NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cartoon Ultimate Evil Rex Action Figure
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00:00uh-oh it looks like the Shred Head has hardwired these things for havoc here's
00:04your look at the NECA toys Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon evil racks
00:30based on the 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series the first robot
00:42policeman known as robot enforcer experiment now has a diabolical duplicate
00:47Shredders army of evil Rex one robots are here to take control of your toy
00:51shelf and terminate the Turtles once and for all see see this is why you don't
00:56let the bad guys get the blueprints just before we get a close look at the
01:00Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series evil Rex one first I'd like to
01:04thank the folks over at NECA toys that were kind enough to provide this sample
01:07we could have a look at second as you probably can already see I've taken the
01:10tape measure and it's gonna tell us that the doppelganger of Rex one's gonna
01:14stand eight and a half inches in height it is you can see it for yourself or the
01:18figure is gonna be about 21 and a half centimeters tall this die-cast
01:23doppelganger of Rex one comes to us from season 2 episode 10 New York's
01:27shiniest and what shredder gets his hands on the blueprints and basically
01:30essentially takes Rex one which we have right here and makes evil copies of him
01:34I'm sure I wasn't the only one that made this assumption that when we first had
01:39a look at Rex one the logical next steps for this mold with it simply NECA would
01:44have just re-released it in the darker colors and given us the evil Rex one
01:47carbons or carbon copies obviously that seems to be the case that they've done
01:51right here there are some things though that they have changed notably though
01:55you can see like Rex one still would have had his police badge I mean these
01:58guys are bad guys after all there's no need for badges so he doesn't have the
02:01badge on his chest he doesn't have the badge on his hat and you can see he's
02:04got much more evil er looking eyes comparing them is also as well with the
02:08turtles we I think we did this the first time we had to look these as well the
02:11turtles are only gonna be going to about the waist area I decided also as well to
02:15go with the lime green colored turtles because this is like later into the
02:18season I want to kind of keep the colors matching appropriately here's
02:21what the figure looks like also with April O'Neill and of course the man
02:24behind the scenes the man responsible for creating the carbon copies of Rex
02:28here's what the shredder looks like with the evil Rex ones and again why not he
02:32knows a little something about making robots or Crane knows a little something
02:35about making robots here's what the figure looks like with not just one but
02:39two different variations of foot soldier I almost feel like if they are gonna be
02:44evil copies of Rex one they should have also had themselves mustaches is that
02:47something that was always the case when an evil version of a character would pop
02:51up in a TV series they would either have a sash or they have a mean-looking
02:54mustache or goatee probably could have done something similar to Rex as though
02:59for the accessories that come in clear with the character right now he does
03:02have closed fists on the ends of his forearms that can be easily rectified
03:05though because the character comes in clear with a couple of gripping hands
03:08panel lining on all of these is really good as well not only do you get the
03:12dividing sections of knuckles but also as well they've detailed the front
03:15portion the front top piece of the hands as well and again these would just
03:19simply pop out from the hands that he has the figure also comes included a
03:22couple of trigger firing finger hands nicely done there as well very clean to
03:27on these paint jobs you can see like there's nothing really missed at all nor
03:31has the lines found their way onto other areas I mean the panel lining on these
03:35is top-notch character also comes included with a couple of gestured hands
03:38get a good look at these and finally the figure also comes with a pair of
03:42relaxed hands now what you can also do too is he's not gonna be holding much of
03:47anything right now because he does have closed fist but what you could do though
03:50is what you could do too is that you can swap the hands up so again what we'll do
03:54is first we'll hold on to the forms just kind of wiggle the hands from the post
03:58just like this if you're having problems by the way doing this stop what you're
04:02doing don't keep continuing to think that you can just keep wiggling it back
04:05and forth pulling it off if there's resistance stop go grab yourself a hair
04:10dryer heat it up a little bit and you might find this a lot easier to remove
04:12the hands where were we okay so pop the new hands then back in place I'm only
04:18gonna be using these hands at least for right now we're probably gonna be
04:21changing things up a little bit when we get to the final looks of the figure
04:23again just twist it back in place and when that's in place then the figure can
