NEW PRODUCT: JOYTOY - 1/12 Frontline Chaos Series Vermouth & Bourbon

Vermouth
ETA: Q3-Q4, 2023
Price: $80 USD


Package contents:

• Figure with cloth outfit
  
• 2 pairs of hands
  
• 2 tanto daggers
  
• Submachinegun
  

Bourbon
ETA: Q3-Q4, 2023
Price: $80 USD


Package contents:

• Figure with cloth outfit
  
• 2 pairs of hands
  
• Katana with sheath
  
• Pistol with silencer
  

Oooh! Kinda nice! Not enough to make me buy them, but it's a tough choice.

I second Diana. Great little guys. I still can't get into sculpted long hair, even in this scale.

I agree on sculpted hair.

Their naming convention is a bit confusing: started with generic names (Rin, Lie), then turned to animal-themed titles (Candyfrog, Rabby, Deer), now it's alcoholic beverages, I'm rather curious what'll be next

Perhaps Bourbon can be a base for a Luo Ji custom.

Spoiler:

But I'd like to wait till I get Lowe in hand.

While Lowe the hunter was definitely a hit for me, Bourbon the gangster is more of a miss in comparison.


Not a complete miss though, but out of package shot above falls short of my expectations. The pants sit too high (they were even higher), belt is "fake" - it's only a small piece on the front glued to the pants, and it detached on one side almost immediately (had to glue it back).
And the face looks too stylized.


Maybe I should have expected more anime proportions, but I didn't after getting Lowe - and look how more realistic Lowe is:


Still, the figure has its merits. It can look good: he certainly has a character.


Accessories are nice too, though there are quite few of them - only 4 hands, and two of them on the picture above are non-matching (i.e. ungloved right hand with attached cigarette, but the left is gloved)


Katana and sheath are well detailed. The pistol is simple but does its job


Height-wise, Bourbon is smaller than Mezco figures, but head is of comparable size:


So for me with most of other figures being less stylized, he kind of works as a background character, but not really for close-ups.
This whole Frontline Chaos line is, indeed, chaotic.

He looks good to me, and I like the style for him, but I agree that it's weird they would mix styles within the same line. And while I like stylised heads in a few figures, like this one, I also avoid them because they just don't fit into my more realistic collection. So I empathise. Might just need to get a different head for him. You can probably sell this one easily, cause it ain't bad.

I agree, he isn't that bad, after all. And his difference from the other can be chalked up to the sort of differences between individuals in the real world.