Jakks Pacific The Simpsons Itchy and Scratchy 2.5" Figures
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00:00Well, if they fight together, they might as well be reviewed together.
00:03Here's your look at the Jack Specific The Simpsons 2 1⁄2-inch Itchy and Scratchy.
00:22Collect your favorite cartoon characters from the Simpsons TV series with the Wave 2 of
00:26The Simpsons 2 1⁄2-inch scale figures featuring basic articulation.
00:29These iconic characters from The Simpsons are sure to please cartoon lovers and collectors
00:33alike.
00:34While they may not be the easiest to break up in the cartoon, Jack's apparently felt
00:37it was super easy to break them up and sell them separately.
00:40Before we get a closer look, though, in the 2 1⁄2-inch scale Itchy and Scratchy, let's
00:42take the tape measure and we'll have a look at how tall the figures actually stand.
00:45And then, of course, I'll bring in a couple of 5-inch scale figures so you guys can see
00:48the differences there.
00:49This might be the only time I'm going to invest anymore in getting a 2 1⁄2-inch scale, just
00:53because, again, I can feel like Itchy and Scratchy.
00:56First of all, there's very little likelihood that we're going to be getting a 5-inch variety
00:59of these two characters.
01:00But I also think that the scale works a little bit better with the 5-inch you'll see in
01:03a second.
01:04First, though, onto Itchy.
01:05He's actually only about 2 inches in height, translating, though, to a figure that's about
01:095 centimeters tall.
01:10Then to Scratchy, obviously, is the taller of the two.
01:12He's actually 2 1⁄2 inches in height, or about 6 1⁄2 centimeters tall.
01:17I think when you bring in a character like Krusty the Clown, Itchy and Scratchy's size
01:20makes a whole lot more sense.
01:22Not that the company is probably planning to do a 5-inch version of Itchy or Scratchy,
01:25for that matter.
01:26But funny, though, enough that we bring in Krusty the Clown because Krusty the Clown
01:28is also released in a 2 1⁄2-inch scale, which I think is about the same size as their
01:332 1⁄2-inch Homer Simpson.
01:34Just again, to give you guys a comparison size.
01:36I feel like in a case like this, Itchy and Scratchy should have either been sold as a
01:39two-pack to go along with this size class.
01:42Because again, I don't think anybody that's collecting ... Well, let's just bring in the
01:45Bart, for example.
01:46I think if you're collecting this size of Simpsons, then why would you get, then, this
01:49Itchy and Scratchy to be displayed with this size?
01:53Bring in other characters, also, as well.
01:54Here's the larger version of Homer Simpson.
01:56Here's also Bart Simpson.
01:57I can actually get him to stand.
01:59Just recently, we also had a look at Lisa Simpson.
02:02Again, she's got a bit of a balancing issue, just because, again, her head is so large.
02:06At least I don't have her saxophone in her hand this time.
02:09And here's also what the figures look like with Bartman.
02:11Sold separately, the figures each come included with their own separate accessories.
02:14Itchy, for example, comes included with a club.
02:16The club looks okay, other than being a really long drumstick.
02:19I have noticed, though, in both the cases of this and the mallet, they're using pretty
02:22soft plastic.
02:24But good luck actually getting either character to hold these.
02:26Scratchy actually has a better job of holding his accessory than Itchy.
02:29Sure, fine enough it goes into his hand, but then the moment you raise his arm up, Itchy's
02:34never going to be able to stand on his own.
02:36The only way, really, I was able to pull this off is just to bring the club down a bit,
02:40and actually just use that as sort of a way to rest him against the shelf, or wherever
02:43you plan to display this guy.
02:45The funny thing, also, about these characters, if you look at the bottoms of their feet,
02:49they tease these unnecessarily sized peg holes on the bottoms of their feet.
02:53When you get a hole this small, I mean, it has to go with a specific stand, and yet for
02:56Jax not to include a display stand, and for a character that really does need one, I just
03:00feel like why would they have even included the peg holes on the bottoms of their feet
03:04in the first place?
03:05So, other than really one issue that he has properly standing with his club, I will say,
03:09though, that Itchy does look really quite good.
03:11He's my favorite, I would say, of the two figures, but again, I probably would have
03:14just sold this set together and marketed him more as the 5-inch size, because again, they
03:19make more sense that way.
03:20I do like the coloring that they chose here for Itchy.
03:22I would have probably brought in the Super 7 releases, but of course, those deep cut
03:26characters that they had to go with, we got ourselves a robot Itchy and a robot Scratchy,
03:29and then just salt on the wound, they threw in Poochie in there as well.
