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, And with a new perspective on the urban jungle, Glob Games aims to invest players in quite the dynamic adventure.Regular guest reviewer Sean Teeter, our very own College Bum, is back Players should also expect to embark on unusual traversal escapades, like taking flight on a butterfly. To help the tiny protagonist, players will face-off against large foes such as ants and rats. Of course, such a goal won’t be without its fair share of challenges. Now he must do everything he can to embiggen, as DC’s the Atom would say. The result is his falling into an “ experimental reduction capsule,” which ultimately leads to his shrinking to the size of an insect. MicroMan stars a laboratory worker, who becomes victim to an unfortunate accident. According to Game Glob’s Vice President, Karol Marcinkowski, “ MicroMan is obviously inspired by these works, among others, but at the same time it will be something quite new and unique in the gaming industry.” Meanwhile, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Ant-Man’s adventures serve as more modern takes on the concept. Jonathan Swift’s classic Gulliver’s Travels counts as one early example. MicroMan takes inspiration from other tales wherein a protagonist finds themselves among much larger beings.