ALEX

 

One of the very first companys to produce videogame action figures, along Toy Biz, was ReSaurus back in the 90s. Sadly they dissapeare a few years later but they manage to produce some very impresive figures from Crash Bandicot, Meteoro and Street Fighter, a series based on the 2D art of Capcom.

I got Ryu, Cammy, Vega and Alex and i missed Ken and Blanka wich was a shame because Blanka was awesome. I kinda missplaced Vega´s mask soo didnt take pictures of him until i foind it but i will review Alex instead. Alex is....a pretty weird character, a pretty obscure one considering he was the main character in Street Fighter 3 in the end of the 90s. But then again, no one cared for SF 3 back then...

Soo for many years this was the only figure of Alex and he is HUGE, much more than Ryu or Cammy, tall and really heavy. He can stand perfectly tough he got the same logo base the rest of the figures got. He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, wrists, waist, legs and knes but despite this perfectly working articulations, he is mostly an statue capable of a couple of poses and no more.

And unlike Cammy, his pose is strong but kinda boring. The sculpt tough is really impresive, the big boots, the huge hands, the thing waist and giant back and shoulders and the rock solid muscles, this is a really good 3D representation of the artwork of SF3. Also the sculpt is very angular, wich gives him a more ripped look and both his hair and overall are made with soft plastic.

The paint is limited t his bandana, face, glvoes, boots and the marks on his shoulders and is pretty clean and perfect tugh he got a pretty bad problem with the skin color. He is cast on pretty dark plastic and i have no idea why they did this since on the game he is really pale. Also with the years, the plasic of his torso has been changing color and getting some weird yellow stains.

I dont know why the stains but aside of that his skin color is already wrong and that ruins a pretty good sculpt of a character that dosnt have too many figures to beging with. I guess ReSaurus wasnt as perfect as it looked. They release a second series with characters from Street Fighter Zero and 3 (Chun Li, Akuma, Sagat, Nash...) but i was never able to get them.