03:33Did anybody even ask for a Poochie?
03:35But again, the detailing done here is really nice.
03:37They've printed in the belly fur there that he has on the front.
03:40The shirt is kind of more of a lighter pink.
03:42It doesn't seem like it's quite the same pink that they have for the sleeves here, but he
03:45has some decent levels of posability.
03:47I mean, for Itchy alone, his head does rotate back and forth.
03:50His arms only swivel back and forth this way, but you can also hinge them out.
03:55He has no articulation here for the hand, nor does he have anything here for the waist.
03:58And what's interesting though about Itchy and Scratchy is that they have articulation
04:01here for their legs, but when you move one leg, it also connects the other as well.
04:06So you hinge them together, and unfortunately, what you're seeing right now is to the extent
04:11of really what they're actually doing.
04:12Scratchy between the two actually bends a little bit better.
04:15I mean, for what little he does, I almost would have even just left the articulation
04:19off altogether.
04:20I mean, for this as all that you're able to do with the figure, it just seems so silly
04:24that they would even include it in the first place.
04:26Oh, oh, oh, and he also does have articulation here on the tail, swivel back and forth.
04:30I mean, not the tail is long enough really that you could balance him against the tail
04:33if you want to have him holding the mallet, or hold the club.
04:37Like the club, it's impossible for the character to actually hold it.
04:41On over now to Scratchy.
04:42Scratchy comes in clear with his mallet.
04:44Now the mallet fits into his hands, and again, it's using a very soft plastic, look at this.
04:50You can fit it into his hands, and he actually does a little bit better of a job balancing
04:54It also helps too that his tail is long enough so you can bring the tail down a bit and he
04:57can actually rest against that.
05:00The mallet itself doesn't really have much in the way of detail.
05:02There's a few little lines that they suggested in there, but other than that, it's a pretty
05:06basic looking mallet.
05:08It isn't even also quite the same color as the club.
05:11It's a little bit of a different color.
05:12So I'm kind of surprised that they didn't use the exact same color, because I would
05:15imagine though, I mean, tooling these molds would have not just been easier just to use
05:18the exact same coloring of plastic.
05:20Anyways, what do I know about making figures?
05:23We can go at Scratchy.
05:24Scratchy again is a nice detailed little figure, even though again, like he's smaller, I mean,
05:28he doesn't make any sense at all to be displayed with say the likes of, well, let's bring in
05:33Bart Simpson, for example.
05:34I mean, look at that Bart Simpson, and then look at the size of Scratchy.
05:37Would you as a collector ever decide to display this guy with this guy here?
05:41Of course you wouldn't.
05:42You have common sense.
05:43I shouldn't say that.
05:44The nose is painted well, as you can see, he's also got the little hanging out tongue
05:47that Scratchy has in the cartoon, and a little hanging teeth that he has also there as well.
05:53The muscles again, painted well, a little furry on the front of his tummy, painted nicely
05:57on the gloves.
05:58I mean, there's not really much in the way of paint that they've put onto these figures,
06:00but what they have, they have it done well.
06:02Again, on the articulation front, the figure does have a rotation in the head, so you can
06:06rotate it all the way around.
06:08The arms again, rotate all the way around as well, hinging in the shoulders.
06:11Now, again, when you're looking at Scratchy, unlike Itchy, Scratchy can actually bend his
06:16legs a lot better.
06:17I mean, really, what would you be able to do with that extent of bend?
06:20It's not like he'd be able to sit down or anything like that.
06:22I guess you probably can move the tail up.
06:24Maybe he could just lean down like this.
06:25Does that make any sense?
06:28Probably not.
06:29And still again, he's got these weird looking holes on the bottoms of his feet.
06:32If you're going to make an obscure size like this, at least include a display stand, because
06:36like right now, you're just teasing us.
06:38You're just teasing us, Jax.
06:39Don't do that.
06:40But collectively, I will say, these are nice little figures.
06:44These were ones that were on my radar for a while, and it always seemed to be the case
06:46that I always found Scratchy, but I could never find Itchy, or it was always the other
06:50way around.
06:51I found Itchy once, but I never found a Scratchy.
06:53I probably should have just picked him up at that time, and then gone looking for Scratchy
06:56a little bit later.
06:57But what ended up happening, though, was I was on Facebook group, and I was buying something
07:01from a seller, and I noticed that he also had an Itchy and a Scratchy.
07:04So I jumped for the chance, and he ended up giving me a deal.
