The WORST Toy line I've EVER seen (Indiana Jones Adventure Series)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Hasbro Pulse had some 6 inch Indiana Jones Adventure Series toys on sale. So, in a moment of weakness accompanied by an unusually optimistic attitude that day, we bought some. Afterall, they couldn't be that bad, right?... RIGHT?
Worst is a strong word and just flat out wrong
Considering the resources Hasbro has they shouldn’t be making objectively the worst figures on the market right now in design and value, it’s honestly a fair claim to make considering this is the best THE biggest action figure company in the world can make lol
@@MrMegaman0607 I’m not defending hasbro however to say the adventure series is the worst toy line is just flat out wrong
Oof yeah, for sure. This man has cleary never heard of a company called Super7 😅
You lost me at Indiana Jones is a “cult classic”. Indiana Jones is a blockbuster. Also, you haven’t seen a lot of bad toy lines if this is the worst you’ve seen!
A fairly harsh appraisal if I may say. These figures look good
@@TheLeatheryman Absolutely. Indiana Jones has never been as "toy-friendly" as a lot of other brands (I mean, nobody really wants Nazi action figures) but for fans of the movies these are pretty incredible collectibles.
Bro is out here hating for that influx of Modern Indy Hate Clout. We barely get anything Indiana Jones related, and the few I've gotten have been great so far.
So, basically, to get views, you look at every single thing and complain ...long drawn out complaining. I'm unsubscribing.
@@thetowerkeeper Well... bye.
I unsubscribed too. For the same reason.
@@robertgottlieb3731 Also unsubscribed. I like balanced reviews. You pulled me in with your SHF Indy review. You lost me on this one.
Wow! You guys unsubscribed because you don’t like any criticism? You just subscribe to youtubers who praise Hasbro’s toy lines, huh! I, for one will subscribe 🙂
@@thelatinbros885that's because they're little snowflakes. So delicate. 😂
Seems like you got some defective figures. Mine don't have the issues you've mentioned.
Same. Belloq can raise his arms and move his feet just fine.
The WORST Toy Line Review I've EVER seen
This can’t possibly be the “worst” toy line you’ve ever seen. I refuse to believe that!
The base figures are not too bad....HOWEVER, there are amazing and absolutely ponderous decisions made in terms of engineering, QC, colors chosen, accessories for sure, what figures they decided needed to be immortalized in plastic, reused parts that make no sense...this is the reason I never bought any. I look at images of them and I see good things and then I see all these strange things Hasbro did like....they seems to want to be like the import companies and make high end figures, but they gotta keep the prices somewhat reasonable, but then they cheap out on things that would elevate the figure so they can keep their profit margins they had BEFORE all the inflation nonsense happened so they price gouge us and really, I'm getting tired of it.
Anyone who wants a definitive Indiana Jones should just get the one from SHF. Sure it's a more expensive import figure, but it's pretty much like having 3+ Indy's in 1 figure. You get 3 great head sculpts, options for with or without his hat/jacket on, various hands, golden idol, medallion, whip, coiled whip, pistol, sandbag, etc. Plus the sculpt is better, plastic is higher quality, and articulation is better too. Butterfly joints are insane and necessary for a character like Indy. It has like everything you need.
Yes that figure is amazing! And it scales great with the adventure series.
The SHF is easily the best Indy figure and it’s usually about $75
Agreed. It’s a fantastic figure. I got it a little while ago. It’s better in every way pretty much from the Adventure Series one which I liked when I got it.
I get it, I am watching a channel with the word “critical” in its title…. But yes, this is a bit nitpicking. I had apprehensions about this line when it was announced. I only bought a couple of the core figures when they started to go on clearance. I had the opposite reaction that you had upon receiving them, I was impressed with the figures and it felt evident to me that the creative team behind this line had some true love of the franchise (or at least respect for it). I now own both waves and love them, and wish this line hadn’t been cancelled. I don’t look for any crazy articulation out of pedestrian characters. Any of the random accessories that they included felt more like world-building items for the shelf and not oversights of pairing the wrong items with the wrong characters. If you’re going to critique the Build-An-Artifact then… well I just don’t know. Marvel Legends has been doing this for years. It’s a selling gimmick sure, but the completed Last Crusade artifact is truly such a well designed, weighty centerpiece of this line. For the original price point we were getting a lot. At these now crazy reduced prices… It’s a steal.
@@ageis This line could have been really great, and I really wanted to like it. But it (to me) still feels like a lazy and rushed attempt to ride the hype for Indy 5.
