The first two Batman: The Animated Series figures I bought were Catwoman and Scarecrow. I needed to backfill a bit, but I found these to be impressive toys with a lot going for them. Scarecrow took one of the designs for the cartoon and took a few liberties to make a generally very excellent toy that, like other figures, borrowed from what has been working with Kenner at the time.
Kenner gave this guy a great sculpt, with rarely-seen features like separately molded fingers on his left hand, plus a wheel on his back that caused his right arm to spin at the elbow. The figure even had "scary" light-up red eyes thanks to a well-placed port on top of his head, rather than the use of LEDs and a small batter - although we'd see more toys using those just after this release, especially in Transformers. Kenner made this guy a tiny bit less skeletal, beefing him up a bit and retaining the basic shapes and colors from the cartoon. It's close enough - you get the bag over the head, the straw hair, the hat, and the creepy grin. If you look carefully, you can see some sculpted stitching under his chin too, with a rope tied around his waist, big worn shoes, and ropes to keep his sleeves and pants together. In the toy landscape of his day, he was an unusual-looking toy and none of his features got in the way of how cool he looked.
You could place his sickle in his right hand, spin the wheel, and knock over your other figures - which is quite a nice gimmick. If that weren't enough he had a crow buddy with clip-on feet, not unlike what we got in SilverHawks a few years earlier. The bird was unpainted, but you had some silver on the accessory's blade as well as key parts of Jonathan Crane's costume. Mostly, he was molded in color though and looked all the better for it.
What's really amazing is that I've had this figure for over thirty years, and it feels more or less exactly like I remember when I opened him - no discoloration, no weird oils, no stiff joints. He's just aged very well, which is more than I can say for some figures that turned 20 (or less) that started feeling oily or spontaneously yellowing despite never being exposed to the Sun. Kenner did a great job here, and even though the figure wasn't an exact match for the cartoon it really did make for a fun action figure.
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