Let's Look At: NECA SHIN GODZILLA ATOMIC BLAST

Previously, on The Gryphon's Lair:

Yup, I called it!
Then again, so did probably a few other people. But that’s beside the point.

Since I have reviewed the original NECA SHIN GODZILLA, articulation will not be discussed again as it is pretty much the same. The body has a darker black skin color and even though the red orange paint varies on every NECA Shin Godzilla figures it still stands out pretty well. 
But now let's look at the new features. 

This is meant to be Shin Godzilla during the moments where he unleashes his Atomic Ray (the best scene in the movie, for the record), with a new head sculpt and different paint on the back and tail.

The new head looks really nice. I think the detailing inside the mouth is pretty well done. The purple inside may seem minuscule to most people. 
The teeth look better on this head than they did on the original figure. Although, this figure still retains the eyes from the original for some reason. Shouldn't they be all silver?

The neck has some light purple paint as well. Both sides of the neck aren’t completely painted to give the flickering effect as seen in 'Shin Godzilla'.
We get the same paint on the neck as well, unfortunately it doesn’t show up as well when looking at it from the front.

Looking at the back, the dorsal fins have the purple and white glow which looks good overall. The glow continues over so subtly down the back of the tail to the illuminated tip. I actually think the tip of this figures tail is painted better than the original. And those odd patches from the original NECA Shin are nowhere to be seen.

But what’s an Atomic Blast figure without the breath effect pieces? This one comes with 2 of them! One for the mouth and one for the tail.

Once inserted they stay in tightly and look great.

Get enough of these pieces and you can recreate the scenes with the beams that come out the back. If you can figure out how to get them to stay on the back.

 

It wasn’t until I took a closer look at the figure and noticed a pretty big mess up on NECA's part. Aside from the nail paint spilling onto the feet, the feet themselves do not match at all.
How did this happen? 
I am at a loss for words.
I’ve looked at lot of other reviews for this figure and they all have the proper foot, some with a deformed toenail that might be fixable with a hair dryer. But mine appears to be a special case. I even went and tweeted NECA themselves about this. Currently awaiting a response... 

Also what is that? A tumor? 

Despite my complaining about the flaws in my figure, I actually still recommend picking it up, I think it’s an overall good figure to add to your collection. It beats having to pay  outrageous oversea shipping prices. 
I will say that it is lucky that these NECA Godzilla figures come in clear packaging so you can spot details like that and hopefully pick out the best of the bunch. Though, from what I've heard the packaging may be changed in the future for newer figures and the release of 'King of the Monsters'.
If you seek this figure, I hope yours turns out better than mine.

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