God, seeing that wall of Toys R Us Jazwares figures gave me such a strong feeling of nostalgia! I wish I could go back! God, I remember when my Dad would take me to Toys R Us during the summer after a track meet and would let me pick out some Sonic and Pokemon toys. And then on our way to the checkout isle I would go through the comic books and grab all of the Archie Sonic comics they had! Those were the days...
I grew up with jazwares but I love mainly because of how reasonable priced they are and they starting to make characters of merch we never had and it awesome. Jazwares still my favorite but jakks has great potential to be the next jazwares
I mean it’s 2024-25 I’d expect such engineering. Jazwares already had well articulated gigs for 2.5 inch figs which is impressive while jakks can’t even add a simple waist and elbow joint. Can’t take credit away from jazwares. Jakks has the more recent modeling emgineerring softwares. It’s like comparing how old transformers are compared to now, now there’s better technologies to do better figures. Only difference is jazwares was doing great articulated small sonic toys God bless you and your families. Jesus Christ loves you
The Jazwares figures increased in price over time. I recall it being the following range from start of release to end of their licensing life. 3 inch: $5-$8 Comic pack: $12-$16 3-packs: $15-$18 5 inch: $9-$13 10 inch: $15-$20
Huh interesting, I was worried I'd get some sort of stuff wrong on that section since it's so hard to find consistent prices for them, at least it doesn't alter the outcome thankfully lol
The one pet peeve I have is the 2.5 inch and the 4 inch playset compatibility. I wish Jakks would have stuck with just making a 3 inch figure line and do what jazwares did and just add the accessory with the 3 inch figure. I don't want to buy the same figure in different sizes.
well if you think about it them re releasing the figures is a good thing cuz it allows people who missed out on the release of the figure to be able to buy it for example...take super sonic hes ridiculously priced on the aftermarket say jakks re releases him and shadow now it would give people the chance to buy them so it isnt all bad
I haven’t taken the Jakks figures out of their boxes but from what I look at, I absolutely love them so much! My favorites of the series so far are Classic Sonic, Amy, and Silver. All in the four inch set. I do have some 2.5 fella and they’re cute too, such a fantastic price set too! Sonic and Tails with the tornado for only $20 is just one of few “Yes please!” Moments I only have a few more wish characters in Blaze, classic Amy, Sally, Tikal, and I guess whichever movie characters come in the future. As of now I have everyone I want. Good comparison here pal. Good humor and inserts as well.
As obvious as this was, it's still cool to confirm it. I never started collecting Sonic figures and plushies till Jakks strated making them. Mostly because I appreciate them doing so much Chao stuff. While I don't like that ugly gold Chao figure, the cheese and dark Chao plush are amazing.
Jakks Pacific over Jazwares for six reasons. 1. They don’t take Super 7 years just to get one or two new characters out per series. Blaze anyone? 2. They don’t fall apart in your hands. 3. Better variety of figures and in the case of Team Dark, we’re not waiting as long just to complete our teams either. 4. As much as I dislike Jakks’ constant inclusion of Modern and Classic Sonic in every wave, at least they bothered to change them up even just a little compared to the constant repacks of Jazwares with the occasional new accessory just to make people buy them again. That’s as much I’ll give them that. 5. The quality control is more competent than the horror show that were the Jazwares where you’ll either get a stable figure or a figure with a broken leg out of the box. There’s no in between. 6. Scaling and proportions are a lot better with the Jakks figures where you don’t have a Tails standing as tall as Sonic or a Shadow that looks too lanky in the limbs.
I highly agree with you on the scaling. Jakks can be bad at times (*ahem* Amy) But at least it's not as bad as jazwares scaling. For example: Tails Blaze Vector Silver
@@jaleanawatson7154 Vector was scaled alright. I can handwave Blaze’s height as a result of her shoes and the fact she’s not seen standing next to the other characters often.
i mean they were the ones to make the “we have tomy classic sonic deluxe figure at home:” thing with weird inconsistencies (the smiling mouth is from sonic 1 while the others are from mania adventures???) and the fact that they don’t have elbow joints, and the weird figures for the movies with uhhh eyes
I love the Jazwares line, but as someone who collected both their Sonic and Mortal Kombat lines, they had a lot of QC issues. I do miss having elbow joints though, so I'm only collecting the Jakks Pacific figures of characters Jazwares never did, besides my favorite characters. So far, Jakks has been better about doing more obscure characters I think. I am mainly focusing on the 2.5 inch to supplement my 3 inch Jazwares.
