Tess, your mention of Action figure reminded me of my recently acquired Stormfly.
But um....There's a bit of a problem...
You see, back when the First movie came out, McDonalds did their own little line of toys.
Quite well made; I still have two of Toothless, and the motion mechanic of the wings works just fine on both of them.
And than there's the Stormfly I got from a Trip to burger king this last month......
(Ignore my sister's junk in the BG)
Not only is she Marked for this year (You're 6 and 2 years 2 l8, lads), But her quality is just /terrible/.
Toothless is a very solid plastic, sturdy enough to handled by small children without breaking.
Stormfly is....The Plastic is sturdy, but the seams where shes put together are very obvious, and I imagine it wouldn't take much force to get into to separated bits and tear her apart.
On toothless, the mold had enough Detail to have the spikes along his spine be separate bumps, and the veins of his wings are noticeably thinner than the bone segments.
On Stormfly, I can't tell the wing veins from the bones, and her tail is just loads of bumps that are supposed to be the tail spikes.
On Toothless you can see his individual teeth, on Stormfly hers aren't even painted (they are there around her mouth).
You can't see her tail, but her tail isn't painted, either. Stormfly should have a mixture of the blue and orange/yellow for her spikes, but is just the blue of the plastic.
Oh and the obvious stuff like her Head spikes being on massive thing on her head. And the fact that her wings /aren't purple/.
She's also a bobble head.
So part of me doesn't mind having her; it's one more dragon than I had before, but she's just so poorly done that having her next to toothless is....heartbreaking?
But um....There's a bit of a problem...
You see, back when the First movie came out, McDonalds did their own little line of toys.
Quite well made; I still have two of Toothless, and the motion mechanic of the wings works just fine on both of them.
And than there's the Stormfly I got from a Trip to burger king this last month......
(Ignore my sister's junk in the BG)
Not only is she Marked for this year (You're 6 and 2 years 2 l8, lads), But her quality is just /terrible/.
Toothless is a very solid plastic, sturdy enough to handled by small children without breaking.
Stormfly is....The Plastic is sturdy, but the seams where shes put together are very obvious, and I imagine it wouldn't take much force to get into to separated bits and tear her apart.
On toothless, the mold had enough Detail to have the spikes along his spine be separate bumps, and the veins of his wings are noticeably thinner than the bone segments.
On Stormfly, I can't tell the wing veins from the bones, and her tail is just loads of bumps that are supposed to be the tail spikes.
On Toothless you can see his individual teeth, on Stormfly hers aren't even painted (they are there around her mouth).
You can't see her tail, but her tail isn't painted, either. Stormfly should have a mixture of the blue and orange/yellow for her spikes, but is just the blue of the plastic.
Oh and the obvious stuff like her Head spikes being on massive thing on her head. And the fact that her wings /aren't purple/.
She's also a bobble head.
So part of me doesn't mind having her; it's one more dragon than I had before, but she's just so poorly done that having her next to toothless is....heartbreaking?
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