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Kaustic Plastik Lon Chaney As The Phantom Of The Opera Figure Deluxe Version Review
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00:00Exploring the Paris Opera House's catacombs for their newest collectible.
00:04Here's a look at the caustic plastic Long Cheney The Phantom of the Opera Deluxe Edition 1-6th Scale Action Figure.
00:09The Phantom of the Opera
00:39The deluxe version includes a detailed reproduction of the church organ, complete with sheet music, hat, inkwell, and silver jar.
00:46Finding out the caustic was handling the Phantom from the 1925 film was music to this guy's ears.
00:52First, I'd like to thank the folks over at Caustic Plastic that did provide this early sample.
00:56Now, the one that was sent over to me was actually the deluxe version.
00:59The deluxe version of the Phantom is going to actually also come include with his church organ.
01:02If you don't have that space or you don't have the budget, there is also different versions of the Phantom available.
01:07The standard version of the Phantom is going to come include with the figure you're currently seeing right now, as well as some swappable hands.
01:13He's pre-ordered right now on their site for €290.
01:16If, though, you would like to get at least the one that has the organ,
01:19the deluxe version that we're going to be looking at in this review is right now pre-ordered €495.
01:24Or if you would like to go all in, the exclusive version is going to have the deluxe version's accessories.
01:30So it's going to have, of course, the church organ, but it's also going to have the music stand,
01:33and it's also going to have the viola.
01:35Not the violin.
01:36The viola.
01:36A little bit more of a deeper, richer tone.
01:38But again, we're going to kind of get down to all the things that come include with this version of the Phantom,
01:42and then you guys can decide for yourself.
01:44I can provide links down below, certainly in the video description.
01:47Taking, as we always do, though, the tape measure, and let's just see how tall, long Cheney stands.
01:51And then we'll get down to, of course, the gruesome details.
01:54Phantom of the Opera is going to stand at 11 1⁄2 inches in height.
01:57But that's going to translate to a figure that's 29 1⁄2 centimeters tall.
02:01So starting with the basics and a display base.
02:04In fact, actually, just before we look at the display base,
02:06let's walk our way over here and look at the index cards that also come include with Cheney.
02:09First, she gets herself a black and white watercolor paint of Long Cheney as the Phantom of the Opera.
02:15Just an iconic look to the character.
02:17Cheney was certainly responsible for many monsters on screen,
02:19but one of the more classic, more recognizable faces, as disfigured as the face may be,
02:24would be that of the Phantom.
02:25On the back, though, we get an actual note from the team over at Caustic Plastic.
02:29We are delighted to introduce a truly extraordinary production
02:32that encapsulates our commitment to quality and craftsmanship.
02:36Between the months of January 2024 and May 2025,
02:40we embarked on a journey to create a limited quantity of 700 meticulously crafted pieces
02:45that exemplify our dedication to excellence.
02:48We extend our deepest gratitude to our customers who have continually supported and believed in our vision.
02:52Your trust drives us to constantly push boundaries and create products that go beyond expectations.
02:58Thank you for being an integral part of our journey.
03:01Art direction, Fabio Veresi.
03:02Production manager, also Fabio Veresi.
03:05Sculpt 3D, Inigo Gill.
03:06Master paint, Daria Barbera.
03:08Outfit was the KP team.
03:10Artwork, Giada GSD.
03:12And licensed from the Long Cheney Enterprises.
03:14Even if you don't necessarily look at it from the back,
03:18certainly seeing it from the front would be a nice little way to display along with Cheney.
03:22Also, as well, you get a Caustic Plastic defective.
03:25Any issues that you may have, you can certainly reach out to the Caustic Plastic team and they'll hook you up.
03:30One thing I do also really like is the fact that this Phantom of the Opera does also have trackball rolling eyes.
03:35You simply would just detach.
03:36I know I kind of get ahead of ourselves.
03:38Just detach the back of the figure's head and you can move around the rolling eyes from there.
03:43This does also show you on the back how that basically works.
03:45I'll show you guys all of that in a second.
03:48Let's, as mentioned, talk a little bit about the display base.
