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Jazwares Stranger Things Demogorgon Figure Review
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00:00I can tell the Jazzwares took a trip to the Upside Down because they brought something back.
00:04Here's a look at new Jazzwares, Netflix's Stranger Things, Demogorgon with accessories.
00:22Get ready for the fifth and final season with the Stranger Things Demogorgon Upside Down collector figure.
00:26This authentically scaled 6-inch Demogorgon comes included with a display stand and swappable head sculpt.
00:32I think when this thing blooms, you may want to leave the room.
00:34No, no, no, no, don't leave just yet.
00:36Obviously, we still want to be looking at the new Jazzwares Stranger Things Season 5 Upside Down 6-inch collector figure of the Demogorgon.
00:42Yes, I will be condensing it quite a bit before I put that in the title.
00:45I didn't find this, though, in the stores, but I did find this on Walmart.ca.
00:49They have a very barren selection of these, actually, in brick-and-mortar stores.
00:53So I'm not really sure what's going on with the distribution, but Walmart still seems to be stocking them okay over on their site.
00:59The 6-inch Demogorgon will set you back a little less than $30.
01:03More exact, $29.97.
01:05Jazzwares, also leading up to the release of Season 5 of Stranger Things, plan to do a 4-inch scale line and a 6-inch scale line.
01:12If I can actually luck to find both scales, we'll be looking at them in upcoming reviews.
01:17But again, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, and I'm hoping, though, the people that just have left the room will be coming back, because, of course, I'm going to take the tape measure.
01:24Even though I did say already earlier that this figure is going to be of the 6-inch scale, the Demogorgon still pulls off about a 6-1⁄2-inch size, again, based at least on this head sculpt.
01:33Yeah, of course, it does have a swappable headpiece, too.
01:35And then with this configuration, it clocks in about 16-1⁄2-centimeters tall.
01:41For those that still stuck around, you'll see that the Demogorgon comes in clue with a display stand to the right and a swappable head sculpt to the left.
01:47First, we'll look at the display base.
01:49At first glance, though, when I saw this, I thought these were giant millipedes.
01:53Oh, I can't stand the sight of giant millipedes.
01:55And generally, they're usually in horror films.
01:57They always have these gross little things with thousands and thousands of legs.
02:02Millipede, I guess, has a million legs.
02:03But, no, it doesn't seem like that's the case.
02:06These probably look, if anything, like more roots that you'll see on the bottom barren terrain of, like, the upside down.
02:12It's a hollow base, as to be expected.
02:14I can't think that this would be a solid bit of plastic.
02:16And there is, though, a peg right here that can plug into the Demogorgon's foot.
02:20Now, it does, if you look on the bottom of it, only have one peg.
02:23I don't know why they chose not to have two peggles on both the feet, but it only has one.
02:28One thing I did also notice, too, is the type of plastic that Jazwares are using for these Stranger Things.
02:33I don't want to say is a cheaper bit of plastic, but it does feel like the quality maybe isn't right there.
02:40This peg, by the way, is that kind of brittle, the kind of plastic that if you put a lot of force against it will snap.
02:46And luckily, hello, come on in.
02:48So far, it hasn't snapped when I've put this on the figure.
02:51Again, if you want to just take the figure's foot, it just plugs onto the display base just like that.
02:57And now you've got to place, of course, the display to Demogorgon.
02:59The one thing, though, about it is where they've placed the peg.
03:02I would have rather, though, if they had moved it further to the edge.
03:05Just because the way that they've got it right here, right here, it means that you kind of have to have the Demogorgon almost taking a sidestep off the edge of the display base.
03:14Still, though, I can't fault the fact that the company does include a display stand.
03:18There's very few companies nowadays that are even doing that.
03:21The Demogorgon, though, will go ahead and just take the stand off right now.
03:24And, of course, it does also come to include the swappable head.
03:26This isn't really the head.
03:27I mean, for the marketing standpoint of it, it would be the least interesting head to go with if you want to keep this guy in the packaging.
03:33But they actually have packaged it with the blossomed head open.
03:36I just chose, though, for the beginning of this review to keep everything flap-wise shut.
03:41I mean, it's okay.
03:42I don't think there's many people that would actually display their Demogorgons with the flaps closed like this, unless you had multiples of these.
03:49If you had multiples of these, sure, you probably could have a couple of them with them closed like this.
03:53And then the other ones opened wide.
03:54Headscope, for what it is, isn't bad.
03:58It does have a little bit of paint.
04:00One thing I will kind of complain about when it comes to the paint, it seems like it's intentionally in only some of the areas.
