CLAIRE REDFIELD & TYRANT 103

 

Moby Dick Toys was pretty strnage, they appeared sudenly one day and the next they just dissapeare without leaving any trace, at least in no japanese language. Owned by Go Nagai, they released many Capcom figures like Street Figther as well as some Mazinger stuff, but non had bigger impact than theyr BIOHAZARD 3 Real Shock Action Figures. Figures were gigantic, pretty game accurate and came in pairs until half way they decided to sell them individually and make collecting even more confusing.

I never saw Series 7 in big box presentation like the original plan was designed, but they were sold individually on blisters as Series 9 Claire Redfield and Series 10 Tyrant 103.And despite this two never appeare on Resident Evil 3, they do match each other since they actually meet in the second game finally!!

Claire is a head bigger than your modern action figures from NECA and Storm, the same size as Jill and can stand on her own for a change! Tough like always she comes with a base in the same shape as the other human characters. She is articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, wrists, boots and pony tail. All cut joints except the shoulders and neck that have ball joint and a big range of movement and her pony tail can be removed.

Like all the other characters she is aculpted preposed aiming her shotgun to her enemy in front soo theres not many more options for poses, tough unlike her previews version with leather jacket, this one is extremelly easy to recognize with her iconic outfit from Resident Evil 2.

She is really pretty, with the heart shaped face she have on the RE 2 opening and ending scene and with the same athletic buid as well. Her vest is really reminiscent to Chris uniform and even have the big knife on her chest, tough the knife cannot be removed looks really nice. 

Paint works is good, with mustly black and the vest and short with enugh shadows to looks good but cartoony at the same time. My only problem is how pink looks everything since she is supposed to be dressed in red. The best part is deffinetly the "Made in Heaven" logo on her back woth the angel and the bullets. Her skin paint is....well, sking tone, not like orange or yellow from the guys, she have the same paint than the leather jacket version and looks really good.

Her hair have anough dark and brown shadows and her face looks clean and pretty enough to looks like a videogame character from the 90s, with big blue eyes, pink lips and a steel gaze on her eyes, i say this along side Jill on Regina outfit are the best human figurea Moby Dick Toys released.

Her base is the same as Jill and her other jacket version, tough this time is black with the text in electrick blue and the outer line in brigth pink. I love that color combination and make her looks really good!! She also have the long shotgun from the game. The sculpt is really good as well as the black and silver paint and even have some shells near the handle!! It fits on her hand perfectly.

She also have a modified pistol tough i am not sure were this weapon appeare in the game (or who use it) and looks weird for her to hold it since her sculpt os for a long weapon, soo i didnt take pics.

Her original companion was Tyrant 103, the final boss from the scenarion B of Resident Evil 2. This guy is as big as his Mr.X version or Nemesis, really big and heavy and is articulated on the shoulders, elbows, wrists, each finger, waist and knes. He have troubles standing on his own tough but not much given the lack of movement of his legs and while his knes and elbows are cut joints, his shoulders are ball jointed and move a lot.

Each one of his fingers or claws is also ball jointed soo they can rotate in any direction and angle and is the most important part to pose him since the rest of his body is much more static. The lack of shouler articulation makes him feel too much like an statue.

The sculot is good tough i find him somehow much more bland and uninteresting than his Mr.X version. His face have the same empty look tough his eyes are now very thin slith. The bulbous and tumors looking ground on his torso are weird as well as the big veins on his arms and legs tough i find his leg sculpt to be extremelly awekard... his legs are bending in a weird angle for some reason wich made him a little difficult to stand.

The paint is kinda bland too with a lots of greys and darks with only red on the veins and in the blood runing on the crevise of his chest and around his armored heart, my favorite part is his claws, all shiny whte with red on the edges that looks like blood. The red on his eyes dont stand out too much given how small are his eyes now.

Perhaps the most interesting part is his back, with an insectoid looks and an inhuman giant column with greys and darks, the paints really makes it looks like a mechanoid creature from H.R. Giger and even there is a milky loking paint on the section above his ass that makes it looks like a transparency, again pretty reminiscent to Giger.

