- 3/7/2024
Hiya Toys Kong Skull Island Skull Devil Action Figure
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00:00 The island is hiding more than just giant apes.
00:03 Here's your look at the brand new Haya Toys Kong Skull Island Skull Devil action figure Exquisite Basic.
00:10 The Skull Devil from Kong Skull Island now joins Haya Exquisite Basic.
00:26 The story follows after the Vietnam War a group of scientists embark on an expedition to an uncharted island in the Pacific
00:32 only to discover the domain of a colossal Kong and must fight for survival in primitive Eden.
00:37 The Exquisite Basic series skull crawler figure measures a length of approximately 450 millimeters and a height of 150 millimeters,
00:44 faithfully recreating the intricate appearance and the colors of the character using original CG data from the film.
00:51 Just before we get down to the details for this primitive playmate for the primate,
00:54 we're grabbing the tape measure to see how long the Kong Skull Island Skull Devil stands.
00:59 Now this is also advertised online as the Skull Crawler.
01:03 So if you're having a hard time to try to pick this one up for yourself, it's actually currently on a pre-order.
01:07 Look up Skull Crawler, not Skull Devil, even though the packaging lists it as Skull Devil.
01:12 From one end of its tail to the front of its snout, the Skull Devil is lengthwise about 14 inches of that,
01:18 or it's going to be I would say about 36 and a half centimeters long.
01:24 Now depending on how high you want to have this, I've got the knees somewhat straight.
01:29 I also have it slightly leaning forward just because the length of the tail is going to cause a little bit of chaos.
01:34 It isn't going to be able to balance. Don't worry, it does have a wire frame tail.
01:37 But from its height stand, from where we have it standing now,
01:40 the Skull Devil or Skull Crawler if you will is about three and a quarter inches in height,
01:45 or it's about almost eight and a half, almost nine centimeters tall.
01:51 Thank you to the folks over at Haya Toys that did provide this sample of the Kong Skull Island Skull Crawler action figure that we could have a look at this review.
01:58 The figure is slated to release the first quarter of 2024, so we're living that right now.
02:02 He's slated to release and dropping with a $49.99 price point,
02:06 so the figure is going to set you back about $50 if you're looking to get one for yourself.
02:09 Speaking of primates earlier, here's what the Skull Crawler looks like along with not the one from Kong Skull Island,
02:16 because I don't think we've yet gotten ourselves an exquisite basic for that,
02:19 but here's what the figure looks like with King Kong from Godzilla vs. Kong.
02:23 Speaking of Godzilla, even though he really doesn't make an appearance at all in Kong Skull Island,
02:27 I think the battle would be quite short.
02:29 Here's as well what the figure looks like with the Haya Toys Godzilla vs. Kong exquisite basic of Godzilla.
02:35 What's happening right now is a bit of a balancing act because the Skull Crawler has quite a long tail.
02:41 You'll be happy to know that you don't always have to have the figure posed like this,
02:44 where he's always leaning forward like this.
02:46 The benefit though, at least, of the Skull Crawler is if you look at the bottom of the tail,
02:50 you'll see a couple of air holes indicating right away that you can at least twist the tail,
02:55 which I did do at the beginning of this review.
02:56 If you wanted to, you could in fact actually have the tail draped along the floor to help give it some additional stability,
03:02 or what you can also do as well is that you can put it in a little bit more of a creative pose,
03:07 and you can still have the means to balance the figure more upright, as I did do at the beginning of this review.
03:13 The tail, by "according" it, so to speak, does give him then a lot less to worry about with all the additional excess of the tail hanging out the end of it.
03:21 I do appreciate at least the fact that instead of actually putting in ball joints,
03:25 because I think in a figure like this, ball joints would just be way too small, and you'd have to have so many of them anyways,
03:30 I think just simply putting a wireframe in the tail was the simplest and the easiest route to go, and it certainly does get the job done.
03:37 Getting a little closer look at the front of the Skull Crawler,
03:40 the Skull Crawler certainly lives up to its name, as it has one big white painted skull on the top and the bottom of its face.
03:46 The white certainly does give it the idea that looking at it from the side at least,
03:50 you don't look right away and realize that there is an actual eye.
03:54 What you only really see is sort of a nasal cavity that kind of gives you the simulated look of an actual skull face.
04:00 Really cool design of the character.
04:02 Of course, in there, rooted deep within the plastic, you can see there's a tiny, tiny little eye that's painted quite well.
04:09 The teeth on the top and the bottom of the mouth, although they're very small in the inside of the top mouth,
04:14 but a lot longer down below for chomping down on prey.
04:17 What I also really like is the fact that Hayatoi's did sculpt in a tongue, but the tongue is made of a fairly soft plastic.
04:24 I really wasn't expecting that. I just thought it would be a hard plastic like everything else.
