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It was my mistake - I didn’t bother to research the fig much, I just randomly saw it at BB and said sure I’ll grab it. At first glance I thought the mask did look a bit weird (especially the mouth part) but at this scale I didn’t care much about it. But what really got me was the thought the mask was removable. I opened the flap and didn’t even think it was molded on despite the extra heads - THE MASK IS THE POINT OF THIS VERSION!
Anyways, I just got home and opened him up to be confronted with the horrible reality. I had the Cult Classics version back in the 2000s (RIP Tower Records and their great collectibles section...) and remember that mask being pretty good at the time. My only gripe then was the straps being clunky.
But almost 20 years later and they couldn’t just keep it a separate piece? And why o why do they insist on crudely painting hair in flesh tone to mimic baldness? They went to through the trouble of sculpting different heads, surely they could’ve gotten his hair thinning a lot better. And lastly, how hard is it to have a consistent hairline on all the heads? there are varying degrees of receding ones and then the masked head has a perfectly straight hairline - I tried to capture all these issues in my one pic above.
Big fail on NECA’s part. Maybe I can find some random eBay seller in Asia making accurate scale masks for this?
