[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by Baltan II

I know this story, I've been in TFW's Pacific Rim thread, I know how that went and how Series 3 is mostly better.

I also know of NECA from their Left 4 Dead, Borderlands, Half-Life, Aliens and Predator toylines and many of the poor decisions of the Pacific Rim line can be found spread within nearly all of them. NECA's Boomer is easily the best NECA toy I've owned and the joints have virtually no limitations that matter, but it's worse from there. Using one of Gordon Freeman's hip joints made it significantly more loose than the other leg moved in an identical way, and nearly the same thing happened on the replacement before I decided to never move the leg further. The "super articulated" newer Predator body is chock-full of limits in joint range and a near-perpetual issue of getting the body netting painted correctly, on top of one-off issues like an ankle joint being too recessed in the leg which made one leg a good half-inch shorter than the other. There's Claptrap's wheel, which likes to recess into his body in the yellow version and renders the static arm meant to hold him on the display base useless. And then there were the Aliens, which were generally considered NECA's best offering in articulation, but with so many cases of legs snapping apart between multiple copies and even from collectors experienced enough to know to unfreeze stuck joints. Even for as fantastic as Cherno Alpha, Trespasser and BD Knifehead look, Tango seems like a S1/2 Jaeger - and I guess if I really wanted to get nitpicky I'd cite the poor elbow range of those kaiju.

Pacific Rim's toyline is the poster child for how bad a NECA toyline can be, but it's not the only time issues come up, and it's entirely possible that when a company is purporting to sell a 7" tall, 12" long highly articulated kaiju for $18 that there are shortcuts we don't know about yet. Remaining skeptical is not the same thing as damning the product. I know better than to expect a line where I can put Godzilla in the Iron Man pose, but I'd be just as wary of another "Knifehead" that might as well be a vinyl.

Feh. Yet when I brought this up when the PR line was new, people told me to shut my dumb face because "NECA is all about high-quality and excellent figures!'