LARA CROFT

This is deffinetly the oldest subjetc on this blog (tough that could change)!! In 1996 Tomb Raider enjoyed a popularity that soo far never had again. Lara Croft was a star and as such she had a lot of action figures, tough the quality of this figures was really good thanks to Playmates, the people behind the Teenage Ninja Turtles.

Playmates released action figures that included not only accesoryes, but a diorama display like a playset, including enemies and even vehicles. It was pretty impresive back then tough i never had any of those. Instead i got the big scale deluxe figures that didnt uncluded enemies but had a much bigger scale.

Lara Croft is really big, as big as a modern Play Arts Kai, wich made her gigantic for back then scale. She can stand on her own tough theres no reason to remove her from the base since it helps a lot for the display. In fact she is united to her base with screws soo she is pretty sturdy.

She is articulated on the legs, neck, shoulders and elbows, pretty minimal articulations was the standar back then and only let her get a couple of good looking poses but she is almost like a statue. The sculpt is really good, pretty damn close to the game model, with the long legs, super thin waist and huge boobs, big eyes and lips, in a very cartoony design.

The color is minimal tough since each piece is cast in the main color, soo this give her a pretty vibrant and clean look, again very good for such a cartoon style and each colored section (like the eyes) is perfectly defined and clean. Her hair and glases are made with soft plastic soo her braid dosnt get in the way and her head moves with freedom, also the glases are transluscent.

The holster of her guns is also made with soft plastic soo it gives a look of leather and the buckle on her belt is real metal. For a "kids" toy for havins soo many different material in such a huge scale was really a luxury, this was trully a delixe figure back then.

Her only accesoryes are her silver guns that can be removed from her hands and fit on the hostler, but theres not too much point of doing it.

Her base is as awesome as expected, with part of a wall, a column with ivy and a giant stone with the title of the game in front of Lara, the base is both well sculpted and have a great painting, this time in a no-cartoony way but with different shades and shadows. This is supposed to be the jungle soo i wish it had a little bit more of nature on it but i dont know...it still looks really good.

Overall, maybe this figure looks a little simple compared to modern figures but for those who played Tomb Raider in 1996, this figure is like an exact copy of the image we had of Lara back then and thanks to her great base and huge scale, she stands out in a spectacular way in any videogame collection.