Is not like Tyrant 103 is bad looking, again he is much much better than the ToyBiz one, is juts that he is kinda boring looking comapred to the other creature figures, he is deffinetly not my favorite while i think Claire looks exeptionally good and this time around is at the same level as the creature.

From this point out, the rest of the collection was never released on the open market and only appeared on secondary market: Series 11 Hunk with an unmasked head to see him for the first time, Serires 12 Ivy on a red color that didnt looked as good as the ToyBiz one, Series 13 Leon S. Kenned Leather Jacket version from his alternate look of the second game, Series 14 Licker that looked.....kinda odd, Series 15 Rebecca Chambers pretty much the only figures of this character to ever be produced and Series 16 Tyrant the final boss of the first game.

I never saw this figures in person and they were extremelly expensive 20 years ago, now they are even more rare and unreachable along the Nemesis Type 2 and of course, the Nemesis Type 3 to build was just a dream only a select few could see in the world and is sold at hundreds of dollars.

This BIOHAZARD 3 Real Shock Action Figures are the closest we can get to the original Capcom vision for Resident Evil but at the same time they didnt had the completition feel the ToyBiz line had since instead on completing a game cast they mixed characters and creatures from all game and in the end, given to the price, rarity and collectability, this figures were never as popular as the ToyBiz except for die hard and rich Resident Evil collectors.

CHRIS REDFIELD & MR.X

 

Go Nagai´s toy company, Moby Dick Toys, was the very first to release Resident Evil figures in the asian market and under direct supervision of Capcom, the BIOHAZARD 3 Real Shock Action Figures not only were pretty huge but they looked exactly like the artowkr used on the games, much more closer to Capcom´s original vision than even the game themselves on the Playstation. Sadlly, given the non-existant distribution and the change of heart to release the figures not in pairs, but individually, made this serires virtually imposible to collect!!

Serires 5 was released as two individual figures - Serires 5 and 6 - but Serires 6 was released both in pairs and individually, in asia it was Serires 6 Chris Redfield and Mr.X but in the western market it was Serires 7 Chris and Serires 8 Mr.X....yes i know, pretty confusing, but for the sake of this review and because i got this guys in a huge box together and not in individual blisters, i will stock to the original plan to count them as a pair.

Soo...Series 6 Chris Redfield & Mr.X....wath are this two doing in a Biohazard 3 serires? I dunno, and waths even more confusing, Chris was his Code Veronica version and Code Veronica wasnt out yet back then, soo this was actually kind of a big spoiler in 1999. Chris is of course a head taller than Jill and Claire soo he is the same size as Carlos and cant stand on his own but like always, he comes with a pretty simple but handy base.

He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, wrists, waist and boots tough only his neck and shoulders have ball joint, the rest are cut articulations that moves on one direction soo come up with a good pose aside of the one he is sculpted is almost imposible, making him a semi articulated statue.

He is sculptes shoting the rokcte launcher like in the ending of Resident Evil 1, wich makes it even more anoying why he is using the Code Veronica outfit, he would be much better on his classic STARS uniform. The sculpy is extremelly bland and boring, sure his build is very athletic and looks better than Carlos, but given how tigth his pants are theres not much wrinkles here and his black vest is really simple, specially since its sculpted on a single piece unlike Claire´s leather jacket.

The face sculpt is also extremelly bland and generic. I mean is not like characters had too many face features back then on the FMV´s but this Chris looks even more basic than a manequin. The paint is at the same blacn level,his blue eyes are OK but the line hair and pink lips are extremelly messy, but also the skin tone is soo soo orange.

Really, i cant understand why is he soo orange, they even give him darker orange tones on his elbows and neck soo it looks extremelly unnatural. The rest of his body is juts green and black with some silver details here and there and the STARS logo on his back painted in plain white, its way too cimple and even kinda cartoony looking but at least istn as bad looking as his skin.

He have a glock pistol tough it fits nicelly on the holster on his leg soo i leave it there. His main weapon tough is the rocket launcher from the first game. The sculpt is OK, completelly hollow and looks kinda cheap since tehres no paint in here and is a little tricky rest it on his shoulders while he hold it with both arms tough once in the rigth position looks pretty reminiscent of the first game.

