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S.H. MonsterArts Godzilla 2019


Today I got the S.H. Monsterarts Godzilla 2019. I had preordered it from Ami Ami and paid for it on Friday, and this morning it arrived.




I really like it. It's nicely detailed, has pretty good articulation  (especially the head/neck) and it comes with a breath effect accessory. There's a slight brownish wash on the chest and torso, but you can only notice in brighter light. The finger and toenails are slightly lighter but it's very subtle.



In comparison to the NECA, it stands a little taller. The paint job is much darker, and while the lighter wash on the NECA is nice and shows off more details, that's about the only thing that NECA's figure has over it. The Monsterarts has better articulation, doesn't have those awful fish eyes, and it comes with effect part.




I really love that this figure can look all the way up. It has a decent range of joints in the neck making that possible. He can also look side to side and down as well. He has 2 cuts on the torso, the upper one doesn't move a lot, the lower one moves more, forward and backward, as well as side to side. The arms can move around all the way (though the right arm on mine is a bit more stiff), and he sports 2 cuts at the elbows to bend them forward and all around. The wrist has movement as well. The legs also have several cuts and can articulate well. He has several joints in the tail, and the bottom jaw is on a ball joint that you can pull out to replace with the jaw that has the effect part.




There's a small piece of blue that's molded into the extra bottom jaw. Just swap it out, and insert the blue breath effect into a hole that's in the blue section of the jaw for his atomic breath effect. Just be careful when swapping out the jaws, you don't want to risk snapping the ball peg, though it swaps in fairly easy.  It's a nice, translucent blue, with silver/white highlights on one side.


The eyes on my figure are also aligned correctly, no wonky, derpy looks, so I'm happy with that. His eyes are small but really look good, as opposed to the wide eyed wired look that we got with NECA.



I really am satisfied with this figure I got. Tamashii Nations did a good job with their Godzilla 2019. I also pre-ordered their Rodan & Mothra 2019 as they also look to be very nice. I skipped the NECA Mothra release, after seeing several reviews, I wasn't all that impressed with it, plus I was quite letdown by their Godzilla. This guy is much nicer. He was worth the wait.


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