07:07I think he was asking like $35 for both.
07:09I think I got marked down just a little bit under that.
07:12But I'm glad to finally now have an Itchy and Scratchy to be displayed with Presti the
07:15Clown, because again, I feel the size makes a lot more sense.
07:19Bring these guys a little bit more in the front here.
07:22Will we be getting a 5-inch scale Itchy and Scratchy?
07:25I don't think so.
07:26I think basically once Jack Spacific has now done an Itchy and Scratchy of this size, that's
07:30probably where they're going to be leaving these two characters.
07:32Again, bringing the others, there's Bart Simpson, there's Homer, and here's also Lisa.
07:38I wonder if we are going to be getting ourselves a Poochie.
07:40Now I know there are some people that still love the 2.5-inch scale size class, because
07:45also they work really well with like the backgrounds.
07:47Homer, for example, I haven't even picked that one up.
07:49I'm kind of still on the fence as to whether I want to grab it.
07:51The Simpsons home also comes included with a Homer.
07:54It's good certainly for people that don't have a whole lot of size to work with, a lot
07:57of space to work with.
07:59Why are we getting Lisa?
08:00There we go.
08:01Put Bart right in the middle.
08:03Some people actually still prefer to get the 2.5-inch scale, because again, like if you
08:06don't have a whole lot of space to work with, this size class works a whole lot better.
08:10It's not like the details are skimped just because the size is a little bit smaller.
08:13I mean, this 2.5-inch scale worked just as well as the 5-inch.
08:16But 5-inch obviously benefit from a little bit more posability.
08:18Itchy & Scratchy don't have as much.
08:20I mean, they have kind of with the same levels of posability as these two guys here.
08:23But I mean, for a cat and a cartoon cat and a cartoon mouse, what kind of articulation
08:28would you really need with them in the first place?
08:31This same wave, by the way, that featured Itchy & Scratchy also had Crusty the Clown,
08:35a partially winking Bart with Slingshot and a Sideshow Bob.
08:39I'm still tempted to get that Sideshow Bob.
08:41I think I'm going to wait, though, a little bit just to hope that Jack Specific eventually
08:44releases a 5-inch Bob.
08:46Although the Sideshow Bob here for the 2.5-inch scale is actually him in his prison outfit,
08:51that might very well be exclusive to this size class only.
08:55Speaking, again, of this size class, it's, again, really weird, though, that they chose
08:58Itchy & Scratchy to be part of a 2.5-inch scale instead of simply just packing the two
09:02together and marketing them as part of the 5-inch size.
09:05Because I think for the price, you could easily have put the two together and sold them for
09:09around that same price as what they were already asking for the 5-inch scale Simpsons figures.
09:14Accessory-wise, they come included, of course, with a club and their mallet.
09:17Itchy is the one that has the harder time to hold the club.
09:20There's really nothing to help him balance it, so you're always probably going to have
09:23to have the figure displayed with the club resting on the ground.
09:27Itchy, on the other hand, or Scratchy, on the other hand, Scratchy the Cat,
09:30has an easier job to hold the mallet in his hands.
09:33Both figures do possess the same levels of posability, which, again, is surprising for
09:37what the 2.5-inch scale is anyways, that they still manage to put in a hinge in their shoulders.
09:42So it's not just the case that the five-point articulated figures.
09:45It seems, again, like unnecessary that they include the hinge in the lowers of their legs.
09:49Just because, again, like Scratchy, for example, you can have him in a seated position,
09:53but it's not a completely flat seat.
09:55So he's going to be slipping off whatever he's sitting down on.
09:58And then, of course, you've got yourself Itchy.
10:00Itchy can't even sit at all.
10:02So why do you even take the time to put the hinge there in the first place?
10:05Still, though, in the end, while I'm probably not planning to pick up any of the other figures
10:08of the 2.5-inch scale, I think I've kind of really settled down just collecting the
10:12five-inch.
10:12Itchy and Scratchy was the only 2.5-inch that I could see myself still collecting.
10:17Maybe what they could always do is release also some size class figures of the 2.5-inch,
10:23where it could be like a Gabbo, for example, or even a Poochie.
10:26I would welcome a Poochie of this size.
10:28I don't think having a Poochie the same size as the rest of Simpsons Ultimates made any sense
10:32looking in your direction, Super 7.
10:34What do you guys, though, think of Itchy and Scratchy?
10:35Let me know down below in the comments section.
10:37Do you guys also feel like this set should have been sold together and market as a five-inch?
10:42Not as the 2.5-inch?
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