His base is on the same shape as the rest tough this time it got the STARS logo and the BIOHAZARD logo in red. The paint on the STARS logo is really really good, much better than the one on Chris himself. Also he comes with an extra part to build Nemesis Type-3 but as individual part is not specially interesting.

The second figure is Mr.X, a monster Chris never meets, but just like Nemesis, this creature is amazing looking. One of the taller figures of the serires, reaching a Play Arts Kai size, this guy can stand perfectly on his own and is articulated on the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs and knes. All cut joints with very limited movement except his head and shoulders that are ball jointed and just like Nemesis, his long coat make his legs articulations completelly pointles.

The sculpt here is magnifiscent. The shape and face features on his face are exactly the same as in the Capcom artwork. Its weird how he is supposed to look dead and empty yet his face is more livelly than that of Chris´s. His cuat design and boots are really really awesome and stylish and the lower half of his coat i made entirelly of soft ruber, soo while he cant move his legs too much, his pants are completelly sculpted under it just like Nemesis.

His coat is just pitch black, and with the plastic material it looks just like leather. There is only a few silver details here and there, like in the buttons, the belt and puch of the sleeves end and the paint aplication is perfect. His head is completelly brown with just his white eyes shining on it, much more elegant and less busy than the remake one with the silly hat and weird waves on his face. This is the original Mr.X.

His accesorys are a cpuple of extra hands, one open palm to try holding someone and another in claw shape to actually hold a prety. they arent easy to change tough thanks to the hard material and amll socket but it was standar for Moby Dick Toys.

Up at this point it was deffinitive: Moby Dick Toys didnt care at all male characters. The ladys of Resident Evil looks OK, rpetty on an standar way, but the guys Chris and Carlos looks pretty bad and lazy, unlike the creatures that soo far are really spectacular. This Mr.X was a HUGE improvement over the silly ToyBiz one and 23 years later, they still dont make a better one.

CLAIRE REDFIELD (LEATHER JACKET VERSION)

 Moby Dick Toy was a japanese figure company owned by Go Nagai in the end of the last century and theyr made theyr debut with the BIOHAZARD 3 Real Shock Action Figure, the very first japanese figures based on Resident Evil and under direct supervision by Capcom. The figures were huge and they came in pairs like ToyBiz used to do, they come in a huge box acked with an extra piece to build Nemesis Type-3 once the collection was complete.

I think most shops back then werent very happy with the packaging, because after Series 4 of Carlos and Nemesis, this figures started to be packed all alone, on a clamhell. Not only this means some figures were wold out faster than other, but this made them much more difficult to collect soo instead of collect 6 more Series, we had now 12 to hunt down!! Also they divided Nemsis Type-3 even more soo some figures were packed with very small bits, like a rib.

Soo i will review this figures in the order of release as planed at first, with Series 5 Claire Redfield Leather Jacket version and Nemsis Type-2. This is something else to note, with Jill released 3 times and Carlos once, at half of the serires Moby Dick Toys was runing out of characters, soo instead of release Nicholai or Mikhail, they instead choce to go backtrack and release Claire Redfield, even if she wasnt never in Resident Evil 3.

To make things weirder, she is using her alternat outfit found on the locker room in the police station. Why?? Thats one of the illions of questions Moby Dick Toys leave for us over the years.

Claire have the same small frame than Jill and she is the size a DVD case, really impresive back in the 2000s. She can stand on her own perfectly toigh is better to use the base included to be extra sure she dosnt fall, tough given her small frame is unlike she broke something even if she falls.

She is articulated on the head, shoulders, elbows, waist and boots cut, all of them cut joints that only move in one direction. This is troublesome in the elbows area since they are cut joints in angle, soo give her a good pose is really tricky. The head is ball jointed soo its the most movable part tough it most be moved with caution to not broke Claire´s hair on the back.

She is preposed shoting her weapon up front, soo all wrinkles on her outfit follow the flow of her arms pefectly, move the elbows and you will broke the oattern, not only of the wrinkles, but from the flames on her jacket as well. She is firing her weapon frm the hip, like a cowboy, something she does in game once she puts this outfit soo this is for display a very specific moment of the game. The attentoon to details from Moby Dick Toys is extremelly good.

