has Catwoman and Batman about to get down to some kinky whoopee-making. What? What the hell else does it look like they about to do?! On the reverse is a section of Bat Cave. I presume that if you get all the figures you can put their cards together and get a backdrop.
Other than that she comes with jack shit. Which is about par for the course with this line, on which I call bullshit. There were PLENTY of props in the show that could have been turned into accessories. One of the twin cat statues that held the key to Captain Manx’s treasure? The cat pistols? Egghead build-a-figure? At the price point these are seeing at some retail spots (dangerously close to $20) we should have gotten something aside a base and card. Thanks for nothing, Mattel.