04:29finally hold his included other accessories he comes include a pair of
04:32blasters these blasters in fact are very similar other than just the colors of
04:36the choices that they went with I mean the darker gray was belonging to the
04:39original Rex and then of course the dark black now gets treated to the evil
04:43doppelgangers they attach to the hands the exact same way so basically what you
04:47want I want to make sure I'm grabbing the right hands here what you'll do I
04:49want to make sure I've got the right hand too if you look at it see there's a
04:53handle and then see there's a loop bump bump below it what you do is you
04:56basically just fit this around his hand so when you kind of put it in you put it
04:59in and you twist it around so that makes sense I hope that makes sense put it on
05:04an angle twist it around and then the robot can actually carry around his
05:07blasters that way and of course you can just repeat the process and do it on the
05:11other side as well what you could do too is what Rex did as well just take that
05:15the blasters just move his arms out of the way if you look locate on the side
05:18here there's these half circles well I guess that would be a full circle but
05:22it's just a flat circle see there's a little slot right here if you take the
05:25blasters I want to make sure I've got it facing the right way the blasters have
05:29this little lip of plastic see that see that see that that's gonna plug right
05:34into that slot so you do it on one side there we go and you can do the exact
05:39same thing on yeah you guessed it the other side there as well so some storage
05:43place for that as well the one other thing that the character comes included
05:46with I guess a couple of other things as well probably will involve me having to
05:49remove the blasters also comes included with a megaphone so you could really
05:53have this display with the evil Rex ones if you prefer or I might just end up
05:57displaying this with the original Rex one I just think that's a little bit
05:59more appropriate to a nicer police cop as opposed to an evil robot but again
06:04that's also just gonna fit in his hands what you could do too is that you can
06:07also use like one of these hands too and these are fairly soft enough in plastic
06:13you just get the handle of the megaphone and just kind of just get it around
06:17really the thumb and again if you're having a struggle doing this it almost
06:23seems like for a second I'm having a struggle maybe it is because I am
06:26anyways you just basically fit that in his hands and now the evil robot can
06:29also have himself the megaphone and again if you wanted to use it with the
06:32original Rex one which again is probably something I'm gonna end up
06:35doing the last thing the character comes included with and I really like these is
06:38little firing effects there's a red one and there's a blue one you could treat
06:42the that the red one's gonna belong to the evil version and of course matching
06:46the colors of his visor and that the blue one is also gonna be then for the
06:49original Rex one so you basically just take Rex's blaster this is with the
06:53original one and then this rectangular piece I'm sure you already know it's
06:57gonna go right in here just plugs in place like that so you've got the
07:02blaster shooting blue what you can do then is take the black one this
07:07basically follows the format and laws of like Jedi lightsabers blue is gonna be
07:11good red is gonna be evil or Sith and that basically just plugs in place so
07:15now you've got the blue and you've got the red they're not even quite similar
07:20to one another either that it isn't just a case like NECA took one mold and just
07:23cast it again in different plastic you can see one is notably shorter and it
07:27also is a little bit more of a translucent red plastic whereas this one
07:30is a little harder kind of see anything waving behind it put it in all those
07:34things this side getting a closer look though at the figure now again like there
07:39are some things it isn't just the case that they took the original Rex one
07:43which I just happen again have right here if you're looking at things like
07:46his arms they're gonna be exactly the same things like his torso are the same
07:49as well even like the legs don't share really any differences from one to the
07:53other the more notable changes are kind of more just cosmetic kind of decorative
07:57things so Rex one before would have had the little badge you can see on the
08:01front of his chest also would have had Rex dash one the new ones actually now
08:06only have Rex they've done away with one because obviously it's not the original
08:10one anymore no longer now there's the badge and no longer is there a badge on
08:14the top of the head all of those have been done away the thing I think is
08:17really fun though is that if you're looking at the head sculpts though see
08:21how it's straight visor looks like something in fact bebop would wear but
08:25it's straight across if you look though at the visor that's now for the evil Rex
08:29ones now you can see that they angle towards in kind of in towards his mouth
08:33so right away you know the robots evil it still does have one thing that the
08:37original Rex one would have had a mouth guard so it does open but it doesn't
