Just got these guys.
Was only going to get Echo, but I couldn't stand not having a box onto which to put his perch, and I this Jojo was on sale so fuck it.
The Jojo, I'll be honest, is a little wibbly. He was the first figure I opened, and he had me a tiny bit worried. His plastic quality isn't what I expected; he's got sharp edges and rattles a bit, kinda like a Gundam model kit. Also, the first time I transformed him, his left shoulder just disassembled itself in my hands.
Finally, going from gorilla back to cube is a touch on the fiddly side; his arms feel like they're about to break whenever I try to slide them along their rails, and his cube mode doesn't feel anywhere near as solid as I'd like, unless I'm doing something wrong.
On the plus side, his engineering genuinely surprised me, and after a drop of superglue to keep his shoulder together, he's a lot of fun. As he is one of the earliest, and, when he was made, most complex figure in the line, most, if not all of his flaws can be attributed to learning pains, and I can overlook them. The only genuinely bad thing I can say about him is his arms. They require too much force to convert into either mode, and they're not as posable as I'd like.
Echo, on the other hand, I can't sing its praises loud enough. He might very well be one of the best transforming toys I own, and I own a lot. He's basically perfection in plastic form. His plastic quality is WAY THE FUCK better, his transformation is a blast, his cube mode is solid as fuck, his wings amaze me with how posable and expressive they are, and how much they can do with ultimately very few joints, and I can't get over all the tiny engineering flourishes, like how his head fits *just perfectly* in cube mode, or how all the tabs and slots that hold him together are perfectly disguised by his sculpting until they're needed. I know I'm sliding into shill territory, but he's a solid 10/10, GOAT
