Mezco Cinema Of Fear Mez-Itz Series 2 3-Pack
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00:00Mezco goes back to the silver screen or is it silver scream?
00:05Here's your relook at the Mezco Toys Cinema Fear Mezitz series 2 3-pack.
00:16If you thought the collection of Freddy, Jason and Leatherface together in Mezco's
00:20original Cinema Fear Mezitz 3-pack was a must-have, you will die for series 2.
00:25All new figures include Jason from Friday 13th part 2, Leatherface in a new
00:29outfit from the end of the movie and Freddy from Wes Craven's new nightmare.
00:32All three figures come complete with bases and accessories while the Mezitz
00:37are back with a lot more blood. Man, you're never gonna get that all out. What
00:42we will though do first is let's grab the tape measure and see how tall each
00:45one of these stand. This is a relook though at the Mezco Mezitz Cinema Fear
00:48series 2. We just recently re-looked at the series 1. Each one of the figures
00:52are gonna stand about the same 3 inches or so in height. Even really the
00:56Pretty Woman Leatherface is gonna be still the same and that translates the
00:59figures that about 7 centimeters tall. Even though all three of these are the
01:03same size to one another, they're actually taller than the first wave of
01:07Mezco Mezitz. You can see right away the differences between the sack Jason from
01:10part 2 compared next to the hockey mask wielding maniac from say what part 3
01:14onward. The same also could be said as well when you're comparing the two
01:17Leatherface. The Pretty Woman is a lot taller than the original slaughter mask
01:20and as well even for Freddy Krueger. So not really sure why they made them
01:24notably taller. Even their faces are a little bit bigger as well. Their sizes
01:28aren't the only thing they get upgraded in. Their dioramas are much more
01:31elaborate than the first wave Mezitz figures we've gotten before. Starting
01:35things on a high note, Jason Voorhees comes in clear with the tribute shrine
01:37of Pamela Voorhees. Look at that grotesque face on Pamela. Now to compare
01:42that though with the original Jason Voorhees, I mean other than really using
01:44the exact same display stand, I mean a much more simpler approach with the
01:48original Jason. He only had really a Camp Crystal Lake sign and a little bit of
01:51suggested painted water. The actual display base comes in two parts. So when
01:56you take that off, I mean it's really no different from the first wave other than
02:00just obviously like I guess if you really wanted to you could take the
02:02sign off. You can put that in place as well. So they're using the exact same
02:06display stands. Let's get that off for a second. Put that back in place. With this
02:10one actually there is no pegs on the bottom. So all you really need to do is
02:13actually just put it against this and put a little bit of pressure. It sort of
02:16friction fits itself. Friction fits itself. I say this as I struggle to get
02:21this this in here. And all basically all three of them work exactly the same way.
02:24Love the detail. First of all what they've done to Pamela Voorhees. What we
02:28have little left of her. The face sculpt, short of just having the head floating
02:32around, I think that's something we see in the NES Nintendo video game of Jason
02:36Voorhees on Friday 13th. Got some nice candles. Got some blood there were
02:39dripping on the front. Just a gruesome, gruesome looking sight to see of Pamela
02:43Voorhees. And of course there are the circular holes there on the front that
02:46you basically just take your figures. They don't attach necessarily. You
02:48basically just put them in those indentations and the figures stand that
02:51way. Jason Voorhees comes in clear with a
02:54pitchfork. Being that he also has C-clamp hands on both sides, you
02:59can easily take the pitchfork and attach it into either one of his hands. Blood
03:03will be one thing that's quite consistent with this certain wave. I
03:07almost feel like there's almost maybe too much blood that they've added all
03:10over these characters and their dioramas. I don't know if there is a second or an
03:13alternate set of these where the blood isn't as high, but there's certainly a
03:17lot of it there all over his pitchfork, not to mention all across his overalls
03:20there as well. He's got it stained across his pockets, stained across his pants.
03:24Again, I don't know if Tide alone will be enough to get all this stain off. The
03:28thing I really like about Jason is the fact they decided to give him the
03:30hockey, instead of the hockey mask, the sack head. And just to compare it with
03:33the original Jason. You know, to again look at these, I think it's really only
03:37just the heads that make them one size. Obviously the series 2 is a little
03:40bit bigger. I mean the bodies are exactly the same. The arms are the same as
03:43well as the lower legs. Even the hands are identical to one another as well.
