REVIEW: Citizen Brick Pity Enthusiast or B.A. Baracus

[WhiteFang]

Hello everyone, 

I would like to share this very short comprehensive review with the Eurobricks MCW community. It has been a long while since I last done a MCW related review. Well, I do not want to miss this good opportunity of Christmas sharing and for this opportunity, it owe to my very good friend. He gave me an awesome unexpected gift, right before I left for home. This is my very first Citizen Brick pad-printed minifigure. Highly premium and amazing, only for the minifigures aficionado who are damn supportive of this niche area that my poor wallet can't afford me so. My friend could easily counter my argument with this and I am a little sway. This is simply because this minifigure are not very cheap to come by but for the price you pay, you will be damn sure it is very worth it for the pad-printed technology. This is the very same technology which TLG employed for their minifigures' printing. The last time I had done a Citizen Brick review was for Eurobricks Customised Orc Heads exclusive printing in 2012. 

Without further ado, let me start by sharing some pictures and thoughts for this amazing gift which I received. 

An original packaging image of the Pity Enthusiast

Back view of the original packaging image of the Pity Enthusiast

 

Pity Enthusiast or B.A. Baracus

This amazing customised character. Pity Enthusiast is produced by Citizen Brick and is 100% made of LEGO minifigure elements with pad-printing all round the surface. This Pity Enthusiast resembled closely with B.A Barcus from the The A Team and he also known as otherwise for short, Mr. T. He is a mechanical genius and a rough and tough hand-to-hand combatant. The design outfit is very close to actual reference and some notable iconic feature include the chunk of gold chains which B.A Barcus enjoyed wearing such blink blink. The complex pad-printing allow detailed fine accurate smooth print which can be seen very clearly from the back view and side view. 
 

Which B.A Baracus version do you like?

TLG has also recently released their own original LEGO version of 71251 B.A Baracus. Which version do you prefer? Well, either outfit are pretty iconic. The biggest difference between both are the difference of hairstyles and lack of leg printing at the front and side on the LEGO version. Both minifigures contain back printing. 

This is my customised 1983 G.M.C van

 

I am very happy with this customised minifigure. The quality is undeniable and there is absolute nil complain on the quality department. Just that the price is on the high side, but even if you have the money to buy, this Citizen Brick minifigure is currently out-of-stock. I am not sure if they are intending to replenish it, but from what I noticed, once they are out-of-stock, they rarely ever came back with new stocks. This is pretty fun and especially I have both of these different versions to compare with. I would love to assemble the rest of the A Team characters somehow. Hopefully we can customise them to continue the adventures of these Soldiers of Fortune. 

Pictures can be found in My Flickr.