03:50If you're familiar, though, with the Caustic Plastic brand and all the figures that kind of fall within that company,
03:56obviously you're probably familiar by now with the circular display stand that we've gotten.
04:00From the few that we have looked at here on this channel,
04:02I think it would probably be safe to say that the display base has not changed much at all.
04:06On the bottom, we have Action Deluxe figure.
04:08And we have Infinite Stature designed in Italy.
04:10Soft, rubberized feet on the bottom to prevent any scratching on surfaces.
04:15Of course, they also now add a print on the top that sort of gives us a cobblestone walkway.
04:20And then on the front of that, we also have ourselves a placard done in gold that says the Phantom of the Opera.
04:24If you're also really familiar as well with stuff that we're getting from Caustic Plastic,
04:28you would probably already know right away that these figures also have a magnetized foot.
04:32So you can attach them onto the display base.
04:34It's not that you really would want to hold the figure up by that.
04:37But at least, though, you got yourself a magnetized display base.
04:41The only one thing I would say, though, about the display base being the thickness that it is,
04:45if you have other sixth-scale figures around from other companies,
04:49also the ones that we're going to hear from Caustic will be notably taller.
04:52If that doesn't bother you at all, I do think it's a nice little touch
04:55that each of the characters do have their unique display stands pulled from the movie the same way as the characters were.
05:01Now, here's the thing that excited me the most with Caustic Plastic's announcement of the Phantom of the Opera
05:04was that the figure was actually going to come and include the church organ.
05:08Now, the organ is, though, only available with the deluxe version and the exclusive.
05:12So if you really don't feel the need to have something so large like this,
05:15simply just opt out of that and get the standard release instead.
05:18Now, the difference, though, between the two prices is the deluxe version is going to be selling for €4.95 on their site
05:24for $55 more or €550.
05:27You're essentially getting the same organ.
05:29You're getting all the same following accessories that we're about to have a look at.
05:32The thing that's going to be different, though, is you're also going to be getting a display base that has a carpeted top.
05:36You're also going to get a musical stand to hold the notes.
05:38And you're also going to get a viola that the Phantom will be able to play.
05:42If you don't need necessarily those things, again, just choose to go with the deluxe version.
05:45But the deluxe version does give you this glorious-looking organ.
05:51Now, the organ does have a couple of different parts that have to go together.
05:54I will say right away, it's extremely heavy.
05:57Before we actually kind of pick things up, though, let's pick up some slightly smaller, lighter things.
06:01First of all, you get yourself a little inkwell.
06:03Inkwell has been cast here in all black plastic.
06:05You also get as well-included feather.
06:07The thing about it, though, is when you put the feather into the inkwell,
06:10it makes it very top-heavy, and it's going to fall over.
06:13So, for example, if you want to put it right in the middle of the organ, clearly it's just going to fall off.
06:18However, though, caustic plastic clearly thought of that.
06:21By adding a magnet on the bottom of it, you may be able to see, as the light's kind of hitting it,
06:25see this little circular shape?
06:27There is an embedded magnet on this corner for the inkwell,
06:30and in the adjacent corner, there's also an additional magnet to hold the silver pot.
06:35So, with that in mind, if you take the inkwell and you put it right there,
06:38in fact, actually, as you probably saw this, the moment you put it down,
06:41it goes right to the place where it belongs.
06:43Then take yourself the feather and slide it back into the inkwell,
06:46and now it's not going to be going anywhere.
06:48The same rule applies as well when it comes to the silver cup.
06:51The silver cup gloriously sculpted here in a shiny gunmetal gray.
06:56And while you may not be able to see anything in the top,
06:58you probably wouldn't be able to see as well on the bottom of this.
07:01Underneath this rectangular felt, there's actually an additional magnet.
07:04The cup itself actually would hold fairly well on its own.
07:08It not necessarily needs, really, a magnet.
07:10But if you take the magnet, you find where the magnet belongs,
07:13which is kind of right in the back there.
07:15Now you've got, again, a place where all these accessories can be displayed on top of the organ,
07:19and you have no worries at all that they're going to be falling off.
07:23What I'll actually do, too, is I'm going to just take the well off here.