Honestly for Jakks, I think they would superior if they also had elbow articulation as well. They are fine as it is but idk, feel like yeah Jakks is better because they actually have characters that Jazwares hasn't done (Thi ngl, Jazwares is special to me cause of Sonic Stop Motion Adventures)
The Sonic movie 2 - 4" figures have elbow articulation The Sonic movie 3 - 5" figures have elbow articulation Sonic Prime 5" figures have elbow articulation Sonic Collectors line has elbow articulation. The MAIN lines don't though, which is the majority of Sonic figures you are going to find (With the exception of Rouge, Omega, Chaos, Mecha Sonic, Metal Sonic, and Eggman). And basically no 2.5" has elbow articulation (I think a few do though like Eggman).
I mostly just collect Jakks stuff since its more widely available and comes at a decent price, with the added bonus of not being shattered into a million pieces. The only Jazware figure I own is an Excalibur Sonic still in the box that I got off eBay for more money than I care to admit
Though what is the deciding factor between jazwares and Jakks is the Playsets and accuracy to the source material. For example, we got a whole Egg Mobile playset with bosses accurate from the games. Not only that whole playsets are based on zones that are clearly based on Sonic Mania. I just wish they were bigger like the papercraft dioramas that was custom-made. Or maybe one day we get an actual death egg playset.
I think jazwares is kinda overrated. I mean the jazwares figures where priced well and had good articulation, but jakks pacific has made figures of characters who haven't had a figure for a while or are just getting their first figure.
Honestly, in the topic of availability, Jakks wins when you take into account how accesible the figures are OUTSIDE THE US. I know you took only US stores into account because you're american (it's natural), but for me, coming from a 3rd world country in the caribbean, being a sonic fan as a kid was HARD. But now, with the sonic movies, you can literally find sonic figures (I'm talking sets and all) in normal department stores. That's a BIG IMPROVEMENT. Point for Jakks. Anyway, that's how I bought a classic Metal Sonic (2 inch figure?) for 600 dominican pesos. Last time I got my hands on a Sonic toy, it was Tails figure when I was like 4 years old, travelling in New York with my family and I don't even know what manufacturer made it (it was official but definetly not Jazzwares nor Jakks)
counterpoint, all the 3" Jazwares have fully poseable arms (minus classic characters obviously) while Jaks has only RECENTLY started doing that.. mostly with Metal Sonic variants
10:46 Strangely enough, when i was about 8 I specifically remember seeing the Jazwares Sir Galahad figure (Black Knight Silver) in Walmart, by itself, not even on the toy isle, just on a weird cardboard rack that was filled with random items by the toy isle It confused the hell out of me because it had the "Toys r us" exclusive sticker yet it was there. I didnt buy it because my parents said no, but oh my god did i want that sucker so bad. And to this day i still dont understand why it was there
The articulation broke the sculpture and made it looked ugly, jakks sculpt is way more accurate and has good articulation, just no arm bicep or waist articulation
i can confirm jazwares was in walmart back in the day. got a shadow and a sonic fig back in the day and they had a mini section in the music isle for some reason. they also had tails knuckles and i think metal sonic.
My biggest problem with the jakks line is while it has great variety of characters and pretty accurate sculpts, every store I go to only every stocks the same set of figures (usually a bunch of 4 inch sonics, a 2.5 inch playset, the rc sonic riding a ring, and then those god forsaken strechy figures) I know I could just buy them online but that usually means paying double or triple the retail value just because Walmart doesn't have faithany characters outside the core 5 characters will sell 💀
I agree. There are rarely any figures except for the same couple of 4 inch sonics. Same thing with 2.5 inch line with the same common figures. I guess they're so popular that they're bought online before we even get them to retailers.
Yeah this is kinda how I felt. Jaz were great for their time and I had a few but I remember I had to get rid of my Shadow and Sonic because they broke just standing on my shelf
I can’t decide I like them both Also I did not know that jakks has various sonic toys in stock in Walmart but the thing is that I have the WORST luck going to a Walmart finding at least one 4inch figure of any character for me to take home for my obess- i mean collection all I find is the 2.5 check out lanes and the team sonic racing diecast that I don’t know anyone cares about because the marketing for tsr was pretty dead
I honestly prefer Jakks just cause they look much cleaner and much more screen accurate, my only big issue is the main game line figures not being able to bend their arms, not sure why they chose to give that articulation to only the movie and prime figures
I got a video idea: you should make a video going over different sonic fan games. You don't nessacerally have to play them if you don't want to, but i think it would be a fun way to shout out another side of the sonic community. also great video man hope you reach 10k soon :)
I personally love Jakks for giving us figures like Rouge and Mighty, but Jazwares will always be the winner to me. Not just because I grew up with those, but because they made a lot more figures based on games. Free Riders, Black Knight, All Stars Racing, Colors, and releasing the classic figures once Generations came out. Obviously Jakks is still fairly recent, and haven't had as much happen. But they have covered the Sonic movie franchise, and they'll be making Sonic Prime figures soon. I think that both are excellent, and that there shouldn't even be a debate. But I'm sure we can all agree: Tomy was worse than both of them.