The sculpt is good, while the pants are really simple, the jacket is a separate peice and helps a lot to five deep to the overall look. I do love the flames on her arms and are sculted as well. Her face is really really pretty, with a rounder shape than Jill and pretty close to her look in the FMV scenes of the opening and endings of the game.

The eyes are beautifull, as well as her soft pink lips that looks even wet. She dosnt have that odd orange skin Carlos have, instead the paint is cleaner and even add an extra texture to make it looks softer and even her finger nails are painted pink.

Her outfit is black clean, tough the details on her jacket are very nice, like the buttons and the zipper in silver, the fllames on the sleves and the "Let it Live" lofo on ehr back with a valkyrie, everything looks clean enough to looks like a 3D render from a videogame but with every details in touch.

Also she have a belt full of bullets and a holster for her weapon. The paint work on the bullets is amazing!!! I love the orange tips!!! And the fact this belts is separate and resting on her hips means it can be moved up a little, not much but is a good detail.

Her base is the same the Jill´s have, but this time painted in full silver, with no other painted detais. She have a magunm as main weapon, painted in silver with black. The paints is good and it fits on her hand perfectly while the other hands holds the weapon´s top to emulate the unique animation this outfit gives her in the game.

She also have an M-100 machine gun from Code Veronica. Why?? Again, i dont know but is a nice option to give her to hold.

The original plan have her packed with Nemesis Type-2, the shirtless Nemesis from the clock tower. It made no sence release him with Calire but in the end, Nemesis turned into "Series 6" and was packed alone and turned into one of the most expensive mechadise of Resident Evil sicne he is now 500$ or more and by now i lose all hope to ever own him.

CARLOS OLIVEIRA & NEMESIS

 

 In the year 2000 we had the very first japanese figures based on Resident Evil by Moby Dick Toys. Back then the game was extremelly popular and the fact the figures were soo rare and difficult to find didnt helped, soo they pretty much had theyr price escalated like a rocket to the moon. This figures came into pairing just like the ToyBiz ones but they were much much much bigger and they had the Capcom seal of aprovement soo they were 150% accurate to the original designs.

After releasing not one but 3 different Jill Valentine variations as well as all the no zombies B.O.W.s, Serires 4 finally had wath we all waited for soo long: Nemesis. Serires 4 contained Carlos Oliveira and Nemesis packed with an extra part to build Nemesis Type-3.

Carlos is much taller than Jill - i like how they keep the scale betwen characters here - he is the biggest human figure in the series and cant stand on his own given to the sculpt of his feet, but he have a base that works good. He is articulated in the ehad, shoulders, wrists and waist and thats it, he is more stats than Jill on her Regina outfit. Only the head and shoulders have ball joint soo this are the parts that will help to give him some poses but theres not to do here to he honest.

He is pre-posed pointing his rifle while walking up front tough i think his legs and arms arent as muscly as they need, i wish he was much beffyer like in the game tough he is deffinetly bigger than Jill. The sculpt on his uniform is OK but since his body is a whole piece and not copposed of different elements, the sculpt on the puches and straps on his uniform are a little bland looking, also he dosnt have any kind of texture soo his skin looks really plastic.

His face is a little too long and his hair a little too short, he have too much forehead too soo he dosnt have that exact look Jill had on her figure. The paint dosnt help either since his skin is kind of....orange or yellow looking with darker orange tones. His blue eyes are OK tough i dont think he have blue eyes on the game....tough i hate the look on his pinks lips but his hair with darker browns looks ok.

His uniform looks ok as well with green and black but the best part is the Umbrella logo on his back, this is the most intrincate part of the paint. Overall some parts are bad looking while other are just ok, wich make this figure mediocre looking considering how good looking was Jill, is like Moby Dick Toys didnt care at all the male characters and sadly, this is pretty much the only Carlos Oliveira figure to eve exists soo far in 2023.

His base is similar to Jill´s but with the Umbrella logo on it both nicelly sculpted and painted. His other accesory is his rifle, woth a good sculpt and a plain silver aint, Carlos holds it prety easy and have an extra laser sight that can be attached on top of the weapon and an extra bullets pack.

