Packaging - **
The packaging is simple enough, a glossy black cardboard box, with a large simple T2 written on the front. The contents are a two part polystyrene package, which splits in two, with the stand base, the plastic casing, and the mini Endo skull. Batteries are also included for the evil red eyes. The outer box could have displayed some imagery, but as it, it's not that bad looking. The endo skull itself is firmly packaged with a soft tissues wrapping and lining to protect it.

Sculpting - ***1/2
The sculpting of the mini endo skull is quite impressive. It has a solid look and feel, and a heavy weight to it. It is chrome plated to give that genuine look and appeal. You get that realistic impression when looking at it. It's basically a miniature version of the Sideshow 1:1 bust, but with a slight less amount of efficient detail. Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing miniature bust, but when scaling a T-800 skull down to this size, the detail is hard to pick up on without holding it up to your face for a close examine.

The chrome plating is done amazingly well, and there are slight "battle damage" areas, very similar to the 'Sideshow' battle damaged 1:1 bust.

The underneath of the base of the bust has a nice soft felt coating, with 3 small rubber pads, so you won't have to worry about it scratching anything if your not keeping it in it's display casing.

The only downside to the sculpting I could spot, was some area's don’t' look balanced, and slightly crooked. The neck cables where slightly different on each side, and the skull itself is slightly askew, but these are minor things, and although I'm not sure if it was intended to be this way, don't affect the overall look to the endo.

Paint - ***1/2
The paint job achieves a very distinct look. The entire skull and base are chrome plated, and have a really great reflective look to it, while still holding much depth. The teeth have that typical T-800 crookedness to them, and are cleanly painted white, to give it that human like grin, while still holding the evilness overall. There are small areas of battle damage around the skull, particularly the jaw lines, but overall you can barley notice them until closer observation. The eye areas would be the only downside to the paint job in my opinion. They are very dark, almost black, and don't give off to much detail to the surrounding eyeball socket areas, although once you turn on the LED eye globes, they stand out very distinctly.

Light Up Eyes - ***
A simple feature that seems to make it's way into all T-800 models and busts. The underneath of the base of the skull contains an easy to open battery cover that takes 3 watch-sized batteries. The button is on the back of the base and is a simple push in and out to turn on or off. The eyes themselves have a great rich redness to them and give off that menacing evil feeling when turned on. The only downside, being something of this size scale, is that simple LED's have been used, and lack any detail. However, being this scale of size, this is a feature that is barley noticeable.

Value - **
At $59 USD, and only available through Amazon (for now at least), this is a slightly over priced mini bust. From what I could gather from the Amazon details, I thought it would be a lot larger than what it is, and was slightly disappointed when taking it from it's box. However, this is a great collectable, making an awesome desk feature to show off in the office, or to simply place amongst your other collectables. Mine sits happily next to my PC monitor on my desk.  

Things to Watch out For -
Being a very solid, and heavy mini-bust, with no articulation, there isn't too much to worry about. I guess the neck cables could be snapped off if it dropped hard enough, but there isn't too much to worry about. However, the base and casing have no attaching features, so when assembled, there is nothing to keep them mounted and solid. The skull simply sits on the small black base, and then the casing simply stands on top, in a slight groove to keep it sturdy.