A Tale of two Indy's - Is Figuarts worth the higher price? (Comparing Hasbro & SHF Indiana Jones)

0:53 It's Indiana Jones and his stunt double. 😂

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Cool comparison! I am planning on getting the S.h figuarts Indian Jones and I'm also getting the adventure series Short Round. In my opinion the figuarts indie is the best one to date.

"In Colcusion"? That was a typo worthy of Hasbro. I love droll sarcasm though. Subbed!

Idk why the people in those comments were so quick to defend the 8 billion dollar company making crap but hey different strokes or something.

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The SH Figuarts is pure art

I have both versions of the Hasbro figure, I found Temple Escape Indiana Jones at a thrift store for $15 bucks because the box was completely smashed, torn, basically FUBAR, but everything was in it. The Adventure Series was better than nothing, because I like said before I had no idea that Bandai was going to do an Indiana Jones. I’d argue that If you’re collecting the Adventure series, you’re a fan and that you should save up and get the SH Figuarts Indy. Love the cocky head sculpt, each face has personality where as Hasbro’s has a permanent “I hope the check clears” expression. I think what ultimately kills the Adventure Series was the extremely soft head sculpts on these figures, and the use of very glossy plastic.

Excellent and entertaining video. This is the way to point out the shortcomings and positives of a figure in a fun and informative way. Indeed, better than your last video. Keep up the good work and make more content like this.

As I said before, the SHF is great. But it also carries a higher price tag. If you want a range of figures though, the adventure series isn't a bad way to go and I think overall many of them are pretty decent. Some better than others. The reason I say that is because some figures do not have the build an artifact piece which is a cool idea. And some lack a number of accessories or have repackaged accessories. The Cairo Indy was baffling at $30 when it was a repurposed Indy with slightly different shirt sculpt and had a repackaged monkey from the Marion Ravenwood figure. The Adventure series is the only way you get figures of Henry Sr. You also can get Toht (unless you want to shell out the extra for a Mezco). But the Grail Knight is absolutely a great figure. There are some areas where I think Hasbro's Indy or variations thereof have some points in their favor over the SHF. The SHF Indy's jacket is imo too dark and could have used some weathering. I also don't really like the golden sheen to the SHF Indy's hair. That being said I do like that the SHF gives you a lot of options and he does pair well with the adventure series and the Temple Escape plinth. The Hasbro Indy's whips could have been better. They are 'serviceable' but not great. That said if a person is willing to do some customizing? The Adventure series has a considerable amount of options. The Club Obi Wan Indy can make for a great Lao Che. You can find a belt/whip from Grid Iron Studios which is better than the finnicky system Hasbro came up with. Just applying a strong tone wash to the Hasbro Indy's whip makes a world of difference in terms of looks. If you have a spare set of gloved hands from a black series figure you can make some gloved hands for Indy. The LC Indy is nice in that they articulated his hat which is pretty cool. But the SHF allows you to pose him with and without the hat with a easy to swap system. The face is a bit too glossy but a coat of matte spray is a pretty quick and easy fix. While the SHF figure has arguably the best likeness of Ford I have seen? I don't think the headsculpt on the Hasbro Indy is bad at the $25 price tag. (The Grail Knight's headsculpt is fantastic btw). If you want a range of figures that spans the various films? The Adventure series is a decent option. It has a few figures in particular that I feel are standouts like the Grail Knight, Henry Sr. and Toht. If you are only wanting one great Indy figure? The SHF is the way to go. I picked up both. I like customizing figures and appreciate having some set pieces like the Grail Table, Ark, and the Sankarah Shrine. The downside to the Adventure series is that there are significant gaps. No german mechanic, thuggee, Mola Ram, etc. If you want those you have to be willing to customize and kit bash. The thing that really hurt the Adventure series is that they did a lot of recycling. This Temple Escape Indy is largely a repackaged Indy and at it's initial price of $50? It made it harder to justify if you already owned the previous Indy. Had they sold this at $30 which is what I picked it up for on Clearance? I think it would have been a better value considering (as you pointed out in your video that it doesn't have the extra hands that the Raider's standalone Indy had which also had the B.A.A. piece for the Ark).

Lovin the reviews! Really makes me want that Sh indie

if you take a hair drier to the hasbro whip then it will straighten out into a good shape. and since the whip clasp on his belt sucks, I put a piece of black twist tie around the belt and formed a loop and it looks and works great.

(As an aside, forgive me for the double post!), I picked up the Classified Cover Girl myself. I had been worried as I had seen the videos where other folks received her with a arm that fell off in package. Mine fortunately did not have that problem. I largely picked her up to make a custom Sophia Hapgood. I did a head swap using the 80th anniversary Marvel Legends Rogue.

Yeah, you’re welcome about the bag strap 😬. I used the dial of destiny Indy bag with my Figuarts.

I have all of the Adventure Series Indys and the SHF Indy. I dont hate Adventure Series in the least, but I have to agree on everything you said in the review. SHF Indy blows them all away! I'm not a big SHF fan, I only own Indy and TFA Han (another home run IMO), in fact I don't really care for a lot of their stuff...mostly due to the likenesses (looking at you Jedi Luke).

It's always debatable whether to buy the more affordable figure or go for the import one, but in this case I think it's not even a question to get the import one. Adventure Series Indy, assuming you're buying at retail, goes for $25/figure and in order to get the equivalent to import, you'd have to buy like 3 of them. 3 headsculpts, 2 outfits, hat vs hair option, and his various accessories. That's $75+ for inferior figures and you'd have 3 to deal with. His headsculpts are bad, plastic quality is worse, articulation is worse, and everything else is pretty much worse. Just buying the SHF Indy at retail gives you all of that plus extra hands and better quality all around. And those hands can serve accessory purposes like holding the idol and sandbag. And the headsculpts are just incredible and a main selling point themselves.

Hasbros whip is more accurate for the raiders Indy as his whip in the movie was tan not brown

The shfiguarts Indy is a dream. I had the adventure series one but it was just meh to me.

Can't never get over the fact that the Adventure Series Indiana Jones has a whip that looks like those octopus shaped sausages you see in bentos

The gun on the shf is waaaayyy too silver. The actual gun looked black even in broad daylight