08:41open to the degree of the original Rex so I'm just gonna put this one down here
08:44for a second bring back in the original Rex there seemed to be a little bit more
08:48space here where you could in fact open up the mouth you can see there's a
08:51little slot right there there was also I think as well a tongue piece too but
08:55this does open and close it does open though on the evil version but it
08:59doesn't open even like bringing the head back a bit it doesn't seem to open as
09:04well I don't know if they maybe just made the head a little bit more closer
09:07maybe made the neck post a little shorter but it doesn't seem to open with
09:11ease that the original Rex one would have had the dark gray works really well
09:14and I think the red works to pop on the colors very nicely too again the Rex you
09:19got there that that's in red you've got little buttons there also on the sides
09:22that would be red the original one would have had that in white and white down
09:26below there as well like with the original Rex there's also these front
09:28panels that open up and these are just on hinges so carefully you just lift
09:33these up and you can see the inner working of the robot and holding that
09:37the way it is right now I'm gonna go ahead and just open up Rex's and why I'm
09:42opening these is just to show you that they are exactly the same to one another
09:45the only thing I really wish that this set could have also came included with
09:49more not necessarily for the original Rex one but now more to the evil Rex's I
09:53wish they had had like a little electric like spark effects that they could have
09:58attached on the inside of the like the little chest pieces just so it looked
10:01like the robots were malfunctioning something just along those lines I think
10:04would have been nice additional welcomed pieces but in that though I mean other
10:07than just a few things that I've pointed out here the robots are essentially
10:11identical it's just a color changing of the plastic that's about it let's just
10:15lower these right now I have noticed though over the time that I've had these
10:19the panels have gotten a little looser especially this one right here I don't
10:23remember it being as loose as it is but I mean it they're only ever gonna really
10:26stay closed anyways it's not it's not always the case I'm just gonna want to
10:29have them always open I think if I end up getting more than one of these I'd
10:33actually have to have I think I'd like to have one of them open like this so it
10:36looks like shredders working away on fixing one of them and then have a
10:39couple of them I mean keep continuing to say I'd like to get a couple of these I
10:42mean who am I kidding I mean just with you know the gun the prices of some of
10:46these as they go especially to order them online just happy again to have
10:50just one version of them with hopefully the idea in mind down the road maybe I
10:53maybe I get more than one for the figures articulation though it's gonna
10:57be exactly the same as the original Rex so the heads gonna be on a ball joint it
11:01looks back and forth in all intents and purposes you could rotate all the way
11:04around as well still though there seems to be something that's limiting the
11:07mouth guard from actually dropping all the way down you can see that there
11:11seems to be still a slit behind the scenes you just can't actually open the
11:14mouth I kind of actually like a little higher than this it looks like the old
11:17Rankin bass Wizard of Oz cartoon that looked like the Tin Man there's no way
11:22you can't do anything with really the hat the hat doesn't remove it doesn't
11:25rotate or anything along those lines the upper torso though is gonna be on a ball
11:28joint and that's to the extent of how much you can rotate while it looks like
11:32though there's a slot right here where you'd be able to turn the waist doesn't
11:36seem to be the case at all the arms come out and they come out about 90 degrees
11:41or so you can take the arms and you can rotate them all the way around and all
11:44the way around one thing though too is that the plastic feels pretty good on
11:48these for the size of the characters even like when neck is doing like the
11:52smaller size turtles the plastic is generally quite good I never really have
11:55those kind of worries that you know maybe for perhaps other figure companies
11:59out there we're like if you start to rotate things I know in the past like
12:02neck has had problems when it comes to like their cult classic figures or even
12:06for that matter like maybe sometimes even their predator figures I've never
12:09really had any issues with their turtle figures like the plastic it's kind of
12:12got a little more of a density to it but it feels now this would be a horrible
12:16description to describe this as but it feels a little bit like an eraser if an
12:20eraser wasn't rubbery it's kind of got that kind of smooth feel to it that it
12:24feels like there's a little bit more give to it the figure does have a single
12:28hinge only in the elbow it sadly though it doesn't rotate at the form so when
12:32you do any rotation it's only gonna rotate here at the bicep hands rotate
12:36all the way around you can hinge them back and forth as well as for the legs