As far as the build an artifact goes, that wasn't a criticism, just joke about only buying one figure in the wave. I have many of the build a Droid figures that they made in the SW Legacy collection back in 2008-2012, and have virtually no issues with the practice.
While I disagree that it’s the worst toy line, it has some major flaws as you pointed out. I love Indiana Jones and was looking forward to Hasbro making more of this line. I liked the new hand peg system they implemented with this line but some of the other articulation choices they made are crap. Some of the downfall could be related to just the character designs being hard to translate to action figure but I don’t know….
@@Entrophonics I agree, the potential for this to be a truly epic toy line was definitely there. I'm just disappointed they missed the mark.
What killed this line was the refusal by hasbro to produce major villains and fodder troops from the original trillogy.
Truth. Not making Mola Ram or Lao Che is criminal. There are so many omissions that defy common sense where they literally left money on the table. More people would have bought Mola Ram than any of the Dial figures. Yet they canceled Mola Ram.
The reason they did Marcus and alternate Belloq instead of Willie is because Willie would have needed to be tooled from scratch. Once they had a "suit" mold though all they had to do was mold different heads and they could get multiple characters out of one body mold. It's the same reason they did Kazim. It's a bit hilarious though because the body Marcus uses is Indi's, which is much more muscular than Marcus is in the movie. XD
it sucks for sure. That being said I have just been customizing and making my own. I am working on a Club Obi Wan Willie. I also am working on a Nepal Marion atm.
A careful repaint for Belloq, and you've got yourself a decent "Carl Kolchak" action-figure. About all it's good for.
Of course we needed a Marcus Brody action figure, he's one of the best characters in the trilogy.
@@09nob It's not so much a case of whether or not we needed him, its more the priority of him being added to the line over villains or other needed supporting characters like Willie.
@@CollectorsCritical Fair enough, but he was in more films than Willie, ha, ha, I'm sorry I'm a Brody through and through.
How's Indy a "Cult Classic?" Should of been there in the 80s. Hasbro is price gouging because of the Popularity.
Edit: still the best Indy figures ever made. Worth the wait.
u nailed it, it is an nitpicky review... almost "white people problems" review.
worst is way to dramatic. I have both waves, and wish they made more. They made mistakes for sure, but it's Indiana Jones. There are several other toy lines that are way worse than this. disappointing is a better word than worst. I wish they had time to get it right, but there are only so many characters people would actually buy.
@@jeditanker72 Had they planned things out better and taken time to craft better figures, this line could be top tier.
I don't know if it's the lighting but Brody's arms doesn't really fit in with the rest of the suit. The arm thing was funny, I've been finding World of Halo figures at Ross, and a friend was helping me take a Grunt out of the package and totally thought he broke the figure when the torso separated from the legs. He was so sorry and I popped it back in and said it happens to MOTU Origins all the time 😂
Huh, a $25 indy vs a $70 dollar indy, I wonder which one is going to be better
I think it was an ok line. I think the biggest problem with the line was that too many of the characters just looked too generic and a few of the characters would've been better with different versions, like marrion shoulda been the napal version from her bar instead of the cairo version. later figures were much better, with last crusade indy (despite the shorter whip for some reason) and henry sr., those felt more in line with the quality we get from black series. but at the end of the day the figuarts indy is the best 1:12 indy figure you can get and is a must have (though I woulda liked a bendy wire whip).
It's refreshing to watch reviews where clearly you're not suckling from the company's teat, afraid you won't get free shit sent to you. Considering these would be for die-hard fans of the franchise, with mostly "adult collectors" in mind, they clearly half-assed it and cut corners on several of the figures. It's not hard to see why these ended up heavily discounted and passed over, there are better lines to put your hard earned money on.
@@salvation7362 So true! It's a shame because I really wanted this line to be good. And I still think there is huge potential for really awesome Indiana Jones toys still, but only if the company at the helm does it right.
Unfortunately Hasbro has a history of mishandling IP's that aren't Marvel, Star Wars and Transformers.
This and the Ghostbusters IP would've been better handled if one of the import companies had complete control, like Figuarts or Mafex.
the problem with import companies is the high price. they aren't so bad if you're just getting one character like indy, or deadpool. but when you get lines that have groups of main characters, like ghostbusters, the price can get insane cause you need to get all 4 ghostbusters.
@@buzzsawgr81 True, but it's usually not so bad if they get released at different times, which SHF seems to do.
For example:
SHF NEVER releases a high end Goku and Vegeta at the same time. One comes out before the other, giving people a chance to build up funds in-between each release. Same with their Marvel figures, such as the NWH Spider-Men. They could easily do the same with Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones figures.
