Jurassic Park 25th Anniversary Funko Reviews: Dennis Nedry & Exclusive Ian Malcolm

     Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another entry of Coffee With The Cynic.  Today, we are jumping back into looking at the Funko Pop Jurassic Park 25^th Anniversary line, this time the Dennis Nedry and the exclusive injured or “sexy” Ian Malcolm figures.  I’ve already looked at the other figures in previous entries (you can find the links to those reviews to your right) so let’s jump right into these ones.

     First, we have Dennis Nedry, the saboteur of Jurassic Park.  Taking Nedry out of the box, he actually feels lighter than I would’ve expected him to be.  The other Funko humans have a bit of weight to them but Nedry feels lighter than what I remember the other ones being.  Weird.  Nothing immediately jumps out at me as far as paint errors or knicks go at first glance but let’s take a closer look.

     Holy crap, look at that badge!  I’ve mentioned Funko’s attention to detail before but I’m still taken aback by the detail put into Nedry’s ID badge.  It even has a glossy sheen to it to simulate the laminated plastic that covers the actual work badges.  Very, very nice indeed!

     The raincoat has a semi-gloss finish to it to simulate the waterproof material the coat in the film is made out of so points for that.  I’ve scoured around the figure and can only find a couple of itty bitty paint goofs, like this yellow dot on his hand instead of his coat.  This was only one of maybe five color goofs, the others being a couple of pale spots on his hair, a drop of yellow on his pants and the underside of his shoes aren’t entirely black.  All of these are so small and insignificant you wouldn’t even notice they were there if you didn’t already know.

     Of course, we can’t talk about Nedry without looking at the Barbasol can.  While the can does not actually say Barbasol (probably due to copyrights), the can itself does look more or less spot on to the can used to smuggle dinosaur embryos in the film.  It even sports a higher sheen to have it look more metallic.  To be completely honest, I think this may just be the best painted human Jurassic Park Funko I have reviewed so far but we do have another one to look at.

     Aw, yeah…sexy Malcolm.  I feel like we need to put this on while we talk about this figure.  As soon as it was announced that this was going to be a thing, I knew I needed to get it out of sheer absurdity.  Hell, Scholar wasn’t interested in getting the Jurassic Park Funkos but even she wanted one of these.  When it was announced that it was going to be a Target exclusive, I thought we were SOL since we don’t have Target here in Canada but fortunately, EB Games (known as Gamestop in the States) is distributing it up here.  I’ve bought three of these already: one for me, one for Scholar and one for a friend in Vegas who was having a helluva time tracking one down.  I’ve heard rumblings of EB cracking down on people ordering multiples of the exclusives and I don’t want to tempt fate and find myself blocked from ordering from their site so if you need help finding one, ask someone else.

     Looking at this one on closer inspection, I find that the hair is better painted than the regular Ian Malcolm Funko I have.  Nice solid black all around, no missed spots, I think the hair is a little shinier than the other one to have that sweaty, wet feel to it.

     This figure may not sport any chest hair the way his onscreen counterpart did but check out those abs!  This is just another example of me looking at something and thinking, “Jesus, I need to go back to the gym…”  The drop of blood on the left hand is a nice touch but I do see some paint goofs here.  It’s just a bit of the fleshtone bleeding onto his leather coat but if I see one, it’s only fair that I point it out, nitpick or not.

     For some reason, I thought the pants of the regular Malcolm had a glossy sheen to them but I checked and they don’t.  I’m fine with this because this lets the belt stand out on the leg here.  To be honest, it looks like there might be some paint goofs here (albeit nearly microscopic) but the blood drops make sense and any bleeding of the brown paint could easily pass off as crusted mud on his pants from laying on the ground in front of the Tyrannosaurus paddock.  I will let anyone know who hasn’t bought this yet that the legs aren’t level with one another so it feels more wobbly than expected.  Not a deal breaker because exclusive Jurassic Park item but again, just letting you know.

     Overall, really happy with these acquisitions.  There is just one more Jurassic Park 25^th Anniversary Funko to get but Ellie with the Jeep has not been released yet (although I have heard that it may have actually been cancelled).  I’ve seen on Facebook that the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Funkos are starting to hit shelves in some places but I’m not entirely sure how many of those (if any) I’ll end up getting because we have some projects at home that are taking priority so I have to be very conservative with my collecting this year.  Plus, I haven’t seen Fallen Kingdom yet and I don’t want to go too crazy on collecting the merchandise just in case if it isn’t any good.

     So folks, what do you think of these Funkos?  Are you thinking of grabbing them?  If you have them, what do you think about them?  Let me know down in the comments below.  As always folks, thank you so much for reading and if you like what you see on this blog, you be sure to nudge that “Follow” button and stay cynical!

     -The Cynic

Jurassic Park 25th Anniversary Funko Reviews: Tyrannosaurus Rex

     Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!  Welcome back to another entry in the Coffee With The Cynic blog and we are continuing our look at the Funko Pop Jurassic Park 25th Anniversary line.  Tonight, we are looking at the star attraction herself, the Tyrannosaurus Rex!  Now the packaging is in more of a landscape format rather than a portrait format the way the other Funkos have been (Parts 1 and 2 can be found here and here, respectively).  Why they went this route, I do not know.  If the Tyrannosaurus Rex was a little bit larger than the other figures, I would understand but that is not the case.  However, there will be a 10" Tyrannosaurus Funko figure as part of the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Funko line coming later this year.  Enough blabbing!  Let's get this girl out of the packaging!

