Oct 15, 2012

It came from the Toy Chest: Finally it's longer than 2 inches!!

I am talking about Mekaneck's neck... Remember him? Twist his waist and his neck rose like a periscope...
Seriously Mattel missed an obvious joke by not giving Mekaneck the real name: Perry Scope...
Also they stopped the inevitable Phineas and Ferb "Where's Perry?" joke/reference I would have made with a picture...
Surprise! Whaddya' mean you're not excited?
You want it Longer? Give me a few minutes!

Well, The MOTUC version is finally here! And... he's REALLY Vintage... and I mean gaudy Silver boots and glasses vintage... Toygods, PLEASE Make a Snake Mekaneck like SMAA... cause I'm switching heads and necks faster than Toyguru can say robust! It's not that I HATE Vitnage Mek, it's just that I like his 200X Look better... 
He's 98.9% Vintage
Once we pop him out of the package we can see what he brings to the game.
See, Baby! Now I'm Bigger,Longer, and Uncut!
Stupid Vintage Blue Ring!!
 In a reverse Vintage Reuse Mek is the one reusing parts... He's sporting Stinkor's armor which was Mek's armor first in the 80s... Tri-Klops buck,  Vykor boots... Head, Mace and Neck(s) are the only things that are new.

Stinkor's Vintage Plug found a new home... Holes with nothing to plug-in bother me a bit...
So we should head into the review zone where 1 is crap like the Way Mekaneck sees himself and 5 is awesomeness made Eternian

Articulation:
Same old same old. Standard MOTUC Buck, nothing to add here... 4.5

Paint and Sculpt:
As I mentioned before the Sculpt is the same as plenty of previous stuff... We've seen all the parts before. His Neck looks a bit like the vintage version, but seems more MYP Like with slightly less detailing... (not 200X Toy-Like) I KNOW that most of the figure is loaded with Blastic, but mine didn't have any paint chips (yet)... 4.5


"What's your name again, honey? Tallstar? They should have called you SHORT STAR!!"

Accessories:
Club and 2 Neck Pieces... The Little one for that vintage Feeling, a longer one for a less Vintage feeling...
Tallstar has stretch envy right now... Must avoid any "Mattel hates POP and secretly call POP fans POOP fans" conspiracy theories...  Male Enhancement jokes... Wonder how big Extendar will be...

He doesn't HAVE Much... He never came WITH MUCH to begin with... Just a club... I wanted to compare the MOTUC and 200X Mek, sadly, the 200X one broke. Only his club became Mek's SECOND weapon! Now Mekky can Dual wield!
Now, going back to the main topic. Mek has 2 neck extensions which are stackable, but look off cause of the blue rings!
I'd say a 3.5 they could've used this as a way to give something extra to say, uh Marzo... or another Heroic Warrior lacking accessories *cough*Stratos *cough*


Devintagizing Mekaneck... makes him better in my book

Overall:
Mr. Neck gets a 4.17!! It's a high score, but could've been higher by giving him some more "oomph!" and by "oomph!" I mean taking elements form other versions of him and making him be something MORE than a vintage Replica... The long piece is a step in the right direction... (King Hssss would have benefited from longer arm snakes!)

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