Jakks Pacific The Simpsons Milhouse Figure
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00:00This is great, and all I've done is enter my name, Thrillhouse.
00:05Here's your look at the new Jaxx Pacific. This is the Simpsons Millhouse.
00:20Collect your favorite cartoon characters from the Simpsons TV series,
00:24with the newest wave of the Simpsons 5-inch scale figures featuring basic articulation.
00:28These iconic characters from the Simpsons are sure to please cartoon lovers and collectors alike.
00:33While Millhouse's dad over there is trying to draw Digny,
00:36I'm over here grabbing a tape measure to see how tall the new Jaxx Pacific Millhouse stands.
00:40Luckily, though, I did find this at a local toy show.
00:42Good luck finding it anywhere else. I'd have better luck finding Narnia.
00:45Millhouse, though, is going to stand at 3 1ā2 inches in height,
00:48translating, though, to a figure that's about 8 1ā2 centimeters tall.
00:51Do I have a Bart? No, go three-eyed fish.
00:54Actually, no, I do have a Bart. I shouldn't be lying like that.
00:56Here's what the figure looks like along with Bart's. Times two, in fact.
00:59I actually have both Bart and Bartman.
01:01Here's also what the figure looks like with Lisa.
01:04And let's bring in a couple of the adult characters.
01:06Here's Krusty the Clown.
01:08Here's groundskeeper Willie. And hey, why not?
01:10Here's also what he looks like with Otto.
01:12Some slightly smaller figures, just as an excuse to bring them in also as well.
01:15Here's what the figure looks like with both Itchy and Scratchy.
01:18Millhouse does have one of the largest accessories with a Jaxx Pacific Simpsons figure.
01:22He has a bike.
01:23Although, while it's nice that the bike does have spinning tires on the front and on the back,
01:27I don't know. It feels like the bike is maybe too small for him.
01:30Unless maybe he's gotten a hand-me-down or maybe he found it and bought it at a garage sale.
01:33I don't know, but the bike does seem like it's a little too tiny for Millhouse.
01:37The thing that's cool, at least, about it, though, is if you look at the pedals,
01:40there's pegs on the top of it.
01:41They actually kind of look like single brick tiles for Lego.
01:44If you look at the bottom, though, feet of Millhouse, obviously, you can see that,
01:47oh, it looks like red eyes.
01:49He does have holes, though, in the bottoms of his feet.
01:51So, basically, all you just need to do is attach his feet to the pegs.
01:54Boy, that's super simple. It is super simple. Come on, now.
01:57Plug his feet basically in place.
01:59Although, unfortunately, the way that they sort of have it now is that you really can't quite get him to sit down on his seat.
02:06I'd rather actually like to have him just more sitting down on his seat,
02:09but you can see it sort of results in the figure being balanced like this.
02:12I guess you could also bend the knees, but unfortunately, though, with the way that the knees are bent like this,
02:17it doesn't really give you much additional clearance.
02:19Like, it's not like he's going to be sitting any bit closer to his seat.
02:22You can see, like, even when he's plugging onto the pedals,
02:25I'll do it on one side, and I'll finish the steps on the other.
02:28Yeah, it doesn't look like he really, he doesn't really quite sit down on his seat.
02:32Maybe he's one that likes to stand while he's...
02:35When I was a kid, though, when I was pedaling my bike, especially if I was doubling up with a friend,
02:39usually I was the one that was always standing and pedaling, and that sucker behind me,
02:43I guess he wasn't really the sucker. I was the sucker. I was doing all the work.
02:45My friend basically would just be sitting on his seat the whole time.
02:48Then you just bring his hands around, and he only really has one gripping hand,
02:51so that's really the hand that's going to be doing all the work.
02:53This other flat hand, you would think, really, that if they had him dedicated to hold,
02:58or put his hands around the handles of the bike,
03:00you'd think that they would have given him two gripping hands instead of just the one.
03:04I guess the other one is just more for waving than anything else.
03:06But again, like, he looks okay on the bike.
03:08I just feel like the bike is shrunk a little too small in size.
