I picked up a nude Medicom figure on ebaY to replace one of my Sideshow figures with. Needless to say it arrived broken, the shaft that holds the left leg to the buttock snapped during shipping (shipper just shipped it in a manila envelope from HK...go figure). While I was bent that it was broken, it really did give me great insight as to just how I can and can't pose my Medicom Star Wars figures. The two most common breaks occur when people try to move the legs back and the odd arm back in. Like the Otaku, there's no backward movement for the legs. Trying to force them backwards will result a break like the one I saw when mine arrived. And most times Medicom ships the figure with an arm's shoulder upside down resulting in the figure's one arm sticking out a bit farther than the other. Trying to push it to the body without rotating it first into the correct position snaps it. 'course it doesn't help that the plastic's extremely cheap.
always loved boba fett as a character and i own the medi, marmit, and hasbro.......each have their faults but each has their strengths as well if that makes sense (well not hasbro other than the price..
). i like all of them but if i absolutely had to keep only one it would be the marmit.
Actually, I cut up the Hasbro one up and put it on one of the super-posable Hasbro GI Joe bodies. Turned out much better than that funky body they initially put him on and now it scores all those cool Boba poses.
As mentioned earlier I had a similar experience, it does deter me from buying a second RAH figure. Till now I haven't got anything else but am considering Darth Maul.
Don't waste your $$$. The Sideshow one is 100% better. I bought the Medicom Maul thinking the smaller scale would be perfect with my SS figures as their Maul was a little too tall for my tastes. Unfortunately, he's just a disaster. The clothes are cheap, the figure itself is far too skinny and has a neck about an inch long. Also, as with most of their likenesses, it doesn't really look like Park, but more like the Gyro Captain from The Road Warrior.
Medicom Maul:
Sideshow Maul:
You guys are makin me want to get a jango stop it. IM is coming soon.
I'd go for it. After Maul, I didn't want to pick up anymore Medicom figures but scored a $100
gift card from Sideshow and picked Jango up anyway. The nose on Medicom's is a real honker and a little too big to look like Morrison (this is one area where surprisingly, Hasbro kicked @$$ with their likeness), but with the helmet on, he's absolutely a blast to pose. The rockets on the sides of the jet pack keep falling off though and you really have to be careful keeping the helmet on as the nose tends to dent the helmet a bit when seated correctly. Add to that the fact that he's a good 1/2 inch shorter than the Sideshow figs, and although the actor was shorter than most of the other actors, he still looks awkward (like a boy next to a man) when posing with most of them. I went for the pose with him engaging Mace Windu like he did on Genosha. The shorter size is less notable with him being a small distance from Mace. I don't know if he's worth dropping $150 on, but I'm glad I got him.
