![]() Even the off-color joke on the back has nice, clean lettering. In fact, I can’t find a single bleed on the whole figure! The dirty white wash of the shirt is perfect, as is the hot dog graphic. The white polka dots on his blue pants are all clean. Luckily for Spaulding, his paint ops are even better than his sculpt. However their final looks aren’t as great as they should be due to sloppy or bad paint jobs. For example, the Hasbro Jabba’s Palace Luke and Sideshow’s Fox Mulder are figures that have decent-looking, source-material accurate sculpting. He just looks so freakin’ awesome.įigures with decent sculpts are always left to the mercy of their paintjobs when it comes to the final presentation. However if you’re very much into stuff like Killer Klowns From Outer Space, and Stephen King’s It, then you need to grab him immediately. If you have problems with clowns, don’t buy this guy. This looks so much like Sid Haig it’s scary. The demented, goofy-ass, open-mouthed grin just captures the character so well, I’m amazed every time I set eyes on it. The head sculpt is simply a work of friggin’ art. The baggy clown pants, every crease and wrinkle in his shirt, the stubble on his arms, all the way down to his giant clown shoes: perfect. I cannot find a single fault in the sculpting of this character. This guy is nowhere near as complicated, or intricate in design as something like a McFarlane Alien sculpt, but damn. The NECA version on the other hand deserves no leeway, simply because it doesn’t need any. Besides the Professor figure, Spaulding was the only one that captured some of the essence of the source material, so I probably gave him a little more leeway. When I look back on the SEG review I did, I can’t believe I actually gave their Spaulding a rating as high as ** ½ in this category. The graphics and presentation on Spaulding’s card are really nice and use the movie’s poster as its main graphic as opposed to the floating heads montage found with the SEG cards. While the SEG figures also had clamshells, the plastic was kind of flimsy and easily damaged. Well that and the fact that this guy blows the previous SEG version out of the water. While the same body will be used on the upcoming regular release version, there are enough differences between the two figures that I felt this one was worth picking up. The first release is a Media Play/Suncoast exclusive Captain Spaulding. I’ve been thrilled with their work on the Hellraiser line all along, and needless to say after my sheer disappointment with the SEG figures produced a little while back, I was overjoyed that someone would be taking a new approach. This past year my new favorite company NECA, picked up the license to Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses, as well as the upcoming sequel, The Devil’s Rejects. ![]() However, when a true exclusive pops up in one of my areas of interest, I will give it a second look. For example, I have a few Master Chiefs from the Halo line, but I don’t feel the need to pick up a retailer’s exclusive version because they have the guy in teal or pink as opposed to green, red, or blue. I usually don’t go after exclusive versions of figures all that much, unless there’s something unique about the figure. Sean Teeter is back tonight with a great review of the NECA's take on theĮvil Captain Spaulding from House of 1000 Corpses.
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