Hiya Toys Star Trek 2009 James T. Kirk Exquisite Super Series 1:12 Scale Action Figure
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00:00if you're collecting track space may not be the final frontier here's a look at
00:04the brand-new highest Star Trek 2009 exquisite super series captain James T
00:09Kirk
00:27Hiya Toys is proud to announce the next installment the 112 scale exquisite super
00:32series James T Kirk from Star Trek 2009 James T Kirk stands approximately 6 and
00:381 5th inches tall and faithfully reproduces his appearance from the film
00:42he is dressed in his iconic yellow uniform with the star feet emblem
00:45representing command and strategic personnel his clothes jeans and belt are
00:49all made of real cloth ensuring both superior posability and aesthetic appeal
00:53Kirk doesn't believe in a no-win scenario neither does Haya in fact
00:58everybody's gonna be winning with a new release of the exquisite super series
01:01Star Trek we're gonna be starting first with Star Trek 2009 I imagine that they
01:05probably will be branching off from the first film this figure though is slated
01:08to drop in March 2025 most of the online sites that are stocking and selling Haya
01:13have the listings going for $109.99 I'd like to thank the folks over at Haya
01:17toys that did provide this sample of Captain Kirk let's go take the tape
01:21measure now and see how tall the figure actually stands he's about six inches in
01:24height in fact actually looking at him Captain Kirk seems to be exactly six
01:27inches in height that works out to be a figure those of what that's about 15 and
01:31a half centimeters tall not only does he dash ideas of no-win scenarios Kirk's
01:36all about survival this guy's also all about survival as well here's what the
01:39figure looks like with the exquisite super series John Jay Rambo from Rambo
01:433 this was also one I did want to certainly bring in I mean if you know
01:47what the inside joke at all about Captain Kirk and where his face got
01:50lent over even though really the mask doesn't look as good as it did from 78
01:55film here's also what he looks like with a Halloween to Michael Myers also an
01:58exquisite super series and if we're gonna be looking at the super series why
02:01not go back to the basics and a little bit smaller in size here's what the
02:04figure also looks like with the Star Trek 2009 exquisite miniseries of James
02:08Kirk maybe we'll refrain from looking at accessories just for a moment first
02:12though let's look at the display stand options that come in clue with Kirk now
02:15the figure if you are familiar with the exquisite basic or exquisite super
02:18series you'll know that they come in clue with these very large bulky display
02:22stands in this case we've got the Star Trek logo down below here as well but
02:26not only do they serve as display stands and I know you already know where this
02:29is going but you can also as well open up these and inside you'll find yourself
02:33a bag and what can store inside the bag you may find me ask yourself I mean if
02:37it was in a classic episode of Star Trek probably a miniaturized version of the
02:40Enterprise and the crew has to get themselves out of this giant plastic
02:44prison but no no no actually you'll be able to take all the accessories that
02:47we're about to have a look at you'll be able to put them inside the bag you'll
02:50be able to fold up the bag carefully and then you'll be able to store them inside
02:54a much larger plastic prison by putting the lid on top of this now not only is
02:59it just storage not only also is a display stand but you also get as well
03:03an adjustable neck now the neck does have knuckle joints if I provide don't
03:07drop them there's a joint here here here and here all of these will work together
03:11to get you just the right pose like if you want to have Captain Kirk leaping in
03:15the air karate chopping his way sometimes he also does do drop kicks did
03:18Chris Pine ever does his Kirk ever do drop kicks William Shatner's certainly
03:22did the thing I like about these also too is that you can detach these so if
03:27you do find like the neck is way too long for example just take the parts
03:30that you need discard the parts you don't and just attach the one onto the
03:34top there like that and then just plugs into the base just like that you get
03:38yourself a regular display stand that can be of course with the accommodating
03:41waist clip just clip around Kirk's waist let's say for example you don't like
03:46display stands that have very obvious you know where they were taking this
03:49source material from say you don't like that so you don't like that what you get
03:53also as well for an available option is you get this cork board display stand
03:57lid so essentially what it's doing is it's taking that idea of a hole that's
04:01right here and that's just it's doing that times nine so you get multiple hole
04:05options so basically just take your lid off here for example so we'll just put
04:10that off to the side then you get the option now where you can attach it here
04:13you here here well you know you get the idea just plug that let's say in the
04:17middle and now you got yourself a display stand that works that way as
