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.
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