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.
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