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Jada Toys Hollywood Rides Robocop & 1/24 Scale '86 OCP Ford Taurus Review
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00:00Read. He needs a car. Here's a look at the Jada toys. This is the Hollywood Rides RoboCop and OCP Ford Taurus.
00:16Dead or alive, you're coming with me. Show off your love for the classic RoboCop franchise with the new figure and car set from Jada.
00:22The RoboCop figure stands 2.75 inches tall and the OCP Ford Taurus features moving wheels and functioning doors.
00:30I'd buy that for a dollar. Actually, I paid several dollars, but I finally got my hands on the Jada Toys Hollywood Rides RoboCop and OCP Ford Taurus.
00:37You could really, though, thank Amazon. They had a sale going on where they had marked down the set for around 15%.
00:42I don't know really what it was in the beginning, but what the price was going for, I couldn't pass on the chance to finally add this to my collection.
00:49Jada Toys in the past has been knocking on the park, especially when it comes to die-cast cars of this size.
00:54Speaking of which, though, we're going to be bringing in a couple of cars for comparisons,
00:56but let's get things going underway with taking, of course, the tape measure, which is somewhat of the same color as the Taurus.
01:03And let's get things going. I don't know about you, but after seeing the classic 80s film of RoboCop, I also wanted to own a Ford Taurus.
01:09I don't know how many people really can say that. They really wanted to own a Ford Taurus.
01:13Anyways, though, for the tape measure, we're going to measure to the back of the bumper, to the front of its battering ram.
01:17The Taurus is going to be, in lengthwise, about 8 inches of that.
01:21It's going to translate, though, to a vehicle that's about 20 centimeters long.
01:26Yeah, when it comes to Jada Toys, I really do prefer this size.
01:29It seems to be the size that Jada Toys experiments more with when it comes to their vehicle releases.
01:34As a couple of examples I can bring in right now, here's first what the Taurus looks like, along with kits.
01:39Bringing in also Christine.
01:41Again, the larger scale, I mean, some collectors really do like to collect the 118 scale.
01:46I honestly think the smaller scale is really where Jada Toys has been doing the best.
01:50Here's also, as well, the DeLorean. I don't know what time frame it came from.
01:53I don't know. Again, we're just going to move everything over here.
01:56Just, again, to give you guys a lay of the land and how many cool cars we've gotten from Jada in the past.
02:00Along with the Taurus, of course, you get yourself Robo.
02:03RoboCop here is all done using die-cast metal, so it's cool to detach and it has a good bit of weight to it.
02:08When you first take both the Taurus and RoboCop out of their box,
02:12you do have, of course, unscrew the screws on the bottom of them.
02:15That's the thing that's keeping both the car and RoboCop in place.
02:18You probably already saw it at the beginning of this review.
02:20So, like RoboCop, for example, I'm just going to, like, imagine this is what it would have looked like getting it out of the packaging.
02:26Unscrewing, of course, the two screws located on the bottom of the base.
02:29Freeze, then, RoboCop.
02:30And then he's happy to go where he needs to go.
02:33Unfortunately, though, the one thing I still continue to think that Jada's doing wrong when it comes to these display stands,
02:38in the fact that they aren't display stands.
02:40These are only really here to hold the figures in place so they don't rattle around in the boxes.
02:44But as you can see, though, RoboCop lines up perfectly to this display base.
02:48A good way of displaying the figure, had it not been for the fact that they have these extra little peg pieces.
02:53This is obviously the part that's going to have the screws sitting inside.
02:56But if they could find only a way to adhere this or have the figure mounted a different way,
03:01then at least if you took these out of the packaging, these would make for a very good serviceable display stand.
03:07You could have the figures displayed that way.
03:09A little small quip, I feel like, really, they need to fix.
03:13For RoboCop, though, for the size of what we get, I don't think it's really that bad of a rendition at all.
03:18I think one thing, though, that they land on, at least, is the different colors of, well, colors.
03:23The blues, the purples that RoboCop would have in the original film.
03:26So often, companies, when they do figures and collectibles of RoboCop, they tend to only make him silver.
03:31Jada Toys, though, has done a nice job of capturing some of the blues and the highlights that we see
03:35as the lights are bouncing off his armor.
03:37Now, funny, though, enough, irony is not lost on the fact that this figure can't actually sit inside the car.
03:43Peter Weller, also wearing the suit, could not sit inside the car.
03:46In fact, all the scenes in which RoboCop is sitting inside or getting out of the car,
03:50a lot of times it was just really the top of his armor.
03:52And usually, I think he was wearing, like, jogging pants or shorts.
03:55So you really never would see that part for Robo.
03:58But like with the film, there's no way, really, that RoboCop would be able to sit inside the car.
04:01You can't bend metal. You probably could bend metal.
04:03But then you would bend it in a way you'd never get it to stand again.
