My review! Please, consider that I am very critic and direct on my appointments. As a real fan speacking to other fans, I think I must to be the most honest as possible! I received my figure one week ago and just now I take courage to open it. As I said, i'm a huge Robocop fan and I promised to everyone at home that this would be my last Robocop figure and my retirement from colllecting. When I saw soo many "chrome pictures" here I got scared a lot! After accepting the fact that the figure would not look like the prototype, I solved to see it in my hands. Here my impressions:
The figure is silver, but not as much as in the major part of the pictures here. It has a tone of silver with a small percent of blue (to small, but is there). And it's not so reflective as shown in almost all the pictures. it has the glossy look of the movie and, in hand, it doesn't shine soo much.
What bothers me more was the purple tone, specially on the Diecast parts. That's to much purple for my taste. Much more then in the movie. Neca did the same in the 1/4 scale with more success. The diecast has more purple than the plastic parts on my figure. Yes! The tonality is not balanced at all!
But it has Peter Weller's likness! Enough said! That's perfect! Except to the fact that the skin tone is darker then it should. I don't understand Hot Toys! They make it right in the prototype, but the final sculpt is always darker. They should review this on the major part of the last figures, I think!
The black plastic parts are too bright. It should be more matte to be more accurate to the movie, but I prefer plastic than rubber. Deterioration, fellas! That's a point to consider. However, almost every company that made the Robocop figure till now achieved a better effect using plastic, so this is not an excuse for Hot Toys. They could make it better on that too.
The movable fingers are a good idea, but, with that, the hands became too big (really!)! Normal hands would do with this figure! For the price, they could give us more hands! And finally, the chest is not so bulky as on the movie. In the pictures it seams to be, but in hand it looks more flattened. I put the figure in front of my mother, sister and girlfriend, all them moviegoers like me (I'm a lucky guy!), and guess what they said? "Nah! The other one that you have is better!". Then I asked "Wich one?" "That big one!" they answered. I get the Neca 1/4 and posed them side by side and all the three said "Yes! This one has more presence!" and I had to agreed!
My final consideration is: that's not the ultimate Robocop figure that all of we were waiting for. It's far better the the V1 from 8 years ago, but it's far to be so superior than all the other figures released till now. I don't think it's on the Hot Toys Top 5 that some enthusiasts ventured to say. It has it pros and cons, but Hot Toys still owes us a really decent representation of Robocop. Specially for the price we paid. They made it with Jack Sparrow! I'll be waiting for that day. Till there, my retirement is canceled! =P
I never owned the figure above but as the title says coolest Robocop toy ever,I like all the little things you could do with it, and his battle damaged one came out nice.