for me a figure has to pose well for me to like it, i dont like buying jakks because of their lack of articulation compared to jazwares, but their sonic movie 3 wave was amazing and werehog was really good too, they have the option to make their figures articulated they just dont for some reason
fun little fact for 11:08 from a Canadian, we still have toys r us, like it's literally my go to store as a toy collector and I go there commonly, however... they don't really have much of Sonic. Of all the toys r us stores I've been to recently the most I can find is a small corner of isle filled with the same 2 giant classic plushes and one box of classic sonic craftables figures
In the UK, Jazwares has one of the worst availability ever. I have only seen sonic toys there ONCE and that was at game the same time Sonic and the black knight came out. I still have the normal sonic with a sword and (broken) small Sonic and Tails. It sucks. Jakks is just way way better.
I love the jakks pacific line, India I do personally think it's better than jazwares, but I will say it's kind of unfair considering the time gap between each company, (if that makes sense) jazwares when they had the license to the sonic line was in a older time. Period. I don't know just my opinion.
Love this video, but I have to make one add-on that I hope makes the score more 4-1: Inflation. Yes, even if we go from the Jazwares end of 2013 and Jakks' start of 2018, there's a significant bump of about 8%. To make it more clear/unfair, gonna go with 2009 price inflated to 2018 via US Inflation Calculator(a bump of 17% because longer timeframe plus changes in Chinese factory pricing, various financial crises, etc): - A single 2.5-3" figure Jazwares: $7.02 Jakks: $4.99 - A 2.5-3" figure PLUS accessory/Badnik (which was like...10-12 USD from memory. Jakks is hard to find, I think I've seen it for the price shown in store) Jazwares: $11.70 Jakks: $6.99 - 2.5 multipack sets/playsets Jazwares: $24.57 Jakks: $19.99 It goes on from there, but I highly disagree with the original point on price. Another thing to think about was 'relative cost/value'. At the time Jazwares had the license, Transformers, GI Joe 25th, Marvel, etc? All at or below $10(2009 money) for 4-6" figures, some with incredible parts counts, detail/paint, and accessories. Now? All those lines are pushing 20-25. Sonic toys today by that metric are so much better in value. I also love the move away from Badniks being cheap, mono-mold inclusions to being their own figures. Jazwares has, however, greatly improved over the years, so if they got the line back and put as much effort in as their Fortnite line? I'd be happy with that.
JESUS you put a lot into this comment lol. I totally get what ya mean though, the prices were just so much of a cluster since there so many variables, as you layed out amazingly lmao
@@Bulbasquirtle thank you, just was a memory that stuck with me from back then where I'd got to a store, see the line just dying on the vine because between the cost being on the high side AND the likelihood of a breakage, fans weren't picking it up. Personal, anecdotal experience though.
I collected a few Jazwares and I really enjoyed them for what they were, they definitely had issues though, QC and having plastic pin joints that small made things easy to break or be really loose. While the Jakks toys don't have as much articulation, they are a bit more polished with the paint and with less mold lines and more consistent paint. Thing is, I do think we will be getting 4 inch toys with elbow bends with new molds for the ones that dont have them, theyre just running the old molds to finish first. Rouge has elbows which surprised when i opened her yesterday.
The worst parts about jakks is the elbows, I wish they had articulated arms, posing is so difficult because of that, especially knuckles. you can hardly move his arms because of his head, and his hands are longer than his torso. Thats the only complaint I really have
The jazwares figures always fell apart after playing with them as a kid. I can see the sentiment for collectors, but Jakks takes the cake on durability (albeit with limited articulation). I also really like how accurate the jakks figures look to the game models. Good video!
Oh yeah and jazwares metal sonic absolutely shits on jakks. So disappointed when I saw that the jakks figure didn't have metallic paint, hopefully they'll do a re-release one day.
And thankfully vectors mouth can close so he's not stuck with a traumatized face lol. I love jazwares but as Jakks grows I think the Jakks line will be the best line the series will get.
(2:28) I miss this box, with Yuji Uekawa’s art-style, or at least the art-style at the time Jazwares used them.I just really liked the orange, yellows, and blues used for this. I wasn’t a fan of the changes later on.