04:20well what you can also do too is if you look at the bottom of the base or make
04:25sure I get this out here on the bottom here you may notice too that there's
04:29some slots if you're familiar with the exquisite mini-series well this works
04:32basically the exact same way slots here here here here basically every side has
04:37two you get these eye brackets and if you have yourself like a multiple
04:42display stands which I don't remember this might be the first time the super
04:47series release has actually got the eye bracket system it's up to this point
04:50like the mini-series certainly did if you had multiple display stands I mean
04:54ideally obviously you can connect multiples together and just have the
04:58figures displayed that way I do wish though like looking at the lid the way
05:02they the original initial lid I wish that there was also eye brackets here or
05:06space slots provided so again if you wanted to have multiples of these
05:09displayed together I mean yeah granted it would mean that you'd have Star Trek
05:12Star Trek Star Trek it doesn't have terrain specifically but at least though
05:17if they work the same way you could attach multiples of these together and
05:20have Captain Kirk displayed that way transporting now in the accessories that
05:24come in clue with the captain first the figure does come in clue with a
05:27miniaturized model of the USS Calvin I must have been cutting onions I think
05:32when this scene played we at the very beginning of the Star Trek 2009 film we
05:37see ourselves this Kirk's father lieutenant George Kirk on board the USS
05:41Calvin get a little miniaturized Calvin I'm not really even sure what you would
05:45really do with this it doesn't have like a display stand for example it certainly
05:49doesn't even have a desk that can be displayed on top of that but a nice
05:52little miniaturized reminder though that Kirk had to unfortunately lose his
05:55father I must have been cutting onions that day what I also do like though is
06:00that Kirk also comes included with his little Apple Kobayashi maneuver nothing
06:05to Kirk though he simply just alters the computer file now the Apple itself
06:09doesn't look like it's got any bite marks into it so cocky Kirk hasn't yet
06:13taken a bite out of this he does though come included with a hand and we can
06:17take the Apple and the Apple does fit into his hand and it actually fits
06:21pretty well too I'm just making sure of course I say that I don't drop it yeah
06:26it looks like the Apple stays pretty good in his hand what else does he have
06:32he comes included with his flask I seem to be all thumbs in this review comes
06:37with a tiny flask it does not look like if I spin this around either no no other
06:42additional paint other than just the silver nice little flask he does also
06:46come included with his communicator the communicator does not open up I think
06:53they also list this online as a log device too but I think it's actually his
06:56communicator decently detailed I'm not sure really what it was about the Star
07:01Trek that the new Abrams films I thought always like the Star Trek tech seemed
07:06very underwhelming the communicators from the classic series was always the
07:09best for me even like the communicators and the phasers that they had in the
07:13follow films with Shatner I think those were also really good as well but yeah
07:16a little tiny communicator you get yourself a maybe this is the log device
07:20I thought really honestly it was the tricorder it's got some nice colors
07:25there on the front little dials and knobs right there he does have though a
07:30pocket actually as has two pockets on his holster here one to the one side
07:34that holds the phaser and then the other side will hold the communicator
07:37figure does also come in clue is phaser yeah I didn't love the phaser at all in
07:43the Abrams universe the idea of this spinning around one to set the stun one
07:46to set the kill I don't know I just would have preferred if they just kept
07:51things a little bit more simple it looks good though I mean it's well cast here
07:55in silver plastic a little bit of additional afforded details added in
07:58there as well he does also come in clue with a couple of hands too so it comes
08:03with like this hand now you'll notice with this hand specifically that the
08:06fingers a little further forward so you just get yourself your phaser slide it
08:11in there it's a tight grip I will say so maybe it might even help to put the
08:16finger pry the finger a little further away just so they don't scrape the paint
08:20if there is paint down there that is yeah it gets yourself a phaser hand
08:24holding a holding hand phaser then the figure does come include a series of
08:29interchangeable hands now I've already actually swapped out this hand over here
08:32at the beginning of this review ideally though if you came out of the packaging
08:36what he would have come out with is two relaxed hands which is what he still has
08:40on this side I just like taking the liberty of swapping it out just a
08:44regular flat relaxed hand comes again with a couple of gripping hands some of
08:48the hands are again suitable for holding like the log device which again we can
