James Cameron’s Avatar Na’vi Neytiri Action Figure

Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

Why I am qual­i­fied to speak: I have been col­lect­ing action fig­ures since the first Star Wars fig­ures back in the 1970s. I have thou­sands of 1:18 action fig­ures (lit­er­ally THOUSANDS). I Paid $[…] for this fig­ure (movie pre-release sale […]) and feel that it is about $2 over-priced. I see that they are now $[…] to $[…] at var­i­ous stores and that price is way over the value mark. Pick this up at $5 or less when they go on clear­ance (I can’t imag­ine peo­ple will buy tons of these at $10 a pop). It appears that this char­ac­ter is released in the same quan­ti­ties as all of the other char­ac­ters and is not short packed, ALTHOUGH, some stores received dif­fer­ent types of cases with dif­fer­ent con­tents. I saw a freshly stocked end­cap at Wal-mart and all char­ac­ters had at least 4 rep­re­sen­ta­tives. Neytiri had 6, Na’vi Jake had more than 10. The good: –Pretty 2-tone paint scheme. You can’t tell it is Neytiri, but you can tell it is Na’vi and female. –The arms are jointed at the elbows. As thin as the arms are, it is nice to see them get elbow joints instead of the stiff, one-piece arms many female char­ac­ters get (Uhura). –The loin cloth has the loop for the tail (Cute detail). –This fig­ure will stand out in any 1:18 col­lec­tion and is the best of the Na’vi bunch. The bad: SCALE: –I wish all the var­i­ous com­pa­nies would set­tle on a stan­dard 1:18 scale for their fig­ures and then honor that scale with acute atten­tion to detail. This fig­ure stands almost eye to eye with GI Joe Heavy Duty (just a bit taller). And the Na’vi char­ac­ters are not nearly tall enough to be on scale with the AVATAR human fig­ures, either. She is tall but not tall enough. –The figure’s head and face are too small for the body (tiny, human eyes). –The fig­ure has can­kles… nec­es­sary (maybe) for artic­u­la­tion, but they ruin the shape and flow of the leg. ARTICULATION - GI Joe and Star Wars (Has­bro) have mas­tered artic­u­la­tion so it con­founds me why every­one else keeps putting out lesser joint attempts. Neytiri has all of the major joints, but they are frag­ile and cheap. I don’t think there is any metal any­where in the fig­ure so I wouldn’t put money on the joints not wear­ing out. –The tail is not artic­u­lated and is stuck out to the side. ACCESSORIES - The bow and arrow are cast as one piece and are always in the drawn posi­tion. Unfor­tu­nately, there are no other acces­sories. - The base dou­bles as an I-cam ID 3D thing that doesn’t inter­est me (requires an app install which I won’t con­t­a­m­i­nate my PC with). CONCLUSION: I like this fig­ure and I’ll keep it as a curios­ity but I am not inter­ested in get­ting the rest of the series due to the low pro­duc­tion qual­ity, low detail, and inac­cu­rate scale (not to men­tion the ridicu­lous price). There is no way I would let my chil­dren play with this due to the joint frailness.