Spirit Halloween The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leatherface Sidestepper | #spookyspot 2023
Spirit Halloween The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leatherface Sidestepper | #spookyspot 2023
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00:00 Now there's a pretty woman that knows how to dance.
00:02 Here's a look at the Spirit Halloween, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leatherface Side Stepper.
00:08 [music]
00:27 [slash]
00:31 Always watching slashers?
00:33 Show off your incredible taste in horror movies when you get the officially licensed Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leatherface Side Stepper.
00:39 Watch him come to life as he sways his signature chainsaw in the air.
00:43 If you consider yourself a horror buff, then this decoration is a must-have.
00:47 As Leatherface leans very obviously to the side, I'm going to grab myself my tape measure and see how tall the Side Stepper Leatherface stands.
00:54 Now you could have gone the route of either ordering this guy online from Spirit's site, which I think at the time was $32.99,
00:59 or if you were lucky enough to have a Spirit store in your area, you could have gone to a store and paid the $45.99 Canadian.
01:05 I ended up doing the latter.
01:07 Leatherface, though, in this case, actually stands about 11 inches in height, or it's going to be about 27.5 centimeters tall.
01:14 Leatherface will have to take a little bit of a side step over in order to free up a little bit of space to look at the earlier looked at Trick or Treat Sand Side Stepper.
01:23 After this review I'd actually done, after I finished the review of the Sam, my daughter had confiscated Sam,
01:28 and for a while I couldn't even find where he was, until eventually I asked her.
01:32 I asked her a couple of times and she was like, "I don't know where he is. I don't know where he is."
01:36 Until eventually I found that she put him inside of a big chest.
01:40 That's where Sam's been this whole time.
01:42 Sam, luckily now, will be able to come out for Halloween along now with the Side Stepper Leatherface,
01:46 and the figures are about the same, as of course they also have the same functionality built inside their bodies.
01:52 To get Leatherface to actually move, two things are required on your part.
01:56 First, you have to obviously take the figure out of his packaging.
01:59 Then you'll have to remove that plastic restraining piece to prevent the battery power from working.
02:03 Hopefully though, you're lucky enough to get one that hasn't already had that plastic piece removed,
02:08 and kids haven't been frequently touching the button on the front.
02:11 Then you may have to change the batteries that are inside.
02:13 By the way, the batteries are three AAA batteries, so they're fairly inexpensive.
02:17 The batteries are also located on the back or on the bottom of the figure's feet,
02:20 along with an on and off switch.
02:23 Now, you'll have to install batteries here, and you'll have to install them here.
02:26 Strange, really, that they have to go in two separate places.
02:29 But again, you have your off and your on, and then right at the back,
02:33 right around here, was the restraining plastic piece that, as you saw at the beginning of this video,
02:37 I already popped that out.
02:39 But now that it's already switched to on, all that's really required on your part is to press the button here on the front.
02:44 Now, you may be asking yourself, "Why would you have even left the paper still there?
02:47 It says press on and off." Just so I know, and just so I can show you,
02:51 that the button where you're going to be pressing is right here.
02:53 Before, of course, we do that, let's get a closer look at Leatherface as the Pretty Woman.
02:57 For a smaller version of him, and actually, it looks pretty good,
03:00 I've always been kind of more interested, I feel, in the Pretty Woman design of Leatherface
03:05 than the original Killing Mask.
03:06 Something to be said about blush and rouge, and not to mention, of course,
03:10 the eye shadow that he has all around the skin mask, I think works better, I feel,
03:14 for a creepier-looking Leatherface.
03:16 And he's dressed to the gill as well. Dressed to the nines, they say, I think.
03:19 The figure does have a tie, first of all.
03:22 The tie, I actually thought for a second had a wire frame in there, but actually realizing it now,
03:26 it's just the way they put a stitch line right there, sort of gives it almost this illusion
03:30 that there's an actual wire built inside the tie. That's not the case at all.
03:34 I'm not even sure really how he ties the tie in the first place.