03:46These also work on ball joints, although I wouldn't want to tempt fate by trying
03:51to remove these and swap them around. In fact, I had one incident in which one of
03:55these figures have broken. You guys can kind of guess for yourselves which ones
03:58those might be. But we're gonna go ahead just kind of remove the pitchfork for
04:02right now. Figures articulation for Jason. Again, I love the detailing on this guy.
04:06Maybe a little too much in the way of the red, but overall like the head sculpt
04:09is fantastic. Head's gonna be on a somewhat of a ball joint. I mean this one
04:13moves a little slower. Doesn't have as much ease at the original Jason. Does
04:17have though ball joints in the shoulders. How about that? Could rotate the arms all
04:20the way around. Although with the plastic being... after a while plastic tends to get
04:24a little bit more brittle. Again, I'm only going by the one experience. Okay, I'll
04:28tell you right away. It's the Pretty Woman Leatherface that actually did
04:31break. But I don't want to rotate them all the way around just because I feel
04:34like that plastic, if it happens to snag, it's gonna break. But for realistic
04:38purposes, you could really rotate the arms all the way around. And hands also
04:42as well rotate. There's waist rotation, ball joint legs, and again that's
04:46basically all you're gonna be getting. You know, it's surprising also that they
04:49put pegs on the bottoms of their feet and yet really that none of them have to
04:52attach onto the display stand by means of pegs. There's Jason. We'll put him off
04:56to the side here. Leatherface does quite well for himself. Not only with a very
05:01much more probably of the three, the most elaborate of display stands, but he also
05:04as well comes included. This is so cool. Comes a little bucket, but you can
05:08see floating inside the bucket is a face. That's probably all that's left behind
05:13of the person that he just killed. The blood is also, you can see,
05:16trickling down the side. This looks like an Italian horror movie from the late
05:1970s. The blood is so bright. There is also strangely a peg hole in the bottom
05:24of this, and yet looking around there doesn't seem to be a place on the
05:27display stand where this would attach. I'll come back to that in a second.
05:31Character also comes included with a chainsaw, and just to reach off to the
05:34side and bring back in the chainsaw we got from the original release, they seem
05:37to be identical. The blood is much darker though on the first wave release. The
05:42second wave of Mezgo Mezzets does have the blood again much brighter, much like
05:46an Italian giallo. It does fit into his hands, although unfortunately with my
05:50Leatherface, that arm right there did snap off the ball joint, and
05:56actually it wasn't even by any fault of my own. It was just sitting inside the
05:59totes where I had stored all the things I wasn't putting out currently on
06:02display, and as I was taking the things out finally finding these, I don't know
06:06if something had put pressure down on it and it just buckled the plastic on the
06:10peg. We'll move Leatherface just out of the way for one second. I did want to
06:14bring in again his display stand. This display stand is really neat. Again, lots of
06:18blood there on the on the bottom flooring here, but he has all these
06:20little hanging hooks that actually do move back and forth. The front of this
06:25also does have blood all over the boarding. You can see there's also some
06:28on the side there as well, but if you look on the back of it, there's also
06:31these pegs. The only other thing I can think of... well, no, that's not gonna fit. I
06:35haven't even tried this, but I thought, okay, well maybe that would plug onto the
06:37back, but it's strange that they put pegs here on the back because you'd
06:41almost think that the display would also go this way, and I mean maybe as a
06:46horrific looking bed in which Leatherface would be laying inside to go
06:49sleep at night. I can't understand why they would have put pegs like this other
06:52than maybe just resting this so it doesn't fall forward, but yeah, the hooks
06:55do move forward and back. There's a nice staining on the inside of that, and
06:58you can take yourself Leatherface. It just sits inside. Again, those little
07:01holes on the front. Now again, like Leatherface, I have unfortunately glued
07:06his one arm. It's this one here. This arm is still free to move and do whatever it
07:09needs to do. You can take, of course, the chainsaw and make sure I grab the right
07:13one, and that just plugs into his hand. Realistically, you could have both hands
07:17holding on to the handles, but realistically... realizing, though,
07:21unfortunately, I've glued the arm. There's no way I'm gonna be able to budge it.
