Super7 The Simpsons Ultimates Devil Flanders Figure
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00:00 It's always the one you least suspect.
00:02 Here's a look at the brand new Super 7 The Simpsons Ultimate's Devil Flanders.
00:28 As seen on The Simpsons, this 7-inch scale, highly articulated Devil Flanders Ultimate's figure
00:33 features interchangeable heads and hands, a soft goods cape, and various other accessories.
00:38 You don't have to sell your soul to get this made-to-order Devil Flanders Ultimate's figure in your collection.
00:43 I don't understand it. James Coco went mad in 15 minutes.
00:47 Just before, of course, we get a close look at the brand new Super 7 Simpsons Ultimate's Devil Flanders,
00:53 we're going to grab the tape measure and see how tall the figure stands.
00:55 I will tell you right away, there's a lot of things wrong with this figure.
00:59 Can't wait to get into those.
01:01 The figure, though, counting his horns, Devil Flanders stands 7 and a quarter inches in height.
01:05 Or the figure is about 18 and a half centimeters tall.
01:08 Unlike Homer Simpson, who sold his soul to get his hands on the donut,
01:12 you can't unfortunately sell your soul to the devil, or to Super 7 for that matter,
01:16 to get any future Simpsons Ultimate figures.
01:18 Unfortunately, since the time of doing the review of Krusty the Clown,
01:21 they have lost the licensing for both Disney and Simpsons.
01:24 And not to go too far off on a side tangent, that really does bother me,
01:27 the fact that Super 7, I feel at least, mishandled the Simpsons license.
01:32 Companies have picked up licenses before, and when they do release figures,
01:35 it's always like a company releases a figure, and then there's always the hope as a collector
01:39 that they're going to release more characters down the road.
01:41 But for Super 7, right from day one to say, "Well, we're thinking this far ahead for years to come,
01:47 and because of that, we're not going to put casually dressed Simpsons family members right from wave one onward.
01:52 We're going to move that ahead, and we're going to do that in the future."
01:55 So instead of getting just a regular Springfield-dressed Homer,
01:58 we had to get ourselves Deep Space Homer.
02:00 Instead of actually getting ourselves a regular Bart, we got ourselves Bartman Bart.
02:04 The thing that's funny about it though, is the only casually dressed characters that we got in Springfield
02:10 are Moe, Ralph, and I guess you could say also Krusty the Clown.
02:13 Again, it baffles me to think, whether they lost the licensing for other reasons or not,
02:18 I think casually collectors aren't going to necessarily jump on board a Simpsons property
02:23 when they can't even release the family members from the first wave onward.
02:27 How could I forget about Mr. Burns?
02:29 Mr. Burns was also part of this wave, and happens to also have an appointment with the devil that same day.
02:33 The figure comes included, first of all, with a contract that Homer Simpson signs.
02:37 This is from Treehouse of Horror 4, which I think was from season 5, way back in the early 90s.
02:42 1993, if I remember serves me correctly.
02:44 One of my favorites, Treehouse of Horror mini episodes.
02:48 This, actually the contract, funny enough, that Homer does sign,
02:51 is kind of appearing more blank when Flanders is first carrying around with him.
02:54 He also does give him, of course, the flaming pen that Homer Simpson has to sign.
02:58 You can see that he writes in Homer Simpson, and it's for his soul, for one donut.
03:03 He does come included with technically hands to hold these accessories.
03:06 The hands that he has right now on the ends of his forearms.
03:08 I know you're noticing right now, he does come included with a display stand.
03:11 No, no, I have to use the display stand, and there's reasons for that.
03:15 But like I said, the figure does come included with a hand for holding the contract.
03:18 It's the hand that has the thumb sticking out.
03:20 So you can either have the thumb just sticking out like the devil has agreed to the terms with Homer,
03:24 or you can also have the hand holding the contract.
03:26 It doesn't hold it all that well, though.
03:28 You kind of have to kind of friction force it in there.
03:31 And he holds it, if you kind of angle it more up in the corner, he holds it, I guess, okay.