08:51just take the log device and fit that into his hand like that and I do like
08:55where they've placed the fingers so it looks like he's actually about to press
08:58the button you can also use like well again he's got a wider gripping hand
09:02which again like you can take yourself the communicator communicator slides just
09:06in there you know and again like the grip is really good on all these hands
09:09like they really fought this out sometimes companies though just throw
09:13in all these excess hands without really testing them first to see if they
09:16properly hold the accessories yeah that's not going anywhere he does also
09:21come include of course if it's Kirk Kirk likes to punch from time to time he
09:24comes with a couple of closed fists and finally also comes include with another
09:28gripping hand so there's a lot of wealth invested in Captain Kirk when it
09:32comes to swappable hands but what other things are swappable in Kirk well the
09:36figure does also come included with not just the head the head that he has right
09:39now but over yonder yonder how old are we over here though you'll see that he
09:44actually has two additional head sculpts the head that he has now is a good
09:48looking likeness of pine then he has a head that is one less one downgrade I
09:54feel for the quality of looking like his likeness and then one that actually is
09:57better than this head here go on storyteller okay the head sculpt though
10:02if we get him out of the packaging is just a neutral expression Captain Kirk I
10:05think again like it looks a lot like Chris Pine it looks a lot more like pine
10:09with I mean with the palette being bigger like this they can spend more
10:13time and really efforts to paint the figures head sculpt which I think is
10:17really one thing that maybe was lacking on the exquisite miniseries the Kirk
10:21head was just too small it was harder to get the likeness right with the
10:24header being the head being bigger like this I think you get a better looking
10:27likeness overall his head is notably a lot more well hair wise it'll not a lot
10:32more notably copper color I don't know if it's necessarily this color feels
10:36like it's a little too metallic but I do think the head sculpt is really good so
10:40here's where the downgrade comes he comes in clue with a smiling face good
10:44of course if you want to have the figure displayed with this chomped down Apple
10:47and again I feel like where we get the likeness is good here I feel like it
10:51doesn't look as much like him with a smiling face by contrast though the
10:57alternate head sculpt of the third option gives us I feel the best head
11:01sculpt of Chris Pine again it's not that much really different but I feel like
11:06this is probably by far the best likeness of the three heads we get
11:09available changing the heads be careful of this now because he has his tunic
11:15here this emblem is only attached by what seems to be just a little bit of
11:19glue and you can see how easily it is for me to flick this I don't even want
11:23to joke around about this as you why I say that though is be careful when it
11:26comes to removing the head because you don't want to slide your finger up and
11:30clip this by accident so hold on to his quite substantially muscular body I feel
11:35like his body's a little too big I'm gonna just pop the head off the ball
11:38joint just like that that's a tight joint and we'll go ahead and pop the new
11:43head in place if that sounded a little nerve-wracking and you don't feel easy
11:48about the idea of changing out heads like this which you can always do too I
11:51heated this and unfortunately with the time that I've been talking about other
11:56things the heads had time to cool but if you have any struggle please stop what
12:01you're doing grab a hairdryer immediately I don't want to save just
12:04because again like he's got fabric outfit like this don't submerge this
12:07figure in hot water but maybe a few passes with a hairdryer might be more
12:11than enough just to soften up the joint it just just a little bit so you can
12:14easily swap out the head so again like this is the smiling face maybe not as
12:19good and this is the one that we get when we get him out of the packaging for
12:23me I think this is the better of the three now so let's talk a little bit
12:27about his tunic here so Captain Kirk obviously has himself a yellow tunic
12:31here with the emblem there on the side if you look real closely though you can
12:35see like that seems to be a trend nowadays in Hollywood let's make suits
12:38that are made up of tiny little symbols of the main the main go focus so again
12:42you got the emblem here and then like the suit why why it's made up of tiny
12:46little Starfleet symbols he's got some striping panel striping there on the
12:51sides he's got a high collar I do feel like though the figure of Chris Pine
12:54here is too bulky not that they took necessarily Rambos body although like
12:59looking at a chest it doesn't feel like it's that much different what it ends up
13:03doing though is because the tunic I kept wanting to kind of do this when I took
13:07the figure out of the packaging thinking really though that the tunic
13:10just need to be pulled down more but he has a very broad shoulder and a very
