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https://youtu.be/Oup2sk1rkvw
I'm still gonna give Leatherhead a fair shake when he gets here, but if you look at 16:12 in this video when he has Ray right next to Rocksteady, you can really see what I'm talking about with the paint applications. Last edited by Y2Josh; 11-09-2022 at 11:07 PM. |
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Watching this, I guess I'm still not seeing why Scumbug is a $65 figure. I am cautiously optimistic that the final version of Zak will be closer to the original colorway, as he looks a lot better in that beauty shot than he does in the general solicit.
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Oddly enough, I picked up the vintage "toon" Zak from eBay last month (since, it was suddenly going up in value). It always bothered me that I didn't have "all" the Neutrinos. I had classic Zak, and toon Dask and Kala. Now, I have toon Zak as well (it's a zanier deco and it works, but I still prefer the original). Then Super7 announces toon Zak. Scumbug is not worth $65. S7 is likely recuperating costs because one figure in either wave 7 or 8 potentially costs more than initially estimated (even with the Robot Rocksteady price adjustment). Last edited by Dask; 11-10-2022 at 01:51 AM. |
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Are you referring to the black “wash” on rocksteady? If that’s the case, I really like the washes myself. I think they really help make these figures pop. And yeah there definitely not consistent with the washes across the board.
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They really need to either stop putting out those videos or at least, you know, try when they make them. They're so annoyingly bad every single time, and they do nothing at all to show off the figures. It's like they walk into the host's office, set up the camera, and say "ok go!". There's zero substance to anything that is said, they don't ever cut to close-ups of the figures, the sound effects are just annoying... maybe I'm showing my age here but they actually piss me off at this point.
And yes, 100% agree about the inconsistency with the washes. I pointed out the lack of a wash on Leatherhead back when the "influencers" got their preview figures. He's slightly better in hand but still nowhere near as nuanced as Slash. Meanwhile Rocksteady is probably pushed too far in the other direction, and has a much heavier wash than anything else in the line. |
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#4186 |
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Yeah. Just looking at them side-by-side, Rocksteady looks like a "premium" figure and Ray looks more like a toy. To be fair, I think which you prefer is up to you, but I'm not a fan of how inconsistent they are.
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Rocksteady is so far in the other direction that he can almost fit in with NECA's TMNT movie figures or that Wilderness Hunter Crocker by FuRay Planet. It's the stiffer articulation cuts/posability that doesn't allow for that possibility.
Those preview videos are not useful at all from a design perspective. They do provide a sense of scale between figures. |
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Scratch and Slash are each on sale for $34.99 at Dorkside Collectibles: https://mobile.twitter.com/Mesademon...DRrbLq8JQsAAAA
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I really hope we see Usagi before that happens!
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I read a few pages back that you thought they didn’t capture the attitude/personality of the original Ray Fillet toy. I kind of talked about that in my video, but I don’t think I said it as good as you put it. The new one just isn’t as expressive as the old one. I think some of that comes from the toys being sculpted digitally. I don’t think they push themselves as hard sometimes to look as dynamic as they should. Baxter’s face was one where I thought they didn’t get the proportions right. I think they hit all of the Ray Fillet face points, but because they didn’t push it enough it comes off as kind of like an imitation. It can be a little sterile. |
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To your second point, I do think it's a bit hard to put my finger on just exactly why Super7's Ray feels so "off," and I'd never really thought about the digital sculpt versus the hand-sculpted original. I don't know how much crossover there is here with the MST3K fanbase, but I have similar sentiments about the new version of that show. It's very difficult to pinpoint, but there's just a certain indistinguishable charm missing from the new seasons - especially in the host segments. I'm sure part of it is also nostalgia, of course, but I think something along those lines is what's going on with a lot of these updated figures - they're just missing that certain "something." Last edited by Y2Josh; 11-14-2022 at 09:06 AM. |
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Well... I got Leatherhead yesterday and finally had time to take a look at him today. He is undoubtedly one of the worst figures in the line, and also a perfect representative of Super7's overall quality.
