NECA SAW Ultimate Jigsaw Figure Red Robe Version
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00:00It's a new game. It's a new figure. Here's a look at the brand new NECA toys.
00:04Saw Ultimate Jigsaw.
00:30This 7-inch saw action figure in a red robe gets the ultimate treatment with a
00:35fully articulated body under a wired fabric robe. Accessories include
00:39interchangeable heads and hands, pig mask head, puzzle head trap, tape recorder,
00:44extended blade, and Billy the Puppet with trike. Everybody I'm sure knows that John
00:49Kramer's favorite board game is the Game of Life. Just before we get a closer look
00:53though at the Ultimate Red Robe Jigsaw, I'd like to thank the folks over at NECA
00:57that provided the sample we could have a look at. There are a few things about
01:00this jigsaw that look strangely familiar. We're gonna talk more about that in a
01:04moment. In the meantime though, the tape measure is telling us that Jigsaw stands
01:08at six and three-quarters of an inch in height, or Kramer's gonna be 17
01:12centimeters tall. No, no, not the first time we've gotten ourselves a jigsaw. In
01:18fact, actually we've gotten ourselves four releases from NECA, technically five
01:22if you count the Toonie Tares release. The one on this side closest in colors
01:26was the original Cult Classics jigsaw that had the pig mask. It also was
01:30released as well in the black robe if you prefer the black colors instead. And
01:33there was also, unfortunately, while I don't have the figures right now in my
01:37collection, they're somewhere sitting inside totes and whereabouts unknown,
01:40there was also as well the Cult Classics Hall of Fame that did also as well give
01:44the pig masks the John Kramer head sculpts, which though again looked very
01:48much like the head sculpt that we're getting in this Ultimate release here.
01:51Kramer's heads aren't the only things that look strangely familiar to me. As
01:55one of the included accessories is the fact that the figure comes also with
01:58Billy the Puppet. Billy the Puppet, as you can see, is already attached on to his
02:02tricycle, though out in the packaging he's actually separate from the tricycle.
02:05I've already taken the liberties of adding him. It's just a case of actually
02:08taking his hands, sliding them onto the provided handles, and then you just
02:12basically put the figure on, reversing those steps just to show you what the
02:15tricycle looks like. It does have a front wheel that spins. It has also back wheels
02:19that spin. And again, it doesn't have pedals that rotate. You would want to be
02:23very careful with these because these would be the first things that would be
02:25breaking off. Hey, that sounds perhaps like a segue to something else. I'm just
02:29gonna be bringing in here the Billy the Puppet that came included with the Cult
02:32Classics release of him. This tricycle has seen unfortunately better days. The
02:37pedals have already broken on the sides. Now, I already have three other Billy the
02:41Puppets, but the one I just happened to be finding happens to be also the one
02:44that looks like it's, I don't know, somebody just stepped on it. I really hope
02:47that that wasn't the case, but the pedals snapped completely clean off. I want to
02:51remove Billy, though, just from his provided tricycle. I'm just gonna take
02:54the hands off the handles here. Carefully, carefully. We're just gonna, actually, you
02:58know what, while we're holding the tricycle, I'm gonna hold this one here. I
03:01want to bring back in the one we get from the Ultimate release. From a sizing
03:05standpoint, they're almost similar, although the handles here for the
03:09original Cult Classics are a little bit higher. One thing that's also very
03:12apparent, too, is that the spokes inside the tires, in order to get that idea
03:17across, what they ended up doing, though, was they molded the spokes as part of a
03:21clear translucent plastic, in order to prevent, of course, those spokes from
03:25breaking. Since then, though, they have devised better ways of producing the
03:29spokes, where, yes, they're still gonna be breakable, but you don't have to worry as
03:32much that they're using a translucent. It looks a little bit more like a
03:35traditional tricycle bike tire. The actual, if you look at the seats, the
03:40seats look to be almost identical. I would almost be convinced that they're
03:43using the exact same molds, and there are, again, a few little things that, looking
03:47at them, they look like they probably are sharing very similar molds. The
03:51actual billies, though, I want to bring back in. Here's the original Billy the...
