Mezco Cinema Of Fear Mez-Itz Series 1 3-Pack
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00:00This is what happens when you let maniacs become minifigures.
00:04Here's your re-look at the Mezgo Toys Cinema Fear Horror Mezzets.
00:14Get your horror hands on the Cinema Fear Mezzet action figures from 2002.
00:19The set includes three iconic horror movie characters Leatherface Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger.
00:24Each figure is three inches tall and made of high quality resin material
00:28and intricate details that capture the essence of their on-screen counterparts.
00:32It really does go to show that evil can come in any size.
00:35Just before we do this re-look of the Mezgo Toys Cinema Fear Horror Mezzets
00:39of Jason Voorhees, Leatherface and Freddy Krueger,
00:42let's take the tape measure and let's see how tall these stand.
00:44They're going to be about the same size as one another.
00:46The reason also why we're going back and having a look at these
00:49is while going through my various comments of other videos,
00:52there was one viewer that actually had asked if I would ever go back
00:55and consider doing a re-review of the following figures.
00:58It just dawned on me, in fact, that I had these figures.
01:01They were stored away in storage for like, I don't know how many years.
01:04They haven't even seen the light of day for, I don't know, at least three or four years.
01:08And that just kind of sparked an interest in me
01:11and how much I loved these little smaller horror collectibles that,
01:14for all intents and purposes, have been forgotten over the years.
01:17I thought it would be a prime time, a perfect time, to have a look at these again.
01:20Now again, these were released in 2002, so if you're doing the math,
01:24that's 22 years ago. How many of you are feeling old?
01:27We're also, as well, like I said, as promised, going to take the tape measure.
01:30Each one of these figures are, yeah, going to stand at three inches in height,
01:34or the horror mezzets are going to stand at seven and a half centimeters tall.
01:38You know what's really so funny about this set?
01:40Even though it's been 20 plus years since it first came out,
01:42I still remember when I bought these on eBay.
01:45eBay back then was my destination for a lot of my horror collectibles
01:48because, well, let's face facts, local comic book stores never really had stuff stocked like this.
01:53The thing that was fun about them is that they were fairly inexpensive.
01:56When you look at them, really, they're somewhat simplified looking characters.
02:00Very limited posability, but they got the job done.
02:03When you really think about it, each one of them come included with character-specific accessories.
02:06Jason had a machete, for example, Leatherface a chainsaw,
02:09and even though it doesn't look like he has an accessory, Freddy Krueger comes with his fedora.
02:13Not only on top of that, but they also have included display stands
02:16that, again, are all somewhat specific to the character.
02:19The first one we'll look at is Jason Voorhees.
02:21Some assembly was required with these.
02:23From what I remember, even though I've been kind of keeping them in a bag,
02:26I don't have the original packaging anymore,
02:28but I remember having the bases as being one piece,
02:31and then you had to do a little bit of assembly.
02:33The assembly, really, that was only required for Jason
02:35is that you took yourself the Camp Crystal Lake sign,
02:37there's a peg on the end of it, there's a hole right here,
02:39and you basically just fit it in place.
02:41All of the stands, really, are pretty much the same size and the same shape.
02:44Sometimes you'll see, as well, there's pegs here that are filled in
02:47because they're probably going to be used for another character.
02:49Probably, for example, either Freddy Krueger or Leatherface
02:52would have had something similar.
02:54There was also, as well, a black and white set of these.
02:56Also, following up, there was a second set that had the sack Jason,
02:59it had the pretty woman Leatherface,
03:01and it had the new nightmare Freddy Krueger.
03:03Yes, I do have that set.
03:05Yes, I might just get around to doing a re-review of that set as well.
03:08As for the actual diorama, again, you've got yourself the footprint space
03:12where Jason's going to be standing inside.
03:14You've got a little bit of water.
03:15Of course, you've got the Camp Crystal Lake sign.
03:17It's a pretty simplistic-looking display stand,
03:20but, again, it gets the job done.
03:22As for Jason himself, picking the character up,
03:24he comes included with his machete.
03:26I will say, though, all of their hands, the way they design these,
03:29are these C-clip hands.
03:30They're very similar to Lego men.
03:32They're always prone to having...
03:34I don't know, I always seem to struggle when it comes to getting
03:36the accessories into their hands.
