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00:13the zombies may have been coming for her but zolo got her first
00:17here's a spooky spot on the zolo world night of the living dead barbara
00:40step into the world of horror history with zolo world's officially licensed nine of the living
00:44dead 3.75 inch action figure series wave one six figure set brings the iconic characters from the
00:50landmark film nine of the living dead to life with an innovative twist each figure can be
00:54customized from a retro five-point articulated figure to an advanced 14 point action figure
00:59simply by swapping out the arms and legs providing the flexibility to recreate scenes in both classic
01:04and modern styles sure i probably should stop it because i'm acting like a child but i'm super
01:08excited that we're now getting zolo world retro night of the living dead characters and that when
01:13you do collect all six of them you can build the creator himself george a romero a big thank you
01:18to the folks over at zolo world that were kind enough to provide this sample in fact we are going
01:22to be looking at a couple of the zolo world night of the living dead characters throughout the spot
01:25tober season starting things first with barbara each of the figures by the way are going to be
01:30selling for 32.99 online you can also get yourself the entire set they also have plans too to release
01:36play sets too a full bundle will also include a detailed farmhouse diorama play set and an exclusive
01:43sticker set how about that for how tall though barbara's going to be i'm clocking her in at about
01:48three and three quarters of an inch that's going to work out to be a figure that's about nine
01:52centimeters tall as it seems the ominous storm is starting to set in i had to pull the camera back
01:57to bring the packaging in along with barbara and the rest of the retro night living dead characters
02:01you get this really nice card art to the point where i almost was disappointed that i had to remove
02:05her from her plastic prison because i thought she would look really good inside of it on the back of
02:10the card though you get all your six characters johnny barbara graveyard ghoul ben hospital gown ghoul
02:15and karen cooper collecting though all six of these will give you the chance then to build
02:19george a romero now you do actually get some of the accessories we're going to kind of look at those
02:23things in a moment but i do really like the artwork that zolo world includes with their packaging
02:28as for though the parts that come included for george a romero i've taken only just the time to remove
02:33it from the packaging i haven't actually cut the ziploc bag just yet and it looks like
02:41it's interesting because it says it's george a romero but yet i'm looking at these i'm guessing
02:45what it is is these are just going to be barbara's legs here and that these parts here are going
02:50to
02:50be for george a romero yeah i can see there's his head let's carefully cut the bag so it looks
02:58like
02:58you get yourself george a romero's head a pair of arms and a knife as well boy that thunder really
03:05is
03:05coming down out there all right so for the things that we get now again i feel like these probably
03:12are going to be oh i yeah that's going to be barbara's so even though they were really in a
03:17separate bag from one another it looks like you get yourself legs and you get yourself arms for
03:21barbara so we're going to put those over there so what you really only get for barbara when it
03:25comes to george a romero is you get you get his head it's really weird and unsettling the fact that
03:31i
03:31have his head in my hands and then you also get yourself a knife now i'm sure though the knife
03:35would probably also be used for barbara because she does also what looks to be have slightly more
03:39gripping hands so maybe in actual fact what we only really get for the creator is just the head alone
03:44and then the knife is probably going to belong to barbara the way that this works is that barbara's
03:50going to come with two pairs of two types of arms two types of legs so the way that she
03:55is right now
03:55when you get her out of the packaging if you want kind of more the retro designs of characters
04:00where again she's not going to have anything in the elbows she's not going to have anything at
04:04all in the knees you can have her kept this way and then my guess would be you then pop
04:10off the
04:10arms and you would be able to swap them out if you want a little bit more posability like these
04:14arms
04:14here as you can see you do have an elbow bend boy that storm's really bad out there there is
04:19an elbow
04:19bend it does not look like you'd be able to turn it maybe a little bit back and forth as
04:23well
04:24so you would just pop those out with the existing arms the existing legs and then you'd have
04:29barbara with then more additional posability i like that they've done that because if you
04:33were one to really collect these figures with a plan in mind that you wanted these to look more
04:37retro you would only just really keep them the arms still on the figure and still to keep these legs
04:42and you would just not have the additional posability let's try to change out the arm here so
04:48we want to make sure yeah thumbs go in there we go we want to make sure we got the
04:52right side
04:52we're going to pop the arm off carefully carefully carefully and just see if this is easy enough to
05:01remove okay that seemed not too bad the dress by the way for barbara is also fabric something also
05:07too that just elevates the look and feel of it okay so one side now we just again we've got
05:13the
05:13non-posable arm and then on this side you've now got a posable arm for me i think i would
05:19rather have
05:19the figures with posability myself being that the head is already going to be on a ball joint anyways
05:24there's some additional again posability not as much really in the legs but again if you wanted to
05:29sorry barbara you would just pop the legs off here maybe we'll just do that right now take the bag
05:35take
05:35the bag of legs i never thought i would there'd be a time that i would say the bag of
05:40legs we're just
05:40going to take out the bag of legs yeah barbara does have knee bends on these legs
05:47and again first time doing this so i apologize in advance we want to make sure we've got the same
05:52side lined up i'm hoping these would be as easy to pop the legs off okay so there's a fairly
06:00large
06:00ball peg there pop the new leg in place it would really be like two-faced in the in the
06:07way that one
06:08one side is going to have posability the other side isn't how easy is this going to be to get