03:55Here's the Billy the Puppet from the Ultimate release. Here's the Billy the
03:57Puppet, though, from the original Cult Classic days. If you look at the heads,
04:02other than perhaps just cosmetic changes, it seems like, to me at least, that
04:07they're using the exact same heads. I would have almost even said that, with
04:11the Cult Classics release of Billy the Puppet, that the paint is a little bit
04:15brighter, a little easier to recognize. I feel like, perhaps, with the way they've
04:18colored the newer Billy the Puppet, that maybe some of the finer features get
04:21lost. I just would have preferred, I think, a little bit brighter of a face paint,
04:26similar to what they would have done with the Cult Classics. The bodies, though,
04:29looking at them, they look exactly the same. The same hands, the same arms, and
04:34also perhaps the exact same legs. The only thing that's different, though, is that
04:38this Billy doesn't have articulation from the lower leg. He has ball joints at
04:42the tops of his thighs, but he doesn't have anything swiveling down below. The
04:46original one didn't have swivels, or it didn't have necessarily ball
04:50joints, but what it did have, though, is swiveling down below, so you could
04:53swivel the legs around. I think that's about the only thing that's probably
04:56been changed between the two, other than, again, really cosmetic changes. I mean,
05:01again, I'm not faulting Necessarily Naked for the fact that they would have
05:03just used ... they already have the molds. Why not just use them? But it's strange
05:06that as far back as the Cult Classics ended up being the place where they
05:10decided to use the exact same molds. But, you know, again, it works, and, you know,
05:13you're still getting a Billy the Puppet. It's not like the original Billy that
05:16was really all that outdated anyways. If they had a chance to use that mold again,
05:20I really honestly say, why not? So, again, we're gonna take ourselves Billy. The
05:25articulation, by the way, on this guy, he does have the head that rotates. Arms move,
05:29but they don't move very well, and then the arms, the hands, themselves rotate.
05:33The figure does have also, again, the notable, now, ball joints at the tops of
05:37the thighs, and he has no articulation down below on the feet. The feet also
05:40still retain the little glitter that they've added. The original figure, though,
05:44if you're looking at it, didn't actually have glitter. It only would have been
05:48painted, and it looks like the shoe sculpting is different between the two.
05:51So there's a few little changes. This also, this newer one, would have also had
05:55pegs on the tops, whereas this one would have not actually had
05:59pegs on his feet. The pegs are there, by the way, because the spokes ... the spokes
06:03have pegs. Strangely, though, that the pegs are on the bottom. They're not on
06:07the top. So even though, I mean, not that you would really want to be rotating
06:11these, but I don't think you can. Oh, maybe you can rotate these. I just don't know
06:15if I want to take the gamble. I mean, for what little plastic there is holding
06:19these things together? Sure, perhaps you could rotate them, but I would just be
06:23worried I'd snap the plastic. Honestly, the easiest thing, really, is just to take
06:27Billy and put him on top of the tricycle. Feed his hands, though, around the handle.
06:30Do the exact same on the other side. There we go. And he's fine. I mean, all you
06:34really have to do is kind of line everything up around the pedals there,
06:37and Billy does a serviceable enough job that looks like you can actually pedal
06:41into the room. The other things that come included, though, with John Kramer are, for
06:46example, the reverse bear trap, and I'm really glad that they actually included
06:49this in an accessory. We don't really have ourselves necessarily somebody that
06:53could be sitting inside the trap, but it's a nice little included reference
06:56to the original Saw film. The colors on this are kind of kept a more dark brown.
07:00It probably looks like they probably would have started this molding this in
07:03black plastic, and then would have just painted the brown over top of it. It's
07:07very intricate, though, the way they've sculpted it. It doesn't actually open and
07:10close, though, so if you're hoping for that, you might be a little disappointed.
