NECA Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Ezio Auditore Action Figure
NECA Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Ezio Auditore Action Figure
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00:00 To say that nothing is true is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile
00:05 and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization.
00:07 Here's a look at the brand new NECA toys, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Ezio Auditore
00:11 Legendary Assassin.
00:13 From Assassin's Creed Brotherhood comes the highly detailed Ezio action figure with
00:34 improved articulation and updated paint.
00:37 Ezio Auditore stands at 7 inches in scale and has over 35 points of articulation.
00:41 The figure includes Captain's sword, hidden blades, crossbow, and interchangeable heads
00:45 and hands.
00:46 I guess it's hard to hide in plain sight when you're an action figure reviewer.
00:50 Speaking of reviewing action figures, just before we get a closer look at the new Assassin's
00:54 Creed Brotherhood Ezio Auditore, I'd like to thank the folks over at NECA toys that
00:57 did make this review possible by providing this sample we're going to have a look at.
01:01 Ezio is going to stand exactly 7 inches in height or the figure is going to be 18 centimeters
01:06 tall.
01:07 As for Ezio's accessories, the figure does pretty good for himself.
01:10 First he comes in clear with the Captain's sword.
01:12 I really like the way they've decorately detailed first the guard and the hilt of the
01:16 sword, wrapping it nicely here in a gold paint.
01:19 The handle has been painted well in brown with some additional gold on the ends of the
01:22 hilt and the guard.
01:24 The blade itself is a nice shiny finish of silver.
01:27 Careful though while removing this from the tray.
01:29 I don't know if you got the chance to actually see that at the beginning of this review when
01:31 I was unboxing everything, but when you do remove this just underneath the tray, if you
01:36 want to be like if you were to be pulling the blade up for example, his wrist blades
01:39 are actually just underneath that and they're not secured by anything.
01:42 So when you are removing the sword, just make sure that you don't happen to be tipping the
01:45 package at the time or you'll in the process of this unfortunately lose his wrist blades.
01:50 The wrist blades though, while being hidden inside the packaging, don't hide really in
01:55 plain sight.
01:56 In fact, you just basically slide them into the sides of his sleeves.
01:58 Want to see that right now?
01:59 Okay, I'll show you guys right now.
02:02 First the figure, I mean obviously you're going to want to probably change the hands
02:04 out anyways.
02:05 He does have a pair of closed fists right now on the ends of his forearms, but that
02:08 can be easily changed by the provided flat hands that he has.
02:11 Just a case of removing the hands from the ends of his forearms, replacing it then with
02:15 the relaxed hands.
02:16 And you do the exact same on the other side there as well.
02:18 I'm sure I'm probably only going to be changing the hands out anyways when we look at the
02:21 crossbow accessory.
02:23 Plopping those in place.
02:25 If you look at the side actually in the inside of his sleeve, just right where the cuff is,
02:29 there's actually a little open section there, a little rectangular square section.
02:33 Basically you're going to take the blades and you holster them in the sides.
02:36 Now you don't have to even have them as far as I have them right now.
02:38 In fact, actually the blades go at about there.
02:42 That's as far in as they seem to be going.
02:44 You can also do the exact same on this other side as well.
02:47 Likely going to be the way I'm going to be displaying Ezio when it comes to displaying
02:49 him on the shelf.
02:50 Though there are other strong contenders.
02:52 The figure, I mean not strong contenders, but the figure does also come included with
02:55 of course all the things that you'll need to hold the following accessories.
02:58 For the captain's sword, for example, he does come included with a gripping hand.
03:01 For the crossbow, he comes included with this hand, or I suppose you could technically use
03:05 this hand as well for holding the sword.
03:07 The plastic on the hands is soft enough.
03:09 It's pretty easy in fact to get the sword in his hands, although I seem to be struggling
03:13 a little bit doing it right now.
03:14 If you're having, by the way, any difficult time, you can easily heat the hands in hot
03:18 water and get him to hold it that way.
