This came from Amazon today. Ooooh look at that non-biodegradable plastic just begging to be ripped apart. Sends shivers down the spine, doesn't it?
Well, okay, no more mystery. You know what this is now. But there's still so many layers to go through. So...many...layers!
Noooooo! Not more plastic!!!! Why must you torment me? So many layers to go through. Why can't you just let me get to the toy? Why must you build so much antici...
...pation? Well, I think we're finally down to the final box. The toy can't be too far now.
Look at that! LOOK...AT...THAT!!!! We can see it. It's all within sight. Just a bit more plastic and several twist-ties to go!
And here we go! No I will say this, the base to the fly swatter will not snap around the wrist like it should. And yes, I did try different hands and it just doesn't work. So I'll probably just keep the fly swatter in a bin. But look at this! It comes with a Mouser! Sweet!
And here's a comparison to the vintage. The mouser didn't come with the vintage. It was sold separately. But it felt right to compare those. But I'll compare the mousers in the next pic. Here I want to focus on Stockman.
First, you can see NECA has a colored-in turtle on the swatter whereas the vintage, while it does have a molded on turtle, it is not colored. Likewise, you can see a wedding ring on Baxter's left hand. Now believe it or not, that ring is on the vintage. But it wasn't colored, just molded. In fact, it's so subtle, I didn't even notice it for 30+ years until a Youtube video pointed it out to me.
Another thing of note, it could just be decades of sun-bleaching, so I wouldn't make too much of it. But the Neca Baxter is a darker color. Also he came with a gun. I have so many accessories that I
could give vintage Baxter a gun, but he didn't come with one.
I also wanted to point out that while vintage Stockman's wings and fly arms were a separate piece that you slid into a place on the back, NECA has the wings and arms built in. Also, NECA looks like it has quite a bit more texture.
Now to compare Mousers. The one on the left is the one that came with NECA. Looks really nice, IMO. The one of the right is vintage. As you can see, there's a little thing on the back that you can press in to keep winding it up and it'll walk and chomp. Just tried it out. Works as well as it ever did (which is to say not too well). It also came with a bunch of sticker applications which didn't age too well. I tried to keep some of them on with Scotch Tape.
The two gray ones in front came with Mirage Style NECA April. I never really cared for battle damage toys. But I like the Mirage style with no Foot symbol on it. But I think over all, I'm going to have to go with the one that I just got from NECA Stockman. It seems I'm inadvertently building an army.