03:12Now, you're probably already thinking to yourself, well, it's fine that you can hold the bike like this,
03:16but if you put it on a shelf, it's just going to take a fall.
03:19Well, if you look to the side here, it actually does come with this clear clip.
03:23If, though, I can draw your attention to the little peg that he has on the bottom of his bike,
03:27if you look at the display stand he comes included with, there's actually a hole right there.
03:32So you line up the shape, because obviously you can't go that way.
03:35If you line up the curvature of the bottom of the bike, plug this in place,
03:38now he has himself a standee to help keep the bike from falling over.
03:42I think that's clever.
03:43Still, though, think that maybe the materials that they used,
03:45they could have used a little bit more and given them maybe a bigger bike.
03:49Still, though, it's a nice little included accessory.
03:51I mean, obviously, he's not going to be able to spin the wheels
03:53just because he's lifted off the ground like this.
03:55Let's go ahead and just take him off his bike.
03:57We'll put the bike right over there.
03:58And hey, yeah, the bike is able to stand on its own.
04:00Getting a closer look at Milhouse, boy, it's nice to see a company
04:04actually investing the time to release regular Simpsons characters.
04:07We don't have the deep cut characters.
04:09There's ones here and there.
04:10But for the most part, we've gotten ourselves regular residents of Springfield.
04:13Milhouse looks good.
04:14He doesn't have removable glasses,
04:15so you can't even see his little beady eyes underneath, though.
04:18Large, like, caterpillar eyebrows that he has on top of his forehead,
04:22obviously matching color hair as well.
04:24It's a nice-looking figure.
04:25He looks a little chunky down below here,
04:27especially when it comes to his knees.
04:29Now, in order to have the added additional articulation, obviously,
04:32to these figures, they've done their best to try to conceal the joint.
04:35Milhouse, for the most part, does look like he's wearing just regular,
04:38I guess those would be shorts and not really high pants.
04:41But, I mean, with the legs straight,
04:43you can see that obviously there's a cut right there,
04:45which would develop a knee if you were to bend it.
04:48But the bending of the knee, I mean, it doesn't really,
04:50it doesn't result necessarily in any more movement or mobility for Milhouse.
04:55I mean, yeah, he could probably get in a running pose if you want,
04:57but it's not really going to benefit at all putting him on the bike,
05:00because, like I said, there's too much space between his butt and the seat.
05:04Color of the shirt looks good, though, too.
05:06I think it's pretty accurate.
05:07He has kind of more of a purplish-colored shirt in the show.
05:10I think they've done a nice job on that.
05:11Overall, like, I couldn't be more happier to get a Milhouse.
05:14I find the only problem I'm starting to nose here
05:16with what they're doing with the Simpsons line is clearly, though,
05:18when it comes to, like, the 2 1ā2-inch scale,
05:20which is about half the size of what we're getting here with the 5-inch variety,
05:23because obviously, you know, half a 5.
05:25The thing about it, though, is they seem to be really dedicating, so far,
05:27characters to one size class over the other.
05:30So, like, for example, we have a Ned Flanders in the 2 1ā2-inch scale.
05:33We've yet to get in a 5.
05:34I'm sure we will be getting the standard characters,
05:36but it'sāI don't know if we are ever going to get a Prisoner Sideshow Bob.
05:41So far, he seems to only be in the half-size scale.
05:44For the figure's articulation, Milhouse's head is going to rotate,
05:47so it allows the head to rotate all the way around.
05:49You don't have to make the noise.
05:51Don't make the noise while you're doing it.
05:53Arms rotate all the way around.
05:54They also hinge out easily at a T-pose.
05:57He does have a single hinge in the elbow, of course.
05:59Rotation there.
06:00Not only in the rotation in the bicep,
06:02but he also has rotation here in the forearm, as well.
06:05Hands rotate also all the way around, as well,
06:07whether you want to use the gripping hand to hold around the handle
06:09or the other hand just to kind of wave.
06:11I guess that's kind of like the Queen's Wave.
06:14The Queen's Wave is kind of like back and forth like that.
06:16The figure does have waist swivel.
06:18It's a little loose on my Milhouse.
