If you're new to the hobby and you've looked around at statue price and thought to yourself
"What the freak?!" Like this is so ridiculously expensive and maybe you've also looked on
the market and seen that there's cheaper versions of statues you know on eBay, Wish,
Mercari...so today we're going to be taking a look at an authentic version of a statue versus the recast
or bootleg version of that statue. Featuring none other than Sasori and Madara. It's going to be
great to be able to kind of look at the details and see why now for those wondering what happens
is the authentic version comes out and some backwater studio grabs it and recasts it and makes
it out of cheaper materials usually plastic or pvc they also don't spend a lot of time adding colors
and details and putting a good paint job onto it so that's why the quality is going to differ
between the two but at the end of the day they come up with something that somewhat resembles the
original authentic statue. Now I want to put out as a disclaimer I'm in no way you know advocating for
people to go buy these I'm just showing you that here is what the real one looks like and here's
what the fake one looks like. If by all means this one fits your budget and you like it you know I'm
not gonna say anything about it but I'm just here to showcase what these two look like side by side.
I've done these series in the past so I hope these are as enjoyable as the past ones have been.
It's been a while since we've done this but it's super cool to see really the difference between the two
so without delay let's get on in and take a look at what these look like. On the left we have the
bootleg version and on the right is the official by MH Studio. The packaging for it reminds me of
like a G.E.M. or Megahouse with that window box in the front we can see through it and the right is a
typical resin statue box where there's some artwork all around the box. They really dress
it up pretty nicely. In the spirit of making this review as swift as possible we're gonna
skip the review of the resin statue box and just take a look at this bootleg box. So slips right open and
then you have the standard plastic packaging with tape holding it together on the outsides.
As we can see initially one of the big differences already between the authentic and bootleg is gonna
be the fact that pretty much it all comes in one piece and in fact the base actually came
disconnected for this. I don't know if that's intentional unintentional. I do see some glue
residue that's kind of hanging on on the top of the base there so my guess is this definitely was
intended to be connected to the base and it just didn't use enough glue and it fell off during the
shipping process. The bottom of the base is hollow and they used as little plastic as possible and we
can see all sorts of defects and markings from here again that's mainly from the glue residue
but the plastic is definitely not clean overall taking a look at Madara off the bat I mean we
can already see it's kind of strange and odd the way that all this like plastic looks together
the paint job that's done along the base is very flat and one toned. With the base out of the way
we'll take a look at the actual figure of Madara. So going up we can already see the paint job is a
little sloppy on the bottom nice that they added some shading on the purple parts of his outfit
and also the rope sections that hold the pieces of armor together nice that they did paint that
we can also see some shading on the armor as well a lot of defects there on his war fan so not too
good there and as we turn this figure around we can see the hair that is not good right it
looks like tendrils or tentacles everything's all fused together uh no texturing at all and
then when we spin it around the face see the hair just does something with the face it does
not look good almost like he's wearing a giant wig on there so pretty much from the neck down
everything looks decent but man once you get to that head and the hair sculpt is not doing good
the only thing that they decided to sculpt separately is the handle
which is i guess i don't know why they didn't just leave it on there maybe they did
concern themselves with it breaking during transit but that did sculpt separately so we can just rest
him on top of the base i'm not gonna bother with gluing it back on and this just kind of fits right
into the little notch that goes inside the top of the handle so we'll set him aside and now we have
the authentic so here is the base for that oh so much depth and even on the bottom of the statue
right the other one was empty plastic nothing we have some awesome menacing looking artwork we have
the actual edition size so only 300 of these were made and there's also this authenticity sticker on
the bottom if you look closely it says mh studio so that's how you know it's an official product
and then if you actually notice on here it looks like uh moderate gekko's sharingan the way that it
circles and the dots there's like a rocky version of it as the base
as for the body it was sculpted completely separately the head was also done separate as
well as the war fans so going from the bottom to the top we can see a notch on the bottom man the
paint job flawless mh studio does an amazing job with their statues and quality control i mean even
look at the toes everything painted so nicely so there's weathering it's all throughout his armor
it kind of is sculpted very similar to the bootleg obviously because they copied this
but everything is just done so smoothly so nice and clean it looks a little strange looking at
it from this angle because we didn't get to see this side before because the war fan was
already on there but there's a little hole in this back where that's going to key into later
and then looking at the top even the purple shading that's done throughout the outfit is a
little bit lighter so it helps the armor stand out a little bit more i think so definitely shaded and
painted a lot better as expected and here's the war fan which you know we talked about flawless
paint jobs before but my gosh does this thing look incredible there's the notch with the steel rod
sticking out and they actually have the handle sculpted onto here so that does not disconnect
the tomo symbols there are perfectly done we have that little black shading that goes around the
edges to kind of bring them out and pop a little bit but even the white wrappings on there small
marking on the back i'm not sure if that's for me or maybe that did come from the factory but
