LARA CROFT

With Tomb Raider being soo crazy popular at the end of the century, Playmates not only was able to make a big collection of figures based on each game, but they also did a trilogy of deluxe figures based on the original trilogy of games, sometthing that really beneffits the display.

The third figure of the collection, based on Tomb Raider 3 of course, is all about alines and the Area 51, the most popular level of the game and have a pretty different color palette and is deffinetly the most "actiony" scene of the series.

This time Lara is smaller, but this is thanks to the pose since she is not standing still but runing. She is articulated on the neck, shoulders and elbows wich hels to give her a couple of different poses but nothing more. She cant stand on her own tough again, she is tigthly standing on her base thanks to screws on her boots.

The sculpt is really good, pretty faithfull to the model of the game, she almost looks squareish in some parts. Its almost easy to see the triangle boobs on her. The paint is also fantastic, pretty clean and strong giving her a vibrant looks and the details are all perfect, even the piercing on her belly button.

Instead of the green tank top and short, she is using a grey tank and camouflage pants, blue pants. She looks more fitting for a stealth missing but not too much since she is still pretty light on the equipment department. The different materials are gone tough, the holsters are now fully plastic as well as her hair and gone are her soft transparent glases.

She comes with her standar silver guns tat fits on the holsters but she also comes with a pair of uzis. She can hold all her weapons on her hands this time tough wich adds a little of customization to the display.

The base is really good looking, with with a clossing door - and Lara´s feet coming from it - lots of signs, red lights, the Area 51 logo and gunshots and explosion marks. Theres even empty shells on the floor and everything is perfectly sculpted and painted. Again, this is the most action oriented statue of the collection.

While i miss the soft hair and holsters and i am not of a fan of the grey urban color palette, is hard not to like all the details on the background and the dynamic pose. Out of the 3 figures i am not sure wich one is my favorite...probablly the one from the first game since its the basic image of Lara (green top and shorts on the jungle) but Playmates did a great job giving each game its own diorama, all very different but sharing the same high quality.