04:06The thing I liked for the attention to detail is that RoboCop does also come to clue with this Auto 9.
04:11The Auto 9, though, is plastic.
04:13So there's a little bit of more give to it.
04:15In fact, actually, you can see, like, his arms, for example, are more of a rubbery plastic.
04:19So it looks like they probably would have used the torso and the lower legs for die-cast.
04:24And then the arms themselves would have been done in plastic.
04:27All in all, though, a nice-looking RoboCop.
04:28Nice to be, of course, displayed alongside the Auto 9.
04:32Alongside the Taurus. The Auto 9's already in his hand.
04:34Getting, though, a closer look now at the OCP for Taurus.
04:37I think it's pretty close to what we see in the film.
04:40There are a few little things, like looking back at the film, that I would say aren't 100% correct on the Taurus.
04:46Mainly, though, I feel is the color.
04:48The color we get here is kind of really more of a matte black finish.
04:52I feel, though, in the film, the four Taurus is actually a really more dark, dark granite gray or gunmetal gray.
04:59I don't think it's nearly the black that we're getting here.
05:01There are, again, a few little things that I've noticed, like to go back and watch the film again.
05:05When RoboCop first grabs the keys and he drives up the ramp.
05:08It's always funny, though, when the car leaves the rampway.
05:10It always ends up sparking because it's grinding against the concrete.
05:13But when it goes up, though, and it's leaving away, you can see, though, on the side it says Taurus X.
05:19Taurus, I think, LX.
05:21That's something that, unfortunately, has just left off completely here for the car.
05:24Again, some things like this, you really need to add all the attention to detail.
05:29Because if this is the car that we're going to be seeing in the film, it also has to say Taurus LX.
05:33Something, too, I feel is that the hubcaps.
05:35The hubcaps, I think, come across more in gray in the film.
05:38Whereas what they've done here is they've just done the hubcaps the same colors as the tires.
05:42The tires, by the way, though, are not quite rubber.
05:45But they're a soft enough plastic that, especially if you're taking the Taurus and you're rolling it on the ground.
05:50Yes, it does, unfortunately, squeak.
05:52But the tires at least do roll.
05:55Some attention is also to detail.
05:56We see that there says Detroit Police.
05:59We also have the CAR 154 on the back.
06:01On the back, there is the license plate.
06:03I couldn't help but notice that the license plate seems crooked.
06:06It doesn't kind of look like it's too turned to the side.
06:09I don't know if the barcode is correct, at least in that configuration.
06:13But I think that actually is something that is in the film.
06:15Of course, you've got your taillights there on the back.
06:17They're using a translucent red plastic to accommodate that.
06:19You've got your translucent clear plastic, though, on the front for the headlights.
06:24And, of course, you've got yourself the bumper guard there on the front.
06:26This Ram, of course, is something that we also see in the film.
06:29It's probably one of the coolest things that make a Ford Taurus more interesting.
06:32If it wasn't for that, I mean, I had a friend that actually had a Ford Taurus.
06:35It didn't look nearly as cool as RoboCop's car.
06:38Of course, there are the sirens there also on the top.
06:40Those are done, of course, in the blue and the red.
06:43But let's open up things right now.
06:44Now, the hardest thing I found to open up on the Taurus was the hood.
06:48The hood does open, but you have to kind of get your finger on the corner of it just to catch it.
06:53It's super tight, and the door doesn't honestly open all that far.
06:57With the hood up, you can see that the motor is on the inside.
07:00There's no additional paint or anything like that.
07:02They only have just really relied on the plastic alone.
07:05The doors do open up.
07:07So, of course, you've got your driver's side and your passenger's side.
07:09Those both open up.
07:12A little, unfortunately, disappointing that the back doors don't open.
07:15Those are just completely molded shut.
07:17But you can see, like, the interior of the car.
07:20There's the keypad monitor that, of course, the police do use.
07:24RoboCop uses it as well.
07:26It might be a little bit easier to spin this around so you guys can see it from the inside here.
07:29It's got, of course, the steering wheel.
07:31Not really much in the way of paint.
07:32It's all really just black plastic.
07:35The other thing that does also open up, too, if we just close off the doors, is the back trunk.
07:39The trunk does open a little easier than it does on the front hood.
07:42Not really much way in the storage.
07:44I don't really know how much you'd be able to store inside of that.
07:47But at least it does open and close.
07:49I mean, it does look pretty good.
07:51It looks pretty close like it does in the film.
07:52There are just, again, a few little things that don't really read for me.
07:57Some of the, again, things is the fact that it just doesn't have, like, Taurus LX on the side.
08:01I mean, that's just a small thing.
08:02That's something that you only really notice when RoboCop is pulling away.
08:05The coloring, I think, of the car, I don't really think is as black as it really should be here.
08:09It should really be, I feel like, a really dark, dark gunmetal gray.
