[Trivial Psychic]

Hornhead has hands down been the most frustrating experience that I've hand with a Neca figure since their Striker Eureka figure all the way back with wave one of their Pacific Rim line. Not only was EVERY SINGLE JOINT LOCKED outside the head and waist swivels, but I had to go as far as place the figure in boiling water and disassemble it piece by piece to free them up. It's a project that I'm still working on as I type this, as I still have to pull the upper thighs off (which is a challenge within itself since it uses two very different types of ball pegs to hold them on, one of which does not use the hole/peg-bar configuration commonly found with most action figures.) Once that's done, I'll likely need to clean up the peg hole with a dremel because I feel that it may have been too small to accommodate the ball peg at the hip to begin with. This is something I also needed to do with the blue version of their recent Ultimate Xenomorph.

This is starting to become quite frustrating. Since NECA has moved to this new Predator body mold, this has been happening more and more frequently with me, and it's beginning to challenge my faith and loyalty in the brand. These were figures that were initially delayed for what seemed like an eternity, and they should have been perfect out the gate as they had more than enough time to work out the kinks.

I should also be fair and mention that I have not been having these sorts of issues with Neca's other horror based figures like their recent Friday the 13th and Halloween figures. I did have some issues with their Pennywise out the box...but NOTHING like what I experienced with Hornhead.