07:26Let's just reach across the front here and just grab off the cup,
07:30because I also want to show you guys kind of how the organ comes together.
07:33Before doing that, though, of course, you also get yourself the musical book.
07:37The book does have not only some of his musical numbers,
07:40but also you get a couple of notes from the phantom himself.
07:43These are mostly all separate from one another,
07:46so you can easily just take off the ones that you want to use.
07:48You can decide which one you want to have facing up.
07:51So for me, myself, I would really like to have the musical sheet facing on the top.
07:57And then this would basically just go on to the stand like this,
08:00where if you get yourself the exclusive version,
08:01you basically just get yourself the actual stand itself,
08:04and that can just go right there.
08:06The book is really well made.
08:08It does have kind of a real, obviously, for the fact it does also flip open,
08:12there's a real-world look to it.
08:14I really do like this a lot.
08:15Now, of course, this has to go somewhere,
08:17so you get yourself the standy, the little kind of podium piece.
08:21This will just basically, if you look at this,
08:23the way it attaches, it doesn't really even so much attach,
08:27but this part is angled like this.
08:28So when you put it on top of the organ, it's going to lean back,
08:32and it's supposed to.
08:33Then, of course, you're going to take yourself the musical book,
08:35and you'll just kind of open it up to the page that you want to find.
08:39Of course, not drop the pages in the process.
08:41And you can just have it displayed that way.
08:45Now, that also is just,
08:47that's just the organ with the top of it dealing with,
08:49dealing with the top of it.
08:50Now, let's look at the bottom.
08:51The bottom is, again, if you look at this,
08:54I would want to say that this is like a resin piece.
08:56It's heavy.
08:58There's also a felt bottom to this as well,
08:59so you don't have to worry that this is going to necessarily be scratching.
09:02Now, this is actually going to go this way,
09:04because these are, of course, all the pedals.
09:05And there are two rectangular, not even so much rectangular,
09:09because one side is a little,
09:10kind of more like a triangle,
09:11and this side here is more of a square.
09:13But that lines itself up,
09:15and you just fit that in place like that.
09:17The last thing we'll look at before we kind of pick up the organ
09:19is the bench.
09:21The little bench area will just basically go over top like that.
09:25And then you can have a place now for the Phantom to sit.
09:28Already, right away,
09:29you can see how much space this is going to be occupied.
09:31And as we kind of just move everything out of the way,
09:33I want to show you guys first what also the bench looks like.
09:36It really is well painted.
09:37I mean, I would imagine, like,
09:38all these pieces have been hand-painted.
09:40I know the Phantom certainly was.
09:41I mean, just the attention to detail in all of this.
09:43You can see, like, the way that the buttons have
09:45kind of pushed down the fabric around it,
09:47and kind of the groove where the Phantom is going to be sitting.
09:50Of course, you can take yourself the Phantom,
09:51and we'll just go ahead and bend his legs like this.
09:55Kind of just bend his knees.
09:57And obviously, if you get him in a much better pose
09:59than I've got him right now,
10:00you can just take yourself the Phantom of the Opera
10:02and sit him down on top of his seat.
10:04You may want to even pull back the seat for that.
10:06And then you can just be playing the organ that way.
10:09Make sure everything's kind of sat up here.
10:14There we go.
10:15And you can just have the Phantom display that way.
10:17Obviously, you may not want to be displaying him
10:18where you're looking at the back of the figure all the time.
10:20Although, with the gruesome side of his face,
10:22that might be probably a good idea.
10:24Let's just go ahead and kind of move everything out of the way.
10:27We'll also take the Phantom of the Opera.
10:28We'll kind of come back to him in a second.
10:30I did also want to show you guys really the size of this organ.
10:34We'll just kind of move everything out of the way.
10:36We'll, of course, take his pedals and just slide them back a bit.
10:39This organ is very heavy.
10:41It's hard to really kind of be able to express this in the review,
10:44just how heavy the actual organ is.
10:46It does have, again, a felt bottom to this,
10:47so there's going to have no scratching on surfaces.
10:49Just to look at the details, though,
10:51you can see how each of the individual ivories have the white
10:54and how well-painted the black is in there as well.
