Loosecollector

[TFitz]

The BAF head has that bulbous neck with a peg. It would take a lot of work to make it fit. I initially thought the same thing wondering if I had an extra head. I do have the Toybiz fig and an extra head. Not sure why though.

Thwipp!

Yeah, I expected to do some dremeling, but the Toybiz one looks plenty good to me.

B.T.W., My POL has been told to ship. I added Legends Phoenix because I held off on her for some weird reason.

 

[rodkeith]

Something else I really like is that the neck range combined with the overlays eliminate the gaps below the mullet. It always annoyed me about both Sasquatch figures when you’d position the head in anything other than a hunch, the hair would separate from the body sculpt. Not the case here, it blends when standing or hunching.

Scale is excellent, or at least a vast improvement. Heather stands so the top of her head lines up with the bottom of the BAF’s pectorals, but she’s barely above the waist of the LC.


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NORM, that looks amazing! I'm surprised how well that works even without adding any paint.

You've convinced me to pick one up, not only to do this, but to make a custom Shaggy Man head for the body, it's perfect for that as well. By just creating new heads without altering the original figure, it'd be fun to swap out between all three characters as desired.

 

[Dek]

So. BBTS will only refund Skookum if I send it back, no exchanges. That's fine. So I picked up Big Foot in the meantime, and already its less than a great experience. The hands were stuck on and needed a lot of heat to come off, I don't think I'll be changing them out anytime soon as the design for them leads to a serious breakage point and it already feels like it wants to fail. No swivel other than the thigh joint makes getting his feet planted stable a little rough. And a molding defect on my left thigh has also started to eat up the rubber diaper. The orange of the fur is far more brown than what's show in product shots and the box. It's more brown than orange and he looks muted as a result. The paint is nice, but it doesn't save the whole package.

I'm kind of done here. I've got his wolves, and had two of his sasquatchs, and they don't feel like 100 dollar figures. Marvel Legends have less issues and when they do it is a cheaper loss to swallow. They look great, and Big Foot joints move so well, but they feel like budget figures for premium prices.

Mythic Legions, Savage Crucible, Fury Toys, Storm Arena all feel better made and quality controlled. This feels like a McFarlane figure to me, on the surface they all look great but in hand you notice where they cut the corners.

 

[NORM]

So. BBTS will only refund Skookum if I send it back, no exchanges. That's fine. So I picked up Big Foot in the meantime, and already its less than a great experience. The hands were stuck on and needed a lot of heat to come off, I don't think I'll be changing them out anytime soon as the design for them leads to a serious breakage point and it already feels like it wants to fail. No swivel other than the thigh joint makes getting his feet planted stable a little rough. And a molding defect on my left thigh has also started to eat up the rubber diaper. The orange of the fur is far more brown than what's show in product shots and the box. It's more brown than orange and he looks muted as a result. The paint is nice, but it doesn't save the whole package.

I'm kind of done here. I've got his wolves, and had two of his sasquatchs, and they don't feel like 100 dollar figures. Marvel Legends have less issues and when they do it is a cheaper loss to swallow. They look great, and Big Foot joints move so well, but they feel like budget figures for premium prices.

Mythic Legions, Savage Crucible, Fury Toys, Storm Arena all feel better made and quality controlled. This feels like a McFarlane figure to me, on the surface they all look great but in hand you notice where they cut the corners.

Man, that is nuts. I don't know how you got such a bum figure. Reading your experience, I didn't get ANY of that on my figure. Did I get lucky? Or are you doubly unlucky, having had more than one bad QC experience from them?

 

[Alt]

I think you're more Lucky than Dek is Unlucky.

I was with LC for a while, and they've always been dodgy and inconsistent. I think recent figures have started turning the ship around, but it's still a ship that would get stuck and block a canal.

 

[Dek]

I wanna like 'em. I really do. I've never given a company this many chances.

I really want those dog-men but they're gonna always be a want unless they go on deep, deep discount. And maybe not even them.

 

[Alt]

Your write up sounds fair to me. Especially the Cut Corners and Not $100 Here parts.

I think what makes them stick in the craw more these days is we have variety (say, BSF Sonja or Icons Vampi) and many companies, domestic or import, have started to surpass them in sculpt, engineering, paint, accessories. Value.

I was a cheerleader early on, even though I had issues with Executive Replicas, but as ambitious as LC and his studio are, they're getting quickly overrun.

Now, a lot of these monsters may not have the variety as competition, but you can still look at similar product (since we all love to multi spec our collections, with one budget) and see where your enjoyment and money may be better spent in any span of time.

As a McFarlane enjoyer, you're spot on about the cut corners and it's a just criticism for both companies.

Just in my personal social circle, what you described your experience with Skookum is more in line with what I've heard, so while it may not be a consistent set of issues, it's not an outlier. And for the price, and especially the competitive lines we like, you shouldn't have to cope.

 

[NORM]

I’ve got plenty of the regular sized humans that LC has done - Vampirella, Sonja, fake Emma Frost, Rocketeer and Betty, Shi. I haven’t had any issues with them. Bigfoot is the first “irregularly” sized figure I’ve gotten. While I love how it blended with the TB Sasquatch head for my collection, I don’t see myself needing anything else LC has had to offer at the moment. I can’t even think of what else I’d want, but @Alt has a good point, that there’s way more competition making similar kinds of figures, and it’s absolutely the right call to put your dollar where it’s more worth it to do so.

 

[Alt]

I had issues with one of my Sonjas, joint wise, and one of the red Vampis, paint wise.

The infamous Taarna.

Trese was okay but just "felt" bad to me. A common complaint for me with LC is just the Handfeel of most of his figures.

Betty was solid, I agree. I never did get Shi. Might revisit that...

But, just as Sasquatch knocked it out for you, my Captain Canuck is awesome and gave me some faith back for the Youngblood characters I want, or future humans in general.

 

[AceofKnaves]

Really sorry to hear the issues with the LC hominids. Mine are all really great, no QC other than a relaxed open hand on Bigfoot that isn’t quite as tight as I’d like on the wrist, but a very very minor quibble. They’re already contenders for Figure of the Year for me.

 

[bat]

Mine are all really great, no QC other than a relaxed open hand on Bigfoot that isn’t quite as tight as I’d like on the wrist,

I have tge same issue, left wrist. The other hands are so tight that trying to pop them off without heat pops out the whole forearm assembly back to the elbow so the looseness is definitely attributable to the socket of that left wrist. Generally, would love to identify a substance that can be cured around the lip of such a socket to narrow its aperture and prevent fall off without altering much the tightness of the ball-socket fit.

 

[Dek]

Be careful with the hand, the peg is badly designed. Only half of it actually connects to the base, its cut for movement. I just hinks reducing the base of your peg by 50% is a poor design choice and it was what had broke on my Skookum.

 

[AceofKnaves]

have tge same issue, left wrist

Yep, left wrist and only that one hand. The other hands are very tight on the wrist. It’s not a huge issue at all and I wouldn’t care at all but those relaxed hands and the non-roaring head is my preferred setup for Bigfoot. I use the clawed hands on Yeti and Skookum and they are nice and tight.

 

[Poe Ghostal]

I've got the Yeti coming - bit nervous about it now, but at least forewarned is forearmed.

 

[Alt]

I've got the Yeti coming - bit nervous about it now, but at least forewarned is forearmed.

Just know I'm not like loose collector is trash. I think they have some nice product and I just wish they executed more consistently. And they have made strides. Definitely do a hot water bath first thing.