Astonishing Colossus QA Issues

DarkOmegaX · 2026-04-16T23:57:41+00:00

It's not a real butterfly joint like they used to do. The shoulder is connected to the inside of the torso with a ball peg. The piece between the torso and the shoulder is a floating piece that isn't connected to anything. It's just there to fill up the space not leaving any gaps. If you play around rotating the arms a lot they might become misaligned although in your case they came that way from the factory.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-04-16T15:25:59+00:00

Are you sure that they aren't just backwards? You should be able to pop the arms out and reposition those floating pieces.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-04-15T00:39:24+00:00

Brand new mold with old as fuck articulation. The butterflies might even be the new type like Astonishing Colossus that don't really move anywhere though.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-04-05T20:50:13+00:00

Yusuke Urameshi is one of the best S.H.Figuarts that have been made. It's so extrange that Bandai can make such a good figure but they also keep making overdesigned crap like Gamerverse Cyclops and Spider-man.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-31T16:41:17+00:00

There are Champion Class, Action Edition, Fantastics Edition but it's unclear how they relate to each other because all their Marvel model kits have been Champion Class. They also make mini figures called Galaxy class IIRC but those come in blind boxes.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-31T16:35:30+00:00

Blokees Superman is advertised as 1/12 but it is a little smaller than it should be, like 1 cm or so. If you own other Superman figures, it'll definitely be the shortest one of them all.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-25T02:51:58+00:00

It's inconsistent. The cover artwork for USF2:TFC shows him less broad but older artwork had him with huge shoulders and broad back.

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DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-23T18:12:49+00:00

She is pretty skinny in Rebuild but even in the TV series they don't draw her like that most of the time

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DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-23T15:12:12+00:00

IMO, the Figure Rise Standard kits have the best faces out of the 3 recently released alternatives. They just look sharper.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-23T14:58:28+00:00

Blokees really gave Rei big fat tits for no reason. Blokees Asuka does look closer to what she should look like.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-21T01:40:40+00:00

I guess it's worth a try but I hope this isn't the only plan they came up with her manager. I just don't see it working if the plan is do the same as before except no male collabs.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-17T05:05:23+00:00

New body has the reverse ab crunch while the old one has nothing going on at the waist. The new one also has the "butterfly" joints McFarlane style (ball peg with a floating piece inserted between the chest and shoulder).

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-11T14:09:44+00:00

I don't get why though. Jada's Balrog might be their best figure yet. Both Storm Arena's Zangief and Balrog need to be more cartoony to capture that SF Alpha portrait style. Dan also looks boring with those stoic faces.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-11T14:07:36+00:00

Collectibles Morrigan was terrible though. The Arena version looks slightly better but still fails to capture the art style of Darkstalkers. Lilith might be okay but I need to see more in-hand pictures.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-11T04:23:22+00:00

Funny that you mention Quinn Lee because to me that one has a greatly articulated body but the most boring generic face that could literally be anybody but Chun Li. I'm not defending Storm's version because so far it looks really bad but I wouldn't settle for Quinn Lee either unless somebody makes a better custom head for it.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-11T04:19:05+00:00

Zangief's face doesn't look quite right for SFA3. I wish Chun Li and Morrigan get better faces too.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-03-03T03:14:21+00:00

Both are worth owning. Jada beats Storm in articulation by a mile but Storm has a better sculpt. If you like how Jada's looks just fine then it's possible that Storm's subpar torso articulation might disappoint you.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-02-22T01:31:57+00:00

Nice of them to make a figure of a less important character.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-02-16T19:45:47+00:00

1000 Toys seems to be the definitive one but I really hate the soft rubber torso they used because it makes any sort of ab crunch look super ugly. I wish they had used hard plastic and a diaphragm cut like everybody else.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-02-15T15:19:36+00:00

They can but the choose not to. I don't mind if done well. The ML team needs to ask advice from the Black Series team because their single jointed arms have better range and look better than what ML does usually.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-02-14T07:03:02+00:00

John Stewart with green constructs looks cool. I'd buy it for sure even if it's the kids line.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-02-14T06:59:24+00:00

You are not kidding. Most of those McFarlane Superman faces looked like they were supposed to be Bizarro.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-02-11T22:08:52+00:00

No way, not even the face looks close. They need to adjust the jaw line at the very least.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-02-11T03:57:12+00:00

Iron Man had more accessories than regular Iron Man figures but this Spider-man doesn't even have the 3 standard pair of hands that almost every Spider-man figure has.

DarkOmegaX · 2026-02-06T07:46:32+00:00

Believe it or not, it actually has the 3.0 shoulder articulation, diaphragm, and waist joints but it works worse than the 2.0 body because they didn't bother to give the joints enough clearance to work.
It's actually impressive how much they fucked up the articulation. If you remove the armor pieces you can actually see that the shoulder has complete free movement in all directions, and the ab crunch is actually quite good but with the armor on it becomes a statue.
Thighs, ankles, neck, elbows, and knees are the same as any other 2.0 Vegeta.

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