03:20 You can again use this also hand as well for holding the crossbow.
03:23 The crossbow basically just sits.
03:25 It just sits basically inside that open area and just fits around the thumb.
03:29 I guess more so this hand is a better suit for maybe the crossbow and then just the gripping
03:33 hand as I said before is better for the captain's sword.
03:36 We're just going to move all this off to the side.
03:37 The figure also comes included with a relaxed hand also as well, which I suppose also would
03:41 serve a good purpose for holding the crossbow if you decide you want to display it that
03:44 way as well.
03:45 This whole talk about talking crossbows.
03:48 One of my favorite accessories that come included with Ezio is the crossbow.
03:51 I don't suspect that Neck would ever consider doing a one-to-one scale.
03:54 I mean that kind of falls within the territory of real looking weapons, but I wish that some
03:59 company if maybe, I don't know, maybe on Etsy, there might be probably talented artists
04:03 over on Etsy that have designed a one-to-one scale Ezio Auditore crossbow.
04:07 I really like the look of this.
04:09 It doesn't have also any serviceable strand or a cording like that.
04:13 It's basically just all molded here in plastic, but the work of detailing to the top of it,
04:17 for example, you've got some nice gold on the side, some exquisite sculpting of silver.
04:21 It's a really nice looking crossbow.
04:22 I'd love to get my hands on a one-to-one scale of that.
04:24 The last of these accessories happens to be an unmasked or unhooded portrait.
04:28 The only thing I would really certainly say when it comes to this figure is I feel like
04:32 Ezio perhaps has too small of a head.
04:35 It's hard to kind of really see that when you're holding this in your hand right now,
04:38 but you'll see in a second what I mean by that.
04:40 This version of Ezio also does have the little, I guess it would be a bandana or a part of
04:44 his ponytail that comes off to the side, nicely painted here in red.
04:48 For what it is, it's a nice looking head sculpt, but if anything I would say, I think it's
04:51 a little too small.
04:53 The one that we get really out of the packaging, I'm first going to remove the blade because
04:56 I don't want to have that lost.
04:57 Just slide that out completely, put it off to the side.
05:00 The stock head sculpt for Auditore is the one that actually does have the hood over
05:03 top of his head.
05:05 Even then, I would say maybe the head is a little too small, but it proportions itself
05:09 fairly well because he has the hood over top of it.
05:12 It loses some of the fact that the figure's head sculpt, I feel, is a little bit too small.
05:17 You may be still able to see that he does have still a pair of eyes, in fact, actually
05:20 underneath the hood, although it's very shadowed over by the fact he has the hood over top
05:24 of it.
05:25 My preferred look of really displaying Ezio is what you're seeing right now, but if you
05:28 did want to change out the head sculpt, it's just a case.
05:31 When you are removing it, by the way, you keep the hood with the head.
05:33 It's all one piece.
05:34 You basically just pop this off the provided post.
05:37 Let me also just say, too, not only is the post peg really small, but you'd be surprised
05:42 to see how small the hole is on Ezio's inside of his head, for example.
05:46 It's especially hard when it comes to changing out the heads because when you get the unhelmeted
05:50 or the unhelmeted, the unhooded head, you can see really how small that hole actually
05:55 is.
05:56 Putting this on this peg was a very difficult thing.
05:58 In fact, it took me a while, in fact, to actually get it onto the peg.
06:01 I end up having to heat the head in hot water, and even then I'm having a struggle to actually
06:06 get this on the peg.
06:07 The problem with it is that the peg shifts around like a joystick, so you have to kind
06:11 of dowel it in.
06:12 You almost even have to twist it while you're putting it onto the provided peg.
06:15 Keep wiggling, keep twisting until eventually you get it on the peg, but honestly, it's
06:19 not the easiest thing to do at all.
06:21 Not that they could have really used a larger ball joint because really with the size of
06:24 the head as it is, it'd be impossible to get it on there.
