Well, it looks like this artic figures guy turned out to be a scammer. To all that bought from him and did not receive their figures... I'm sorry! I now feel lucky I even got what I paid for. If it makes anyone feel better, I disputed this figure purchase after reviewing it and got my money back, and he sent me a really pissed off email 😂. Fuck him, POS scammer.
Finally some1's talking about these things without blindly soyjaking over them. I admire the vision but there's SO many things that go unaddressed in most reviews I've seen, well done
@@actioncreatureI think Artic Figure made high quality figures for Andy Dinosaur Review for promotion then made cheaper quality figures for normal customers who ordered them
I appreciate your honesty, personally never really understood how people could pay for Artic’s work. Not when individuals like Photon Collectibles are putting out epic projects for $75-$125. There is NO reason why Artic is charging $250-$400 (Zilla) for tiny figures with joints made from gangly wire and half assed paint jobs. His work really rubs me the wrong way as an artist myself.
Thats honestly crazy that you've had those issues. I have no issues with breaking on any of his figures I've acquired and also haven't dealt with any paint chipping. Not one time have i had any paint chips and thats even with droppingthem a time or two. No issues at all with any of that. The articulation with the figures standing goes hand in hand with the style of articulation. The figures do stand for me as long as you adjust the knees correctly. I think you need to try readjusting the knees to give it some stability. Its similar to the Beasts of the Mesozoic raptor series where they stand if you get them in a good spot but on these the string joints definitely cause the legs to crumble. Thats why you should readjust the knees to stiffen them up which allows them to stand. As far as painting, i think painting after its built is best. I had no unpainted areas on mine at all and mine was painted by Artic, and its certainly unfortunate yours has that issue. Not sure why that happened. However, as someone that often paints my Artic Figures models, painting after thetre assembled is best in my opinion because it helps for the paint to stay consistent through the entire figure. Painting pre-assembled could cause some transitions to miss and not line up correctly so painting after assembled, in my opinion, is best. Although missing areas is never a good thing. Although i know hes recently hired two new painters for his products so that shouldn't be a concern moving forward. Also, its very clear I'm the guy you're referring to as the "other reviewer" and i must say, I'm not appreciative of the insinuation that I'm dishonest. Every single review I've ever done, I've been 100% honest in, and i consistently point out any and every issue i have with every figure i review. Its apparent to me that yours suffers from some issues that mine doesn't. Thats definitely disheartening and I'm sorry for that, but i can assure you I'm always completely honest in my reviews. The only issue we share is the standing issue and in my Artic Figures reviews i usually state that you need to adjust the knees for them to stand perfectly, and I've mentioned that so many times that if i happened to have forgotten to mention it in the V rex review, i apologize.
I'm glad that yours all came out great! Im just speaking on my experience and what I received. The outcome was pretty unfortunate. I have watched a lot of your reviews, and I'm a fan of your channel. Upon receiving this, I just felt misled after seeing how all of yours have turned out great. I had wished I had known about the issues before dropping $350 on it. I know the paint is not your fault because I was under the impression you paint all of your figures, so you couldn't have possibly known about those issues anyway. At the end of the day, there was some sort of disconnect between what I got and what you received. Maybe mine was just a dud, and I hope thats the case. Hope we dont have beef now haha.
@actioncreature no beef at all man. I'm glad you understand my side of things as well. Also, thank you in general for watching my channel! I'll be sure to subscribe to yours as well. I hope I didn't come off as rude. Just wanted to explain things.
@@JurassicManiac he's been getting orders out gradually as far as I know. He's been printing 24/7 but I think he took on way too many orders so they're going out slowly. Hopefully soon.
I love the honesty of this review. You really show the problems with it. The other reviewer you can see he never really shows how far the articulation can go and he never mentions why his figures are always leaning. Arctic is a great sculptor. I wish he would just use ball joints. I have the rex from him which I enjoy. But you're right that rubbing is horrible for paint. Also he was laying down for a while on my shelf and one day the string snapped.
