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Series: Movie Maniacs, Jason X
Craftsmanship: 7.0 out 10 - Stands solidly - Lacks appeal - Pretty good likeness - Minimal useful articulation
Playability: 4.0 out of 10 - Fairly durable - Machete pops out of hand easily - Masked killers aren’t exactly kids toys
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Jason X (Movie Maniacs)
The Friday the 13th movies helped make Jason Voorhies synonymous with hockey masks and teen slasher flicks. The recently released movie Jason X might have been well received by fans but it barely blipped on the theater scene. The same can be said of his action figure.
Jason X has his merits but they aren’t enough to offset his overall blandness. Yes, the likeness and sculpt are well done, as is the paint. (Check the small veins from his black suit onto his metal plating.) The pose is suitably menacing and he’s very stable thanks to an |
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immobile lower half. But the essential problem is that he just wasn’t that scary in the movie and he’s sure as hell not scary here.
Trace this problem back to the original costume and character design of the movie – it’s not McFarlane’s fault. Jason’s “classic” look is much better. As an unholy cyborg, he’s too defined. His classic stature leaned toward amorphous – or along the lines of an overweight bodybuilder. In short, the look of someone that can be outrun but who is actually fast enough to take the heads off a busload of teenagers in a blink of an eye. |
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Poseability ranks low thanks to his sculpt. As a homicidal cyborg there was definitely the chance to give him some poseability, but like most Movie Maniacs figures before him, he’s more statue than action figure (and also keeps with the left-looking theme of Movie Maniacs). He articulates at the waist, neck wrists, shoulders, and right bicep. The wrist and bicep joints of the right arm allow for the futuristic machete to be hefted nicely but other than that, not much variety.
By now, you can probably guess what I’m going to say about playability. Low, low even though it’s fairly durable. The machete fits nicely in his right hand for display but during any kind of play it pops out – literally pops out.
The last Movie Maniacs set had a lame duck – Candyman – and Jason X is the lame duck for this one.
- Omni (December 4, 2002)
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