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Like how I occasionally get food from Taco Bell, I occasionally get figures that I know won't meet my expectations. I mean, that's pretty much every Mezco ever made, with issues ranging from Articulation and Proportion, to accuracy to source material.
I didn't grow up with Ultraman, nor have I actually watched any of it (I also passed when Tiga came to the West).But, when a figure looks like a guy in a crappy suit, and the real life version looks like a guy dressed in a crappy suit, well I get quite intrigued and just go for it. Plus, there's no real photo accurate sculpt to worry about.
Figure comes with some neat accessories, including the Brother's Cape, three energy attacks, a separate laser eye sculpt, the EDF VTOL aircraft, and some breakable buildings to simulate a Kaiju sized battle.
There are light up eyes and chest, just like the suit on TV, but as the batteries are TINY, I didn't want to stress myself and go through the trouble of installing batteries the size of a nipple on a Phicen body.
As mentioned before, my expectations were pretty low for this figure, yet at the same time they still managed to get trampled on. Mezco used a base male body for the figure, which in itself is better than the female one (which is why I don't get their figures).
The body has proportion issues (that's why all Mezco look like they're really stocky). Articulation is decent for the most part, even if range of motion is limited. Lacks head tilt and, more importantly, butterfly joints at the shoulders - due to the latter, I cannot actually cross the arms and do the trademark Ultraman arm pose. The stability of the figure isn't terrible and overall, I'd say the body is capable of better than a Legends, though I think Legends have butterfly joints now..
The suit is a nice thick patterned vinyl, which is definitely better than the body socks other figures wear, though the durability of this suit remains to be seen. So far, it has stood up to my testing. The wrist joints are embedded into the wrists and are also tied up inside the wrists of the suit, so I'm wondering about how the suit will take to the extra wear that is attaching hands and arranging them into position.
Paint is really silver... pretty hard to screw that up. Build wise, ti's actually pretty good. Suit is nicely made, and while I have concerns regarding the durability of the suit, at least the joints holding their position isn't a concern. The effects parts are nicely made, with no obviously rough finishes or other QC flaws to be concerned with.
DSC_6487
Like how I occasionally get food from Taco Bell, I occasionally get figures that I know won't meet my expectations. I mean, that's pretty much every Mezco ever made, with issues ranging from Articulation and Proportion, to accuracy to source material.
I didn't grow up with Ultraman, nor have I actually watched any of it (I also passed when Tiga came to the West).But, when a figure looks like a guy in a crappy suit, and the real life version looks like a guy dressed in a crappy suit, well I get quite intrigued and just go for it. Plus, there's no real photo accurate sculpt to worry about.
Figure comes with some neat accessories, including the Brother's Cape, three energy attacks, a separate laser eye sculpt, the EDF VTOL aircraft, and some breakable buildings to simulate a Kaiju sized battle.
There are light up eyes and chest, just like the suit on TV, but as the batteries are TINY, I didn't want to stress myself and go through the trouble of installing batteries the size of a nipple on a Phicen body.
As mentioned before, my expectations were pretty low for this figure, yet at the same time they still managed to get trampled on. Mezco used a base male body for the figure, which in itself is better than the female one (which is why I don't get their figures).
The body has proportion issues (that's why all Mezco look like they're really stocky). Articulation is decent for the most part, even if range of motion is limited. Lacks head tilt and, more importantly, butterfly joints at the shoulders - due to the latter, I cannot actually cross the arms and do the trademark Ultraman arm pose. The stability of the figure isn't terrible and overall, I'd say the body is capable of better than a Legends, though I think Legends have butterfly joints now..
The suit is a nice thick patterned vinyl, which is definitely better than the body socks other figures wear, though the durability of this suit remains to be seen. So far, it has stood up to my testing. The wrist joints are embedded into the wrists and are also tied up inside the wrists of the suit, so I'm wondering about how the suit will take to the extra wear that is attaching hands and arranging them into position.
Paint is really silver... pretty hard to screw that up. Build wise, ti's actually pretty good. Suit is nicely made, and while I have concerns regarding the durability of the suit, at least the joints holding their position isn't a concern. The effects parts are nicely made, with no obviously rough finishes or other QC flaws to be concerned with.