06:12this
06:13back in place now i'm doing this right now only on camera i think probably you may recommend i would
06:19recommend certainly maybe heating these legs up in hot water first before you pop them back onto the
06:24peg oh no okay that's not so bad so again one leg is going to be a little more posable
06:29this leg isn't
06:31going to have that so eventually when you do get around to deciding which way you'd like to have it
06:37displayed i i think again i'm probably going to end up doing the same thing just for the sake of
06:41this
06:41review i'm not going to do it right now but i'm going to probably pop this arm off pop this
06:44leg
06:45off and then just rinse and repeat the steps so i've got the possibility on both sides move all the
06:51accessories out of the way be careful not to lose george a romero's head very nice looking hand sculpt
06:57though by the way getting a closer look at barbara now i mentioned earlier that she comes in clue with
07:02a knife i'm just wondering if the knife does fit into her hands not the greatest not the greatest
07:09it may actually be more designed for george a romero for the design though of barbara you know
07:15i gotta say for the size of what this thing is it's it's small after all i feel it does
07:20very much look
07:21like judith o'day of course played the role of barbara she does have what i've already mentioned
07:25before a fabric dress so that's a little bit of extra premium feel to it the dress looks good too
07:31everything is all decked out here in black and white i think the head sculpt for barbara is nicely done
07:35as
07:38well that one thing did catch my attention right away getting her out of her packaging was the fact
07:42that she did have a bulge in the head i would think too based on that that all the other
07:46figures from
07:47the knife living dead is also going to be doing the same but again like the head is pretty good
07:50on this
07:51one i don't know if expectations would be there that you'd want to have these figures in color i
07:56think obviously like in the original movie you'd really want to keep them in black and white she has
08:00her little uh i guess that would be the top scarf there of her dress the dress material by the
08:05way
08:05is also done really nicely as well she has a little trim down below here that looks like it's been
08:09sewn
08:10separately i think the material is pretty close there too it there's no velcro or anything on the dress
08:17itself what my guess would be is they probably put the dress on the body pop then the arms and
08:22the head
08:22all in place and that's the thing that's keeping the dress in place for barbara's posability her head's
08:29going to be again on that ball joint so it allows the head to rotate all the way around
08:32depending again on your preference you could either have gone the route of just the regular arms
08:36right and even just with those regular arms they still hinge out and you can rotate them all the way
08:42around if you prefer though to have these arms with bends then obviously the arm is going to still do
08:47the same so does full rotation hinges out bend at the elbow and the same relief for the legs now
08:54the
08:54legs are only going to be able to swivel forward and back there's no hinge joint where the legs can
09:00split in the same way that the arms did however though this leg here again is not going to have
09:05any bend in the knee if you do decide though you want to change out the the leg then of
09:08course this
09:09one's going to have a bend in the knee and again like she doesn't have pebbles and bombs of her
09:13feet
09:13surprising though barbara stands perfectly fine she doesn't have really anything in the way of the
09:19accessories i mean i guess if you found a way to finagle a knife you could probably maybe get that
09:23in
09:23her hands the tiny tiny little knife or my guess would likely be when eventually you get around
09:29to collecting then the other five figures right because yeah collect all six when you get then the
09:33sixth and final figure you build yourself george romero now the folks though over at solo world
09:39provided actually a couple of these i think they sent over three so i'm going to do my best i'm
09:43hoping
09:44at the very least that of the other two figures that we're going to be having a look at one
09:47of them at
09:47least will have the body so i have the place to put the head it's a nice looking figure it's
09:52a little
09:52smaller yeah in size but i think even despite having its size being small like this zolo world
09:57packed a lot of details in it and i personally really like the idea that there's options available
10:02too if you want to have a bend at the knee if you want to have a little more posability
10:05for a retro
10:06figure you can do that but if you want to kind of keep her more in the way that she
10:09would have been
10:10had this figure maybe been released in the 80s you can also do that too now at the time that
10:15this
10:15video unearthed itself unfortunately though zolo world has sold out of the set of the night living dead
10:20retro figures at one point they had them on the set of six on their site for 199.99 that
10:26included
10:26though all the six characters with again the option then to build obviously george romero if you had
10:31all six but that also did include the farmhouse diorama and a sticker set which only was available
10:36on zolo world being that it has sold out you may have to then go to aftermarket places to try
10:41to track
10:41the set down for yourself i could hope though that the demand would be high the thirst would be high
10:46from collectors out there that love the original classic film that zolo world may entertain the
10:51idea of re-releasing these figures again a big thank you to the folks over at zolo world that did
10:56provide the sample of the night living dead retro barbara they're coming for you barbara that we
11:01had a chance to have a look at during the month of spot tober while they were also sending over
11:05barbara they sent also the the guy that kind of just is the i wouldn't want to say the catalyst
11:10for
11:10all this but the guy that everybody remembers the most is the one that was teasing barbara in the
11:14cemetery we're also going to be looking at johnny we're also going to be looking at karen cooper
11:18we're about halfway there of building george a romero i hope between the johnny and the karen
11:23that we're at least going to have a torso to attach the head to i really don't feel comfortable with
11:27the idea of george a romero's head sitting right now on my tabletop if you guys did enjoy this video
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