04:27 The teeth are much harder of a plastic than what the tongue is, but it's a very nice painted piece inside.
04:33 Of course, there is some posability. This does open and close.
04:36 We'll talk more about the posability in a second, but it has it in all the places where I think it needs to count.
04:41 The spine on the top, though, has some additional paint that isn't found anywhere else.
04:44 Well, it's found in some of the places, but a much more lighter variety of that.
04:47 You can see on the back of its hind legs, for example.
04:49 It's only legs, by the way. It does have some nice lighter white paint.
04:53 But then on the top, there's also a little bit of white just cresting the top of its spine, sticking out the top.
04:58 Some really nice texturing all across the entire body of this.
05:02 Mostly looking like it's been cast in a very dark, I would almost even say a greenish-dark grey.
05:08 You may be looking at that and saying, "I don't see the green."
05:10 I see just a little bit of a faint trace of green added, mixed in there within the grey.
05:15 But it's a very dark grey creature.
05:17 The undercarriage or the underbelly, for example, you can see some additional white or some additional beige that's been painted in there as well.
05:23 At first glance, it kind of looks a little like it's translucent plastic that they just painted over top of it.
05:28 But again, just looking a little more closer at it, it definitely seems to be more of an opaque plastic that they're using.
05:33 Really a nice, again, sculpted figure.
05:36 Again, it has all the articulation where you'd expect the articulation to be.
05:39 I mean, it's one of those cases where by not having, unfortunately, any hind legs,
05:44 it really has to support all of its weight, not only in the movie when it's battling Kong,
05:48 but also the fact that getting a figure like this, it's really hard to pull this off.
05:53 You might find yourself, a lot of times, balancing the figure.
05:55 It doesn't have any ways but benefits of having holes in the bottoms of its feet.
05:59 I think if anything, maybe Haya Toys,
06:01 now again, granted that you can turn the tail around and again, you can have it sort of resting as sort of a third leg for a tripod,
06:08 but I think it would have been nice if they could have done something similar to what they did with the Alien Queen.
06:11 Give it not just like a little supporting struts, just to kind of keep it upright.
06:15 I know obviously it'd be a little bit more, you know, sightly seeing, like a clear bit of plastic peg.
06:20 Just sort of a post hanging on the back of the tail.
06:22 But at least it would help to stabilize this.
06:25 Again, it does stand, but it stands with only the aid and the time of you just barely, like balancing it.
06:30 You have to do a lot of the balancing act.
06:32 What I ended up finding was, if you just brought one of the legs further forward,
06:36 and then you just sort of bring the tail around, bring the head upright,
06:39 it seems to do enough of a job of being able to balance fine on its own.
06:43 I definitely would be interested to get more than one of these.
06:46 Kong, at one point, I think battles a couple of these at one time.
06:49 I'd love to get my hands on more than one of these.
06:51 It's a really neat looking figure.
06:53 Now again, when it comes to the articulation for the Skull Crawler,
06:56 I'm going to start things first with its head sculpt.
06:58 The head is already on a ball joint.
07:00 It moves back and forth. It moves up. It moves down.
07:02 But then also, this section of the head does seem to swivel just a little bit back and forth.
07:07 Not a lot. Not a lot.
07:09 But just enough that you can kind of do a little bit of a wiggle.
07:11 The mouth does, of course, open and close.
07:13 The neat thing about it, though, is when you open up the top, it seems to force the bottom open as well.
07:18 So it sort of gives you a bit of a hinging act.
07:20 I don't know how they really have devised that.
07:23 They must have put some sort of hinge joint inside the neck,
07:26 that when you do open up the top of the head, it opens up the lower as well.
07:29 [imitates a ball joint opening]
07:31 As for the neck, now the neck is going to be on a ball joint as well.
07:34 So it moves back and forth. It moves up and down.
07:36 The back section here.
07:38 It looks like I'm handling a big giant shrimp.
07:41 The back of the section of the body, about, what, three quarters of the way over,
07:44 has a ball joint there as well.
07:46 There's a ball joint here, and then there's a ball joint right here before it.
07:49 The ball joints stop, and it resumes the rest of the way with a wire-framed tail.
07:54 For the legs, the legs are on hinge joints, or ball joints also as well.
07:57 So you can split the legs outward as well.
07:59 You can take the legs and move forward. You can move them back.
08:02 I mean, really, you could rotate them all the way around if you wanted to.
08:05 There's a swivel here for what would be the creature's biceps, I suppose.
08:08 There's also a double hinge on the elbow.
08:10 And then there's the articulation here where it counts, and its ankle.
08:14 Now the ankle not only hinges up and down, but it also rocks back and forth.
08:18 It's nicely painted.
08:19 I know I didn't really get a chance to really show you guys what the claw piece looks like.
08:22 A very long claw with a spike nail on the end of it.
08:26 This is all, by the way, very soft plastic.
