[En Sabah Nerd]

Got NECA's ultimate Evil Dead Ash. Getting the 1981 original Ash had been on my wants list for a good many years but it was never a high priority since we were still getting figures based on ED2 and AvED, but I still always wanted one. My only issue with this figure is that when I went to try swapping his head the entire dumbell joint just came out of the neck with it. It popped back in to the neck no problem but for whatever reason it wouldn't come out of the head piece, so I'm apparently stuck using the portrait packaged as default. I'm not losing sleep over it since this was the head I was going to display him with anyway, but it is worth mentioning. Moving on from that, he looks great, he handles well, and his accessories are fantastic. The axe included isn't actually the one from the movie, it's from the promo shots that they did to sell the movie, but everything else is screen-accurate. I really would have liked to see the book included but maybe they're saving it for a future release (hopefully a Deadite Cheryl).



Also got the studio series '86 Perceptor. I really like the Titans Return figure but I also don't really care for the fact that he had to be a partsformer thanks to the headmaster gimmick, so I was very happy to add this new release to my collection. Obviously this new release was designed to be animation accurate and they nailed it but it does also mean that his scope loses the bonus fun-factor of slightly working. The G1 and Titans Return figure didn't have real microscopes but you could look through them and there was maybe a little magnification, with this version it's way too thin around to actually look through but you can still notice light passing through the ends. His transformation is simple but satisfying and of course they brought the "tank" mode back as an extra option. One sort of weird thing they did with this figure though is that the face seems to be a separate layer from the eyes behind it and they just cut out the eye-holes on the face part. So for mine one of the eye-holes wasn't cut out all of the way and his right eye is a little more closed than his left, it kind of works like he's being studious or something but somewhere out there someone might have a winking Perceptor. All in all though he's another lil' masterpiece.