[Trivial Psychic]

Oops...in researching my last post, I forgot to actually include my thoughts to the figure.

It looks good, and while I haven't got mine just yet as they are sitting in my BBTS pile of loot which still needs to be shipped, I do have some minor gripes. The skin on Jason's head is a bit too dark, as it should be a little bit more gray and lighter in flesh tone. The green wash on it is also a bit off putting. I might end up doing some repainting on mine when I get it to fix it up a bit.

A more glaring issue though, as someone who has researched this costume to death and has cosplayed it, I can tell you for a fact that the machete sheath is facing the wrong direction on his belt. (And yes, I'm aware that the own sheathe on my costume in the picture below is inaccurate to the movie, but finding a hard leather, Korean War/Vietnam era sheath in black that I can fit a foam machete into has proven to be impossible for me...) Unless Jason is a southpaw (here's a hint...he's not,) he would be attacking his victims with the dull side of the machete if he were to try and unsheathe it with his right hand. It's not a deal breaker...but for NECA to miss a detail like that is shocking to me, especially because this is the second time that they have done this...it was like that on the Retro Jason Lives figure as well.

I'm also disappointed that the figure comes with two closed fisted gripping hands for various weapons, where I feel an open, more relaxed pair of hands would have better served him, which would have allowed him to take on some poses from various kill scenes in the movie (such as when he grabs Sissy from outside the cabin window, or strangles Tommy under water in the film's climax.) Including another hand to simply hold the knife seems like a wasted part.

It would have also been nice if they would have included either Sissy's head or the paintball player's arm, but I have similar accessories from the Mezco Jasons that I'll be most likely using with this figure when I finally get him displayed. Despite these flaws though, I'm happy we finally got a PLAYABLE version of this Jason from NECA, that diorama backdrop for the packaging is bad ass, and like Jason under the calm waters of Crystal Lake, I feel like my soul can rest a bit...

Casey tested...Jason approved!