@@MaxCarnage1984 but the downside to that is it takes forever to build your collection, especially with mafex, whereas with hasbro lines, you can grab the whole line all at once and for the price of a single import figure. plus, with indy figures, I can't think of many characters outside of indy that most people would pay around $100 for a figure of.
I'd like to see what valaverse would have done with indy and ghostbusters
@@caseybennett944 What's valaverse?
Indiana Jones is NOT a "cult" classic, lmao! It was a huge hit.
Sounds like someone had a deadline!
I can look past most of the articulation issues as most of these characters don't need Spider Man levels of articulation. What kills it for me is the lack of villains. Mola ram was pipelined but never came out, almost certainly because of Disney meddling. Ditto for multiple Nazi characters.
These figures all look very good. Waist articulation is nonexistent is correct. Minor inaccuracies in attire sure but for widespread 20$ figs these are great! N now 90 percent are on deep clearance they’re amazing. I love this line and it stinks we may never get Willie and Mola ram. But Ther is only so much u can do with this line and very few characters. This def is not a 10 year long lasting line especially at the rate we we got these figures we did get
I was initially interested in this line. Until I saw the prices for the figures. I think I laughed out loud when I saw them in the stores. I did end up getting the Last Crusade Indy with the adjustable hat for about 50% off just before Christmas last year. It’s a decent enough figure for what it is and for what I paid for it.
Its craptastic as bart would say 😂
this line could've been better.for some reason any line featuring Indiana Jones has never been successful.probably because they are just a bunch of humans.this line seemed rushed in order to promote the new film so design and quality control were overlooked.the best figure in the line was Henry Jones senior.
Good honest review. 👍
Missed opportunity for sure by Hasbro...
@@msahmu Definitely. The potential was huge for this line.
"Dis sum BOOSHIT!"
"Yes, that's what the Hebrews thought."
I’m a huge Indiana Jones fan and I initially bought into this line because I didn’t think anyone else would do an Indiana Jones figures. I have all these figures (most as gifts). The only one I liked was Club Obi-Wan white suit Indie because I bought it for a custom Sean Connery James Bond. That’s what this line is good for, fodder.
I’m glad the SH.Figurarts Indie exist and that I picked it up. I like the smiling cocky Harrison Ford head sculpt. Even the Figma Indiana Jones was better than the Hasbro one and that figure had a lot of problems.
@@paulrippcord506 So true! I've heard of guys putting these figs to good use regarding customs. One took a bunch of Sallahs and combines them with some other accessories to make some arid regions soldiers to go with Valaverse and G.I. Joe classified.
I wouldn't say it's the worst toy line. There have been others that have been particularly bad. Especially those that cost a heck of a lot more than these. I think back to the Advent Children Barrett Wallace from Play Arts Kai. The Indiana Jones Figma figure. These figures are miles better than the figma. In my experience Figma just can't do realistic faces. My MGS2 Solid Snake from Figma also looks particularly bad.
For $25 the Hasbro Indy isn't bad. He has a decent likeness and sculpt. The Build an Artifact set pieces are pretty decent as well for a display. That being said? The line in my mind is wasted potential. There were so many things that have held this line back. Just to run through them quick...
1. Huge gaps in the line with notable omissions of iconic characters. There's a lot missing from Temple of Doom. No Willie Scott, no Lao Che, no Thuggee Chief and most egregious? No Mola Ram. There's also a distinct lack of characters even from Raider's or Last Crusade. No Satipo, No Vogel. No Col. Dietrich, German Mechanic, or German Disguised Indy. The line feels very much like they axed certain characters to be politically correct which doesn't make sense when this is a line that is largely going to appeal to older collectors. But because it has 4+ on the box...they didn't want the controversy of selling toys of n*zi's. The irony is that Toht is. They just gave him a white lapel. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had none. No Mutt, Spalko or Dovchenko. Instead we had DIal of Destiny figures. I get it...new film = new figures to tie into said film. Again the irony though is that these felt kind of shoehorned into various lines and came with B.A.A. pieces because they knew they likely wouldn't sell otherwise. Heck they didn't even make a figure of agent mason who they made a big deal about. Yet they made a figure of Renaldo for Banderas who was in the film all of what...5-10 minutes? There was also no army builder. No german soldiers, no thugee cultists, etc.
2. They recycled a lot of parts. Again i'm not really opposed to that, as it saves money in having to retool things for every character. But the line has been referred to as the "men in suits" line.
3. Figures could feel inconsistent. Some came with a ton of accessories, others reused existing accessories and offered little new. (Cairo Indy reused the monkey that came with Marion for some reason but he had a different shirt and head sculpt.
