[Baltan II]

SH Figuarts for me has personally been fantastic, but it's far from a perfect toyline. Regrettably, a line as good as this one is very easy to talk up and therefore set expectations beyond what is reasonable for a mass-produced action figure line at its price point. Unfortunately, personal bias on either side is far too easy to allow to dominate a conversation.

A classic example is my original Ultra-Act Ultraman figure, the first release in the line. People expected as great or better than Figuarts quality from it, with the advantage of being slightly larger. Turns out, Bandai didn't use the same construction as in Figuarts (to this day I'm not sure why), and while Ultraman had a lot of joints, his construction and fit of those parts was terrible, leading to rampant floppiness and parts leprosy.

And yet, mine was fine. Nothing was loose, nothing fell apart with ease, he could pose and balance as well as your typical Figuarts... the fact that my Ultraman was good and no one else's seemed to be became a running joke. That didn't mean that I used my personal experience of the line to claim that it was all user error or craziness on the part of other owners, nor did anyone come to me claiming I was full of shit because I could hold my figure, shake it in my hand, and no limbs would fall off.

The truth is usually somewhere between the extremes of vocal opinion on the internet, and it takes a careful analysis and experiences to separate hype and hate from legitimate criticism, and to recognize that flukes happen too - sometimes people get a bum figure, and in the cases of outright garbage, sometimes someone gets lucky with a figure that works as fully intended.

Oh, and not to antagonize the point, I know nothing about the NECA Evil Dead line in particular, but the reputation NECA has for toys with bad, stuck joints and even the odd case of breaking right out of the package, a case of Ash breaking apart would not surprise me. Bonus points if it's a hand.