David Lee Roth - Eat 'em and Smile CD - used. Yeah! I'm talkin' about a Yankee Rose!
That's the 2007 30th Anniversary Collection ANH Vader, I think you mean. And actually, last year's The Vintage Collection ANH Vader was actually better thanks to a sharper sculpt and better proportions, more controlled cloth elements. http://www.rebelscum.com/2012Hasbro/TVC ... DER-18.jpgShockwave wrote:I'll be very interested in what you think of the 6" Black series. Hasbro has done amazing things with their 3 3/4" line and I'm curious to see if that trend crosses over to the larger scale. About 6 years ago under the vintage trilogy collection (the ones with the coins), their ANH Vader has yet to be surpassed. That thing had the full three piece removable helmet just like in the movies and a movable head underneath that. Which moved separate from the resperator part at the neck! And that was on top of the already cracked out articulation it already has. The only things on him that don't move are his fingers. There has been no reason to buy another Vader since.
As for 6" Maul, I'm not that happy. Here's what I wrote when I opened it:
The tampoed paint on the head is off-center and the cheek pattern is wrong.
The right knee on mine is shot too high (you can see the punch-out still intact) and comes apart when used because it wasn't finished through the other side properly.
The outfit deco is simple and the sculpting is only fair.
The joints are all ratcheted and the leg joints have too much play while the arms are too stiff and somewhat limited in range.
The cloaked look doesn't work with the big split in the front and the overly short sleeves and no droid cuff.
The hips don't spread wide enough for tall kicks.
The horns are painted wrong with too little bone color.
There are fine details that are lacking like shapes on the horns, especially the temple horns.
There are seams and burr marks that
The eyes are tampoed slightly into the lower eyelid line.
The saber blades are 25% too short.
The footpeg holes are 4mm which is a size nobody uses for stands.
The ankle joints are unattractive.
The nicest thing I can say is the head and torso joints can be very expressive.
"Fair at best" is my take.
And a few days later:
it dawns on me that I haven't actually put it in a 2-handed saber pose. A few minutes later, THIS FIGURE ANNOYS ME TO NO END. The arm articulation is limited too far, the shoulders can't pull in tight enough, the elbows can't bend up far enough, the hands have opposing hinges which means one move with one requires altering the other to compensate because it can't just bend that same way. So 2-handed poses usually end up with the saber hilt bent, and the arms can't get to some of the tight angles required. That on top of the hips being too loose laterally, and the ratchets in the ankle joints being in the wrong places and leaving too much play, means this figure can't actually DO much the way Darth Maul is supposed to!
Bottom Line:
If you lower your expectations and accept that it makes a lot of the same mistakes the 3.75" figures do, then it's passable but not satisfying or as big a step up as the price and concept suggested it should be. So it misses the mark but not by too much. That said, I'm out.
in both a preposed robot mode figure and a vehicle mode figure). Metro's eyes are articulated, like Tankorrrr but with an actual light and there are 2 of 'em and it's eerie looking at them move in his head. I'll have more details when I've spent more time with him.
