ADA WONG & IVY

 

With the big succes that was the "Videogame Super Stars" line with Resident Evi and Resident Evil 2 and taking advantage that Capcom released Resident Evil 2 Platinum a year later - the PC port of the game - , ToyBiz expanded its line using the same tittle: Resident Evil 2 Platinum, and added more fgures to the collection in expectation of the eventual arrival of Resident Evil 3 (the wait felt eternal...).

Reelasing figures in 2 figures packs (except for bosses), the first figures on the new line was Hunk and Zombie. I never been too much of a fan of Hunk and the Zombie was just a generic one, reusing most pieces of the Maggot Zombie from the first line, so i skipp this first pack tough now i regret doing it.

The second figure was Ada Wong and Ivy, of course Ada had to be included since she is also playable for a short while in Leon game. Ada is the same size all human figures, smaller than your modern Figma figure, much more in escale than the old Kenner toys and she cant stand on her own ata all given the weird feet sculpt, she is sculpted walking in some way soo finding a balance spot for her is really really difficult.

She is articulated on the neck, shoulders, elbows, legs, knes and ankles, all cut joints, even the shpulders soo theres not much option to pose her around, she have a very basic movement classic from the 90s. 

Honestly, along side Leon, i find this Ada figure the most dissapointing. Her sculpt is kind of weird....she is soo incrediblly muscly, with a wide shoulders line, muscle arms and her boobs and ass are huge, yet her face sculpt have almost no face features, soo generic and looking bland. The paint is very basic too and specially on the face it dosnt help her, is just.....basic, incredile basic, theres nothing badly painted on her face but just looks too much like a toy.

Her dress is made of real fabric tough, a first for a ToyBiz figure. I guess they didnt want her dress to get in the way of her legs movement but its the section that takes most of the attention with her. The dress and her wrist clock, is painted pretty ncie tough is not sculpted at all. 

She also have comes with a gun that fits on her hands barelly but thers not much to say about this gun, is just a generic pistol and also is the first figure in the entire lines that dosnt have any kind of action feature (no ugly lever on her back finally!!).

Now we go to the opposite side of the coin, the Yang of Ada´s Ying: Ivy. Ivy is big....like bigger than most of other creatures tough not reaching Tyrant or William size, this plant is actually pretty bulky and makes Ada look like an accesory, i am susprised they didnt packed Ivy all on its own.

This creature is articulated on its shoulders and legs, just standar cut joints tough the arms are made with soft bendy plastic with a wire inside soo theres many ways to move the antire arms and the vines around in different forms.

The sculpt in this creature is just beautfull, is just a beauty!! Is soo full of details with the muscly texture on its torso and arms and the open sections on its shulders, the octagon attern on the leafs on its head and the petails on its hands, the figure is soo rich in texture and details!!

The paint is at the same level of perfectiona s the sculpt, with pretty strong greens and darker greens to add shadows to the muscles and roots sections, the red tissue peeking out from in between the roots and the vibrant and strong irange of the flowers on its hands with some dark shadows to make each detail stand out is just beautifull. Also, the quality of the paints in the hard plastic of the body is the same as in the bendy arms, with matching colors wich is an impresive feat.

His entire head is amde in very soft plastic thats nice to the touch but also conect with tis action feature. Aside of the bendy tetacles and arms of this beast there is a huge button on its back (the only obnoxious part of the figure), push  it and the petals of his head open to reveal a vibrant orange inside with some yellow veins and red pistils coming out from its mouth!!

This 2 pack is like day and nigth, i was soo dissapointed with Ada but Ivy  is just such an impresive figure, the level of detailing and paint is actually more impresive than William and Tyrant and adding two action features on it makes it stand it a lot! They released another figure of Ivy later but it didnt reach the level of perfection this figure have and even 25 years later is still impresive.