07:12He does have technically three head sculpts. I'll tell you right away, the pig
07:16mask is never gonna fit in there, nor really is this head sculpt, just because
07:20the hair is gonna get in the way. The closest thing, if you did want to use a
07:22bear trap head, is actually the bald Kramer head. The thing you will want to
07:26be careful with, though, is the way you put the head in, that the nose comes
07:30pretty close in quarters, as you can see right there, and if that rubs too
07:34much, you're probably gonna end up scraping the paint on the end of his
07:37nose. That head sculpt is about the closest thing that you could then use, at
07:40least of the accessories that come included with this particular
07:43figure. So it's nice that he has a little bear trap there. The figure also has
07:48several different interchangeable hands. He has sort of more dynamic hands on the
07:51ends of his forearms right now. He also does have closed fists. The hands
07:55themselves, at least for these hands, seem a little small. He also does
07:59come included with this hand as well, which really isn't that much different
08:01than the hand that he already has right now on his forearm, but it's basically
08:05just, again, another gestured hand. Now what you could also really do, too, is that
08:08you could take the hand and hook it basically like either around the wire or
08:11you can hook it around here as well. So it looks like he's carrying around the
08:14trap, or you can kind of do it like this as well. I just end up doing that when it
08:17comes to displaying this on the shelf. The figure also comes included with his
08:21retractable blade. The blade is cast here in all silver. Now the way they've
08:26attached it, though, will involve you having to do a little bit of disassembly.
08:29You'll have to basically remove the hand from the forearm, and then you'll slide
08:32the hand. Should we just do it instead of talking about it? Okay, we'll do it
08:37instead of just talking about it. Basically what you'll do is just roll
08:40up the sleeve. You'll just detach the hand like this. Put the figure down here
08:44for a second. Hopefully he doesn't fall. Hopefully he doesn't fall. And then you
08:48can choose for yourself which way you want to put it. Originally I would have
08:51had it like this way, similar to like Assassin's Creed, but though looking at
08:55the way they've done it, let me just actually bring back in the figure from
08:58the occult classic days. They've actually got the blade on the outside of the arm,
09:01not on the inside, and it basically would then slide up the sleeve. Based on that, I
09:06would then have the figure displayed with the blade on the opposite side. So
09:10you just spin it around like this. It basically just slides up. Before I
09:13actually go put it into the arm, one thing I did want to say
09:16is that the sleeve for Kramer is all black. The hand for Kramer is all black. I
09:23think to also hide some of that and give the illusion that this blade is actually
09:26up his sleeve and not simply just a ringlet around his hand, I would have
09:30actually molded this, I think, in black plastic and then painted the blade in
09:34silver. So at least when you looked at it from the inside, it would give you more
09:37of a seamless look of all black. Basically then just take the hand, pop it
09:41into the slot there. There we go. And then you got the blade. I mean it looks good
09:46on this side. It looks less convincible on this side. Convincible? That's not
09:50really a word. It looks less convincing on that side. Well, it's got the blade in his
09:54arm. Let's also look at the last accessory that he comes included with
09:57before we start tackling the head sculpts. The figure comes included with
09:59this tape deck. Now if Kramer is Kramer, we know he's already planned this well
10:04in advance. So even though even though this will be the end of the review, he's
10:08probably already planned like six, seven years and about seven or eight movies
10:11down the road of exactly what he's got planned for everybody in this room right
10:14now. Wait, wait, there's a trap in this room? Talk about that a little bit later.
10:19The trap, the actual tape recorder as you can see, does have a tape inside. A nice
10:24little detail there as well. You could also in theory use this really with
10:28other accessories too. Like it doesn't have to necessarily belong to Kramer if
10:31you want to use it maybe for a ghost face. Nice little included accessory for
10:34that as well. But again, we'll include that. I would love if they could down the
10:39road, down the road, if they could also maybe release an accessory set for this.
