spoophmaniac
Freaked Out
As a side note, will anyone be picking up the collectors edition Blu-Ray in September?
I have VHS, DVD, LD, CD, LP so yep I'm game.
As a side note, will anyone be picking up the collectors edition Blu-Ray in September?
I have VHS, DVD, LD, CD, LP so yep I'm game.
For me, the fingers don't feel cheap or fragile. I suppose I got a good one. Could it have been better? Absolutely! There is always room for improvement, no matter what we collect... but I gotta say I do love this guy!
Having said that, it would have been nice if it were heavier and felt like 300 smackers. I still see this guy being a 150-200 range piece... but it was pay this price, or don't have him at all. So I chose the latter.
Was the scale of this figure ever given.
If anyone knows the scale please reply.
I will probably just get the regular Blu RayI have VHS, DVD, LD, CD, LP so yep I'm game.
I dont recall a scale was ever listed but judging from the Hogarth figure I think the iron giant is somewhere around 1/28 or 1/30. (This is just a guess, I could be totally way off mark)
With rough math, the inner box says the giant is 50 feet tall and the figure is 16 inches, so ... that's 1/37.5. I'd call it 1/35 to be tidy.
I got mine from Mondo yesterday and am nodding my head at the responses from all sides. This feels like something produced by some guys who really love the Iron Giant but who are still getting educated on how to make toys, which I reckon is exactly what it is. The shoulder joints are nice and clicky but whatever weird rubber system that was used in the elbows and knees caused a lot of "please please please don't break" anxiety when bending them for the first time.
I get the disappointment over lack of ankle tilt but to be honest I don't think that prevents me from replicating any movie poses - he didn't stand with legs splayed, much as I can tell - so it doesn't really bother me.
I do think it was a miss to not allow the head to tilt back so he can do a Superman flying pose. And I also am surprised that the eyes go dim (the light inside the head gets cut off) when you pose the head to look down. A 50 foot tall robot is going to be looking down a lot, that should have been taken into account.
So yeah, compared to what I'd expect Bandai or Arcadia or other high-end robot toy producers to put out at this price point, this really comes across as a rookie effort. So pat on the back for Mondo, I guess, have a cookie, you put out a product. I wouldn't be shocked to see a Version 2 in a few years like other toy companies have done as they up their game.
Here, here. magicsp00n bring on the all metal version 2.0.
thanks to all for the scale estimates. The Hogarth is a little bigger than he is supposed to be but I should have no problems getting highly detailed vehicles in that scale for the giant to play with.
I do wish they would have made it where Hogarth was held on his shoulder or hand with magnets. Wouldn't have taken much effort to throw that in--especially for this price.
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