@@alexandertorres6526 I haven't tried yet. I've just been too busy but I did email him. He said I could try to do it with the instructions on his website or I could send it back to him so he can do it. I figured I'd try myself first but I haven't had time lately
I enjoyed the 2005 movie so much, especially in rewatching in recent years. It's really unfortunate about the paint not being complete and double disappointing on the broken pieces.The sculpt looks pretty cool though. I have the Rebor which looks quite good too but has very limited articulation. You gave a very honest review! I hope the person or company who did this will watch this and do better in the future.
Damn, the price is definitely quite a bit but it Looks quite incredible though. Honestly hope hiya toys decides to get the 2005 King Kong license so they can make a officially licensed V rex figure, would be cool to if they made the skull island ceratopsian as well from the film.
I'm glad you highlighted the issues you did, as the criticisms are warranted and neccicary. It can't be denied that what Artic Figures, Zetto, KujiraDesigns etc do is fantastic in an ambitious way, however all these 3D printed resin figures/parts seem to suffer from the same issues. The resin allows for super crisp detail and slight flexability, but is VERY brittle. Everyone I've seen post these have ALL had missing teeth/spikes/what have you, due to ether shipping or assembly. My Skullcrawler form Zetto broke during assembly, which was very frustrating given I spent about $300AUD on it, and every other part from those mentioned above has arrived damaged, so I've had a 100% defect rate. The material itself Is also prone to paint chipping I find, even after several top coats, any slight friction and the paint is gone. There's also the labour cost that goes into these, which then gets pushed onto the consumer. Now yes you can have your figure pre-assembled and pre-painted but you'll be paying extra again, because like you said, there's only so much one person can do, especially when they have so many orders. Interchangeable parts are also a death sentence for these figures, a more pliable rubber like material (like what's used for S.H. MonsterArts) would be great and alleviate a lot of issues present, but I guess that's not in the cards. Sculpt and detail wise these figures are great, but the all too common quality control issues on top of the extremely high asking price makes me hesitant to recommend these figures, and I actually advise against them if you aren't an experienced customizer. This sucks to say, as you can tell these individuals are passionate about their work, but I believe these types of figures (despite other qc issues) are better off in the hands of larger corporations like Bandai.
This being one of my first 3rd party figures, it gave a me a new found respect for the bigger companies. They get it done right and for a good cost! Im really hoping Hiya toys gets to this version of king kong!
Finally, an honest review! I'm pretty sure Artic is either a scammer or a terrible business owner at best. I've got my own horrible personal experience with him to draw from. I would advise to never do business with him at all. PERIOD. Keep your money safe and don't trust this guy.
Thank you for your honest review. You did everything right, by pointing out those flaws. That's not a 20$ figure with some errors that can be sometimes found in Mattel or Hasbro. These things are in the same price category as Hot Toys.
You paid 300 for 10 dollars worth of quality. This thing needs to be trashed and Artic should start over from scratch. As much as I try to support individual people who do this stuff, this is absolutely grounds for a partial refund or a better produced figure. The sculpt itself looks great, but there's just no justified reason for this price. As far as reviews go, I always watch a minimum of 3 reviews from reputable people before buying from third-party sellers. I hope, ultimately, you get some sort of justice for this because it's totally unacceptable imo.
So allegedly, in Minecraft, the guy who made these closed up shop with unfulfilled orders after being confronted with history of scams.... And took the money and ran. After seeing this, not much of value was lost. 💀 I mean it was a crappy thing to do, but this looks painful.
Yo! Steven, what's up man! I've been watching you for years! I actually disputed this figure purchase after the review and got my money back, he sent me a super pissed off email (not knowing I reviewed his figure on youtube) 😂. Now I don't feel bad, whats funny is he hit me up on my youtube's instagram asking if he could do anything to help me out and fix my figure. It just goes to show that these scammers will prioritize sending figures out to youtubers to help promote their scam.
Huge ups to you for the review and keeping it real. Have you seen what Nanmu has done with their models? Even the rebor one from a few years ago was a stellar sculpt for the price...although it may no longer be available. Obviously those are just models, but the nanmu one looks incredible, and it comes with a sick base.
Great review thank you for your honesty. I was going to pull the trigger on this but I’ll put my money elsewhere. I’m used to buying hot toys and this isn’t worth the $300
From what I know the Resin he used for it was much cheaper and broke more easily but he switched it to much more resilient resin later on AKA much durable plastic.