06:20He does also have ball joints for the tops of his legs.
06:22You can take the legs and move forward.
06:23You can move them back.
06:24Already mentioned, yeah, he does have the hinge joint right there.
06:27There doesn't give, then, any swiveling here,
06:29but he does have swivel down below, just below the cuff.
06:33So it swivels and rotates the leg all the way around.
06:35He does also have what looks to be a ball joint,
06:37so you can move it back and forth and up and down.
06:39Not much, not much, not much.
06:42Yeah, I'm liking Lil' Cup Milhouse, though.
06:43I'm not really loving the prices of what I'm paying for these.
06:46I mean, again, like, oh, and there's also, as well, the marking on the inside.
06:49That seemed like a really weird place.
06:51Could they not have maybe put this at the back of his shirt, for example?
06:54Because it does actually look like he's got a stain on the inside of his leg,
06:56and it's not.
06:57It's just the printing.
06:58It's the marking showing that this guy was produced.
07:01The thing about it, though, is, like, the scarcity of these figures.
07:04I can't speak to American collectors.
07:05I mean, I know American collectors.
07:06I'm jealous.
07:07All right, I'm jealous that you guys can find stuff so easily in the wild.
07:10As a Canadian collector, though, it's not as easy for us.
07:13I mean, just to pick up Milhouse alone,
07:15you could go the route of maybe even Facebook groups.
07:17Sometimes I've been lucky enough to find some of the Simpsons figures through that outlet.
07:20I had to find this guy, actually, at my toy show,
07:23but the guy that was selling it there, he already knew, like,
07:25the scarcity of what these things are going for.
07:27He was selling it for $40.
07:30Yeah, reluctantly.
07:31Reluctantly, I paid the $40.
07:32I know I paid way too much for him, because he's probably going in stores.
07:35If you were to find him in stores, he'd probably be selling for less than $20.
07:38But it seems to be the case.
07:39Like, Jack's Pacific, they seem to be dedicating more of their time
07:42to get their Nintendo products on the shelves,
07:44and not really much for the Simpsons, at least when it comes to Canadian stores.
07:47While I've been talking away in Milhouse's review,
07:49I've also been typing away,
07:50ordering to at least of the three other figures that make up this wave.
07:53The figures in this wave are Lenny, Milhouse, Marge and Maggie,
07:56which is a two-pack, and Homer and Homer.
07:58Funny, though, enough that there's a five-inch Homer and Homer,
08:00and then there's also a baseball Homer
08:02that's going to be part of the two-and-a-half-inch scale,
08:04which, again, seems to be the case
08:06that Jack's is dedicating certain characters to certain sizes.
08:08I don't like, really, that,
08:10because, again, for me, I would like to get all the characters in one size.
08:13I can't really expect the company necessarily
08:15to release every single figure in both size classes.
08:18But unfortunately, though,
08:19if you're not at all interested in the two-and-a-half-inch scale,
08:21which, for me, at least,
08:23I feel like I'm really now only focused on getting the five-inch scale.
08:26Two-and-a-half-inch is fine,
08:28but just with... I don't have so much space.
08:30I don't have the space,
08:31and I don't have the budget to be buying both size classes.
08:33So I'm probably just not going to be collecting the two-and-a-half-inch scale.
08:36And it's disappointing to see that there's characters
08:38that are so far only exclusive to that size,
08:41when I really would like to have them in both size classes.
08:43Either way, though, Milhouse is one
08:45that we've at least wrapped up in this review.
08:47We can check that off for what we've accomplished,
08:49goals accomplished.
08:50And, of course, when I eventually do get the Marge and Maggie
08:52and a Homer and Homer,
08:54both, unfortunately, have been ordered from eBay,
08:56reviews of those will be coming your way.
08:58But what do you guys think of this line so far?
09:00And, I mean, how do you guys feel
09:02when it comes to the five-inch scale and two-and-a-half-inch scale?
09:04Do you think, though, that really jacks to settle on one size
09:07and have all the characters unique to that?
09:09Or do you like the idea that there's exclusive figures
09:11to one size class over the other?
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