i don't think jakks can beat jazwares EXCEPT THE MOVIE FIGURES those are literally killing every domestic figure company if we had that quality for gaming figures without paying 50 DOLLARS (i am talking to you sonic x sghadow generations jakks doom wing shadow) it would be amazing the lack of modern articulations and high prices in europe don't make me a fan of the jakks line, we never had Jazwares here, at least where i lived but i could get some on ebay and oh boy they were good, Jakks has the potential of doing great but i feel they just didn't use it to the fullest, they're doing it now with the movie figures but we are still getting there, we are not quite where we should especially with the 4 inch line, which are kinda mediocre objectively. they cannot assume cool poses because of the pre-posed arms, the feet do not have ankle pivots, the legs are pretty darn loose and the ball joints placed on hands and ankles are badly placed, giving no range to them, i jolve how jazwares tried their best without having the technology. i don't think jazwares cares now since the halo and call of duty figures are absolutely TRASH (fortnite line was dope as fuck) but i get that if they had the licensing NOW they would have made the most accurate and best sonic figures ever quite confident on it, but jakks has the potential of making REALLY GOOD
In my opinion I think jakks pacific is better because I can find them in stores for a decent price compared to paying 60 dollars for a poorly painted shadow action figure
While the Jakks line got me back into collecting Sonic figures, Jazwares got me into it in the first place. I still remember the first and last figures I bought from that line (being Werehog and Sir Lancelot)
Toys R Us is till open in Canada, and there aren’t that many jakks pacific sonic toys, the only one I found there last time I went was a tails plush from the 30th anniversary.
Ah yes, the debate of the century hehehe! 😆😉 If I got the cash to buy something, I would honestly buy both Jazwares and Jakks Pacific Sonic Figures, both so far have Sonic characters that range from common, rare, and to even obscure sonic figures.
I grew up with the Jazwares figures, and had a pretty definitive collection of characters. Unfortunately, times got tough and I had to part with all but a few of them. I wasn't planning on getting into the Jakks toys, but after getting my hands on Chaos and Omega, they might just make a proper fan boy of me yet. If only Neo Metal Sonic wasn't so hard to track down.
There’s ONE figure that I think sucks by jakks. The modern metal sonic. I have the figure and his weird left arm is so annoying, he needed 2 normal arms it would’ve been SO EASY!
I think Jakks has the potential seeing as there bringing never before released figures to the table.
@Gooey we have 3 chao figures
@@sunky5722 he said chaos
KOCO AND WISP PLUSHIES WHEN????
@@CTC6921 bro we got chaos dat got no brain
Well we have our first chaos figure and also jakks release a character that only got 1 action figure Rouge
God, seeing that wall of Toys R Us Jazwares figures gave me such a strong feeling of nostalgia! I wish I could go back! God, I remember when my Dad would take me to Toys R Us during the summer after a track meet and would let me pick out some Sonic and Pokemon toys. And then on our way to the checkout isle I would go through the comic books and grab all of the Archie Sonic comics they had! Those were the days...
I grew up with jazwares but I love mainly because of how reasonable priced they are and they starting to make characters of merch we never had and it awesome. Jazwares still my favorite but jakks has great potential to be the next jazwares
“Sonic with giraffe shit on him”💀
Jazwazweres sonic with giraffe shit on him
@@MashupMixMan11:23 is true
@@MashupMixMan11:23 worse than true😳
Speaking of shit. Is it just me, or does it look that someone wiped their ass with Jazwares classic Amys shoe? (Seen at 1:59)
LMFAOA
After seeing the new Movie 3 Figures from Jakks, they solo 100%
i was about to say that
I mean it’s 2024-25 I’d expect such engineering. Jazwares already had well articulated gigs for 2.5 inch figs which is impressive while jakks can’t even add a simple waist and elbow joint. Can’t take credit away from jazwares. Jakks has the more recent modeling emgineerring softwares.
It’s like comparing how old transformers are compared to now, now there’s better technologies to do better figures. Only difference is jazwares was doing great articulated small sonic toys
God bless you and your families. Jesus Christ loves you
The Jazwares figures increased in price over time. I recall it being the following range from start of release to end of their licensing life.
3 inch: $5-$8
Comic pack: $12-$16
3-packs: $15-$18
5 inch: $9-$13
10 inch: $15-$20
Huh interesting, I was worried I'd get some sort of stuff wrong on that section since it's so hard to find consistent prices for them, at least it doesn't alter the outcome thankfully lol
Take me back to when they were that cheap.. now you gotta pay $150+ for one character 🫠
The one pet peeve I have is the 2.5 inch and the 4 inch playset compatibility. I wish Jakks would have stuck with just making a 3 inch figure line and do what jazwares did and just add the accessory with the 3 inch figure. I don't want to buy the same figure in different sizes.
well if you think about it them re releasing the figures is a good thing cuz it allows people who missed out on the release of the figure to be able to buy it for example...take super sonic hes ridiculously priced on the aftermarket say jakks re releases him and shadow now it would give people the chance to buy them so it isnt all bad
Honestly how come no one has done a full in depth analyse on these two companies, Thanks a ton bro.
