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K-T Review: TWD Gas Mask Zombie

K-T Review: TWD Gas Mask Zombie

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When they’re trying few can usually match McFarlane, and Jack is no exception. Both muscle and fabric are well-detailed, if not always faithful to the source material. Slim is covered in detailed armor, with textures galore.

Cincinnati Slim here is pretty accurate to his second death, stabbed through the left eye, look closely and you can see the tool mark on the socket. Pretty accurate, aside from his skin needing to be a leathery brown. Rivet counters in the house!

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Articulation is a funny thing. There’s articulation that works, I.E. G.I. Joe, or Takara’s Microman. Then there’s the kind that makes you say “what the fuck was the point?”. McFarlane Toys has long been a…..proponent.. of this latter style. In the past it was not uncommon for a McFarlane figure to be touted as having articulation, but in truth it was merely a joint “necessitated” by construction. That’s not to say McFarlane Toys doesn’t know how to do good articulation, they just tended to choose not to. The Walking Dead figures have not gone untainted by McFarlane’s odd concept of articulation, but things have improved from the articulated, but-really-more-or-less pre-posed series 1 figures.

Cincinnati Slim here comes with some kind of weird neck articulation I don’t know the proper nomenclature for, ball and pin/joint shoulders, hinged elbows, cuts at the cuff of the gloves for wrists, something weird that I guess technically is a ball joint at the hips, hinge knees, and ball jointed ankles. Everything works, more or less. You can get a couple of shambling poses out of him, but Zombie Viper he is not. It’s mostly the fault of the not-unsightly hip joints that are only slightly less useless that the ones Hasbro used on their Iron Man 2 figures, but I digress…

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