Jesus Christ... JADA used to be GARBAGE!
This
Robocop 3.0 figure is so
terrible I actually
threw it into the trash. After waking up tonight, I had some regrets and fished out the figure, the guns, the screwdrivers(more on this later) and picked him up again to finish the
surgery I started on him last night. I thought that Jada had come out of nowhere with action figures, I was wrong... but their starting point was so poor that the quality of their current figures is nothing short of
miraculous. Aside from that, I got through the entire Robocop franchise this year, all movies and all TV series, and so I wanted a Robocop in my collection, but NECA's was too large... so I looked up if the 2014 movie, which wasn't half bad mind you, had any figures made. It had. And here we are.
The figure has a very detailed sculpt, I'll give it that. He has a very angularly mechanical look to him that is pretty neat, although being molded in black with minimal paint apps means that most of the detail is
lost. The most striking feature about the figure is that he has no mouth. The mouth isn't sculpted, and it's
not even painted on, the part of his face that shows below the helmet is just a blob of flesh with nothing. He does come with two guns, and those get some silver paint apps.
You can press his chest to have his visor turn on. Know what would've been better? Proper red paint to add some
life into the figure.
Articulation is
terrible. Elbows and knees are single jointed, and this is as far as they bend. That's right, neither reaches a 90 degree bend.
Pathetic. Arms and legs can move up and down, and you can raise either to the sides, but the leg split is also pathetic. No waist or ab articulation at all, but even worse, no wrist articulation, so he can only aim his guns straight if his arms are straight. They even messed up the head, as he can move his head to either side
only a little bit.
And then I realized something. If you
rotate the arms and then bend them backwards... you do get a 90 degree bend. Could it be?
Could my copy have been messed up at the assembly? No. I looked up videos of people reviewing the figure, every copy is the same. Maybe they messed up at the assembly line? I look up the character himself, and no, they didn't, the details on the front of the biceps matches how he looks in the movie, so it's just bad engineering.
He has no mouth, and he definitely must scream. So yesterday... Yesterday I tried to heat up his arms and pull them out, since they were single jointed it shouldn't have been an issue. It was, no luck. I got frustrated, so I moved on to un-screwing his back... and after getting two out of the three screws out... the final screw wouldn't give in. The head of the screw started warping too.
So I got angry and threw him into the trash. Well... Mama didn't raise no quitter, so I woke up, fished all the pieces out of the trash, and this time I used a larger screwdriver and managed to pull apart this freak. Then instead of using mere hot water, I actually boiled it... and, after
MUCH struggling... managed to take apart the arms. Sapping the pieces of one of the arms was simple enough, but the other one just refused to go back in, so I had to cut a bit of the peg... but hey!
Against all odds....
I gave this crummy figure a 90 degree bend on his arms. He is on the very lower end of the six inch scale, so he'll probably look better next to some Star Wars figures.
This might possibly be the worst action figure in my collection. Easily.
Horribly designed, it's worse than a kid's toy, because at least those get mouths.
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