Re: NECA: 1/4 The Avengers
Hi guys,this is my first neca figure and iron man fig. I am new in collecting toys and as of now this is just my second action figure collection so I don't have personal idea(I haven't personally seen any Hot toys Ironman) regarding other variants/company releases. I just want to share my few thoughts regarding this figure.ps:i'm not a Pro
1.Orange Repulsors - yeah, this is a let down(a minor one?
) as we saw Iron man in his movies, they didn't use any orange effect on repulsors. my first thought about this was maybe his repulsors was just starting up (lol), I'm wrong. they used semi clear plastic for the repulsor hand. I tested it with a white led then noticed that the light pass through the half of the hand. I think that's the reason why they chose to put orange led because it will blend in the color of the hand.(but when you attached the closed fist in the the arm then turn on the light it'll look like a hand glowing like a fire)To compensate, My favorite thing is the White led light in the eyes and in the arc reactor because those effects gave life to this lovely figure.
2. Quality of the paint - the quality was average. not very good but not bad. When I've got this a week ago at a local toy shop(I'd pre-ordered this 3 weeks ago), I tend choose between two boxes of figure because that was the only stock they have so I have to inspect it thoroughly without opening the box. when I'm decided to choose, my first pick had a noticeable paint fading on the left side of the head(a very bad fade,maybe due to poor quality control) so I request to exchange it with another stock. At first the sales personnel was hesitant since I opened it already but I insisted that this will be my first iron man figure and I want it to be presentable as much as possible so she agreed to give me the second box.but then, this figure I've got was not perfect at all and again it has some issues when you look closely to the figure like small paint chip, paint smudge on the rib part, others are in the edge of the booster flap and on the middle of the head. The silver painted parts was not that good because for me it looks a little bit plastic,but the rest of the paint like the red part and the gold ones looked like metal, it was shiny and glittery(lmfao). I noticed also that the light effect switch will probably cause your figure to have paint chip especially if you will use your finger nails to turn it on and off because the switch was small and it is hard to turn it on/off by using your finger. I suggest to use small pin to avoid chipping on those parts. I hope that the paint will not fade in the near future or else I will look someone to paint this with a battle damaged theme iron man mark VII.
3.Quality and accuracy of the figure - one of the evident inaccuracy with this figure is the thin legs. yes, it looked slightly thin when I was comparing it to the mark VII from the movie(by only looking at the pictures) and other toy lines but for me it doesn't affect the figure at all because of it's big height. Next is the shoulder pads, I think they want the shoulder pads to have an articulation because as I noticed with the movie mark VII, the shoulder pads was directly attached to the shoulder unlike this figure the shoulder pads have a connecting part to the shoulder leaving a gap between and if it was not properly place/pose it will looked like a flap or a wing. The last thing was the neck part, when you pose it like iron man was looking up you will notice his long neck like a giraffe but then, properly posing the figure will solve that matter. all in all the figure was very detailed from head to toe and proper posing is the technique to appreciate the quality and the appearance of the figure.(though it will give you a hard time posing this without a stand;D)
Personally I have plans on slightly modifying this figure like exchanging the orange led into white, repaint the hands and sticking the shoulder pads directly to the shoulder etc. but as of now I'm busy doing other things. For the price of the figure I am satisfied and I wasn't feel that I was robbed, I've got this for $145 converted from our currency and was lucky because other local toy stores here selling this for $200 and up already. in my own opinion this figure worth it if you'll get this for $150 and below.thank you