I haven’t taken the Jakks figures out of their boxes but from what I look at, I absolutely love them so much! My favorites of the series so far are Classic Sonic, Amy, and Silver. All in the four inch set. I do have some 2.5 fella and they’re cute too, such a fantastic price set too! Sonic and Tails with the tornado for only $20 is just one of few “Yes please!” Moments
I only have a few more wish characters in Blaze, classic Amy, Sally, Tikal, and I guess whichever movie characters come in the future. As of now I have everyone I want.
Good comparison here pal. Good humor and inserts as well.
7:48 the chocolate high dive
LMAOOO
6:28 this is my favorite part
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As obvious as this was, it's still cool to confirm it. I never started collecting Sonic figures and plushies till Jakks strated making them. Mostly because I appreciate them doing so much Chao stuff.
While I don't like that ugly gold Chao figure, the cheese and dark Chao plush are amazing.
The last time I had sonic toys before that point was the old adventure line. Had a sonic, Big and Eggman. I also had the talking knuckles.
Jakks Pacific over Jazwares for six reasons.
1. They don’t take Super 7 years just to get one or two new characters out per series. Blaze anyone?
2. They don’t fall apart in your hands.
3. Better variety of figures and in the case of Team Dark, we’re not waiting as long just to complete our teams either.
4. As much as I dislike Jakks’ constant inclusion of Modern and Classic Sonic in every wave, at least they bothered to change them up even just a little compared to the constant repacks of Jazwares with the occasional new accessory just to make people buy them again. That’s as much I’ll give them that.
5. The quality control is more competent than the horror show that were the Jazwares where you’ll either get a stable figure or a figure with a broken leg out of the box. There’s no in between.
6. Scaling and proportions are a lot better with the Jakks figures where you don’t have a Tails standing as tall as Sonic or a Shadow that looks too lanky in the limbs.
I highly agree with you on the scaling. Jakks can be bad at times (*ahem* Amy)
But at least it's not as bad as jazwares scaling. For example:
Tails
Blaze
Vector
Silver
@@jaleanawatson7154 Vector was scaled alright. I can handwave Blaze’s height as a result of her shoes and the fact she’s not seen standing next to the other characters often.
@@rayvenkman2087 Ture, but still Tails and Silver have it bad. Silver is too short and Tails is taller than most of the characters.
i mean they were the ones to make the “we have tomy classic sonic deluxe figure at home:” thing with weird inconsistencies (the smiling mouth is from sonic 1 while the others are from mania adventures???) and the fact that they don’t have elbow joints, and the weird figures for the movies with uhhh eyes
I love the Jazwares line, but as someone who collected both their Sonic and Mortal Kombat lines, they had a lot of QC issues. I do miss having elbow joints though, so I'm only collecting the Jakks Pacific figures of characters Jazwares never did, besides my favorite characters. So far, Jakks has been better about doing more obscure characters I think. I am mainly focusing on the 2.5 inch to supplement my 3 inch Jazwares.
Honestly for Jakks, I think they would superior if they also had elbow articulation as well. They are fine as it is but idk, feel like yeah Jakks is better because they actually have characters that Jazwares hasn't done (Thi ngl, Jazwares is special to me cause of Sonic Stop Motion Adventures)
if you want an elbow jointed Sonic and not other characters, buy the movie so- i mean buy the prime sonic as its based of Modern Sonic!
Jakks joints are too flimsy brittle. Jazwares did better and there figs are small
God bless y’all and your families.
Jesus Christ loves y’all
The Sonic movie 2 - 4" figures have elbow articulation
The Sonic movie 3 - 5" figures have elbow articulation
Sonic Prime 5" figures have elbow articulation
Sonic Collectors line has elbow articulation.
The MAIN lines don't though, which is the majority of Sonic figures you are going to find (With the exception of Rouge, Omega, Chaos, Mecha Sonic, Metal Sonic, and Eggman).
And basically no 2.5" has elbow articulation (I think a few do though like Eggman).
I mostly just collect Jakks stuff since its more widely available and comes at a decent price, with the added bonus of not being shattered into a million pieces. The only Jazware figure I own is an Excalibur Sonic still in the box that I got off eBay for more money than I care to admit
Though what is the deciding factor between jazwares and Jakks is the Playsets and accuracy to the source material. For example, we got a whole Egg Mobile playset with bosses accurate from the games. Not only that whole playsets are based on zones that are clearly based on Sonic Mania. I just wish they were bigger like the papercraft dioramas that was custom-made. Or maybe one day we get an actual death egg playset.
I think jazwares is kinda overrated. I mean the jazwares figures where priced well and had good articulation, but jakks pacific has made figures of characters who haven't had a figure for a while or are just getting their first figure.
They do have a big problem with releasing figures though.
