Jakks Pacific The Simpsons Homerun Homer Figure
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00:00Well, I didn't get it from Maine or San Diego.
00:02Here's your look at the brand new Jack Specific, The Simpsons Home Run Homer.
00:17Collect your favorite cartoon characters from The Simpsons TV series.
00:21With the newest wave of The Simpsons 5-inch scale figures featuring basic articulation,
00:24these iconic characters from The Simpsons are sure to please cartoon lovers and collectors alike.
00:30What do you think the chances are that Jax is going to release a Ken Griffey with a grotesquely swollen jaw?
00:34Probably slim. Probably slim.
00:35Let's go ahead, though, in the meantime, take the tape measure and see how tall Home Run Homer stands.
00:39You know, it's actually funny that he's Home Run Homer, and yet the packaging actually just says Homer.
00:44Why?
00:45Anyways, though, take, though, first the tape measure, and according to that,
00:49the figure's going to stand at about 5 inches in height,
00:51working out, though, to be a figure that's about 12 centimeters tall.
00:55Now, you could say this Homer is, in fact, a deep-cut character as he only really appears in one episode.
00:59Still, though, I would have preferred a Home Run Homer over a deep-space Homer.
01:02Just saying.
01:03This is, in fact, actually the second time we've gotten this Homer.
01:06Not, though, the same mold.
01:07They have extensively, extensively retooled the brand-new body form.
01:11Even, like, the head seems like it's a little bit different.
01:13The colors you can probably also see are not quite the same yellows.
01:17This one seems to have a little bit more of a yellowish yellow.
01:20Does that make any sense at all?
01:21Whereas this one is a little bit more of a muted yellow.
01:23Home Run Homer also has a shinier head as well.
01:26Let's bring in a couple of other figures also as well.
01:27Here's what the figure looks like with Moe.
01:29Here's what he looks like with groundskeeper Willie.
01:32A figure that's also part of this wave.
01:33Here's what he looks like with Milhouse.
01:35If I can actually get Milhouse to stand, it probably has a lot to do with his large-sized head.
01:40Now, he doesn't, though, have a grotesquely swollen jaw.
01:42And here's also what the figure looks like with Marge Simpson.
01:45So, while we're talking Homer, Ozzie and the Straw?
01:47No.
01:48No, Ozzie and the Straw are not included.
01:50Let's actually go back to the packaging I talked a little bit about earlier.
01:52I mean, on the top, you can see that it says Homer.
01:55It also says that also in the back of the box.
01:57Being that this is, again, pulled from the episode Homer on Homer, you would think, though,
02:00that they would have also followed suit and called it the same.
02:03Let's look down below as well as the other characters.
02:05Now, the only one I've yet to pick up is Lenny.
02:07Still want to get my hands on Lenny.
02:09That didn't really sound right.
02:10Let's move the packaging go out of the way.
02:12Homer on Homer, though, does come in clue with his Wonder Bats.
02:14Yes, he does.
02:15The lightning bolt that you can see across the wood piece here,
02:18and then on the top, it actually says Wonder Bats.
02:21Sadly, though, the bat does break, though, in the episode.
02:23This can fit into his hand.
02:25Unfortunately, though, by the way that the elbows are designed,
02:27there's no real way for him to hold it with both his hands.
02:29And if you close the arms in like this, as far, as far as in as you can get them,
02:34it still won't be enough to hold the bat with both hands.
02:36Still, though, you can go ahead and take the bat, plug it into his hand like that.
02:40And yeah, see, there's not enough space.
02:42There's no way.
02:43Hope for a miracle as best you can.
02:45There's no way he's going to be able to hold the bat with both his hands.
02:47If anything, I might just end up having it like I did at the beginning of this review,
02:51sort of pointing out to the far-off field as to where the ball is going to go to.
02:56As for the one other accessory that comes in clue with Homer,
02:59it comes with his baseball cap.
03:00The baseball cap looks good.
03:01I mean, it's basically just, yeah, molded in red plastic.
03:04It just fits right on top of his head.
03:05The only one real issue I kind of worry about, though,
03:08is being that they also painted the strands of hair on the top of his head in black.