06:27 I'm not 100% on there, but you can see, even with the 50% commitment that I've put into
06:32 putting the head onto the post, you can see, I don't know, it just seems like the head
06:35 is a little too small.
06:36 I mean, it may have also something to do with the fact he has such broad shoulders with
06:40 the way that they had done the costuming for the Assassin's Creed character, but it just
06:44 seems like his head is really too small when you look at the rest of the proportions for
06:47 his body.
06:48 Speaking of the rest of his body, though, really nice work on Nekka's part.
06:52 Got the collar there on the front nicely painted with the interior of that in red.
06:55 You've got some additional frill that's been added there in beige.
06:58 You've got the shoulder section there on the side.
07:00 This by the way is all a separate piece.
07:02 The strap itself, though, if I just move his arm out of the way, it allows this to, I mean,
07:06 obviously this isn't going to be going anywhere.
07:08 You've got the little cape there on the back of his body as well, but this is though all
07:11 a separate piece.
07:13 And I know when it comes to actually getting this guy articulated, I want to make sure
07:17 the head's completely on there.
07:18 I know it's not.
07:19 I know it's not.
07:20 I'm going to fix it in a second.
07:21 But yeah, this is a separate piece.
07:23 By doing it the way that they did, it conceals nicely all the additional articulation.
07:27 The articulation is, granted, still there, but when you're moving it, I mean, it hides
07:31 so well the fact that you have all the additional layers over top of it.
07:35 I just know that.
07:36 You know what?
07:37 I'm going to go back to the head that I had less problems with.
07:39 We're going to go back, I'm sure, to final looks.
07:41 When it comes to final looks of the figure, I'm going to only then put the unhelmeted
07:44 Ezio...
07:45 I say unhelmeted again.
07:46 I'm going to put the unhooded...
07:48 There we go.
07:49 Unhooded Ezio head sculpt when we get to final looks.
07:50 I'm just going to put this back on because it's the easiest of the two heads to get back
07:53 in place.
07:54 Now, that's not going to go anywhere.
07:56 Okay.
07:57 Come back.
07:58 We'll come back to that.
07:59 All the additional details, you can see he's got the little daggers there on the sides.
08:01 Again, the sashed belt there on the front.
08:03 Really exquisite detail that they sculpted in there as well.
08:06 Painted that nicely in silver.
08:07 You get the silver there on the gauntlets on the sides of his forearms there as well.
08:10 Those are nicely done.
08:12 Everything from the figure, from head to toe, other than really the head being the smallest
08:15 thing and I think almost too small for the figure's proportions, everything on the rest
08:20 of Ezio looks really good on this figure.
08:22 Okay.
08:23 So let's talk a little bit about the articulation.
08:25 Changing back the head because I know it was going to give me problems trying to get that
08:28 back in place.
08:29 The head's going to be on a ball post and with that, even with just the hooded piece,
08:33 the hooded head sculpt actually still gets decent levels of articulation.
08:37 You can rotate the head back and forth this way.
08:39 Up, down, and really by down, I mean, you get quite a lot...
08:42 I mean, it almost to the point where he tucks his face right into his collar.
08:46 The head also rocks back and forth also as well.
08:48 Now, again, talking about the way they've sculpted the figure, just so much concealment
08:52 of articulation.
08:54 The fact that when you're looking at it, it looks like just one seamless piece.
08:57 It's not really until you start to move the figure around, up and down, you can also move
09:00 it back and forth this way as well, that you see like Necca very cleverly hid a lot of
09:04 the articulation underneath the torso.
09:06 In fact, looking at it, it's not until you lift the top of his shoulder up that you actually
09:10 see that he has literally just a shoulder or a torso crunch to him.
09:14 So you can move the torso up and down this way.
09:16 The figure does also have a waist swivel there as well.
09:19 And when it comes to his arms, the arms come out at 90 degrees.
09:22 It is one thing that's a little bit more limited just because he's got the additional shoulder
09:24 piece over top of it.