10:43I would love to like for example get a little TV set. They could easily pull
10:47that mold from either the Nightmare on Elm Street accessory set that would have
10:50actually had the little TV with of course Freddy popping out the top. Or you
10:53could also use that same set that was also part of the Ninja Turtle accessory
10:57set that would have also again had that same TV. Using that TV and then just
11:01putting the image there on the front of Billy the Puppet. I would love if they
11:04first of all could have included with this figure release, but understanding
11:07that so much plastic was already dedicated to other things. Down the road,
11:11down the road, I would love to see them release a jigsaw set that would have
11:15also come in clear with the TV. So let's move Billy out of the way. We also want
11:19to of course tackle the accessories that come in clear with the figure more in
11:22the interchangeable head department. We're also going to remove the hand just
11:26because I don't want that blade to break. We'll slide the blade off, put it off to
11:28the side as well, and just pop that back in place. Okay, so when you get them out
11:32of the packaging, Kramer basically has this head sculpt which is I would
11:35imagine the more go-to portrait. You know without unfortunately having that other
11:40cult classics Hall of Fame Kramer in front of me, it would be kind of impossible to
11:43basically tell you guys and show you guys. But it does look like very much that
11:47they used maybe the same head sculpt or maybe they would have tweaked the head
11:50sculpt as certainly the features on his face look a little finer than the
11:55original one. But again you got the longer hair version of John Kramer.
11:58There's also as well the one that's shaved. He's got that little soul patch
12:02there right down the middle of his chin. I never really would find myself
12:06displaying the figure with this. I mean it's not like he's laying on the floor
12:09this whole time over the course of this review and he just happens to get up at
12:12the end of the video and just close the door. Can you imagine that? I'm just looking
12:14back right now. Okay, there's nobody at the door. This head sculpt is fine and good but
12:19I probably would if anything would probably display the figure either with
12:21this head portrait or if anything I would be line it back to the pig head.
12:25The pig head by the way as we hold this right now I want to bring back in the
12:29cult classics one. I wouldn't necessarily say that NECA literally is just using
12:33the same mold but you know though looking at this I would be hard-pressed
12:38to argue otherwise that it doesn't in fact look like they're using the exact
12:41same head. The way they've even got the ear drooping and the placement of the
12:45hairs on the front of the face does it in fact not look like it's the same mold.
12:50Which again if they already have it in their inventory there it makes no sense
12:53why spend the cost to produce a brand new head portrait if the one that we got
12:57from cult classics was fine and good in the first place. This would of course
13:00attach on to the ball joint. The hairs themselves are pretty soft and plastic
13:04on the back there as well but just to change out the head it's just a case of
13:08taking the head. Oh first of all I guess before we do that one thing I also want
13:12to mention too is that Kramer also does have himself a hood. The hood has a wire
13:15right around that area here so you can also bend it as well if you want. That is
13:20if obviously if you want to have the hood over top of his head or again you
13:23can also have it running to the back there too. Changing out the head is again
13:26we're just gonna hold on to the body, pop the head off the provided post, pop
13:31the pig head in place, which again is just lining it up to the ball ball
13:35joint. You want to kind of make sure as well that the collar gets out of the way
13:37of things too and we'll just pop that in place. I did start the review
13:41technically with the pig mask not likely I'll be moving forward with the pig mask
13:45because if I'm gonna only just have the one Kramer on display now this guy also
13:49got released not only just in the red robe but there's also as well the black
13:52rope that has the red striping on the front which would be I would imagine my
13:55go-to if I was just to pick one Kramer it would be the black robe over the red
13:59robe but again if you did have the chance to pick up both these you could
14:02in theory have really one figure displayed with the pig mask and then the
14:05other one with John Kramer's head looks good the material also that they've used
14:10for the robe is of a decent quality it has almost sort of a like a satin feel
14:16to it and the way they've actually seen this looks pretty good and clean you
14:21could also as well remove this too so we're gonna go ahead just pop the head
14:24off this whole front section by the way is all velcroed so you can unvelcro this
14:29and you could take this off for all intents and purposes you have finished
14:34fine the shirt itself going back and looking at the ways if many of the
14:39images of John Kramer that he's wearing the robe he tends to usually have a red
14:43shirt underneath there's times he's also had a black black shirt underneath but a
