Someone on Reddit wrote a review of the HalloweenCostumes.com AOD chainsaw and... it's not good.Oh, you noticed that chainsaw? Well guess what? Besides being based on Ash vs Evil Dead and not Army of Darkness (AGAIN), it is not sold with the costume... you gotta buy that sucker separately. Yes, for an additional $60, you can have a chainsaw that doesn't even have paint on the other side (because the blade and the side plate are all one piece). I'll give it points for at least being a way brighter red than the Syndicate Collectibles chainsaw.
While I agree with the comments that it is a bit unfair to compare it to the Syndicate chainsaw, stuff like having the electronics/wiring exposed in the area where people are going to be sticking their hands is a very poor design choice. NGL I was considering getting one of these (just to have for the novelty of it, not to actually wear) so thank god this post came out when it did.
Very strange if this thing really is officially licensed... like the vibe doesn't jive with stuff we've seen before. It doesn't have the ED2 poster logo (which is what all ED2 officially licensed merch has), it doesn't seem to credit Tom Sullivan anywhere on it (which even the Trick or Treat Studios book did), and it has a photo from The Evil Dead on the back. It also looks like they incorporated some of the ED1-exclusive pages (like the Vitruvian Man homage, the marijuana plants, and the handprint incantation page). Could be legit, but I dunno, just seems a little too "off" for me.
I admit that it is strange. Maybe it is officially licensed but they don't really know what they're doing? They don't seem to have any other products on their page.
There would still be assets StudioCanal would have provided (like the logo or still images) that they would be required to use on the packaging.
This was posted this to Reddit, and I commented about the strangeness of everything, and someone who apparently worked on the commercial says it is a legit officially licensed thing and offered some explanations for it all:
Then I said "that still doesn't explain the ED1 promo photo being used instead of one from ED2"
So... is the ED1 one gonna have fewer pages? Seems like this ED2 one would be better since he's inserted the "lost pages" into this version (which the ToT book didn't have) and has the ED2 exclusive pages (like the Deadite Ed and Deadite Ash head pages).
Per the website listing: Crafted from high-grade natural rubber latex, individually hand-finished with acrylic paint and sealed with a protective varnish.
I think we're at the point of "Nobody really cares unless it's seriously overstepping on something else."
It is far more superior to the Early 2000's Rubber DVD release that's for sure. Only downside is that they had to take a lot of liberties to fill in the blank pages we never got to see in the film. It's understandable to a degree. Wouldn't of been a bad idea to fill i. The other pages with ones we have seen from the other necronomicon's in the series. Besides from that , and the 400 price tag, And the fact that the stand is Sold Separately, it's still the most impressive piece of Art I've seen Come out of the Evil Dead franchise.
If it truly is officially licensed, then they only have the rights to Evil Dead II (+ TED, I guess?), not any of the other media. So adding their own pages is actually the best course of action they could have made. Because otherwise they'd have to go the Trick or Treat rout that only had the official pages from ED II and the whole thing looks like a thin office binder.