     Well, holy shit!  She stands without the display base!  I'm legitimately shocked at this because the Tyrannosaurus figure looks like it has a bigger head than the Velociraptor figure and thus, I assumed would be more top heavy.  Well, I'm glad that I'm wrong though.  Let's take a a closer look at her.

     While the top of the head may have a smooth surface, most of the head sculpt has this lovely pebbling texture throughout to give a great deal of detail and definition to the T. Rex.  The seam lines are still pretty abrasive but maybe I'm just getting more used to them by this point because they don't seem to be standing out to me as much as the other two dinosaurs we've looked at (although once you give the figures a new paint job, it is much less noticeable, in my opinion).

     As for any paint goofs, the only ones I can honestly find are some smudges on a couple of the teeth and some of the claws on the right hand and foot aren't fully painted.  I'm not too bothered by this because the tips of the feet claws rub up against the inside of the packaging and getting those two little claws on the hand fully painted looks like it'd be pretty awkward to do.  I'm not sure if anyone else's Tyrannosaurus Funko does this but the farthest right toe seems to elevate itself higher than the others.  Not sure why but it doesn't seem to be any worse for wear as a result.  Now, let's see how it works with the display base.

     Seems to be working just fine.  I had to put a little bit of muscle into it to get its foot completely down on the base but that's the only issue I had with it.  I've heard of some people's Rexes not fitting on the base properly and then tipping over but I'm not having those experiences here.

     Alright, I'd say this was an investment well made!  I'm very happy with Funko's Jurassic Park 25th Anniversary Tyrannosaurus Rex figure and actually wouldn't mind getting more to repaint in the Etsy shop.  Imagine what this thing would look like with more movie accurate colors...or even as the Bull Rex from The Lost World!  I like the sounds of that!  So folks, let me know in the comments what you think of this Funko figure.  Do you have it?  Thinking about getting it?  Let me know.  As always, thank you so much for reading and if you like what you see on this blog, you be sure to nudge that "Follow" button and stay cynical!

     -The Cynic

Jurassic Park 25th Anniversary Funko Reviews: Dr. Ian Malcolm & Dilophosaurus

 

Hey, everyone!  We’re back with another look at some of the Jurassic Park 25^th Anniversary Funko Pop figures.  Today, we’re going to look at the Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dilophosaurus figures.  I’ve already looked at the Dr. Alan Grant, John Hammond and Velociraptor Funkos, which you can read here.  There was a couple of quality issues with those ones so I’m eager to see how these ones turn out.

                First, Dr. Malcolm.  Right off the get-go, it’s kind of a shame that Dr. Malcolm’s glasses aren’t tinted the same way they are on the box.  They do have a high gloss sheen to look more plastic so that evens things out.  Looking along the hairline, there isn’t as much color bleeding onto the skin as there was with the Hammond Funko.  I also really like the glossy sheen applied to his coat and shoes, given them that nice leathery look.

                There are a couple of goofs.  If you look on the back of his coat by his right arm, you can see a bit of a snarl in the plastic.  What’s more noticeable (for me, anyway) are the unpainted bits under some of his licks of hair.  How hard would it be to just tilt the figure a bit and spray some black paint under those locks?  The only really other nitpicky spots I can find on mine are some of the paint from his left hand bleeds onto the cuff of his sleeve and some of the silver for his zippers don’t line up.  Overall, I’d put this one in second place in terms of favorite human Funko, behind Grant but above Hammond.

                Next up, the Dilophosaurus!  I actually bought two of these so that I could keep one but repaint the other for the Etsy shop so why don’t we compare both of them?

                Well, spit in my face and call me Nedry, they actually stand without any help!  These creatures aren’t nearly as top heavy as the Velociraptor and the colorations are much more vibrant, even if not film accurate (the other side of the frill should be the same color as the body).  There’s a little bit of excess glue on the throat to keep the frill on since there is a frill-less variant but it’s hardly noticeable unless you look really closely.

                As for any chips or smudges, there’s a little bit of smudging in some of the teeth but not enough to stick out like a sore thumb.  There’s also a couple of spots on the skull where the plastic seems to have been chipped or something as there are white snarls in the sculpt that stick out a bit.  Again, not super noticeable but they are there.  Do the display bases work better than the Velociraptor’s?

                Holy Hell!  No drills, no effort, just *WHOOP* and it fits!  Well, on the first one.  Second?

 

                Yep, both of them fit perfectly on the pegs.  Awesome!  It’s so nice to not have to take a drill to the damn things just to get them to work properly.  Good on you, Funko!  This is my favorite dinosaur figure from the line thus far for this reason alone.  It also helps that the Spitter looks adorable.

                Alright, so this batch of Funko figures fared a lot better than the first.  I just need to get the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Nedry, injured Malcolm and Ellie with the Jeep ones and then that’s the whole set (I’m not looking for the variants of the Dilophosaurus or Nedry, I’m fine with what I have).  Let me know down below what you folks think of this figures and if you have them or are thinking of picking them up.  As always folks, thank you so much for reading and if you like what you see on this blog, you be sure to nudge that "Follow" button and stay cynical!

     -The Cynic