07:23Head Sculpt, though, for what we get... I'm just gonna again remove this, put it off
07:27to the side. Short of maybe missing some of the makeup that would have been on
07:30the Pretty Woman, I think this face sculpt... I mean, again, it's a simpler
07:33looking figure. We have to kind of look at this, you know, not with rose-colored
07:36glasses, but we have to be realistic to look at this and think that, you know,
07:39obviously it's an older figure. Still, though, I kind of wish that this was more
07:42white than it was like the tan color. To compare it, though, with the Leatherface
07:46we've gotten before, again, same lower legs, same arms, same hands. One thing
07:51that's different, though, with the Pretty Woman is that they've now added the top
07:54of the collar, the tie, and a new... now new jacket. The blood, though, I just don't
07:59think the blood is... I think the blood need to be a lot darker, to be all honest.
08:01This actually just looks more like someone stained something with, like,
08:04grape jelly. I feel like, again, like the blood is maybe a little too bright on
08:08these. But the Head Sculpt, for what we get, it's a little higher of a head, too. You've
08:11got some nice stitching there on the side. Very cool-looking Head Sculpt. I
08:15just kind of wish it was white. Again, the Head Sculpt's gonna have the same
08:18poseability, really, as Jason from before. The only thing about it, though, is
08:22because his face is so long... why so long in the face? Because the head is so long,
08:28it's pretty much gonna limit any possibility of poseability on the head.
08:32You could still rotate the waist. The legs do still have ball joints, and again, if...
08:36obviously, you'd be able to do it on both hands. I can't do it on both hands, but
08:40this one arm does have a ball joint, and again, you can rotate the hands. Pretty
08:43cool-looking Leatherface. And then the last one of the three-set wave,
08:48second wave of the three figures. The last one we have is the new Nightmare
08:52Freddy. I would honestly say it's probably my least favorite of the three
08:55figures. Now, he actually gets himself the furnace scene that we get inside... we get
08:59in the movie. Of course, you got the open doorway here, and then you got the flame
09:03on the inside of this. This attaches basically the exact same way. The only
09:06thing that's different, though, is that unlike Jason, there's pegs and pegs that
09:09actually line up to the holes. So this one actually... you don't have to fight as
09:13hard to get this in place, and this actually attaches onto the pegs. Not much
09:17in the way of detailing on the back, but of course, you got the furnace fire there
09:20on the front, and of course, you can take yourself Freddy Krueger and just place
09:23him inside those holes. I wish that they would have put pegs here, but I mean,
09:27again, it's not a big deal. I mean, it's not like a deal-breaker at all. To
09:30compare him, though, with the original Freddy, I know, again, safe to assume that
09:34the legs are exactly the same. The hands, funny enough, though, are also the same as
09:39well, even though Freddy would have had very much different... a different glove
09:42hand in New Nightmare than he would have had in the original sequels before that.
09:44Head Sculpt is a much more... it's got a lot more nicer coloring to it. One
09:50notable thing about the original Freddy Krueger was that the colorings on his
09:54face were a little bit more dark, a little bit more kind of washed out, just
09:57muddier, at least with this version. I keep on calling him Leatherface. With
10:01this version, though, of Freddy, not only do you have the brighter colors, but
10:04you got the scars left behind in a much darker orange. The face works okay. I just...
10:09I don't know if I would say I like it as much as the other two. I think, like
10:11Leatherface and Jason are the nicer of the figures. Now, he doesn't have... again,
10:16it's a consistent thing with all these figures that they don't have really much
10:19in the way of articulation. He probably does the best, because there's a lot less
10:23of his face. The head moves up and down. Again, you can move it back and forth.
10:26Freedom to move on the shoulders, because, again, you got a non-broken ball
10:30joint. Hands rotate, hands rotate, swivel the waist, and, again, you've got the ball
10:35joints on the legs. The only criticism I would certainly make about this... I mean,
10:39again, keeping in mind how old this set is. This set's, like, what, 20 years old? I do
10:43feel like the coloring on, maybe, like, the Leatherface probably could have been
10:46a little bit nicer, and I also feel, too, like, there's just too much blood. Too
10:50much blood. I mean, normally, that's a strange thing for this guy to complain
10:52about. There's just too much of it, but, like, to see how they approached the
10:57first wave of figures... we'll just bring them back in right now. Leatherface, again,
11:01Jason Voorhees, and off to the side here again. I'll put him right front center.