03:37Jason Voorhees, for example, comes with a pretty rusted,
03:39pretty bloody-looking machete,
03:41but the handle, if you look at it,
03:43isn't that much smaller, really, than the hand that's going to be holding it.
03:46And I always find I have to struggle,
03:48even though, luckily, thank goodness,
03:50these are actually softer plastic.
03:52But even then, I still have to fight to get them into any one of their hands.
03:55Jason holds the machete, and once you get it in there,
03:57it ain't going anywhere.
03:59You can tip it upside down.
04:01Like I said, there was a black-and-white version of this.
04:03I would have loved if Mezco could have probably done
04:05an NES version of these characters.
04:07Maybe not as much for Leatherface,
04:09unless they had maybe done an Atari version of him,
04:11but certainly, at the very least,
04:13if they had done a two-pack Freddy Krueger and a Jason Voorhees,
04:15giving Jason Voorhees kind of the purple treatment
04:17with that blue mask,
04:19boy, that would have looked fantastic.
04:21Getting the machete, though, out of his hand,
04:23we'll just put it off to the side.
04:25We'll just put it over there.
04:27Getting a closer look at the figures now,
04:29again, they're pretty stock and basic
04:31when it comes to their bodies.
04:33You're basically going to have an oval-shaped
04:35or almost soup-can-shaped body,
04:37just very simple-looking hands,
04:39simple arms, simple hands,
04:41and again, of course, you've got the head on top of it.
04:43Surprisingly decent posability.
04:45For a figure that line, really, when you think about it,
04:47is back in 2002,
04:49the fact that they would still have, back then,
04:51a ball joint and a head is pretty impressive.
04:53Sorry to let everybody down,
04:55but the mask isn't removable.
04:57It would be fun if they had found a way to put
04:59like a little Easter egg that if you were smart enough,
05:01maybe even dumb enough, to pry the mask off,
05:03that you would see some horrific-looking face
05:05for Jason underneath, but that's not the case at all.
05:07You get quite a lot of blood, though, all over Jason.
05:09And again, you sort of get the suggestion
05:11of what a walkie mask would look like.
05:13You could buy into the idea that perhaps
05:15that's the little mark that was left behind by the axe.
05:17It's got a chevron.
05:19It doesn't have any chevrons anywhere else, though.
05:21But, you know, again, it's a simple-enough-looking Jason,
05:23but it looks really nice,
05:25really fun, a little fun figure.
05:27Now, again, if you want to put this guy on his display stand,
05:29if you follow the footprint of his feet,
05:31basically, you're just going to take Jason
05:33and you put him on top of his display stand.
05:35It doesn't necessarily peg in place.
05:37Obviously, it would work a whole lot better
05:39if all the figures basically just sit inside
05:41their little footprints right there.
05:43Posability on these guys, Jason will have,
05:45and all the other figures will have,
05:47ball joints for their heads.
05:49There are ball joints, actually, in their shoulders, too,
05:51which would be one of those things that they could easily
05:53have just simply put swivels in there.
05:55But no, Mezco actually put, back then,
05:57ball joints on shoulders, swivels on wrists,
05:59swivels on waist, ball joint legs,
06:01and no articulation here for the feet.
06:03But considering that they have this
06:05and that they have this for a figure line
06:07that's pretty impressive.
06:09There's Jason Voorhees.
06:11We'll just put him down here for a second.
06:13We'll move on to here, Leatherface.
06:15I guess we'll just move Leatherface out of the way
06:17for a second. We'll look at his display stand.
06:19His display stand, if you look at it,
06:21is pretty much the same shape as Jason's.
06:23So again, being that this is really like
06:25the little rock, the little rock,
06:27pebble stones, whatever this is,
06:29it looks like they probably just would have painted them.
06:31So it's so easy for them just to use the same display stand
06:33and then, you know, carve and copy all of them
06:35while Jason would have had the camp crystal-like one.
06:37Leatherface gets himself one that actually
06:39has a little vise, and it's quite, quite gory.
06:41This, by the way, again,
06:43was a little bit of assembly,
06:45so that's where the hole was before for Jason covered over.
06:47Now you've got a full visible hole.
06:49You basically take the vise
06:51and you plug it in place like that.
06:53It's not going to go anywhere.
06:55What you could do, too, is you can either have...