08:14I mean, even, like, borderlining, where it's more of a grayish black than it is a blackish gray, if that makes any sense at all.
08:19I don't feel, really, that it needs to be the matte black that we're getting here.
08:23The car does have weight to it, of course, that it does have die-cast.
08:25So, of course, you've got your die-cast for the main body of the car.
08:28The undercarriage of the car, though, is all done here in plastic.
08:31You've got yourself not rubber tires, but at least you have plastic tires.
08:34The only other thing, though, is that it does squeak a lot.
08:38I don't know if it really, I don't care enough, really, I think, about that to add anything to prevent the squeaking.
08:42It's not like I'm going to be rolling it back and forth all that much.
08:45I do also appreciate the fact that we do get ourselves a RoboCop.
08:48The RoboCop does look good, I think, size-wise, if he did really have the means.
08:52Let's just spin the car around here.
08:54If he had the available means to actually sit, I think the scaling of RoboCop matches to that of the car.
08:59Because I kind of initially thinking and looking at RoboCop, I was thinking, maybe that is too big.
09:04But if the legs were bent, I don't know, maybe he needed to be just a little bit shorter to sit properly in the car.
09:11It doesn't really matter anyways.
09:12RoboCop couldn't sit in the car in the movie.
09:14He certainly can't sit in the car when it comes to the Hollywood ride of release of him either.
09:17I'm glad finally to have the chance to pick up the RoboCop and the OCP for Taurus.
09:22It was a set that I know had been sitting online.
09:25Prices were kind of going really crazy for it.
09:26At one point, I was seeing it for like $45.
09:28Didn't really want to pay that.
09:30Some other listings have had it for $35.
09:32But then again, that's US dollars.
09:34Sure enough, though, I just happened to be on Amazon.ca.
09:36I was looking up other things.
09:38And I don't know why.
09:39I think I was just looking up Jada toys to see what they had available when it comes to the Street Fighter figures.
09:44And sure enough, I noticed that Amazon had the sale for the RoboCop and the OCP for Taurus.
09:48And I definitely did want to add to my collection.
09:50It was marked down at least so I could justify picking this one up.
09:54But I think really when it comes to collecting the Hollywood rides, more so the stuff from Jada toys and the die cast cars, I really prefer, again, like this size.
10:02This is really the size where we've gotten like the Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo, for example.
10:06We've gotten like Freddy Krueger's car.
10:07Those would be all things that we have yet to see really in the 118th scale.
10:11Smaller scale not only is good for the fact that we are getting the obscure cars, like Taurus, for example.
10:16But also, too, they're good accommodating for people that don't have a whole lot of space.
10:20If you don't have a whole lot of space on your shelf, but you at least want a replica of the car that RoboDrives in the film, the size that we get here is a much, much better, more accommodating size to add to your collection.
10:30Originally selling on Amazon for $64.44, which I thought was way too high for a 1.24th scale die cast car, they had then marked it down 16%, giving us the total of $53.
10:42I think it was like $53.
10:43Now, it was about $54.
10:45$54 still probably seems high for many, but I've seen listings of it online for around $40 to $45 on many online sites.
10:52That then is in U.S. dollars.
10:54So I had to kind of think in my head, okay, if that's going to convert to Canadian, then I'm going to have to worry about the shipping.
10:58I'm going to have to worry about the brokerage fees.
11:00I think it was still cheaper to go the route of getting it through Amazon.
11:04The RoboCop with, of course, the OCP for Taurus does, I think, look pretty close to the way it does in the film.
11:10Sticklers to detail, I'm sure, could easily nickel and dime.
11:13And some of the things that are maybe left off on the Ford Taurus, I think the one thing that kind of does bother me the most is the coloring of the car.
11:20If they had just maybe made it a little less black than what we're getting here, maybe more of a dark, dark, dark gray, add a few little scratches.
11:28Because like the Ford Taurus goes through a lot of crap.
11:30Every single time even that Robo leaves the precinct, that thing goes up the ramp way.
11:35Who designs, first of all, a ramp in a police precinct where every time a car has to go up it, it scratches the bottom undercarriage.
11:42But yeah, maybe scratching it, weathering up the car a little bit, maybe making it more of a dark gun mill gray than the black that we're getting here.
11:49I think it probably could have given us a better looking Taurus, but I'm still glad to finally have one and add it to my collection.
11:54What do you guys, though, think of the Hollywood rides from Jada Toys and the RoboCop and OCP for Taurus?
11:59Is this one that you guys have already picked up?
12:01The stamping, though, the copyright on the back of the box does actually say 2024.
12:05This did, in fact, come out last year, but it was just one of those things where I just didn't want to pay the prices of what they were selling for.
12:11I was kind of really hoping, holding out hope that they were going to be marking down in price.
12:15And sure enough, Amazon came through.
12:17Some would still say, man, you paid way too much for that.
12:19I'm still finally happy to have this one as part of my car collection.
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