I love that someone made this video, salute to you sir
Honestly, in the topic of availability, Jakks wins when you take into account how accesible the figures are OUTSIDE THE US. I know you took only US stores into account because you're american (it's natural), but for me, coming from a 3rd world country in the caribbean, being a sonic fan as a kid was HARD. But now, with the sonic movies, you can literally find sonic figures (I'm talking sets and all) in normal department stores. That's a BIG IMPROVEMENT. Point for Jakks. Anyway, that's how I bought a classic Metal Sonic (2 inch figure?) for 600 dominican pesos.
Last time I got my hands on a Sonic toy, it was Tails figure when I was like 4 years old, travelling in New York with my family and I don't even know what manufacturer made it (it was official but definetly not Jazzwares nor Jakks)
Jakks needs to implement elbow articulation and it’s over
counterpoint, all the 3" Jazwares have fully poseable arms (minus classic characters obviously) while Jaks has only RECENTLY started doing that.. mostly with Metal Sonic variants
10:46 Strangely enough, when i was about 8 I specifically remember seeing the Jazwares Sir Galahad figure (Black Knight Silver) in Walmart, by itself, not even on the toy isle, just on a weird cardboard rack that was filled with random items by the toy isle
It confused the hell out of me because it had the "Toys r us" exclusive sticker yet it was there. I didnt buy it because my parents said no, but oh my god did i want that sucker so bad. And to this day i still dont understand why it was there
damn that kid REALLy wanted that galahad figure
@@thymecrafter i did
Absolutely shocked u didn’t do a segment for articulation. Where Jazwares absolutely clears
The articulation broke the sculpture and made it looked ugly, jakks sculpt is way more accurate and has good articulation, just no arm bicep or waist articulation
i can confirm jazwares was in walmart back in the day. got a shadow and a sonic fig back in the day and they had a mini section in the music isle for some reason. they also had tails knuckles and i think metal sonic.
0:17 🐽🐽🐽🐷🐷 fav part of video
Ngl, We need articulation in the elbows
I like jakks lineup more, like I wanted an omega forever, but the jazzwares line was absolute perfection especially in the articulation department
My biggest problem with the jakks line is while it has great variety of characters and pretty accurate sculpts, every store I go to only every stocks the same set of figures (usually a bunch of 4 inch sonics, a 2.5 inch playset, the rc sonic riding a ring, and then those god forsaken strechy figures)
I know I could just buy them online but that usually means paying double or triple the retail value just because Walmart doesn't have faithany characters outside the core 5 characters will sell 💀
I agree. There are rarely any figures except for the same couple of 4 inch sonics. Same thing with 2.5 inch line with the same common figures. I guess they're so popular that they're bought online before we even get them to retailers.
This was the first video I've seen on my phone in January 2023
Yeah this is kinda how I felt. Jaz were great for their time and I had a few but I remember I had to get rid of my Shadow and Sonic because they broke just standing on my shelf
These videos always make me laugh
6:27 story of my life right here
I can’t decide I like them both
Also I did not know that jakks has various sonic toys in stock in Walmart but the thing is that I have the WORST luck going to a Walmart finding at least one 4inch figure of any character for me to take home for my obess- i mean collection all I find is the 2.5 check out lanes and the team sonic racing diecast that I don’t know anyone cares about because the marketing for tsr was pretty dead
5:54 I honestly think the 2inch classic figures and the regular 4inch figures scale is okay
Jakks is making a Chaos. Debate over
now this is the kind of content I need
Bro jakks absolutely cooked with the sonic 3 figs I think on par if not better quality than some jazzwares figs
I honestly prefer Jakks just cause they look much cleaner and much more screen accurate, my only big issue is the main game line figures not being able to bend their arms, not sure why they chose to give that articulation to only the movie and prime figures
Let's be honest, we all know who wins in the articulation category.
I got a video idea: you should make a video going over different sonic fan games. You don't nessacerally have to play them if you don't want to, but i think it would be a fun way to shout out another side of the sonic community. also great video man hope you reach 10k soon :)
I’ma be honest, when I was younger, I thought Jazwares toys was bootleg 😭😭😭
I personally love Jakks for giving us figures like Rouge and Mighty, but Jazwares will always be the winner to me. Not just because I grew up with those, but because they made a lot more figures based on games. Free Riders, Black Knight, All Stars Racing, Colors, and releasing the classic figures once Generations came out. Obviously Jakks is still fairly recent, and haven't had as much happen. But they have covered the Sonic movie franchise, and they'll be making Sonic Prime figures soon. I think that both are excellent, and that there shouldn't even be a debate. But I'm sure we can all agree: Tomy was worse than both of them.
for me a figure has to pose well for me to like it, i dont like buying jakks because of their lack of articulation compared to jazwares, but their sonic movie 3 wave was amazing and werehog was really good too, they have the option to make their figures articulated they just dont for some reason
Jakks has Omega, Chaos, Infinite, Mephiles, Cream, Rouge, and Neo Metal Sonic. They are objectively better in terms of character variety now!
