![]() Here not only do the accessories feel a little light, but there’re some quality issues as well.Įach figure comes with a display base, a clear clamp for suspended poses, and seven pairs of hands including fists, open, karate chop, the first two fingers extended, loose open grip, and two regular grips with different swivel joints. This is usually a well-rated category for the Microman line as Takara tends to pack each figure with several variant hands and weapons. Some of these joints appear to be way too loose, but I’ll cover that in the durability section. The soft goods shoulders tend to limit the arms, but I can live with it. The hips are limited a bit, but you can always reposition the legs at the thigh cuts to mimic good, high kicks. This is usually a four star category for these kinds of figures, but there’re a few things holding these ladies back.īoth female fighters have 30 points: ball-joints abound at the neck, shoulders, upper & lower torso, and hips, while there’re pivots and swivels found at the head, biceps, elbows, wrists, hands, thighs, knees, and ankles. In fact, her left shoulder is missing them completely on the top! Her face is fine –at least her make-up helps make her more female-looking than Sakura. The metallic blue of her dress is really nice, but the gold highlights are really slapdash. Her face ops are also clean if not a bit flat.Ĭhun Li is really hit and miss here. The blue, red, and yellow ops found on Sakura’s uniform are simple and clean. Chun Li’s leggings, boots, undies, as well as Sakura’s shirt and knickers are all molded. Most of the body colors are shot in plastic. The paint isn’t intricate or anything, but generally well done. or at least a boy who can pull off drag pretty well. As with Sakura, the head sculpt is off, but at least we can tell it’s supposed to be a girl. Li’s bust size should please most of her male fan base. Her boots are simple but look close to the source material. Once again the soft goods are pretty easy to separate here –the shoulders come off without much effort, as does the head. The puffy shoulders, open skirt, spiked bracelets, and hair buns all look pretty decent. It doesn’t look that great.Ĭhun Li’s outfit appears to have been captured pretty well here. Since the hair hides the headband from the back, these streamers are plugged into a hole in the back of her noggin. The long ends from Sakura’s headband run down to the bottom of her skirt. In fact the face appears to be a bit androgynous in nature that hair cut doesn’t help much either. The head sculpt is a tad generic detail-wise. ![]() The soft goods are pretty easy to pop off in most cases –in fact the shoulder sleeves keep popping off quite easily. ![]() The plastic body underneath the soft goods isn’t very detailed, except for the sneaker sculpt. Sakura has a soft sculpted head, shoulders, necktie, skirt, sneaker-tops, and wrist bands on top of her body. Both of these figures are certainly serviceable, but not great. This really isn’t a line one looks at for sculpting since the main attraction is the amount of articulation. The graphics are nicely laid out and the back shows off some nice poses. The packaging is serviceable and shows off the product well enough. Tonight I cover both figures released by Takara: Chun Li and Sakura. I’m more of a DOA or MK kind of guy but that doesn’t mean I didn’t blow my fair share of quarters on the first couple of Street Fighter titles. I have to admit up front that while I’m a huge fan of fighting games, Street Fighter’s not at the top of the list for me. Recently we’ve gotten a set of Batman Begins figures and a pair of characters from the Street Fighter games. Predator line, which I have yet to pick up until I can find them at a reasonable price. First they announced production on a Spider-Man figure, which unfortunately fell through. After delivering some excellent Batman figures a while back, they managed to snag a few other interesting licenses. I’ve been keeping an eye on Takara’s Microman line for a few years now. Tonight with a review of two new Microman figures - tell us all about them, Regular guest reviewer Sean Teeter, our very own College Bum, is back
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