4. Pricing also felt inconsistent. The Brody and Belloq 2-pack at $54 felt a bit overpriced even if an individual figure typically retailed for $25. It's the lack of accessories that kind of makes the $54 price tag feel excessive. The Temple Escape was also overpriced at launch when you consider it is a repackaged Indy with the only addition being the Plinth. But this "deluxe" product doesn't come with the alternate hands, in their place is a bag of sand. They could have thrown a bone and offered a set of glove hands to sweeten the deal. I didn't pick this up until the price hit $30.
With that being said? I didn't like DoD, but that doesn't mean there aren't some positives to the line. There are definitely some figures that are worth picking up even if you don't plan to complete the entire line. The Grail Knight, Henry Sr., Toht, and Temple of Doom Indy are all great. Club Obi Wan Indy as well. Is the SHF figure better? Sure, but it's also about 3x the price of the Hasbro Indy. And credit where credit is due? I think Hasbro's jacket for Indy looks better with weathering and the color is better than the SHF where the jacket is a bit too dark imo. And the SHF scales well with the Hasbro figures so I think it's worth picking up both.
As for stiff joints? Some action figures can have this. Just soak them in some warm water and they will probably loosen up. Also saw your GI Joe Cover Girl. I had seen people had issues with the arms falling off in box. I picked up one myself and fortunately do not have that problem. I made her into a Sophia Hapgood.
Really been enjoying your reviews 😄 Hasbro's sculpts and painting have been improving a lot, but yeah that stiff, ratcheted articulation drives me batty.
Great video. Thanks for the laughs.
the michael jackson bit was gold. PURE GOLD!
The line is flawed in the storyline. Indy doesn’t have an enemy he fights, like many other successful toy lines, that’s why it falls apart. Kids couldn’t create their adventures because the cannon of indiana jones is set and what, who’s going to make Sallah the bad guy? I’m sorry but nobody makes the Welshman the bad guy! 7 billion subcontinental would LOVE THAT FIGURE! He was the ultimate Bollywood bad guy for decades and Disney pull the refusal to offend card… wankers.
Further to that point (leaving the welshman out of this) we didn’t have enough villains. Was it so hard to have a generic bad guy soldier to army build? I don’t need adolf or the bent cross. I’d have liked to have had more bad guys from ToD but no… woke disney doesn’t want to villianise brown people who were, get this, the bad guys in the movie!
@@ADAM_COLLECTS Well said! 💯
Rage bait 🫤
1. Yes, I DO want a Marcus Brody, as he's one of the main side characters in the two best films.
2. You skipped out on the best figures of the line. Henry Jones Sr was one of my favorite figures of 2023 with perfect accessories and a dead on Connery likeness. Major Toht is also a great figure with both the burnt hand and the melting head.
3. I'll give you Sallah, that figure is really bad.
4. You can't bitch about the build-an-artifact if you didn't bother to build the damn thing. You can bitch about the whole BAF formula that toylines employ these days, but complaining that it's not a fun accessory is God damn stupid.
5. Indy is perfectly fine. Of course it's not on par with the SHF, who the fuck expects a Hasbro to be on import level?
@@imjango1052 Alright chief, you seem to have missed some of my points... I'm not "bitching" about the build an artifact. I have no issue with it or the method. I enjoyed the build-a-droids in the SW Legacy collection from 2010-2012. I was merely making a joke about how if you only buy one figure you only get a piece or two, which with sallah you put them together and have the "coffee table of the covenant".
Yes, the Last Crusade figures are better in sculpt and such. However, seeing these I will not be hunting them down to add to my collection. But if you or others have/want them thats great - I am not gonna make a song and dance about how its bad someone else enjoys a line I didn't care for.
The Brody thing was a jab at him getting priority over figures that imo would be better to accompany what they did bring out. In place if Brody, we should have got Colonel Dietrich for example.
And lastly, I am not "expecting Hasbro to be on an import level". That is nonesene. I would however, like Hasbro to deliver a good quality item for the price they charge. Which sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. They have made good toys before, and I'd love to see them do more. But what I hate the most about Hasbro is each time I but a new piece of theirs, I always feel like I'm playing russian roulette. Because I could get something fantastic (Luke snowspeeder) or I could got a box of disappointment (Magnagaurd).
I really wanted the Adventure series to be good because of how much I like the Indy films. But what they gave us feels lazy and rushed. All I want is for Hasbro to make the great stuff they used to. So I'll vote with my dollars.