03:35 The thing I like at least that Super 7 did, is they didn't mold this in just paper.
03:39 I guess just printed in paper.
03:41 They actually did use this in a very thin plastic.
03:43 You know, honestly, I wish more companies would do this.
03:45 I know if you're getting a newspaper with a figure, for example, or Georgie's boat with a NECA-IT figure,
03:50 it probably would make the most sense just to do it in paper.
03:53 But, you know, paper just doesn't last very long.
03:55 I mean, doing it on a softer plastic like this makes the most sense.
03:58 But like I said, he does come included with that.
04:00 He also comes with a hand for holding that.
04:02 He also comes included with the flaming pen.
04:04 The pen itself doesn't really look much like really a pen.
04:07 It looks more like a dart.
04:08 The flame effect is nicely done here.
04:10 It's kind of more done in a translucent plastic.
04:12 Sort of starts more like an opaque yellow and works its way to a flaming orange on the end of it.
04:17 And again, he does also have a hand for holding that as well.
04:19 This hand here, you can see, has the thumb very close to the pointer.
04:23 And it's just enough to get the pen in there.
04:25 Although it's kind of hard sometimes to get the pen lined up.
04:28 Because a lot of times when you're trying to fit this through, it ends up pushing its way all the way through.
04:32 So you kind of have to kind of wedge it in between the thumb and the finger.
04:35 But honestly, it doesn't do it very well.
04:37 Kind of get it like that.
04:39 What ends up usually happening, as you probably already saw, is a fairly soft plastic.
04:43 And when I try to put it in between the thumb and the pointer finger, what ultimately ends up happening is it ends up bending the point of the pen.
04:49 Like I said, it does fit into his hand.
04:51 It just doesn't fit all that well.
04:52 The figure also comes included with the pointing hand.
04:55 You are not smarter than me, which is funny enough for me to say that.
04:57 Because he turns into this big giant red devil by then.
05:01 But he comes with a pointing hand.
05:02 That's always nice to see.
05:03 And unlike the other hands, by the way, this is the only hand that happens to have actual long nails.
05:08 He has it on the thumb.
05:09 He has it on the pointer.
05:10 And he also has it on the ones that are attached onto his palm.
05:13 Nice looking hand as well.
05:15 And then, of course, the figure also has a gripping hand.
05:17 Good for holding, like, for example, his trident.
05:20 The trident is unfortunately warped.
05:22 Getting this out of the packaging, the pronged -- I'd say trident.
05:26 It's basically like a pitchfork.
05:28 But it was bent, unfortunately, getting out of the packaging.
05:30 It's pretty soft and plastic.
05:31 I'm going to have to heat this up just a little bit in hot water, I think, just to straighten this out.
05:35 Like I said, he does have a hand for holding that.
05:37 You can either try to feed it from the top, which is usually a lot of times the easiest thing to do.
05:42 Or you can also just fit it around the handle.
05:44 Now, if you're having a hard time to do this, like I said, you can always -- I usually say this in these reviews --
05:48 you can always heat the hand in hot water.
05:50 But sliding it up the middle sort of does work the easiest way.
05:53 And just attach it onto the end of his forearms.
05:55 I can change the hands out more in a second.
05:57 The figure also comes included with not one, not two, but three interchangeable heads.
06:01 The head that he has right now is just basically a neutral expression head sculpt.
06:05 You can see by the way his mouth is.
06:07 He's not necessarily even smiling.
06:08 He's sort of just, you know, again, just a neutral expression.
06:11 What's nice, though, is that they actually did give him glasses.
06:14 And the glasses don't distort at all his vision.
06:16 So you can very easily see his eyes underneath.
06:18 It kind of actually looks like he's looking down at the contract as Homer Simpson is signing it.
06:23 He also has included as well this head sculpt, which is basically him just, again, like --
06:28 it looks kind of like he's just casually talking to Homer.
06:31 Scrumdiddly-ish-ish, I think is what he refers to as the donut.
