Toy purchase disappointments

altcunningham said:
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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This was my biggest complaint before they disappointed me by being the third or fourth company to decide 'fantasy barbarian guys' was the way to go, even after being established for other, cooler stuff. But I could never bring myself to buy their gladiators or Romans because they just felt... cartoony. In a way that doesn't jive with what I would want from something like this and doesn't fit in well with anything else I collect or like.
 
Cartoony is a good word for it. I mostly got Berenice because I have a thing for Kassandra in Assassin's Creed. And of course you need people for her to befriend or beat.

Got Goldhildr for the Skyrim of it all.

But I think Berenice 2.0 will be my make or break.
 
I guess it's fair to at least point out that their turn to fantasy barbarians instead of historical Celts, at the very least, saved me from the inevitable 'I bought a lot of these and I don't think they're as good as the price tag implies and now I'm disappointed.' Because if these remained a line of historically-inspired figures, I would have been done for.
 
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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This is me every time they sell me a figure with the wrong wrist articulation.
docsilence said:
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.
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That sucks, man. As someone who has waffled on that headless horseman figure more times than I can count your experience at least makes me feel better about passing on it.
 
Two figures spring to mind. They are not recent, but they've always irked me because both are figures that should be front and center in my (and probably anyone's) display, but they both stink.

Playmates vintage TMNT Shredder. I've written this guy up before on the Fwoosh. The worst pre-posed action figure in history. Both hands are useless for holding his accessories. He's permanently crouched and you cannot configure his legs to stand on his own. Nostalgia cannot save this turd.

Marvel Legends first appearance Storm. I've also written her up. At first glance an amazing figure. Alternate heads, both sculpted incredibly. Alternate capes, neutral and blowing. Lightning accessories. The paint job is a rarity for Marvel Legends in that you get two different finishes, glossy black for her suit and a nice matte finish for her skin. The paint job pops so much! Then you get to the sculpt and you see that a character who was drawn curvy 100% of the time in the comics is given a stick figure sculpt with no hips and boobs that stick straight out with no silhouette. The outline of her torso, hips, and legs are almost parallel lines. The sculptor knew he had to sculpt a female body, but really didn't want to sculpt a female body.

This is the Turtles' number one enemy and one of the X-Men's all-time top 5 characters. These are figures you want front and center in your displays, not hiding their shame five tiers back in the top right corner. Both big time disappointments.
 
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Mine has gotta be the Figma Demon Souls knight. I popped off the upper torso to remove the plastic they'd put to protect the paint....and could never get the fucking thing to peg back together after. The joint has this weird thing going on where there's a small connecting piece between the chest and the waist at a weird angle and I could not get one side pegged in without dislodging the other half and vice versa. After over an hour of this shit, I just gave up in a huff and wrote it off.

Second place goes to the Medicom cell shaded Spider-Man - the wrist peg was about as strong as a 90 year old woman with brittle bone disease. At least with that I was able to cannibalise replacement pegs from somewhere though.
 
Misfit said:
That sucks, man. As someone who has waffled on that headless horseman figure more times than I can count your experience at least makes me feel better about passing on it.
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Honestly, love the head sculpt, and the body if it hadn't broken would have been amazing. Devastating to have saved and waited for it for like two years and finally buy it to have it broken. If you like the figure, i'd just pay someone selling the body for parts and get one of the pumpkin heads, drop it onto another Legions body. (The horse is great too! I just stuck the purple Amroury Knight body and pumpkin head on it and that half-assed custom is my favorite figure on the shelf, but...)
 
Revox said:
Mine has gotta be the Figma Demon Souls knight. I popped off the upper torso to remove the plastic they'd put to protect the paint....and could never get the fucking thing to peg back together after. The joint has this weird thing going on where there's a small connecting piece between the chest and the waist at a weird angle and I could not get one side pegged in without dislodging the other half and vice versa. After over an hour of this shit, I just gave up in a huff and wrote it off.
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I bought it and sold it unopened after watching reviews.

Figma, man. They're either making a top 10 contender or absolute junk. I'm hoping my beloved Zagreus is the former.
 
yojoebro82 said:
Playmates vintage TMNT Shredder. I've written this guy up before on the Fwoosh. The worst pre-posed action figure in history. Both hands are useless for holding his accessories. He's permanently crouched and you cannot configure his legs to stand on his own. Nostalgia cannot save this turd.
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The second Super Shredder came out in the movie line, I threw regular Shredder in a box and never looked at him again. Super Shredder was so much the superior figure that it was impossible for me to bust out the OG ever again.
 
Going through some of my things in storage, I realized I regret buying 3 of the Joy Toy mechs I got in the last 2 years. I had grand plans for using them with other "larger" type figures like Godzilla, but I never got a big G that would work with them, and with the pilots being so small, they couldn't work with 1/12 figures.
I think one of the pilots had something break, so I can't sell them as "complete", but I think they're going to go into the sell pile I'm assembling.
 
SalemCrow said:
Going through some of my things in storage, I realized I regret buying 3 of the Joy Toy mechs I got in the last 2 years. I had grand plans for using them with other "larger" type figures like Godzilla, but I never got a big G that would work with them, and with the pilots being so small, they couldn't work with 1/12 figures.
I think one of the pilots had something break, so I can't sell them as "complete", but I think they're going to go into the sell pile I'm assembling.
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My son wanted the JoyToy Mechs so badly, but they are VERY expensive in the ol' Canadian dollars and I could never justify it compared to the other stuff he wanted. They look very cool, though.
 
The most disappointed I’ve been in a figure I purchased? Loosecollector’s Taarna. I had such high hopes and expectations for that one based on the promo pics and LooseCollector’s custom work. That may have been our one and only shot at a 1/12 fully posable Taarna.

The most disappointed I’ve been in myself for purchasing a figure? The HasLab Giant Man. I love my Toy Biz BAF Giant-Man. I did not particularly want, and I certainly did not need, a super-sized “upgrade”. Unfortunately, I let FOMO get the best of me when I knew better, and now I have that big ass box eating up valuable real estate in my closet.

At one point, I had close to 200 figmas. Man, they were SO good. I don’t know what happened, but the quality and (for me) character selection really started going downhill around 2019. Now I average one figma purchase a year.
 
I was pretty annoyed when my Frazetta Girls Teegra's knee pin snapped in half on first light motion to it. Pretty expensive toy to just throw in the trash.
 
For me it’s Snail Shell Lustia.

She’s a beautiful figure, and has some fun accessories, but she’s so fiddly you don’t barely want to play with her.

The bralet is so thin a light that you can’t get it to stay in place, and it is always getting stuck on her incredibly spiky hair. And feels like it could snap at any moment.

Everything is a really hard brittle feel ing plastic so it just feels like it break or snap really easily
 
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