As a toy collector, this felt like a figure that was a weird requirement to own. It’s also a figure that feels less likely to get a lot of toys. He was the villain for Toy Story 2, for the most part, but Toy Story toys tend to revolve around the Toy characters, who are all “toy sized.” Plus he is just kind of a goofy weird design in general.
I was a little warry because I don’t really know anything about the company making these. Buying from lesser known companies isn’t always an issue, and neither is buying from companies that may or may not be making unlicensed toys, though in this case, Al here is probably licensed. There are a lot of Disney characters available when searching for “Dynamic 8ction Heroes”. They seem to make slightly less mainstream characters from popular properties.
My other big worry, and probably still my bigger annoyance, is the weird 8″ scale. As implied by the term “8ction”. I mostly try to stick with 1/12th scale, but for a lot of stuff that is closer to whatever 5″ is I can sort of fudge it as height differences and whatever 7″ would be actually works better for a lot of non human characters. This guy is really big though. Way to big to “fake it”. Even way to big to “fake it” with the few 7″ figures I have. I imagine sticking to this size is part of whatever licensing deal they have, kind of how “Super 7” is all “7 inches”.
He does look alright next to Revoltech woody though. I know Woody wouldn’t be anywhere in scale, but it some how does work, which is fine, because in the end, Woody is the only one he really needs to display with. I don’t have a Buzz to pair up with him though.
There was plenty I do like about this figure though. He has cloth goods clothing for starters, which is always my Achilles heel for toy likes. Al’s clothes fit and work really nicely too.
The other fun bit is the ridiculous Chicken Suit. It’s actually, mostly kind of functional. You shove the figure up in this large rubber chicken suit, and cover his feet with some little cloth chicken feet. There is also a piece of soft material to help stabilize it all. Maybe technically you are supposed to not use it, but you can’t see it and it helps everything stay together. The overall effect works really well. It’s goofy and I love it.
Another neat bit is that he has poseable eyeballs, which, appropriately, match the poseable eyeballs on Revoltech Woody. Both of the faces have the poseable eyes. He also has several alternate hand styles and small versions of Woody, Jessie, Bullseye, and Stinky Pete, though they are not removable from their little display trays.
Overall, it’s admittedly, kind of a weird piece, but it seems like an appropriate one for a toy collector to have, since his character is a toy collector. On another side note, the box for this guy is absolutely humongous.