06:34 You know, funny enough, you know, again, just to go off here, just before we look at the other head sculpt,
06:38 is, you know, funny enough that he doesn't come included with the little silver platter that has the dome,
06:42 that actually has the donut.
06:43 You would think that for the fact that he has the contract, you would think for the fact that he does have the flaming pen,
06:48 and you would think the fact that the whole idea of the devil Flanders even appearing in that episode
06:52 is that Homer was willing to give his soul up for a donut.
06:54 And yet, no donut. No donut. Saloon doors opening. No donut is present with the figure.
07:01 Strange. Why? Why?
07:03 Anyways, he does come included with this head sculpt, likely going to be the one I'm going to be displaying the figure.
07:07 I mean, the one that he has right now isn't really the one that started with the figure when he first got him out of his packaging.
07:12 I kind of prefer this head sculpt. I mean, all of them is really quite good.
07:16 Again, you've got the horns on the top there indicating that, you know, it's always the one you least suspect.
07:20 The glasses are good. The only thing about the glasses you've got to really be careful with is when you're putting on the new head sculpt.
07:25 You want to make sure that you're not putting pressure against these, because again, that's probably going to buckle the plastic.
07:29 The other head sculpt that he does also come included with is this one right here,
07:32 which I think personally goes really well with this particular hand.
07:35 So maybe we might just do this for final looks.
07:37 This one does have, now again, you can see the teeth sculpted very well on the top and the bottom,
07:41 and the protruding tongue in the middle there as well.
07:44 Nice looking head sculpt.
07:45 Changing out the heads isn't super difficult.
07:48 There's sort of a dot, dot, dot. Why are we reluctant saying that?
07:52 Well, to take the head off, first of all, what's rather interesting is that they used a very narrow post on this.
07:57 And then if you wanted to, for example, change the head sculpt, you just take the head and you have to put it onto the ball joint.
08:02 It's not the easiest though, because the actual post moves around a lot.
08:07 And being that this is also fabric, I don't think also helps much either.
08:11 But you're just going to put that basically onto the ball joint.
08:14 You're also worrying this whole time too that you're not putting pressure against the glasses,
08:18 because again, like the rims will be very likely to break.
08:20 You know what? We'll leave that one off.
08:21 I'll probably come back to that one here in a second when we jump to the turntable at the very end of this review.
08:26 Just again, like get the head onto the ball joint.
08:28 I had actually, you know what? I should always take a break when I have a struggle like this.
08:32 Go back, heat the head, because I already did this earlier, but I guess the plastic has unfortunately cooled.
08:37 But see the way that the post basically moves around way too frequently.
08:40 So not only are you worrying about the post shifting around,
08:42 but you're also worrying about the glasses that you don't break in the process.
08:45 Believe you me though, this is the least of our problems.
08:49 The problems get more so when we get to the lower legs of the figure.
08:52 Okay, with that in place, somewhat in place, again we've got this one.
08:56 Now the thing also with this figure is that they decided to give him like a soft goods fabric cape or fabric cloak that he wears.
09:03 I don't know how I feel about this.
09:05 I mean, obviously when we looked at Bartman, for example, Bartman has a cape.
09:09 I can kind of buy more into the idea that they could use fabric for that.
09:12 I almost feel, while it does give him a much more kind of higher price point look to it,
09:17 because they're actually giving a real material.
09:19 I like the consistency. Like if you have figures, I guess Mo really was also the same way.
09:23 I'm just going to bring Mo in.
09:24 Mo, even though the one that I picked up didn't actually come in clear with the apron.
09:28 I guess the apron is technically fabric as well.
09:30 So I guess that's not too much of a far off idea.
09:33 I kind of would have liked if this was plastic myself.
09:35 I just, you know, with the plastic, I think it would have worked a little bit better.
09:38 I mean, granted, they did actually put a frame right here.
09:41 There's a wire built into the front seam here and all along the bottom trim and jacket.
09:46 So you can actually move this around if you wanted to.
09:48 You know, it does again, give them a higher premium look to it.
