Toy purchase disappointments

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Making this thread cuz I wanted a place to bitch about a recent purchase but also didn't want to bring it to the actual toyline thread because I don't collect the line. Didn't feel right to go there and shit on what others like.

I'm super disappointed with the Neca TMNT animated Shredder 2.0. I mean, it's a completely 100% fine and competent figure but it might as well have been released in 2010. Fugly cloth cape without a wire, swivel waist, shoulderpads glued to the shoulders waiting to pop off any minute, flesh colored paint flaking off of the wrists and exposing black joints, stuck knees, barely functioning ab crunch. Oh and it doesn't come with a sword despite Shredder being drawn on the box wielding one!

The only slightly modern aspect to the design are painless joints.

Fucking thing cost me almost twice as much as a standard Todd figure.

For some context, the last NECA figures I got were the 4 Last Ronin flashback Turts and Karai, which I decided to sell off because they screwed up and made them way too undersized.
 
For me it was the Marvel Legends Maximum Hulk. I'm angry at myself for buying it because I feel like I knew better ahead of time. It's my most regretful purchase in quite some time. I paid $60 for it and think that I would have still been mad at myself even I had only paid $30.
 
You described how I ended up feeling about pretty much the entire NECA cartoon line and why I got rid of all mine and have been happy to just look at peoples' collection photos instead. I love the way they all look together. Individually, I find every figure disappointing.
 
I'm working up the motivation to at least halve my remaining neca TMNT cartoon. I've sold off a few here and there over the year.

I already mentioned this in KO Star Wars thread, but my biggest disappointment at least for this year was Play One Twelve Galactic Hunter. A 1/12 Boba Fett with soft goods. I wasn't expecting perfect, but first thing I notice is his flight suit pants legs look too short and they didn't even have a nice taper. I tried futzing with the suit, trying to adjust it, maybe get a little extra length to the pant legs. Then I took a needle and thread to the cuffs to cinch them in. They looked a teeny bit better, but it's nearly impossible to come back from short pants. Moving on, I take a look at a baggie of tools that Boba carries near his shins. They look pretty good. Boba stores them in his shin pockets, problem is, this figure has no pockets. They're only a stitched decoration. All that time spent screwing around with his pant legs, I hadn't noticed. Finally, at the end I broke his blaster because his hand was too hard and not opened wide enough. $100, he's been in the box ever since. I should've sold it rather than trying to fix it.
 
I desperately need this thread about once a year.

This year, it was the Figma Elden Ring Raging Wolf. I can't understand how the same company put out Tears of the Kingdom Link, my figure of the year runner-up, and that piece of garbage. I was fuming within about five minutes of opening it.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
I desperately need this thread about once a year.

This year, it was the Figma Elden Ring Raging Wolf. I can't understand how the same company put out Tears of the Kingdom Link, my figure of the year runner-up, and that piece of garbage. I was fuming within about five minutes of opening it.
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Whaaaat? Guess I'm glad I never got that one for my son. He wanted it SO badly when he was hard into Elden Ring, but his desire for it cooled off because it took way too long to come out.
 
Damien said:
Whaaaat? Guess I'm glad I never got that one for my son. He wanted it SO badly when he was hard into Elden Ring, but his desire for it cooled off because it took way too long to come out.
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I thought I posted about it in the Figma thread, but I guess I never did.

That figure was a mess. The hair, shoulder armor, skirt piece, and belt pouches were all connected in different ways. In theory, those pieces would get out of the way of articulation. In practice, it made the figure a finicky nightmare to handle. They reinvented the wheel like six different times. Between the fiddly bits, armor design, and range of motion, it was a sorry excuse for an action figure.

It was also, like, 5" tall. I know Figma is true 1/12 scale, but he was puny.

I wound up kitbashing a Mythic Legions figure to scratch my Elden Ring itch.
 
That's super disappointing, which I guess is appropriate to this thread. And that figure was like 200 dollars Canadian, so I'm very glad we didn't go in for it because I would have been furious.
 
Ok, I'll add one, but I'm actually disappointed more in myself than the figure because I knew better. Talking about Dilim, the Great Wolf from Loosecollector. I heard all the problems, held off for about a year, but hoped the 2nd batch would be better because they look so damn good. NOPE! I took 2 sets of hot water baths to get all the joints to move, which I got done with no breakage, but his lower waist is so frikken loose, he just wants to flop forward one time and backwards the next.

So the figure is a big disappointment, but it really is my fault for getting the damn thing.
 
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Damien said:
You described how I ended up feeling about pretty much the entire NECA cartoon line and why I got rid of all mine and have been happy to just look at peoples' collection photos instead. I love the way they all look together. Individually, I find every figure disappointing.
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Man, that sucks.
 
Shinigami Customs said:
Man, that sucks.
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It really does.

The '87 Cartoon line is one of those dream lines for me. I bought and sold a bunch of figures from it twice now because I just... I can't. They're just not that good. The power of that line, in my opinion, is the breadth of it and how it all looks together to have this giant, near-complete collection of all the important characters from the cartoon. That really is incredible to look at. But if you're not doing that, individually the figures tend to be, in my opinion, pretty disappointing/lackluster with a lot of bad decisions in their designs and implementation.
 
Had two toy purchase disappointments of the year and they were entirely QC related. I finally got around to buying a headless horseman from Figura Obscura through a seller on eBay and, out of the plastic-wrapped package, his leg fell off and never stayed on. I WAS able to salvage some joy by using the pumpkin head on another body and converting him into a running NPC in my long-running D&D campaign world, but my god was that a bummer when that leg hit the floor.

I also had buyer's remorse for Jessica Aster because I still can't get the neck/head onto the second body, so basically I paid for two figures and did get ONE working figure, but that dud body feels like such a vast waste of money. I'd pay someone to fix it for me if I could find someone who could get the neck and head to connect to the body.

It's always the expensive stuff that bums me out. I can write off a dud Legends figure at 25 bucks and just be miffed, but once you get to twice that or above I get really depressed about it.
 
I think XesRay Goldhildr would be mine. No regrets.

But it's fiddly, and the new body still feels as caution-inducing as the old one. I also don't think the hair piece masks as seamlessly as the prior figures.

Still like it. But I was disappointed that it was more of the same instead of a proper upgrade.
 
I still haven't seen anything from XesRay to get me really excited or that I thought looked as good as other people say. I was excited by the hints years ago that they were going to do some historical Celts (Eamon even, I think, showed a sneak peak of a Celtic warrior?). Then they showed off the fantasy barbarians and... meh. THAT was my biggest toy disappointment for a while and it wasn't even something I bought.
 
Yeah, their pivot to fantasy was a big momentum killer for me.

The articulation across the line is lacking, certainly for weapon and action poses. The joints feel fragile- I've never had an actual issue, but they just don't feel good. You know how it is.

I think the sculpts are a bit soft and the faces do feel well behind what everyone else is achieving these days with paint/print.
 
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