12:39the legs split out now with the way that they've got these discs on the side
12:43the discs are attached here and here it's when you're swiveling out the legs
12:48like this you can really feel it starts to push these out you just want to be
12:52careful that you don't push them all the way out and they fall off the figure
12:55let's go forward legs go back there is a mild swivel I shouldn't even say mild
13:00that's a fair decent swivel at the top of the thigh a single hinge only on the
13:04knee and like with the original Rex one there's ankle articulation where you can
13:07move it back and forth this way and an ankle rocker as well again by no real
13:11surprise this guy got released the first time I looked at the original Rex one
13:15which I still think is one of the coolest looking figures we've gotten a
13:18very deep cut obviously but when we did get that first Rex one I certainly did
13:23think that and I'm sure many people also thought this as well that we were
13:26eventually gonna be getting the evil carbon copies of Rex and that's
13:29essentially what we've gotten here from the standpoint of what we get for
13:33accessories I'm glad that they we get ourselves like the megaphone that's a
13:36nice little included touch so even if I don't really decide to display the
13:39megaphone with the evil version the hands also to something else is that
13:43they're using the exact same color so like with this one I can easily just
13:46pop the hand off from the and forearm of Rex and just display it with the
13:50megaphone instead might just end up doing that of course you get also as
13:53well some included new blast effects pieces you got the red for obviously the
13:57evil version of Rex you got the blue now that you can use for the original Rex
14:00one nice releases nice releases on this one the figure is also really using a
14:04lot of plastic that always one of those things that NECA does that really you
14:08know when you think about it the figures aren't charged overly inflated at least
14:12in a standpoint of what the costs are going for for them I mean for Rex he's
14:16gonna be a little bit more than a regular Ninja Turtle figure but not a
14:19whole lot though if you do get guys get a chance and you were a big fan of the
14:24original Rex one the new evil version of Rex should be available right now either
14:28in stores or online as we jump over to the turntable worth oh wait a minute
14:32what's Shredder doing here well I thought if Shredder was responsible for
14:35making the evil Rex's after all then the character could pop up as the figure
14:39rotates on the rotisserie looking at the mold the first time with the OG Rex one
14:43we all made the connected dots that sooner rather than later NECA would be
14:47releasing the mold again in the evil Rex's it isn't one of those cases where
14:51the company was just being cheap let's get more mileage out of a mold and just
14:55recreate a character that never existed in cartoon canon the evil Rex's also
14:59appeared in the same episode as Rex one New York's shiniest so logically this
15:04character is just as canon as the original Rex one I'm glad we finally
15:07got a release of it the darker colors approach with the plastic I think I like
15:11the dark grays really nicely on this figure of course you got some nice red
15:14accents it still has all the same things that the original Rex one although I
15:17noticed though with the mouth plate it doesn't seem to have as much as much
15:21freedom to move as the original Rex one seemed to have still has the blasting
15:25guns it has now blast effects which is a nice touch you can have the red for the
15:29evil Rex you can have the blue for the original OG Rex and now it comes with
15:32included megaphone the figure does have still the same articulation where it
15:36counts although again like with the mouth I don't know why it doesn't move
15:39as much as it did but I'm glad to finally have this one as part of my
15:42collection I did say though in the review I can see myself getting more
15:46than one of these a lot of times just to be all honest I don't usually pick up
15:49any more figures just with the price of wanting to get other things that NECA is
15:52putting out regularly I don't have a lot of times they usually go back and pick
15:56up multiples of one thing foot soldiers tend to be the exception to that or
16:00those sewer xenomorphs that we got from the earlier season I picked up a couple
16:04of those as well but usually a lot of times even if I say in the review man
16:08I'd love to get more than one of these a lot of times I don't this one though I'm
16:12just happy to have I feel just the one the character as a whole has been well
16:16done here by NECA missing I think perhaps one other thing I do wish that
16:20it had some short-circuiting effects that could have been attached on the
16:23inside of his body torso I'm not though I'm really happy with how this one
16:27turned out what do you guys think of the evil Rex's let me know down below in the
16:30comment section have you guys had the chance to pick this one up or is this
16:32one on your radar as well big thank you once again to the folks over at NECA
16:36that provide the sample we could have a look at if you guys did enjoy this video
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