14:46lot of the image at least I saw online usually had him with a red t-shirt the
14:50only problem I would really have with this though is a lot of the image that I
14:53also saw the character a lot of times it seems like he has like bare arms he
14:58would have the gloves and he would have like bare arms underneath if you were to
15:00take this this robe off essentially what you'd be getting underneath is just a
15:03black shirt let's go ahead and just pop that off pop the hand off the other side
15:09it would just mean make things a whole lot easier to remove the robe and just
15:12slide this down the shoulders and you can slide it off completely it's a
15:16little harder though to get him back on because the sleeves are really tapered
15:19to the end of his arms but we'll just slide that off completely the only other
15:23thing I would say involves me obviously removing the robe I wish that they could
15:28have either just had this as a bare arm because it probably looks to be the case
15:31they're using this arm from another figure from maybe released from before I
15:34don't know who I would say it was a ghost face but like the arms look very
15:37familiar had this been a case where this would have been a bare arm for example
15:41and then they would just continue the sleeve color of the rest of his torso
15:44then if you wanted to you could then display John Kramer without the robe
15:48because it's not always the case he's wearing the robe in the movies there's a
15:51lot of times where he's just sort of sitting around he's wearing just a
15:53regular casual clothing thinking that in mind had they made it designed it in
15:59such a way that if you took the robe off you could have just had a regular
16:02t-shirt underneath and just bare arms and only with the bare arms then show at
16:05the end of the bottoms of sleeves so if you roll the sleeves up but also as well
16:08if you want to display the figure like this it kind of does look a little out
16:11of place that you've got black arms on the sides and a red torso in the middle
16:15let's go put his hands back in place here I guess while we are without the
16:21figures robe on it probably makes things a little bit also easier looking at the
16:24figures articulation so starting with the head and working our way down John
16:29Kramer's head and I keep continuing to call him John Kramer nowhere on the
16:32packaging does it actually say that they just literally call it ultimate jigsaw
16:36which I think really I know a lot of people would just recognize and
16:39identify him as saw or jigsaw I would have liked if they could have actually
16:43just put it's very similar to my bloody Valentine calling him the minor as
16:47opposed to Harry Warden it's not really technically Harry Warden and I guess
16:49many people would more identify him as jigsaw it's probably one of the reasons
16:53why NECA didn't call him John Kramer looking though at the figures
16:57articulation the heads gonna be on a ball joint so yeah it does rotate all
17:00the way around it looks down it looks up but much higher really up and down and
17:05you can also move it back and forth as well the figure does also seem to have a
17:08ball joint at the base of the neck so there's some additional movement there
17:11arms come out now a lot easier without having the robe in place you bring the
17:15arms at about what 45 degrees it gets a lot more hung up right around here that
17:20you can't do any more movement after that arm sure enough do rotate all the
17:23way around now there's a hinge here and there's a hinge here so you get a double
17:27bend happening while I had still the robe on I noticed that the arms were
17:30extremely tight to bend they are still tighter here as well but it's a list a
17:35little at least it's helping me now to be able to see where that joint is
17:39bending because I'd hate to think that the joint was switched around and
17:42was on the back here because if the robe was on and you start to bend it you'd be
17:46bending it the wrong way and it would just snap right off hands rotate all the
17:50way around they hinge back and forth got Kramer's top top of his torso does have
17:54a ball joint yes the ball joint down below here also in his abdomen works the
17:58exact same way to legs do split out you can take the legs and move forward you
18:02can move them back there's a swivel there at the top of the thigh single
18:05hinge only on the knee a rotation down below for the lower leg and an ankle
18:08pivot back and forth with an ankle rocker still already mentioned the
18:12figure does have pickles and bombs of the state so you can make use of those I
18:15do feel like the the feet the shoes are unique to this figure but it wouldn't be
18:19surprised at all if they didn't use the lower legs from another figure and also
18:22maybe for the arms I keep going back to Ghostface because I remember Ghostface
18:26the original ultimate release had super tight arms and were prone to breaking
18:30not that this guy has prone to breakage issues when it comes to his elbows but I
18:34feel like these sleeves they I'm sure they would have used these from earlier
18:37figures I can't imagine they would have just tool these specifically for Kramer
18:40all in all though I like the look of the character I do kind of wish though in a
18:44way that when it came to designing this character I mean it looks a little now