09:51 But I have to wonder, like, would this have just worked as well if they had done this in plastic?
09:55 Anyways, the coloring is quite good.
09:58 Here's my biggest problem with this figure.
10:00 And one of the reasons why I'm using a displaced end,
10:02 it doesn't even come in clear with this figure in the first place, is his legs.
10:07 I don't know if you can, well, you can clearly tell.
10:09 There's big issues. There's big issues with the legs.
10:12 For reasons unknown, I mean, first of all, there's figure articulation down below here.
10:16 So this moves back and forth.
10:17 That wouldn't be the biggest issue.
10:19 What I have the biggest concern with is the way this attaches onto the ball peg.
10:23 I mean, you thought attaching the head was difficult.
10:25 If you look at the way they've actually posted the leg, the leg fits in to right here.
10:30 I mean, really, it fits in fine the way it is.
10:32 I mean, it fits in fine in the sense that this attaches onto the ball joint,
10:36 but it sits way too loose.
10:38 And even just to move the leg around, this falls off way too easily.
10:41 They have also decided, they have also decided to put a little slot right here.
10:46 A little canal. See the little canal?
10:48 I mean, obviously you guys can see the canal.
10:49 The thing about it, though, is that that also causes the leg to fall off way too frequently.
10:54 And even just to get this guy to the packaging, his legs were extremely loose.
10:58 This leg, not as loose, but you can see just how floppy this thing is.
11:02 So getting him even just to stand, I mean,
11:05 even though he technically has articulation on the back of his tail,
11:07 the tail only goes down so far.
11:09 So if you really want this guy to unfortunately stand,
11:11 you either have to angle him back like this,
11:13 or you have to use yourself a display stand,
11:15 because he just can't hold his own weight.
11:18 It's really frustrating.
11:20 Something else I noticed about Flanders, though,
11:22 and I don't know if this is a trend that's going to start to move forward
11:24 when it comes to this current wave of figures that we're getting from Super 7,
11:28 is, like, just to put Flanders down here for a second.
11:31 I don't even know if he's going to, is he going to stand?
11:33 He probably isn't going to stand.
11:35 I'm just going to lay him down here for a second.
11:36 Lay him down. We're going to come back to it.
11:37 Looking at Moe, for example, the plastic I feel is different.
11:41 I feel like it's a different type of plastic.
11:43 If you, I'm just going to knock, tap at the door here.
11:47 If you hear the plastic sound, if I actually stop talking,
11:50 [tapping]
11:52 it's not a hollow plastic.
11:54 I mean, it's the kind of plastic that's,
11:56 it's a lighter kind of material, but it doesn't feel like it's hollow.
11:59 Like there's some, there's durability to this.
12:01 And yet, if you look at Flanders,
12:03 just going to put Moe over there,
12:04 if you look at Flanders,
12:06 [tapping]
12:08 I feel like his body is hollow.
12:10 Maybe not necessarily the top half, or even maybe even the top half too.
12:13 They're using what I feel to be a hollow body.
12:16 It certainly does feel lighter than other Simpsons figures
12:19 that we've already had a look at.
12:20 Even just to compare with Homer.
12:22 I mean, Homer didn't have, it felt like that kind of hollow type of plastic.
12:25 There's something just strange really about,
12:27 something strange about Flanders' body.
12:30 It just feels like they're actually using hollow plastic.
12:32 Coupled with that, the fact that obviously the legs just don't attach properly.
12:35 And you just have really the recipe for a disastrous figure.
12:39 He looks good, but he just, he can't stand.
12:42 He just has the biggest, hardest time to really stand and balance on his own.
12:46 That luckily, luckily for me, he did actually have peggles in the bottoms of his feet.
12:49 If not for that, I probably wouldn't be able to get this guy to stand at all.
12:52 Getting him onto the display stand is really the only option I really have
12:55 to get this guy on the shelf, because like the legs are poorly constructed.
12:59 This, again, just to remove the leg here.
13:02 I don't feel like this slot should have even been there in the first place.