10:57Of course, all the knobs are there along the top
10:58and just a nice wood grain they've done to the top of the base as well.
11:02If you flip this around, though,
11:04the organ is just as well-finished as it is on the front.
11:06Again, you've got this nice kind of wood grain
11:09or kind of like a wood grain that they've done to the back of the organ.
11:12It's very, very large and very heavy.
11:15If you are one, though, that likes to display your figures inside of glass detolfs,
11:18I would recommend right away,
11:20don't go displaying the organ inside the detolf.
11:23I can't think, though, that the glass shelf would be strong enough
11:26to be able to hold the weight of this organ.
11:28Between that and, of course, now you've added the Phantom along with it,
11:31I think there's just so much weight that's going to be going on this.
11:34This would be certainly something I would better recommend.
11:36Have the figure displayed along with the organ,
11:39maybe on a tabletop or a wooden bookcase.
11:42Something that's going to hold the weight
11:43because it's hard to kind of see this in a video like this,
11:46but the weight of the organ, I would imagine,
11:48is not going to be able to be held properly, securely,
11:51inside of a glass detolf.
11:53You may want to stay away from that altogether.
11:55To help the Phantom so you don't stay too far away from him,
11:57the figure has as a web gift-only item
12:00a PVC mask that can cover over his face.
12:03Now, this is a limited run of only 200 worldwide.
12:06In other words, whatever version you decide to get
12:09of the Phantom of the Opera,
12:10it's only going to be the first 200 customers
12:12that are going to be eligible to get this mask.
12:14The mask is consisting of many materials,
12:16so, of course, you've got PVC plastic
12:18making up the majority of his face,
12:19a more thinner material meshing
12:21that covers over his disfigured mouth,
12:23and along the top, there's a stretchier nylon material.
12:26This is the thing that's going to wrap
12:27along the top of his head.
12:30It's a really well-painted mask.
12:32I would not likely display the Phantom
12:34all the time with the mask.
12:35I already know how gruesome he looks,
12:37but it certainly has something to be displayed
12:39along with the figure.
12:40It's such a nice-looking collectible piece.
12:43To put this on, though, the Phantom's mask,
12:44for to put the mask on the Phantom's face,
12:47simply just kind of put the material on the top here
12:50and then stretch the mask down.
12:52The one thing, though, you will want to be careful of
12:54is scraping of the paint.
12:56Now, the figure's face is hand-painted,
12:59and my one worry would be
13:01is this area of the mask right here
13:03is maybe over time going to start
13:05to scrape the paint on his forehead.
13:07It hasn't obviously happened yet
13:08with the few times that I've done this.
13:10That's my only real worry,
13:11is that that may scrape,
13:13depending on how, again, frequently
13:14you're going to be putting over top
13:15of the figure's face.
13:16I think the face is, though, so iconic.
13:18Who would really choose to have the Phantom
13:20always displayed with his mask?
13:22But again, I love the fact that they include
13:23that as an available option.
13:25Something also that's available for the Phantom,
13:27the figure does also come in clue with his hat.
13:30Now, the hat is designed specifically
13:32not to fit on the figure's head.
13:34So, like, if you're trying to put it
13:35on the figure's head,
13:36you'll realize right away
13:37it doesn't match the shape.
13:39Instead, though, it's more to be designed
13:41to be displayed alongside,
13:42maybe on the side of the organ, for example.
13:45Unlike, though, the mask,
13:46the hat had a little more give.
13:47There is no give at all for the hat.
13:49It's made of a very hard, rigid plastic.
13:52It looks the part, certainly, though,
13:53and I can understand, certainly,
13:55why they would have not wanted to have this
13:56as something on the figure's head.
13:57I mean, just as more of a display piece
13:59than anything else.
14:00Not necessarily, though, a display piece,
14:02but the figure does have a few extra pieces,
14:04some extra wrist pegs that you can swap out
14:07so if any of them happen to get broken
14:08or lost along the ways,
14:10you've got an extra four pegs to work with.
14:12Speaking of extra things, though, to work with,
14:14the figure has quite a lot of swappable hands.
14:17What they've done differently, though,
14:18with the hands of the Phantom,
14:19most hands tend to be where they end at the wrist.
