It was indeed the ‘halter neck’ modWhat was the method for this latest one? Definitely not worth it if you have to carve entire sections off the figure.
That's what she said?If you wanna pose in mid-cocking action, I suppose.
Got mine a few days ago from Amiami. Cheaper than BBTS even with expedited courier shipping and customs fees added on. Do people feel secure enough leaving their credit cards on file with Amiami? I've used paypal so far but if I were to start preordering Mafex figures there I'd prefer not to be paying straight away.
Anyway, the figure. Good, and better than the prototype, but not perfect.
What's better than the prototype? The final figure doesn't look lanky and weirdly stanced like his pelvis is thrusting forward as it appeared to be in the solicitation shots. Looks more Arnie-like in proportions and build. And the headsculpts are nicer in person. This was also the case with the T1 figure.
Also love that you get fist hands and relaxed hands - even the ungloved open palm hands are useful for that brief shot in the Galleria when he gets up off the floor after the T-1000 throws him through a window. And the figure is otherwise quite comprehensively loaded with the weapons he uses in the film. The inclusion of the teargas launcher is great (why it took this long for an official toy company to provide this with a T2 Arnie is anyone's guess).
But now on to my negatives.
As has been said - difficult to get him to hold and specifically aim his guns convincingly. It's a combination of maybe not having the appropriately sculpted palms for all gun-handles (even with as many hands as there are) and limitation in how you can move the arms. For example, not being able to rotate the arms at biceps or elbows makes 2-handed shotgun poses kind of unconvincing, which in turn makes the ''reload'' shotgun and hands kinda useless if what you're trying to capture is the scene where he's marching towards the T-1000 firing rapidly. Rotating the wrist pegs within the arm itself might help in some cases where the pivot of the hand is the problem but I'm concerned about messing with them too much, they don't provide spares if you break them.
Another issue is any movement of the arms at the shoulder joint either causes the jacket to rise up or creates an ugly visual break between the arms and the body. See pic below
As for the jacket - while it doesn't sit as high up the neck as on the BD figure it's still a tad on the bulky side - as is the plastic of the grenade bandolier which consequently protrudes out from the figure more than is ideal. NECA sculpted their bandoliers to be perfect fits to the bodies of their T-800 such that it always held the correct position but Mafex didn't do that and as a result the bandolier floats and moves out of position too easily.
Final nit - I would have gone with a lighter brown for the hair.
So that's my overview of the figure. Since I invariably go with basic poses not much of the above will really bother me.
Got my two last night and opened them up. Great figure.
In person, the likeness on both heads are phenomenal. A-Dev, are we impressed with the hair?
The sunglasses head is the best, that black gloss on the sunglasses is just so cool.
Lack of black shirt doesn’t bother me. I know it’s not accurate but I don’t care.
I have one with sunglasses and bare hands and the other with regular head, gloves hands, bandolier and grenade launcher. Great sculpt, great range of motion, tons of accessories. Way more value than your usual 6” figure. The collar jacket thing isn’t even bad in person. Not hunch back like battle damage.
Having clean sunglasses, clean cyberdyne shootout and steel mill battle damaged T-800 is just too damn cool. Makes me not regret selling my Hot Toys. Atleast these will never detoriate.
My only beef with the figure are the hands. They all suck. I was going to take a few I wasn’t using and upgrade the T1 with them since those gloves aren’t accurate (the movie poster Tech Noir hole gloves), but none of them hold the guns properly. The hands are awful, especially the flesh ones. He basically can’t aim properly and only looks good like this,
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That’s no fun. Not with a figure with so many guns, hands and options.
Overall though, great figure. I love it. Really wish the Battle Damaged had the semi damage head and a swappable arm now. It’s the only head and look missing.
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