13:05 I think if anything, they should have forced the ball joint onto a socket
13:09 and left it at that.
13:11 I don't even understand really what, other than having the legs being able to swivel out,
13:15 is about the only reason why I can imagine they would have put the track in there in the first place.
13:19 But they must test these, you would think,
13:21 in order to ensure that obviously collectors aren't going to have problems with these figures.
13:25 I don't know why they decided to go the route of doing that.
13:28 If it meant that the figure could get a wider split,
13:30 I would have rather just sacrificed that little additional track
13:34 for a figure that actually could stand on his own.
13:37 Now, for the figure's articulation, going back to Flanders' head sculpt,
13:40 it's going to be on ball joint, but again, the head pops off way too frequently here.
13:44 It does move down, it does move up.
13:46 You know what, let's get the head sculpt we started with.
13:50 Yeah, definitely going to have to heat this up before we jump to the final looks on the figure.
13:53 As you can probably see, my frustrations are growing with him.
13:56 He does have the ball joint, so again, he moves up, moves down, moves back and forth.
13:59 I'm going to definitely have to heat that up, I think, before we jump to the turntable on him.
14:02 There we go, there we go.
14:03 As for his arms, now his arms easily come out 90 degrees.
14:07 All the Simpsons figures, for the most part, have all had pretty good arm articulation.
14:11 So they move forward and back.
14:13 He has what seems to be a swivel here in the elbow.
14:16 I can't really quite move up the sleeve, but there would be a single hinge only in the elbow,
14:19 and the hands do rotate all the way around.
14:21 Now, the upper torso is going to be on a ball joint.
14:24 The lower legs split out, and again, just to move the legs out, there's so much problems.
14:31 So much problems happening here that I feel like, again,
14:34 if this was the reasoning why they put the groove there in the first place,
14:37 I would have just been happy, content to have limited articulation for the lower half of his body.
14:42 If only it was just a case that they could have just plugged it in into a socketed hole,
14:47 rather than putting a little groove there.
14:49 Because the groove is really the thing.
14:51 One of the biggest reasons why I had the hardest time to get this figure to stand,
14:54 that ultimately, when it comes to displaying him,
14:56 when it comes to ultimately displaying him,
14:59 I'm going to have to definitely use myself a display stand,
15:01 because it just isn't going to cut it, having this guy standing on his own.
15:05 The legs are way too loose.
15:06 They shouldn't be loose, really, getting him immediately out of the packaging.
15:09 And again, it's disappointing, because I knew, getting Flanders,
15:13 I knew that this guy was already going to be one of the last figures of the last waves that we were going to be getting.
15:18 And yet, still, I decided to get him, because I'm a big fan of Treehouse of Horror.
15:22 There we go.
15:23 And again, I know with what limited figures,
15:26 what limited figures, what limited figures I know we have left from the Simpsons Ultimate line,
15:31 it's a shame that it has to be with a figure that I liked so much.
15:34 I really like Devil Flanders.
15:36 I specifically really like Treehouse of Horror 4.
15:38 And the idea that we get now of Flanders that is as disappointing as he is,
15:43 here, let's just put Bartman in the front, let's move Homer Simpson off to the side.
15:47 Again, I feel like the plastic that they used is different.
15:50 I feel like Flanders, for example, has now a hollow body,
15:53 which wasn't even really the case when we looked at it.
15:55 Maybe it was, but Homer, maybe just the plastic was a little bit better.
15:58 But Deep Space Homer didn't have that problem.
16:00 Bart certainly didn't have that problem, and neither was Moe.
16:02 Even though I know this line is coming to a close,
16:04 there are certain figures that I'm still interested to pick up.
16:06 Like, I've already ordered Mr. Burns.
16:08 I plan to pick up Kang and Kodos, because I'm a big fan.
16:10 Anything that's really attached to Treehouse of Horror,
16:12 definitely would be interested to get those figures.