04:06Now, generally, though, the molding of the plastic, I mean, dictates the fact that the Demogorgon has clearly done all here more of a lighter gray color.
04:13But then where they've placed the airbrushing of the purple seems so intentional, like it had to be on all the joints.
04:19So the paint person, obviously, that has a little spray can would go psh, psh, psh, psh.
04:25Some in the shoulders, some in the torso, and then some in the knees.
04:29I wish, though, that it was a little bit more sporadic, like it wasn't so intentional.
04:33The back is a little bit better and a little bit more believable.
04:36But it does seem so very specific to where that purple had to be.
04:40At least there is a little bit of paint.
04:42But I'd rather, though, if the paint was a little bit more spread out.
04:44If it had to be in the knees, for example, just have more of a gradualing.
04:48Now, I know that adds to the budget of how much that would cost to produce the figure.
04:51I mean, this is just so much easier that somebody could just psh, psh, psh, psh.
04:55I just wish, though, it wasn't so selective where they placed it.
04:59But one thing, though, I noticed also about the Demogorgon is it hasn't had it yet, but
05:03it seems like it's the start of really loose legs.
05:06I mean, you can see, like, the knees are a little on the more looser side.
05:08I did mention earlier, though, that the plastic, I don't want to say, like, feels cheap, but
05:12it kind of feels, though, it doesn't feel like the kind of plastic that it's a good,
05:17sturdy, durable figure.
05:18Like, it holds together generally quite well.
05:21But, like, the limbs, though, for the legs, I mean, you can kind of feel and even see.
05:25They're a little on the wonky, loosey side.
05:27And it hasn't yet got to the point where it can't hold its own weight.
05:30I mean, the possibility, I can't really fault the fact that they actually still pull off
05:34a double hinge in the knee.
05:35But it does feel, though, it's a little on the loose side.
05:39Now, I know this isn't the most enticing of the head sculpts to go with.
05:42So instead, what we'll do is just hold on to the torso and pop the head off.
05:46Speaking of popping, though, probably you may have noticed at the beginning of this review
05:50when I was taking the figure out of the tray that he popped completely off the lower
05:54half of his body.
05:56I mean, it's a simple fix.
05:57There's just a ball joint right here and a ball socket right here.
05:59You take the two halves and put them together.
06:01And now you've got yourself a completed Demogorgon.
06:03So don't get upset that if you happen to do the same thing and it happens to do the same
06:08thing, you just simply take the two halves and pop them back together.
06:12So we'll do away with this Demogorgon head.
06:13Again, you've got a little bit of the purple airbrushing down below.
06:17Seems so, again, intentional.
06:18We'll put that off to the side.
06:19And we'll take what looks much, much better like a Demogorgon head.
06:23And that basically will just go over top of the ball joint.
06:25It's a very large ball joint.
06:26At least that's the kind of ball joint that I don't worry as much about that's going to break.
06:31Says the guy, though.
06:32Maybe I should have said that after I snapped the head in place.
06:35But that's basically what the Demogorgon, a traditional Demogorgon, has then the fanned out face flaps.
06:41Looks pretty creepy indeed.
06:43I mean, obviously you can see there's some additional detailing that they've added to the inside of that.
06:46The top and the bottom teeth look really good.
06:49And then, of course, each of the individual poisonous.
06:51I don't know if that would be necessarily poisonous.
06:53I think, if anything, you'd probably die long before any poison would get into your bloodstream.
06:57But it looks like there's these little quills all kind of in the individual leafs of the Demogorgon's face.
07:04Really, really cool and nicely detailed.
07:06Again, you've got a little bit of purple on the back.
07:08It just seems like it has to be there.
07:09And again, you've got some purple there on the back of the spine area as well.
07:12For what it is, though, it's a really well-sculpted figure.
07:15I wouldn't necessarily say that Jazzwares was the wrong company to really handle the Stranger Things property.
07:20I mean, we have gotten other companies that have done Stranger Things from McFarlane Toys.
07:23I think Bandai ran also with Stranger Things for a while as well.
07:27I guess Jazzwares was just taking their own spin on the upside down.
07:29But I think for what it is, for a $30 figure, even though, again, the plastic doesn't feel like that really higher quality kind of plastic,
07:37I think all in all, though, we get a pretty good-looking Demogorgon.
07:41Now, for the figure's articulation.
07:42And going back, though, to the head sculpt, we've already kind of established the fact that it sits on top of a ball joint.
07:47But does the ball joint do more?
07:49It does. It does.
07:50Not only can you rotate the head all the way around on that said ball joint,
07:53but if you actually look underneath, though, there's a hinge there as well.
07:56So the Demogorgon's head can move up and down, too.