14:23So, of course, the peg, if you believe it,
14:24would go right here,
14:25and then the rest of this section
14:26would be just part of the form.
14:27That would be for the rest of the figure.
14:29This time, though, they've done differently.
14:31They actually have the wrist as part of the hand.
14:33It means that there's a little limitations
14:35when it comes to hand rotation,
14:37but you can still really rotate the hands.
14:38You'll kind of see what I mean.
14:40But for hand options,
14:41you get yourself a pair of relaxed pair.
14:43You get a pair of relaxed hands.
14:44You get a couple of hands
14:45that are more like gestured hands.
14:47You get another one that's really good.
14:50Actually, there's a few of these,
14:52like this one and this one,
14:53that are really good and suitable for displaying
14:55to be played along with the organ.
14:56So you can just pretend like he's strung along the keys.
15:00You also get, as well, this more closed grip hand.
15:03And, of course, he kind of has the monster hands
15:04on the ends of his forearms.
15:06Swapping out the hands, though, by the way,
15:08just kind of roll up the sleeve for the Phantom.
15:10You can kind of see, though,
15:11as we move things around.
15:13He still has the poseability.
15:14Don't get me wrong.
15:15He may not have, though,
15:16as much as other figures
15:18that tend to be just a hand
15:19that goes on top of a forearm peg.
15:21But I think he can still do quite a lot of things
15:23with the Phantom's hands.
15:25Just to swap those hands out, though,
15:26we're just going to go ahead
15:27and grab and pull off from the peg.
15:29It may be good, as well,
15:30to kind of roll up the sleeve
15:31just so that you get full access to the peg.
15:34And then you just want to plug it back in place.
15:36Now, again, if you're having any issues doing this,
15:38one thing, though, about the pegs
15:40is that they're very small.
15:41So as best as you can do,
15:43just kind of roll the sleeve up
15:45as far as you can get it
15:46and then kind of just twist the hand
15:47back onto the peg
15:48and then kind of roll the sleeve back over that.
15:51It's swappable easily enough,
15:53but the thing about it, though,
15:54is just with the pegs being smaller,
15:55you may have to kind of move the sleeve up
15:57in order to kind of get to where you need to go.
16:00Let's move everything out of the way, though,
16:01and get a closer look at the Phantom of the Opera.
16:03Now, I did say earlier into this review,
16:05and it seems like it's been a while back
16:06that we kind of started talking about this,
16:08the figure does have trackball eyes.
16:10I love the fact that they actually included
16:13a trackball eye system on the figure
16:14because I don't even think really it needed it.
16:17For what good they've done
16:18for the sculpting of Lon Chaney
16:19from the classic 20s film,
16:21I don't think it really even necessarily needed,
16:23but it's just, again,
16:24a few extra bells and whistles
16:25that make this guy a spectacular pickup.
16:28So if you're looking at the head sculpt, though,
16:30for the Phantom of the Opera,
16:31no more classic of a face for Lon Chaney
16:34than, again, the 1925 film.
16:36A lot of this really did rely on, like,
16:39wires and things to pull back his face.
16:41He never really had much in the way
16:42of prosthetics back then.
16:43Lon Chaney was a master of disguise.
16:46The face, though, certainly encapsulates that.
16:48You get the mangly-looking teeth
16:50on the top and the bottom,
16:50really dark, discolored areas around the eyes,
16:53pulled back, forehead there also as well,
16:56and he's also got the ball spot
16:57in the back of his head as well.
16:59Now, to get access, though,
17:00to the trackball eyes,
17:01you'll hold on to the front of the face,
17:03and you'll basically just pull off the back.
17:06The back, like everything else, though,
17:07does have magnets attaching the two,
17:09so you don't have to worry about pegs,
17:10you don't have to worry about anything.
17:12They're easy to remove,
17:13and then, again, to put back
17:14on the back of the head,
17:15so it's easy to reattach it.
17:17If you look at the inside, though,
17:19you can kind of see
17:19where the trackball eyes would be.
17:21These little joysticks,
17:22as I reach around to the back here,
17:24as I move the eyeball around,
17:26you can see it easily looks up, down.