06:57I have, a lot of times in the past, displayed Leatherface
06:59in the front like this, but you could also, as well,
07:01spin it around and Leatherface could be working
07:03on the top, so to speak,
07:05but there's blood everywhere.
07:07If you look at the way the vise is, I don't know,
07:09I'm sure he's crushed somebody's head inside of this.
07:11There's no articulation, I mean,
07:13not that it necessarily needs to have it.
07:15The wood looks decent.
07:17I mean, you've got a little bit of brown stain
07:19onto the side there, and speaking of stain,
07:21there's a whole lot of blood all over the place.
07:23We'll just put that off to the side here.
07:25As for Leatherface, he does, of course,
07:27come included with his chainsaws.
07:29I guess they probably could have given him a mallet, as well,
07:31with a chainsaw, also, as well.
07:33I was actually, you know what?
07:35The first time I picked this up, and then the time
07:37that I've now just opened up my storage locker
07:39and found all these old things,
07:41I forgot the fact that Leatherface
07:43could actually hold his chainsaw with both hands.
07:45You just basically have to twist his hand like that.
07:47You can see he holds both sides.
07:49That's good. That's really cool.
07:51And there is, again, the wave version,
07:53the second wave of Leatherface that's going to be
07:55the Pretty Woman, which we will be looking at
07:57in an upcoming review.
07:59Short of the fact that, obviously,
08:01they would have just painted the same...
08:03Stuck again. Pull that away. There we go.
08:05Short of, obviously, the fact that they're
08:07just simply using the same body again
08:09as they did for Jason Voorhees,
08:11which, again, Jason does have the grey shirt,
08:13the lower grey slacks.
08:15I know we didn't spend a whole lot of time
08:17talking about that. Some nice little rips and tears,
08:19and he's got some blood all over his shirt.
08:21I mean, Leatherface takes the idea of blood
08:23and just escalates it. Escalates it.
08:25The bodies are going to be exactly the same.
08:27Nothing has changed really other than
08:29a brand new head sculpt now has been given here
08:31to Leatherface. Head sculpt looks good on this guy.
08:33You know, again, you've got the mouth open
08:35down below here. You can't really see any buck teeth
08:37or mangled teeth.
08:39Leatherface is all about summer teeth.
08:41Some are there. Some are not.
08:43That's a nice stitch there onto the side there as well.
08:45The simplicity of these, obviously,
08:47can't be overlooked, but there's maybe
08:49the charm that goes along with these
08:51is the fact that they are so simple.
08:53Again, you've got some nice blood there on the back.
08:55Just fun, fun-looking figures.
08:57Again, the posability on these will all be exactly the same.
08:59So, again, you've got your ball joints there.
09:01You've got your ball joint shoulders, swivel wrists,
09:03swivel waist. I know we covered this already.
09:05And ball joint legs. So there's Leatherface.
09:07The last figure
09:09that we'll have a look at
09:11in this trio of terrors
09:13is Freddy Krueger. Now, Freddy Krueger
09:15does come included with his
09:17furnace. Not the full furnace, obviously,
09:19because the whole back of this is completely missing,
09:21but you get the suggested idea. This is the door
09:23of the furnace. It doesn't open up,
09:25sadly. Not that I was really necessarily expecting it.
09:27You also get this weird,
09:29randomly placed skull.
09:31I don't know if the skull belongs to Freddy
09:33or, in fact, it belongs to one of his victims.
09:35It would have been nice, also, if they had put
09:37the little burnt glove. Other than that, though,
09:39it looks good. Some assembly, again,
09:41has required the skull and the door
09:43for the furnace are all one piece.
09:45So when you are putting this together, again,
09:47you're just going to line the holes up to the pegs,
09:49plug that in place, and now, again, you've got yourself
09:51a furnace that Freddy can stand in front of,
09:53just like that.
09:55Now, Freddy, his accessory
09:57technically is already on his head.
09:59The character does come included with the removable fedora,
10:01and the fedora I already took the liberty of just adding
10:03onto his head. It is something as a separate piece.
10:05If you wanted to, you could display it without.
10:07I, obviously, for the sake of having
10:09Freddy look more like Freddy, I always like to
10:11kind of keep the fedora on his head.
10:13The fedora, by the way, though, if you look
10:15at it, does have a lot more softer of a
10:17plastic than I was expecting.
10:19The head sculpt also underneath there is a really
10:21gruesome, yet almost kind of
10:23whimsical-looking version of Freddy Krueger.