18:47out of place don't worry I'll fix things up before we jump to the turntable I do
18:51wish though that when it came to designing this character that they could
18:53have also fought outside the robe see what I did instead of the box outside of
18:58the robe if you ever did decide you wanted to get yourself a John Kramer
19:01that didn't always have the robe on his body had they designed something
19:05underneath here too so you could have actually had two looks unfortunately the
19:08way he is right now if you do decide you want to unrobe him he's you sort of end
19:13up getting kind of an unfinished looking figure almost as if he is probably like
19:17a prototype you know sometimes you go on eBay and people are selling prototype
19:20figures that's essentially what I feel like I'm looking at here a prototype of
19:23John Kramer head sculpt is good I feel like in a way I would probably release
19:27this guy down the road now again we are getting the red robe version that we
19:30looked at in this review there's also the black robe I would also even do one
19:33more and release a John Kramer that maybe even had stubble on his face as he
19:37got a little bit older even though he's supposed to be really of the same age in
19:40all these movies given him just a little bit of a stubble given a little bit more
19:43age and maybe released a third ultimate release of him maybe down the road as
19:47I'm sure many of you already know there's two releases of jigsaw one and
19:51more the red robe that we saw in this review and then there's basically from
19:54what it looks to be the exact same figure in decked out in the black robe
19:57thinking of really the two characters and the way they're dressed in robes I
20:01tend to lean more to the idea of jigsaw worth with the black robe with the red
20:04stripes on the front but the red robe does work what quite well with the
20:08character one of the benefits though and I would imagine it also would carry over
20:11to the black robe is that both of them are removable granted though the as you
20:14on this review the bodies are somewhat unfinished they at least molded the
20:18bodies decently but I you know obviously I would have probably had the arms as
20:21well matching the colors of the torso so it looked like John Kramer's wearing a
20:25sleeve rather than basically a sleeveless shirt over top of a long
20:28sleeve shirt underneath figure wise does come in clear with a couple of
20:31accessories I got both of them right now the reverse bear trap in one hand and
20:35then of course the little tape deck in the other well maybe perhaps the bear
20:39trap kind of has to lean on on the ends of his fingers surprisingly enough
20:43though the tape recorder fits perfectly in his hands even though I didn't show
20:46you guys in this review it even survives the blizzard test you can tip that
20:49upside down and the tape recorder isn't gonna go anywhere a lot of similar moles
20:55that I recognized in this review maybe not as much for the heads because I feel
20:58like maybe there may have been a little bit of tooling done for the original
21:01heads but it certainly does look to be the case that the pig mask was a
21:04carryover from the original cult classic days as well could be said for Billy the
21:08tarsicle is different the Billy on top of it though seems to be the same other
21:11than some new additional articulation that they incorporate into the tops of
21:15the thighs the question though is is it really necessary that they needed to
21:18tool anything new I mean the original cult classics other than really obviously
21:22the original figures had a very limited articulation they would have had to
21:26improve it in that department but the rest of the sculpting for Billy was fine
21:30and if it is the case that they are using the same Kramer heads I mean they
21:33weren't really bad heads in the first place I think if anything these are a
21:36good starting point for future ultimate jig jigsaw figures maybe down the road
21:40we could get ourselves a more older jigsaw maybe with a little bit of
21:44stubble and more wrinkles visible on his face what do you guys think of the
21:47figure let me know down below in the comment section have you guys had the
21:49chance to pick up the ultimate Kramer have you picked him up also in the red
21:53robe and the black robe which version of jigsaw do you have in your collection
21:56currently big thank you once again to the folks over at NECA toys that did
21:59come through and provide the sample of the brand new NECA toys saw or the
22:03ultimate jigsaw that we had the chance to have a look at this review well for
22:07your video question for today what's your favorite saw movie let me know down
22:11below in the comment section I'm not really sure which number it is but it's
22:14the one that has the insurance company I was really like the og saw too but if I
22:18had to pick a second one maybe the second one was also good but I would
22:22probably go right away to the insurance company where that insurance manager
22:25basically had all his crew that was working there and he had to decide who
22:28lived and who died that's basically the territory when it comes to jigsaw traps
22:31what's your favorite saw movie let me know down below in the comment section
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