03:37 It actually looks like he just stapled it to his shirt.
03:39 And the overall figure has some pretty good padding right here.
03:43 Obviously, there's mechanics. There's going to be a wire built into the arms, for example.
03:47 And you can really feel he's pretty spindly down below when it comes to his legs.
03:50 He's got his jacket on. Fairly well tailored, I would also feel, as well, for the jacket itself.
03:55 And again, all in all, the Leatherface looks pretty good.
03:59 Honestly, Sam was also a really good-looking sidestep or two.
04:02 Now, he would have relied more on the fabric material of the burlap sack.
04:06 Leatherface, on the other hand, is actually using just a plastic face.
04:09 He has, though, padding, as I already mentioned. If you were to look inside here,
04:14 he's got a little bit of cotton batting, but most of it is actually kind of hard,
04:18 especially right around here. He does have, of course, the larger feet.
04:22 Luckily, he does have also the plastic on the bottom of his feet.
04:24 Not only does it serve the purpose of storing and housing the batteries,
04:28 but also with the plastic feet, it gives him a lot more stability when the figure's moving around.
04:32 Now, his arms themselves, the hands are tanned really weirdly on the one side,
04:37 and not nearly enough on the other. I don't know really the reasoning why they put so much spray tan
04:42 on one side of the figure's hands and then left it so barren on the other.
04:45 He's only got just a little bit here on his fingers, and a whole lot more of it on this side.
04:49 He also has one bare patch, and I'm not sure by looking at the other Leatherfaces
04:53 if they're all consistently like, arid like this, where there's a little bit of paint missing on his hand.
04:57 But the chainsaw itself looks like it's been busy.
05:00 There's blood splattered all across the teeth in the front and the back of the chainsaw.
05:04 And of course, like in the movie, it's sort of more that greenish-yellow color.
05:07 There is a little arrow sticker here. Now, I think it's supposed to be there.
05:11 It doesn't really seem to serve much purpose. I suppose you could probably peel this off,
05:16 but it looks like it's quite securely attached onto the chainsaw itself.
05:19 All little chipped away pieces of paint are on the top of the chainsaw.
05:23 And Leatherface is actually holding it quite well, as hopefully he should,
05:26 because the moment you press the figure, he'll actually start cycling through the sound effects of the chainsaw,
05:31 and you'll also hear kind of grunting as well.
05:33 Now, the thing about the sidesteppers, though, is while pressing the button, it's going to move back and forth.
05:38 I'm kind of illustrating this before we actually press the button.
05:41 It's going to move back and forth. It's going to make the sound effects.
05:43 If you are one that just gets annoyed by you have to wait it out before this thing finally shuts itself off,
05:48 you can, at any given point, press the button again to turn it off.
05:52 So if you're like for myself, for example, my daughter was always pressing the button on the feet of Sam,
05:57 I could always then go back to it and turn it off.
05:59 And I'll maybe bring back in Sam so you guys can see how it actually sidesteps.
06:03 But what I am going to do, though, is I'm going to press the button here on the top of his feet.
06:06 [chainsaw sounds]
06:09 It is very obviously quite loud.
06:11 [chainsaw sounds]
06:17 And just to turn this on the side so you guys can see as well,
06:20 he does sort of, as I could best describe, a little jig as he's moving his chainsaw back and forth.
06:26 [chainsaw sounds]
06:30 And it actually does as well go a long time before it eventually does shut off.
06:33 Now, as I already mentioned, if you did, say, press the button accidentally,
06:37 or somebody in your house keeps going up and pressing the blasted button,
06:41 if I do it right now again,
06:43 [chainsaw sounds]
06:44 you can go back and press it again to turn it off.
06:47 Which is, I like, one function that should really be included with anything that has audio.
06:52 I can't stand things that have music or audio clips added to it,
06:56 and you literally just have to wait it and run its course before it eventually just shuts itself off.
07:01 Sliding though back, Leatherface, we're going to bring back in Sam that we looked at before.
07:05 Again, I've already done the review of Sam, so we're not going to really cover off territory there.
