Dec 13, 2014

It Came from the toy chest: Screw you Cherry Pickers? How do I have him then?

While he wasn't a Club Filmation Figure, Fang Man's single appearance was in The Time Corridor, a Filmation Episode. He was also the first "Screw you Cherry Pickers" figure that was NOT an Exclusive figure (like Wun-Dar or Shadow Weaver). He was a Monthly Figure that Mattel decided to hold back to "punish non-subbers." The "left overs" were available on the Turducken week and I caught him and most of Club Filmation with him. (Shokoti and TURD being the exception. Sea Hawk was available, but I already got him.)

Normally, I go into the Articulation, Paint/Sculpt and then Accessories in my Ratings. Because Fang Man has a peculiar sculpt that I have to discuss first, BEFORE going into the Articulation.





Paint and Sculpt:
The paint is sloppy on mine. The fins on his head and neck are missing some paint. It's small, but slop is slop. The paint on his nails on both hands is not complete. Parts of the nails are lacking paint. Then to make matters worse, one of the Accessories was put on his hand while wet and left some paint on the hand. Then to make matters worse, the Accessory has to huge gaps where the paint is missing. then he has some weird paint gashes on his snout.

The Sculpt... Here's where the Horsemen pulled a very ballsy move full of BS. The Horsemen didn't do a new Torso for Fang Man. They reused the Scaly body (Not that you'll notice unless you strip Fang Man... Which, BTW DON'T. It's a pain in the ass to put his shirt back on.) and made the shirt look like he has fins on it poking out the back AND a plug to extend the neck. This forces Fang Man to be in a permanently crouched pose to recreate his look!
3.0 

Articulation:
Standard MOTUC Articulation, though the Ab Crunch is rendered useless due to his shirt. If you stand Fang Man, you'll see his scaly abdomen and risk a partial unfastening of his tabs. (That's bad!!) He has an unintended additional Point of Articulation on his neck (the extension plugs in to the normal neck and the head plugs into the extension). While the head and neck rotate, Fang Man cannot turn his head sideways.
3.5

Accessories:
Fang Man has 3 Accessories and Two of them don't belong to him. (The Sword of the Ancients from the Masks of Power episode) and the Time Wheel from the Episode Fang Man appears.the Time Wheel is the Accessory that lost paint in Fang Man's hand. Sadly, it looks cheaper than I'd expected. I think I need to locate the shop of whoever made a 3d printed wheel of time to replace mine.
The Third Accessory is some sort of Cattle Prod.
4.0

MYAAAAAH!!
Overall:

Fang Man gets a 3.5 as his score. He lost a lot of points due to the sloppy paints on mine. Basically, if you have or get a better Fang Man, then you can be assured that if I had gotten yours, then he would have scored Higher. In a way he's more useful for what he has than for who he is.

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