07:59Not only, not only...
08:01Oh, and there's more.
08:01There's a ball joint actually at the base of the neck, if I get my blasted finger out of the way.
08:06That then allows the neck to also move.
08:08So it's got a ball joint here.
08:10It's got a hinge here.
08:11And it's got a ball joint even further up.
08:13So that alone, I mean, we get two points of articulation for something that didn't even need to have that in the first place.
08:18The top of the torso is also on a ball joint.
08:20One thing, unfortunately, though, it does is as you move the torso back,
08:24it clearly leaves a big gap space right there where you can see the ball joints rooted inside the top of the cavity.
08:30If you can kind of keep it leveled and flat, it hides it a lot better.
08:34But to have posability like this, it really only benefits by moving it forward.
08:38The moment you do move it back like that, it just leaves too much of a gap.
08:42The front of the torso, or more the abdomen area of the torso, also does the same.
08:46But I noticed, though, that this is probably, of all the ball joints, the easiest one to detach.
08:50As quickly as you think you've fixed it, the moment you start to move his torso back, or you move it forward,
08:55anything really, you move back and forth, or back side to side, this pops off way too often, way too frequently.
09:02Shoulders rotate all the way around.
09:04For a second, it looked like he was smelling his armpits.
09:07Rotate all the way around. Yes, they do.
09:08There's also actually a really cool, clever, socketed joint that they've also incorporated into the shoulders as well.
09:14But yeah, they rotate all the way around.
09:15There's a swivel at the bicep, a double hinge on the elbow.
09:18I did notice, though, that the elbows are a lot tighter.
09:21So, like, bending the elbow here isn't so much the harder task.
09:24It seems like bending the elbow here was the more harder, difficult, more joint to start bending around.
09:30The hands do rotate all the way around.
09:32You can hinge them back and forth.
09:33I know we didn't really spend too much time looking at it.
09:35Would that be a manicure? A manicure?
09:38Well-managed, though, are the individual nails.
09:40The fact that he actually went in there and painted each of them individually.
09:42I mean, this could still have simply been something that he just left off the painting table.
09:47Like, while this guy's moving along, getting all the necessary joints all sprayed in purple.
09:51At least they actually did go in there and somebody very meticulously painted the nails.
09:55For the lower half of his body, the demogorgon does have a full Van Damme splits.
09:59You can take the legs and move forward.
10:01You can move them back.
10:02There's a swivel there at the top of the thigh where that connects.
10:05Now, the way the knees work...
10:08Boy, that was a hard thing to get out.
10:09The way that the knees work is that they're always going to be in a bend like this.
10:13You can't straighten them.
10:14There's no way at all.
10:16So, the way that the joint works is that the joint's only really at the back.
10:19So, you can bend the knee this way and then you can bend it again because there's a double hinge here.
10:24But when it comes to straighten things out, that's as straight as things are going to get.
10:27Then the front foot, I guess the hind section of the foot, does hinge forward and back this way.
10:33There's also a hinge right here in the foot itself.
10:36And there's also an ankle rocker.
10:38Which, really, technically, you could also rotate the foot all the way around.
10:40So, he's really quite well poseable.
10:43For, again, a figure that's only about $30 or so.
10:46I say $30 because I'm basing it only on Canadian prices.
10:49But, again, I don't think $30 is that bad at all.
10:52Where I feel like maybe some of the issues may develop over time...
10:55And, oh, one other thing, too, is that you can also bring the legs down in the Demogorgon.
10:58So, if you want to have it more in a seated pose or you want to have him looking like he's dancing,
11:02you can also pull that off as well.
11:04The Demogorgon, I think, is a pretty good-looking figure for the company.
11:07I don't say this in a way that Jazwares is a bad company to be handling the license.
11:12Again, we'll kind of have to look at things when we look at the other figures that they've also done as well.
11:16He sits a little on the loose side.
11:18Which, again, I think, like some of the knee developing...
11:20The looseness that's starting to develop in the knees may cause problems down the road.
11:24But, again, he does have himself a display stand.
11:26So, we can at least credit the company for including that.
11:29Now, the first wave...
11:30The first wave of the new Stranger Things Season 5 figures consist of the Demogorgon, Dustin, and Eleven.
11:36Now, I did not find, again, any of these in the actual stores themselves.
11:40But, I did go to walmart.ca and I ordered both first the Demogorgon and then the blind box figures that we already had a look at.
11:46I ordered that as the first shipment.
11:48Then, I went back and looked at the Walmart site again and noticed, again, that they also had the stocking of Dustin and Eleven.
11:54I picked those figures up as well.
