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Saw this video on youtube where some guy made a 30-min rant about how much he hates the Amber Collection raptor figures. And he decided to open it by talking about how the packaging art swapped Delta and Echo’s portraits - the Delta figure has a picture of Echo on it, and vice versa.
And honestly I’m just astounded that there are people who can tell Delta and Echo apart enough to even notice that.
(image from Amazon.com)
For anyone who is still planning to purchase this toy (and hasn’t already) a word of warning:
While this toy is unquestionably very big and impressive, it has a single not-exactly-insignificant design flaw.
The hinge joint at the base of the neck is not strong enough to support the neck’s weight. As a result, it can’t hold its head up except in the single pose shown in the above image.
Unfortunately, this continues a trend I’ve noticed of Mattel’s Jurassic World toys looking great but having terrible quality control. These toys are not cheap (this one retails $50USD), and there is no excuse for a major company like Mattel to have such consistently poor QC.
I don’t know if I just have really bad luck, but I figured I’d make this post to make people aware of an issue I found.
