Medicom Darth Maul

[DarkDaysinVegas]

I told you Sean. You guys need to hold a "tutorial thread" on this board, as a teaching tool to help out the eager learners here.

Great

 

[The Chaver]

Damn Chavez your feaking me out!

 

[plasmid303]

My only issue with the RAH body is the build of the anatomy. It looks very human, Sideshow's new bodies come closest with HT being way off with the new True Type, but unfortunately I find in most cases, it's too slender of a body, it doesn't feel muscular at all. Sometimes it can be disguised by the costuming and isn't a big deal, like Wolverine and Jack Sparrow, but other times it's noticeable, like Jango Fett and Darth Vader, who both feel too skinny. The figures still look nice overall, but if you come to know the characters from the films by their body masses and all, you notice when a figure doesn't quite capture that. Maul, while a nice looking figure once you pad him up, still feels to skinny/tall for Ray Park.

You guys do realize that Medicom doesn't just use one type of RAH body for every figure they produce, right?

The superhero characters use an almost entirely different RAH body. I had a Medicom comic Spidey that broke at the hip so I took off the spidey suit and noticed how markedly different it was from a regular RAH 301. Of course, the body was entirely red, but it had a lot of muscle pieces on it that differentiated it from a regular 301 Kai body and a 301 Massive body I had. It was much taller too. I think people have likened to calling it the Superhero body.

I really like how versatile the base RAH 301 body is. All Medicom has to do is add muscle pieces and extenders to create a totally different body type for specific character proportions i.e., comic Venom, comic Wolvie, Spawn, and various human figures. That allows for very accurate proportions, but...

You're right Maulfan, Medicom's human characters are often strangely undersized, which is weird considering how good Medicom is at approximating non-human and superhero body proportions. Guess they just drop the ball sometimes.

 

[MaulFan]

You're right Maulfan, Medicom's human characters are often strangely undersized, which is weird considering how good Medicom is at approximating non-human and superhero body proportions. Guess they just drop the ball sometimes.

Ya, some of their figures the body is great, Spidey 3 is fine, Jack Sparrow is perfect, Wolverine's body is great (just wish his shirt didn't ride up in places when you start posing him more Wolverine like), even Hannibal Lecter looks right from the proto. It could just be part of their stylistic approach and maybe they view comic characters as needing the "character strength" enhanced by a body reflecting physical strength.

My absolute favorite part of the RAH, aside from nice tight joints, is the shoulders on most figures. Sideshow's new body looks much better, but the Buck was pretty flat, but ok with clothes on, but man do some figures suffer with Hot Toys True Type.

Talk about long neck syndrome. Thankfully, I haven't gotten an HT figure with this body yet that hasn't had clothing or headsculpt details that hide it, but the whole shoulder area of their new body is just inhuman in size and shape.

Ok, I think that'll be the end of my derailment, but as you can tell, I have strong thoughts about the base bodies

 

[LordAzrael]

I received Maul this week and I'm a bit disappointed. One hand has already partially broken - not the point of being unusable but the stem is a mm shorter than it should be so if you turn the hand it invariably falls off.

The eyes on mine are a bit too upward looking, so unless you have the head tilted fully down it looks a tad weird.

Also re the neck issue - its not that the neck is too long - rather that they have tried to sculpt part of the neck with the head unlike every other medicom figure I own.

The costume keeps coming out of the boots - something to do with the way its stiched. Perhaps they should have elasticised the cuffs so that wouldn't happen given how loose the fit of the boots are.

The lightsabre blades won't stay straight - its just lazy making the blades removable rather than giving us lit and unlit versions. And on that - why is the split hilt not battle damaged ? Maul's sabre was not seperable so why two smooth and even parts.

I also don't understand why he's $150 - the same as the armoured figures. I would have been reasonably happy with him at the $100 price point.

And before people start slagging me I own the following medicom figures which I think are great:

Spawn, Ghostrider, Comic Wolverine, Comic Spiderman, Comic Venom, SM3 Blue & Red Spiderman, SM3 Black Spiderman, SM3 Venom, SM3 Peter Parker, Punisher as Venom, VCD Yoda, and Sandtrooper. I've got Blade and Magneto on order.

I had a cyclops but he came broken at the hip. I tried getting a RAH body off ebay but as noted the RAH301 (even the Kai) are substantially different from the comic book figure in the chest area - so that body was used for a SM1 Green Goblin bash. Still looking to replace Cyclops

EDIT: Forgot I had Boba and Jango too..... dunno how that slipped through

 

[MaulFan]

Interesting point that hadn't hit me with the BD blades, another plus to Sideshow, they did have the damage and the crystals. I was so wrapped up in the figure I hadn't paid much attention. As for the removeable blades, it seems like Medicom tries to keep their figure in a standard box size, so doing the full saber wouldn't work like that. Sideshow's one of the few that will make unique box sizes to cater to the particular character and there Maul was fairly taller than any other figure.

 

[The Josh]

I received Maul this week and I'm a bit disappointed. One hand has already partially broken - not the point of being unusable but the stem is a mm shorter than it should be so if you turn the hand it invariably falls off.

I did have to super glue a hand on myself. Its still use able and fixed now but it did suck.

 

[OSCORP]

Sucks when you get a figure and it's broken in some way (hands or accessories etc) I remember when i got boba and his ++++in holster was missing,and bespin lukes holster was split in twoThank god my maul came mint!!


I'm about to pluck down the cash for jango for 128$ and i can't wait to get that figure after reading mikes favorable review!!

 

[FQRizzo]

Sucks when you get a figure and it's broken in some way (hands or accessories etc) I remember when i got boba and his ++++in holster was missing,and bespin lukes holster was split in twoThank god my maul came mint!!


I'm about to pluck down the cash for jango for 128$ and i can't wait to get that figure after reading mikes favorable review!!

For $128, you can't go wrong with Jango.

Also, for some reason there is a lot of QC problems with Medicom, as I have had issues with nearly all of my stuff from them.

 

[OSCORP]

For $128, you can't go wrong with Jango.

Also, for some reason there is a lot of QC problems with Medicom, as I have had issues with nearly all of my stuff from them.

Thats good to hear i want him badly.


The only problems i have had was with boba and medi spiderman(but we all know the medi massive red body is flawed by now)Medi seems to be using stronger plastic as of late.Medi PP is really thick and study seems real hard compared to old medi bodies.

 

[OSCORP]

Bored and had a few drinks try to enjoy they're not MF quality.:maul

 

[mrhatrulez]

Ya, it's photoshop, and there's an old thread with info.

Lightsaber Effects Tutorial for Photoshop

Thanks Bro!

 

[MaulFan]

Thanks Bro!

No problem. A few more tonight.

 

[MaulFan]

 

[Shai]

No problem. A few more tonight.

BEST PICS YET..KICK *** !!!! FIGURE OF THE YEAR FOR THE MOMENT.

 

[OSCORP]

BEST PICS YET..KICK *** !!!! FIGURE OF THE YEAR FOR THE MOMENT.

Awesome MF!

 

[LoveMinusZero]

God damn those pics are amazing!

 

[edwint]

i gotta say, maulfan..MOST IMPRESSIVE!!!:maul

 

[rw23]

No problem. A few more tonight.

Amazing MF, I thought I was looking at a real person in these pics!

 

[WEAPON X]

No problem. A few more tonight.

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