17:28You can also move it back and forth as well.
17:30Now, the first time I will say
17:32that I got the Phantom out of the box,
17:34there was a little bit of more stiffness
17:37to the ball joint,
17:39or to the joystick on the back.
17:41I found that I really had to kind of force it
17:43for it finally to free up,
17:45and it might just be the way
17:46it came out of the factory like that,
17:47but once, though, you free it up,
17:49you can get a lot of cool poses,
17:50so if you want to have, like,
17:51a side eye look for the Phantom,
17:53you just kind of bring the eyes around like that,
17:55bring the other eye
17:56kind of somewhat leveled up here.
17:58There you go,
17:59and you can have the Phantom looking sideways.
18:02Super cool.
18:03Again, we're going to go ahead
18:04and just take the back of the head
18:05and just attach it back in place,
18:07and that's all that's really needed.
18:09Paint on this guy,
18:10being for hand-painted,
18:11just phenomenal.
18:12I think they've done such a nice job on this.
18:14For the rest of, though,
18:15the Phantom's outfit,
18:16of course, he does have the cape
18:17that covers over the majority
18:19of his tuxedo underneath.
18:21Now, this can be really removed
18:22if you want to.
18:23How it really works
18:24is there's arm holes here on the sides.
18:25You basically would just drape them down the arms,
18:27just bring the arms up, for example.
18:30You can also really pop the head off, too,
18:32but I found it was just as easy, though,
18:33if you want to just kind of
18:34bring these down the arms.
18:37By the way,
18:37the interior of the cape, though,
18:38you just see the amount of work
18:40that went into this.
18:41So the inside is kind of more
18:42of a shinier satin material,
18:45while the outside is
18:46a little bit more of a matte finish.
18:48The cape has a natural flow
18:49and drape to it.
18:50Of course, it does have the higher collar,
18:52so you can bring that up also as well
18:53if you prefer.
18:54But yeah, if you did want to remove this,
18:55it'd just be a case of
18:57sliding this down the figure's arms.
18:59Or again, like,
19:00you can also just pop the head off, too.
19:02Like, you want to do that?
19:03We'll do that.
19:03We'll just pop the head off.
19:05Just bring these down the arms.
19:08Just like that.
19:09Just like that.
19:11And you can just take that off altogether.
19:12That's if you choose, though,
19:14you want to have the cape off.
19:15Some prefer, though,
19:16to have the look of the phantom with it on.
19:18And then we'll go ahead
19:18and get the ball joint of the head
19:19back into the socket of the neck.
19:22So again, we'll kind of line everything up.
19:24Just re-correct the collar.
19:26And that's basically what he would look like
19:28then without the cape.
19:29I think most people generally
19:30would want to display
19:31the Phantom of the Opera
19:32really with the cape on.
19:33But it is, though,
19:34a look that you can pull off successfully.
19:36Everything, though,
19:36on the Phantom still feels finished.
19:38Everything is well-seamed
19:39on the back, though,
19:40of his tailed tuxedo.
19:42And then it also gives me
19:43a chance as well
19:43to show you guys
19:44the work that went into
19:45doing the vest,
19:46the actual buttoned-up shirt
19:48on the front
19:48where you can see
19:49the individual snaps,
19:49and, of course,
19:51the Phantom's bow tie,
19:52which may just need to fix that up
19:53just a little bit.
19:55Yeah, it's just a really
19:56well-sculpted figure,
19:57even to the point where,
19:58like, you've got tailored pants
19:59that are tight to the frames.
20:01And if we roll up the pants as well,
20:02you can kind of see
20:03the sculpting of the shoes
20:04that went in there as well.
20:06Just, again,
20:06a great-looking...
20:07Just...
20:08If you are certainly a fan
20:10of the 20s Phantom,
20:11I don't think there could have been
20:12a better figure released
20:13on the market to this day.
20:14Now, for the figure's articulation,
20:16it probably would have been the best
20:17to kind of leave the cape off,
20:18so it gives me a chance
20:19to kind of show you guys
20:19the articulation on the Phantom.