07:08 We're pressing the button right there.
07:10 Different this time because you can hear Sam's giggling away.
07:14 [chainsaw sounds]
07:15 Plays sort of a... it doesn't even really sound like trick or treat either.
07:20 It sounds almost even like something from Nightmare Before Christmas.
07:24 But again, at any given point, you can go back and turn it off.
07:27 I like these.
07:28 The thing about them though is that they're $45.99 a piece here in Canada,
07:32 so they are a little on the more expensive side.
07:34 I think they're decently detailed.
07:36 I mean, really from like the lower half, he looks more like a stuffed animal than he does anything else.
07:40 The plastic head sculpt I think is well painted,
07:42 and I think it captured a decent likeness for Leatherface,
07:45 even though he is a little bit shorter in stature.
07:48 He is holding, of course, the chainsaw that he does wield back and forth.
07:51 The way that they sway sort of work exactly the same.
07:53 I would imagine underneath, if I was to strip away the foam batting and the costume,
07:57 that you probably would see a frame underneath that looked identical with one another,
08:01 if you are lucky enough to find these in stores.
08:03 You know, again, if you're a Texas Chainsaw Massacre fan, they're kind of fun.
08:07 On their own, if they were just on their own for $45.99 doing absolutely nothing,
08:11 like if they were just doing what they're doing right now,
08:13 I don't think they would necessarily be worth the $46 for them.
08:16 The fact that actually Leatherface does move back and forth does sound off, of course, his chainsaw.
08:21 That's kind of a fun little piece.
08:23 Not something, of course, once you've done it two, three times, or in my case, eight times,
08:28 I think after that you pretty much have had your fill with it.
08:31 But again, the good thing about them, whether it be Leatherface or even Sam from before,
08:35 is at any given point, at any given time, you can go back in and turn them off in mid-sound,
08:40 and that's always a good thing.
08:42 I was finally able to get that arrow sticker scratched off the chainsaw.
08:45 I think it was more there just to tell you which foot you're supposed to press on Leatherface to turn him on.
08:49 Even though, again, there's a big circular piece of cardboard that literally says "press on and off" on his foot.
08:55 All right, maybe to be fair, if that piece of cardboard was to come off,
08:58 you'd only have really two choices to choose from.
09:01 At least the sticker on the chainsaw tells you right away without having to have a 50/50 chance.
09:06 The Leatherface, though, as small as he is on stature, at least does deliver some pretty good audio.
09:11 In fact, actually, we just recently, well, I guess not so recently, we looked at the Leatherface Spirit Halloween statue,
09:16 and that also had some pretty equally clear sound.
09:19 The sound, of course, of him revving his chainsaw, not to mention all the grunts and mumbling that he does in the background,
09:25 is quite clear on the sidestepper.
09:28 Some could maybe very well say that $45.99, $46, that's a bit steep for a sidestepper,
09:33 and you know what? I probably would agree with you as well.
09:35 Chalk it more up to the idea of impulse buying.
09:38 You go into Spirit Halloween with the idea in mind that you're only just going to browse,
09:41 you're only just going to browse, but you always end up walking out with a bag,
09:44 and then heaven help you, you end up having a 20% off coupon.
09:48 Well, right away, that sealed the deal, and I got the sidestepper Leatherface for myself.
09:52 Now, I may very well have also picked up a couple of other sidesteppers.
09:57 We may be looking at those in upcoming reviews, but what do you guys think of the sidesteppers?
10:00 Do you think, first of all, that $45.99 is a bit steep for the fact that you get yourself a Leatherface that sways back and forth,
10:06 and you look Mumbles and Rebs's chainsaw, or you think on average, that's a good price?
10:10 Let me know what you think of them down below in the comments.
10:12 Actually, by the way, have you been collecting any of the Spirit Halloween sidesteppers?
10:16 We looked at the Sam from last year for Halloween, and then this year, of course,
10:19 we will be looking at Sam and a few others also as well.
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10:54 [spooky music]