TYRANT

 As silly as the look comapred to now days standar, the ToyBiz "Videogame Super Stars" line based on Resident Evil was one of my favorites toys in the 90s. They were the coolest toys to have along side the coolest and most stuning game form 1997. ToyBiz really knew how to keep close to the original game design and artowkr while at the same time add all the fun of a 90s toy.

Releasing packs with two figures, a big one and a smaller one, to add more fun to the display, we could not ask from more....except for a final boss: Tyrant. The ginal boss of the game was soo huge that comes all on his lonesome on the blister and he looked stuning comapred to the rest of the line.

Twice the size of Chris or Jill, Tyrant dosnt reach a Play Arts Kai scale but he deffinetly towers against the rest of the serires and makes it clear this is a totally different beast. Sadlly, while being too tall and articulated, he is extremelly difficult to stand and keeps falling over and over again.

He is articuated on the shoulders, elbows, waist, legs, knes and ankles. All this are cut joints that moves on only one direction excet the shoulder of his giant arm, that one is a ball joint and have a big freedom of movement but aside of that he is extremelly estatuesque, is pretty difficult to give him a good pose aside of the base one.

This is sculpted entirelly based on the Capcom artwork soo he is looking at a side just like in that art and the gesture of his hand is the same. The sculpt is nice, he have a weird wrinkles texture on his flesh and all veins looks really good tough the material of the plastic keeps it looking like a toy.

His head follows the original design perfectly and the paint is pretty clean on the teeth and eyes. The blue skin have some purple shades here and there and darker blue to give it a little shadow and ligth effects but the result is still kinda cheap. The balls on his leg as well as his heart are made with transluscent red plastic. The heart actually is trabsluscent clean and makes it stands out a lot.

Not only he is huge but he have not one, but two action features!! One is a heart pumping action: push a button on his back (nicelly camuflaged this time as a tube part of his anatomy) and you can see the blood pumping up on his transluscent heart. The blood is of course just red paint but sadlly....after 26 years, the blood has dried completelly soo no more blood effect....

The second action feature os the same as the Hinter: turn his body and it will goes back to his place with a sping motion, slashing everything on his path with his giant claw, but juts like the Hunter, the feature dosnt works at all sicne his arm is way too heavy and slows down the spring motion.

Despite his failed action features, lacks of articulation and not pretty impresive paint or sculpt he manages to have an impact back in the day. 

I think it was due more to ToyBiz idea to release the entire cast of the game. Sure, we were missing Wesker and Barry and maybe the giant snake Yawn, but in the end, once you got all the figures of this series you could make an amazing display based on the game. This was very unique because this was the only time a brand made figures of the complete cast of a game, it would never happend again even if figures got higher quality.