09:25 That's as far out as his arms can really go, moving the arms forward and back.
09:30 One thing, unfortunately, though, is by bringing his arms as far forward, it sometimes does
09:33 crimp up all this additional softer plastic that he used for the shoulder piece.
09:37 He has a swivel in his bicep.
09:38 The figure does have a single hinge only on his elbow, which is a bit of a shame.
09:42 But for how much, though, they've sculpted into the arm and the bicep above it, it'd
09:46 be really impossible to get a double hinge happening in there anyways.
09:49 Hands rotate also all the way around, whatever hands you want to end up using for Ezio.
09:53 For the legs, now the legs are split, or more so the skirting that he has here, which again
09:57 is layered.
09:58 So you've got the front skirting there in the red, and then you've got the sides underneath
10:01 that underneath, all split on the sides.
10:03 So there's nothing really getting in the way of Ezio actually moving his legs.
10:07 Even moving him forward and back isn't a problem at all.
10:09 The legs do split out.
10:11 The figure does have, if I can lift his skirting up here, he has a slight swivel at the top
10:15 of his thigh.
10:16 The figure now does have a double hinge on the knee where he didn't have it in the elbow.
10:19 He has articulation where the boot basically meets the calf.
10:22 And then for his ankle articulation, he does have an ankle that moves back and forth this
10:26 way and an ankle rocker that moves this way as well.
10:29 And in case you are curious, if you want to get this guy in a pose, even though he doesn't
10:32 sadly come with a display stand, NECA tends not to be accompanied and includes stands
10:36 with their figures, he does have at least the benefits, the merits of having pickles
10:40 on the bottoms of his heels.
10:41 It's a nice looking figure.
10:43 The only thing I would say though, from Ezio's standpoint, and it may not have anything really
10:47 do with the way I'm going to be displaying the figure, because ultimately I think just
10:49 for Ezio, I'm going to be displaying him with the hood as my preferred look of the two head
10:53 sculpts.
10:54 The thing about it though, is if you are changing him back to the unhooded head sculpt, as good
10:57 as it may have been, as well as of a sculpt that NECA may have put to the figure's portrait,
11:02 I just think it's a little on the small side, especially if you're going to be planning
11:05 to use that as the defaulted head.
11:07 You may notice that he doesn't quite scale with the rest of his body.
11:10 As the review of the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Ezio Auditore Legendary Assassin is coming
11:14 to a close, just know though, we will be covering still the Assassin's Creed with the upcoming
11:18 Revelations Ezio Auditore The Mentor.
11:21 So make sure you're coming back to the channel though, to see that review.
11:24 This figure though, is nicely done here by NECA.
11:26 I think there's nothing really I would have changed really to the figure other than the
11:28 size of the head.
11:30 The head maybe isn't as noticeably unproportioned or out of proportion when you've got the hood
11:34 head sculpt in place.
11:35 It's likely going to be the way I'm going to be displaying the figure anyways, but if
11:38 you choose to have the unhooded head, I think you'll notice more so the fact that the head
11:42 seems perhaps just a little too small for the rest of his torso.
11:46 The accessories that they include are all nice touches.
11:48 The Captain's Sword, the crossbow, my favorite, or the go-to wrist blades are always a nice
11:52 touch.
11:53 Though be careful removing the Captain's Sword.
11:55 I almost took the Captain's Sword out of the tray without realizing that the wrist blades
11:59 were just underneath it.
12:00 And it wasn't just for just a quick glance down for me to realize that the wrist blades
12:05 were still there.
12:06 Had I tilted it up, I would have likely lost the wrist blades.
12:09 They would have ended up on the floor somewhere and they're pretty small.
12:12 The likelihood of them being lost would be quite high.
12:15 Big thank you though, once again, to the folks over at NECA Toys that did provide the sample
12:18 of the brand new Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Ezio Auditore Legendary Assassin that we had
12:23 the chance to have a look at this review.
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