[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Playshool, Happy Meal, Dr. Kain just knockin' it out of the park with the lamebrain, circa 2006 fan complaints. Just can't get enough of those generic knee-jerk descriptors.

But seriously, I think the figures look alright as toys to play with for kids, the problem is the difficult source material. The detail of the movie suits is lost when turned into small plastic form because there's just so much of it at a small scale, and little colour difference over large areas. The figures still look like shit for collectors, but I have a hard time imaging how they couldn't.

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Well, I wouldn't say I'm fine with them, but as a kid I could do way more with 9 points than five points. 5POA figures are basically useless, but at least 9POA/13POA figs can be posed in your hands in semi-convincing ways. They're functional as toys.

If my child self saw these, though, he'd probably be unenthused. I really liked when details were painted or different colours, but I'd play with them for sure.

Kids today must be easily amused then. Even during the days of MMPR's toys I hated that the diamonds weren't painted on the back, Pink didn't have a skirt, Green didn't have the proper triangles on his gloves and boots, the weapons were just grey instead of accurately colored, and then all of the lighting bolts on the zords instead of how they looked on the show (oh, and of course the lion having a black head instead of green and White Shogunzord being pink). Zedd was the biggest annoyance because not one damn toy looked like he did on the show. Hell, the 8 inch figure had a friggin diaper and they couldn't even get the color of his damn visor right (ON ANY OF THEM!!!). I even tried painting my Zedd unsuccessfully (which he and Galvatron were the reasons I realized I was never meant to be a painter).