03:11I wonder if, though, just the friction of that alone is going to start to wear away the paint.
03:14It hasn't yet, and probably I'm just going to be displaying the figure anyways with the hat.
03:18I'm not going to be one that's just going to go back.
03:19Take the hat off.
03:20Put the hat back on.
03:22Take the hat off.
03:22Well, again, you get the idea.
03:24I suppose you could also as well take the hat and spin it around.
03:26So if you want to have that look for Homer, you can also do that as well.
03:29Funny, though, enough that there's also a two-and-a-half-inch scale Homer
03:32that's going to also be in baseball outfit.
03:34Yet, though, it's not the one from Mr. Burns' team.
03:37It's going to be a different outfit altogether.
03:39Let's go ahead and actually remove the baseball back.
03:41I'll also take off the cap for right now.
03:43I did also want to show you guys, though, that if looking at this one and looking at the Homer,
03:47I feel like there's still some differences between the two,
03:50and it seems more like the difference is in the neck.
03:53Now, looking clearly also at the neck, I know that it goes a little further down the shirt collar,
03:57but it does seem, though, at least to me, that the neck looks a little bit longer in Homer and Homer.
04:02I'm going to just keep calling him that.
04:04The eyes and the placement of them seem to be in the same spot.
04:07Again, like this one has a little bit more of a brighter lemon yellow,
04:11where the colors of yellow are a little bit muted on the original release.
04:14If you did like, though, this head, I would imagine, though, you probably would be able to take the head off.
04:18I mean, as you can see, they're easy enough to unpeg.
04:21Although the first time that you do it, there's a snap, and you think to yourself,
04:24oh no, did I just break it?
04:25I think it's just a little bit of an adhesive that keeps, basically, this head on top of the peg.
04:29I haven't yet unpegged this one, but again, if you wanted to, I suppose you'd be able to swap the heads around
04:35and then have this head over here.
04:36It really is only going to boil down to, like, again, a slightly, even like looking at the mouth.
04:41Does the mouth look a little bit different?
04:43Like, this one's a little bit smaller.
04:45Now, again, I'm going to be looking at one to the other and thinking,
04:47there's a lot more differences than what I'm already seeing.
04:49I think that, though, this is the better-looking Homer head than the original one.
04:54The bodies, as you can see, are completely different.
04:56But they've now sculpted, of course, the lower part, pant area of his shirt.
05:00This is also sculpted here as well.
05:01And like with every other member of the Mr. Burns team, you can see he does have his name on his jersey.
05:06I do also like that they've given him sleeves like they do in the episode.
05:10One thing that's also a bit of an issue, though, with Homer is that you probably can also notice, too,
05:14he has slightly smaller feet.
05:15No, no, that's not the issue.
05:17The issue has more to do with the fact he has these cleats.
05:20The cleats don't give him completely flat footing.
05:24So, unfortunately, though, when you put this guy on the shelf,
05:26I noticed he had a little harder of a time to stand because he's not necessarily resting on the feet or the shoes.
05:32He's resting on the cleats.
05:34And because, again, like the cleats aren't on everywhere.
05:36They're three in the back, obviously, and then there's five on the front.
05:39But I feel like there's just enough of that traction that causes the figure to have a little more stability issues,
05:43even though it probably doesn't look this way in this review.
05:45Just more so just because I've got the figure's legs completely straight right now.
05:49Now, for Homer's articulation, if you're familiar, obviously, already with the five-inch scale figures,
05:54I mean, obviously, Homer's going to have retained still all the same points of poseability.
05:58Head's going to rotate.
05:59Yeah, it's attached the exact same way.
06:01It's going to rotate.
06:02You're not going to be able to obviously move the head up and down.
06:04These Simpsons figures don't work that way.
06:06The arms do rotate, however, all the way around.
06:08A T-pose can easily be pulled off also from Homer, a home run or otherwise.
06:14The arms do have a swivel right here.
06:17And actually, this part of the sleeve swivels around the actual sleeve of his jersey.
06:21There's also a hinge right here in his elbow.
06:24Yeah, works the same way as before.
06:25There's no swivel here.
06:26When you're swiveling, you're essentially swiveling in the bicep.