11:04First wave, I think, at least took the colors, at least of the blood, and, you
11:09know, again, there need to be something, maybe, a happy medium between the two.
11:11Maybe not as much looking like grape jelly stained on the clothes for the
11:15first wave, and maybe not as bright of a jello blood stain on the on the second
11:20wave. I do kind of wish, again, like, they could have had the same size proportions,
11:24because, again, like, if you put in the two side to side, they almost look like
11:27they're from completely different figure lines. I'm so happy to have got this set.
11:31Other than being a bit bummed, unfortunately, that pretty woman's
11:34Leatherface did break in the shoulders. Not certainly something that couldn't be
11:37fixed with glue. A nice little set. Now that I actually have both sets, and I
11:41have covered reviews on both of them, I might find myself putting these guys
11:44back on display. It's been at least, I would say, 10 years since I've had these
11:48figures originally on my shelf. I think it's a prime time, a perfect time, to have
11:52them on display again. If memory does serve me, believe me, it doesn't always. I
11:57think the first wave of Mez Gomez's series one came out in 2002. Add an
12:02additional three years on top of that, because the second series came out in
12:052005. If you're doing the math from where we are right now, that's 19 years
12:09ago. How many other collectors out there feel really old right now? Some of you
12:13probably weren't even around at the time that these figures first came out. You
12:16know, it was actually a perfect time to go back and look at these again, because
12:19for a while, to be honest, I forgot all about them. One viewer, and I really wish
12:24I could remember the viewer's name, had asked me would I ever go back and look
12:27at the Mez Gomez's series one figures, and just, lady luck was, I just happened to
12:31open up the tote to find the first series, and along next to that, in their
12:34own designated bag, was the series two Mez Gomez's. Bummed I was though, unfortunately, to
12:39look inside the bag and find that Leatherface's arm was completely
12:43detached from his body. That would have been ideal for a remake Leatherface, but
12:46certainly not the kids from the 74 film. All of them have a much more elaborate
12:50looking display stand than the original series one. My favorite, I would say, is
12:54probably still the Pamela Voorhees shrine. I mean, also, I would say, like
12:57probably my favorite of the three is the sack Jason, because I think it looks the
13:01coolest. Yeah, I would say the blood is maybe a little too excessive. I mean,
13:05again, it's kind of strange for me to be saying like there's too much blood on
13:07something, but I feel like the blood is maybe a little bit too overly
13:11handled here on the figures. It looked like somebody just literally just dipped
13:14the paintbrush in a bucket and then slung it over at the figures. I think
13:19they probably could have pulled back the reins just a little bit, but it doesn't
13:21necessarily detract from it. I just wish, though, there was a second wave of Mez
13:25Gomez's that didn't have as much of it. Now, again, when you're looking at these,
13:29all of them attach onto their display stands. More or less, just footprint
13:33spaces. You're just putting the figures on top of those holes, and it keeps the
13:36figures in place. Again, like with the display stands, much more complicated
13:41matters than the original ones we got before. Jason only really had, when you
13:44think about it, just a lake sign. Leatherface and Freddy Krueger had, of
13:48course, the head vise, which seemed a little strange and out of place, and then
13:51Freddy Krueger, of course, came in clear with the furnace front face. Of those
13:55between the second wave and the first wave, the second wave, I think, handles
13:58things not only just from a head sculpt standpoint, but from the display stand as
14:02well. A much more interesting thing to look at. I just wish there wasn't as much
14:06blood. Have you guys had the chance at one point to have collected the Cinema
14:09of Fear Mez Gomez's? Is this also one of those things that you maybe have gone
14:12back and looked at to get again? I mean, the one thing about them is, as I did say
14:16this in the Mez Gomez's series 1, is to go on places like eBay. I think you
14:20probably could still find yourself a sealed set of these for easily like $35
14:24to $40. They're not overly expensive at all, so if you missed your chance, maybe
14:28way back 19 years ago, or maybe you weren't even born 19 years ago. Man, I
14:32feel so old right now. You probably could find these at a decent price. Have you
14:36guys originally collected these? Have these been ones that you have recently
14:40discovered? Maybe even through this review, you guys didn't even know these
14:43things existed. Let me know down below your feelings and what you guys think
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