The second figure of the pack is responsile for us buying this pack, Nemesis. He is tall, really tall and rach a modern Play Arts Kai in scale and can stand on his own perfectly. He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs and knes. More articulations than Carlos for sure tough sadly, this are all cut joints, and his outfit blocks completelly his legs movement and one of his arms, and the oncovered arm have hard plastic tentacles attached from his back to the shoulder soo it cant be moved too much.

This guy is made with rpetty hard plastic except his outfit, is made with soft rubber plastic and helps a lot to give it a nice leatherish texture, tough this rubber is not flexible enough to give him room to movement, soo he is also basically a statue. A pretty accurate statue thats it, even the folds on his pants are accurate to the Capcom artworks of Nemesis in game. 

The shape of his body, the size of his head and hands, everything is 100% accurate to the game, this is the original and first Nemesis from 1999 and soo far, in 2023, is the best Nemesis figure to date. Every belt is here, every fold of clothing from his front to his back view.

His skin have a weird texture, like mixed with burn meat and rotten meat except for the open wounds on his houlders with muscle tissue. The paint is fanfastic, full of browns and greens to give it a sick looks like ground meat but it also have some weet effect, specially on the bloody parts.

His outfir tough is just pitch black, no paint except for some buckle but it looks really perfect for him that way.

This is the first creature with accesorys tough, firs f all his rocket launcher. While the weapon is a perfect sculpt like seen on the game , it dosnt have any paint on it soo it have a pretty plastic look, just plain dark green tough is easy to see wath it is. It fits ok on Nemesis hand tough he´s grip is kinda lose, soo is better to bent his elbow a little soo the launcher rest on his shoulder.

He also have two extra gripping hands and one extra head. All of them are very difficult to change and i am really afraid to broke them since they only have one big peg that fits on a hole but the material is specially brittle after 23 years. While the hands are unncesesary, the extra head have an articulated jaw soo he opens and close his mouth.

The sculpt and paints are pretty much identicall as the original head and while the mouth dosnt close to good, when open it looks fantastic since you can see his purple tongue inside!!

Is weird how Moby Dick Toys managed to put togethet wo figures with such different quality; Carlos is really bland and dissapointing while Nemesis is brillant and impossing, is like they didnt care specially the human characters at all but to be honest, back then the main characters of Resident Evil was the monsters....we all wanted figures of RE for the zombies, Lickers, Tyrants, soo there wasnt too much problem with this release, quiet the opposite, rigth now this Nemesis is extremelly expensive at Ebay.

JILL VALENTNE (REGINA VERSION) & BRAIN SUCKER

 In 1999/2000 not only we had a explosion of videogame based toys thanks to ToyBiz and other smaller younger companis, but we also had the first arrival of japanesetoys and they looks way way too different to western toys!!One of the most legendary serires back then was the Fewture Model Devilman and another one was BIOHAZARD 3 Real Shock Action Figures with theyr amazing monster sculpts, impresive size and accuracy to the source material.

Figures were packed on a gigantic box with gory artwork and two figures inside; a human and a monster, as well as an extra piece to build Nemesis Type-3 (just like how Fewture Models did with Dante and Devilman Skeleton). Serires 1 had Jill facing a Drain Deimos and Serires 2 had Jill on her STARS outfit facing a Hunter β. Series 3 had.....another Jill Valentine!!! This time using her alternate outfit based on Regina from Dino Crisis!! And she was facing a Brain Sucker.

Both figures have a descent size, taller than your average action figure and had a huge presence comapred to the rest of the fgures from back then (tough nothing comapared to the Hunter β). Jill cant stand on her own but she comes with a replica base than her first version (tough with a weird blue like water pattern) and the base works wonders despite being really simple. 

She is articulated on the head, shoulders, biceps, wrists, waist, legs and on her boots section, a lot more movement than her first version with the skirt. All cut joints that only move on one direction soo theres not much movement option, tough the ball joint on her neck works great and helps to give her much more personality.

She is pre-posed with her knes bent to hold the gatlingun soo her body is mostly on a weird position tough her small frame and slender shape looks really good. The outfit is simple and clean and sculpted on grey plastic to keep the paint at minimum. The black parts are painted with shiny black to give it a very leatherysh and shiny look and looks fantastic and her face is just as beautifull a the first version.

