KING

 Last entry was about the most expensive item in my collection, one that i waited for years to own, now lets see one of the cheapest and - the irony - about the same character: King from Tekken. For years i wanted more Tekken figures after the Epoch Tekken 3 line. It took 15 years for Play Arts Kai to continue the line followed by Storm Collectibles, Funky and later on Bandai with the S.H. Figuarts line but to my surprise, Bandai also produced much more cheaper version of the Tekken figures in theyr Game Dimensions line.

I dont now if theres more characters in this line aside of Tekken, it came out of nowhere and, i must say, the figures are posed very cool in the box in theyr battle stance but still, i felt i didnt need them since i have the far superior and more expensive Storm Collectibles versions. I can ski the Mishimas and Jin pretty easy, but then again, they release King and they got me.

I am not sure what scale is this since its actually taller than the S.H.Figuarts (ironic given the price...) but is also smaller than the Strom Collectibles one soo its traped in bewteen two scales and i dont have a figure that matches his size soo no wrestle photos! But the size is not that bad, i mean, like i said, is bigger than the S.H.Figuarts soo his presence is quiet good.

He can stand on his own pretty good and is artitculated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, legs, knees, ankles and tail. The head can rotate to the sides while the neck base can move up and down, a pretty original way to avoid ball joints on the head. The shoulders and legs have ball joints and the work really really good with a huge range of movement and nothing to block them and the waist also have a big range of motion and the chest articulation bends pretty deeply. Tough given the chest area and hips are made of hard plastic, this keeps kinda low the deep of the shoulders and legs bending.

The elbows and knees have a double joint soo they bent really good and of course, the ankles and wrists ball joints works fantastic, my only dissapointing here is the tail since it only rotates soo theres not option to display it but the rest of the body works really really good and given the material, it seems they are not only well designed but they seems very sturdy.

The aesthetic tough is extremelly basic. The mask is actually very well good sculpted and it even have a fur texture on it. The ear shape and fangs looks really good tough i am not sure if the head is way too high or the elbows are way too low (probablly both) but the silhouette is not really good and i feel his legs should be a little longer, soo his body shape is kinda "generic". 

The muscles are OK looking but they have no texture at all, they are sqeacky clean plastic while his left arm glove is actually textured the same way the pants are. The boots are very nicelly detailed with the long lace in front. The chest articulation is extremelly evident and ugly looking while the waist one leaves a huge gap in between his torso and his pants that is terrible looking.

Most of the pieces are cast in the main color of each section soo his arm are cast in dark blue plastic while his torso and another arm are cast in flesh color while one of the boots is yellow and another dark blue. This gives him an extremelly clean almost cartoon look that leaves most of the paint work to the pants and head. Even one of his rigth hands wrists bands are flesh colored....

The pants paint is the most complex with his name painted in yellow on top of a black section while the other legs have a mix of grey, yellow and black but always leaving details to the minimum tough the jaguar mask looks really really good...the black dots, the soft mix between white and yellow on top, the black lips, red tongue, white fangs and green eyes are really really good painted and the quality on it dont match the rest of the figure.

Theres not much accesorys tough, only a pair of extra hands with a finger pointing that can kinda work for a wrestle move since most of the fingers are open. Swap the hands is kinda tricky since the ball joint is very small and the hands are made with hard plastic, but having only this pair of hands and the closed fist dont give too much options for display and he cant be posed in his basic ready stance or grabing an oponent thanks to the lack of hands gesture.

His other accesory is an effect that looks very similar to the one included in the Storm Collectibles version, a kind of energy blast that fits on his closed fists. The little thingy is made with very soft plastic and fits perfectly on both his hands and is made in transluscent plastic and almost looks like a spirit or will o wisp tough for some reason it have a hole on the center.

And lastly theres the FIGHT text cast on pinkish translucent plastic. This text includes a base with an arm cast in trasnsluscent plastic as well and is pretty much the best accesory since no other figure had this kind of items based on the text on screen before and after battle. It seems the rest of the line have the READY, ROUND 1 and ROUND 2 text and it would be very cool to have them for a complete dispay that mimics the on screen battles.

And thats it, theres no cape at all here or other items making this the most basic and simple King figure i seen. Given the material and the design this figure is pretty much a kids toy and the worst King figure in therms of quaity but i am not sure i can complaing given how incrediblly cheap it was and his musculature is sexy enough. This is a toy to be played with, to be thrown around and to play with on the mud and it seems is going to rest all that and more and the articulations are actually more fun than that of the S.H. Figuarts.

