FlaBat wrote:
Red Son Wonder Woman
Elseworlds Series 1, DC Direct, 2006



Red Son, written by Mark Millar; Art by Dave Johnson, Andrew Robinson, Kilian Plunkett and Walden Wong. In this Elseworlds tale, the ship carrying the infant who would become Superman lands in the middle of Cold War-era Soviet Union in the 1950s. Superman becomes the defender of the Soviet Union and our favorite Amazon is a Soviet peace ambassador and The Man of Steel's comrade against capitalism and she is also the only person on Earth who can match his might.



This Wonder Woman is in a Russian Red and Gray color scheme, but still maintains stars on her skirt rather than the Soviet Hammer and Sickle. She even has red stars on her black shorts underneath the skirt.



SPECS:

The figure stands 7 inches tall and has 12 points of articulation (head, shoulders, elbows, waist, hips and knees) a rope lasso and comes with a display base.



PROS:

A solid sculpt and nicely articulated figure. This is proof that you can put decent articulation of a female figure and not make it look ugly. This figure even has articulation at the waist. Of all my DC Direct figures this is the only one I have that has that feature. The lasso is gold string that hangs on a hook on her waist and can be taken off.



CONS:

It may depend if you like Elseworlds style figures and in particular Red Son for you to like or dislike this figure. While it does have a cut head joint, there is very little movement due to the long hair, she can?t look left or right, just straight ahead.



OVERALL:

Elseworlds is a different look at our favorite heroes and villains in a different world we don?t often get to see. This is one of the nicest Wonder Woman figures made. In addition, there is a Red Son Superman in this series and a Red Son Batman and Red Son President Superman coming up in series two.

Beyond wrote:
Great review FlaBat!! This is a really nice figure, I'm not really into the Elseworlds tale, but I'd still get WW..

wonderboy99 wrote:
godman u make the best reviews

FlaBat wrote:


Thank You, I do what I can.

Caleson wrote:
A pretty cool figure with an old fashion-style. If/when I get to reading this story I'll probably pick this series up. I really like those colors.

To prevent that head swivel limitation maybe they should start using a softer, more bendable plastic for the hair. Seems like they can never get that problem resolved.


My first WWYTB post!

wonderboy99 wrote:
i think i might get this

dukeofdeception wrote:
Got it yesterday, thanks to this review. Keep it up. What do you think of the new DC female busts line.

wonderboy99 wrote:
hmmm female busts...havent seen them,whos in the line of busts?

celsius wrote:
She looks so powerful. This is how I would rather have sen Super Woman look. I always felt that Super Woman looked too black.

Wonder Woman SA wrote:
I bought TWO and painted one over to represent a contemporary Silver Age Wonder Woman.... changed the color on the Eagle Emblem, but left the (strip going around the back, now its in Gold like the Eagle. I love the stykle and the sway of the skirt.

OH, I did clip offone of the two Eagle Heads but I left the skirt color as is. Another improvement was to file out part of the back of the boots, creating a spiky heel look.

Of course the other RED SON WONDER WOMAN is still in her Box and preserved as is.