To start, the sculpt is beautiful. And that's no surprise given the overall quality of the non-human sculpts. The level of detail here is astounding - so much so that it makes one wonder why they put so much effort into the sculpt when they clearly can't (or won't) get the paint applications right, nor can they seem to get a handle on QC or understand something so basic as weight distribution. To the paint, or lack thereof, in a lot of ways, he's very similar to the original Playmates figures where the hyper detailed sculpts ended up getting lost in the minimal paint applications. Here again, this is far more forgivable on a $4 figure than it is on a $55 figure. It just comes across lazy here. Leatherhead has almost no paint on him, and it makes him look incredibly cheap. In the few spots where there IS paint, it's applied poorly, especially at the teeth and the soles of the boots. The paint from the teeth bleeds all over the gums and onto the mandible in some spots, and the paint on the soles extends up well on to the boot itself. His body desperately needs a light wash, as he just looks like cheap green plastic and sticks out badly against figures like Rocksteady, Slash, Muckman or even Bebop, Splinter and Mondo Gecko. The vest and pants look similarly cheap, though the pants come out a bit better just because they do have SOME detail. The belt actually feels completely out of place because it actually is painted, but even there, it feels like it needs something to make it pop. Similarly, the accessories are all over the place. His shotgun is painted, but the crawfish, turtle and... saffron? I think?... are just molded plastic. They look pretty bad on their own, but clipped to Leatherhead's belt, they just look dumb. Overall, the paint application is quite disappointing. Sort of inline with the poor paint application, it's important to note Leatherhead is seated in the actual packaging in the worst possible way. Instead of turning his head to the side, it's straight forward and butts up against the plastic of the window. Because they didn't put ANY protection around his mouth, the paint on his teeth rubbed off on the window. So the packaging AND the figure are both ruined due to Super7's lack of common sense. And then the general QC and engineering. This is the most ill-conceived figure I've seen in a long while. Least egregiously, the crawfish plugs into Leatherhead's belt with a large, flat, round plug. It doesn't hold in place particularly well, and seems to fall off if you look at it incorrectly. And yet I could have overlooked all of that if Leatherhead could manage to stand upright. But he can't. Because Super7's designers don't understand physics. Leatherhead has the exact same problem as Rocksteady where his head seems to weigh more than the rest of the figure, and the loose hips (and waist and knees, to less detriment) just can't support the weight. If you could stand him up perfectly straight, it could possibly work, but because of the tail and how short his legs are, you can't do that. And the tail... anyone looking at this figure at any point in the design process should have instantly realized the tail needed to be a counterweight to stop the figure from constantly falling forward. But the tail is extremely lightweight to the point of feeling hollow, and it does nothing to offset the massive weight of the head that already lurches forward. Getting Leatherhead to stand at all is an absolute feat, and if you're one of the people that wanted the vintage pose, that's completely out of the question. And that's the end of my rant. Sculpt-wise, Leatherhead is great. But because of the paint and poor QC, he comes out looking cheap and feeling cheap. At $25, I would have been exceedingly disappointed in this figure. At $55, it just feels like I've been robbed. |
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I appreciate the critique, Y2Josh. I think light weight plastic and balance problems plague both Super7 and Neca lines but it stands out more with the bigger S7 sculpts, especially when considering most vintage Playmates figs had great balance even with some awkward foot stances. Paint chipping plagues many new Neca figs and its too bad S7 has issues as well. It suddenly makes the old Playmates figs feel like great bargains from a by-gone era!
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Leatherhead is far from being the worse in the line
![]() I think Leatherhead represents what he is supposed to represent, an upgraded toy from the original. As far as his stance, he stands fine for me. He stands on my shelf fine and has not leaned forward. Though, it is also about how you pose your figures. Any extra paint on him is really discretional to the collector, but he looks great with all the others. As far as what we pay for these, It's all over-priced folks. |
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The one thing I really liked was how flush the lower jaw connects to the head and how it looks when you open the mouth. Neca can sometimes be weird with the open mouths. |
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