They released Heihachi as well, Kazuya and Jin but those looks even more cheap than this guy because they dont have the good looking mask to hide the poor paint job and basic sculpting but then again, i think is very good they are selling Tekken toys at such a low price tough i wish they are as good looking as Jada´s Street Fighter line.

KING

EXCITMENT!!! THRILL!! Thats what i felt when DHL arrive to my home with two huge boxes, the culmination of a two and a half year of waiting!!! Or maybe even more???? Since the longest time i seen a lot of hentai figures always based on female characters and i always desired something like that for male characters i like and sudenly, the chinese market answear just before the pandemic and started to produce MALE NSFW figures for a pretty high price since not only this figures were extremelly limited, but such project also bring an awfull lot of legal burdens in the chinese market.

Then i started to see NSFW figures based on Ryu, Chris Redfield or other guys i really liked and the only i could do was just watch and wish someday be able to get them. I really doubt i get them by now, but in 2023 i finally take the chance and decided to spent a crazy amount of money i never spent before on a figure and just....pre-order one of them that suited my liking: King from Tekken 8.

I love King, i loved him since the opening sequence of Tekken 3 in 1998 soo having something NSFW from him was quiet a fantasy for me for the longest time. Also, what i liked soo much from the figure is how it could be displayed in two ways: NSFW and a totally SFW mode that can be seen by anyone. Soo i spent way too more money than i ever spent on a figure before and waited for october 2024 for the release date. Then 2025 came and nothing.....then 2026 and i really tough i was scamed until a week ago.

Last year i had a taste of this kind of figures thanks to a friend who sent to me his Von Lycaon figure and i was really impresed but now this King is totally mine and just like with my friend figure i will post two reviews of King, the "normal" safe figure in here while the NSFW version will go to my other blog.

I really wanted to film an unboxing but i didnt had a chance since i did the unpacking completelly alone given the nature of the figure but i took some fotografic evidence of the package and theres two giant boxes with two compeltelly independant figures. Yes, two figures. This is not a figure with extra parts to build a nudy version....this is a porn figure and a safe figure that can be displayed together and thats not something i was expecting at all.

Hyperspace Studio are the ones behind this and while they release a few hentai figures as well, they also release a very nice Ryu NSFW figure that i wanted but since 2024 theres no updates about them soo i am not sure if the studio is still open or something happened. I am just grateful they finish this King.

I am sorry if i am yaping too much but this kind of item is not something i get everyday. While the box is really simple with just the title of the game misspelled for copyrigths issues (TEKEKN 8) and a very simple texture on it in the inside the figures comes extremelly well protected with a lot of foam and is divided in sections: the body and legs, the rigth arm, the left arm, the tail, the head, the cape and the base. Each part first perfectly and stay in place since they all have magnets soo they are easy to remove as well. The cape tough is a little tricky to put since it should be fited around the head/mask before put it on King soo the cape is just floating around his shoulders.

This is 1/6 scale, soo its a really tall figure that matches the Hot Toys, Sideshow, Threezero, Mondo figures and looks perfect along side Ryu from IconiQ and Haohmaru from Tunshi Studio and he can stand by himself just fine, the balance is really good tough e comes with a base with pegs for each boot and that makes it feel extra safe tough the base is quiet thick and make King to be even bigger than it really is.

This is a resin statue, soo the material is extra hard and really REALLY REAAAALLLLY HEAVY!!! He is heavy but the base is even more heavy and not only that makes it diffiult to move but also extra caution must be used with the place to display him. I dont know if a shelf or a bookcase can hold his weigth for a long time....and is evident a fall from any height is fatal for a resin statue.

This is based on the main Tekken 8 King CG artowork soo the pose is literally canon and easy to recognize and the sculpt is really really good. I mean the anatomy and volume is perfect. Given this is a pornographic figure they usually exagerate some elements to highligth the erotism of the figure but this time they didnt had to do it, the figure is completelly faithfull to the in game image and is erotic enough as it is with the huge chest, the thick waist and the abs and huge arms and legs.

The texture of the resign is extremelly smoth and soft to the touch and the way the abs are twisting is extremelly realistic. The pants tough have different textures, the black sections have a leather texture while the silver one have scales like a fish and the blue sections are completelly smooth. The boots also have a pretty strong leather texture and i love the loooong laces on it.

The mask is perfect. The fangs, the tongue, the hair texture without being overdone and more importantly, theres hair here!!! His eyebrows have some tiny golden hairs as well as his chin and of course, his whiskers, just like a cat!! I never before had a figure with hair on it!!! And thats something i really wanted to see on the Storm Collectibles figure tough i guess it was too much for them but it deffinetly is not for Hyperspace Studio.