@@actioncreature Well hes just a one man crew doing all of this and he has to ship them out fast and resin costs alot so I understand why he has to make them pricey. He probably does not get much time at all for a quality check of like over 100 V-rexes.
@somedudewhodraws9377 understandable, I do not discredit his work. At the end of the day, i still paid $325 for a figure that can't stand and has broken parts. My intention is to be honest and let people know my experience.
@@somedudewhodraws9377Justifying poor quality is nuts when the man charges what he does. It’s essentially highway robbery, especially when compared to COUNTLESS other 3D printer individuals who sell amazing quality for affordable prices.
@@somedudewhodraws9377 My issue with Artic Figures is how frequently he posted things for sale and these figures never shipped out on the dates he said they would. I backed the painted Buck T-Rex and still haven't received it. Being a one-man crew is the issue and offering more things than he can produce in a timely manner is why I won't be ordering from him again.
I like his work, but I was waiting to get a piece from him at some point. What stopped me was when he offered the unassembled ones, and I saw the string. I wasn't sure what it was for, but I bought an articulated dragon off etsy once, and the joints were held together by bungee cord. That string in Artic's pics made me think he was use string to hold it together, which put me off from buying, because I was expecting full joints for the price of the figures. I didn't have an issue with the prices, because it is a lot of work, but the string method is kind of lazy, because there other creators that take the time to create proper joints. It seems like the cost of these figures is based on the filament cost and sculpting. I know he said that one figure can take up a whole bottle of a special resin blend he uses, and the bottle itself cost $160.. So most likely cost is coming from resin and the time to sculpt it, and use the 3D printer as a whole, because the printers need maintenance and replacement parts as they get used through time. For the paintwork, it is very disappointing that it is poor quality in terms of durability and not being fully painted. I never really liked his paintwork, it sort of looked cheap in all his figures. He is more than likely rushing through the painting process to keep up with production. As for the reviewer you mentioned, you probably are referring to Andy's Dinosaur Reviews. Andy reviews a lot stuff, but he is not an objective reviewer that provides constructive criticism; he simply likes everything that he receives. I have not really ever heard him say he does not like something. As someone else has said, he also doesn't really demonstrate the full articulation of figures either, most likely because it his copy and doesn't feel comfortable with it. Problem is though, buyers do not really know just how much range the figures provide. Overall, it sucks that this figure came out this way for you. I support Artic, as his work looks awesome, but now seeing the grim and gritty of this figures makes me reevaluate if I can justify the cost of his figures, because corners definitely were cut. I was interested in the 3D files that he recently made available, but not soo much now that I know the figure does not have proper joints and uses string. Buying the files would require the buyer to engineer their own joints that are compatible with a figure, in which is may just be easier to make the whole figure at that point for better compatibility. Definitely not buying any of his pieces now though, as I no longer see it worth the price.
You couldn't be further from the truth about me. I always do my best to point out every issue with every figure I review and have had many reviews that were negative. Take a look at some of my recent Mattel Fierce Changers reviews, just for a few examples. I always do my best to point out any issue that i think is worth mentioning. I'm sorry if I come off as rude, which I don't mean to be, but when people say things like that, it drives me crazy!
In the video, i explain the string mechanism it uses. Basically, it's tight strings holding the pieces together, and you are able to articulate with the friction of the pieces.
I think they are really overpriced, but he does do figures of obscure stuff that wouod be hard to get otherwise. I think if you are patient an actual company will most likely make what you are wanting one day.
I really like bjd figures because if the string breaks it is easy to repair unlike plastic joints, but of course even more important is that the seller should be honest and not a scammer who never sends you the figures you bought.
I pre ordered the V rex months ago. Still haven't gotten mine. I have emailed him also... With no response. I remembered it said "will" ship in October
Trust me, you’re not getting them. This guy is a con artist. He sends his garbage to big RU-vidrs to review to trick good people into buying them. Then he cashes out and proceeds to ghost the consumers. I lost around 800 USD to this guy. He broke every rule on Indiegogo by lying about shipment dates + not informing the backers. Good thing my bank seized the money from his account.
