# 53 : Appleseed Saga - Ex Machina Snap Kits by Hot Toys

These are definitely not your average 1/20 figure. These are waaayyy better.
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Name : Appleseed Saga : Ex Machina
Height : 4" - 10"
Toy Company : Hot Toys
Price: AUD 130

Packaging
On the left is the box it came in with. Inside are 10 individual boxes.Its really a waste IMHO. The box is just too damn big for a small figure. The idea of the 'Snap Kits' is that the figures are disassembled in their boxes. I'm unsure as to why they did this. It's not that we had anything to paint or that we could mix & match one figure with another. Maybe I'll never know the answer to this...moving along...
Details/Sculpt/Accessories/Articulation
There are 5 characters in this series and 1 mecha suit. But in order to complete the mecha suit(The Landmate), you need to get the whole box containing 10 little boxes. Confused? The big box contains 2 x Deunan, 2 x Tereus, 2 x Briareos, 2 x Rhoetus and 2 x Manuel Aeacus. Why? Because each character and its double comes with different parts of the Landmate e.g. Deunan comes with right arm and her double comes with the left arm. Bastards aren't they? LOL. I don't mind having extra Deunans or Briareos but the rest...let's be frank. We don't care right? Also it claims these are 1/20 in scale...yet they're larger than the average SW figures.

The details are AMAZING! For such small figures they are bloody well made. If only they were the same size as my Star Wars or Marvel Universe figures...*sigh*. The paint app is spot on and the sculpt is terrifyingly accurate. One thing I would like to point out is that these figures feel very light as compared to my SW or MU collection. Yet they are very sturdy with the exception to Deunan's wrist which I feel are very fragile.

The Landmate is worth every cent. The sheer detail and the huge gun...don't forget the huge gun looks like something that could make Robocop pee in his metal pants(oldskool reference!!) . The bad thing about it is it's catered to fit Deunan's head ONLY. Sure you can try fitting the other figures on to it. But I tell you, it'll look like their head is about to explode.

Accessories are a plentiful for the main two characters. The left is Deunan's and the right is Briareos. Ok, maybe I exaggerated a little bit. But it's still more than the accessories for the other 3.

Posing them is a cinch. All the figures comes with 14 points of articulation. Ball-jointed neck, shoulders, hinged elbows, wrists, swivel waist, ball-jointed hips, hinged knees and ankles.

Overall
This is by far in my top 10 of all my collections. Hot Toys just live up to their reputation, even for smaller scaled figures. I'm glad I decided on getting these instead of the 1/6 figure. I just really, really wanted the Landmate.

Score : **** out of *****

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