I thought that jakks pacific toys had cheap joints, BUT HOLY FRICK, apparently jazwares are even cheaper. wow
9.94k Subs! Wow You Grew A lot!
I Was Here From 2k-Now.
7:49 Idk why but this made me laugh so hard
the chocolate high dive
Toys r us is still in Canada and they have a pretty good Sonic section!
fun little fact for 11:08 from a Canadian, we still have toys r us, like it's literally my go to store as a toy collector and I go there commonly, however... they don't really have much of Sonic. Of all the toys r us stores I've been to recently the most I can find is a small corner of isle filled with the same 2 giant classic plushes and one box of classic sonic craftables figures
Jakks is the best due to their new line of 50 dollar articulated sonic figures
I totally agree with it being jakks specific being the better toy line it is honestly better in general
In the UK, Jazwares has one of the worst availability ever. I have only seen sonic toys there ONCE and that was at game the same time Sonic and the black knight came out. I still have the normal sonic with a sword and (broken) small Sonic and Tails. It sucks.
Jakks is just way way better.
I NEED THAT SIR GALHAD TOY RIGHT NOW!!!
I love the jakks pacific line, India I do personally think it's better than jazwares, but I will say it's kind of unfair considering the time gap between each company, (if that makes sense) jazwares when they had the license to the sonic line was in a older time. Period. I don't know just my opinion.
Love this video, but I have to make one add-on that I hope makes the score more 4-1: Inflation. Yes, even if we go from the Jazwares end of 2013 and Jakks' start of 2018, there's a significant bump of about 8%. To make it more clear/unfair, gonna go with 2009 price inflated to 2018 via US Inflation Calculator(a bump of 17% because longer timeframe plus changes in Chinese factory pricing, various financial crises, etc):
- A single 2.5-3" figure
Jazwares: $7.02
Jakks: $4.99
- A 2.5-3" figure PLUS accessory/Badnik (which was like...10-12 USD from memory. Jakks is hard to find, I think I've seen it for the price shown in store)
Jazwares: $11.70
Jakks: $6.99
- 2.5 multipack sets/playsets
Jazwares: $24.57
Jakks: $19.99
It goes on from there, but I highly disagree with the original point on price. Another thing to think about was 'relative cost/value'. At the time Jazwares had the license, Transformers, GI Joe 25th, Marvel, etc? All at or below $10(2009 money) for 4-6" figures, some with incredible parts counts, detail/paint, and accessories. Now? All those lines are pushing 20-25. Sonic toys today by that metric are so much better in value. I also love the move away from Badniks being cheap, mono-mold inclusions to being their own figures. Jazwares has, however, greatly improved over the years, so if they got the line back and put as much effort in as their Fortnite line? I'd be happy with that.
JESUS you put a lot into this comment lol. I totally get what ya mean though, the prices were just so much of a cluster since there so many variables, as you layed out amazingly lmao
@@Bulbasquirtle thank you, just was a memory that stuck with me from back then where I'd got to a store, see the line just dying on the vine because between the cost being on the high side AND the likelihood of a breakage, fans weren't picking it up. Personal, anecdotal experience though.
Sonic 3 jakks figures were fire!
Great analysis i needed to hear this because i have both jazz and jakks sonic figers lol. I hope more people can discus this topic.
I remember how often my Jazwares figures broke when I was a kid. It was fucking awful!
I collected a few Jazwares and I really enjoyed them for what they were, they definitely had issues though, QC and having plastic pin joints that small made things easy to break or be really loose. While the Jakks toys don't have as much articulation, they are a bit more polished with the paint and with less mold lines and more consistent paint. Thing is, I do think we will be getting 4 inch toys with elbow bends with new molds for the ones that dont have them, theyre just running the old molds to finish first. Rouge has elbows which surprised when i opened her yesterday.
The chocolate high dive got me laughing for no reason at 7:48
The worst parts about jakks is the elbows, I wish they had articulated arms, posing is so difficult because of that, especially knuckles. you can hardly move his arms because of his head, and his hands are longer than his torso. Thats the only complaint I really have
When you said that Walmart has a bunch of sonic stuff, I just 100 percent agreed! Because half of my entire sonic figure collection was from Walmart
The jazwares figures always fell apart after playing with them as a kid. I can see the sentiment for collectors, but Jakks takes the cake on durability (albeit with limited articulation).
I also really like how accurate the jakks figures look to the game models.
Good video!
Oh yeah and jazwares metal sonic absolutely shits on jakks. So disappointed when I saw that the jakks figure didn't have metallic paint, hopefully they'll do a re-release one day.
And thankfully vectors mouth can close so he's not stuck with a traumatized face lol. I love jazwares but as Jakks grows I think the Jakks line will be the best line the series will get.
