I was mad at Hasbro so I went running to Jada. I know.I mean, that’s an oversimplification. These toys sat on the bubble for a while, because I’d seen previews/reviews and loved them, and I love Jada Toys, but I knew very little about the show and they were in the upper end of my price range.
And then Hasbro said the Maximum Spider-Man would be fifty bucks.
And… I had problems with the value proposition. Lots of other people didn’t. And that’s fine. I still might cave if I see one and that’s also fine. But in the moment, when I was hoping #35, thinking $40, and willing to go $45, and they hit me with $50, they could fuck right off. And there were these beautifully engineered toys with wired soft goods and a shit-ton of detail at a lower price point so I threw a pre-order in to see if it would come through, and it did. And while they’re a BIT fussy by Jada standards, they’re also doing some very different things here and doing them really well.
So, unlike the Street Fighter toys, which are exaggerated and mostly…. thick, and unlike the Cereal Mascots, which are weird, cartoony proportions, what we have here are normal anime-styled humans with plug-in bits. and real clothes. All beautifully executed with the exception of the arm ports.
Sculpt and paint detail is killer. Soft goods (David’s jacket and pants, Lucy’s top) are well executed and wired, although I do admit I’d love a little more wire in David’s jacket - you can definitly get motion but you can’t get crazy with it and I like getting crazy with it (like with M. Bison’s cape). The guns are nicely painted, Lucy’s monowire weapons bend and hold their own weight mostly, and David’s in-the-arm-blaster thingy is super cool.
It’s just that the monowires and arm thingy plug into holes in their arms, and I wish they were more secure. They love to pop out when you’re moving the arms, and if they were like 50% tighter they wouldn’t budge. But that’s millimeter-level tolerances so I get it.
For the pic, I got out the Super Action Stuff blood and gunfire effects, a Jada Street Fighter stand, a shit-ton of blu-tac, the Fwoosh Commando, a Crimson BAT, a Tele-Viper, my Night Creeper, and a mix of Joe and Fwoosh weapons to create a team of Generic Corporate/Futurecop opponents to be taken down.
Ultimately it was two shots, because the photo box ain’t big enough for all six, and I redid David and found a new background once I saw what kind of positioning and spacing was needed. I also started watching the show - first to steal a background, but then I started getting into it.
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