08:28 And slightly smaller claw hands, or claw fingers, on the sides,
08:32 with one little one on the back to kind of give us a little bit of stability.
08:35 The problem I can only see down the road, in its foreseeable future,
08:39 is maybe with having everything resting on its legs like this,
08:43 it's going to start to develop looseness over time.
08:45 As it is right now, it balances.
08:47 But it only balances by moving a few things around.
08:50 You have to kind of, again, turn the tail around.
08:53 You could bring the tail completely straight, really, if you wanted to.
08:56 But that's going to cause problems where, really, you're going to have a lot more additional weight back here,
09:00 and not nearly enough of it from the front.
09:02 So it's going to have a little more of a balancing problem that way.
09:05 But if you have the tail turned, and you have the legs according,
09:08 and even if, really, you bring the head down just a little bit,
09:10 yeah, the skull crawler can balance perfectly fine.
09:13 And again, bringing back in Kong so you guys can see size-wise.
09:16 I think they sized him pretty good, too.
09:18 I mean, this creature is, what, about half the size of Kong in the movie?
09:22 I mean, it's kind of hard to really gauge it, too, because when they're attacking him,
09:25 you see so much longer of the creature than you actually sort of see how high it is.
09:30 But it's a really neat-looking creature.
09:32 And I think Hayato is done, once again, a great job on this.
09:35 So tempted I am. So tempted to get more than one of these.
09:38 At the very least, maybe a second one,
09:40 so I can have skull crawler skull devils on either side of Master Kong.
09:45 Now, I don't doubt when they were first designing skull crawler in Kong Skull Island,
09:49 they didn't have the practical elements in mind that this creature obviously had to have been able to move around on its own.
09:54 Whether you are designing this thing in CG or not,
09:57 this creature has to realistically be able to move like that.
10:00 And having the limitations of only having just its front hind legs has to be, of course, something that gets factored in into the movie.
10:06 A lot of times, we see this creature moving around with sort of dragging the tail behind it.
10:11 And even though it does lack the back hind legs, the tail sort of does then support the weight of the creature.
10:17 Something can be also done here with the articulated version of the skull crawler as well.
10:21 Although I have the figure displayed right now only on resting on its two front legs,
10:26 you could also just do the same thing that they do in the movie.
10:29 Just have the skull crawler dragging its tail behind.
10:32 And based in on that, the tail does also help to distribute some of the weight.
10:36 If you are planning to have the figure displayed like I have it displayed right now,
10:40 there's always the worry that down the road, the joints on the shoulders, the joints on the hinges on the knees,
10:44 and of course the angles may all start to develop looseness.
10:47 That it may not hold the way that it started to hold when you first took the figure out of its packaging.
10:52 Something that they could have also considered doing was releasing a clear post.
10:56 Something that Hai had also already done before with the Aliens Alien Queen,
11:00 where it helped to sort of distribute some of the weight.
11:02 So if you did want to have the figure displayed like I have it displayed right now,
11:05 solely just relying on those front legs alone,
11:08 then at least you'd have the clear post sort of supporting the weight on the back of it.
11:11 Still again, you don't have to have it displayed with its tail up.
11:14 You could have the tail just draped against the back of its body and supporting again the weight that way.
11:20 What do you guys think of the Kong Skull Island Skull Crawler?
11:24 Let me know down below in the comment section.
11:26 Did you guys think it was kind of a neat designed creature?
11:28 I still like the idea that this creature is walking around on only two legs and has the whole front of its face white.
11:33 So it does kind of look like it's just a walking skull.
11:36 Big thank you once again to the folks over at Hai Toys that did provide this sample of the exquisite basic Kong Skull Island Skull Devil or Skull Crawler.
11:44 We can have a look at this review.
11:46 This figure is slated to release the first quarter of 2024.
11:49 Anybody checking their calendar currently, I'm checking my calendar currently and still reminding myself that it's four years late.
11:54 I have to get a better calendar down here in the basement.
11:56 But if you guys are checking your calendar, we are in the first quarter right now.
12:00 So this figure should be dropping any minute for $49.99 for about a $50 figure.
12:05 That's going to scale great along with the already released King Kong from Godzilla vs. Kong.
12:11 What do you guys think of this figure? Let me know down below in the comment section.
12:13 And again, if you guys did enjoy this video, I want to throw it a like.
12:16 If you guys are loving the content you guys are seeing and would like to stick around for more,
12:20 we may be wrapping up right now our research on Kong Skull Island.
12:24 And it's a good thing too. Some of those big giant fish were kind of worrying me.
12:27 But while we are wrapping up things on the island, there are definitely going to be a lot more Hai Toys reviews coming your way, coming in the pipeline.
12:34 So make sure you're coming back to this channel on a regular basis.
12:36 As always, guys, thanks for watching. See you guys next time.
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