06:29However, though, the hands do rotate all the way around, and there's a hinge there as well.
06:34His waist does swivel, although I noticed it was tight.
06:36Like, it's funny, though, that I did this earlier, and it had that same sound.
06:41I sort of stepped away from this and went back to it again.
06:44And when I did it, it did the exact same thing.
06:46So it's clicked on me a couple of times.
06:48But yeah, he does have a swivel, so he can rotate the waist all the way around.
06:51Legs split, but they only split that far.
06:53Take the legs and move forward.
06:54You can move them back.
06:56He moves more forward than he does back.
06:58There's a little bit of a swivel there at the top of the thigh.
07:01Single hinge only for the knee.
07:02The lower leg doesn't necessarily rotate, but the feet certainly do.
07:05And he does also have peg holes, but funny, though, enough that the pegs are at the front.
07:09The peg holes, I should say, are at the front, not on the backs for his heels.
07:13It's a home run homer, and it's certainly a home run, if you ask me.
07:17If you were to release, like, another variation of homer, I think a home run homer would certainly
07:20fit the part.
07:21You know, again, like, to compare this guy with the original homer, wall changes have certainly
07:26been made.
07:26I know, again, like, looking at the head sculpt, there's only a few tweaks.
07:29And I feel maybe it's more cosmetic.
07:31I keep kind of, again, looking at him, and even, like, looking at it from the side.
07:35Does he look the same?
07:37I don't know.
07:38It does look like his mouth is a little bit lower.
07:40It looks like also his eyes are a little bit lower.
07:42I could just be looking at this one and trying to find that there's differences when maybe
07:45in the end there's not.
07:47One thing, though, that certainly is different between the two figures is the coloring of the
07:50yellow.
07:51That little bit more lighter of a yellow on the initial release of homer.
07:54A much brighter yellow now on the homer and homer.
07:56I know, again, I'm going to call this probably homer and homer in the title.
08:00Someone's probably going to correct me and say, no, buddy, hey, listen, it's not homer
08:04and homer.
08:04It just says homer on the packaging.
08:06But again, like, it's pulled from that episode.
08:08Why not follow suit and call it that on the packaging as well?
08:11Now, it has come to my attention that some cheating has occurred.
08:14No, not the fact that Mr. Burns clearly has hired Major League Baseball players to star
08:18in his softball team, but more, though, the back of the packaging for Jack Specific.
08:21If, though, you remember the back of the packaging, they actually show an image where
08:25Homer is holding the bat with both his hands.
08:30That's photo altering.
08:32There's no way, actually, he can hold the bat with both his hands.
08:35His elbows just won't permit it.
08:36In the meantime, though, when it comes to displaying this guy on the shelf, I've got
08:39the cat spun around the back.
08:41You can display the figure that way, certainly, if you want.
08:43I didn't mention, though, that the two and a half inch scale, so it's the size that's
08:47half the size of these, actually do have a version of Homer, although it's not in the
08:51same baseball outfit that we're getting here.
08:53It's a little more cruder of an outfit.
08:55There's that release of it, which, again, still is one of my concerns with Jack Specific,
08:59that they're making exclusive look to characters that are certain size classes.
09:03So if you want to get that version of Homer, unfortunately, the only way to do it is get
09:06the one that's half this guy's size.
09:08Homer and Homer, though, does look the part, and he certainly does.
09:11I mean, as a deep cut character, honestly, though, I'm more excited with a Homer and Homer
09:15than I ever was with Deep Space Homer.
09:17Deep Space Homer was a fine figure.
09:19But I feel like, again, like, it's fine to release characters like this are pulled from
09:23one episode, but you really need to release a character the way he looks in every other
09:27episode.
09:29A good example, though, is what Jack's has done here.
09:31They've released this Homer, but it didn't take the place of an original one.
09:35We have the original Homer.
09:36We now have this Homer.
09:37And if they ever do release any other Homer after the fact, we can at least say we have
09:41the OG.
09:42What do you guys think of Homer?
09:43Let me know down below in the comments section.
09:44Can you also explain why the packaging makes no mention of this guy being Homer, only that
09:49they list it as Homer?
09:51Yeah.
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