NECA Dungeons and Dragons 50th Anniversary Zarak Evil Half-Orc Assassin Figure

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00:00you want to talk about betrayal this guy would stab you in the back literally and

00:04figuratively here's your look at the NECA LJN Dungeons & Dragons 50th

00:09anniversary Zarak evil half-orc assassin

00:14the fantasy comes alive with Dungeons & Dragons poseable action figures

00:31authentically reproduced so you can recreate the battle between good and

00:35evil I wonder if this renegade is rocking the battle magic action probably

00:40not let's go though take the tape measure either way and figure out just

00:43how tall Zarak stands well I'm doing this as well like to thank the folks

00:46over at NECA toys that did provide this sample we could have a look at not

00:50owning though the original ultimate Zarak so I won't be able to bring him in

00:53for comparisons I can though most definitely bring in the other 50th

00:55anniversary advanced Dungeons & Dragons that we've already had a look at here

00:59the figure like I said is gonna be standing in this case about six inches

01:02in height if you count really the top of his hood and translating though to a

01:05figure that's about 15 centimeters tall of somewhat similar size here's what the

01:10figure looks like with the 50th anniversary Elkhorn bringing in then the

01:13other two figures we've also had a look at which I think completes the quartet

01:16here's also the strong heart and also the earlier looked at War Duke this

01:21half-orc is missing over a half of his accessories that would have been with

01:24the ultimate release he only comes included with his two pairs of daggers

01:28the daggers and the original release from LGN and Matchbox I think he would

01:32have had maybe one of these and they would have all been cast in yellow

01:34plastic they've kept the guard and the hilt in that same yellow plastic but

01:39have chosen instead to give it a little bit more modern silver spin the blades

01:43themselves can't be held in his hands because he actually does have more

01:45closed gripped hands so it's actually quite easy though to take the daggers

01:49and just fit them in there there's one obviously we're just gonna rinse and

01:54repeat the steps here's the other one over here and again you can have him

01:57wielding both let's just say you're the kind of collector that doesn't like to

02:01give sharp objects to tiny orcs like this I would agree with you as well you

02:05can what you can also do too is just remove those blades and take the daggers

02:09and locate it on the side there's two sheets and just sheath them there

02:13instead you don't have to make the noise though while you're putting them in

02:17apparently choose I would like to once the blades are though are in place he

02:22has no real other accessories to come included with the character now the

02:25ultimate release of him had the a little elixir it came in clue with a broad

02:29blade gold sword a hook with string and then come a come with a like a series of

02:35interchangeable hands I want to say he had like five extra interchangeable

02:38hands not including the ones he has right now so like I said though this is

02:42kind of based more on the original LGA and matchbox figure from the 80s the

02:45like I said the accessory count is is minimal it's you know if that was a lot

02:49for the ultimate release you're getting about that much now with the 50 fans in

02:53anniversary inspired characters what I'm gonna do though is I'm gonna remove the

02:57daggers not just because I like the idea of you know kind of unarming this

03:01character for at least right now but it's also gonna make things a little

03:03bit easier when it comes to kind of getting in there and kind of moving

03:05things around one thing to note too with the ultimate is that he also had two

03:10interchangeable head sculpts he had this one which I think was also the alternate

03:15head that was sitting inside the pack then he also had an alternate head

03:18sculpt which was just as ugly as this one right here he doesn't get any bit

03:21better not any prettier just by changing out the heads the hood I think is

03:25exactly the same too I mean in fact I think if I had the figure let's just say

03:28for using your imagination I had the character right here I mean that's just

03:32a hand I know it's just my hand but if I had the figure right here and I had

03:36this guy here I think if you look to this one and look to this one here they

03:39would be identical sculpts they would just have gone more the primary colors

03:43here with the LG and 50 and anniversary release of him the tall top color piece

03:47I think would have also remained the same the sheets would have stayed the

03:50same although they would have been done in black with the gold accents and then

03:53basically everything here in red would have been swapped out for brown instead

03:56other than that though like the head sculpt is really good on this guy he

04:00evokes for me some ideas of like the Green Goblin maybe it has a lot to do

04:05with the fact obviously he's got himself a green face I mean look at the look at

04:08the mug on this guy that's a face for radio but also to with the way that

04:12they've hooked the hood piece here does very much like look to me like a green

04:16Green Goblin kind of character this top piece by the way is separate so I would

04:21imagine if you were to detach the head this could probably come off completely

04:24he's got the right gloves gloves actually covered well here it matches

04:28the straps that he has on the fronts of his body of course he has the pack here

04:31on the side I think also with the ultimate release this would have been

04:34trimmed in red right along the bottom here where they instead went here with

04:37more just a traditional brown I think like with the original matchbox release

04:41of the character obviously like articulation would been right out the

04:45door five points of articulation really if you were lucky but like the colors

04:48are pretty close think though that the matchbox would have not had the pack on

04:52the side so that would been one thing I don't think that the original figure had

04:55maybe it did but overall like it's a nice-looking figure head to toe top to

04:59bottom as small as he may be look show you guys what he looks like also on the