13:14equally large chest I do feel like it takes something away from the figure
13:18because I feel like while Captain Kirk is a muscular character in the movie I
13:22don't think he's the level of what we're getting here I think they probably needed
13:26to use much much leaner body just for giving a better frame for the figure
13:31he's got the stripes there also on his sleeve as well now one thing I did do
13:34though at the beginning of this review I kept the belt on you can't take the
13:38belt off and why I chose this part of the review to do it there's a clasp
13:42right here a snap it works the same way as a larger one-to-one scale belt would
13:46work but once you get this undone it's very difficult to get back in place
13:50let's just say you don't want to have it on a way mission oh actually before
13:54before we do that though take the phaser where's the phaser just grab it from the
13:58hand here take the phaser by the way he does have a holster so if you want to
14:02put the phaser in the holster you can do that and then flip side on the flip
14:05side of that you can take yourself a communicator the log device is too big I
14:10think it actually is a log device the log is too big to actually fit inside
14:13the holster but the communicator certainly does you just have to kind of
14:17wiggle it back and forth a bit so one side of the belt is your communicator
14:20the other side the adjacent side is your phaser so let's go in there just unsnap
14:26the belt and again it's this is a really difficult thing to do because you have
14:30to kind of pinch the sides you almost need to take yourself like it I don't
14:34want to say a pair of pliers or pliers would maybe run the risk of damaging
14:37this but there is an available way to to undo this but you have to kind of get
14:41there in there with your fingers I would almost even say it's it's even harder to
14:46detach it than it is probably reattach it reattach it you know I've done this a
14:50couple of times and when you try to attach the belt back together I feel if
14:54anything you worry that the snaps are gonna break just because you're dealing
14:57with tiny little plastic you're dealing with equally small plastic when it comes
15:00time to actually undoing the belt hold on one second yeah a lot of times you
15:04can usually just pull it but every once in a while though you may find yourself
15:07kind of having to pinch in one side as you're giving it a good yank with the
15:11belt now removed we can go ahead and put that off to the side one thing too it
15:15will also make the tunic a little bit more relaxed so you can bring it down a
15:18little bit more and pull away at least some of the attention from him being so
15:22muscular just fixing the tunic here yeah the tunic for what it is even if you
15:26don't necessarily like the 2009 design of the suits I think they've done a nice
15:30enough job though of replicating the way it looks in the film of course down
15:34below there he also does have his Starfleet suits like with his pants at
15:38least they actually say jeans I don't know if it's actually made of denim what
15:41would really constitute jeans does it have to be made of that material online
15:45descriptions actually call it jeans but I would probably just argue the point
15:48it's maybe just Starfleet black pants just black pants they have no pockets or
15:53anything like that they have those stitched in there some additional
15:56details right around the knee area I don't know if it's just to prevent like
15:59this from fraying or maybe just as they're running it prevents like holes
16:03developing in pants we never really see Starfleet suits for example like having
16:07holes in their knees I mean probably they just easily go back to their there
16:10is there a way there that's their station their rooms their rooms their
16:14ready rooms Kirk basically just goes into his room I'm sure he probably just
16:17grabs himself just opens up the door and there's just nothing but the same
16:20Starfleet uniform in the same series of pants just puts on a brand new pair of
16:23pants down below though he's also got himself his Starfleet boots now I
16:27actually didn't realize this though that he had a little like belt buckle there
16:31at the top of his boot I actually just thought he had a regular black boots the
16:34boots those seem thick and they seem like they may be a little too short I
16:38maybe would have made them a little higher the thing about it though is that
16:41his knee is right here so if you look at where his knees placed and then you look
16:44at the placement of the boots maybe they are in the right spot I feel like they
16:47may really should have been a little bit higher though now for the figures
16:50articulation by the way though there's the bombs his feet he does seem like he
16:53has small feet but I guess that is proportion to the rest of the figures
16:56body speaking of the figures body though captain Kirk's articulation his head's
16:59gonna be in our balls right first of all first of all because there's two two
17:03points the heads gonna rotate all the way around on that ball joint it's gonna
17:06look up well it's gonna look look down and you can also move back and forth I'm
17:10trying my best not to move the other bit of articulation they actually figured
