CLAIRE REDFIELD

 I am feeling really nostalgic while writting about Palisades and Biohazard pre-RE 4 at this point since action figure collecting and Resident Evil had a totally different meaning back then and is hard to belive it was 23 years ago when Palisades was dominating the toy stores with some really fantastic looking action figure series that combined the charm of the 90s toys with modenr sculpt and accesorys.

Of course my main interest there was Resident Evil and with the succes of the first series, in 2002 Plisades released a series 2 in the same format: a human character, two small monsters packed together and two boss monsters individually released in a very standar scale and mixing characters and monster from all games to that point....tough half of series 1 was devoted to CODE: Veronica because back then, that game was the latest Resident Evil to be released by Capcom that wasnt a remake, soo series 2 repeated the CODE: Veronica theme (and i am thankfull since thats one of the finest Resident Evil games).

Soo Claire Redfield was the main human character of series 2 and she can stand on her own perfectly and is articulated on the neck, shulders, elbows, wrists, legs, knes and ankles as well as her ponny tail. All cut joints except the shoulders soo she can point her weapons with totaly fredom. The articulation on her elbows was pretty bad looking but that was the standar back then and it was that or make sem-statues like McFarlane did back hen.

All articulations worked good and she have, thankfully, a much better moving artculation system then the Zombie Soldier. Plisades also produced limited edition variants of many of theyr figures, they did one for Leon for the second half of Resident Evil 2 where he have bandages on his chest thanks to Ada, soo they did a variant for Claire as well and thats the one i got.

Battle damage Claire is, sadlly, missing her vest (my favorite part of her costume) but she have some bandage son her leg and blood stains and spray covering her legs, chest and abdomen and a fresh wound on her forehead. Is weird to have a bloody version of this character since she never show any blood on the actual game but it sure helps a lot to highligth the "survival" part in the survival horror

The sculpt is OK, with her body shape correct with long legs and mostly and athletic build and not a very big bossom, the texture on her jeans and wrinkles is really good and i also like a lot her hair. Her face have the look of all the videogame characters from back then: a pretty doll face. While her big eyes and small lips looks good, she lacks any kind of expression and thats a little odd.

She is cast on skin colored plastic soo theres no paint but the skin has no texture either, soo it looks way too clean and way too plastic, almost shining. Somehow, despite the cool blood version she is not as pretty as the Claire from Toy Biz but she is either not as perfect as livelly as the Moby Dick Toys one.

Aside of the blood theres not much color here on her top part, tough the blue jeans have a really good paint aplication with very natural blues and her brown hair also have some really nice tones and aplication, much better than the series one. The soft pink lips and vibrant blue eyes are really pretty.

She comes with the same base of the series one, the wall bricks oval with the logo of the game but she also comes with a pair of M-100P submachine guns that werre soo popular back then because she could point and shot them at two different directions. The M-100P are just black but theyr sculpt is really cool and easy to recognize.

Her other accesory is another iconic weapon: the Sniper Riffle MR7 she uses to defeat Nosferatu. Due to the articulations she can be possed pointing it out, but the riffle have a very nice sculpt and paint since the wood brown used on it have a really good texture.

She also comes with a Magnum, a silver Magnum classic from the series as well as an AK47 she found on the warehouse of the antartic base. The ammo clip of the AK47 can be removed.

Her main weapon tough is the Hndgun M93R that have a very unique look and delicate and intrincate sculpting with a brown handle and finally, she comes with a First Ais Spray that for some reason....have no color, is just a totally white can and that really dissapoint me because all other accesorys are perfectly painted. I dont know wath happened here.

Claire is looking good and very well articulated and loaded with toons of accesorys, perfect to pit her agains the Zombies, Cerberus and Nosferatu. She got some material issues and looked a little too much like a doll, but she probed Paliades Marketing was really upgrading this figures on every element they could.