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DIABOLCAL!
Fresh from it's DHL prison is the Mafex release of Billy Butcher. I'm not the biggest fan of Mafex, but it was either this, a 1/6, or NECA, none of which particularly interested me. Sadly, there's been no Kimiko from anyone, and only NECA has a Starlight as of this point in time.
The soft overcoat is quite nice, with good tailoring and some sewn in wires for posing. While the buttons aren't functional, its visually nice to have them there, as are the non functional pockets.
It's interesting to see that Medicom has decided to implement a system to verify the authenticity of a holographic decal. I couldn't get the thing to work.
To summarize everything else, well, I'll put it this way - the stories about Mafex figures is generally true, in that there's always something wrong with them.
Articulation isn't bad, though hip articulation isn't the greatest, especially when compared to options from Figurarts. Faces are a bit on the cartoony side, but you can easily tell it's supposed to be Urban.
What's annoying about this figure, however, is the fact that the hand that is designated to hold the non articulated baby figure doesn't even hold the thing in place, and that the gripping hand only seems to work on the electric rod, but not so much the crowbar.
Thank goodness the gun grippers work fine.
DSC_9845
DIABOLCAL!
Fresh from it's DHL prison is the Mafex release of Billy Butcher. I'm not the biggest fan of Mafex, but it was either this, a 1/6, or NECA, none of which particularly interested me. Sadly, there's been no Kimiko from anyone, and only NECA has a Starlight as of this point in time.
The soft overcoat is quite nice, with good tailoring and some sewn in wires for posing. While the buttons aren't functional, its visually nice to have them there, as are the non functional pockets.
It's interesting to see that Medicom has decided to implement a system to verify the authenticity of a holographic decal. I couldn't get the thing to work.
To summarize everything else, well, I'll put it this way - the stories about Mafex figures is generally true, in that there's always something wrong with them.
Articulation isn't bad, though hip articulation isn't the greatest, especially when compared to options from Figurarts. Faces are a bit on the cartoony side, but you can easily tell it's supposed to be Urban.
What's annoying about this figure, however, is the fact that the hand that is designated to hold the non articulated baby figure doesn't even hold the thing in place, and that the gripping hand only seems to work on the electric rod, but not so much the crowbar.
Thank goodness the gun grippers work fine.