The second improvement aside of the articulation is the paint work. Like is said, her Regina outfit is pretty clean and shiny in the boots and torsi section but the fleshy bits are cast on skin colored plastic, soo her skin looks much more natural than  her first version and she even have her fingernails painted in pink.

The paint on her face is even better than the first version since thanks to her more pale and clean skin tone, her blue eyes and red lips stand out much more, also the hair on her forehead matchers her hair color that looks more redish this time. I dont know if this was casual or on porpuse to make her look more like Regina. The paint application on her eyes is trully amazing.

This time around he have more accesorys as well. She comes with a big gatlingun wth a boog and complex sculpt but not much paint on it, just metalic plastic. The weapon needs to be hold with both hands but thanks to the shape of her wrists and biceps articulation, the gatlingun fits perfectly on her hands.

She also have two extra weapons: one is the classic grenade launcher form Resident Evil and the other is a gun with an extended handle part. Both have really really cool design and pretty sharp sculpts with metalic aplications as well as brown and ligth blue, tough i dont remember seen that gun in the game it looks damn good.

She also have an extra set of hands to hold the weapons, tough they arent easy to swap, this give her deffinetly many more display options compared to her first version with the skirt. Also...extra hands...back in 1999/2000 having extra hands was way too  fancy for a figure.

The Barin Sucker is....a mess. I udnerstand why Capcom dicthed him in the Resident Evil 3 remake. In Resident Evil 3 Nemesis he looked just like the Drain Deimos but green instead of brown and i dont even remember seein him too often either. Here he looks way too different to the Drain Deimos figure but still is such a mess.

He is the same size as Jill and have some issues standing given to the small and weirdlly shaped feet. He is articulated in one of his heads, each shoulder, elbow, wrists, legs, tail and ankles. All cut joints except the shoulders and the head literally only moves up and down to be able to put him in four legs. Also the things on his face, the proboscis, are dendy plastic with wire inside.

His knes are broken and the bones are protunding, his hands....they are not hands but just stumps with spikes coming from them in a random pattern, on the back it looks like he have 2 or 3 spinal cords mixing together, like he is made of different snakes. This is the only way to see this creture in detail, and even soo is extremelly difficult to find out waths going on here.

The sculpt is perfect, full of details and his faces....well, theres no face here or jaw or cheeck bones or anything, just two holes with the proboscis tentacles coming from them and a random number of eyes on top. The eyes are painted in metalic paint tough the rest of the creature is just green with some tones ehre and there to highligth some details, the thing that stand out the most are the red spikes.

He is rpetty mobile, even his little tail can turn around but given his body shape is very difficult to pose him. Also, i broke one of his legs. I had no option since the legs is a little too heavy for glue, i used a twister to tie it to his body. On any other figure i would but it again but not with him....this things are soo rare and difficult to find AND incrediblly expensive i have no choice here.

Moby Dick Toys did the best they could with Brain Sucker but i like much more the Drain Deimos and Hunter β. Jill is really good looking tough and given we dont have any kind of Dino Crisis mechadise, this could pass as the only time we seen Regina in figrue form. I still cant understand the weird choice of release multiple version of a figure in different outfits tough.

HUNTER β

 

Moby Dick Toys was a japanese toy company founded by Go Nagai (yes...the guy who did Mazinger Z and Devilman) and expert on doing pretty...odd toys. The information about the brand was pretty slim in 2000, now is almost non existant, at least for no japanese talking people. They debut wasnt with Devilman toys tough, but Resident Evil, the BIOHAZARD 3 Real Shock Action Figures series was the first japanese figures about the game and under direct supervision of Capcom, with no action features and more expensive than the ToyBiz series, they were pretty much aimed to adult collectors.

They came in a two pack: a human character and a monster, and they also included an extra piece to build Nemesist Type-3 once the collection was complete. The box they came in was GIGANTIC and the price was high but more importantly....they were pretty rare and hard to find and they were on shelves two years and after that they dissapeare, making them even much more rare and imposible to find!! 

Another thing was the odd character selection! Istead of release Carlos, Nicholai or even Brad, the soo called Series 2 featured another Jill Valentine but this time on her STARS outfit from the boutique (or also could be used for a display based on the first game of course) packed along side the Hunter β.