The efathers on the cape are really really food, really pointy and very delicate i asume as the whole cape under them since it smade of resign but is very thin soo this part is the one that demands more care to be handled tough the flow of the cape is perfect and King´s tail fits perfectly in the middle opening.

Theres two elements that are not screen accurate and that exacerbate them a lot given pretty much everything else is perfect: first the strips coming out from King´s gloves and the biceps straps and i am guessing thats because the resin would make them extra delicate and easy to brake to the point  they could brake even in the box. The again they could have made them with real clothe soo i am actually tempted to make them myself.

Secondly the necklace. In the game this item is really big and covered in blue and red crystals with a jaguar in the center and looks really festive but here its just a chain with a circular design and a kind of kanji in the center that i am not sure it have any meaning at all. The nacklace is metalic as well as the chain and the chain is actually way too long soo i had to make a knot on it and put it under between the cape and the mask soo the necklace hangs just on his chest area. It dosnt looks bad at all but it looks kinda simple comapred to the game. I wonder why the changue?

The paint job is magmifiscent. The skin color is perfect and os full of different soft and darker airbushes that makes the muscles to stand out a lot in any kind of litght on a very natural way. The nipples are very sexy looking while the mask also have a mix of orange with darker orange in some areas and a soft yellow on the lower half. The paint job on the little pointy fangs is magnifiscent as well as the black lips and inside tongue. The green eyes looks perfect as well as the black dots.

Each pathern in the gloves and pants are perfectly painted, from the intense sky blue in the hands mixing with black and metalic grey to the dark blue pants mixed with orange, yellow, silver and red. The name KING on one of his legs and one of his knee pads with the little crown on it looks perfect and the boots have an orange airbush aplyed to the yellow boot while the blue have a black airbush that looks quiet nice. 

The pathern on the wrists bands and the biceps straps is more than perfect but even more impresive are the lace on those boots.....every single black tiny mini lace is perfectly painted in black and not a single section mix with the yellow or blue of the boots. The paint work done here is beyond perfect, more soo than any standar figures i every seen.....actually i only seen a handfull of figures with this level of paint but theres not too many with only the Hot Toys or Sideshow figures show such mastery on color.

The fetahers have a mix of dark pink with purple on the outside while the aztec motif underneath is painted in white, dark green, blue and yellow on top of black. The cape is just black with the tribal design painted in white and the logo of KING ANGER OF THE BEAST with a little crown on top taking center stage. Looks good but kind of simple comapred to the spectacular front view.

Liek i already say the base is HUGE and EXTREMELLY HEAVY and have a very simple yet elegant design on it with the Tekken 8 logo in front (no misspelled this time!). I must say the sculpt of the logo looks really good and the white and red paint on it are the only colored sectiosn of the base since this is almost entir black. Theres two columns in the sides behing King with a connection in bewteen them because this is based on the Arena stage.

Columns shoudl be taller and the floor should be grid to be screen acurate but the design can be perfectly asociated with that stage in the game, specially with the big dark blue lines on the clumns and the line in the conection and theres another one on all the perimeter around the base and under the logo. I saw....a little C conection in the back soo i used my cellphone charguer and it lit!!! The whole blue line aroudn th base as well as the big blue sections on the columns are blue led ligths and the effect is extremelly intense!!! It iluminates the entire room and the effect is quiet dramatic  and spectacular, perfect for King.

Another item included here is an acrylic standee with the picture of the figure itself on it. Its a very nice detail since i love standees and looks quiet good and is easy to asemble. And theres anothe two accesorys included in this first box: a flacid and an erect penises with pieces of his pants all around to make it look like his pants are ripped. This have magnets too and can be attached pretty easy but i wont show them in here but in the review of the second box.

This is deffinely the higher quality Tekken collectible i own and aside of the First4Figure statues i doubt theres something more luxury than this and i am positivelly convinced this is pretty much the best King figure to be produced soo far and is one of the finest pieces of my collection and deffinetly the most expensive. For a fan of King this is pure bliss and is was deffinetly worth the wait and worth the price i pay for it.

This is all included on the King A box, for those interested on the content of the King B box please come to [ fight and fear ]

HIEROPHANT & MOFISH

 

We are still n the 2000s and having fun with The House of the Dead 2 on the Dreamcast while Plisades is releasing theyr first action figure series absed on the Sega monstruositys. Sadly, they didnt sell well and series 2 were cancelled despite being totally finished and this Thoe House of the Dead action figures remain as the only merch existant of the game for 26 years. In 2022 i was able to get half of the series and now, four years later, i was able to get the remainig half of the collection.