11:56So, we will be looking at those also in an upcoming...
11:59Well, an upcoming couple of videos.
12:01I think that would be probably the better way to gauge whether Jazzwares is handling the license well.
12:07Demogorgon's an easy enough figure to pull off.
12:08Because, again, like, he's a monster.
12:10It doesn't have to necessarily match the likeness.
12:12And, even if it doesn't, a Demogorgon's still a pretty cool-looking creature to have on the shelf.
12:17I think the real true test of whether Jazzwares is handling the license well enough is when we start to look at the human characters, like Dustin and Eleven.
12:24Now, again, there's the 6-inch scale, which, again, this Demogorgon goes well with.
12:29There's also, I think, a smaller Demogorgon, too.
12:31Now, one thing that's good, though, at least about the 4-inch scale, Stranger Things figures, is while they don't have necessarily as much of the sculpting, they do at least deliver some additional accessories.
12:41So, like, the guys, for example, will come and include with their bikes.
12:43The only one I've actually managed to see in the stores and in the wild was actually the smaller 4-inch Eleven.
12:48She's also going to come with accessories as well.
12:50So, if you like kind of kids with little tiny bikes, the 4-inch scale might be a little bit more catering to your collection.
12:56All in all, though, I like the look of the Demogorgon.
12:58I don't love, though, that he's loose in the legs so early getting this guy out of his plastic prison.
13:03But I still, I think I'm well, I think I'm interested enough in the line of what Jasper's has planned moving forward.
13:09That I'm willing to commit to collecting at least the 6-inch scale.
13:12I don't know, again, if I'm going to be getting the 4-inch as well.
13:15But I think for what it is, I think the price is affordable enough that even if you just want to take the chance of getting the Demogorgon,
13:22you won't be disappointed with the money that you spent on him.
13:24I think if we were to compare the Demogorgon with the work that we've gotten so far from Jasper's
13:28and compare with other companies that have handled the license, like the Bandai's, like the McFarlane Toys,
13:33I feel Jasper's sits a little lower on the spectrum.
13:36They're maybe not as good as the other two companies so far.
13:39Maybe that's not a fair statement to make.
13:40Maybe we need to look at the kids and look at the other things that they've also done for Stranger Things before we can make that assessment.
13:45If we were just to compare the Demogorgons, and really, now that I look at this,
13:49I really think that I should have probably brought in the Bandai and the McFarlane Toys, Stranger Things Demogorgons to compare it with that.
13:55But maybe that's not a fair thing to do.
13:57Maybe because, again, McFarlane puts a lot of time into their paint, so does Bandai.
14:01I mean, here with Jasper's, it's very more specific, selectful for where they actually had to put the paint.
14:07It's like, literally, they went through a checklist.
14:09It has to be in the shoulders.
14:10It has to be in the elbows.
14:11Everywhere there seems to be a joint seems to be purple paint.
14:15But, if, though, you took this sculpt, and let's say you even added a dark wash to it,
14:19I think maybe, in fact, it probably would pop a lot more of the details than what it's doing right now.
14:23Maybe it is just the paint that's letting this figure down.
14:26Because, again, like, you've got to look at this and think, like, for a $30 Demogorgon that, yes, does come in clear with a display stand,
14:31and a swappable second portrait, maybe Jasper's not doing a bad job at all.
14:36Now, again, I think, really, to be fair and looking at this,
14:39we have to be most critical after we've looked at the kids, like the Dustin and the Eleven.
14:44They, so far, make up the first wave.
14:46And I would imagine, though, like, Jasper's, if they're going to be getting a license like this,
14:50this isn't going to be the end of the Stranger Things.
14:52They're going to be releasing subsequent waves after that.
14:55But, again, like, we will be looking at Dustin.
14:56We will be looking at Eleven as well.
14:58And then, maybe then, that would be a better time to pass the judgment
15:00on whether Jasper's was the right company to pick up the Stranger Things license or not.
15:06What do you guys, though, think of the Demogorgon?
15:07Let me know down below in the comments section.
15:09Have you guys been collecting any of the new Stranger Things figures from Jasper's?
15:13And if you have, are you more leaning towards the 4-inch scale that have the bikes,
15:17that have the little cool accessories, or are you rather stick with more of the 6-inch scale?
15:21For me, at least, from a collection standpoint, because they've got more shelf appeal,
15:26I generally gravitate more towards 6-inch scale, because you can easily see it better on the shelf.
15:31But I definitely could see the reasoning why people would love to get the 4-inch size figures,
15:35just because, again, they come include with bikes.
15:36Whatever I can, though, pick up, we will be looking at an upcoming reviews.
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