altcunningham
Laura Rings Enthusiast
Gather your pole because it's time for my airing of grievances.
We all sit down with an action figure and mess around with it and find things to charm us and things that annoy us. I'm just going to run down my list of negatives.
There was no reason not to have swappable hands. Sub-Zero is the same mold as Scorpion. They have slightly different skin tones though if that is going to bother you. And it bothers me. But the hands pop off. So why couldn't you just throw in the other hands. I bet there's variants coming. It's Todd.
Anyway, they all should have had extra hands.
What the f*** is up with these super thick accessories. I hate it in the DC line. And I hate it here. The prior MK Kitana could hold her fan and get some good poses going. You cannot hold this fan. You can wedge it in but it is a very specific tolerance and the angle it works at doesn't look the best.
Also, shouldn't there be two fans. Just give us two closed and too open.
Neck articulation. Here is where I'm spoiled by GI. Joe, Jada. I know the DC line doesn't really do it. I know Legends doesn't do it. But they should start. And Todd should start. To be fair, I think they executed the ball ball peg very well. It's as high as you could possibly want and I think it seats at a nice enough point in the skull.
You get a lot of tilt, nice down, okay up. Would have been better with a neck joint. I would even argue that that way they do certain Batman figures where it's just the neck and head is one piece might have been better for the ninjas. Not a deal breaker. But this is where Todd needs to catch up.
My Sub-Zero knee armor was not glued in. Easily fixed but it is a thing that happened.
Thigh swivel. Why is this company so inconsistent about this. Sometimes you can. Sometimes you can make it happen but it's clearly unintentional. Sometimes it just doesn't happen. These are in the doesn't happen camp, and I think you should just put it in. I like the solution they have with the leg pegs. Always have. It's just dumb that it's inconsistent.
My Kitana neck is actually great. It's not too long. The head just was not attached in the box and I didn't realize that during my initial play because it was kind of popped on. Once you snap it down, great proportions.
Here's my positives/ responses:
I think the head proportions are fine. I believe it's the overlay on the male ninjas. That's just a little too bulky but it's also scaled a little bigger. Especially when you have the character select the icon on the back to compare. But pose them up and it's fine. I like them to be comic book bulky so it's whatever for me. But I will conceive the overlay might be the problem.
It is not a problem in articulation. It overlays the torso so you can swivel the waste and crunch and do whatever you want. It's also very pliable. I can imagine that Storm might have done this in two layers for the black gi and then the quilted part. Or maybe made the gi the torso, which is not the case here: the torso is a black fabric sculpt, I don't know what reuse that might have. Kano?
Kitana feels small, she is about as big as the new Supergirl. I think that's because his other women are usually larger or in heels. I have no complaints on this.
I think they all look cool grouped up. I don't think I'm going for the full group I skipped Liu Kang, and he could be in a spin-off called Characters I Don't Care About. Dictating this. I now realize if we're focused on the second game we probably won't get Sonya, again. Little things like that will determine if I just want to finish the ninjas or go deeper. I don't know if he revealed future waves at the con.
I paid 25 Canuck a piece. That's with my black card discount. I don't feel like I didn't get my money's worth, but at the same time I would have gotten more with a Street Fighter or Joe. Admittedly, probably not with most Legends.
If I had been live streaming, this is what I would have bitched about, but at the end of the day I'm having fun making them hit each other, and I am having that nostalgic hit where this is what you would have wanted back in middle school, and it took forever to get it.
I never did the Mezco or other lines to compare.
Kiran's fans though, are you kidding me, come on, Todd.
We all sit down with an action figure and mess around with it and find things to charm us and things that annoy us. I'm just going to run down my list of negatives.
There was no reason not to have swappable hands. Sub-Zero is the same mold as Scorpion. They have slightly different skin tones though if that is going to bother you. And it bothers me. But the hands pop off. So why couldn't you just throw in the other hands. I bet there's variants coming. It's Todd.
Anyway, they all should have had extra hands.
What the f*** is up with these super thick accessories. I hate it in the DC line. And I hate it here. The prior MK Kitana could hold her fan and get some good poses going. You cannot hold this fan. You can wedge it in but it is a very specific tolerance and the angle it works at doesn't look the best.
Also, shouldn't there be two fans. Just give us two closed and too open.
Neck articulation. Here is where I'm spoiled by GI. Joe, Jada. I know the DC line doesn't really do it. I know Legends doesn't do it. But they should start. And Todd should start. To be fair, I think they executed the ball ball peg very well. It's as high as you could possibly want and I think it seats at a nice enough point in the skull.
You get a lot of tilt, nice down, okay up. Would have been better with a neck joint. I would even argue that that way they do certain Batman figures where it's just the neck and head is one piece might have been better for the ninjas. Not a deal breaker. But this is where Todd needs to catch up.
My Sub-Zero knee armor was not glued in. Easily fixed but it is a thing that happened.
Thigh swivel. Why is this company so inconsistent about this. Sometimes you can. Sometimes you can make it happen but it's clearly unintentional. Sometimes it just doesn't happen. These are in the doesn't happen camp, and I think you should just put it in. I like the solution they have with the leg pegs. Always have. It's just dumb that it's inconsistent.
My Kitana neck is actually great. It's not too long. The head just was not attached in the box and I didn't realize that during my initial play because it was kind of popped on. Once you snap it down, great proportions.
Here's my positives/ responses:
I think the head proportions are fine. I believe it's the overlay on the male ninjas. That's just a little too bulky but it's also scaled a little bigger. Especially when you have the character select the icon on the back to compare. But pose them up and it's fine. I like them to be comic book bulky so it's whatever for me. But I will conceive the overlay might be the problem.
It is not a problem in articulation. It overlays the torso so you can swivel the waste and crunch and do whatever you want. It's also very pliable. I can imagine that Storm might have done this in two layers for the black gi and then the quilted part. Or maybe made the gi the torso, which is not the case here: the torso is a black fabric sculpt, I don't know what reuse that might have. Kano?
Kitana feels small, she is about as big as the new Supergirl. I think that's because his other women are usually larger or in heels. I have no complaints on this.
I think they all look cool grouped up. I don't think I'm going for the full group I skipped Liu Kang, and he could be in a spin-off called Characters I Don't Care About. Dictating this. I now realize if we're focused on the second game we probably won't get Sonya, again. Little things like that will determine if I just want to finish the ninjas or go deeper. I don't know if he revealed future waves at the con.
I paid 25 Canuck a piece. That's with my black card discount. I don't feel like I didn't get my money's worth, but at the same time I would have gotten more with a Street Fighter or Joe. Admittedly, probably not with most Legends.
If I had been live streaming, this is what I would have bitched about, but at the end of the day I'm having fun making them hit each other, and I am having that nostalgic hit where this is what you would have wanted back in middle school, and it took forever to get it.
I never did the Mezco or other lines to compare.
Kiran's fans though, are you kidding me, come on, Todd.