The detail and sculpt is amazing, but the price, material's quality and the articulation is a big no for me. The figure isn't worth it. But hey! Great review ;)
Articfigures- closed shop and social media, as well as our money for figurines, were gone. I bought two figurines, one a year ago and one now in August. I haven't received any. Case?
And this is why I prioritize statues over articulated figures. Hunt down the Nanmu Dragon Soul V-Rex, your won't regret it. As a matter of fact, I've snatched TWO myself just for good old redundancy.
I’d rather get a Rebor version or wait for an official Articulated V-Rex. Definitely gonna skip this out. I preordered Artic’s unpainted Graboid (only figure I’m going to get from him) and I hope it gets here fine and around the time he said it would be sent out. Big fan of Tremors so an articulated Graboid was something that I wanted very badly. I do have a figure from another person, Jurassic Justin and that’s the Sub-Adult Scorpios Rex. This figure is amazing with little to no issues with it. No paint chipping or figure chipping. Only gripe is that it’s a little hard to stand up for photography but nothing to bad.
For $300 it shouldn't be held together with fucking strings....I give him credit on the actual sculpt and manufacturing of this this as like a 5 man team. But if your charging upwards of $300 per figure you need to design an incorporate ball joints and hinges like monsterarts or just action figures in general. Ontop of alot of the joints having huge gabs and pretty horrendous cuts. Again I say all of this as it's being charged as a premium price.
Man this is disappointing to see. I ordered one of these back in March and it still hasn't arrived. Yesterday they sent me an email to say it's been shipped, but they inexplicably sent it to my old address even though i sent them multiple emails saying I'd moved house. 😮 Now they've suddenly deleted their website and Instagram. Really freaking out that I've been scammed.
Do you have any contact info for Artic Figures? I've tried contacting him on insta and his website and emailing him. A name or address or anything? I paid for this thing in March. I get that its bespoke and takes time but this is bananas
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but Articfigures is said to be a scammer under the name of Josh Smith and David Lee whose site is now gone. While some of his orders have went through, consider getting a refund and spreading the word around.
@@ismaelhernandez4945 Try disputing the transaction on your credit cards bank by telling them about the missing site and that your order hasn't been received.
Unfortunately I don't. I just made a video on all my interactions with him! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-74Hd7i9CbZw.htmlsi=6RlEac9laGVDuCz1
I don't know what to do man I bought vastatosaurus rex and zilla figure and haven't received vastatosaurus I've been messaging him for like 3 days and haven't received an answer kinda worrying me that I'm not get the figures
$200.00 bucks for the unpainted version, this thing isn't just worth that price. People need to stop buying from these amateur toy makers with 3D printers who think their flimsy prints are really worth what they're asking for.
Trust me, you’re not getting them. It’s a classic pump and dump scheme. He’s only shipping them quick to big RU-vidrs to trick more people into buying his garbage and proceeds to no-sell/ghost people. I lost around $800 USD to this guy. Good thing my bank seized the money from him.
@@JurassicManiac file a claim with your bank. I’m sorry to hear about your experience too. But my bank offered me a refund because he’s basically committing a crime - lying
@justintothesun i told my someone i know on discord and they said they will ship in october. forgot what time in october but if i dont get it until december ima have to talk to my parents about it
You’re not getting them. He’s a con-artist. Lost around 800 USD to this guy. He broke every rule on Indiegogo. He lies about shipment dates + doesn’t inform his customers about changes. Apparently he’s too “busy”. But he’s not too busy making newer garbage to sell to people, instead of fulfilling past orders made A YEAR AGO by people. Notice how he now limited comments on his Instagram? I wonder why. I advise you guys contact your bank.
300 bucks?! That's a rip off! The Hammond T-Rex articulated for 50 bucks is away much better deal and made better! My favorite King Kong movie is the original 1933 OG! No CGI bullshit! Peter Jackson disappointed me! He's supposedly such a fan of the original King Kong this one to me didn't do it justice! He should of did it practical with animatronics like Jurassic Park and only use CGI when it couldn't be done practical! Plus I don't know why he had to invent a new dinosaur and call it a V-Rex! You should have just went with the OG T-Rex!
Man, this video has aged like milk since we know that Arctic figures is a scammer At least you can download the files that he had for his figures and 3-D print them