For 23 years i looked everywhere this Series 2....and i saw it a couple of times with a hundreds price tag but thats it, getting this Mobu Dick Toys is such a struggle btu finally, after 23 year i managed to find the Hunter β!! Not Jill and no Nemesis Type-3 piece but up at this point on my life i dont think i will get another chance to get one of this figures soo i snatched this guy.

Hunter β is in very good condition for been a lose figure and he is....just....enormous, way too big. Two heads taller than Jill or even 3 heads compared to the Drain Deimos. I am not sure this guy was this big in game but i dont think Moby Dick messed up the scales given the big attention to detail they had. Anyway Hunter β is as tall as a modern Play Arts Kai but much much much much heavyer!!!

He is articulated on the shoulders, elbows, wrists, chest and legs. All cut joints that move on nly one direction except the chest area thats ball jointed soo it have a good range of movement. The rest is very limited, specially his left arm covered in tumors, the shoulder articulation is completelly blocked by it.

He can stand on his own...kinda...sometimes. He have huge feet that makes him easy to stand but sadlly, his body is soo incrediblly heavy, the cut joints on his legs tend to bend and make him fall after a couple on hours. This is vital given how heavy he is, if he falls over a machine or another toy he would make them dust or even broke an arm, a leg if it falls on a person. Or even kill someone if he falls on the head of someone. This creature can be a blunt weapon pretty easy.

The sculpt is fantastic, just like the Drain Deimos. He is preposed based on the Capcom artwork, standing looking at a side and he is totally accurate: The wrinkled texture of his feet, the big scales on the back on his legs, the creppy bone structure on his hips, the big rib cage, but worst of all; the tumor tissue on top of his torso is extremelly disgurting and weird, every membrain and wrinkle and vein is sculpted in here and covering half of his head.

The only eye looks perfect but my favorite part are his big and twisted fangs that looks really good, specially because his head is hollow. I just wish there was some articulation on his head since thet would help a lot to give him different poses, but with his ehad turning to one side he is mostly a statue.

The paint is good, mostly a dark green with some rpetty sharp details nicelly painted - like the veins on his bulgue or his menacing and giant claws - but most of the paint is on the tumor growth on his top half, with a pinck paint that mixes perfectly with the green. The look is very natural and the red veins in some sections makes it looks really frigthing.

Its difficult to take lots of pictures of this Hunter β given hsi lack of movement but he is soo full of gross detail and given his huge size he is extremelly menacing on the shelf (always menacing to fall on your head and kills you) and despite being all alone with no Jill he looks spectacular, even for a no Resident Evil display this is am amazing beast for a horror collection. I will look for Jill for sure but given it took me 23 years find this guy i am not expecting too much of Jill.

JILL VALENTINE & DRAIN DEIMOS

I still remember the shock when i saw them, it was unexpected, a random day near stores when i saw a HUGE ENORUMOS GIGANTIC box with industrial and gore design, japanese text all over and the sticker of Capcom´s Megaman in the front, near the big window and the tittle in red: "BIOHAZARD 3 REAL SHOCK ACTION FIGURES". I was really shocked. I was really waiting a ToyBiz serires based on Resident Evil 3 but instead we got this gargantuan figures under the misteryous and silly brand of "Moby Dick Toys".

While ToyBiz did the very first Resident Evil figures for the west, Moby Dick Toys now was doing the same but for the Japanese market and under direct supervision of Capcom itself. For some reason the figures came in pairs like ToyBiz but this time not only they didnt had any action feature, but they were huge, really really big.

The very first figure to come out - called Serires 1 - was the protagonist of Biohazard 3, Jill Valentine facing a Drain Deimos, one of those creatures that appeare half the game and looked like insects. Despite the similarity on the two pack thing, this figures were the opposite to ToyBiz. Jill Valentine is big tough a head smaller than a modern Play Arts Kai or a Hot Toys, she is in the same scale of the Devilman Fewture Models, a size not many figures use now but back in 1999-2000, there wasnt bigger tigures than this.

