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.