At least you acknowledge your nitpicking over minor issues on minor character figures. You seem to want SH Figuarts quality with a Hasbro budget… This is a good line of figures at the price point. Unsubscribing.
1) This is not an airport so no need to announce your departure.
2) SHF was not compared at all in the video minus the Indiana Jones but that is going to be a separate video. At best only NECA but NECA figues are only a few bucks different from Hasbro figures
@@robertgottlieb3731 I would say I'm nitpicking to an extent, yes. (Stripes, Sallah's rope, etc.) But not being able stand, or move as intended is NOT a "minor issue" since those are literally the two purposes of an Action figure. All I want is good toys for the price Hasbro charges, and like I mentioned at the end of the video, they have done it before. Legends Doc Ock, Black Series Hoth rebel soldier, Classified Scarlet, and TVC stormtrooper are all epic. But the figures I bought from the Adventure series in my opinion are lazy and phoned in attempts to ride the hype of Indy 5. And I'm disappointed the figures weren't better.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with your comments and conclusions. My figures have all been fine, I rather think that you have some duff figures. 12:05
They should have made the German officer in uniform with melting face like Toht
@@glynmatthews6697 Yeah, the line is starved for villains that's for sure.
I would've liked to have seen generic german soldiers (doubtful they could've added the swastikas) for army building. there are a few figure lines that those would've fit perfectly with outside of indy.
I’m curious with how disappointed you are with the adventure series, were you disappointed with the Tobey Spider-Man figure hasbro did last year. I certainly was, particularly with the shade of red they chose for that figure.
@@samuelmackenzie5267 Oh definitely. The hasbro NWH spider man figs were also major disappointments. But on the other side of the coin, the Doc Ock and Green Goblin they did in the same line were absolutely wonderful.
good review bro
I got indy raiders, henry, elsa, marion, sallah, shaw, toth, marcus and belloq, 9 figs
for the price, it s meh, you have to love indy a lot
after your video, I checked sallah, yeah, he s slack now, I posed him a little more than others
and it s 30" in my apart today.
but any 6' I picked, they re pretty much pro stuff...
hot water.... not me, I had figs in the 80s, and can see a difference
it s pro figs, where posing is extra articulated, but harder to pose
it s the weight ration and ankles you need to work on more
I needed to work em in the 80s, but not as much as now...
and yeah, mess em when they re cold, and you may break them.
I removed sallah s robe to make him more flexible, it worked well.
my other gripe is the missing characters, mutt, willy, and most bad guys... eh
if you just have indy figures, this will be quite dull
and they made so many indys, 6 - 7 indys?
without the bad guys, who needs that much? I saw one in suit for $25 instead of 45, and forget it!
I enjoy them because I do funny things - cross overs with joes - legends
yeah, marcus with a high tech gun, totally out of character, ha, ha.
of course, I have the ark, and cobra, aim, hydra wants it.
I have 4 dios, and can place all on them, but one is dedicated to the ark.
and it s the piece that got me started doing dios.
my fun now is pretty much 1/2 fig - dios, I keep most figs in box and rotate the action weekly or so.
so now you know...
good show bro
My main gripe with this line was they never finished it, how can you not make Willie Scott or Mola Ram? And the fact that they skipped a whole movie and never made anything from Crystal Skull. The line was dead right after wave 1 as the writing was on the wall with their announcements after. They just used the hype for the new movie to make some toys and once that movie came out it was over.
I really wish Hasblow would let go of the Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters license so a company like Neca could do them justice.
@@randomkillerx2157 This line almost felt like "corporate said we need Indy figs. Quick make something!" And we wound up with these... it's a shame, since there is huge potential for a great line of awesome figures of awesome characters.
It does indeed make one think about what a different company could do with the license.
Cult classic?
Best toy channel!!
most people don't have insanely high expectations for hasbro dude. you want super high end you gotta look else where......and pay for it. hasbro is for people who just want to fuck around with some mildly decent looking plastic.
@@funghoul9124 I'm not looking for super high end from Hasbro, that department is Mafex and Figuarts. What I want is good quality for the price I pay, and thank God I got the few Adventure series I did on clearance, because they are a massive let down. Even for Hasbro. Who has made some epic stuff (6" Hoth rebel soldier, TVC stormtrooper, Legends Doc Ock, etc.)
I mean this video is a joke right? This line wasn't great and I'm not even an Indy fan, but you don't even know what you're doing with the figures😂you've got arms turned the wrong way complaining they don't bend enough, complaining about ankle pivot and the shoulders, but you're clearly barely touching them. AND CALLING INDY A CULT CLASSIC!!😂This was for laughs right?