16:14 But it's a shame, really, that this is the direction that they had to go,
16:18 and why they chose, of all things, to put grooves in the tops of his legs,
16:22 ensuring, let me just move Bartman over here,
16:24 ensuring that a figure like Devil Flanders, as good as he may look,
16:27 is going to be impossible to stand.
16:29 I think the head sculpt that I chose for Devil Flanders in Final Looks
16:32 probably conveys my feelings towards the figure.
16:35 While he may look good, and let me separate those two things, one from the other,
16:39 he looks good as a figure, but as he's constructed,
16:43 it's a complete dumpster fire.
16:45 All the Simpsons figures up to this point, let me just also say as well,
16:50 while I wasn't happy with the choices that Super 7 chose
16:54 when it came to choosing these figures,
16:56 the fact that we would even have, in the first wave,
16:58 Deep Space Homer from one episode, and not just casually dressed Homer
17:02 as he appears in every episode, still baffles me.
17:06 They were, I think, too smart for their good to think too far ahead in the line.
17:09 They thought, "Okay, well, anyone who's loving Simpsons will get on board
17:13 any character that we choose in these waves,
17:15 that if they really want, the family members, those die-hard collectors,
17:18 will simply just get it in wave 7, wave 8, wave 9."
17:21 Well, casual collectors were turned off right away.
17:24 I stuck with the line because I really liked generally
17:27 what they were doing with the Simpsons characters.
17:29 But then we get Devil Flanders, a character that I really like,
17:32 and from the Treehouse of Horror, one of my favorite aspects of the Simpsons cartoon,
17:36 and yet it had to be constructed in such a way that
17:39 I have to use a display stand even just to get him to stand.
17:42 A display stand, I might also add, was not even included with the figure in the first place.
17:46 How does no one test this?
17:48 I mean, obviously they put the track, I think, in there on the top of the thigh
17:52 solely for the figure's legs to be able to hinge outward,
17:54 but if it means it comes at the sacrifice that the figure can't even stand on his own,
17:58 and needs a display stand, and it's a display stand that's not even packed along with him,
18:02 I think they really need to go back to the proverbial drawing board
18:05 and redesign the figure again.
18:08 Again, from the top half, he's fine, and the more, you know, honestly I look at it,
18:11 I don't mind the fact that they actually used fabric for his jacket,
18:15 because he also had the wire built into the side and the bottom of the jacket,
18:18 but he also has it in the collar. I didn't mention that in the review.
18:21 So there's ways to actually just move around the jacket to give him some rather interesting flair.
18:25 I like the fabric on the jacket.
18:27 I don't like the way he's constructed from the jacket down.
18:31 Have you guys had the chance to pick up Devil Flanders?
18:34 Let me know down below in the comments section. Also, as well, convey your feelings.
18:37 If you have the figure, have you been also equally, equally frustrated,
18:41 as the person that was just finishing this review?
18:44 This guy, by the way, Devil Flanders, that is, is available right now at Entertainment Earth.
18:48 Him, as well as most, I think, of all the current wave, are in stock.
18:52 You can use the link down below in the video description that will take you to the listing of Devil Flanders,
18:57 but also that same link, when you use it, will save 10% on anything that's currently in stock over on their site,
19:03 whether you are collecting Super 7, whether you're just collecting something else.
19:06 That link will drop 10% off right off the bat.
19:09 But again, what do you guys think of Devil Flanders? Let me know down below in the comments section.
19:12 And of the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, let me know what your favorite mini movie is.
19:17 I have to say, like, the Devil and Mr. Simpsons, or Devil and Homer Simpsons,
19:21 definitely pretty high on my list, along with Monkey's Paw.
19:24 What's another good one? Oh, of course, The Shining. Can't forget, of course, The Shining.
19:27 The disappointing thing about this is the fact that the line I already know is coming to an end.
19:31 You can see already the end is in sight, and yet I'm still interested to collect this line for what little figures we have left of it.
19:39 And that's a testament to what Super 7 was doing well with the line,
19:42 but it's also a testament to what Super 7 did wrong with the line as well.
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20:00 [outro]
20:06 (dramatic music)