She cant stand on her own but she comes with a base with a simple peg connected to her feet. Is really simple but it works perfect and she is articulated on the head and shoulders and thats it....she is mostly an estatue; aesthetic over playability, like McFarlane Toys used to do, a very common thing back then. The shoulders have cut joints soo they only move u and down but the head is ball jointed soo she can tilt her head and the very little movement gives her a lot of personality.

Despite the lack of posing, she is not static at all. She is pre-posed with her shotgun in one hand aiming at a monster and her other hand being used as support for the shotgun and the determined and steel look on her eyes help a lot for the battle pose.

The sculpt is good, she have a very small and femenine frame and every details is nicelly sculpted despite being a single piece: the belts on her boots, the sweatwe tied to her waist, the puches, the belts around her shoulders. Tough she is lacking any kind of texture and i am not sure if this is a good or a bad thing because she deffinetly dosnt looks realistic, but she looks way too much like the FMV in the game wth that clean-plastic look.

Her face is beautifull, perfect, the face of a doll, the same face she got on the FMV´s of the game with the delicate nose and hair on the side. And thats the strongest point of Moby Dick, under direct Capcom supervision they released perfectly accurate models based on the games assets.

She is not cast in color plastic, instead she is fully painted. The colors of hher boots and skirt are perfectn as well as other details, even the sweater have some very soft greys to give it volume tough her top is a little too green and should be on ligth blue instead. I never knew why they use this color since the rest of the figure is soo accurate. The skin color is ligth and soft, with very ligh oranges to give an impression of soft ligth reflecting on her muscles. She even have her fingernails painted.

Her brown hair have different dark and ligth browns to give shadow to the hair and her lips and eyes are perfectly paiinted, specially her eyes are really bautifull. My only issue are some hairs on her forehead, they are painted and nos sculpted but the brown used looks more red than brown, soo its very evident is just paint.

Her only accesory is a shortgun with a pretty old design, painted n black and brown. The shotgun fits on her hand perfectly and the trigger section is articulated. The other accesory is a black base with a bhihazard logo sculpted on it as well as "Physical Containment LEVEL P4 Biological Containment LEVEL B2" as well as the BIOHAZARD text painted in red. Pretty simple but elegant.

Drain Deimos is half a head smaller than Jill tough he have his back twisted soo in fact he is a pretty large creature and with the arms he manages to be taller than Jill. He is pretty heavy as well and can stand on his own perfectly thanks to those big feet. 

He is articulated on the head, jaws, fours shoulders, four elbows, in the hands/hooks, legs and ankles. The elbows are cut joints soo they only move in one direction but the rest are ball joints and that gives him an extraoirdinary freedom of movement and thats very helpfull to make him stand. Really he is much more versatil than Jill since he can even close and open his jaws/fangs.

In the game this guy is just a pixelated thing with four arms that walks on the walls and ceilings but Moby Dick Toys based this on the actual artwork of Capcom soo not only this is the only figures based on this creature to ever be produced, but this is the only way to see him in detail from every angle as well! Hollu shit!!!

The sculpt is exquisite! With his entire rib cage and stomach section lacking skin and having his internal organs exposed as well as open wounds revealing muscular tiisue behind, the rest of his body is insect exoeskeleton and his face is that of a fly, with two eyes in one side of his face. really, this thing is just a four leged giant fly with no wings.

Painted with metalic brown paint to give him a pearly armour look to his entire body that reflects the ligth nicelly as well as his giant hook claws being painted in grey metal, theres not a single drop of paint in the wrong place here. He is much more perfect even than Jill herself.

But perhaps the most impresive part are his hairs....he have this big and hard black hairs coming out from his back and legs, he is a fly after all, rigth? The hair gives it an incrediblly nasty look and make him disgusting to touch as well.

Aside of this the box also comes with a "build a figure" piece for Nemesis Type-3. I didnt take photos of the peice because i dont remember exactly wich peice comes with this two and theres not much point on focusing on it since i didnt manage to build this Nemesis.

ToyBiz let us waiting for Resident Evil 3 serires but this Moby Dick Toys were something else, totally different to anythign on the market back then and directly from Capcom´s hands. Sure Jill was pretty, but the Drain Deimos is soo crazy impresive from every angle even for now day standars.