Combine jakks design with jazware articulation = perfect figure
(2:28) I miss this box, with Yuji Uekawa’s art-style, or at least the art-style at the time Jazwares used them.I just really liked the orange, yellows, and blues used for this. I wasn’t a fan of the changes later on.
How am I just realizing two years after this video is released that that’s a picture of my collection at 0:51 😂
Jakk specific is pretty poggers
Yeah that's all I got, great video
Meanwhile People Fight For Say Who Is Better 3'' Sonic And 4'' Sonic Are Relaxing Drinking Coffe
The whiplash I felt when witnessing Jazwarez classic metal was unreal
i don't think jakks can beat jazwares EXCEPT THE MOVIE FIGURES those are literally killing every domestic figure company if we had that quality for gaming figures without paying 50 DOLLARS (i am talking to you sonic x sghadow generations jakks doom wing shadow) it would be amazing
the lack of modern articulations and high prices in europe don't make me a fan of the jakks line, we never had Jazwares here, at least where i lived but i could get some on ebay and oh boy they were good, Jakks has the potential of doing great but i feel they just didn't use it to the fullest, they're doing it now with the movie figures but we are still getting there, we are not quite where we should especially with the 4 inch line, which are kinda mediocre objectively.
they cannot assume cool poses because of the pre-posed arms, the feet do not have ankle pivots, the legs are pretty darn loose and the ball joints placed on hands and ankles are badly placed, giving no range to them, i jolve how jazwares tried their best without having the technology.
i don't think jazwares cares now since the halo and call of duty figures are absolutely TRASH (fortnite line was dope as fuck) but i get that if they had the licensing NOW they would have made the most accurate and best sonic figures ever quite confident on it, but jakks has the potential of making REALLY GOOD
In my opinion I think jakks pacific is better because I can find them in stores for a decent price compared to paying 60 dollars for a poorly painted shadow action figure
Congrats on 10K ❤😎❤
While the Jakks line got me back into collecting Sonic figures, Jazwares got me into it in the first place. I still remember the first and last figures I bought from that line (being Werehog and Sir Lancelot)
Now that the sonic movie 3 figures are out I without a single Doubt 100% think Jakks is better
I personally think jakks,and also damn didn't expect a vid,but I'm glad to see it
i live in canada on toys r us is still in business and they have a whole sonic section like jaswares did
Finally... a good debate of the century Jazwares vs Jakks
I wish Jakks would make just as poseable 3 inch figures
Toys R Us is till open in Canada, and there aren’t that many jakks pacific sonic toys, the only one I found there last time I went was a tails plush from the 30th anniversary.
Yeah, I was gonna say that too. I'm in BC and it's super hard to find Jakks stuff.
Ah yes, the debate of the century hehehe! 😆😉
If I got the cash to buy something, I would honestly buy both Jazwares and Jakks Pacific Sonic Figures, both so far have Sonic characters that range from common, rare, and to even obscure sonic figures.
I can barely find any 4 inch jakks figures anywhere 😭
The Chaos and Super Sonic figures have manifested into my local HEB
Oh cool. Mine has a crap ton of shadows and Eggman. I hope I could at least find chaos or vector someday.
But the downside is y is there no elbow articulation on the jakks sonic
I grew up with the Jazwares figures, and had a pretty definitive collection of characters. Unfortunately, times got tough and I had to part with all but a few of them. I wasn't planning on getting into the Jakks toys, but after getting my hands on Chaos and Omega, they might just make a proper fan boy of me yet. If only Neo Metal Sonic wasn't so hard to track down.
There’s ONE figure that I think sucks by jakks. The modern metal sonic. I have the figure and his weird left arm is so annoying, he needed 2 normal arms it would’ve been SO EASY!
Jazwares fans when their figure they just bought joints permanently breaks
Here in Canada they do sell Jakks Pacific Sonic products at Toys-R-Us (because Toys-R-Us is still open in Canada)
Did you know the jaks made phinies and ferb toys
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Jazwares made Blaze and Jakks hasn't yet so...
Jakks made rouge 😊
Jalls is making her as confirmed
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Just subscribed very good break down
Jaz Sonic never being in walmart always pissed me off as a kid since after a certain point we never went back to toys r us
Every time I go to target there’s at least one 4 inch figure, but I kind of wish they had Toys “R” Us still open with that huge aisle of sonic stuff
Since the master licensesto fnaf goes to jazwears kinda concerns me tbh
you didn't include inflation when comparing prices
I remember having the jazwares figures of the Supers and Sonic
My collection is mostly Jakks because my family loves going to Walmart the most.
Ayo Grand Metropolis stage music around the 6:00 mark is just based. My jam right there.
i just got back from Walmart with a jakks tails Minifigure and saw this