20:21So his head's going to be
20:22on a ball joint,
20:22but as you already had saw,
20:24the head is actually,
20:25and the neck is one piece.
20:27So collectively,
20:28you can still fairly freely
20:30move the head around
20:31for the Phantom.
20:31Down, up,
20:32you can twist it, of course,
20:34back and forth as well.
20:35As for his arms,
20:36his arms come out.
20:38I wouldn't necessarily sell
20:39the idea that this figure
20:40is able to move
20:41at a full T-pose
20:42or 90-degree angle.
20:43In fact, when it comes
20:44to the Phantom's articulation,
20:45I feel like he comes
20:47a little less than 90,
20:48perhaps more closer
20:49to 45 or 50.
20:51The arms can move
20:51forward and back.
20:52No issues.
20:53Seams there.
20:54There's a double hinge
20:54on the elbow there as well,
20:56and the hands rotate.
20:57Now, again,
20:57we saw sort of where
20:58the attach is.
20:59Attach is further down.
21:00So one thing that's nice, though,
21:01is it gives you
21:02a clean, unfinished,
21:03like seamless, seamless look
21:05where the hand is just
21:06a continued sculpt
21:07for the rest of his arm,
21:08even though technically
21:09the arm now begins
21:10right around here.
21:11The hands rotate
21:12all the way around.
21:13There's still a fairly
21:14good possibility
21:15that you can move
21:15the hands up and down
21:16and, again,
21:17you can rock them
21:17back and forth as well.
21:19The upper torso
21:20for the Phantom
21:20is going to be
21:21on a bowl joint.
21:22There does seem to be
21:23like a little bit
21:23of additional padding
21:24that they've added
21:25to the torso
21:25just to kind of
21:26beef him up a bit.
21:27The legs do split out.
21:29Now, when they split,
21:30though,
21:30you can kind of feel
21:31right here
21:32that the legs start
21:33right around this
21:34section here.
21:35So it does kind of
21:36look like the legs
21:37are a little lower down,
21:38but being the fact
21:39he's also wearing himself
21:40like dress pants,
21:41I don't think
21:41that's a bad thing at all.
21:42The legs move forward.
21:43Of course,
21:43they move back.
21:44There is a little bit
21:45of a swivel
21:46at the top of the thigh.
21:46Not much, though.
21:47Double hinge on the knee.
21:49And, again,
21:49you've got your
21:49articulation here
21:50and an ankle rocker
21:52as well.
21:52Boy, oh boy,
21:54what a great-looking
21:54Phantom of the Opera.
21:56Long Cheney,
21:57I know,
21:57certainly has been
21:58known for many
21:59film roles,
22:00but one of the
22:00more classic,
22:01one of the more iconic
22:01is certainly
22:02the Phantom of the Opera.
22:04I think, certainly,
22:04when it comes to
22:05what Caustic Plastic
22:06has done here,
22:07a true service
22:08to the character's legacy.
22:10The fact that you get
22:10as many things
22:11as you get,
22:11and the fact that
22:12there are different
22:13version classes
22:13of these figures as well.
22:15So if you don't
22:15necessarily need the organ
22:16and just don't have
22:17the space,
22:18or maybe word as well
22:20about the weight of that,
22:21you can choose only
22:22just then to get
22:22the standard release
22:23of the Phantom of the Opera,
22:24where it's going to come
22:25with the accessories
22:25that we then looked at
22:26in this part of the review.
22:28Of course,
22:28if it comes with the jacket,
22:29it's going to come.
22:30The only thing
22:30you may want to jump on,
22:32though, right away
22:32is if you guys are interested
22:33to get yourself
22:34the Phantom Mask.
22:35Again,
22:35this is a web gift
22:36only item,
22:37and it's only 200
22:38of these available.
22:39So if this is something
22:40that you want to display
22:41with the Phantom of the Opera,
22:42jumping on them right now
22:43would probably be
22:43the best bet.
22:44In the meantime,
22:45though, again,
22:45the standard version
22:46is going to have
22:47the basic Phantom of the Opera
22:48with the swappable hands.
22:49The deluxe version
22:50that we looked at
22:51in this review
22:51is then going to be
22:52accompanied by the organ.
