KING

At the end of the last century, when videogames started to change into something more cinematic, we also got a huge wave of figures based on game characters. One of the most active brand was Epoch, dedicated mostly to fighing games they released a pretty long and succesfull line for Tekken, a line that is until now the most complete one.

Series 3 opened with Hwoarang and Anna Williams and closed with King and Forest Law, but King was my favorite by a long shot, he is one of my favorite figures of the series rivaling with Anna Williams. The "Anger of Beast" King is sculpted again by Hiroki Hayashi and is on scale 1/10 and he is actually the tallest and bulkyest figure of the entire collection, he is really heavy as well, a huge hunk of plastic.

He can stand on his own perfectly and again, he have limited articulation in very specific points: right shoulder, ebow and wrist, left bicep and wrist, waist and both knes and thats it and is sculpted on a single pose but with the help of this articulations he can achive a couple of different poses as well.

The sculpt is really really good, his musculature is soo amazing and impresive, Hiroki Hayashi really knows about anatomy both male and female and he shows it here. Animal anatomy is also included here thanks to the leopard mask and the boots have a lot of intrincate details, even a cat paw the shoe sole.

The fur texture is well done and is also included in the tail. They give him his tail!! It can be removed with a peg and a hole on his ass but it can rotate too soo is included in the articulation department.

The paint on his outfit is very simple and clean and most of the paint work is on his musculature, different tones of brown and pink to high light his already impresive body and looks really really good since his skin tone is softly brown. The leopard pattern on the mask is good tough for some reason the fangs are not painted and this is the only inconvinient.

Aside of the traditional black with logo base all Tekken characters have, he also comes with an extra set of hands, a closed fist and a thumbs up fist (or thumbs down), bot hands can be exchanged pretty easy and the third and last accesory is the wrestling champion belt made with soft plastic. The sculpt on the big coin belt have an eagle with a crown and is painted in golden and since the plastic is soft, it can be wrapped around King´s waist.

I was pretty happy with this figure and 20 years later i am still happy with him since he is one of the coolest and best looking figures of the series and this is pretty much the only action figure of King. Forest Law didnt looked bad at all but for some reason i didnt buy him soo this one was the close piece for the series for me.