I didn’t dislike the earlier Entice Jaw that was primarily based on the Revelation cartoon design, however the New Eternia variations of those figures have been wonderful throughout the board, and this new Entice Jaw fixes all of my points with the earlier determine.
As a long-time Entice Jaw lover, I find yourself with each model of Entice jaw on the market. It was very laborious to restrain myself from selecting up the Mondo model. It being in 1/6th scale helped hold me from sinking down that path, however it was shut.
For a very long time, the MotU Classics Entice Jaw was the end-all and be-all Entice Jaw determine. However as a lot as I nonetheless love that determine, the addition of double joints sort of makes this determine edge that one out. Just a bit. It’s nonetheless very shut. Mattel has upped their sport significantly, and with this New Eternia enterprise has been pumping out a number of the finest 7-inch scale figures available on the market.
Entice Jaw retains the overwhelming majority of his design, with solely very minor tweaks to “replace” him. I put replace in quotes as a result of this isn’t a radical redesign in any sense of the phrase, of which I’m very glad, as a result of I don’t suppose any of the designs want updating as they’re. I believe “enhanced” may be a greater time period.
The double joints are nice, however I believe it’s the torso wobble joint I’m at all times most impressed with. It will get an excellent vary, permitting for some menacing crouching or facet to facet tilt.
I’m undecided which determine debuted them, and I virtually hadn’t observed, however these figures now function drop-down hips. Whereas they’ve their pluses and minuses, the drop-down hips do assist navigate the loincloths that almost all MotU figures have. Fortunately, the loincloths aren’t made out of a rock laborious materials, so the combo of drop downs and versatile plastic provide you with some respectable lunging movement. He’s nonetheless hindered, however it may very well be far worse.
The top on this model is superior in each method to the Revelation model. Whereas there stays a glimpse on the ruined within his mouth, it’s far much less…drooptongued than the earlier model. Frankly, that at all times seemed bizarre, and I used to be not a fan. This model brings him nearer to a classic really feel, whereas retaining a bit extra of that enhanced aesthetic.
I are inclined to measure the success of any Entice Jaw on the relative awesomeness of his techno arm, since that has at all times been his defining attribute and the factor that made me fall in love with him extra many years in the past than I care to consider. I like this arm so much. It’s absolutely articulated, with a ball joint on the “elbow” that permits for full vary of movement. The shoulder is equally articulated, so there’s no scarcity of movement. I just like the gear look to the shoulder, a element that has tagged alongside from the unique classic determine.
The three swappable weapons are as familiar-yet-enhanced as every thing else. All of them plug in and keep in fairly securely.
He additionally comes with a sword that slides right into a slot on his again.
If I had something in any respect to complain about, it’s that I do want the outdated technique of attaching his additional weapons to his belt had been improved. It’s nonetheless simply depending on a hook latching onto a slot, and it may be a bit fiddly due to it. Once I was a child it was rattling close to not possible to play with him and have these weapons keep on, so most of the time he didn’t have them connected to his belt throughout playtime. It’s simply as inconvenient for grownup playtime as properly. A ball-joint that popped on and off can be far sturdier whereas maintaining the identical aesthetic.
Nonetheless, that’s mainly my solely subject. I dig this model fairly a bit. Like at all times, if a mini-comic model was made, I’d be throughout that as properly.
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