05:02back as well he's got a couple of pockets there as well I'm not really

05:05sure like what you could store in those pockets where he'd be able to reach them

05:08he's got short little stumpy arms I mean how impossible would that be to reach

05:13around to the back if he's storing all of his coins and anything else that's

05:17valuable to him I would imagine that anybody could creep up onto the back of

05:20the assassin here and just take and steal away anything that's he's been

05:24storing on the back of his body not a good place I mean I'm not an assassin

05:28but I could tell you at least that that's probably not a good place to

05:31store anything valuable right there for the figures articulation though his head

05:36is actually funny though because like his head inside looks like it is a

05:40separate piece obviously to get in there and start to move things around be next

05:44to impossible so when you end up just moving the hood you're moving the face

05:46as well the heads gonna be on a ball joint so it does move up and down

05:49realistically if you had yourself the secondary head I would imagine you

05:53would probably have to pop the entire head off which we want to try to do just

05:58basically you'll pop the entire head off and then you would just take the hood

06:01off of this piece and then just swap it out with the alternate head sculpt pop

06:05the new one inside the hood pop it back down onto the neck bring actually up the

06:09neck a little bit more to gives him a little bit more freedom to move his head

06:12around so he can see from all sides even though like inside the hood I would

06:16imagine he's got a bit of a blinder can even see hey over here over here over

06:21here now I can't even see the upper torso though is gonna be on a bit of a

06:26ball joint not really much though because like his entire tunic is really

06:29all one piece it's soft plastic sure but I mean like what mobility actually has

06:34he does it more down below here you can't really move this separately does

06:38that make sense you can't move it here but you can move it down here the arms

06:41come out at I would say a comfortable T pose you can take the arms and move

06:44forward you can move them back certainly he has a swivel there at the top of the

06:48bicep and like with Elkhorn before he seems to also have two hinges for his

06:52joints at least in his elbows one here and if I get my finger out of the way

06:56one here as well so he does double bend there too he does have a little bit of a

07:01swivel there to the top of his glove not much though hands rotate all the way

07:04around a hinge back and forth legs split out you can take the legs move them back

07:09move forward move them back swivel the top of the thigh single hinge only on

07:13the knee but it's a little again tight on this figure ankle pivots move up and

07:17down ankle rockers move this way so he has pretty much the same levels of

07:21posability as the earlier looked at Elkhorn which if you're looking at your

07:25calendar and looking at the things of scheduled for this week at least you

07:29know I already looked at Elkhorn this week so we're kind of like doubling up

07:33the double Dungeons and Dragons trying to get that although doubling up

07:37Dungeons and Dragons throughout this week we looked at two LGN releases now

07:41of course completing the entire four I don't know if they have planned to

07:45release anymore maybe they have but of course we have looked at Strongheart

07:48Warduke now Zarak and Elkhorn unlike though Warduke and Elkhorn I never

07:54unfortunately had the chance to pick up the ultimate release of Strongheart or

07:57Zarak for that matter so this now gives me at least a chance to complete this

08:01version at least of Dungeons and Dragons I might still try to track down if I can

08:05get them for a fairly affordable price still try to get the good Paladin

08:09Strongheart and I might try to get myself the evil half-orc assassin Zarak

08:13they're nice enough figures that I don't mind double dipping especially

08:16considering there's such a contrast of colors not to mention different

08:20accessories that were packed between the two different variations of him

08:22probably could have paid a bit for me to research a little more into the daggers

08:26that Zarak wields then I would have known that they're tipped in poison well

08:30how much though of the daggers was I touching in this review oh my fingers

08:33are stirring this well where am I I'm just kidding or am I Zarak though wasn't

08:39a figure I had in the original Ultimates collection in fact the only two out of

08:43the four that I did end up picking up was Warduke and Elkhorn both are really

08:46fine-looking figures the thing I really like though about this line at least of

08:49the four that we've looked at is that they're simpler in paints but they still

08:53retain all the same sculpting and the same levels of articulation yeah when it

08:57comes to of course the accessories Zarak gets a little less of that he only gets

09:00those two poison darts oh my fingers are really swelling up I can't be good yeah

09:06well only having really the two daggers the ultimate release certainly could say

09:09he had a whole lot more I might still try to track one down just because again

09:13I really like the sculpting of this face he definitely though has a face for

09:16radio that is one ugly mug if you don't like this mug the ultimate would have

09:19had two of them but I like though again the simpler approach that is when it

09:22does certainly have more of a nostalgic vibe to it I really do like the look of

09:26these figures enough again for me to probably try to track down both

09:30Strongheart and Zarak so I at least can say I've collected all the 50th

09:33anniversary up to now at least the 50th anniversary LJN Dungeons and Dragons

09:37figures and ultimately also the ultimates that NECA had done before

09:41speaking of NECA though I'd like to thank the folks NECA that was right it

09:46was NECA I'd like to thank the folks over at just kidding with you guys I'd

09:51like to thank the folks over at NECA that did provide the sample of the LJN

09:54Dungeons and Dragons 50th anniversary Zarak that we had the chance to have a

09:58look in this review I'm drooling a bit ah and you guys did enjoy this video do

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