I already reviewed Ken and the Murren Worms in the last post and now is time to take a look at Hierophant and the Mofish. For some reason this figure is extremelly exoensive and difficult to get now day but somehow i found a boxed and brand new one in a very reasonable price soo i didnt doubt i got him, plus this is the special edition exclusive for Tower Records with battle damage.

This is also the second of the bosses figures, the first one being Strenght but this creature is bigger (tough much more lighter) than the big chainsaw wielding zombie but also this is my favorite figure of the collection. I dont know why but Hierophant became one of the creatures that remins on my mind pretty strongly and i really like his design.

This monster fits with anything NECA or McFarlane soo he pretty much first with most action figures in standar size tough despite his hunched pose, he still will towers over most characters. He can stand on his own perfectly with those big claw feet and is articulated on the head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, legs, knees and the ribcage opens.

The head, wrists, and waist rotate perfectly while the legs have a very basic up artiuclation and the elbows and knees can bend reasonable well but not too much since they have only a single simple articulation while the elbows are ball jointed soo they move up and down but they cna be open as well and this are the more mobile parts of the figure. The chest can be open but most of the time the arms get in the way but the chest cavity opens enough to reveal his heart.

Made by SOTA Sculpture and Design, this is pretty much the most detailed figures of the series with the lanky musculature on his leimbs perfectly visible but also many many different types of scales!! His biceps have this long scales while his shoulders have small circular ones with big plaques like turtle on his neck and shulders and really, every single muscle part have a totally different scale design and pathern.

I specially like his bony hips since in the back he have a pretty hiddeous werid tail that dosnt looks like a fish tail but i also love those huge feet with black claws!!! Theres fins around his legs, in the back of his arms and four big lines of fins runing from his neck to galf of his back. All this fins are cast in soft plastic and they really looks spectacular, specially the back ones since they end shape i totlaly different between each other.

The face looks realy menacing with his eyes closed and the big mouth fully open and the fish fins on the top almost like wings and since this is the exclusive version of Tower records, this Hierophant is missing one  and have a bullet hole on his forehead and head fins.This wounds are covered in green radioactive blood and they stand out well against the green of his skin.

While his entire body is military green, theres a red soft airbrush on the shoulders and biceps and some other sections while the fins of the head have a blue airbrush while the feet have a much darker tone to make it looks realistic. His stomach is painted in plain white with a soft blue area surrounding it while his neck, biceps and legs are covered  on a phatern that loks like whote dots with black dots in the center, almost like eyes. All the paint aplication is perfect.

While the chest area, once open, it reveale his heart and al kind of organs around painted into a brigth red to contrast with the rest of the body, the fins have a mix of dark red, white and blue details and this includes the net around hthe fingers of his hands, painted in soft and electric blue. This make this figure the best painted of the collection deffinetly and also the most detailed (tough i like more Strenght color palette).

And since he is a boss he does comes with a weapon; a trident. This item have identations all around and bandages stained in green blood near the top. While its very simplistic and dosnt stand out, is pretty eviedent this is no generic trident but something specifically designed for Hierophant and the item have a peg that fits on a hole on his hand, this way the trident stay on his hand perfectly despite his hand not being fully closed into it.

The inclusion of a small enemy in the pack was something very common back then soo this time they included a Mofish that fighst along side Hierophant in the game. Again, there sno jaw articulation but the sculpt is really amazing with all the different mix of scales and the textures on his face, but more importantly, the paint aplication is really oustanding: green/yellow mixed with some dark airbrush, electric blue for the fins and tail, red inside the mouth and white fangs and orange eyes with a black pupil, this little guy looks soo vibrant and colorfull and amazing detailed.

And finally theres a base that consist on a oval shape stone piece with skuls and some ivy covering the The Hosue of the Dead logo. The sculpt is good and while the paint is a little too simple is not the focal point of the figure and i really like the design a lot. Also the base is purelly ornamental and dosnt help the figuere stand at all. Actually the huge feet of Hierophant covers most of the base.

From the sntire series this is deffinetly the figure i was looking for the most, not only is one of my favorites but is also the tallest and more detailed and even the Mofish looks soo damn good. Just like with the Vampire Hunter D figures, this set may looks dated deffinetly, but its shows perfectly how things used to be done back when collecting was much more simple and fun than now, when creativity was much stronger too. 

Palisades exist no more, but they really did a good job.

