AURON

 

With the release of Final Fantasy X, Kotobukiya noy only released action figures of the monsters of the game, but also a collection of giant scale vynil statues of the main characters. The first two figures were pretty easy to find: Tidus and Yuna, but the second serires was much more troublesome; Auron and Rikku and the last characters; Lulu and Kimahri were extremelly difficult to find and very expensive.

I got Yuna at a very low price but the main star for me was Auron deffinetly, since he is my favorite character from the entire party i was extremelly excited for him, specially with his size he looks really spectacular since he towers over Yuna an entire head and a half. He is actually one of the tallest figures from my collection almost matching Sideshow.

Auron can stand on his own perfectly without his sword, but with the sword on his hand he have a little bit of trouble getting balance tough at times the sword help him to stand too. He came with a big round black base but i dont have the base anymore.

Despite the size, he is pretty light thanks to the material and he have only one articulation on one of his wrists to move the sword direction a little bit tough the movement is mostly useless.

The sculpt is really really good, based on the Tetsuya Nomura artwork, he is standing in avery heroci way with his outfit being moved by the wind, included his sleve. The belts, the carving on his wrist piece and shoulder pad, everything is perfectly done and specially his face. You cant see his face under the eyes but he is actually really really handsome under the collar piece, his face features are chiseled and i really love his intense blue eye.

The color is pretty clean just like Yuna, to give it a kind of anime look. Most of the figure is cast on red and blue vynil soo the paint is limited to the small details of his design, like the white strips on his pants, his boots, the shulder pad, etc. The paint aplication isnt perfect but i am glad the paint of his hand matches the skine tone of his face.

Again, the face is the best part of the paint, with his vibrant blue eye and white hairs on his hair, they really were carefull painting his face, the most important part despite being half covered.

My statue is incomplete tough, since its missing the sake bottle on his wait as well as his gllases. This two items are pretty delicate since aside of being small, the just hang from him in a very flimsy way. I regret the most not having his glasses since they add a lot of personality to him but at the same time i can see his eye much better without them.

His other accesory is his GIANT sword. Its huge..as tall as Auron himself and i never notice his gigantic was his weapon on the game....the blade is pretty thick and strong with metalic tones and the handle is very colorfull with a weird carving on it. Pretty nice looking sword tough thanks to its size and how old it is, the sword handle is bending already. Gladlly, this can be noticed only by looking at it in certain angles.

The sword is pretty difficult to put on his hand tough thaks t the hard material and each time i remove it i am afraid to broke it, also take a whole lot of space on the shelf....but since it helps him stand its impossible to display him witouth his weapons, not the mention the iconic pose.

While Yuna is a very nice statue, this Auron is really really impresive, even after 20 years he still stands over other figures thanks to the incredible design on Nomura and great crafting of Kotobukiya. I am even tempted to buy him again to get his glasses and sake bottle but he is soo expensive....and getting Lulu and Kimahri is really imposible now.