Delta Assault
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Picked up NECA's 1/4 scale Iron Man Mark 7.
For the price (80-90 bucks), it's not bad. The paint is nice and glossy, as you'd want for Iron Man. I believe the shoulder pads are actually a bit further out from the torso then on the actual suit, but I think NECA sacrificed accuracy for the added articulation.
The articulation in general is okay, but my favorite pieces are the air brakes/flaps on his back. You can actually get 3 individual flaps on each side. There's a large lower flap, an upper flap, and then a smaller gray flap on the upper flap that you can flip out. You can have them all fully opened, or even pose them in mid-deployment, like a lotus opening up.
The figure comes with two sets of hands, open repulsor-ready, or closed fists. I switched them to the fists cause that's what I prefer. But a warning, those hands really require some strength to fit all the way into the sockets. I tried my hardest and you can still see some gap between the hands and the rest of the arm. As for the hand covers, those are actually made out of flexible vinyl, so no need to worry about those getting damaged.
There's also light-up features for the eyes, chest reactor, and hands. The lit up eyes look really good in the dark:
Personally, I prefer to have just the eyes lit up, because the chest light is actually pretty damn bright and a bit overpowering.
Now, are there problems? Well, yeah... the quality control on this figure is pretty shocking. The two main problems I found on my figure are shown here:
1) The back of the helmet has chipped off and exposed the plastic. It's not just some paint that's gone either, there's some chunk of the actual helmet missing. Obviously not that noticeable when you're displaying the figure from the front, but still.
2) Look at the lower torso. Why are there three yellow strips on one side, but only two on the other side? Because the entire torso assembly is crooked. My Iron Man figure arrived with scoliosis of the spine. I've tried to straighten it out but nope, it doesn't seem to be an articulation. The torso's stuck in this curved position. Now, that doesn't mean it's that bad of a pose, as my pics show, but it would be nice to be able to have him in some other poses. As it is, my Iron Man is stuck as more of a statue.
Outside of those glaring quality control problems, the figure is hard to keep from falling. The legs and feet aren't weighted at all, so the whole thing is just top heavy and inevitably leads to the falling. The joints in the feet aren't very strong or ratcheted so they can give out and cause the torso to gradually lean forward, where the weight brings it falling down. It's already fallen down twice since I've gotten it and scraped some gold paint off of the top of the helmet. NECA probably would've been wise to have included a stand in the box.
It's a nice shiny display figure for the price you're paying, but with all the issues I've noticed... probably not one of NECA's better 1/4 scale figures.
For the price (80-90 bucks), it's not bad. The paint is nice and glossy, as you'd want for Iron Man. I believe the shoulder pads are actually a bit further out from the torso then on the actual suit, but I think NECA sacrificed accuracy for the added articulation.
The articulation in general is okay, but my favorite pieces are the air brakes/flaps on his back. You can actually get 3 individual flaps on each side. There's a large lower flap, an upper flap, and then a smaller gray flap on the upper flap that you can flip out. You can have them all fully opened, or even pose them in mid-deployment, like a lotus opening up.
The figure comes with two sets of hands, open repulsor-ready, or closed fists. I switched them to the fists cause that's what I prefer. But a warning, those hands really require some strength to fit all the way into the sockets. I tried my hardest and you can still see some gap between the hands and the rest of the arm. As for the hand covers, those are actually made out of flexible vinyl, so no need to worry about those getting damaged.
There's also light-up features for the eyes, chest reactor, and hands. The lit up eyes look really good in the dark:
Personally, I prefer to have just the eyes lit up, because the chest light is actually pretty damn bright and a bit overpowering.
Now, are there problems? Well, yeah... the quality control on this figure is pretty shocking. The two main problems I found on my figure are shown here:
1) The back of the helmet has chipped off and exposed the plastic. It's not just some paint that's gone either, there's some chunk of the actual helmet missing. Obviously not that noticeable when you're displaying the figure from the front, but still.
2) Look at the lower torso. Why are there three yellow strips on one side, but only two on the other side? Because the entire torso assembly is crooked. My Iron Man figure arrived with scoliosis of the spine. I've tried to straighten it out but nope, it doesn't seem to be an articulation. The torso's stuck in this curved position. Now, that doesn't mean it's that bad of a pose, as my pics show, but it would be nice to be able to have him in some other poses. As it is, my Iron Man is stuck as more of a statue.
Outside of those glaring quality control problems, the figure is hard to keep from falling. The legs and feet aren't weighted at all, so the whole thing is just top heavy and inevitably leads to the falling. The joints in the feet aren't very strong or ratcheted so they can give out and cause the torso to gradually lean forward, where the weight brings it falling down. It's already fallen down twice since I've gotten it and scraped some gold paint off of the top of the helmet. NECA probably would've been wise to have included a stand in the box.
It's a nice shiny display figure for the price you're paying, but with all the issues I've noticed... probably not one of NECA's better 1/4 scale figures.
I would have like Lion-O if the ''6 was exactly like the "4, cause his shouldpad and shoulders look a bit weird (his legs too actually).
