“Remember, when I said I was gonna get this figure last?” “I lied”
Received last Wednesday:
-MMS 276 -COMMANDO - John Matrix
Okay first of all, Commando is a guilty pleasure of mine, the action, the kills, the cheesy one liners,
Everything is great about this movie, its a so bad, that it’s good kind of movie!.
In my eyes Arnie can’t do much wrong, this man has a certain charisma, that I can appreciate everything he does. And me myself being a kid growing up in the 80’s, also helps a great part in that, with stars of the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude van Damme, they were years full of testosteron, heavy violence, what got my heart beating a bit faster!
Hot Toys released this figure quite unexpected early!
I couldn’t contain myself and had him ordered directly from Hong Kong.
I haven’t done that will all figures, but with great figures like The Guardians of The Galaxy and RoboCop, I coudn’t contain myself either.
Sadly unlike its advantages (getting this figure so early upon release), it also comes with its disadvantages (not talking about the higher premium first day costs), namely that when you are one of the first owners, that you will experiences running into some problems with the figure, instead of having to wait first, so you can see other peoples experences, so you can also judge later on if your willing to get the figure or not.
On to the figure with my experience.
Is the figure great? Yes and no.
The outfit, the body, it all looks and feels great, so good actually, that I sooner recommend the figure as a museumpose figure (with some sidenotes) than one you can pose up multiple times.
I made quite a few photo’s, they look good, but to get it that way, it takes some effort, cause the body doesn’t always do what you want it to do.
The headsculpt, is to me indeed different than the prototype.
It is 100 percent Arnold, only he looks just a tad younger to me.
His body, looks perfect, great sculpted, his proportions look good.
Because of his big arms, he is also limited in getting him to get some natural poses with his weapons in hand.
Both of his arms are implemented with a ratchet system, you will hear a clicking sound with every position of his lowerarms.
With the first 3 clicks, the lowerarm holds it position, sadly with the 4th click, it shoots back to the 3rd click position, so for some poses, where you need to keep his arms closer to his body, it will shoot back, at least with my version it did that.
His famous gearing up pose, is achievable, only I don’t know how well the rubber will hold over a longer period of time, there is a possibilty that it can tear over time.
In the manual they wrote, that you can’t keep the combat vest on his body for a longer period of time, due to the combat vest can stain the body.
Now this hasn’t happen to me just yet so fast, but I do think that this WILL happen.
His vest is so tight on his body, just like with for example The Hulk, where his black stretchpants (underneath his normal pants) was also causing black stains, when it was not removed.
And sadly this is a big flaw, cause John Matrix with his combat vest, sure is the most iconic way of posing him up.
The Combat vest, looks great, only it was a small burden to getting the bullets in its place.
A downside, I experienced was that his vest is so tightly onto his body, so it is also quite hard to get his zipper to close up, so sadly with my case the little rope attached to the zipper, broke off, the zipper itself thank god not!, but please becareful with that!
Due to his vest being zo tightly, also 1 of his buckles that go through his legs, got torn.
This sadly isn’t metal, but a piece of plastic, what can easily break.
Due to the tightness, you also have to becareful with posing his legs, cause the buckle will come under tension and can break or tear.
For the rest, becareful again with the buttons, they are glued very lightly and can be lost quite easily.
His weapons are great and well detailed, the only one that I would be missing of importance is the M60 Machinegun
In short, a great looking figure, very well detailed, lots of accesories, with a few things to think about before handeling the figure, which I had to find out myself first.
Enjoy the pics!
but the body does look very well done by HT so It might be a shame to cover it up all the time. 
