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Yeah, they changed the paint applications on the head too. Straight light blue/grey eyes, no pink lips and a matte finish on the cowl.

The batch # on the rerelease is 966N071916 (above the UPC) if you're ever interested in picking it up.
 
No problem.

If you only care about him looking good and not how he feels, you could do what I did and just unscrew it, take off the rubber stopper covers on the waist ball joint and ab ball joint, then snap the torso together and maybe only put back one or two screws instead of all 4 (another problem with the assembly is that they screwed all 4 in so tightly that there wasn't any give between the torso holes and the balljoints). Combined with the rubber caps, it causes way too much friction which is why people were snapping their bodies.

The only downside is that you'll have a super loose waist BUT you gain two great ball jointed articulation points out of it and a straight looking/non wonky torso. So it's loose (not in the broken sense) but it's free to move around and pose. You can get him looking tall and straight, get him crouched nicely in a punching or cape flight pose or have him do turns.


You'll see when you do it.

Another thing that kinda pisses me off is that those new 2016 batches are different from the ones you and I bought in 2013. The capes on those are longer and the proper length, the rubber caps aren't utilized and they changed the foot/boot design so that instead of having just that swivel articulation at the shoe cut, you can actually get rotation, rocker and ankle pivot. His center of gravity is much better and he doesn't take any spills. Makes me wonder if the Aliens Queen rerelease and ED-209 rerelease will be changed in production for the better.


Hopefully everything is worked out with this Arnold and he's not too rigid or difficult to make look good on display. I would have loved double jointedelbows and knees (especially for holding the minigun), but it is what it is. They have been imroving with every 1/4 figure they do, so I expect good things from this QS T-800. Sure is a far cry from this,


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So the new 2016 re-release have no wacko torso joint and is much better?
 
The 1/4 scale T-800 is up for PO on BBTS for $105.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=NEC12940&mode=retail


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Ordered, not sure if I'll be able to get the Enterbay 1:4 scale, this will be a nice companion or consolation either way.
 
It looks pretty cool. For $100 you can't go wrong. Mini gun looks pretty good too.
 
Wowza. Can't wait to see the packaging on this thing considering how creative they have been on a few recent quarter scales.
 
Can't wait to get this. Can anyone suggest a decent UK stockist I can pre order this from? BBTS is dear for shipping.

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Selektiv would be pleased. Anyone remember him? He wanted this years ago and trolled the entire forum about it. Gave us all a very bad name for a while.

Anyway, it looks...fine. It's a big version of their Cyberdyne figure, nothing more, nothing less. I'll buy it. I'm not expecting great things from the paint. It'll be cleaner than the small scale but it won't have a great deal more subtlety - the eyes will still look cartoony and it won't look high-end.

I do wish they'd made some refinement to the mouth area because from some angles and certain lights it can look exaggerated like in this one



It looks like he's thrusting his jaw forward and pouting with that bottom lip. And I also have some doubt about his eyes and brow. Frontally these things seem to just miss the mark. Whether that's the sculpt or the paint, I don't know.
And yet, as with the smaller versions, from the sideview I wouldn't know who else to call it but Arnie. It's bizarre, the sideview of this sculpt couldn't really be better in my opinion.

Here's something I like with the front view:



He's got that slight sneer that Arnie can look like he has. So if they could have made the chin and lips adjustment while maintaining this it might have been ideal for the lower part of his face at least.

A final misgiving - those legs.



They look like he's permanently sculpted into a semi-crouch. I dunno, maybe it's just me ('It usually is' says 90% of people reading this) :lol
 
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Honestly, it should have double jointed elbows and knees. It really is just a blown up version of the 7" guys, from sculpt to proportions to bad posture. Would it kill them to do something new that isn't something from 2009? It took 6 years to get hips, knees and ankles (poorly done btw since they reused the pose and sculpture from '09) and 8 years for an ab crunch? I dunno.


It's baby steps at this point.

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We all technically have this already. I'd be a little more forgiving and less turned off if he didn't look so awkwardly posed and they sculpted new glove fisted hands, putting a little work into making their Terminators like their modern figures (you know instead of reusing things from almost a decade ago). They've made so many advancements since then and it's just like they're stuck on just this sculpt for their T2 Arnold. He still has the rotated biceps to hold the shot gun from the galleria scene!

There was talk of a NECA QS Police Shootout T-800, well, by the looks of it we already know what it would be.
 
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Then again, this was probably planned and developed years ago around the time of the Ultimates. Can't really blame them for no advancements if this was just put on the back burner since 2014/2015.
 
There was talk of a NECA QS Police Shootout T-800, well, by the looks of it we already know what it would be.

Their Police Shootout figure is probably the least impressive Arnie they've done IMO. Poor choice, I'm not sure I'd buy that. We know they'd just use the same sculpt again and it's not a very good one, the hair is wrong. His lower section looks too small for his body and the short jacket cannot hide the diaper pants. It'd also of course re-use the single jointed elbows of the small figure when it could really do with double-jointed elbows for the way he holds those guns in the Police Shootout scene.

The Tech Noir version I would certainly buy. That longer jacket at least hides the diaper and he doesn't look awkward wielding the smaller guns, double-jointed elbows wouldn't be strictly necessary there. And quite simply the punk look would be more distinct from the T2 figure.
 
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