10:25He's got yellow teeth.
10:27He's got very white-painted eyes there as well.
10:29The scarring for what this thing is as well,
10:31for the size that it is, is done fairly
10:33well as well. Of course, he's got
10:35himself the green and red-striped
10:37sweater, so we know right away it's not
10:39Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street, the first one.
10:41But he does also, of course, have his Freddy Krueger
10:43gloved hands, or his claw
10:45hand there. It is still a
10:47C-clip hand, like the little
10:49C-clamp hands. So technically, if you wanted
10:51to, you could include an accessory. You could display
10:53this guy with an accessory, but, you know, really,
10:55Freddy already has his weapon. It's always
10:57really attached onto his arm.
10:59Now again, he's got some blood there, stained
11:01down below. I like the way also
11:03that they've ripped the bottom of his
11:05sweater, so it does look like it's a little torn and
11:07a little tattered. He's got some nice blood there
11:09also on his arm as well. Even though,
11:11even looking at the back of this, which is not something
11:13you probably would see all that often if you have the figures
11:15displayed like this on your shelf.
11:17But they spent just as much time to sculpt and paint
11:19the back as they did to the front. And even, really,
11:21they sculpted and painted the top, even though
11:23really, again, like the head sculpt would be covered
11:25over by a fedora.
11:27Again, you've got your ball joint, you've got your ball
11:29joints, you've got your swivels, you've got your swivels,
11:31I've got your ball joints right here,
11:33and again, you've got no posability down below here in the feet.
11:35Just a fun set
11:37though. And you know what? I'm glad. I'm honestly
11:39glad that that viewer did say that in the comments.
11:41Would you ever consider the idea of going back,
11:43having a look at the Mezco
11:45Mezzets? I first of all kind of
11:47looked at it and took a double take.
11:49I wasn't quite sure really what Mezzets he was talking
11:51about, because there's been a couple of different versions
11:53that Mezco has released, more so in
11:55the earlier years than the later years.
11:57Mezco doesn't really do much of these anymore.
11:59But then it kind of dawned on me, yeah, I
12:01have this set, and I also have the second
12:03wave as well. And of course,
12:05it did take a little bit finding these, because just
12:07from the size of them, you've got to imagine that
12:09they're going to be easily lost if you have yourself with just
12:11a giant tote of other things.
12:13Luckily, I was able to find these. Luckily,
12:15I still have them all intact and nothing was broken
12:17on them. And it had me a good chance, finally,
12:19to have a look at these again.
12:21The good thing about the Mezco Cinemaphere Mezzets
12:23is that they haven't also appreciated much in
12:25value. In fact, if you were to go over on eBay
12:27right now and start looking these up, you could probably
12:29still find a set of three of them for anywhere
12:31from $25 to $50.
12:33Which again, to look at the value of these and
12:35how far, how long ago they first came out,
12:37probably at the time that I was first buying these,
12:39they were going for $20 to $25.
12:41So, if you want to get your hands on these, maybe for
12:43the fact that you had them at one point and you just think they're
12:45kind of charming, they're not
12:47super expensive at all now to acquire.
12:49The figures for what they are, considering
12:51how long ago they came out,
12:53it's pretty impressive that even though they're pretty simplistic
12:55on design, they're not simplistic
12:57at all for posability. Mezco
12:59still manages to pack all these figures with posable
13:01heads via ball joints, posable shoulders
13:03via ball joints. And of course, they also
13:05come with decorative display stands and dioramas
13:07that are all fitting to the character.
13:09I'm glad that I was able to find these.
13:11I'm glad, in fact, I was actually given that comment
13:13from that one viewer, which unfortunately
13:15I can't even remember the viewer that actually left that comment.
13:17If it was you, let me know down below in the comment section.
13:19Thank you! Thank you for reminding
13:21me that I had these. And through
13:23looking for these, I actually was able to find as well
13:25the second set of these, that also again
13:27had the Sack Jason, the Pretty
13:29Woman Leatherface and the New Nightmare
13:31Freddy. And you know what? We're going to be looking
13:33at that in an upcoming review. If though
13:35in the meantime you guys have had this set in your
13:37collection, let me know down below in the comment section.
13:39Or do you think they're charming enough that you might venture into
13:41the idea of picking up now, 20 plus years
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