17:12that does have it also has at the base of his neck so not only can you move it
17:16in his head but you can also move it in his neck as well make it so make it so
17:21oh wait that's okay that's Captain Picard the upper torso is gonna be on a
17:24ball joint so that's nice to see and the lower abdomen area is also the same his
17:28arms can come out at 90 degrees or that T pose you can bring the arms forward
17:32you can bring the back figure does also have a swivel in his bicep what seems to
17:36be a double hinge in his elbow and the hands rotate all the way around with a
17:39hinge there as well for his legs they split out about that far you can take
17:44the legs and move forward move them back there's a swivel at the top of the thigh
17:48double hinge it seems again on the knees and actually while thinking
17:52initially that the boots were all gonna be self-contained in actual fact though
17:56while they are still contained by a rubber boot there's a lot more
17:59posability than what I was expecting yeah the ankles move back and forth this
18:03way you can also easily rock them back and forth no issues at all in fact only
18:08one issue I really have is maybe down the road if you are moving this back and
18:11forth will this start to split the plastic so far obviously for the what
18:14little time I've had this out of the packaging no issues there so far but
18:19yeah it's a nice looking Captain Kirk while I do think though like the tunic
18:23depending on again how you want to have the figure displayed if you want to have
18:26them in a way missions then probably yeah keep the belt on him if you are
18:30just looking to have this guy displayed as if he's just on the on the board the
18:33Enterprise probably just decide instead to have the belt removed and then you
18:37can just have the tunic pulled it down the body looks good I mean again I just
18:41feel like the top of his torso especially like his shoulder areas here
18:44I would probably even suggest to like when you're putting his head sculpt on
18:47just pull it up just a little bit just so he has a little bit more extra neck I
18:52did notice though when I was getting Kirk out of the box that his head was
18:55really sunk down low this can easily be so fixed by just popping the new head in
19:00place and just kind of obviously pop it onto the ball joint so it's not gonna
19:04roll away on you but don't push it down all the way though so you get a little
19:07bit extra neck and that might also help to balance off what seems to be a pretty
19:11broad broad broad torso the figure does look good I mean I think like likeness
19:15wise he looks better than the exquisite mini series of Kirk that we did get also
19:19from of course the folks over at Hyatt toys this figure again is gonna be
19:23setting you back a little over $100 which you know again looking at the lay
19:26of the land space land or otherwise a lot of accessories a lot of hands three
19:30swappable head sculpts and now we're dealing with real fabric I think this
19:34Captain Kirk by the way is also the first of many figures that we're gonna
19:37be looking at from the Star Trek 2009 film in the exquisite super series class
19:41Captain Kirk was a good place to start good-looking likeness of pine and
19:45decent-looking accessories as well as we have Captain Kirk cheating the system
19:49clearly though Hyatt toys is not cheated at all with this release of the dear
19:52captain the fact that the figure does have first of all a fabric outfit on top
19:56of that then has three swappable head sculpts two of the three I think look
20:00more like Chris Pine but the fact that we did do have at least three offerings
20:04not bad at all the fact he also does have like all those accessories that we
20:08looked at some of them probably will not be finding their way onto the figures
20:12hands like the flask I mean well the flask is good to be included accessory I
20:15think I probably more lean to the idea of displaying the figure I think with a
20:19phaser like the log guide the log device that he has and of course the
20:23communicator or like maybe just the way I've got displayed right now with the
20:26Apple in his one hand the Kelvin though was a nice included touch just again a
20:30reminder that I was apparently peeling and cutting onions the day that I was
20:33watching the original Star Trek 2009 film I don't know what it was about the
20:37beginning of that but anyways the figure does like I said does does come in
20:41clear with a little miniaturized version of the USS Kelvin yeah this figure is
20:45slated to drop in March 2025 what he's selling for at least based at least on
20:50the pre-orders 109 99 so about a hundred and dollars 110 dollars all in some of
20:55the sites like for example entertainment earth my go-to when it seems usually
20:58like that does have also listings available of Captain Kirk so based at
21:02least on that I could provide links down below in the video description a
21:05big thank you again to the folks over at Hi Toys that did provide the sample of
21:08the brand new Star Trek 2009 exquisite super series James T Kirk not sure how
21:14I'm gonna get that all in the title I'll find a way life finds a way oh wait
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