22:54And then if you want
22:54to go all in,
22:55the exclusive version
22:56is going to come
22:56with the organ,
22:57but it's also going
22:58to come include
22:58with the display base,
22:59the music stand,
23:01and the viola.
23:02The viola basically
23:02is still from
23:03the violin family,
23:04just a little more
23:05of a deeper,
23:06richer sound,
23:07something that the Phantom knows
23:08would resonate
23:08along the hallways
23:10of the Paris Opera House.
23:11Just such a great figure.
23:13Now, again,
23:14like Caustic Plastic
23:15have a few monsters
23:16planned in their,
23:17of course,
23:17the future.
23:18The Phantom of the Opera,
23:19I think,
23:19is really a good start
23:20for that.
23:21It's one of those figures
23:21that I don't really think
23:23gets appreciated enough
23:24when it comes to figures
23:25and collectibles.
23:26There's only been
23:27a few companies
23:27that actually have done
23:28a Phantom of the Opera,
23:29but by far the one
23:30that we got from Caustic Plastic
23:31would clearly be the best.
23:33I really tried
23:34to make it work
23:34by bringing back
23:35the organ
23:35so that at least
23:36the Phantom of the Opera
23:37could play us out
23:37as it rotates
23:38on the rotisserie.
23:39Unfortunately,
23:40though,
23:40just with the size
23:41of the organ,
23:41not to mention
23:41the additional
23:42bulky weight to it,
23:43my poor black
23:44tiny turntable
23:45just wouldn't be able
23:46to cut it.
23:46So, unfortunately,
23:47we have to 86 the organ
23:48and the Phantom
23:49will have to spin
23:50on the rotisserie
23:51on his own.
23:51This at least
23:52gives you, again,
23:53a chance to see
23:53what the standard release
23:54is going to offer you
23:55from Caustic.
23:56Everything that you're seeing
23:57and in addition to that,
23:59you're going to get
23:59still the eight
24:00swappable hands,
24:03sculpt with the movable eyes,
24:05the black tuxedo,
24:06the white shirt,
24:06the purple scarf,
24:07the black cloak,
24:09not to mention as well,
24:10the figure is still
24:10going to have
24:10the magnetic display stand.
24:12That's going to set you
24:13back at €290.
24:14If you have the space,
24:16though, available
24:16and you have
24:17a bigger budget,
24:18the deluxe version
24:18that we certainly looked at
24:19in this review
24:20has all those things,
24:21including as well,
24:22of course,
24:23the church organ,
24:23the black hat,
24:24the musical score,
24:25the set of letters,
24:26the inkwell,
24:27the silver jar,
24:28and still has
24:29that magnetic display stand.
24:30$55 more
24:32is the asking price
24:33if you do want to
24:33choose to go
24:34with the exclusive version.
24:35That's going to give you
24:36everything that we
24:37mentioned in this review
24:38as well as the big,
24:39larger,
24:40elaborate display base,
24:42the musical stand,
24:43and the viola,
24:44which again,
24:45is just a member
24:45of the violin family.
24:47So you can choose
24:48for yourself
24:48where your budget sits
24:49and how much space
24:50you have to work with.
24:51I think though,
24:52still,
24:52if you're a big fan
24:53of the Phantom of the Opera
24:54from the original 20s film,
24:55this is a definitive piece
24:57to have on your shelf.
24:59Now again,
24:59I can provide links down below
25:00in the video description
25:01that will take you right over
25:01to Caustic Plastics website
25:03and choose from there
25:04which version of the Phantom
25:05you want to get.
25:06If though you are interested
25:07and would like to get yourself
25:08the Phantom's mask,
25:09just know though
25:10that that's a web gift
25:11and it's available
25:12with only a 200 limited quantity
25:14available worldwide.
25:16A big thank you again
25:17to the folks over
25:18at Caustic Plastic
25:19that did provide this sample
25:20of the brand new
25:21Lon Chaney
25:21Phantom of the Opera
25:22Deluxe 1-6 scale figure
25:24that we had the chance
25:25to have a look
25:25in this review.
25:26What do you guys think
25:26of this figure?
25:27Let me know down below
25:27in the comments section
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