that's probably one of the only flaws and here is how it connects just slides right into place
and i don't think there's any magnets so just that steel rod that goes onto there yo this is the head
sculpt right here is incredible right night and day compared to the boot like you can see every
long strand it's extremely pointy you have to be careful with that and just every single one
nothing is merged together and if we look at the face real closely as well there's a little bit
of glossy paint over that eyeball so that looks fantastic the way that it brings it out makes it
look a little bit more realistic or matching the shell but that's probably you know that's actually
probably why there's some a black paint on the back of the war fan is because the hair is rubbing
up against it so that's probably my error in the installation process for that but when you get
everything together it looks amazing fantastic really resembles him as he was reanimated so
you've seen them up close and personal now let's try to grab them and get a few side-by-sides
so that we can see again the head sculpt man night and day what a difference between the two
if you love a likeness to the character uh you can tell which way you're gonna swing as far as which
one you're gonna want here because when you get up close you can really tell the difference even the
armor again there's a lot more depth added to it because they bring out those cracks and crevices
from him being reanimated the side profile again brings out how different the hair is for these two
with moderate done we'll jump into sorcery soon but some takeaway thoughts you know keep in mind
that the authentic are expensive right they're more money this one's sitting at about a 350 to
400 price range but you're getting an actual you know limited edition product that you can
resell it holds value sometimes it grows in value while the bootleg who knows how many were made or
distributed so these are kind of just a money sink but they do act as a good place holder i guess if
you're trying to start your collection or just want them to look good from five feet away right
now we already saw some package comparisons for this one so we'll skip that and jump
right into seeing how these two look side by side the authentic version of the statue is made by
serge studio this is the alternative form that you could have bought for their larger scale statue
featuring him and a ton of puppets so we'll go ahead and take a look at the bootleg here so first
off my initial impressions is it doesn't look that bad right so the face is not as botched up
the hair is decently done zooming in we can see a little bit of fusion going on with that hair
as you get really really close but we can see the scrolls are in the back there that he pulls out
during battle the metallic blades we'll actually take a look at later as we compare things side by
side the base the footprint of the base is much smaller than the authentic if you did notice that
one thing i do love is the fact that we do see some poison dripping from that whip that comes
out of his chest area so that's a cool touch i'm glad they did include that as well also if we take
a look we can see the ring and a little bit of a purple circle on there so we can tell which one it
is and then there's the chest area with that flap open so that's pretty well done as well
not bad not bad at all but we'll set him aside plug off the authentic sorcery sit him to the
side grab this base and on the top right corner we will first notice surge studios logo as well
as the edition size on the bottom the black and white portrait of the statue is actually what it
would look like if you had the main body that's included from the main version of this statue
but on the base so much depth and paint job going in here this is not it doesn't look like the same
base that's going on with the other ones so these there's two rocks on here this one and the other
one over here on the right that actually pull off so that you can include the alternative body if
you want to have that on there so that's a look at the base looking at the main body one of the first
things i want to mention is the whip that we see on the bottom is actually made of steel so resin
is heavier and it needs to be supported properly so the figure standing on top of it if it was made
of resin would probably bend and warp over time so it's actually made of steel for this one which is
pretty cool goes in that chest area the pants are nicely shaded crazy good job with the veins coming
out of that heart section with the black and red some good panel lining in the metallic part of
the chest there as well and then we'll spin this over to see some of the blades on the black really
pay attention to these it looks like actual metal actual blades the scrolls on the on this one are
two are in the middle and say the other one were two on the top and bottom i don't know what's up
with that but that's pretty much it the eyes are extremely cold this is one of my most dissatisfied
faces from surge studio you know he's supposed to look cold and dead and puppet-like but this
one almost looks too cold but here are these side-by-sides gonna be difficult with these
blades kind of getting in the way but you can see the faces have different emotions one looks like
an actual human well one does look like a puppet while surge studios id cals feel a little off and
lifeless it's much better than the bootleg i think here's a side profile of those and we'll also try
to get a quick close-up of these blades so it's going to be very difficult i guess i can just show
you one after the other to get a good feel for if we zoom in to the bootleg you'll notice right
there gashed and jagged almost looks like they've been used while the one on the authentic look like
they're brand new and unscathed and perfectly sharp you know again look at that it just looks
so jagged and nasty that's kind of what you get for getting a pvc cast of something versus a resin
cast where they sand it and make it look really good well all right here is everybody and you
know how i feel about the authentic versus recast definitely you know i'm all for the authentic it's
an actual collector's item but i respect those within a budget if you want to go the other route
as well but i hope you enjoyed yourself today but hey if you haven't seen my other ones check
out these videos here which go over some other statues of the authentic versus recast series
as always everybody i'll see you in the next video do what you love and love what you do bam out