>>10752575Mezco is for people who want to buy 1/6th (Hot Toys, now InArt) but
>dislike the MCU costumes/race changes to the characters (can't argue with that desu, I'm swapping heads around in many of my figures as well; I won't have some jogger on my shelf)>don't want to spend 300$+ for a single figure>want to get more figures and put them in dynamic posesSo I get the appeal. But for me, they're too overpriced for what they are. I'd rather buy one HT and put it in a museum pose rather than gamble with a Mezco and hope that it'll turn out good. I've heard too many times tales such as
>as long as you don't move the arm up too much it's okay>don't touch it and it's fine>arm broke off the moment it was movedand so on. With 1/6th I expect that most of them can't be put in any wild poses, but the realism makes up for it. I stay away from figures with pleather too, just to be safe. With these Mezcos, the realism isn't there, so the lack of "playfulness" makes them useless to me.
I live in the EU, so I also get hit with customs. Whereas with 1/6th there are Chinese stores that sell them and undeclare them so I don't pay taxes, there aren't any that do it with Mezco. So in my case a single Mezco costs me the base price + ~40$ in shipping, then another 25% in taxes, which comes up to around 200$, which is 2/3rds of a Hot Toy. So I held off and never got into them, even though I think a couple of those figures look pretty cool.
The one figure I POed is Doom, and that's because Doom's one of those characters I buy in whatever scale/format. I still think he's not worth the money, but it's Doom. I also POed a King Conan due to FOMO (missed the previous ones) but I'll most likely cancel him. Seeing the reviews of the previous figures, and just how flimsy it looks for 100 (base price) + 40 (shipping) + taxes, just turned me off it. I'd rather hope and wait for an official 1/6th Arnie Conan from InArt or something.
