LING XIAOYU

Epoch was a japanese toys manufacturer that made figures of a lot of very obscure japanese serires (like Vampire Hunter D) but also made the very first figures of fighting game characters and theyr logest line was for sure Tekken. Sculpted by Hiroki Hayashi and in 1/10 scale the figures were really good looking and cool back then.

Series one started with Jin and Nina and closed with Paul and Xiaoyu. I regret not getting Paul since he is one of my husbandos by now, but i got Ling Xiaoyu instead. I really love how Epoch was soo aware of scale because Xiaoyu is soo small compared to the other characters, soo small and stocky and like the other figures, she is only articulated on the neck, shulders and legs.

She is on her ready to battle pose, to fit the rest of the characters, looking to the rigth and thanks to the position of her arms is mor difficult to achive a different and natural pose aside of the battle stance. She was soo different back then....with the poffy pants and big yellow ribbon on her back, thanks to her piffy tails and face sculpt she looks like a little chinese girls intead of a super model...like she looks now.

The colors are pretty brigth but kinda sloppy in some parts, like the strands of hair and yellow details tough her face looks perfect, with very childish looking eyes, very different to Nina´s. But my favorite detailing is the rabbit on her back, She was soo cute back then.

Thanks to the position of her feet, she cant stand on her own soo the oval black base with the Tekken 3 logo is vital in here, but she comes with another accesory as well: Panda. A really tiny figurine of Panda standing in a kind of chibi style. This little figure is a nice addition i guess but dosnt fit too well with her and the other characters.

She was the last figure of serires one and like the rest of the characters, this is the only action figure of her in existance. Series two was much more rare and come with many difference over serires one but i was only able to get one of them.