KEN & MURRER WORMS

 After staying in 2001 for the last reviews....lets turn back in time a little bit more, to 2000. Back then the Sega Dreamcast was on its best moment and one of its gems was The House of the Dead 2, a game that, after 26 years is still as fun and entertaining as it was back then and with all videogames having action figures all of a sudden (Resident Evil, Tekken, Samurai Shodown, Street Fighter, Metal Gear Solid...) it was the best moment to give The House of the Dead some toy love and it was Palisades the studio that release an action figures set for the Sega shooter.

Back in 2022 i was able to get half the set: Johnny and the boss Strenght and now, four year later i just found the second half of the collection in the most sudden and unexpecting way. Lets focus now on Ken and the Murrer Worms: Back then both Toy Viz and Moobydick decided to release the Resident Evil figures in a two pack mode, a human with a monster or a big monster with a smaller one together and somehow Plisades continue that tradition not only with theyr own Resident Evil figures but with The Hosue of the Dead as well.

Soo the main dish in this two pack is deffinetly Ken, the spidery and jumping zombie with an iron mask and claws. The character design of this games were something else in close inspection....soo anyway, Ken is in perfect scale with most action figures like McFarlane or NECA toigh he is pretty light weigth given his slim build.

He can stand on hiw own perfectly (just like all other figures from this line) and is articulated on his neck, waist, shoulders, wrists, legs and knees. The head, waist and wrists cna rotate while the shoulders have a ball joint soo they can move up and down and open up to the sides as well while the legs have a very basic articulation to the front and the knees dont bend too much but this was more articulation that we used to have back then and while the movement is kind of basic, is more than enough to pull a few poses that dont look that bad.

Sculpted by SOTA Sculpture and Design, this living dead is really nice looking and while the pants looks OK with all those straps and the metalic armor on the legs looks allrigth, the best part is the torso with the dry and mummyfied skin tight into the rib cage and with the intestines hanging on the waist. The back side have the spinal cord uncovered while the giant claw hands are sculpted in soft plastic and stands out a lot.

Plus this is the limited edition exclusive for the Plisades website soo this figure have a battle damage head sculpt different that then normal version. In the normal version Ken is....well...complete and his iron mask can be removed but here the lower half og his head has been blown byt the Agents shots soo not only he is missing one eye but his entire lower face is completelly gone and theres a piece of his jaw hanging from the side. 

Looks really gruesome but only at a close look since the effect kinda got lost with the messy paint job. Theres black blood covering the dark blue skin soo its a little too dark and only a few teeth stand out. The metalic paint on the mask is good while its splattehered with some green radioactive blood but my favorite part is the shiny orange eye since it contast nicelly with the entire figure.

For me tough, while thr sculpt is good the paint really dont mae justice for it and dont mae the sculpting details to stand as they should. Ken´s skin is dark blue while his mane is also dark blue in a different tone and while theres some brown brush in the bomy parts, i feel like this dont make the skin texture to stand out. Also theres a lot of green blood here but is painted in splochs and if camouflages more than it should.

The metalic claws and boots have some black and brown brush mixed with the metalic paint and also a lot of green blood splathered around and this is the section where the green blood stand out the most. The paints are plain black while the straps are green and brown but theres not much to say about them.

Then we got the Murrer Worms, some of the most iconic enemies of the game. Theres two included and while they are smaller than Ken they are really thick and both have a different sculpt since one is moving to the front and the other is turning to the side. Sadly i was almost sure they had articulated jaw but theres no articulation here while the body texture is really good looking and the teeths looks hiddeous.

They are plain brown but they have a black paint around every corner and ident and that makes the sculpt to really stands out. The gums are radioactive green while the inside of the mouth is red and the teeth plain white and that makes this little guys very colorfull and faithfull looking to the in game designs.

And laslty, theres a base for Ken. Is not that big and looks like an irregular ovar of rock and stone with some skulls in the front and the back side, ivy radomnly covering it and The House of the Dead logo in the middle. Sculpt is really good and paint is a little simple but somehw i really like this base design even if it dosnt helps stand the characters at all and is something totally ornamental.

And i almost forgot!!! Theres one missing accesory: the iron mask. In the original version the mask is removable and reveals Ken skeleton face but in this version the mask cant be removed and i dont know if i like that.

To be honest paint was always the main issue of Palisades with theyr Resident Evil line soo in this line that is a year older the problem was even more evident: while the sculpt in Ken is good i feel like the paint could be better since details really camouflage and even the damage on his face dont stand out as much as it should but still i am damn happy with anything releated to The House of the Dead and this is no exception.